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Hi :)
Is Alicent Hightower a bad mom?
Here's to hoping she doesn't do something crazy after this lol.
I have watched all of HOTD 3 times in the last 4 weeks and I found that I had a lot to say. I know she isn't perfect, but she deserves more than the cards she was dealt.
Shout out to my brother Colin for editing the script for this video, you a real one.
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I have watched all of HOTD 3 times in the last 4 weeks and I found that I had a lot to say. I know she isn't perfect, but she deserves more than the cards she was dealt.
Shout out to my brother Colin for editing the script for this video, you a real one.
Follow me on ig: mad.westie
#houseofthedragon #rhaenyra #alicent
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I waited til the night before to write a 20 page research paper.
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I waited til the night before to write a 20 page research paper.
"He's insane, and a puppy :)" Pets in a nutshell;; 7:54
every finals season i come back to this video. because i keep making the same mistakes of procrastinating..
It’s 7:37 rn and ig it’s a sign I should start writing my chapter 😭
Alicent's character is pure assassination in favor for rhaenyra's gurlboss moment.
I come back and watch this every now and again for the fun on it. I love this lol.
the way my jaw dropped when you said 105 paragraphs 😭
Watching this video for motivation, because my assignment is due in 11 days and my Master's Thesis is done by 10%... and I'm completely burnout 💀
All that was the intro?!
This is the point at which you have to admit you messed up and ask for an extension. The shortest amount of time I have ever written a paper in is over a weekend (8 pages), but I like to take at least two weeks for the entire research and writing process.
It takes a very brave person to talk openly about Alicent being a bad mother, since the changes in her arc in the series make people automatically compare her to half of Asoiaf's universe in order to appease her behavior
Hey, im also doing my dissertation and ive been doing my best to complete it before time. Sometimes i do feel that i should have started a bit earlier, im a bit criticizing myself for this. Although im also bit procastinating a bit, but i wish to complete soon. Dealing with a bit of my personal issues, but determined as well. I often felt im the only one feeling like this, but seeing others facing challenges regarding thesis, I'm a bit relieved that everyone has their own challenges.
Yes! See? Didnt even need to make a 20 minute video. Shes a horrific mother. Theres a reason the only decent child she gave birth to has nothing to do with her.
As a Turkish I love how you pronounce Merve, and from now on, I also started to pronounce as you 😂❤
Okay but like no one could have seen her giving Aegon like that lmaooooooo
Hateritis! Very creative!
I admire your calmness in this situation. I would be losing my shit!
You resemble so much Penelope from Bridgertons! You're beautiful
Its simple Alicent didnt want to be a teen mom, she was force to... repetidaly Rhaenyra did want to have all those kids Regardless of this neither of them is particularly a good mom. Alicent because she didnt have support or a good role model for a parent. She is dealing with her own issues (loneliness, sexual abuse (Viserys), psicological abuse (Otto), heartbreak (Nyra)).... and given 4 kids to top it all up. Not good Rhaenyra because of her inmaturity and entitledment and overall bad decisions that turn her kids into another version of her. Entitled just the same but this time without a reason to back it up. Their bastards while she was the first true born child. Alicent says it best. To hace 3 bastards is an insult. They are better people on their own than they are parents
Rhaenyra can do no wrong?? Yea you lost me there
Alicent knew exactly what her father wanted her to do. She wanted an heir to replace Rhaenyra. She heard what she wanted to hear, She wants Aegon on the throne no matter how unfit. She lets her kids torture Aemon but blames Rhaenyra's kids. She demands to see Rhaenyra's infant instead of walking across the hall. She demanded a SEVEN YEAR OLD'S EYE, something Aemon decides is his right. She marries her gentle, mentally challenged daughter to her monster rapist kid who lets his own bastards fight each other with filed teeth. She lets Llarys pleasure himself to her feet and has an affair with Cole, which was her issue with Rhaenyra in the first place. When she sees Rhaenyra in the Sept she realizes she was wrong and apparently feels no guilt whatsoever. AWFUL person. Cause of the entire war. That entire war! All on her! I'm so glad at the very end the Hightowers wind up as Bronn's bannermen. They deserve it.
this is all true except the "feels no guilt" part. she was about to take her own life
To everyone in the comments: Yes, Rheanyra is a FAR better mother than Alicent. But everything has been in Rheanyra's favor as explained in the video. How do you expect Alicent to be a better mother just because she's an adult? Go to therapy? Where and how do you expect her to learn how to treat her children right? She's never known or felt real parental love. She has no one to talk to and get parental advice from . I think everyone is expecting too much from her.
Please, please, nobody ever do this A Master's thesis is a very serious thing and I spent 4 months at mine and I needed every but of it. I got a first and I have seen my classmates who have not put in the work not make this grade. Pkease guys start your thesis very early on
I’m so glad these videos exsist ! I’ve done the exact same thing, had all semester and still not started . Makes me feel so much better knowing I’m not the only one 😂
Cercei is a better mother than Alicent 😅
Goodness guys this is where we have become! A GoT story about a mother who is worse than Cersei!!! How could these writers do this.
