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More and more, I think their contrasting chestnut-brown hair in a sea of silver-heads is a visual code for “relatable”-and the more relatable they are, especially in contrast to their disastrous young uncles, the more Rhaenyra seems to be in the right. At least, they are loyal to one another and to their father (until he died) and mother, and they’re not oversexed threats to every serving girl in the castle, or psychopathic freaks with chips on their shoulders. Sure, Jace and Luke are half-Strong bastards, but so far they seem like good kids, who are (despite being the ones technically in line for the Iron Throne) somewhat sane. I think the way these two families are growing up is really tipping the show’s hand when it comes to who you’re supposed to think is in the right, in the battle between Alicent and Rhaenyra. Last week, our WPiW team identified the fact that Rhaenyra’s older kids (Jace, Luke, and Joffrey Velayron) are starting to feel more and more like the Stark children in the original GoT-a likable team of scrappers who bands together-and that seems quite true to me.
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I want this guy to get killed so badly I’m a few weeks away from climbing into my tv to do it myself! What’s your take on Lil’ Aegon, and what do you make of the way the kids on this show are growing into adults more generally? Aside from the rather stunning deterioration of Viserys and the (offscreen) health woes of Corlys, the maturation (or lack thereof) of the younger generation seems to be the most significant development of lo these past six years.Īs for the kids, that’s a topic that’s deeply related to the above: Aegon is an entitled little jerk and also very Joffrey Baratheon. Aegon sucks so much that he makes his younger brother, who just last week stole the dragon of his dead aunt from his grieving cousin, seem like a paragon of virtue in comparison. This resemblance includes having to deal with a son who is an abject piece of shit, in young Aegon Targaryen, whose preening dickishness and penchant for sexual violence carry strong whiffs of short-lived King Joffery Baratheon. I am increasingly struck by how much Alicent Targaryen née Hightower resembles Cersei Lannister, right down to Olivia Cooke’s performance, which at times seems to borrow whole postures and facial expressions from Lena Headey’s turn as Cersei.
One of the things that’s interesting about this show is how deliberately some of the characters seem to mirror our faves from Game of Thrones. I would instead nominate a true rising star of awfulness: the alternative heir to the Iron Throne, Aegon Targaryen, now played by Tom Glynn-Carney. Honestly, this action seemed more “mother who lost her mind” than “truly bad” to me, but I think often, in these WPiW deliberations, the people who do actual bad things get a bit of a pass, because it’s so boring to constantly give the crown to Larys Strong or Daemon Targaryen!
When Alicent made this demand, the entire room was like “You’ve gone too far”-even Criston Cole, who seems like he would do almost anything to stick it to Luke’s mother Rhaenyra-and Alicent takes out her anger on Rhaenyra instead, slashing her on the arm.
Last week, Alicent Hightower won the WPiW belt, thanks to the tense scene in which she threatens to mutilate Lucerys Valeryon, a literal child, to repay him for the loss of her second son Aemond’s eye-an eye Aemond lost fair and square, in my opinion, after picking a fight with his nephews. Rebecca Onion: Whew, Jack! That was one of the most melancholy episodes of a GoT show I’ve ever seen. After each episode of House of the Dragon, HBO’s prequel to Game of Thrones, Slate writers gather to answer an age-old question: Who is the worst person in Westeros? This week, senior editor Rebecca Onion and pop critic Jack Hamilton answer the call.
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