Anonymous · 15d
It’s interesting how Mushroom’s accusations against Aegon regarding rape are often taken as fact in the fandom, despite no other character corroborating that claim. Many overlook the fact that Mushroom also said Rhaenyra, under the influence of Mysaria, supposedly sent Alicent and Helaena to a brothel to become “brothel queens” and get forcibly pregnant to have their own bastards. This narrative even ties into Helaena’s tragic end, where she threw herself off Maegor's Holdfast.
Mysaria reportedly suggested, “Let them remain there until they are with child,” when discussing Alicent and Helaena. This isn’t just some fringe tale; it was a well-known story circulating in taverns within the book. Yet, the fandom tends to dismiss it as fabricated.
Considering Rhaenyra's disregard for how her supporters treat her opponents, plus the fact that Blood and Cheese was orchestrated by Mysaria, with the permission of Rhaenyra and Daemon, there could be some truth to these claims.
(P.S. Blood and Cheese is one of the most heinous and chilling events I've ever come across, and it's shocking how much it was minimized in the show. The writers seem determined to avoid portraying team black in a negative way, prioritizing their narrative over the truth.)
Yeah. I think this goes hand in hand with this recent phenomenon where now it seems that a lot of people act like female characters cannot be evil or do bad things. It's this brand of faux feminism that really annoys me, especially because that's how the show does things. They cannot allow a female character to do these horrid things or be in the know at all because their whole message in the show boils down to "men want war, women don't, so men bad, women good," which is what really irks me about the show. Everyone should want war here but I think the ending of GOT scared them away from doing war hungry women. I think that they thought that was what people's issue was with the show, when it wasn't. A lot of book readers complaints was the lack of care that the showrunners had when telling the story and they don't realize that they're doing the same thing here or they just don't care. I think that there is a lot of creative room because of F&B being a history book but I think they took that whole thing a bit too far and they tried to cover themselves with Rhaenyra saying to Alicent "history will remember you as a villain" or whatever to explain why F&B is so different.
I think that they were really counting on a large show only audience that wouldn't care for their changes and as a show only watcher, I really didn't care much about the creative changes they made to the story, but the thing is, they couldn't even keep their own story consistent between the two seasons. The ending of season 1 and beginning of season 2 are not supposed to be too far apart but some characters just seem so different. Also they seem to rely on telling rather than showing. Like they showed how incompetent Viserys was as a king and why Alicent felt her children were in danger in season 1 and the in season 2 is just so many people saying how good of a king Viserys was and it could've been a good decision if it was done in a way of they're looking at his reign through rose colored glasses but no, the show wants you to believe this but it was not shown. Viserys is a terrible husband to Alicent, she is shown miserable in season 1 and he has little care for their children as is shown in Driftmark but then she's singing his praises to Rhaenyra and again it's not played as she's looking at her life before through rose colored glasses, instead we are to believe that she is being truthful and Viserys was a good man. They give Daemon, a fifty something year old man, a redemption arc where he has to learn basic empathy and see visions just to stand for his wife to be queen in her own right. The show is fun in it's own ways and I will continue watching but it's just a bit disappointing at times. These characters have so much more to them than is explored. (I think I went into my own rant here for a while. Hope this was an okay answer)
