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's refusal to make its leading ladies power-hungry megalomaniacs—the way they are in the book—is a major failing that I really hope dies in the second season.premieres on Sunday and I’m bracing for the incoming hot takes about feminism. It has two strong female leads! How could that not be feminism?? Well, as a killjoy nerd, I’m here to declare that the show would be—and fun!—if it had not deviated so aggressively from the book it’s based on.
However, this central friendship between Rhaenyra and Alicent does not exist in Martin’s text. Alicent and Rhaenyra aren’t even peers. Alicent is roughly a decade older than Rhaenyra, and they pretty much hate each other from the jump. By making them not only the same age but friends, the show insists that the only thing that can make women enemies is men. And while that is a pretty typical, sometimes women just don’t like each other. Sometimes their actual interests are at odds.
Add to that the many, many times the show places the unhappy fate of its women in the hands of men. Visaerys chooses to violently, horrifically seal his first wife’s fate when she. Not so in the book! Lady Laena begs her dragon to kill her. Nope! Daemon is a creep, for sure, but there’s never a moment when his loyalty or faith in Rhaenyra is as obviously questioned as it is in the show.
I’m not sure why that had to change for TV. Looking around our own world, I see no shortage of women who embrace their guns and their wars as tightly as their families. Were they worried an audience just wouldn’t believe that two women would wreak havoc in the name of power? I implore creators to stop interpreting feminism as the moral elevation of women; we’re not better, we’re just equal. And the sooner TV shows recognize this, the sooner I can stop writing columns about fictional character ages in historical texts about fake worlds to prove a point. Just because womenMay 29, 2024 | 2:01pm
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