Daemon laughed at the audacity of Vaemond so eloquently calling Rhaenyra out in Valyrian right at his niece's funeral. Also, Vhagar is 180 years old, girl was ridden by one of Aegon the Conqueror's sisters for the first time. Traditionally, dragonriders are the ones who only bond to one dragon during their lifetime, whereas dragons can be old af.
There is a connection between size and age. The dragons are like...lobsters. They never stop growing so long as they have free range and can get food. Vhagar is an old, old, dragon. She was flown by Visenya during the conquest a century ago. She's 170+ in the show. Balerion died at over 200 years of age, too big to fly and live.
Balerion would have survuved longer had he not been kept chained in the dragon pit for 40 or so years. He didn’t get to fly and eat as he wanted and without the freedom to roam - but still keeping on growing - he couldn’t support his own weight anymore.
@@Alexander-kc8oq Yeah. After Maegor, Balerion was considered a bad luck. Because people were too traumatized after watching Maegor fly the Black Dread and burn everyone. But it could also be due to the 1 year when Rhaena disappeared with him and Balerion returned with deep wounds that never healed.
True, and he seemed to get along with his nephews more than his brother and sister, and during training you can see whose teaching him criston who hates rhaenyra and her kids, he gets perks and less responsibly, I do wish we’d seen rhaenyra and aegon interact, also feel if she interacted more with her brothers, things could have been more different between them
ikr it's so sad how all of that could've been avoided if Alicunt didn't poison her children's thoughts: Aegon would be manwhoring his way around like it's nobody's business, Aemond would be absent most of the time flying with his dragons to everywhere, Helena would be collecting her bugs.
he would be death like his brother or you expect them not to be killed if rhae sit in the throne, its what its is, they will always be a threat, theres no choise than fight.
They are much lower in strength. Aemond has military training and Rhaena/Baela are highborn maidens. Criston was focusing training on Aegon and Aemond primarily, so Jace and Luke don't have the strength or ability of Aemond. You could see him bobbing and weaving during the fight, skillfully evading most of what the group was throwing at him. He was never really in danger and never displayed any fear either; Aemond didn't "have" to do anything of the sort.
viserys is a man that truly believes if you ignore your problems then they will go away. he did so with the crab feeder, with daemon, and now with the legitimacy of the royal lineage.
And I wonder why there are lots of people who failed to notice Viserys' pattern. He has been doing this since Episode 1, and yet they're shocked that he doesn't provide a proper solution to the quarrel between Alicent and Rhaenyra.
Yep. Also showcased by the spread of his leprosy. He could’ve had the finger off and dealt with it early but he delayed and ended up losing his whole arm.
Remember last episode when alicent told aemond “one day you will have a dragon” And his sister Helena said “he’ll have to close an eye” This episode: Aemond: I may have lost a eye, but I gained a dragon
Alicent's children, Aegon, Aemond and Helena are Rheanyra's half-siblings. Which makes them Aunt and Uncles to Rhaenrya's kids, Jacearys and Lucaerys. Another quick thing, Vhagar is a female dragon, and since Balerion is dead at this point, she's the biggest and oldest dragon in the world. Vhagar was originally ridden by Visenya Targaryen, one of Aegon the Conquerer's sister-wives. This puts her at about 170+ years old, while Balerion died at 200 years
@@Random-qi3vv Balerion isnt the biggest. Not sure if itll be in the show but there is a wild dragon living on Dragonstone at this time Thats bigger than both Balerion and Vhagar.
Aemond earned vhagar "You have a harder road. Baela's dragon was born to her. But if you wish to be a rider, you must claim that right. Your father would tell you the same." Laena velaryon herself agrees with aemonds philosophy of claiming dragons and so does daemon thats just the targaryen way
@@michaelseifu3212 that was one of the best scenes I’ve seen in a while, I didn’t know I could get so heated from seeing a bunch of kids swing at each other
@@littlelordfuckleroy3822 I went from feeling bad for Aemond, and wanting him to get the dragon, only for him to make me regret that want 5 seconds after landing lmao. I thought out of all the Hightower/Targaryens, he would be the good one lol.