I have a 25paged minimum paper that's to be due tomorrow and I'm here on youtube watching videos on how to write fast instead of writing.
Yes? Like, i can understand why she isn't the best mother to her children. She is not like Cersei exactly.
Is that a question? 💀
You kinda look like a young Alicent ^^ very pretty!!! Great video too. ♥
You are my hero. I watched this when I was writing my masters thesis and am watching it now again as a 30 year old dumbass with a paper due yesterday at work. Nothing ever changed except that I got an adhd diagnosis lol
You wrote and made a video vlog in one weekend. That is amazing 🙌🙌
ofc she's a bad mom, she never had a real role model around AND she was still a child when she had her kids
she married viserys when she was 18 in the show and she doesn't get pregnant right away so she was 20/early 20s. that's not a child. she WAS a child when she was hanging out with him tho and she was clearly not ready to be a parent
She's not a bad mom. She's a horrible, irresponsible almost cruel mom.
she is exactly the same way as Otto was with her...she sees her children more like pawns in a larger political game , overall Alicent does just everything wrong...and we can see it already when Helaena and Aegon are just children...she clearly doesnt enjoy raising them , she isnt able to connect with them either and basically ignores them, I dont like Aegon but my heart broke when I saw how she treats him , when Aegon loses his son and cries then Alicent just walks away without even trying to comfort him , she calls him useless eventhough she never did anything to prepare him either only thing she did was to brainwash Aegon into thinking that Rhaenyra wants him dead , she literally raised him to be who he is today and then later when Aegon almost dies and is definetly on his lowest point, Alicent just walks away again leaving Aegon alone calling for his mother( that broke my heart) also with Aemond , its soo funny when Alicent says to Aemond in season 1 that " oh you cant call Rhaenyras sons strong" while she literally raised them like this, she told them all the time that its okay to call Rhaenyras sons bastards and Rhaenyra herself a w*ore....she shouldnt be surprised at all that her children act like this
This take confuses me so much because she seems to be affectionate with Haelana and Aemond (before killing Luke). The only child she seems to hate is Aegon, but I can give her some leeway due to the fact that he grapes servant girls.
@@user-xh6jk4mi8u The writing is frustrating. They can’t make up their minds about these characters. It’s like the writers don’t understand their own creation. Which makes a frustrating watch
@@bh3855 Rhaenyra is one of the worst victims too. Rhaenyra going from grief and wanting Aemond’s head to hatching a harebrained scheme to go to King’s Landing to seek peace with Alicent is such a disservice.
@@user-xh6jk4mi8u Agreed, very much. Obviously they want her to be on screen as often as possible as she is a main character but my God, did they make her completely uninteresting and not compelling even a little bit. They are so afraid to make her have some edge, flaw or some personality. Just awful. The whole season is saved by team green scenes even if they are terrible people. Even Alicent's scenes have been much better than that of Rhaenyra. She at least goes through changes, Rhaenyra whinned about being a woman for 5 episodes while not even naming a hand the whole time.
18:40 gave me the ick I don’t think your intentionally victim blaming but it does kinda sound that way I would have said “Any unwanted children caused by Aagon’s actions against her.” But that’s just me sorry, love your hair btw. ☺️
Alicent is a horrible mother. Rhaenyra is an amazing mom. End of discussion.
This right here.
She's undoubtedly a bad mom. But did she ever get a chance to be a good mom? I'd say no.
Yes, she is.
I think she’s a bad mom, but I also think that’s a predictable result of a father manipulating a teenager into marrying a man thrice her age and thus forcing her to have his children.
My problem is that people try and act like Rhae is a good mother when honestly she is pretty equally bad. At our first introduction to her children we learn 2 thing, 1. That they are illegitimate and 2. They are bullying another child because they do not have a dragon. She then refuses to give her child a straight answer when he asks a question which will fundamentally change his life by telling him it doesn't matter. When her son is grieving his father, she tell's him to shut up and go comfort his cousin instead of actually helping him deal with the stress of losing his father, something that she doesn't even say they can discuss this later in private (which is what a good parent would do.) In fact mere days later, she fake kills her husband and the boy's other father figure as though losing a father figure let alone 2 is not a huge deal for a small child (especially one who was not aware the death was fake.) Back to the bullying thing, while she is off sleeping with her Uncle at his wife's funeral, her children go try and attack the uncle they have been bullying, bringing a knife because he claimed a dragon, which he was well within his rights to do. This altercation includes Aemond being 4 on 1 attacked, and threatened with a knife after verbally insulting her sons calling them bastards (which is not treason, it's true) which leads to Aemond losing an eye disabling the child (which even if calling them bastards wasn't true and was treason is an extreme response.) This on it's own should reflect poorly on her parenting skills as her children don't think any of this is an overreaction but to make matter's worse, she rejects any punishment for her own child but insist that Aemond should be tortured because of his comments, which once again are true! (because that is what sharply questioned means.) Her response to literally ever issue is to make her kids go to bed instead of actually parenting them in any way, and this never happens when her kids are in the wrong as a punishment she just makes them leave whenever she doesn't want to deal with them anymore. As evident by her children's role in war she hasn't at all prepared her children for anything, which she absolutely should have given this war was obviously building for literal decades. But for some reason only Alicent cops any backlash for this, when if anything only Aemond did anything to actually meaningfully prepare for the conflict. Also the narrative that Alicent doesn't love her children is crazy, she spends so much of her time with Heleana and Aemond really seems to respect his mother and go into harms way to protect her. Even though she doesn't have the strongest relationship with Aegon at the end of the day she to puts her body over him to try a shield him from Meleys at the coronation. When they have their tense moment when Aegon is grieving she is actively blaming herself for this death as well as grieving herself, which causes her to act the way she does, I mean we saw the frantic Rhae on the beach finding her son's body if she was still at that point in her grief when Jace arrived it's unlikely she would have had the same reaction as she did. It takes Jace at least a week to return to dragonstone from the wall, and while that might not seem like much she has had time to decompress, which leaves her only with sadness instead of anger and guilt as her driving emotion. Is Alicent a good parent either, no of course she isn't but people need to stop acting like Rhae is a perfect mother when she really is far from it even for Westerosi standards.
