#i love olivia's acting even if i don't like how her character was written🤷‍♀️

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

you guys whine so much about hotd that you should stop watching altogether and keep reading the book, so annoying going to the tag of Olivia and have to read takes against her or her character, the show is not the adaptation that you wanted ok we got it now stop being so annoying

Dear anon,

1st of all I would like you to real (and possibly comprehend) this two pictures

2nd of all

Do i feel the need of coming at HBO for ruining yet another story from the asoiaf world? Yes i do, because they have in list of production at least another two shows that i (and the people that read the books) would like to see well-adapted. Alicent character in the book was one of the most well-written villain, together with the fact that she's one of the few examples that we get of women with great hunger of power.

Imagine if Stannis Baratheon was a victim of his wife abuse and he started the war on accident because of Melisandre (?) the story wouldn't quite be same right?

Book!Alicent (together with a lot of other characters) was much better written than show!Alicent. Show!Alicent spends half of her lived life bullying Rhaenyra and putting in danger her and her children's position, then when Viserys dies and Otto wants to put Aegon on the throne she acts all surprised, that's a bit (in my opinion) stupid of her: anyone could see where her actions were leading.

The hotd writers turned a great story into a less great story and i think that since it's not over yet (because we're probably getting more than 2 seasons), it's understandable that people (me included) criticize their choices because maybe they'll take those critics into account.

This said, my main beef with show!Alicent stands with the fact that (in my opinion) her role is over: she's not the political "mastermind" that she is in the book and she looks like she doesn't even want to be at war. Season two will probably centered on the war (in which again Alicent will probably have few decisional power) and so on Rhaenyra and Aegon, the two leaders of the two sides.

To sum up,

I do not hate Olivia Cooke and that's something i would really like to point out, since i'm mature enough to divide the character, the writer and the actress (and since she's a cutie i love her).

I do criticize and will keep criticizing hotd choices in hope that we'll have better written shows in the future and better written seasonss.

Now, i really hope you've read what i've written and i really hope you've tried to understand my point of view.

If you haven't and what you wrote was just a way to let off some steam and have those five minutes of satisfaction then i hope you got them and i wish you a good day🤗.