@@YaBoyRoshi I love you guys Roshi but y'all are totally wrong about Aemond. You can't "steal" a dragon. Dragons aren't like dogs. They're highly intelligent. They choose who their master is. The girl had an opportunity to claim Vhagar earlier and never took it. Aemond went to Vhagar (without knowing that it was necessarily Vhagar there), and Vhagar CHOSE Aemond. Aemond didn't take anything. And then those kids attacked him out of spite and bullying. Aemond went up 1v4 and even showed mercy, NOT bashing that kid's head in with the rock. And they still chose to try to kill him. Even after all that he let LOSING AN EYE slide. I don't like Alicent, or Otto, or Larys. Any of them. Fuck Aegon, too. But Aemond's got that DOG in him. I respect the hell out of him.
@@YaBoyRoshi A note about that whole knife thing. It wasn't in self defense. It was because Aemond called them bastards. It was RETALIATORY. Aemond could have smashed his head in and chose mercy. THAT kid gets called a mean word and TRIES TO KILL AEMOND. It's not at all comparable. Aemond was right in every part of this.
While I'm personally more like Rhaeneyra, Alicent has plenty of good reasons to be fed up with her. I know if my kid lost an eye, even without the other shit, I'd have probably reacted similarly. Also, Aemond didn't steal anyone's dragon. His previous owner is dead. It's callous, I agree, but he didn't steal anything from anyone. Rhaeneyra is playing just as many games as everyone else.
He did, stop looking at it from a technical perspective and from a moral one (aka the ones the kids see). That dragon was promised to her by her dead mother and someone stole the opportunity for her to claim it
@@Icy_815 He saw the opportunity and seized it rightfully without cheating. Aemond (or any other claimer) is not obliged to wait till the daughters try it. Also if Vhagar really wanted Rhaena to ride her, she would've rejected Aemond.
Fundamentally once the Dragon is large enough it's the dragon's decision to travel and fly with whom they want. They are apex predators above even humans. Hell, I suspect the farmers of Pentos are thrilled they don't need to sacrifice entire herds of cattle to feed Vhagar anymore.
@@ryzmckenzie If you have the daring and will to attempt the bonding, then you have every right in the world to try it. The little girls did not have any more right than him just because their mother was the latest rider. That ain't how it works.
During the boat ride to drift mark the girl could have claimed vagar but she didn’t. It’s her fault now one boat ride later almond is here and he does it first chance he gets sorry. I’m black but if the whyte boy got the cohones then I guess black lives don’t matter.
It appears that folks that watch it on some TV screens with the normal settings (usually not optimized) have problems. I watched it on my computer and had zero issues.I also had no issues watching the long night. I’m internally screaming turn up the brightness lollll. Pause the thing and stop suffering
Reactors have issues because they have all the lights on with additional ring lights facing then making it harder for them to see the darker scene, than for us at home who probably had our lights off or at least not as many lights on.
I like that aemond scene was at night, while everyone else sleeping on the comfort of their bed, he was struggling for his life and glory on a dragon saddle. No one there to cheer him up when he succeed, or to help if it went wrong. Just himself. Now imagine it end like eps 3, when rhaenyra return to the camp and everybody watching her, but now instead with a boar, aemond return to the crowd on vhagar's back.
And then almost every audience member thinks he's the aggressor when he was just clearly defending himself. Jace was clearly attacking him with a knife and that was the only time he used the rock but Sheera said it was Jace who was practicing self-defence 🤦♂
@@MrFredstt yeah I don't know how all these reactors saw it in a very different way. I'm just glad that Roshi still called out Rhaenyra for taking an innocent's man life so they're not so biased like the other reactors. Maybe they just need to rewatch the kids fight again to see that apart from being mean, he did nothing else wrong. It would have been over after Aemond lowered the rock but Jace pulled out a knife and started attacking him.
Honestly I can't blame Alicent for how she reacted. Viserys letting rhaenyra's kids off the hook for maiming her son literally confirmed all her fears.
Yup, blacks be like: “Alicent is paranoid, Rhaenyra wouldn’t hurt her siblings” In this episode she literally asks Viserys to sharply question( =torture) Aemond, over an OPEN SECRET.
@@jeffrey6625 while I agree that this confirmed her fears, Rhaenyra didn't want Aemond tortured. She wanted him to reveal that it was Alicent who spread the rumours about her, which would bring her down in Viserys's eyes.
