House of the Dragon Season 1 is Hot Trash Garbage

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

Tears in my eyes. Finally someone calling out all the goofy stuff in season 1. I think a lot of people either had really low expectations or are gaslighting themselves cause they want something from this universe to be good. You saw the same thing happening in game of thrones when the writing started going to shit, excuses were made because people were in denial. If you give a lot of these opinions on the HOTD subreddit, you'd get downvoted to hell lol.

[@TheReDeeMeR1988]

Aaaa, rightfully SO. duuh

[@Ocean-gh7wz]

"Aww, you can't do bad things, you've vagina" I nearly chocked with my tea. Literally that's how these stupid showrunners treat Alicent.

[@alorescott]

Right 😭. Like they tried their hardest to make all the women the soft innocent good ladies with mean bad men around them. Its very frustrating and insulting

[@Ocean-gh7wz]

@@alorescott She is a disgrace. I can't believe we are in 2023 and these dumbasses think that 'feminism' means 'all women should be friends and can't hate each other without men's influence' like bitch, in what alternate universe do you live? Anyway, a great show were the women are amazing villains is 'The Glory'. The writer of that show would eat the HOTD writers for breakfast.

[@TheDream6842]

Also no Sunfyre the golden in the coronation, instead we got that show creation stupid Rhaenys attack wich make no sense by the way, like she should have been smashed by the rocks.

[@alorescott]

It was sooooo goofy! They just wanted it to look cool but it was non sensible. Thank you for watching!

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

Alicent being portrayed as a constant victim, trivializes the bad things that she does!!! Couldn't have said it any better. And imo, the showrunners did this on purpose. As a way to manipulate the mainstream audience. It's actually a very irresponsible and potentially sinister decision. And it obviously worked because you see a lot of weak females who never want to take accountability for their shortcomings and failings in life make a billion excuses for show Alicent lol. They even say she was so terrified of Larys as the fucking Queen lol. What power does he have over her? He can't frame her for shit cause anything he accuses her of would be treason. Do these showrunners understand how a feudalistic monarchy works?? She could get Cole or Aemond to kill him in 5 seconds and feed his body to Vhagar. He is already a cripple, and we know how superstitious and judgemental the people of Westeros are. Teaching young girls to embrace victimhood and have the woe is me mentality is dangerous. It's weak and pathetic, that's why show Alicent is a wack character.

[@alorescott]

Thank you for understanding what I was saying. Yes I think the show writing of Alicent was dangerous and extremely sexist. It feels nice to be understood when so many people are insulting me to defend a show that insults and manipulates THEM! ❤

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

@@alorescott They are insulting you because they are perpetual victims themselves lol. That's why they can relate to such an inconsistently written character. Nothing about Alicent makes sense after that 10 year time jump. The only thing that was good was her outburst after Aemond lost his eye.

[@alorescott]

@@nostalgicbliss5547 thank you. And I agree on alot of what you said. There seems to be a 'type' of fan who enjoy show Alicent and show Sansa (there's an overlap) and it seems to stem from them hating Daenerys and other women characters who triumph over their pain to help others. Its weird

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

@@alorescott They get off on being victims and infantile damsels, they are mentally unwell.

[@crystaleefyffe1230]

God I fucking hated Alicent's characterization! And the people loving her for the same things they hated Rhaenrya annoys me.

[@sunerys8511]

I agree. I’m team Green but that has nothing to do with show-Alicent. Her characterization in the Green Council episode is laughable. It’s too bad they didn’t dare make her as ruthless as her book version, that’s the Alicent I was excited to see before the show aired

[@alorescott]

Agreed I was genuinely offended by what they did to Alicent. I wanted to see a cunning queen who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals

[@bonbonvegabon]

Team green fans are sadists

[@carastone3473]

Again, someone who doesn't understand what the book is. The book itself tells the reader over and over that it is written by multiple, unreliable sources, decades after the events took place. Some of these "sources" were not even there for the event they're "recounting," so it's a second- or even third-hand accounting. Some of the sources WERE there, but have reason to spin the story to makes themselves look better. GRRM himself has said that if anything is cannon, it's the SHOW, as the show is us watching the events as they "actually" unfolded, so to speak.

[@sunerys8511]

@@carastone3473 He said the show is canon to GoT and that F&B is canon to ASOIAF. I believe the maesters or mushroom would get Alicent’s age right or address the scene where Meleys bursts through the floor killing hundreds if not thousands at Aegon’s coronation. Why wouldn’t the “biased green maesters” record that? It’s great propaganda material.

[@alorescott]

@@carastone3473 babe don't lie. GRRM said that the show and books were their own Canon. But the show couldn't even keep the ages consistent or have the time events make sense

[@mariametaterran3008]

I find it messed up that people take the story of Rhaenyra, a complex woman, doomed in her fight pushing back against an unjust system she's still subject to, and decided to say: Actually, what if she WAS selfish for pushing back without possessing a 21st century class and feminist consciousness that she had no way of acquiring because those movements are preceded by proto-feminist figures just like her? What if the proto-feminist figures who highlight the contradictions within the system, make people second-guess what we're told about gender, and feed the discourse that leads to feminist movements were WRONG for not being FEMINISTS? And I find it INCREDIBLY messed up that the WRITERS took the story of a woman subjected to lifelong abuse and misogyny, even at the hands of the narrator, and decided to say: Actually, what if her ABUSER had a point? She's still going to follow through on every point of misogyny and abuse, but what if somehow her ABUSER was the TRUE VICTIM and Rhaenyra just should have been NICER to her? What is going on in that writers room? Who decided it would be a good idea to have Alicent throw around phrases like "savages," "her- plain featured sons," and "it's a wonder their eggs ever hatched," while ranting about their 'lesser' origins, while STILL trying to make her sympathetic? Did they truly not realize how that would read to anyone not white?

[@alorescott]

You said a word 👏🏾 yea I really REALLY can't stand how they portrayed Alicent in the show. It was awful and irresponsible af. Beautiful comment I could not have said it better myself. And thank you for watching ❤

[@Ocean-gh7wz]

The writer of the episode where Alicent says those quotes is Sara Hess. The same that wrote Alicent crying for half of Episode 9 saying she didn't want to hurt Rhaenyra. 😂

[@alorescott]

@@Ocean-gh7wz 😭 she's a terrible writer omg

[@Ocean-gh7wz]

@@alorescott she also was whining when people criticed how she handled Daemon's relationships with Laena and his kids crying that it was because she was a woman and why would people like Daemon. And I was like... Girl, we criticed you because you are terrible writer that ruined the antagonist in only two episodes, and people *already liked Daemon* before the show. It's like these people forget the books have a pre-existing fanbase.

