Like I'm sorry, but as I'm watching reactions and reading comments, I'm completely fucking mindblown by how many people suddenly seem to like Aegon, and be like "awww, he was a highlight of the episode, yeah he's an idiot drunk but he's actually trying to be a good ruler and a father!" .... Literally, one episode, a few moments of him being decent human being and people seem to forget that he's a SERIAL RAPIST and a #1 fan of CHILD FIGHTING PITS?!
It's genuinely baffling to me. I actually saw a comment saying the above (more or less), then someone said to the guy that hey, Aegon is still a rapist, and he replied that "this episode made him actually forget about that"??? Like??? Not to get too political, but it did not escape me that most of the people I saw defending Aegon were men, conveniently forgetting he's a literal raping abusing pathetic piece of shit just because he smiles and jokes for one episode. Don't even let me started on him "being a good king trying to help small folk" is actually just him being lazy, naive, and not taking his job seriously, but that's for a whole another post.