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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i remember hearing that season 1 was decent but is season 2 really that bad
i'll probably just skip it entirely if it is
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there were like 2 good episodes of the first season
the whole thing is absolute trash
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The only thing I remember about the first season is wanting to bang millie alpeepee
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!nooticers what is monke's phenotype?
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Yt trash and I wanna get all up in it
!bumpkins
I'd hit that till the whole house stank. You'd need the jaws of life to get me out
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!kino
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My wife
Unironically dropped the show when she got swapped out
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Hifive
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apparently hes into the r-slurred
child 
look. all i could remember about s1 is how horrendously ugly she is.
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The rare FAS haver who doesn't become an e-girl
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Her face looks to small for her head, especially the 2nd picture.
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this one
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Glad you didnt
break character 
to pretend to be a str8 monk3
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Mouthwatering
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It's Game of Thrones without the any of the empathy that made it compelling. Every character is essentially the same person and they all talk like they're auditioning for Rings of Power.
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Everyone is just extremely unlikeable.
The Hound literally murdered a child with 0 remorse in season 1 of GOT and they made him a beloved characrer.
Only Daemon is fun to watch, but in a "good bad guy" way, not in a way that makes you empathize with him
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Season 1 was good but was ultimately just building, season 2 is so far pretty good.
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I like 2 just as much. It's not like season 1 was exactly Macbeth either. It's the same old soap opera dragonshit with lots of spectacles and saucy medieval gore and wieners.
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just wait until it's over and then decide if you watch it
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Season 2 is good. Whole show is good. Its not game of thrones latter half which is all omg tits and dragons for frat boys too watch in bars Jewish lives matter
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Season 1 was good, it had some weak moments but most episodes were very good. Season 2 is mostly a bad to average show with some good moments, the show-runners are assassinating characters like Alicent Hightower.
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Season 1 was like having a schizo moment every other episode trying to understand the characters and their motivations. They reworked some of them for s2, which is jarring, but they're at least consistent now. Aemond's big moment could have used some more explicit setup though.
Making Aegon a lovable oaf and the existence of s2e2 completely mogs all of s1.
Alicent Hightower didnt have a character to assassinate. Fire and Blood sucks to begin with.
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They had to allocate all of the run time to giving Rhaenys her moment. It was terribly directed though. The second she goes and talks to her dragon, it's like "Oh, so she's gonna die huh?". Zero surprise.
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Also the timeskips omfg.
One guy literally gets stabbed and another passes out >>> TIMESKIP >>> everyone is okay now; that never gets brought up.
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I didn't mean book Alicent, season 1 Alicent was a different character.
Back then she was terrified of the prospect of Rhaenyra becoming queen and murdering her sons and for all she knows Rhaenyra murdered her grandson. But on episode 3 she has a nice chat with her bestie frenemie and doesn't even alert the guards.
But I agree on Aegon and Aemond being much better characters on season 2.
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And the timeskips.
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