#almost like... theres some kind of lesson here about adapting books into tv shows....

[kingcunny]

Lowkey hilarious how Ryan wants to gaslight us that Aegon is so complex , grey and tragic 🥺 when all he did was turned him into a mustache-twirling villain 🤭

like there are ways to make aegon ii into an interesting doomed-by-the-narrative character, i know my mutuals have done it. the show *almost* got there with alicent abusing him, but they just didnt lean into it enough. the same problem they have with most things

instead they gave us aegon ii tearfully being like "im trying so hard to be a good son for you and father :(" after getting caught raping a girl. (implied) again. which just made me laugh cause what am i supposed to take from that? that hes lying? cause all theyve shown us is him being a drunk whore. if thats the angle they wanna go with aegon ii then SHOW us that. dont tell us?? the very first lesson of story telling?