[@durrangodsgrief6503]

the modern political views ruined it men are bad women are good and the idea of woman being power hungry like men is rejected which is weird in an era where women must act like men in cinema but I guess this only applies when their the protagonist and cant be in any antagonistic way

[@alorescott]

Yea it was a ...bad choice on the show writers part in my opinion. The showrunner should have just been brave and fleshed out the characters as they were, bitchy, mean, vengeful sharp tongue, privileged and aggressive. Thank you for watching!

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

@@alorescott A guilty pleasure show like Domina does female character playing the political game in a Patriarchal society much better than HOTD. Honestly enjoyed season 1 of that show much more than HOTD lol.

[@alorescott]

@@nostalgicbliss5547 👀👀👀 added to my watch list. Thank you for the suggestion ❤

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

@@alorescott Lol tell me what you think about it when you get to it later in the future. It has two seasons currently out.

[@alorescott]

@@nostalgicbliss5547 will do

[@SorceressWitch]

I don't like how the show is making team green to be less ambitious and ruthless. Some people say that the show is being biased towards greens but i think the show is wanting to do a "both sides" thing by making them out to be even so that they can have a fanbase to be divided and keep conversations going. I don't remember there being many greens until the show came out though, so it's true that it's created a fanbase of greens. I haven't seen a single goid argument to support the greens however. One reason they are making Daemon worse is one of the writers has openly admitted to hating Daemon. It reminds me of The Witcher series writers eho don't care about the books. It's amazing that i have even seen some who say they're feminists supporting the greens who are clearly against a woman claiming the throne.

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching and thank you for this comment. Yea I've seen that interview where the writers were like 'why is daemon so popular? We made him bad" they don't get it and they don't care. And I've seen 'feminists' sympathize with Alicent's abuse, but laugh at her making Rhaenyra wall right after giving birth. A good bunch of them turned on Dyana when there was a rumour that her actress might return to the show to get revenge. Its a mess. I blame the show for alot of the misogyny in the asoiaf community that has sprang up so viciously

[@ellajohnson136]

Everybody knocking you but your right, when they are not busy completely disregarding the source material (which has its flaws I will say) they are not even staying in their own story telling characteristics. For example they make all of The female characters single motivation about their children and motherhood but then writers will go on podcasts and say even after rhaenyras son dies there’s still hope for her and alicent to reconcile if they “get the men out of the room”. I kid you not he literally said this. The huge difference between his writing and George RR Martin’s is that George is not afraid to write his female character to behave just as evil as his male characters. Even when people ask him why his female characters are so good he just says “because I treat them all the same”. You don’t feel this with hotd every single scene feels like it’s pointed to make the female characters look better than the male characters in every way they’re all more sensible and deserving. Have a better morality and more caring about their children. And to me that’s not feminist writing it’s still very much “inside the box” writing. Great video!

[@alorescott]

Thank you very much and I couldn't agree more. All the men are ambitious and bad and all the women have sense. Its like they don't understand how people work. Male or female or no nonbinary, we can be capable of good or evil, be smart and calculating or irrational and emotional. We have to learn to navigate the things that hold us back and sometimes we fail etc. All those things are what make good stories. Human heart in conflict, yea, but it's also how do we respond in said conflict? Who are we when things are easy or hard? This is why i criticize the show and aim to analyze storytelling in general. How do the stories we tell and experience reflect on us as people? How can we capture the essence of our existence? Your comment is beautiful and encouraging ❤. Thank you for watching.

[@shomelidey9177]

Yes this exactly! That show is trashfire and ppl are in denial because they want it to be next GoT so bad which itself was trashfire too LMAO

[@Ocean-gh7wz]

It's the sunk cost fallacy.

[@shomelidey9177]

@@Ocean-gh7wz also probably the need to be pretentious. Other show's fandom usually have no qualms about badmouthing and abandoning the shows they dislike if it goes bad but GoT/HoTD think since its veneer is prestige, no way its written by bunch of incompetent clowns right? instead of judging it on its own merit( That would have told them stop watching this show by GoT season 3 and HoTD by episode 2 itself)

[@CompanyOfTheCat]

I am fairly sure that these decisions were made, not only because they could not understand the meaning of the story, but because the series is targeted to a mainstream audience and not necessarily familiar with the publications and were afraid to commit. It is very sad, but the majority of people would have an issue with almost every character, the protagonists included being very complex, doing MANY unsavory things, and coming off many times downright unlikable. Sadly, movies and TV series and the way they do storytelling and portray feminity and masculinity have shifted, but not for the better nor for the worse, just shifted, which can make everything very frustrating, at least for me. They moved from the evil b*tch queen without any motivation or reasoning, mean girls portrayal (watch OG GoT) to thinking that portraying women even in the slightest bad light is wrong (HotD). They were afraid to make Rhaenyra, Alicent, and every other female lead in the story, book accurate because they knew that there was a possibility they would get backlash. They would yes if they failed, but to me it looks like they didn't even try. They said f*ck it and try to make it "feminist" (which it wasn't) and more digestible and not only they didn't (actually no, they made it very digestible, just not feminist), but they missed the whole message from the original story. They missed the biggest opportunity as they did with GoT as well, how women would handle power in a patriarchal society. Great video and also very cute art!!!

