I agree on the assessment of the Strong bastards.
To me they're just plot devices there to be killed. Too frail and insecure to matter much unless the older bastard gets recast next season.
As far as Aemond, when it was the kid version I was like damn he seems like the one that should be backed as heir and king not Aegon. After w/e time skip and we get the older version I dunno seems like his growth was stunted. Seems to have the tools to lead but its wasting it cuz he has no mentor and just seems petty. He just seems like he's out here to prove something with every action.
Kinda crazy to me Otto has not taken him under his wing.
He just spent the last ep brooding and complaining about how he should be king not his brother yet still following orders and finding his bro and putting him on the throne. When he should be getting his Littlefinger on and plotting to usurp the throne and using this civil war to do it.
Instead he's still salty over a 10 year old pig joke when he ended up with the biggest dragon. Son still trying to get even over his lost eye like his family didn't just take the throne.
Like in the books he should've killed the Strong bastard on purpose but his face at the end of this ep when his dragon chomped up kid and the smaller dragon by accident lets me know son still a kid himself.
Right now after Rhae, there ain't a character fit to rule/be heir.