How is House of the Dragon Biased

No matter how hard they tried to villanize Alicent over Rhaenyra. But I never saw it. Alicent was a good friend, queen, and mother. Always trying to do the right thing. While Rhyaerya spend the entire time upset about her place and trying to make herself happy instead of readying to be the best queen she could be to prove the entire realm wrong...

They also gave book Rhaenyra's homophobic comments about Laenor to Alicent lmao its insane.

I agree, i don't like the way they treated the green queen, they took away all her agency in the show while in the book she and Rhaenyra are both shown as being equally ambitious and determined to get to their common goal ( the iron throne) . they turned the green queen into a weak , easy to manipulate woman.

I think they made Aegon irremediably evil, being a rapist and sadist who enjoys seeing children fight. They could have made him a uninspired drunkard and womanizer in season 1 with hints at being a potentially good king once he receives the people's affection. Making him a rapist and child sadist makes him in my eyes completely unlikeable.

I kinda hate Rhaenyra’s depiction the most, and it’s why I had to stop watching the show tbh. The show wants you to see her as the main protagonist and as the character to feel sorry for and root for. In reality, though, so many of the narrative’s issues trace back to her. She wants the Iron Throne and complains often about how her being a woman has made her journey to it much harder. All the while, she is given a clear cut path, and yet decides to fool around and have obvious bastards. This tarnishes her reputation a bit and makes things harder for her overall, and yet she gets mad at others (Alicent, mainly) for using it to their advantage in their own bids for the throne. As if none of them have the right to want what she does. Incredibly spoiled. She also bases her claim to the throne on being the King’s daughter, yet she ignores the fact that her father only got the throne because another woman in her family was screwed over for her birthright because she was a woman. So Rhaenyra bases her claim to the throne on being her father’s eldest child, even though she is a woman, despite the fact that this rule would have stopped her father from ever being King in the first place. It just makes Rhaenyra seem entitled and selfish tbh, especially since we’re supposed to hold the “Queen That Never Was” as some sort of role model for her.

I have been saying this for the longest while now and here is what I find. Most Black supporters also happen to be Daenerys fans and they literally seen Rhaenyra as the new Dany who in their view can redeem the "injustice" of season 8. I remember being very excited when I heard that the Dance of Dragons was coming to screen, what I loved about it especially from reading Fire and Blood and also Princess and the Queen is that no side was truly good or truly evil, just a lot of morally grey characters, but House of Dragon destroyed that narrative entirely in favour of a clear Rhaenyra bias.

I still find it weird that Rhaenys and Corlys supported Rhaenyra after what she and Daemon did to Laenor and Vaemond.

I felt like after the timeskip Rhaenyra seemed almost like an entirely different character, and I don't just mean in terms of the actor's performance. Both actors did a fine job, but post-time skip it just doesn't feel like that's the person the child would grow up to be. I know time wears people down, but no matter how you wear someone down the core is still there under the surface.

I always thought it was weird because arent the Blacks essentially the Lannister in this story, with a bunch of illegitimate kids, the Greens seem to be more along the lines of Stannis with a much stronger claim to the throne, i always ask the peoples who root for the Blacks if they were also rooting for Cersei and her illegitimate kids

Practically removing Daeron from the show also served the clear purpose to build bias against the Greens. There was very little bad you could say about him, and that is something the showrunners did not want.

The Queen That Never Was is a compliment toward Rhaenys, not an insult. And I felt like Aemond was VERY sympathetic especially as a child.

They did this with the Lannisters especially in the first season. They do this all the time, they make us love a character only to find out later that we misjudged them, or hate it only to sympathize with it later on. I believe in later seasons they will l reverse the roles a bit and start showing the Blacks doing some terrible things, and make us more sympathetic towards the Greens.

I have written an entire article about how bias the show is against the greens and posted it once on Reddit. It pains me a lot because love the show. Great Video.

