[劇情討論] Game of Thrones 前傳 - The House of Dragons Season 2

The frustrating thing is that they’re not completely off base. There is a very strong element of femininity vs. the patriarchy in the Blood and Fire version of the Dance.

What they seem to have failed to understand though is that BaF, like all of Martin’s works, is intended as a condemnation of the feudal system and its values in total, not just when it’s in the hands of dumb, warmongering men. Rhaenyra and Alicent in the books aren’t trying to fight the system in the hopes that establishing “feudal autocracy but with girlboss vibes” will make Westeros a better place. Rather, they attempt to navigate the system all the way to the top, and are changed by it in the process. They become just as jaded, paranoid, selfish, and cruel as much as any man did on the same path, because that’s the way the system is set up, and that’s the only behavior it rewards. Because it is, in Martin’s view, a fundamentally broken system.

The HOTD writers seem to have missed this entirely, and instead seem to be going for “maybe feudalism could be based if only it wasn’t so sexist” because every female character is innately a paragon of empathy and peace, and only through their feminine touch could they end the cycle of violence (which is, ironically, just as misogynistic a thesis as when the men on Rhaenyra’s council insist that she’s simply too feminine and gentle to ride into battle.)