I Can't Believe I Wasted My Nerves On Hotd. I Can't Express How Disappointed I Am In With The Season

I can't believe I wasted my nerves on Hotd. I can't express how disappointed I am in with the season enough. I do feel bad for the actors who were promised a role what they got was a bastardized version. The show doesn't deserve those actors.

I'm gonna need people to genuinely stop thinking Rhaenyra's behavior during Aegon's birthday was justified in any way other than the fact that she was a young spoiled girl. No, you're not supposed to sulk about no one being there for you on your little brother's second birthday. No one's there for you because it isn't your day.

She isn't bored, she refuses to go on a hunt with her dad saying "boars squeal like children" while GLARING at the 2 year old BABY literally sitting there blabbering playing with his wooden dragon as if she isn't going to do 2 year old baby stuff and cough up his breakfast in five minutes max. Like what has this little guy ever done to you.

Later on after roasting every fucking one for no reason she trashes the entire party by stealing a horse and just riding into the forest (unrealistic that no one but Crizzie actually ran after her, isn't she the princess and HEIR?) and then gets stopped right on time before she rides STRAIGHT into the water.

Then they stay in the forest for the WHOLE night NO ONE LOOKS FOR THEM (again, unrealistic af) and in the meantime she KILLS A BOAR in a rageful frenzy. Rhae, girlie, 17yo to 17yo, HOW THE FUCK did you do that, teach me. The next day they return to the camp, the heavily pregnant Queen not only is seen standing while two men who are perfectly capable of walking refuse to give her a chair, she's also carrying the toddler who just turned 2, who does THE PRINCESS glare at first? So many options: dad who refused to send anyone after her for a whole 24 hours, Otto for being Otto. Answer: the toddler. She's having beef with a toddler.

Kinda mind blowing how she's carrying a boar's corpse when we know she went "boars scream like children" literally the day before. Did he indeed vomit his breakfast on her before? Is this Rhae's way of saying "this is what happens the next time you vomit on me you little shit" just... Fucked up sibling behavior? Cause... This is the only way I'm accepting how these specific parts of the episode were written.

Shout out to MY favourite quote from George’s blog:

“I have no idea what Ryan has planned - If indeed he had been planned anything”

Reminder to everyone here that the actors have no control over the writing. None.

Tom Glynn Carney went round and round with Sara Hess about making Aegon a rapist. He lost greatly.

Nikolaj Coster Waldau had an interview a few years back where he talked about going to D&D and the rest of the writers time and time again, begging them to stop making Jaime such a big waffler. They told him he is an actor and to act, let them do the writing.

The actors have no power. They are contracted for multiple seasons as actors and if they tried to quit, they'd be sued for breach of contract.

HARRY POTTER HOT TAKES

TBH I miss jily and all the sunshine gryffindor vibes. When did we start to romanticize death eaters like evan rosier and barty crouch like NOT EVERYONE HAS A TRAGIC BACKSTORY SOME OF THEM ARE JUST EVIL. I loveee regulus with all my heart but I absolutely DESPISE jegulus. Like did y'all forget james potter was the no.1 slytherin hater?!

Also I have a bone to pick with people who write jegulus fanfics with LILY SLANDER and WHERE JAMES CHEATS ON HER (I'm coming for yall)

DRACO WAS NOT A TRAUMATIZED LITTLE BABY HE WAS A SPOILED BRAT. He's definitely not better than harry or ron in any way possible. He did not have trauma. And don't even begin to whine about him having a sadder life than harry. FYI harry was orphaned and abused by the dursleys only to come into the Wizarding world and be exploited by Dumbledore and the ministry.

I HATE DRAMIONE/HARIMIONE. That's it. Stop it.

Snape was not a good person and neither was Dumbledore. Snape did not love Lily, he was obsessed with her. Like did everyone forget that he wanted to kill james and harry just so that Lily could be widowed for him? He chose to spy for Dumbledore because it was a safe and comfortable job. Dumbledore literally saved Snape from going to Azkaban and sent sirius instead.