Roseanna

I wasn't interested until the final which finally got me. Although it's even now a little bit confusing when time is constantly changing.

So in her own mind Tula didn't abandon her baby but tried to save him from becoming Valya's puppet. But instead, he became a puppet of a "machine".

How about the little boy Hart murdered? And what right Hart has to be both jury, judge and executiner?

How are they different from Hart?

So Hart or rather his power to kill with mental methods has some kind of connection with sand snakes of Arrakis?

I don't know this fantasy world, but in an ancient society where one couldn't couldn't get justice otherwise, revenge made sense: if you kill my family member, I will kill yours. Tula of course killed many for her brother - and then made a mistake by saving one.

Well, he claimed to have seen that she would leave blood behind her - but we have seen him coldbloodily kill a little boy. Instead of Kaysa, he is now the Emperor's chief advisor. So I don't see essential difference between them.

Yes, she was offered good terms and had *then* no reason to fear of her and her family's life. Until then, she had shown neither ambition nor sense of duty but lived her life just as she had pleased.

A good list, but I beg to differ in in some points. Rhaenyra doesn't know that Aegon raped a servant girl as Alicent kept it secret. She is also wrong to believe that Alicent was unwilling to crown Aegon and that she lied about Viserys' dying wish. As we have seen, Alicent honestly believed it. On the other hand, Rhaenyra made a little success: she made Alicent to realize that Viserys spoke to her of "Song of Fire and Blood" that he had earlier spoken to Rhaenyra - that it, before his death he believed to speak to Rhaenyra, not Alicent, and thus Aegon he spoke about wasn't their son and "you" who he believed could prevent the prophecy to be true wasn't Alicent but Rhaenyra. Also, Rhaenyra wasn't wrong that Alicent didn't want people to die (although it was a part of her hypocricy that it could be prevented). In this scene Alicent was more realistic by saying that it was too late. In the second scene their roles were opposite. When Viserys ate the last time with his family, Rhaenyra made a peace offering to Alicent by praising her for taking care of Viserys, but their sons' mutual hostility destroyed a possibility to reconciliation (if there was any after Aemond was blinded bny Jace and Viserys took wholly Rhaenyra's side against Alicent).

It's easy to say when we as the audience know much more than the characters. IRL most of us are as "stupid". In addition, reading the book or watching the movie or series, we know the rules of the genre. Although surprises can and must happen, we know that the war must begin, otherwise why make this show? People here seems to wait eagerly for fights between dragons. It's easy to say when we as the audience know much more than the characters. IRL most of us are as "stupid". In addition, reading the book or watching the movie or series, we know the rules of the genre. Although surprises can and must happen, we know that the war must begin, otherwise why make this show? People here seems to wait eagerly for fights between dragons.

I beg to differ. Alicent and Rhaenyra's two discussion weren't only different, they were actually opposite. Earlier Rhaenyra went to Alicent with the aim to prevent the war, under the delusion that Alicent (who had no power) could make it happen *and* unwilling to realize and admit to herself that the only chance to peace was her own bending knee to Aegon. Now Alicent went to Rhaenyra, confessing her past mistakes and with an offer to open her the gates of KL, i.e. to betray the Blacks and, from Rhaenyr's demand, even let her son Aegon to be killed, in order to make the war shorter but most to get herself and Helaena live somewhere in peace - probably a futile hope. And what did she think would happen to her lover, her brother and third son? Cole's monologue was something new. Unlike Alicent, he wasn't under any illusion but realized that whatever the outcome would be, it would be bad. Although Daemon's arc was far too long, he realized his past mistakes and that he was only a part of the story that was bigger than himself - only, I have difficulties to believe it that he of all people could act against his character (Alicent really didn't, she had been only her father's tool.) All in all, the ideas about Alicent and Daemon's dvelopment weren't bad, but I admit that the realization was. The biggest fault was that all was only preparation.

Isn't motivation inside characters? Love, lust, fear, hate, envy, jealousy, greed. They all want something and/or want to avoid something. Or do you mean that only Daemon and Aemond act and other characters only react to their action? I don't think that's so simple. Daemon spent most of the season moping and reacting to Alys and Larys saved Aegon from Aemond. I think it's interesting that although Daemon killed his first wife and ordered to kill Aemons's little son, people don't condemn him, unlike Aemond, because he is so charismatic.

That. It was escalation. Otto was an active schemer but Viserys' passivity was as harmful if not more as he had power but he didn't use it.

But that would mean that other characters were robbed of motives and their roles and aims would be different and thus the whole pattern of the power struggle would change. That. She also had given up her own ambition and resented that of her husband.

Do "Rhaenyrys" mean Rhaenyra or Rhaenys? Rhaenys seems to have made her conclusions herself. She lost the election for a ruler and has wisely accepted that, unlike her ambitious husband. She gives him a wise counsel to name their true-born granddaughter as the heir, but he doesn't change her mind. She tries to to tell to Rhaenyra what the world is like but she doesn't listen. Rhaenys also told to Alicent "why you serve men instead of ruling yourself". But she can't do it, she has no right to throne. So was Rhaenys trying to divide the Greens? One thing more: we have almost forgotten biology as a decisive factor in women's lives, although both Aemma and Laena died in childbirth and both happenings influenced decisively on Rhaenyra's life. Because Aemma's son didn't live, she became the heir, and because Laena died, she could marry Daemon. Both Rhaenyra and Alicent are fertile and, most importantly they have given birth to sons. If Alicent had had only daughter(s), there would have been no struggle about succession (unless Daemon had contested it). Without her many sons Rhaenyra's positions would have been weak.