i absolutely love alicent's ep 5 arc.
she begins the ep alone. without allies. without friends. without family. a hightower in the dragons' den.
everyone just expects alicent to silently accept her fate. to be grateful that she was chosen as viserys's king consort. to wear the Targaryen colors and be at her husband's disposal.
but alicent puts up a fucking fight. she's done trying to fit in and please people that have no respect for her.
i also love how my queen immediately went to the hightowers' table. she wants everybody to know exactly who she is.
"i worried that given leave of your father's shadow, you might wither in king landing's sun. but you stood tall"
and in the end, she ends up making a friend that will become her lifelong companion and biggest supporter.
alicent owned that episode.
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EMILY CAREY as ALICENT HIGHTOWER
"disobedient, disrespectful, disorganized, she was a mess. they cleaned her up, taught her, to obey, to be quiet, to neat. she swallowed her voice and moved silently through the world. she was nice, reliable, compliant, complicit. when they gave her a knife, she made precise, straight edged wounds."
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Greensleeves was all my joy, greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold, and who but Lady Greensleeves
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I don't know about y'all but I find it very funny and a bit satisfying that despite all the anti-feminism and conservatism and pro-patriarchy accusations Alicent was thrown, so many people of color and queer folks (and other definitely radically left-leaning people) still watched hotd and rallied behind her and flock together to defend her (despite being accused of being pro-conservatism ourselves in doing so).
And I wonder... Why is that? What nerve did Alicent touch that make us so protective of her, of her story and point of view?
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If it was my son who lost an eye...
let's just say even Daemon would be horrified at what I would be capable of.
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alicent has always that sad expression on her face that make her look like art and at the same time make me think how much bad her life must have been after she married that fake of a king that viserys was.
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