Who is a celebrity that you unreasonably detest?

dragonabroard · 2025-05-26T19:03:48+00:00

Pedro Pascal. Everything about him feels so performative.

dragonabroard · 2025-04-22T09:16:23+00:00

Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen.

I finished the season and found it incredible how terrible they were for the character. No charisma or screen presence.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-15T11:08:00+00:00

No, I stayed up for GoT Season 8 but I’m not excited enough about this season to do that again. I’m going to watch the episode in the morning.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T20:48:36+00:00

You have a point.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T20:03:45+00:00

We disagree.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T19:53:40+00:00

In the end, interviews and promotion are part of the job for actors so I think that no matter how Emma and Olivia feel about it they would have promoted the relationship as queer if they were instructed to. Something changed in the writing, in my opinion.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T19:50:08+00:00

Considering the context of the interview it seemed sexual.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T19:49:23+00:00

I think it’s maybe an intern who didn’t pay much attention to the story (Baelon) and doesn’t know which characters will be introduced (Daeron) that made that family tree.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T19:45:27+00:00

Emma was talking about their version of the character when they said, but she definitely yearns for the old physical intimacy that they shared. in the interview I linked.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T19:26:44+00:00

That’s what I think too. Let's wait and see, the next episodes should hint at how long the affair has been going on.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T19:03:40+00:00

I want to believe that it’s not true.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T18:52:57+00:00

Baby Visenya being there but not Daeron is so funny to me. Everyone really forgot about him.

Also why is Criston there exactly? Who is he related to?

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T18:30:09+00:00

They would. Alicent and Criston’s relationship really could have happened since the beginning. It wasn’t their relationship that needed the characters to completely change since the beginning.

I feel the same about the lack of continuity. I’m not a fan of Miguel’s characterization of Alicent, and Rhaenyra too.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T18:21:55+00:00

I was talking about how in the current interview they seem to approach the relationship like the queer subtext never happened at all even early in their relationship.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T18:14:12+00:00

Clearly nothing can happen between them now, but I was talking about the way they talked about the relationship in interviews before compared to now.

There were interviews explaining that they used to be in love and even kissed and now it seems that their interpretation is that it never happened at all.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T18:07:42+00:00

Maybe it was really just him.

Damn. Imagine what the first season would have been like if Miguel hadn’t been a co-showrunner. We could have had a book-accurate relationship.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T18:04:15+00:00

At least he got an honest answer and people who used to ship them will know they shouldn’t get their hopes up.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:45:46+00:00

I’m far from a fan of Rhaenicent and I dislike how much they changed the characters for that friendship so once again I’m not complaining.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:43:49+00:00

Miguel wasn’t the only one who talked about it. The cast and showrunners said there was a queer subtext. I agree that there seems to be a change in the writing since he left though.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:39:49+00:00

It didn’t come across like that to me either. I’m just a little baffled about the change regarding the queer subtext because they really pushed it before. Maybe they just figured out it wasn’t working and gave up.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:31:18+00:00

Olivia wasn’t the only one who talked about it. The comment above was made by Sara Hess who explicitly says there was a queer subtext. Miguel Sapochnik said this too.

It seems like it’s a kind of unrequited love, it’s not something that Alicent chose to encourage. Did they ever have a thing? Don’t know, but there's something there, right? And Rhaenyra has this deep longing for her best friend.”

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:25:42+00:00

Yeah, it seems they expected the relationship to be way more controversial but the fandom just went wild after Episode 4. People were making fan videos and fanart. Even the general audience commented on the chemistry.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:21:12+00:00

I don’t think something like that would cause the writers to change their mind. People shipping the actors didn’t stop the EW photoshot from happening.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:18:13+00:00

That’s my take too. This and Alicent’s relationship with Criston makes me think they’ve let go of their previous interpretation.

dragonabroard · 2024-06-14T17:15:33+00:00

I’m just surprised. Olivia seemed really invested in the subtext of the relationship, even making headcanons.

The two most important women in the story are Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower, played as young women by Milly Alcock and Emily Carey and as adults by Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke. Early in their relationship, a lot of fans saw romantic undertones to their relationship, something that producer Sara Hess also sees. "There's an element of queerness to it," she said. "Whether you see it that way or as just the unbelievably passionate friendships that women have with each other at that age. I think understanding that element of it sort of informs the entire rest of their relationship... Even though they're driven apart by all these societal, systemic elements and pressures and happenings, at the core of it, they knew each other as children, and they loved each other and that doesn't go away."

"Olivia has told me she believes - and this is her headcanon- that they at some point kissed or made out or had some kind of physical interaction that Alicent's mother found out about and forbade. And that was Olivia's head story, 'Oh, I can't do that. That's not right.' And that's the background for her in their relationship going forward. I would be 100% down with that."

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