[@alorescott]

Hey Cat. First off in honored that you commented bc I've been watching your vids for months. And this comment was very refreshing bc that's exactly what I've been thinking. This desire to make all the women sympathetic while completely morphing their characters and a absolving them from doing things that might leave a bad taste in the audiences mouth. It feels like feminism abc for the audience and its just....frustrating and insulting! And unfortunately it worked, if you've seen any of these hate comments that I've been getting. But thank you for understanding what I was trying to say. Let's keep an eye out for each other ❤

[@CompanyOfTheCat]

@@alorescott I wouldn't take these comments to heart, I saw some and I would say just keep doing what you doing. I think that a big majority of HotD fans are non-readers, which makes sense, we are talking about huge viewership. They watched a show and got invested in the universe, it is very similar to what happened with GoT. Many of them were actually fans of GoT and they were pulled back in. I think that if not familiar with the publications easily you can enjoy the show. I personally think that the show is kind of okay, just a VERY BAD adaptation, like genuinely bad at adapting the source material, the characters, and its message. They became extremely invested and they do get defensive like most fans. The conversation around it can become frustrating, I know, but they boost the algorithm😂!! Keep up the good work❤

[@alorescott]

@@CompanyOfTheCat thank you so much. ❤ Yes I'm enjoying the rage coming my way this is my most watched vid. And yeah I know alot of fans are show watchers so.... it is what it is. You keep up the good work too ❤

[@M0joPin]

I wouldn't call it hot garbage, but it's nowhere as good as people claim it is. I've enjoyed watching it, but HotD is essentially a bag of very hit and miss decisions and changes, and a good half of the reviews of the show just talk about how it's better than The Rings of Power, which on its own says a lot about the quality. It was... okay, and a lot of people are not ready to admit it yet, hence the salt in the comments.

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching. I appreciate your response. Yea there were alot of things I found frustrating with the show that I couldn't let go, after the whole honeymoon period was over. The acting was great, production etc. But the writing, for the women characters especially really upsets me and hurts the show

[@OfAshesPhoenix]

OMGGG ONE HOUR LONG VIDEO? IM SEATED

[@OfAshesPhoenix]

And a shout-out as well 🥹 thank you so much 💝

[@alorescott]

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed it. Lemme know your thoughts

[@OfAshesPhoenix]

@@alorescott I agree with everything. I haven't even noted that Orwyle's role was cut in favor of Otto. like, these showrunners can't help themselves, can't day? Orwyle is supposed to be that one source that actually saw the Dance. I hope he has a bigger role in the next season, and Baela and Rhaena as well.

[@alorescott]

@@OfAshesPhoenix thank you for watching truly. I've been wanting to show you this for so many months. Feels like I have birth lol

[@OfAshesPhoenix]

@@alorescott it's really great, also watching you draw is so soothing 🥹

[@dragondream-ing]

You’d think some of the commenters were actors in the show with how hard they defend it lmao I agree with everything you said, I loved F&B because Rhaenyra and Alicent were ambitious women who sought power through different means, and the show watering that down did both characters a disservice. Not to mention it watered down that the Dance was about misogyny by pushing the harmful portrayal of “dutiful Alicent” as a way to justify the usurpation. GRRM clearly favors women that break the mold, even if they get punished by their society for it. And it’s not like dutiful women are *rewarded* in his stories… for a reason! The show gave Alicent Aemma’s storyline, Aemma was a dutiful woman, her reward was to marry super young, suffer miscarriages and die. Many such cases in Westeros. The show also inspired a lot of “uphold tradition!!” stans. I could say a lot on this (for one, pretty much every Targaryen ruler between Aegon to the Dance went against Westerosi traditions of inheritance) but I’ll keep it short 😂 GRRM had a good message at the core of F&B and it flew over the showrunners’ heads smh

[@alorescott]

Yes! Thank you for this comment and thank you for watching. You worded it beautifully. Grrm created Asha, the Sand Snakes, Olenna Shiera so many women characters who either cleverly navigated patriarchy or outright defied it. And you have so many ppl who think they deserve the worst. But its mainly Daenerys that these people hate bc she goes above and beyond and she helps ppl and it drives them to rage! Thank you for understanding what I was trying to say it means alot ❤

[@darksaint0124]

This is one thing I still don't get about the show. Why show Viserys having a problem with how young Laena was, but never go into the past of his marriage to Aemma Arryn. Everything he balked at with Laena, he had no problem doing to Aemma. They fundamentally did not understand the task they were supposed to accomplish. This is one reason why I wish they could do the simplest things, like get the ages of the characters right. I personally have no more faith in HBO for anything in this series. They are the same as Disney Star Wars for me, where I will treat all new releases as if it didn't happen.

[@Ocean-gh7wz]

@@darksaint0124 in the script they aged up Aemma and basically removed all age gaps between any characters that weren't Daemon and Rhaenyra or Alicent and Viserys.

[@CinnaMonki92166]

I see a lot of salt in the comments and why, cause a black woman dare voice her opinion that doesn't match yours??? Personally I don't agree with all of your points but that is largely due to the fact that I haven't read Fire and Blood and the Princess and the Queen; hard to agree when I don't know what's up. I enjoyed the show but from what I have read from GRRM, it is kinda disheartening to hear that the show did well in some aspects but awful in others. Great video, I will be back for more. Love your responses and critiques. 👍

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching. I should have expected the angry comments but in some aspects I don't think the show can be defended. The unnecessary violence against the women characters is a real problem for me. But thank you ❤

[@jcdenton7261]

Lmao wtf does it have to do with her race or gender, it's a popular show and she's voicing an unpopular opinion. Of course some are going to passionately disagree

[@alorescott]

@@jcdenton7261 yea ppl haven't really been attacking me for my race of gender. They've mainly been calling me a genz idiot tiktoker lol

[@jcdenton7261]

@@alorescott some people just want to make everything about that

[@silverprincess2642]

Phoenix Ashes sent me here! 🧡 "The best rulers are reluctant rulers" Roman Emperor Tiberius: Allow me to introduce myself 😂 I can't give a fair opinion since i am not well versed on the books, but i did enjoy the show. But i always love to when someone is willing to go against the grain and tell what they really think of something. Barely 20 minutes in and i can already understand you frustration.

[@alorescott]

Welcome welcome! And thank you for watching. I think you might have seen that i get much more frustrated with the show but it all comes from a place of love

[@darksaint0124]

Well, just think off it like this. That part that you have that tells you that you shouldn't comment on things you don't know about is something that is missing from the show runners and writers for this series. They just flat out make things up, like Daemon killing his wife. Which very clearly doesn't happen in the books. They do this over and over again. First the timeline is screwed up, because instead of setting up the ages around Rhaenyra, they are just de aging and increasing ages at a whim. This didn't work out well in GoT, why bring it here also? Every major character is very different from their book counterpart and there are some VERY important characters that don't exist. We don't even know how long passes between one scene to the next, much less one episode to the next. HotD is an extremely messy show, where the writers seem to think they know better than the author who made the books that got very poorly adapted.