@Rick King 22 Because he's brave and a badass. Also was smart in realizing that if he gave up his mother it could have possibly meant her death under charges of treason. At the end he also took what happened pretty damn well considering he lost a fucking eye. He could've been whiny or super angry or many other things but instead was like "Meh, it's not that big of a deal. I got a dragon so I'm good."
There's actually a theory that Daenerys' eggs were the three eggs stolen from Rhaena Targaryen by her lover Elissa Farman around 70 or so years before House of the Dragon. They were sold off to the Sealord of Braavos and effectively disappeared from history from then on. Dany's eggs are stated to be "fossils" by the time she gets them, and she's the only one who sees them as anything more than just cool rocks before they hatch. So if that were true then Dreamfyre, the dragon ridden by Helaena(the daughter of Viserys and Alicent), would be the ancestor of Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal.
@@joecoffee93 No. When Dany and Viserys left Dragonstone after the Mad King died, they took 3 eggs from the island with them. These eggs were there since the times of Dance of Dragons - but they came from Dragonstone, not the Free Cities.
@@joecoffee93 Thats exactly what I'm talking about... Rhaena Targaryen's dragon is Dreamfyre. Dreamfyre is also a daughter of Vhegar. That makes Drogon and his siblings the grandchildren of Vhegar.
@@Babylauncher3000 I wasnt aware of Dreamfyre being the daughter of Vhagar. Can you point out where that's written? Not trying to sound like a dick, if that's true I legit didn't know lol
Pay attention to Alicent's daughter Halaena. She is definitely a dreamer. Remember in Episode 6 when Alicent told Aemond he’ll get a dragon one day? Helaena said “He’ll have to close an eye.” Also in this episode Helaena was playing with a spider and repeatedly said “Hand turns loom, spool of green, spool of black, dragons of flesh, weaving dragons of thread.” So she's predicting the Black Vs. Green conflict in her Targaryen family! So Helaena predictions are coming true. 😉
King Viserys very clearly cared more about protecing his daughter's children's true idenity that he did about his own son's terrible injury. If I am in Alicent's shoes I would've lost it a lot more.
His daughter children are his grandchildren and if you were in Alicent’s shoes you should have raised your children better than insulting their own sister in front of them and hitting them
The brother's synchronization and quick thinking was amazing, and Aegon's response was brilliant, he not only says the obvious, because everyone knows that Rhaenyra kids are bastard, they just don't admit it, but his answer also turns the tables, because he embarrasses Rhaenyra and make everyone turn their eyes in embarrassment for her, you can see in her face. Rhaenyra tried to frame Alicent and have her executed, but the brothers turned the table. It's an incredible scene, because if they hadn't read the room, think fast and given the right answer, they were going to have their mother executed or one of them punished. Aemond was silent and read the room, then he says it was his brother, because Aegon is the only one besides him who would stay on his mother's side, and his brother is an irresponsible who just wants to drink and have sex, it could come off as gibberish said by a drunkard, no one would take it seriously. But still, he should be questioned, and if given the wrong answer, he'd screw up Aemon's play. Aegon and Aemond were amazing in how they acted. And Aemond's answer at the end was the final blow, the people where divided and fighting among themselves, forgetting the reason why all that was happening: The fact that Aemond had conquered the most powerful dragon in the kingdom, and when he brings it to light again, everyone looked scared, Rhaenyra herself is in shock, because everyone there realized the military power that Alicent and her lineage have in their hands, putting everyone in submission.
👌👌👌 some people are really failing to see the complexities of these last few episodes. They are expecting clear and cut heroes and to cheer for, meanwhile if it continues to be like this and with the source material there shouldn’t be any of the main players worth cheering for.
The show also brushes past Rhaenyra saying Aemond should be "sharply questioned" which in Westerosi terms means tortured for information, so the situation here was TENSE and Aemond knew exactly what he stood up against.
@@stoneheart8231 I think the show did a good job at it and the way the entire room reacted to it conveyed it, it’s most casual viewers didn’t understand what she meant.
