Shes The Beacon I Follow And The Queen Is An Enduring Mystery, Is She Not? Are Somehow Some Of The Most

“she’s the beacon i follow” and “the queen is an enduring mystery, is she not?” are somehow some of the most poetic lines on hotd and it came from two men the audience would least expect it from. criston sees alicent as a savior figure, the beacon on the hightower, while aegon sees his wife and children as pure and sanctified (unlike himself). its also tragic bc it denotes a separation: alicent/helaena are holy and criston/aegon can’t ever fully understand them. they’re untouchable and unknowable. but in truth, so much would be solved if they just stopped putting them up on a pedestal and had a proper talk

This is so poetic 😩💗

Phia Saban gave a wrenching, powerful, heart-breaking performance as Helaena Targaryen, Aegon’s doomed, haunted queen and mother to his children.

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The sexual humiliation of the Greens is nauseating. There was no need to have Aegon talk for two minutes about his burned genitals. There was no need to have Aemond stroll naked out of a brothel. There was no need to show Alicent getting dicked down so much.

George knew how bad the show writers fucked up so he came up and gave us the quote "aegon's doomed, haunted queen and mother to his children" . He wrote them with the intention of being the most tragic duo of the dance and even he couldn't see them being butchers by the writers. Like he literally gave them matching dragons what more do they want and the fact that we have just 1 scene of them together hurts me. He will bring helaegon to justice. He NEEDS to.

“Aegon will be king again. He’s yet to see victory”

“the title of queen being reserved only for his [...] late wife and sister Helaena”

Helaena and Aegon are each others biggest stan fr