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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Season 2 is bretty good so far. I swear ASOIAF nerds ruin everything. Ever since season 7/8 of GOT they try to point out every single small inconsistency with the new show and focus in on them to call every episode shit. You could read the GOT books and then watch season 1-4 (the supposed GOAT seasons) and call them all shit if you point out every book divergence or logical inconsistency. HOTD is an improvement on the later seasons of GOT but it gets no credit because of scorned GOT fans that want to hate everything ASOIAF related. Yes the Rhaenys pit scene where she kills peasants wasn't great for the character, but still mostly in line with Targaryen feelings about peasants. If you're really focusing in on that scene to define the character you're like the same foids that hate Aegon because of the little r*pe he did when he was a teenager.
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It's not about her killing peasants, it's about her not killing the people who are usurping the throne and preventing all out war.
In one moment, she completely justifies getting passed over for the crown by not taking action for the good of the realm.
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Season 2 is bad because Rhaenyra and Alicent were turned into morons, they feel like different characters from season 1. From Alicent's POV Rhaenyra ascending to the throne means her childrens life are in danger, this was a huge plot point in season 1 which the show did good then.
Now from all the characters know, the greens killed Rhaenyra's son and from Alicent's POV Rhaenyra had her grandson killed. But somehow Rhaenyra sneeks into Kings Landing for a chat with Alicent and she does… absolutely nothing? That whole scene terrible, is as if the war finally erupted but this characters no longer hold grudges. The moment Lucerys was killed it was war and no other option for Rhaenyra.
My main point with Rhaenys is how she seems to have forgotten her son, she suspected Daemon and Rhaenyra killed him but she acts all goodie with her. Yeah, she does it for her granddaughters mostly but still.
I'm not even talking about book divergence now, but how they alter characters from one season to the next.
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Literally are (changed characters too)
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Anybody who points out inconsistencies with HOTD is probably dumb, with some exceptions. If you want to say its badly written then that's fine, but it is objectively not inconsistent with the books because the book is an overtly unreliable history textbook. I do have to disagree with your opinion on the original show though. Almost none of the changes in the original show are really that bad or major, in fact I actually think the show handled the Ghost of Harrenhal story much better. The problem is how many small changes they made that were unnecessary and were slightly worse then the book. Each on its own was fine, it was the combination of all five thousand changes that really sucked.
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