[@MrNicholasEMo]

I have no choice but stan, my queen! I have never seen the show from that perspective, even though I was obsessing over it for a year now. You explained my own frustration with characters, their somewhat strangeness.

[@GageEakins]

The series has its issues, mostly with pacing and a few wtf moments like Rhaenys casually killing of hundreds of people and Christen killing Joffrey in cold blood with no consequences. Many of these issues could have been ironed out with more time to tell the story. But ultimately, the show is much better than the last three seasons of Game of Thrones and definately elevates the source material. Fire and Blood really isn't that coherent of a story and is severely lacking in character details. I think that you had an adaptation in your head for the characters that you seemed to connect to and gave a bit of an overaction to different characterization. There are some valid points here, especially when it comes to under-utilized or unexplored characters. But many of your arguments are not convincing to me. I think HOTD is a pretty good show with elements of greatness.

[@alorescott]

Fair enough. Agree to disagree. I don't think the show did the characters justice, especially the women characters. They are all ( in my eyes) passive figures who have to go along with what the men characters decide, beyond making their own decisions from places of power and influence. Alicent is especially the most egregious to me, bc at her shining moment, the coup, she didn't even know it was happening. I found it very frustrating. Thank you for watching

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

​​@@alorescott The Green Council in the books was perfectly cinematic as it was. They didn't need to change anything. The show ruined Alicent and Criston Cole lol. Those are the two characters that suffer the most. And they are super important characters in the dance. I didn't mind that they gave young Alicent anxiety issues, but it should have been a way to build up to older Alicent who many people say is an evil step mother trope in the books. It would have at least made the character more sympathetic while still maintaining her political ambition and ruthlessness.

[@queenxx1690]

You know that GRRM wanted more episodes but like 13 but of course they did not listen to him just as they did not listen to him with GOT and 13 seasons to tell full story they have author who is alive and knows what is the best for the story but they do not want to listen to him.Thing with times skips i knew they will do some but they rush the story too much i agree especially with the character that were supposed to die in season 1 and instead giving them dept add more to source material writes cut some scenes and made some characters really one dimensional and instead get dept of some characters we got some unneeded long sex scene but also i not completely blame writes they needed squeeze so many characters into 10 episodes because HBO should learn to listen to GRRM and when he says you need 13 episode to tell the story you give him as much as he need and I am also not fan of race swapping characters because it creates plot holes and problems in future and past of the story .

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching. Yes you'd think that they would be smart enough to listen to the actual living author who made the books popular but ehhhh. They don't learn I guess. Or they will learn the hard way if they keep making the show so ridiculous in the future

[@queenxx1690]

@@alorescott Who is your favourite character of all ASOIAF Universe ?

[@alorescott]

@@queenxx1690 you already know its the queen. Daenerys. Who is yours?

[@queenxx1690]

@@alorescott I have two Daenerys of course and Ashara Dayne as you can see on me avatar 😅she is mystery and i love mystery 🌠

[@austinb3463]

Would i sit down to watch a full hour long video attacking a season TV show that came out last year? Yes i would.

[@alorescott]

Lol thank you for watching. To be fair I worked on this in the summer but then the strike happened so I had to wait. Hope you enjoyed it ❤

[@kiraosk]

Really enjoyed your perspective. As much as i don't think it's disastrous, this first season has a lot of significant flaws that deserve well elaborated criticism. Great vid!

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching. I just wanted to get these feelings off my chest not everyone will agree that is perfectly fine

[@MeeraReads]

Agreed. I enjoyed season 1 but I can’t deny that it has several serious problems. I enjoy the writing for the dynamics it creates but it fails to convey the anti war message in much the same way GoT did. And the layers of fandom cope don’t help, when they make excuses for objectively awful things the characters do-like, tragedy that includes politics requires that characters do at least a few awful things and the audience isn’t expected to excuse them

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

I've come to terms with the fact that they're different things.

[@alorescott]

Yea. I still had to make this vid bc I hope they can approach season 2 with more respect. I think alot of the shows writing is dangerous tbh

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

@@alorescott To be honest, I agree in almost everything you said. My complaints: -Daemon is way too edgy. His loving relationship with Laena is reduced to him choosing her as a dish of second choice. He also clearly loved Baela and Rhaena, even though he wasn't the most present of parents. -Alicent is turned into a puppet when she was the power behind the throne. She's turned into this Sansa-like damsel in distress. -Aegon and Rhaenyra never speak, which ??? How am I supposed to feel the stakes of their hatred for each other when they never shared dialogue as siblings and people who want to take each other down? But all in all, I liked HOT D. I enjoyed the performances. That was the best. The costumes and sets were also great. The direction, too. That's why I've come to terms with the fact that they're two different universes. Especially regarding Laenor. You should read Kelsey L. Hayes' thoughts on Quora. Well, back when Quora was worth a damn. She argued the show had a problem with female agency. Rhaenys cannot want the Throne because that would look bad, so she's portrayed as above it all. Rhaenyra is willing to make peace which ??? when in the book, she would've burned Westeros into the ground so as to not see Aegon on the Throne. Alicent only moves to crown Aegon when she hears of Viserys' last words. She's constantly portrayed as a helpless victim, when she wanted it all the way from the beginning. Kelsey argued the show had a huge problem with female ambition. I COMPLETELY agree and that's why it feels more boring. Anyways, cool video.

[@alorescott]

I appreciate your thoughts alot! I will definitely give that quora post a read. And yes yes yes I loved the acting and of course the musicccc. So many talented people on set. I really thank you for giving my video a chance. I can't wait to make more for yall ❤

[@AllisonOxner]

It was totally unbelievable! To think we waited all of this time and they can't do any better writing for the movie. I was very disappointed.

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching. I really wish they would have expanded on what was already in the story. They changed major aspects and that made it much worse

[@hmm_1228]

I love your neutral take and that it's not about TB and TG, because all it boils down to is that the writing is shit for both sides. And now with S2, the women have been totally defanged. Alicent is ruthless af and now in S2 she's all treasonous over girl-love with Rhaenyra and Rhaenyra herself is all "oh no I want peace" when her son has been killed. Like wtf. The show runners are so afraid of exploring the darker sides of their women characters especially, like did they friggin forget about women like Cersei, Dany and Olenna in GoT????? I'm so tired of modern writing turning women into weeping willows! All that fight for women's liberty and portrayal in media and we get 10x worse sexism than it was 20 years ago where we get amazing, complex, layered female characters like Princess Leia or Ellen Ripley???

