#really dont know why people want a cersei 2.0 so badly

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yeah alicent does come across "worse" in fire and blood. but idk why people get so angsty about the show giving alicent a sympathetic edit specifically, as if literally almost every other central character isnt also getting a more sympathetic edit... they didnt single alicent out in this. rhaenyra is worse in the book. daemon is worse in the book. aemond is worse in the book. (aegon is literally the only one who got done dirty tbh.) and even then alicent wasnt that bad in the book, like, comparatively, she was ranking pretty low on the 'evil deeds' leaderboard. she didnt get to actively commit even one atrocity. honestly these characters being more 'sympathetic' in hotd is just a natural symptom of them being written as entire, conflicted human beings rather than the cardboard cut outs with no inner lives gyldayn presents us with in fire and blood.

like you're allowed to have an issue with how they crafted that complexity, without pretending that the flat version of a character that existed in the "historical" account would be at all workable for an intimate portrayal