@@neneray310 Yeah I like that they’re not beating us over the head with these double meanings. Alicent saying "over an insult??" like she thought Rhaenyra had gone mad, was the perfect response. For the record, I don’t think Rhaenyra ACTUALLY wanted her 10 year old brother to be tortured, but Alicent has no way of knowing that. An empty threat is still a threat. And this makes it so much more understandable how Alicent demands an eye for an eye.
Didn't Ned Stark get killed for looking into Cerci's children's lineage? That's how important the royal bloodline is in this series, Rhaenyra should have known this ,like she thinks daddy's get out of jail free card will always be there. Alicent did her duty to father house and king ,and the princess want the kingdom to accept and live with her lie. Go Team Green !!!!!!🐲🐲🐉🐉😁😁
No one talks about Aemond taking the dragon because he did nothing wrong, he was in his right to claim Vhagar and the dragon choses the rider, not the other way around, meaning she can't be stole. She made her decision, since she isn't supposed to go with the kids of her past rider (if that would have been the case then Laena wouldn't have been her rider), but to anyone who claims her and she finds worthy.
Alicent and the Greens have a lot of problems but seems the criticism is one way. Not saying it's nice what Alicent did but Alicent demanding an eye for an eye would probably be normal protocol in a pseudo-medieval setting like this. We saw this in episode 1 with Daemond delivering "justice" to criminals. Also, parents act irrational when something happens to their kids. Many people judging Alicent for that would likely act the similar in a medieval setting Also, why are we skirting over the fact that Rhaenyra is trying to pass illegitimate kids as heirs to the iron throne?
People literally overlook that as if bastards inheriting in this world isn't against the law. Not only inheriting something trivial, but the goddamn iron throne.
@@chicanalex4529 You are wrong, it isn't legitimate. That's literally why the Blackfyre Rebellion started later and it was devastating for the realm, because the king legitimized his bastard sons like Daemon Blackfyre which was unheard of and illegal up to that point. Most kings have bastard kids, if they all had a claim to the throne there would be chaos.
That “where is duty, where is sacrifice” scene…Olivia Cooke doing some Dinklage level lifting there. The agony, the passion! That’s a Emmy nomination scene. “We Know Father. Everyone Knows”.That’s Aegon’s “the Prince will remember that little Lord” moment. Aemond taming Vhagar & holding his own in a 1v4 makes him the real chad in my eyes. Only wholesome moment, our Prince resting his head on his mom’s shoulder to let her know she can depend on him. Last but not least, GOATTO Hightower with the coldest win or you die reference, “we play an ugly game”...and I’m the meme of Homer Simpson decked out in green onsies, sitting on green cushions, wearing a Hightower snapback, holding a Go Greens flag with a Alicent poster on the wall😂. Meanwhile checking in on Blacks: “What is honor compared to a woman’s uncle”-Maester Aemon 😳
I'm more sympathetic to the blacks but the greens are giving me drama, theatricality, nerve and fierceness! They're just so much more FUN compared to Rhaenyra and her kids, I can't help but be charmed.
Older Alicent sounds much like Cerci until that scene. Then she sounds exactly like younger Alicent. Can't believe the actors didn't meet before filming. Well done.
Okay. Either my TV coincidently had optimal settings for this episode, or they aired a different version of this in Australia because it was NOT this dark for me. I could clearly see every moment and when articles came out "how to actually see the latest dark episode of house of dragons" I had no idea what everyone was complaining about... until I saw this reaction
Yeah that was the blade that Arya used on the night king. It’s also the blade that little finger gave to the assassin to kill Bran to frame the lannisters. Man that blade has been around lol
" It’s also the blade that little finger gave to the assassin to kill Bran" That blade was never his. When Catelyn showed it to him he lied because he saw an opportunity to frame Lannisters. The blade was in Robert's collection, Joffrey stole it and gave it to henchmen he hired after he heard drunk Robert remark "It would have been better for the boy to die". Tyrion figures it out during the wedding, and Jaime later guesses too after Cersei mentions Robert saying that.
Just pointing this out, riders don't really claim dragons. It's the dragons who accept riders. It's not like he forced Vhagar to be his mount. Kinda grimy for it to happen the day of Laenas funeral, but there's no real bureaucracy or standard for who get what dragon once it's available. It's basically a free-for-all everytime a dragonrider dies and a dragons up for grabs.