[@alorescott]

@@hmm_1228 thank you for watching and commenting 💜 its funny you say this I'm actually coming out w a woman analysis in a few days

[@LauraC..]

Found you through twitter and I'm so glad I did. Great video! x

[@alorescott]

Thank you so much! ❤ I'm glad you enjoyed. I have more vids coming in the future ❤❤

[@tamradavis1580]

Love to see a fellow black woman talking about asoiaf. 10 minutes in i subscribed. Looking forward to more videos from you! Great analysis ❤

[@alorescott]

Thank you so much! I have more asoiaf vids coming b4 s2 of hotd. Thank you for joining me on this journey. You can find me on Twitter if you want to talk abt asoiaf more w *us*

[@tamradavis1580]

@@alorescott I'll hack into my Twitter to see your hot takes 😂 and I'll have my eyes peeled for your next hotd video

[@coneyisland3176]

Least idiotic most emotionally intelligent targ stan.

[@alorescott]

Lmao!!!! Thank you???? I guess??? Thanks for watching

[@theredishradish]

I actualy don’t get, what you mean. The show follows the book like 99% of the time, which is incredibly high for shows. I also think, that all of the changes that occurred, were for the better. It‘s actually my favorite season of all of GOT content 😂

[@alorescott]

Agree to disagree. They made huge changes to the characters ages and personality that don't align with the books themes or messages about women in power. I really did not like the rape and domestic abuse of women that never happened in the books. Thank you for watching

[@theredishradish]

@@alorescott Makes it more dramatic, though. If you’re going through something so drastic and still have a strong, female character 🧐

[@alorescott]

@@theredishradish ahhh I still will have to agree to disagree. A family civil war is drama. Women with power, bad tempers and bitchy attitudes is drama too. I think adding the rape and domestic abuse where it's not needed takes away the women's power (when to me princess and the queen and f&b heavily leaned into women being their most powerful) i also find adding scenes of rape and abuse unnecessarily adds nothing to the story besides shock value, rape apology and its very triggering. But yea I appreciate you watching and sharing your thoughts. Thank you for that

[@Ressiloveyouruglymug]

​@@alorescottin their defense, being triggering, doesn't mean badly written. Neither does edgy for the sake of edginess mean well written though. The themes of female empowerment are there, and strong, and all pervasive. This is literally the girl boss show, and it going off book is also not a sign of bad writing... Especially when the original author is standing over your shoulder giving you notes the whole time. Also women in power shouldn't equal drama, it should equal Iceland in 1980. To insinuate that women running nations is drama feels like a whole ass step backwards, that I'm sure you did not intend. Honestly, I didn't watch your video, so I can't debate your points (between HRbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows, I am breadtubed out today, sorry), but if these are representative of your arguments, you might find it better to not hyperbolicly claim that HOT D is trash and garbage, and maybe market your opinions as more nuanced and subjective. Or don't, I'm just an asshole on the Internet, I dunno wtf I'm talking about.

[@ianpark2121]

Agree. her argument sounds like a terrible AI generated essay (hence the 1 hour?) 😂

[@bhavyayadav3apr]

Amazing drawings

[@alorescott]

Thank you soo much! I really appreciate that ❤

[@ryph3]

i agree with your opinions but calling it trash is simply unfair

[@alorescott]

I stand on what I said. I think the writing for the show is dangerous and reinforces rape culture unintentionally. Thank you for watching

[@ZorcTheDarkOnex]

I like it, but then again, i am comparing to season 8 GOT, and it's not exactly hard to beat that 🤔

[@alorescott]

Lol yea hopefully I think the show runners are not that stupid enough to conlmpletely torpedo the show like they did got. Thanks for watching

[@darksaint0124]

The big problem though is how much season 8 isms are in HotD season 1. Just look at that Daemon action scene in episode 3. What even is that? How can you say you're here to do better than the colossal failure of GoT and then have a scene like that anywhere near your show.

[@willoakman9598]

I think you're onto something here!

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching!

[@alexpiperhalliwell]

I was disappointed with how easily they turned a feminist story into a victimhood one. Women were stripped away from everything they have for the sake of patriarchy. Instead the show makes it look like the conflict is more between Otto and Daemon rather than Aegon and Rhaenyra. Alicent is a strong supporter of Aegon but even in fire & blood she allows men to have power and it dooms her from her sons being kinslayers to karma going her way and she was going mad while her side of family was dead. She was ambitious but a short sighted one. Women of Westeros can be heir and Jeyne Arryn is the prime example of how well a woman can rule. Rhaenyra is her cousin and they both want to change this horrible circle where women get tossed away in favor of men. Things would have been so much different if Nyra asended the Throne as she should. Throughout her whole journey she gets her sexuality, womanhood and motherhood used against her while she is proud of it. I wholeheartedlly agree they really missed on showing how much she loved Laena but imo instead of threesome I think of a polycycle which includes Laenor and Harwin how they all love each other and raise their kids to be wonderful beings. The show wasnt intrested in telling the feminist story they just want to show how women should be miserable and submissive. I have high hopes that Alan Taylor helps to navigate this show in the right direction but its a long way to go. The foundations arent there to build a conflict on or even things like fractions were barely established. I may be biased towards Lucerys but his death is very meaningful and shows that Aemond is kinslayer THE MOST DESPICABLE SIN OF WESTEROSI SOCIETY accidental or not he still is and rather than being praised he should get contempt even from his mother. Rhaenyra was ready to forgive for the very same reason she was afraid of the branding this does to a person. She knows her siblings are manipulated to be that way. She has a strong claim and multiple supporters especially other women like Jeyne or Rhaenys. Yet the show isolates her from everything. Honestly, the poor handling of politics to begin with to the point the court is forgotten Nyra and Alicent go without lady in the waitings (u make a good point coz 2 sisters of Harwin are accompaning Rhaenyra). Establishing that boys claimed by house Velaryon mustnt be called bastards coz they are claimed as legitimate. I dont know why people dont notice that they arent Waters but Velaryons and its up to their parents to say of legitimacy not court and their opinions. Even Jace says that when people see them on dragonback all the doubts disappear coz they know blood of the dragon is in them. It all felt rushed, unestablished and treated with little care just to show the world look we created a series in the world of GoT like they havent learnt what such things did to later seasons of GoT with the disastrous final season. I see actors care for those chars so its even crazier that showrunners, producers and writers dont. Its exactly how u said all men bad while women can be victims god forbid for them to have an agenda. They took an opposite of what Dany had in GoT coz turning her "mad" clearly got people angry myself included so they had to whitewash women from crimes make them victims coz thats gonna win sympathy just look at Sansa. It all makes more sense if u look at it from pov we want to make general audience invested throw book accuracy out of the window we need spectacle and we need it now.

