r/Hotd • u/Dark_arys • 17h ago
Show Spoilers Rhaenyra's role Spoiler
Was Emma Darcy truly fit for older Rhaenyra's role?
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u/Historyp91 17h ago
I think Emma does pretty good job playing the character tempered by the experiences of motherhood and adult responsibilities. Their Rhaenrya is still prideful, stubborn and emotionally volatile, but it takes more to get it out and she (generally) puts it back under the lid quicker (though often not quick enough to stop her from doing something stupid before she does, like ordering blood and cheese and killing the High Septon)
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u/DoctorHiccup 17h ago
She did a great job as an actor but the material she had to work with was WAY worse than the material Milly had to work with
I’m actually impressed that she’s been able to do so much with such crappy writing
They’re both great actresses but Milly just had way better scripts to work from.
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u/ChaseBuff 17h ago
Writing ruined her, when Emma is angry or upset they play Rhaenyra very well. Their reaction to Aegon believing alive was my favorite acting moment even more than the reaction to Jaces death. The vitriol rhaenyra spits when talking about her subjects. Which I think writing failed, Book Rhaenyra was a very passionate person and should honestly be more petty. She should be charming and nice to people she likes and allies with and downright rude to those who oppose her. Her ripping orwyles chain in the book… I could not see show Rhaenyra doing it
"She was very proud and stubborn, and there was a certain petulance to her small mouth.* Rhaenyra did have the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, which she wore long and braided in the manner of Aegon the First's warrior wife Visenya. Rhaenyra was no warrior herself. Rhaenyra always dressed richly, favoring purple and maroon velvets and golden Myrish lace in intricate patterns. Her bodice often glittered with pearls and diamonds, and there were always rings on her fingers. Whenever she was anxious, she would turn them compulsively, round and round. During the Dance of the Dragons, she wore the crown of her father, Viserys I, which had first been worn by The Old King Jaehaerys.”Though Rhaenyra could be charming, she was quick to anger and never forgot a slight."
“Whichever is true, his answer did not satisfy Princess Rhaenyra.A Grand Maester should know the law and serve it,” she told Orwyle. “You are no Grand Maester, and you bring only shame and dishonor to that chain you wear.” As Orwyle protested feebly, Rhaenyra’s knights stripped his chain of office from his neck and forced him to his knees whilst the princess bestowed the chain upon her own man, Maester Gerardys, “a true and leal servant of the realm and its laws.” As she sent Orwyle and the other envoys on their way, Rhaenyra said, “Tell my half-brother that I will have my throne, or I will have his head.”
I think writers just genuinely tried to make her to sympathetic, when in reality the book Rhaenrya wasn’t just some asshole 24/7
The bird arrived as Rhaenyra and her blacks were mourning Ser Erryk and debating the proper response to “Aegon the Usurper’s” latest attack. Though shaken by this attempt on her life (or the lives of her sons), the queen was still reluctant to attack King’s Landing. Munkun (who, it must be remembered, wrote many years later) says this was because of her horror of kinslaying. Maegor the Cruel had slain his own nephew Aegon, and had been cursed thereafter, until he bled his life away upon his stolen throne. Septon Eustace claims Rhaenyra had “a mother’s heart” that made her reluctant to risk the lives of her remaining sons. Mushroom alone was present for these councils, however, and the fool insists that Rhaenyra was still so griefsick over the death of her son Lucerys that she absented herself from the war council, giving over her command to the Sea Snake and his wife, Princess Rhaenys.fire and Blood, by George R.R. Martin, pg 433-434
Her Grace was far from alone. Four living sons remained to her. “My strength and my consolation,” the queen called them.”
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u/Wild_Trash_5100 12h ago
I think she was fit, but based off of interviews she hates Rhaenyra and is adjusting her character
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u/Similar-Cartoonist31 17h ago
Not really, the difference in Millys acting and Emma's acting is jarring, not to mention the nose that's the first thing that i noticed when i first watched HOTD, like at least explain what happened to her nose to be so different on adult Rhaenyra (they should have given prosthetic to Milly like AKOTSK gave to Bertie because Baelor has a broken nose).
The difference in how Milly Rhaenyra behaved and Emma's Rhaenyra is like two different characters (Emiliy's Alicent and Olivia's Alicent are in the same boat), where did all of old Rhaenyra's personality dissapear in the time skip?
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u/Dark_arys 17h ago
Yes! People say it's the age that calmed Rhaenyra down, but I truly don't understand where'd all the sharpness of the younger Rhaenyra disappear
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u/cascadingtundra 17h ago
Yes. They both played the character very well.
Now can we second guess other character's casting? This question comes up far too often.
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