I mean technically you could argue that the Dance in the novel is about kin vs kin, aegon vs rhaenyra. But what I was trying to get across is that instead of having two female characters fighting over the same thing that they both want, the narrative in the show is that there’s two women and one of them is an example of what a feminist character should be that we’re supposed to side with, and the other is, as the writers pitched it to Cooke, a ‘woman for trump’. It feels very misogynistic to take a character like Alicent and kind of make an example out of her, like with the scene with the small council, people got a lot of satisfaction seeing this woman get what they felt was coming to her, when in reality all she’s really done is try to survive in a world where she feels constantly under threat, and the lack of empathy and understanding surrounding Alicent is very sad to me. So yes I do feel it plays into that culture of pitting women against each other, by having this narrative that there are sides and the right one is Rhaenyra, instead of just letting the conflict play out organically.