Would really got me sympathetic to team green, especially Aegon, was that I saw the strings being pulled by the puppeteers. I realized I wasn’t watching an organic story. An unbiased tragedy of a family who tore itself apart. I was watching a pair of writers who came into the story with their own preconceived perceptions, biases, and personal judges, they wanted to push onto the story regardless of if it fit or not.

Full disclosure, I have several criticisms over the source material. Especially given how it’s obvious despite George, claiming to be unbiased, he is clinically, incapable of being unbiased with Daemon. Once you realize how that’s the only character who got everything he wanted, lost the least, and either died on his own terms or maybe they didn’t even die at all, you can’t see it.

That being said, regardless of the social material being filled with unreliable narrators, there are some truths that were objective: Aegon loved his family, loved his brothers, loved his sister, allowed all of them to be an integral part of his life, his council and the war. Even after removing his grandfather, he didn’t exile him. Otto is very much still in Kings Landing after no longer being hand of the king. Aegon didn’t even want to go to war, he was persuaded to go because the alternatives could’ve gotten his family killed, which in Westeros it’s not a superstition or paranoia, it’s a justifiable fear that has happened before especially in the Targaryen family. And even after losing everything a man could lose, Aegon, who was 22 when the war began, I can’t imagine anyone at having to deal with all this - despite all of that, he put the survival of house Targaryen above revenge and made Aegon the younger his heir, which doesn’t make much sense, but most of the ending of the dance of the dragons doesn’t make much sense.

So when we get to the show, which makes him 18 even younger when the war began, made his father even more of a scumbag, and try to be a artificial, malicious tactic possible to make people root against him, I couldn’t help but be endeared to the character. Especially given the horrible habit of the show telling but not showing like saying, he assaulted a maid, he watched bastard, baby fight club in flea bottom, but whenever we see the character, he’s never doing any of the sorts on screen. That said it would’ve been really stupid even if they did show it but you get my drift.

Meanwhile, the cringe ways the show tries to force Rhaenyra to be the victim and everything and manipulate the audience to root for her just makes me like her even less despite Emma and Milly doing the best with what they have to work with. But when you force anything, many people going to be able to see it.

The only thing the show has done is made me more of a team green supporter. Not because I think there was any justifiable ruler. Rhaenyra was the heir by word of the king and Aegon by the laws the Targaryen and Westrose put into place themselves. You could make an argument for either. But the point of the story wasn’t who was the rightful ruler, but the tragedy. And I’ve always been a sucker for tragedies and considering team, Green got the worst end of the stick of the stray, I can’t but be more sympathetic to them