If its grimy to claim vhager(the most powerful dragon in the world) the night of the funeral tLaena's husband the night of her funeral then Rhaenyra is just as or worst because she slept with
14:52 It was NOT self-defense. Everyone is so stuck on "Greens bad, Black good" That they all seem to deny that THEY attacked Aemond. HE was defending himself.
That is true but Aemond did instigate the entire thing, and threatened to kill them using his new dragon. Hes also the eldest one there and as we saw last episode Alicents children have been trained better than Rhaenryas sons because of coles bias and hatred. But yea it is true that they did jump his ass.
After he came in talking shit. And he was the first one to pick up a weapon. He threatened to kill them with dragon fire and insulted them with a treasonous insult. He’s lucky all he lost was an eye
@@Icy_815 He didn't come in talking shit. He walked in they accused him of wrong doing. Also, of course he picked up a weapon. If you had 4 people attacking you you'd reach for a rock too. wWhat "treasonous insult"? You mean the truth lol?
@@JPShadow What does him being better-trained matter in this context? THEY still attacked him. Was he just supposed to curl up and take an ass beating?
Dragons have multiple masters, wich is why king Viserys was the last rider of the infamous Balerion the dread who was the dragon ridden by Aegon when he conquered Westeros
Fans going "sentence Alicent to death" "kill her" "touching Princess is treason”. So we just gonna forget that child who got his eye popped out like a champagne cork is Viserys' own son too?! He’s a Prince?! Viserys is gonna execute his wife for wanting justice for his own son?! Huh?? What kinda weak King does nothing while his own seed gets his eye poked out by a couple of bas-terds? He was more worried bout protecting Rhaenyra’s illegitimacy than his son. Ppl really acting like if some kids did that to your 10yr old in the sandbox ya'll just gonna be like "oh word? Kenny's the middle child. So no biggie.” A mother’s rage, while unhinged, is totally understandable. The king shoulda handed out a more reasonable punishment before it even got to eye for an eye. But he was gonna do nothing due to his gross favoritism for his daughter, which justifiably infuriated Alicent. The king is spineless.
@@laza0202 How bout he just showed some real concern for his son instead of interrogating him and turning it into an episode of Law and Order Westeros cause Rhaenyra said "Aemond should be *sharply* questioned" ...while the boy was sitting there looking like Harvey Dent. A little affection and maybe cooler heads would've prevailed.
THANK YOU DAMN you spilled ppl are hypocrits we can argue ab aemond’s behavior bla bla he wasn’t supposed to go there but in the end that’s a whole ass child who got blinded let’s address what matters. Why is this grown ass king so obsessed with gossip and keeping a false sense of unity that never even existed so much, and in such a moment ?? Him having the reflex to put everything under the rug, even his own son’s eye as soon as it’s not favorable to his daughter is tiring he aint rational enough for a king.
It might seem crazy that Alicent didn't get executed for hurting the heir but I think people's view on the medieval political system is warped because of terrible kings in past GoT content like Jeoffrey, Cersei, etc who would just chop heads off willy nilly. Remember Viserys is a good man but a weak king, most people in that room could understand a mother acting rashly in the defense of her child but killing your queen would still seem out of pocket with most of the court. It would also fracture the 7 kingdoms by alienating a powerful house in the Hightowers and remember Viserys is all about keeping the kingdom together because of Aegon's prophecy.
What I find funny is that most people think Aemond stole the dragon. No, the dragon wasn't Laena's property, it was her partner. Vhagar accepted and chose Aemond as her rider. If Rhaena was quicker to claim her maybe it wouldn't be such a shitshow.
He did though. Technically he has every right, but it’s still morally wrong and frowned upon to take something that was promised to another. That’s why it is seen as he stole it.
I'm tired of this argument of " she should have claimed her quicker " I'm sorry you just like aemond forget her fucking mother died she's morning for God's sake you really think the first thing on her mind was to claim vhagar? And she's also a kid she obviously wouldn't think to rush and take it because there's no reason for her to assume some little shit was going to take her in the middle of the night the same day as her mother's funaral like God Damn you aemond defenders are so quick to defend him you completely disregard context entirely unless it applies to aemond.
