#it's always the d*emyra stans that bring this up as if they care for laena?? when their ship got married not 6 months after her death

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As a book reader I love the direction they took with Daemon and Rhaenyra but I fucking hate her dynamics with Alicent. It should have been Laena wth and with the spoilers I've seen they obviously ignored their relationship.

If you can stomach a middle aged man being a creep around a kid *shrugs*

I agree about Nyra’s relationship with Laena but I can't see how her changed dynamic with Alicent is to blame. Rhaenyra couldn't have a relationship, platonic or romantic, with more than one (1) female character, especially when her friendship with Alicent is only going downhill from here?

The Alicent/Rhaenyra dynamic is clearly queerbaiting and they'll be drifting apart more and more every day from early on. Who was stopping them from developing Laena and Rhaenyra’s relationship from episode 3 forward and actually making their romance canon on screen? It even coincides with book canon, where the two of them became closer after Laena and Daemon’s wedding, with the couple visiting Dragonstone often and Nyra Driftmark.

Or even better why didn't they give more episodes (or a full season) to the younger cast that would've actually allowed them to flesh out the Velaryon siblings before their deaths rather than turning them into background characters? They knew they die relatively early on but planned the timeline in a way that barely affords them time to explore Rhaenyra’s relationship with the two of them (or Harwin for that matter) or Laena’s relationship with Daemon.

At the end of the way Laena doesn't die for Rhaenyra to be with Alicent, she dies so that Daemon and Rhaenyra can marry so I don't get why it's a friendship that lasts all of two (2) episodes– with the fallout between them adding drama for their dynamic not just this season but throughout the Dance- that is to blame for Laena’s erasure. It's not Alicent who'll be having sex with Nyra before Laena’s body turns cold but I don't see Daemon getting any heat for her character being reduced to a blink-and-you-miss-it plot device.