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Cersei's chapters were so funny in the books but such a loss of depth. She was evil from birth. She had no charisma. She is stupid. Plus she wasn't just irredeemable but portrayed as ridiculous and mockable, which I didn't like. I wish Martin treated her like he treat her brothers.

Camus' analysis of Kirillov is the best character analysis I've ever read. Another reason to love Camus besides his philosophy and wonderful works is his analysis of the characters and works of Dostoevsky and Kafka. In my humble opinion, his writings about Dostoevsky are way better than those of Nabokov in his "Lectures on Russian Literature".

Overall, I highly recommend reading "The Myth of Sisyphus", it is not as hard as other philosophical essays, and there are some sections focusing on literary characters.

P.S. I also recommend reading his novel "The Stranger" that kinda recreates Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," but the main character (Meursault) is fully amoral. He is often called the "evolved" version of Raskolnikov.

Oh, House of The Dragon is a feminist show? Team Black is a feminist team?

They wrote out Nettles, a canon black woman. They threw away Rhaena's storyline and subsequent characterization. They wrote out her storyline and replaced it with the canon black woman's storyline. Because Rhaena's a black woman in the show? Are they the same now? Because women's stories are interchangeable?

Rhaenyra has spent 5 episodes making no decisions during a War, they changed her grief from ugly and volatile and brutal to the more appropriate sad and weepy, as all good mothers should be.

They changed Laena's death so they can set a precedent for how honorable Rhaenyra's will be. To prop up a white woman. Why is her death not her own?

Daemon kills his wife, who he calls misogynist names constantly, by his own hand. No plausible deniability, no assassins, he's there. Why did they show it? A woman's death that was only implied to be his fault in the books, but they had to portray a woman's death. What did it accomplish? What did I have to see so bad? Is this Domestic Violence?

Both Daemon and Rhaenyra have sex on the day of Laena's funeral, with her family in the building, including her grieving daughters. And then they get married that week. That was his wife, mother of his children, someone whose death brought him to tears. Even if Rhaenyra isn't friends with her in the show canon, she should have some respect for this woman. Do they not honor the dead in Westeros? Do they not have mourning periods? Religion or not, her body was closer to the castle than it was the bottom of the sea. Why did she have three actresses? Why did she have an extra growth spurt? Why was her adult actress significantly older than both Alicente and Rhaenyra's? Wasn't she younger?

Why does Baela only support Jacaerys but not her sister? Why does Baela talk about Rhaenys but not her mother? Because her father has a new wife? Why does Rhaenyra care if Helaena was hurt or scarred by Jaehaerys death when they don't interact at all? Because she's a mother too? Does that make her saintly now? Was Rhaenys not a mother when she wanted Laenor dead? At his sister's, her daughter's funeral. How does she know Helaena is an innocent? How can Rhaenyra be ambitious enough for the throne, how can Alicente be a silver-tongued usurper but not Helaena? Why doesn't Rhaenyra have female friendships? Why are all her female conversations only about making her queen and the war? No wonder people ship Alicente/Rhaenyra

The take that “Rhaena is not black within the HoTD universe” is actually very valid and the truth. Rhaena is played by a black actor, but the character within the universe is not black. Rhaena is Valyrian. She suffers none of the oppression or racism directed towards actual people of color in the universe George created. She’s a noble woman descendant from a race that built their empires on the back of slaves and that considers themselves superior to other people, and was raised with all the privilege that being a Valyrian noble woman is given to. Lannisters and Targaryens are all played by white people, and still within the universe of the story, they aren’t of the same race, are they? So you get the concept.

Same with Rhaena and Nettles (if she was adapted). They aren’t the same. So Nettles storyline being given to a character who isn’t black within the universe of where that storyline unfolds is actually pretty fucking racist.

And when we transport this to the real world where the actor playing Rhaena is a black person, to have the writers acting as if they are interchangeable with another potentially black person and therefore can receive whatever storyline was originally intended for another is again pretty fucking racist.

so according to ryan condal, alicent also made up nettles ?

I don't really know how else to say this, but suggesting that Nettles is actually Rhaena, because the Maesters didn't have their facts right is uh, wack.

Rhaena in Fire and Blood is a white, silver haired Targaryean Princess born to the brother of one King, and the step daughter of a later Queen, whose whereabouts were thoughly documented, spent much of the war as a welcomed guest in the Vale where she lived in comfort and had her dragon Morning, hatch from one of her eggs, and continued to be well documented after the war of her whereabouts and activities as she was one of the few living Targaryeans after the war ended.

Nettles in Fire and Blood is a poor, black, dark haired, homeless bastard girl born to a whore. She on her own, bonded with a violent and wild already grown dragon who no one could tame, then after the war, disappeared for good where the rest of her life is unknown, but became something of a spiritual figure that eventually became someone worshiped by the Hill Tribe of the Burned Men.

Point to me where in Fire and Blood, the Maesters would've mixed those two up for any reason. Making a white book character played by a black actress in the show, is not an excuse to give her the story of a totally separate black character who was always black in the books.

Rhaena in the show being played by a black actress, is not an excuse to say that the black book character of Nettles, was just accidentally mixed up or made up by the Maesters, from the very well documented actions of a character who in the same book, was a white girl in a royal family.

Literally no one in the citadel is mistaking an orphaned black bastard girls actions, for a white girl in the royal family. Or would be stupid enough to mistaken the well documented actions of said white royal girl, for a totally made up black bastard girl that completely disappeared after the war.

You can just say it was wrong to give Nettles story to Rhaena. You people do not have to defend fucking everything this show has changed from the books, just because you personally enjoyed it.

Race swapping a white character to be black does not mean that it's fine to remove the already canonically black character that existed prior to the race swap, and give her story to the character who was originally white.

Listen to yourselves, for the love of god.

Cutting out the only canonical black character out of the show after race bending an entire house to be black and giving the characters minimal scenes with very little development, is racist.

Also, Nettles and Rhaena are not even comparable in terms of their respective narratives- Rhaena’s hatching of the dragon morning after being insecure for years about being the only person in her family to *not* have a dragon is all irrelevant if she just suddenly claims a wild dragon and all of it is fixed. Likewise, Nettles being a lowborn girl who rides a wild dragon is not a story that could be easily fixed by giving it to noblewoman whose character does not tackle racism/misogynoir the way Nettles’ does.

Granted, all of what we know about this supposed storyline is based on leaks and has not been confirmed as yet, but it’s a pattern of HBO to exclude characters of color and queerness from ASOIAF, in order to make it palatable for viewers. To pretend that there isn’t any form of prejudice or bias when it comes to the inclusion of queer and bipoc characters is…odd.