S02.E03: The Burning Mill

[proserpina65]

7 hours ago, Roseanna said:

Finally, people didn't renounce their rights because in their world it was do or die.     

Sometimes they did if they felt it was in the interest of the realm.  Rhaenyra might've been convinced to renounced her claim, although that's highly unlikely, but Aegon would never have done so.  And once Viserys died, this was the only way to prevent the war.

 

[Roseanna]

I rewatched some episodes from S1 and was reminded that Rhaenyra and Daemon decided that, because a ruler should be feared, to let the people imagine that they had got her husband killed in order to marry each other.

I think that decision had fateful consequences now for Alicent can't trust in Rhaenyra. 

Of course it's a moot point because Alicent has no power over his sons and Rhaenyra's idea couldn't succeed. But perhaps she did it for herself - she needed to know that she had tried to do all to prevent the war (which wasn't exactly true  as she wanted it to be done in her terms).