@@Stay_Zerose my fiancé says that he thinks Rhaenyra is a bad mother because she knew what happens to bastard children from women and should have know what that means for her, especially since it is worse for a woman to have a bastard child than a man in Westeros. Did knowingly did that to those boys - but I think had she not had children with Harwin it would have been worse for her because her life could have easily been ended by the Hightowers.
@madds And she couldn’t have tried to find someone who looks more like Laenor?? And yes while it might have been bad for her but that doesn’t change that knowingly having bastards she chose a very hard and dangerous life for her children.
Agreed. Rhaenyra endangered the Strong boys unnecessarily having them the way she did.
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So my issue is Alicent plays both sides. So either the direction of her writing changed or she plays like she hasn’t been playing the game. I do agree she originally wasn’t trying to play it she was forced into it. But the scene where she comes in after Aegon was relieving himself to the world her words were to him “ he will be king”. That implies somewhere in her mind she want to take the crown from Rhaeynra, so she was playing the game. So she isn’t innocent she wasn’t just about duty. Also she clearly has favorites but never prepped or prepared her kids to rule though she wanted them too. She became Otto so I can see why she’s compared to Cersei who did the same but in still get a weird sense of more love from Cersei towards her kids. However I get Alicent didn’t choose to have hers like Cersei did. The scene with Aegon and scene with Otto about how she was playing the game showed me at some point they were going to have Alicent go darker then switch it Like she got overeager and misheard or misunderstood her husband.
Most bad moms had bad upbringings.. does that mean, they are not bad mothers?
TLDR; Yes.
Young Alicent is such a cutie.
pretty sure she was 17 💀
@@mischr13 What's your point? The actress isn't and even if she was, stop sexualising everything, saying "cutie" doesn't mean you necessarily want to F them. Also she has a whole sex scene in the show, please stop the moral grandstanding.
This might be just me talking but I despise Alicent she's very hypocritical and is not a mother to her children she basically sees them as not her children. I always feel for Aegon the most he was neglected and treated like he didn't even exist.
We are used to seeing bad men in positions of power in media and history. It’s a trope afterall. Selfish men with power on their mind being the villain. This series has clearly disturbed many modern people. They can’t see two women both being equally bad people.
it's a biproduct of misogyny. women cannot be complex people, or """morally grey"""", only men. that is why stuff like the "madonna/whore complex" exists, especially in media. you're either an angelic beautiful nurturing woman [virgin/Madonna] or a mean vindictive bitch [s1ut]. people's brains are breaking bc neither of these characters are either of those things, so they're trying to MAKE them fit into one. it's kind of fascinating to watch tbh
Weird take. They’re both bad moms. All targs are bad parents. Only Jahearys the conciliator was a good ruler. Every single other Targ was awful. I know I’m a dude, but both Alicent and Rhaenyra are bad women. They’re both bad mothers, bad rulers, that’s why this whole Dance started.
Both are bad moms. Tf? Alicent and Rheanyra are bad women. Neither should be examples to follow. While Rheanyra and her kids have a better relationship. It’s not for good reasons. Rheanyra is childish. She’s immature well into her adulthood. Probably because of her father. Both of them are bad elites. Isn’t that the point? That both these women are bad people?
i mean, multiple things can be true at once.
Nah, I get upbringing and trauma but A is objectively a worse parent, and toxic af (even considering the "time period/expectations" or whatever) lol. Explanations arent excuses.
Aemond loves Alicent because she was the only one standing up for him after he lost his eye. This is why he tracks down Aegon for her in S1.
hmmm, love her how? His relationship with Sylvi is weird.
@@Nalhirrim think Aemond loves her and I think Alicent loves him, but Aemond has deep rooted mommy issues because Alicent is not nurturing because she does not know how. Aemond is very angry with his mother. He’s angry he was born as a second boy to a brother who sucks and gets a lot of attention.
@@SonderDAzeX mommy issues