[@alorescott]

Yes yes and yes to all of this. I think a poly love circle with all the parents loving together and raising their kids is such a good idea. We would have all been so fucking devastated if they did it like that and then Harwin was murdered and then Laena's death. Its frustrating. They had plenty of opportunity to make everyone sympathetic just by fleshing out the original story. Make it thicc. Make it rich. I hope Alan Taylor can help improve it too, but now they have to work from the bad foundation they established in season 1 so its still gonna be weird in some parts. From seeing the trailer I don't think they're gonna make Alicent more ruthless. Probably just tired sad and angry at all the men. I could go on and on. Thank you for this comment. I hope you'll like my next vids too

[@9822703]

it isn't a feminist story. never was.

[@kimberlyplatt2382]

Really good video here.

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching ❤

[@kimberlyplatt2382]

@@alorescott Anytime. I have my own dark medieval fantasy. That I'm working on.

[@Javajavajav]

Youre welcome to make your art however you enjoy, but i had to turn the screen off and just listen because watching you transform the sketch into digital the hard way for so long was just painful

[@alorescott]

Um i don't really understand what you mean? Was the digital painting too fast and hurt your eyes? I'm sorry for that. I'm a new artist so I'm still learning. But if you have any advice to make it easier on the eyes let me know. Thank you for watching

[@Upwardfanatic14]

so just because the show didnt use the exact same story as the book down to the tiny details its now bad? this review is Hot Trash Garbage

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

Sagrad Прекрасный

[@bonbonvegabon]

Her opinion is trash

[@Sana-t3e]

But they changed SOO many things. They cut off important characters and cut off vital scenes important to the characterization of many characters.

[@jonttopia]

​@@Sana-t3ethere's almost no characterisation in F&B, it's a dry ass book and what little character we get is inconsistent af

[@alorescott]

Lol thank you for watching. I think competent writers could have taken the books and adapted in an entertaining way without added scenes of rape and domestic abuse but that's just meeeee

[@briancaddel5091]

It's way better than anything in Fire and blood and the average targ Stan's coping and seething comes down to the hightowers getting emotionally complex characterization, traits, screentime, instead of being mustache twirling cartoon villain doormats for you silver kween disney princess. The awoiaf franchise has been hijacked by targ stans, they are cancer to the franchise because what people like you want is a girlboos disney movie.

[@alorescott]

???? Lol ok??? Thank you for watching

[@briancaddel5091]

Worst review ever lmao. Cope.

[@sanddd-ei6dy]

Amazing analysis!!

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching

[@me-fm8nl]

You are just allergic to complexity. No, Alicent isn't without agency she can act dirty when she wants to. The hole point of ep 9 was her reclaiming her agency to assert her authority over those men who used to manipulate her (her father mainly). You just wanted a second cersei that would easily be hated.

[@alorescott]

Sorry just saw this sorry for the late response and happy holidays. No I don't hate complexity at all. I think the dance is a uniquely conplex story about female leadership in a male dominated world. And I don't just want Alicent to be a hated character lol. Shes unlikable (in the books) but she also has alot of interesting and admirable characteristics that I wish they put to screen. I was very specific about how they should have made her decisive, charismatic, politically strategic and ambitious. That to me is not a lack of complexity at all. Shes unlikable bc she destroyed another woman's life (and essentially the continent) for her own hubris and ambition. Still complex. The show failed and im furious that they had to hurt her in order to make her sympathetic. Thanks for watching ❤

[@jameer7565]

Big disagree, respect the bold take tho

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching!!!

[@jaxzor]

i kind of agree with you... but i disagree when you said: "the show is bad because it doesn't accurately follow the book" ... in my opinion the book is way worse than the show. the only problem i hate about the show: is off paced and not enough depth and detail invested in characters... they basically made it a Daemon / Rhaenyra show, when in fact should've been a non bias show...

[@alorescott]

I think we agree and disagree on certain aspects. I don't think the show should have been neutral when discussing war. I also think the buildup could have been executed nicely while still having the greens be sympathetic but also still making them antagonists. You can't start a war based on gender without being an antagonist. I also was extremely offended by Alicents portrayal. I don't think her character or the actresses who played her deserved the sexual assault scenes at all. Thank you for watching!

[@khaleazy3550]

I think it’s so ridiculous to say the book is worst than the show. Like you had to have watched the show first.

[@jaxzor]

@@khaleazy3550 nah... Fire & Blood + A Feast of Crows... my least favourite xD the show (so far) is better than the book... and i`m 100% sure the next seasons will be so much better :).. but hey is 2023 they might fill it with political correctness bs and ruin it.

[@jaxzor]

@@alorescott i don't understand why the blacks were portrayed so positive... Daemon is far from being the good guy... xD hope the next seasons will be better!

[@alorescott]

@@jaxzor i hope it will better next season too

[@thatoneguy871]

What would u rate the show if u hadn't read the books? Like if it was independently made ?

[@alorescott]

Thats a good question. I'm not sure. I went thru a honeymoon phase but when I rewatched the show it just got worse and worse for me. If it was independent then I guess it would be ok? But unfortunately its not and they did a poor job adapting it. Thank you for watching

[@Visenyaaa]

You ate!

[@ianpark2121]

You do know that George RR Martin co-wrote and co-produced the SHOW right? 80% of your arguments are underwater just from there

[@alorescott]

This isn't true. I read a Condal interview that grrm was involved initially but once the show was actually being written he only passed on notes etc. The entire season 1 is a Ryan condal/sapochnik fanfiction. Thanks for watching though!

