#anygay. that’s my little gay analysis of that

[cressida-cowper]

and a few thoughts on the climax of the confrontation just for funsies (i am gay)

1: alicent choosing rhaenyra as her target. hm. much to think about

2: there’s too much to be said about ‘you’ve gone too far’ ‘i? what have i done but what was expected of me? … trampled under your pretty foot again’ and the whole thing. but like hello????????? what the fuck. did she really need to call rhaenyra’s foot pretty (it was the heat of the moment too so that’s how you know it was unfiltered truth)

3: as of yet i don’t know whether rhaenyra’s palm being cut was on purpose or simply an accident but i like unlikely women being warriors so i’ll go with the theory that she did cut rhaenyra’s hand on purpose. which opens up a whole host of other possibilities, such as: was she truly being held back? could she have cut some other part of rhaenyra? if so, why cut rhaenyra’s hand? surely it must have a meaning

4: apparently it does! would you look at that. old valyrian weddings involve.. what’s that? slicing of the palm? hm. i find the framing of the shots in the direct aftermath of alicent’s attack incredibly? exceedingly interesting. let’s review

5: alicent exclaims? and shoves rhaenyra away from her, as the sound of the dagger slicing skin is heard. then it cuts to rhaenyra lowering her bleeding hand with a look of shock on her face (forgive me for reading too far into this but the shock perhaps because .. she knows what it means … much to ponder) then cut to alicent looking down at rhaenyra’s bleeding hand and then it cuts to the hand, lingers, then cuts to rhaenyra and a velaryon looking down at it (once again. maybe i’m looking wayyyyy into things but two people of the blood of old valyria staring at a bleeding hand, a part of the old valyrian marriage ritual? hm.) then alicent drops the knife and it falls in slow motion from two angles. right after alicent’s first lunge at rhaenyra, it’s shown that the blade is aegon the conqueror’s prophetic dagger proclaiming that the prince/ss who was promised would come from aegon’s blood.. and the choice here was to show the fall of aegon’s blade after it drew the blood of his descendant. hm.