LA times published an article on Rhaneys's death last episode and interviews with the actress playing her and with showrunners Ryan Condal and Sarah Hess.
What Rhaenys represents is someone with absolute authority, power, wisdom, intelligence, expertise, political savvy and utter compassion — a constant awareness of [the need for] collaboration and making a choice for love, as opposed to destruction
Meanwhile season 1 Rhaenys
This scene was made up for the show by the way, in season 2 Daemon correctly calls out girlboss Rhaenys for not having burned all of the Greens when she got the chance but we're supposed to be on her side, never mind the fact she killed hundreds of peasants, might as well have killed her relatives who were going to war against them anyway. Also the reason Rhaenys and Corlys Velaryon are stuck with Rhaenyra is because their granddaughters are Daemon's daughters. For all they know Daemon and Rhaenyra murdered her son Laenor but they have no choice. However season 2 makes us believe Rhaenys actually likes Rhaenyra because of GIRL POWER!
Did you think about any real-world figures, whether historical or contemporary, in relation to this character? There have been a lot of Rhaenys-like women.
Absolutely, 100%, almost every single great woman you can think of [has] an element of [Rhaenys]. Sara Hess, who's one of the executive producers and the lead writers for the show, said to me on the first day, "There's so much of Hillary Clinton [in Rhaenys]." God knows you couldn't compare Viserys to the other one [former President Trump], but the similarities are very clear — to see that the person who is absolutely, hands down, best suited for the job is sidelined simply because she's a woman, and then has to somehow find her way.
https://old.reddit.com/r/HOTDGreens/comments/1dze51r/the_stanning_is_out_of_control_at_this_point/
So far the showrunners whitewashed Rhaenyra and the Black team hard while making the Greens villains. According to leaks they'll make Rhaenyra's son, Jace, kind of lock his mother with the help of Corlys as she's useless but they'll make it look like "MAN BAD AND PRONE TO VIOLENCE! WOMEN GOOD AND REASONABLE!" 
Meanwhile on the blacks sub
https://old.reddit.com/r/HOTDBlacks/comments/1dzfuko/i_cant_waittt/
https://old.reddit.com/r/HOTDBlacks/comments/1dxukhb/rhaenys/
!kino !bookworms more ASOIAF assassination, and GRRM said on his blog yesterday he didn't want to meet with the HOTD writing staff meeting for season 3 lmao.
!neolibs as the comparison with Hillary arose, who was the most neoliberal Targaryen King?
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If you watched even a single second of this show without thinking about Hillary, you should learn about this little thing I read about online called media
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