Slutty, eh up in the air as some were just as promiscuous as the men in the area.
Manipulative, God yes a that was one of the best qualities. Man or woman, being able to manipulate people, not let them know your intentions before you made your move is how nobles rose through the ranks or just survived.
I'm guessing though these versions of nobles in the show aren't as clever so trying to pass it off as a "yass queen" moment?
Ironically in their efforts to whitewash the leading Princess & Queen, HOTD's writers have made it so neither of them get to do much (or any really) manipulating - taking away their agency and making them much more boring characters than they were in the source material. If anything Rhaenyra and especially Alicent are now constantly being manipulated by the men around them, while doing almost nothing on their own, whereas Book-Rhaenyra was plenty proactive at combating threats to her claim and Book-Alicent was basically the co-leader of the Green faction.
I'm really trying hard to remember the last faithful book adaptation, it seems even with the books, Hollywood lost the talent to adapt it to film or tv years ago.
Slutty, eh up in the air as some were just as promiscuous as the men in the area.
Manipulative, God yes a that was one of the best qualities. Man or woman, being able to manipulate people, not let them know your intentions before you made your move is how nobles rose through the ranks or just survived.
I'm guessing though these versions of nobles in the show aren't as clever so trying to pass it off as a "yass queen" moment?
Ironically in their efforts to whitewash the leading Princess & Queen, HOTD's writers have made it so neither of them get to do much (or any really) manipulating - taking away their agency and making them much more boring characters than they were in the source material. If anything Rhaenyra and especially Alicent are now constantly being manipulated by the men around them, while doing almost nothing on their own, whereas Book-Rhaenyra was plenty proactive at combating threats to her claim and Book-Alicent was basically the co-leader of the Green faction.
I'm really trying hard to remember the last faithful book adaptation, it seems even with the books, Hollywood lost the talent to adapt it to film or tv years ago.
First they lost the talent to create, then the talent to mimic the creativity of others. All they can do now is destroy.