[@itspronouncednikolaj333]

Still thinking the same? 😂😂😂😂

[@ianpark2121]

@@itspronouncednikolaj333 yep

[@beverlybarnard3518]

Great hot trash 😂! Thank you for sharing.

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching ❤

[@Priceyb1326]

Great analysis!

[@alorescott]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

My meanest take is that I believe a big chunk of people are too dumb to watch house of the dragon let alone grasp the themes and motifs it was tackling. Especially if your primary approach to awoiaf is to treat it as your favorite house/character's personal fiefdom and score points on the imaginary scoreboard of a team sport. Maybe instead of sophocles they should've just gone with a Annie and Miss Hannigan type evil stepmom ish.

[@alorescott]

My meanest takes are all in the video and I laid them out in an organized way. The show explored these ThEmEz irresponsibly, insultingly and reinforced sexism against the women characters and to the audience. It might be crazy to you but women in positions of power usually have the privilege to use that power. The show used rape as a device to make Alicent more sympathetic to manipulate the audience and it worked! On people like you. Thanks for watching ❤

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

@@alorescott Your takes are as remedial and cliche as the two points you laid out in the reply. "Women in power can exercise their power." Ahh yes the girlboss theory. The "why are you not trying hard enough to be a villain" theory. Even the handful of the most powerful women in the middle ages could only exercise as much power as would be allowed to them by the amount of influence they had on their husbands. The story they told is far more interesting than another Margaery type girlboss manipulating her husband. "The show used rape as a device to make alicent more symapthetic". No it didn't, that's a 3rd grader understanding of what was portrayed & repeating buzzwords like "exploitation". Sansa's SA in GoT was exploitation. This was neither gratuitous or purposeless. It was part of the broader theme that you failed 5o understand. But of course what you're looking for is the "perfect victim" or alternatively as a targ stan "why is she being shown in a sympathetic light at all". Also Alicent was 18 when she got married in F&B. That is marital assault regardless.

[@alorescott]

@@Tormund_Giantsbrain im not reading all that. God bless ❤

[@Guinnessdrnkr1234]

This comment section is just an echo chamber of farts.

[@daenartargaryen2889]

Was it really necessary to not blur out the profile pictures and names of those Twitter accounts? Feels like you want to intentionally put these people on blast for holding different fandom opinions to you.

[@alorescott]

I thought about whether to block out or not when I was doing my research but i decided not bc these were public comments that the posters made. Thank you for watching

[@ianpark2121]

you're talking to the one who intentionally deletes comments when faced with valid argument. her "research" is basically page 1 of google 🤦

[@alorescott]

@@ianpark2121 i didn't delete anyone's comments please don't sit here and lie. That I won't accept. I've just been laughing at the hate comments

[@ianpark2121]

@@alorescott well my screenshots prove otherwise 😬 cringe

[@alorescott]

@@ianpark2121 well go on and post them. Ill wait. I got time today ❤. You can post them directly on Twitter im right there boo

[@alicedeligny9240]

Yeah 🎉 🎉 🎉

[@alorescott]

🎂🎉

[@rontexico7645]

Yeah I've contemplated your take for a couple days and I think it's still hot garbage for rook temp IQs. Take my advice and just stick to cinderella. Just imagine her with a platinum blonde wig. Don't overstretch your bra

[@notsureyet2200]

wow, you're a cringe human being. I hope people don't actually take your advice on anything.

[@alorescott]

Lol are all my hate commentors the same person or have some sort of collective hive mind? Yall keep saying the same shit. 💀💀 Media can be criticized, and thus I did

[@moonflower8829]

Ur finna piss me awf let them cook

[@alorescott]

Can't let them cook if the meal taste bad sorry! Thank you for watching

[@jcdenton7261]

Finna?

[@alorescott]

@@jcdenton7261 its slang. Aave slang

[@jcdenton7261]

@alorescott never heard that before, is it like some new thing? What does it even mean?

[@9822703]

i think HOTD is garbage because of the diversity pandering. its a poor adaptation. it also sucks as they choose to connect the show story with Daenerys.......that felt like nostalgia bait, when the appropriate thing to do would be to connect it to Aegon the Conqueror, you know where their lineage begins. the story isn't really about patriarchy or feminist nonsense but the show-makers decided that is what they wanted to do. race swaps and age ups ruin a lot of the shows credibility as an adaptation. great art by the way. happy 2024

[@alorescott]

Thank you for watching. I don't mind the race change bc they could have said Corlys was part summer islander, racially black seafarers in grrms worldbuilding. It would have added more to the show while also exploring grrms world. But I don't think the show runners respect the original story so 🤷🏾‍♀️. But yea the ages were a mess and the characters were A MESS.

[@thelredtheunready8699]

I knew it was over for the type of story the show was telling when I realized most targ stans think prophesies and visions in asoiaf/got/hotd are supposed to work like Disney where the Chosen Hero(ine) uses it to save the world. They need to make a show for middle schoolers because that's what the "targaryen apology show" fandom is currently and you're a perfect example. Nothing says a shallow interpretation more than Hollywood buzzwords like "agency" and "clear goals". A woman existing in the middle ages is inherently agentic. Real life is rarely ever a compilation of carefully thought out master plans. The show has to do an impossible take of balancing the preference of a group of ppl who takes "alicent dying alone" as a beautiful tragedy and another group who thinks it's the world's funniest insult on some "HAHAH! My sports team won!! 10 points for Gryfindor!!" Btw TheEmpyreanSpeaks is a good channel for non-targ stans who wanna see actual critically thought out in depth analysis of hotd & characters.

[@alorescott]

Team sports? Prophecies? I never mentioned Prophecies once in my vid. Are you alright? Within the first 30 seconds of the video introduced how the show bungled that the dance is an antiwar story. I think alot of you commentors are angry at that fact that the women characters in the original story had agency and contributed to war (take that up with grrm not me). The show gave the women very little to none. Its sexist and insulting. I'm so sorry that me holding the show accountable hurts you so 💀💀

[@coneyisland3176]

Exactly! this is what I've been saying. You hit it right on the nail. This is a surface level critique and comes down to tantrums about why the other side is getting sympathy and dress it up with one size fits all sociological buzzwords words which are being used completely out of context as she minsuderstood the theme & purpose of the story. No wonder the targ stans were hyping this up as it's just "alicent getting sympathy 🤬" to them. The only fandom which wants to score imaginary dunks on the rival sports team than have a non-generic intertwined story.

