#so that even if it wasn't as thematically relevant or as weighty as aegon's there was still a differential and its own drama to it

[navree]

hi. hope you’re doing okay and i’m not bothering. was wondering what you thought ab rhaenyra’s coronation and if you liked aegon’s more. there’s a tweet getting hate from team black stans for saying aegon’s was richer thematically and hers was lacking emotion and all and i kinda agree w the tweet

Hi anon! No worries, I'm never bothered when people ask me things, I'm always loving it.

I haven't seen the tweet you're talking about, but I honestly did like Aegon's coronation more. For one, I'll be entirely honest, the music hit harder; Interests of the Realm absolutely slaps and I've listened to it almost a disgusting amount ever since Ramin released the full score. For two, there is a lot more weight behind Aegon's coronation than Rhaenyra's. It's Aegon's coronation that essentially kicks off the conflict that's going to dominate the entire rest of the show, and it's Aegon's coronation that has the most emotions behind it. Rhaenyra's is very straightforward; Rhaenyra thinks she should be queen and now she's nominally a queen. Aegon's coronation is incredibly loaded; Aegon doesn't want this at all but he's doing it anyway and Alicent wants this for him but she's upset that he's upset and Aemond thinks that he should be king but he's still going to support his brother and his family and then the masses are down with this so Aegon starts feeling some semblance of acceptance and even if he doesn't want the throne he does want this, this appreciation and affection that he feels he's never gotten in his life and meanwhile Alicent for the first time in a long time is feeling that her kids are safe and protected and one of them is actually a bit happy right now. That's a lot of emotion before we even get to Rhaenys and Meleys busting through the floorboards, which also brings in a lot of emotion and character beats but isn't technically part of the coronation. Aegon's coronation just has more going for it than Rhaenyra's does due to the buildup for those specific characters and also that it's the culmination of the entire episode and one of its big climactic moments.

For three, it's also incredibly funny that they did this great sweeping wideshot for Rhaenyra's coronation so that we can see all twelve participants kneeling (except for Rhaenys which sent me into FITS when I was first watching the episode like there isn't even a cohesion to that whole thing) while we saw the entire Dragonpit filled to the brim with people all cheering for Aegon. Like, sorry, that's comedy gold.