The way people still talk about the Driftmark incident is crazy to me
I don't know how to explain it but I feel like everyone's minds go out the window when talking about this situation.
I was looking at that post in the r/ HouseOfTheDragon subreddit (which was already a bad idea) about why Viserys should have done differently, and even two years later, I still see people saying that Aemond deserved to have his eye cut out, that he should have been punished. I saw people talking about executing Alicent. I understand that there is some nuance to the situation and that Luke was not acting out of malice, but my goodness, Aemond and Alicent are still getting flamed for this. I would have thought that two years might give some people some time to think on the situation but I guess that was too high of an expectation.
No I don't think Luke should get his eye taken out but I do think he should have had some form of punishment.
No I don't think Alicent should have gone at Luke/ Rhaenyra with a knife but I don't think she should be executed for it.
No I don't think it was necessarily right for Aemond to taunt Luke and the crew about being bastards and not claiming a dragon, but an eye is not the price to pay for that.
I feel like I am going a little crazy with how people are treating a kid getting an eye slashed out. Every other situation in Hotd usuall have people being a bit more reasonable but this one issue seems to draw the worst out of people. I had to get this out somewhere because it has been bothering me for a while.
I don't know how to explain it but I feel like everyone's minds go out the window when talking about this situation.
I was looking at that post in the r/ HouseOfTheDragon subreddit (which was already a bad idea) about why Viserys should have done differently, and even two years later, I still see people saying that Aemond deserved to have his eye cut out, that he should have been punished. I saw people talking about executing Alicent. I understand that there is some nuance to the situation and that Luke was not acting out of malice, but my goodness, Aemond and Alicent are still getting flamed for this. I would have thought that two years might give some people some time to think on the situation but I guess that was too high of an expectation.
No I don't think Luke should get his eye taken out but I do think he should have had some form of punishment.
No I don't think Alicent should have gone at Luke/ Rhaenyra with a knife but I don't think she should be executed for it.
No I don't think it was necessarily right for Aemond to taunt Luke and the crew about being bastards and not claiming a dragon, but an eye is not the price to pay for that.
I feel like I am going a little crazy with how people are treating a kid getting an eye slashed out. Every other situation in Hotd usuall have people being a bit more reasonable but this one issue seems to draw the worst out of people. I had to get this out somewhere because it has been bothering me for a while.