17:19 Alicents face with the intent to kill and 17:21 the jab that made Rhaenyras son scream so nail biting. I bet it got every viewer on their toes haha amazing acting done by these 2. So much hate for the older actresses but I love them.
I love Alicent's older actress. She can go through the faces of stages of grief in a second. Watch her again when the maester says Aemond's eye is no more. She's just so Express
Honestly it's a Lil weird to me that they think Alicent was acting crazy for her kid literally getting maimed. That's her kid?? It's also the KING'S kid and yet he didn't do shit, because he loves Raenyra more than he does her half siblings and even his wife.
"she's out of pocket" her son's eye was literally taken what 😭 you're telling me you wouldn't be livid as a parent if your child was hurt that badly???
Daemon laughed because Vaemond was taking a shot at Rhaenyra's kids during the ceremony. Notice he laughed when Vaemond started talking about not letting Velaryen blood thin.
"Exhausting, wasn't it? Hiding beneath the cloak of your own righteousness. But now they see you as you are." What a line and burn. Of course, no one is the good guy or bad guy. That's the whole point. While you can see both sides of the argument and both have their fair points but at the end of the day, its not all that simple since both parties do and are into shady shit. No one is a saint and no one is perfect. Totally flawed humans just going at each other.
Ameond did not steal the dragon. Vhagar's rider was dead which means anybody can claim it. You can't even steal a dragon because It only lets it's owner ride it. Which aemond is now. And no the girl clearly pushed him first. So I'm really not sure how aemond instigated that fight. Maybe the pig comment but c'mon is that really considerd instigating.
He instigated it by insulting baela about her dead mother on the day of her funeral.. aemond's attitude clearly changed after gaining vhagar and was such an asshole on that scene.. but to be fair with aemond, he only fought back and reciprocate what was thrown at him, he even shown mercy when he got the upperhand
@@heisenberg6197 No, SHE instigated it by claiming he "stole" something that can't be stolen. And keep in mind, you're defending the FOUR in the FOUR ON ONE who bullied him.
you can't steal a dragon she had weeks alone to bond with and didn't but aemond did, you can't call dibs on dragons lol she needed to just cope about it but aemond was kinda rude about it all
Dragons follow the same basic rule of all reptiles which is they only stop growing when they die. That’s why Aegon the 1st’s dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, was soooo big
Aemond didn’t start it, rewatch and you’ll see all of his actions are in self defense. And rheanyra was referring to torture by the sharply questioned .
You cant steal dragons even if they are untamed - the dragon doesnt get passed on, they choose the rider if the rider is fit. Aemond was right, she should've tried her hand with Vaegar first but she didnt. Vaegar recognised Aemonds bravery and chose him. From her point of view though, she's grown up with Vaegar her entire life knowing that she belonged to her mother and hoped she would one day bond with Vaegar. It would hurt to see a piece of your mothers memory bond with another.
Don't you think it's dumb enough to think fans will care about a nameless, faceless character. Y'all greens didn't say sh*t about Ser lyonel and ser Harwin's death.. Can't wait for you to start clapping for Aemond's actions 😏
if it's one thing about Aegon he a clown fr especially this episode 😂 why he getting thrown around like that by everyone. When he got blamed and said me? to Aemond I lost it lmaoo
Rhaenyra and Daemon did a good job of making people think that they would do something like that as a warning to their enemies so I’ll give them that. Other than that I was on Alicent’s side this episode, I love her lmao. Aemond was an opportunist in this episode but I was cheering for him claiming Vhagar. I also feel bad for Rhaena, Baela, Jace, and Luke. They’re mourning their parents. The last scene of Daemon and Rhaenyra getting married made me feel for them because the girls are mourning their mother and the loss of Vhagar while the boys are mourning two fathers. Hopefully they at least tell the boys about Laenor but then again idk if they told Rhaenys and Corlys either. They said their side will know the truth, I assume they mean the blacks.
its the opposite vhegar is one of the oldest dragons alive which is why its the biggest right now dragons never stop growing if raised correctly and freely so they become huge with age vhegar was one of the 3 dragons used to conqure the 7 kingdoms and also dragons only listen to there sworn master when alive (though they dont enjoy killing targearans in general) but once the master dies they are willing to take on a new master
@@chrissisney3049 tell that to Viserys. Openly calling them bastards is not “making a comment” like normal kids and that was the second time Aemond threatened to kill one of these kids before they moved lol. Also, the one leading the earlier teasing of him was his own brother Aegon, who you notice isn’t here.