The Black bias in HotD is what undermines the whole story from F&B. At the heart of the original story was a tale about two factions who were equally justified in seeking succesion claims, but saw their goals derailed by poor decision making by the main players, particularly Visarys, Otto, and Rhaenyra. For me, the story always read as a homologous set of errors, not as a fight between the Brady Bunch and the Adam's Family, which is how the Greens are portrayed in this series. I do like the show overall, but I do feel that some of the character/plot changes were completely unnessary.

My biggest problem with Rhaenyra being heir is that, not only did she try to pass off bastards as trueborn kids, which got people killed, but she also does not want to familiarize herself with her nation's bureaucracy. If I were Rhaenyra, the moment Otto gets fired, I'd work to get the position of Hand or at least get someone close to me to become Hand, and work with them to study how the kingdom runs. I'd work day and night to make sure the bureaucracy of the nation runs smoothly, and I'd be paying attention to every detail and problem in the realm. Hell, I'd probably save myself for Aegon II, so I can solidify my hold on the throne by wedding the king's only male heir. Getting Aegon II as my spouse and working hard with the bureaucracy would mean that when Viserys kicks the bucket, I'd be perfectly positioned to take over, as I can use Aegon II to reinforce my claim to the throne, and since I'd be running the kingdom before that, getting crowned would barely be a formality. Instead, Rhaenyra would rather engage in follies and not familiarize herself with the mundane aspects of ruling. I believe this is a mistake. If she wants to be queen that badly, the first thing she should do is learn how to rule.

It's truly unfortunate just how things turned out in this respect given how wonderful an opportunity they had to make a very morally complex civil war story. I feel that many of Aegon's future triumphs and tragedies are going to fall rather flatly with the audience given how he has little characterization, nearly all of which is negative.

The reason i support Green is Viserys Hypocrisy. He is fine being King but he choose her own daughter instead his son. That's like dismissing his own throne. Deep down we know Vaemond soeaking the truth. Rhanerya child not even legitimate.😁

The worst thing that daemon and rhaenyra did was let rhaehnys and corlys believe that their son Laenor is dead. Even years later after they get married and have a bunch of kids they still don't tell them the truth that their son is still alive in essos somewhere. That's the most unbelievable part, that even though they suspect they were the ones that killed their son so they could be together they still choose to support her claim for the throne

I still support the greens

Last year when the House of Dragon first aired i remember i was a total team black fan, i was rooting for Ranerhya and dameon and rhanerhyas succession to the iron throne. However, as i continued to watch i noticed a lot of negative traits in Rhaneryah and team black personality and values. The first thing i noticed is that i feel like people are rooting for Rhanerya because Shes a woman and they want to see a strong female lead fighting for what she believes in and what is her right. Although i think people forget that this takes place in a period where woman were not heard and had no power, people are forgetting that this is not taking palace in a society that we live in today. The reality is that the directors filmed this in an away as if it was taking place in a period were women had more liberation. . However, the first questionable approach i had towards rhanerya was when she lied to Alicent about having outside affairs and then got her father kicked out of the palace, although she did not have affairs with Dameon but, she still did though and then lied about it. The second thing was when she took advantage of Ser Cristion Cole, ruined his image self esteem and potentially could have gotten him killed. The third was when Rhanerya had an oppunrnity to court other men and instead destroyed it by being rude and arrongant, and yes people say that she was young ect but if she is planning to be a female queen she should carry herself as if she was by demanding respect instead of using it to be spoiled. The fourth was when Rhanerya [son not sure which one], stab Alicents son in eye and she did not discipline him for what he did or even discipline him for teasing him for not having a dragon, meanwhile she just expects her dad to fight all her battles. The final straw for me is that Rhanerya is trying to put illegimante children on the Iron throne, yes, Alicents children are crazy in their own way however at least all her children are legimate Targarenyas that are supposed to sit on the iron throne. However, these are just my opinion and how i feel about it hope it all makes sense.