The sad thing about this episode is how blatantly the fact that Alicent is a woman is being used against her (it’s been clear throughout the show yes, but now at the council Larys has said it plainly).
In her opinion this conflict was never about rhaenyra being a woman! She thinks rhaenyra would have made ‘a fine queen’! Alicent believes that Aegon is on the throne Not Because he is a Man but because Viserys ‘changed his mind’. But now the fact that he is a man and she is not is being used against her.
Though Alicent has done what is asked of her and proven herself time and time again (including on the council in the absence of Viserys!!!), she (like rhaenyra) is being punished and removed of the luxury of power simply for being a woman.
But unlike Rhaenyra, Alicent has no power from her title and can’t force anyone to listen to her because they were her father’s antis. This is Alicents tragedy
but the real tragedy is arguably the antis who say that Alicents storyline is somehow ‘deserved’. So much for absorbing the shows messaging about the danger of women being villainised for having opinions or authority!!
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awesome well now that i have been blessed with this power im going to make the poll ive wanted to make for ages because this is something that im really truly curious about.
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Okay everybody I said I wasn't going to start a new show until I finished Batman 66 HOWEVER I am researching a fic, SO
I am going to be watching the CW Flash, and the tag to blacklist is #liveblogging if you don't want to see that 😌
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its been three days and im still thinking abt how good the directing was in saw 3, lots of great set pieces and colors, interesting framing choices, shawnee smiths acting for amanda was rly damn raw, jigsaw fucked up everything everyone and then himself while still crowning himself the victor, everyone worked hard on it and it shows in the final product
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