I see a lot of people judging Alicent but if your son had his eye cut out and his father not only didn't care but used it as an excuse to prop up his child's lie you would probably lose it to.
I don't understand why this episode was literally so dark compared to the previous episodes. I had the same struggle as you trying to watch the episode.
Average day in the life of Team Black : If someone used my son’s eye as a pizza slicer imma walk up to them, give my sincere apologies and offer them my son’s other eye. Must be exhausting having to defend child mutilation, treason by siring illegitimate heirs, & a plot to fake murder your own husband whom you’re cheating on to boot(which is real murder in book). Viserys the worst too. Cares more about protecting his daughter’s dirty little secret than his own son's safety. But hey it's all gucci cause Hoenyra & Wifeslayer Daemon, who is also an equally shItty human having murdered his own wife, had incestu0us happy hour on beach. Slay!! Hot Girl Summer!! Hashtag Daemyra Rights!! When Daemon murders a child in cold blood stans will defend that too but Alicent went too far.
I can't believe this is an unpopular opinion in the fandom! If it was Rhaenyra's son who lost an eye she would've done the exact same shit as Alicent, except Viserys would've probably allowed it to happen 💀
Don't forget Aemond is a scumbag for claiming Vhagar during the funeral and deserved to be maimed but Rhaenyra and Daemon literally having sex, which is the ultimate disrespect to all of House Velaryon, is perfectly fine! Go team blacks!
It's really weird to see so many people on Rhaenyra's side, and just ignoring everything her and Daemon have done. I can't even pick a side, because they're all terrible people, lol.
Episode thoughts: God, you could cut the tension during that family intervention scene with a knife! And it wrapped up poetically with the lines being clearly drawn between Rhaenyra's faction and Alicent's faction. It won't be long now... Also crazy seeing Aemon grow a backbone now that he rides Vhagar. I've seen some people who are surprised he acted the way he did now and I'm like, the dude was disrespected most of his life and now he has the largest, oldest and most powerful dragon on his side, of course he'd start being more aggressive! Lastly, it was interesting seeing Rhaenyra orchestrate Leanor's "death." Like I had a feeling she wasn't going to actually have him assassinated because even htough she wants him out of the picture, killing him wouldn't be her style so it was clever of her to make everyone think he's dead while he gets to run off with his man.
Creates a dangerous game though. Even if you actually aren't that cruel you are purposefully creating that image in the minds of your enemy. She wants them to think of her as cruel. However, what happens when her enemy is actually willing to go that far in order to stop her? She then either has to stoop to that level in order to survive or die.
About deamons laugh: if you pay attention you see the moment everyone take notices of the shots being throw and you see the moment Daemon take notices of Rhaenyra feeling some type of way about it. His laugh was basically "Ha Ha you know what I'm about keep fucking with my niece and see what happens"
Best episode this season!
I hope y'all get back to Harley Quinn again
For real, that dragon riding sequence was unbelievable
This been said for every episode.
and then the next episode will also be the best
You said that the last episode LOL
I'm convinced Viserys' condition isn't even due to illness it's just stress from having to deal with his family's crazy bs every day 😂
if that were the case most kings or people like tywin would be rotting in the grave as soon as they turned 60
crazy thing is that viserys is like 45 here
@@MMAisTHEbestSPORT08 You know Tywin wouldn't put up with any of this fucking shit if he was in charge. The show would last 20 minutes.
@@zypalitra8080 nah bro fr Tywin would have packed this shit up 😂
My man probably aged another 10 years as soon as he heard Rhaenyra and Daemon secretly got married. 😤
Daemon laughed at the audacity of Vaemond so eloquently calling Rhaenyra out in Valyrian right at his niece's funeral. Also, Vhagar is 180 years old, girl was ridden by one of Aegon the Conqueror's sisters for the first time. Traditionally, dragonriders are the ones who only bond to one dragon during their lifetime, whereas dragons can be old af.
Vaemond is probably going to be team green just to spite Daemon
Rhaenyras cousin, not niece.
