Lets Be Very Clear About Something: Cutting Nettles From The Show (if The Rumors Are True) Is Not To

Let’s be very clear about something: cutting Nettles from the show (if the rumors are true) is not to preserver team black and for the sake of Daemon. Team black and Daemon have nothing to do with this. Cutting Nettles from the show benefits one character and one character only: Rhaenyra Targaryen.

I saw this argument being brought up by Team Green fans and while I think they have better takes than Team Black fans overall, their hate towards Daemon really blinds them to certain points of the narrative.

Again, is not for the sake of Daemon that Nettles might be out of the show, is for the sake of Rhaneyra. Nettles actually opens the door to Daemon’s “light side” since his actions towards her are the only good deeds he can claim sort of (even if people consider it grooming, it’s a fact he cared about her in ways he didn’t care about other people, he was willing to fight an entire castle when he thought she was going to be executed because of Rhaenyra’s orders and Caraxes reaction clearly shows how much he was feeling about them having to separate).

But when it comes to Rhaenyra, Nettles being part of the story means Rhaenyra being racist and classicist and ordering her death. Nettles, if adapted faithfully, had everything to become a fan favorite. That would make Rhaenyra look bad. And they can’t have that, because she’s girl boss feminist queen fighting for women’s rights 🫠. So the best solution in their mind is to cut off the canonically black character so then Rhaneyra can be propped up, and it’s fine right since they racebent the velaryons, so the diversity quota for them is already through the roof, there’s no need for more black characters, especially one who can taint Rhaenyra’s image.

If nettles is not adapted, it has nothing to do with Daemon as a sole character. It’s a bit about the daemyra ship but mainly about Rhaenyra. If nettles is cut from the show, is for the sake of a white woman not being seen as the racist she is.

Gown c.1912, Girolamo Giuseffi

Jaehaera dying doesn’t devastate me because of the green bloodline dying off

It’s truly not what bothers me about the situation

It makes me feel icky because Jaehaera was neurodivergent.

GRRM could have chosen to make her non-neurodivergent or he could have made her a Septa and killed off the Green bloodline in a different way.

But he specifically made her non-neurotypical and made her Queen and then killed of this neurodivergent girl in the most violent manner so she could be replaced specifically by a “more perfect” happier girl to be Queen.

That’s what disgusts me, as if neurodivergent people don’t deserve good things.

Alice Nokes as ANNE BOLEYN THE SPANISH PRINCESS (2019 — 2020)

Sansa and Arya sketch

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Nina Marlin as Margaret Beaufort

Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors (2021)