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Did House of the Dragon Make the Blacks Too Sympathetic?

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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Rhaenyra and the Blacks seem like the more reasonable side of the Dance of the Dragons, but is that just the writers putting a thumb on the scale?

House of the Dragon is a show about the nightmarish struggles that can come out of generational monarchies. The plot follows the events of a massive civil war between the eldest children of the fallen king. Like Game of Thrones, the show's camera gives near-equal time to the two sides of the conflict. While the screentime is somewhat fair, the moral justifications of the Greens and the Blacks vary widely. Some see bias in the way that House of the Dragon depicts its participants, but there's more to it than allegiance to the original queen.

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