[@AlyssiaE]

Least braindead targ stan baffled by a shakesperean tragedy, to use grrm's own words that he used to describe season 1. Just the Dance of the dragonlings sequence during the last supper is better than everything in F&B's Dance portion combined. The more targ stans realize they're actually really insignificant and that all that whining over Dany didn't put a dent to the franchise, it's still breaking all the viewing records and more popular now than it ever was!!...the more desperate & nasty they're gonna get.

[@alorescott]

Woooooo take a breath. Also thanks for watching lol

[@carastone3473]

If you don't like the show. Don't watch it. 🤷‍♀

[@alorescott]

No 💀. Media whether good or bad can be analyzed and critiqued. I think the show was bad and dangerous for the audience and thus I made this video

[@thelredtheunready8699]

House of the dragon has its shortcomings but it is far superior to fire and blood and your complains are really just a big whine about why the greens and especially alicent hightower was portrayed in a multi-layerer way instead of a one dimensional hollywood villain, but you can't say it as bluntly so you have to say they took her girlbossery away and turned her into a victim because only a cersei type boss bish is what an antagonist is supposed to be and the thematic nature of a three act structure means nothing to you, it's just team sport point scoring by translplanting gender studies one-liners that you yourself barely understand & grossly misuse in places that don't apply like in the portryal of Alicent's marriage. Just think about veering all the way away from that Dr Seuss ass history book & creating one of the best characters in television in King Viserys & knowing you'll never get your due praise bc your fandom is emotionally still in middle school & going "why is the evil stepmom getting manipulated into sympathy via sexual assault, why isn't this a Daemyra romcom".

[@alorescott]

Uh huh. That's exactly what I said in my video 💀. Great response you really paid attention. Thanks for watching 💀❤😭

[@coneyisland3176]

Exactly! this is what I've been saying. You hit it right on the nail. This is a surface level critique and comes down to tantrums about why the other side is getting sympathy and dress it up with one size fits all sociological buzzwords words which are being used completely out of context as she minsuderstood the theme & purpose of the story. No wonder the targ stans were hyping this up as it's just "alicent getting sympathy 🤬" to them. The only fandom which wants to score imaginary dunks on the rival sports team than have a non-generic intertwined story.

[@michaelyohanes2782]

And so are u

[@alorescott]

???? And so am I what? Thanks for watching

[@TheReDeeMeR1988]

You gotta be ЯЭTAЯDЭD to put that in title. *_House of the Dragon_* is trash garbage while she is watching some sh!t cartoon? pleaseeee Nuff said.

[@alorescott]

😂😂😂uhhhhh are you ok? I don't understand what you're saying lol. Anyway thanks for watching and thanks for making me laugh

[@yoggsaron8867]

To sum it up you're mad that instead of girlboss heroine princess versus evil stepmother ABCD Annie and Miss Hannigan type stuff, they're telling a complex antigone/sophocles type greek epic where inevitability of fate plays and important role, where the patriarchal structure of westeros drive the characters to the precipice instead of some Mean Girls jealously story, & where everything is not the master plan of a cackling anime villain, so you can look at the screen and go "gosh she's such a evil b word!!" and then YASS QUEEN your savior heroine princess?! Gotchu. why is Olivia Cooke getting screentime!!! why isn't the Dance about Laena Velaryon!!! I'm the smartest Targ stan🤓🤓🤓. I thank the lords everyday that hotd is not the Targ Apology show these petty bitter cultists had in mind. As the GoT universe remains more popular than ever their impotent rage is gonna get worse.

[@alorescott]

Lol definitely a hive mind coming at me. If you don't like women in power in a story about kings and queens you might want to take that up with Grrm. I don't care about girl bosses. I care about writing that respects its audience. If the bad insulting sexist writing manipulated you thats on you. It doesn't work on me. Thanks for watching lmao 😂

[@yoggsaron8867]

Your idea of agency is a toddler's idea if agency. It's just a repeat of buzzwords from targ cult social media and your idea of "weaponization of rape" is nothing but a cope perfect victim cope bc your issue with the "portrayal of women" mainly comes down to alicent hightower being beautifully sympathetic. So you have to illgetimize it.

[@yoggsaron8867]

@AloreScottAs a survivor, I find your framing that a medieval arranged marriage should've been a bed of roses absolutely repulsive. Your framing of assault being used "casually & unnecessarily" is deliberate vindictive ignoring of the show's theme. The general consensus was that Viserys & Alicent's medieval marriage was done more realistically & tastefully than most shows ever treat a mdoern marriage. I've barely ever seen a series where marital abuse was more intertwined with the theme of the season than Hotd. But we already know your real issue is Alicent not being portrayed as a evil hag step mother. Your main criticism of the show is your narrow understanding of female antagonists "not trying hard enough" to be "cunning & manipulative", as the D&D's version of Margaery is the only thing you can grasp. Your analysis reeked of bad faith from start. And you're "Appealing to Identity" cause browbeating actual critique by weaponzing identity (like going "13 year old survivor Daenery!!!") is the one thing you've learned to mimic from targ cultists.

[@planetofthegrapes7838]

Aww noo sweetie, we didn't get our little girlboss warlord princess uncle romance movie? Aww, Dany not sitting on the throne with jon by his side and little targie babies running around? Muh agency because non silver women should only be the perfect victim or they're not trying hard enough to be villains? Aww. The stag means she's Da Kween cause prophecies and visions in asoiaf is totally not a cautionary tale of pursuit of power. Awww they had conflicted & ambigious characters instead of boxing everyone in perfectly color coded groups of Team Good & Team Bad? You add the braincell of every Gen Z tik toker and you'll have exactly one braincell. Media literacy is dead. Maybe go stan Bin Laden or something.

[@alorescott]

??? I read this out loud to my friend and we both busted out laughing. Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching and thank you for this hilarious comment. Best bday gift ever

[@ryph3]

drunk

[@notsureyet2200]

yikes dude, this is enough cringe to last me all of 2024.