At least, that was the idea.
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Perhaps even more chilling is that Rhaenyra hears these criticisms and chooses to continue down this path anyway. She is no longer blind to what her pursuit of the Iron Throne is turning her into. She sees it, understands it and decides the crown is worth the cost.
Some fans, including myself, have wished to see this complicated version of Rhaenyra on our screens earlier. The assuredness that she would be a competent and fit ruler has always been a character trait she's held. In Season 1, she has a conversation with Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best), a woman who knows better than most what Rhaenyra is up against. Rhaenys had seen her own chance to rule Westeros taken from her at the Great Council, where the realm chose Viserys over "The Queen Who Never Was." It was this experience that led her to warn Rhaenyra that the men of Westeros would sooner destroy the realm than see a woman sit the Iron Throne.
The Princess believed that she could remain who she was and still become a ruler that men would bend the knee to. Season 3 has forced her to confront how naïve that belief may have been.
Rhaenyra doesn't want to believe it. She will not change who she is to become who she believes she has always been destined to be. But the irony is that the pursuit of that destiny has already changed her. The harder Rhaenyra tries to prove that she can rule without compromising who she is, the less recognizable that person becomes.
That question gets increasingly complicated when you add dragons to the mix. Sending them into Tumbleton means accepting that the people trapped inside the city will burn alongside her enemies. Ormund makes that moral calculus even more horrifying by using children as human shields, forcing Rhaenyra to confront the human cost of unleashing her greatest weapons.
I worried that the version of Rhaenyra we would get throughout the show would be one who refused to make these choices. Earlier in the season, when she first takes the throne, Ormund uses a network of spies and instigators to stir up unrest in King's Landing. At times, it seemed as though the message was that Rhaenyra would be a good ruler if only the men around her would let her.
Rhaenyra does face misogyny. Her claim was stolen from her. The obstacles placed in her way because she is a woman are real. But none of that inherently makes her a good ruler. And it certainly doesn't make the pursuit of absolute power virtuous.
That is what makes this version of Rhaenyra so much more compelling. The question is no longer whether she has a legitimate claim to the Iron Throne or whether Westeros has treated her unfairly. Both things can be true while Rhaenyra also becomes someone increasingly unfit to wield the power she has spent her life pursuing. Season 3 finally allows those ideas to coexist. Rhaenyra can be the victim of a deeply misogynistic system while also becoming one of its most dangerous products.
So what does Rhaenyra's transformation mean for Season 4?
Now, the book is written as a historical retelling, pieced together from the accounts of maesters and other chroniclers who bring their own biases to the story. Therefore, there is a way in which you can argue that the version of events in House of the Dragon are still in line with the way the book was written, but for many, Rhaenyra was a character whose ambition was at least a priority for her desire to rule.
But it seems that the show is linking her character far more closely to the one depicted in the books. Without getting too much into spoilers, it's safe to say that her rule does not continue to go all that smoothly. She will have to deal with the betrayer Ulf the White (Tom Bennett), the rumors that will swirl about how Halaena died and the fact that Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) is alive and has reunited with his brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell).
Her transformation into the bitter queen depicted in Fire & Blood now seems ready to be completed on screen. Season 3 has finally allowed Rhaenyra's ambition, resentment and belief in her own destiny to exist alongside the injustice she has suffered. Season 4 can take the next step: showing how a ruler who believes every threat is existential can begin to justify almost anything in the name of survival.
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