There’s a war so we know they would be placed at odds. I’m only saying that Alicent on screen has clearly been a worse person than Rhaenyra. She’s teed up her boys for battle and fed them what their father said to not mention. She also had Rhaenyra’s baby daddy killed. Again, this show is based on a war, so it has to happen but she’s been painted in a much worse light. If there wasn’t a book behind it, she didn’t have to start the fight. The king decided his heir before she was involved.Sort of. I think more her father than her. He pushed her to become the Kings choice in marriage. Once she delivered boys, she kinda had no choice but to push their claim to the throne. Her father was right that society wouldn’t accept Rhaenyra over Aegon and that Rhaenyra would have no choice but have the boys killed. Unfortunately, that placed them at odds.Based on only what we’ve seen, she’s been behind all of the sowing of the bad seeds. All due to her father making he marry a dude falling apart so she could challenge Rhaenyra’s rule. If her dad didn’t push that, we wouldn’t have a war. Then again, there’s be no show to watch. She’s clearly going against the king and the king made his heir know well before. No sympathy for her from me since she clearly started it. We know it ends badly for all but she got it going.For sure. Alicent sucksTeam Rhaenyra
The long gap didn't help Alicent's cause in the eyes of viewers. We didn't experience it due to the time jump, but she's been banging this old decrepit dude for over 10 years and kicking out babies out of a sense of duty to family and country. There's some truth to what she said to Rhaenyra about her doing whatever she wants during this time with no worries. And in the climactic scene, her husband the king takes the side of the kids who are obviously not legitimate heirs rather than his own legitimate sons and says its treason to say what everyone knows is true. She obviously overreacted, but its easy to see how pissed off she would be at that whole situation. Hopefully she's at least getting some side action from Cristan.
It’s probably a losing side (Mad King was Targaryen so her brown haired boys don’t have good odds at Caesars), but I’m also team Rhaenyra.
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