The original post: /r/television by /u/SEG314 on 2024-07-01 13:26:55.
The amount of people I’ve seen calling it bad because THEY wouldn’t have done what Rhaenyra or Alicent did is astounding.
They legitimately can’t understand that a character with an entirely different life and relationship to the other characters would have different motivations than they do. Like no empathy at all to see the situation from their side.
“Why wouldn’t Alicent capture Rhaenyra?”
Uhhhh because she just found out she started a war by misunderstanding her dead husband? Pretty obvious?
“Why wouldn’t Alicent have her captured immediately?”
Because she’s shocked her childhood best friend and now rival appeared next to her, and since it’s her childhood best friend would obviously listen to what she had to say first? Did these people grow up with 0 friends?
I know this is probably just going to get downvoted to hell and that’s fine but seriously online discourse about shows these days is so taken over by people with awful media literacy that don’t understand the people they’re watching, that go complain online that the person living in medieval fantasy made a different choice than they would’ve. Like no shit?