Visenya is the first rider we know of, but Vhagar was 30 years older than Visenya, she probably had one or two previous riders.
@@toooriginal3816 I meant Vaemond
True, dragons can bond with more than one rider --- Balerion, Caraxes... They all have more than 1 rider in their lifetime.
There is a connection between size and age. The dragons are like...lobsters. They never stop growing so long as they have free range and can get food. Vhagar is an old, old, dragon. She was flown by Visenya during the conquest a century ago. She's 170+ in the show. Balerion died at over 200 years of age, too big to fly and live.
Balerion would have survuved longer had he not been kept chained in the dragon pit for 40 or so years. He didn’t get to fly and eat as he wanted and without the freedom to roam - but still keeping on growing - he couldn’t support his own weight anymore.
@@Alexander-kc8oq I think it because of what happened to him when he gone to Valyria.
@@Alexander-kc8oq Yeah. After Maegor, Balerion was considered a bad luck. Because people were too traumatized after watching Maegor fly the Black Dread and burn everyone. But it could also be due to the 1 year when Rhaena disappeared with him and Balerion returned with deep wounds that never healed.
@@scientia.veritas It wasn't actually Rhaena but her eldest daughter (I can't spell her name but its like Aerea)
@@scientia.veritas Lmfao. Maegor and Balerion were a damn menace then. Gave everyone PTSD
Viserys is literally screaming at the top of his lungs like "CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?!?"
Pretty ironic considering it’s basically his fault this whole mess started
@@Charr277 Not really lol
@@Helldog6 well he could have put an end to it any time but didn't because he was too cautious and indecisive
@@Helldog6: She could have removed Rhaenyra as heir years ago, just like how he removed Daemon, when she gave her the morning tea...
@@tsheporabekane4172 He promised Rhaenyra she was going to be his heir and he loves her too much to take back his word
Aegon just wants to get drunk and clap some wench cheeks but everyone's trying to make him be responsible for their own trauma.
Seriously. Aegon would have been happy being in bars and brothels if his literal mother and grandfather didn't push him to press his claim.
True, and he seemed to get along with his nephews more than his brother and sister, and during training you can see whose teaching him criston who hates rhaenyra and her kids, he gets perks and less responsibly, I do wish we’d seen rhaenyra and aegon interact, also feel if she interacted more with her brothers, things could have been more different between them
Man's was minding his own business bro 😂
ikr it's so sad how all of that could've been avoided if Alicunt didn't poison her children's thoughts: Aegon would be manwhoring his way around like it's nobody's business, Aemond would be absent most of the time flying with his dragons to everywhere, Helena would be collecting her bugs.
he would be death like his brother or you expect them not to be killed if rhae sit in the throne, its what its is, they will always be a threat, theres no choise than fight.
Aemond is the quiet kid who gets bullied in school, and now is talking shit and suspiciously reaching into his backpack.
Only instead of a gun, he's got basically a nuke
But instead of an M4 he has a fucking warthog
That dagger is called the catspaw dagger and yes it’s the one that Arya killed the night king with.
Facts
Came to say this. Sheera was right. It is indeed THE dagger
@@AggieCEO indeed!!
It's hilarious how often Roshi shuts everybody down with confidence and he himself is wrong.
They're exaggerating with that damn dagger... we don't need reminders of season 8
Damn Aemond really said these hands rated E for everybody.
In a 4v1 i don’t blame him
i mean they are stil prebuscent. Almost equal in strength
The golden rule, brother. "If someone strikes you, man or woman, you strike back."
They are much lower in strength. Aemond has military training and Rhaena/Baela are highborn maidens. Criston was focusing training on Aegon and Aemond primarily, so Jace and Luke don't have the strength or ability of Aemond. You could see him bobbing and weaving during the fight, skillfully evading most of what the group was throwing at him. He was never really in danger and never displayed any fear either; Aemond didn't "have" to do anything of the sort.
@@DigiCount they had daggers?! Obviously they were a threat since he was on the ground getting beat.
viserys is a man that truly believes if you ignore your problems then they will go away. he did so with the crab feeder, with daemon, and now with the legitimacy of the royal lineage.
And THIS is what makes him a bad king. A king has to nip these issues right away before they fester and become bigger problems.
@@MrFredstt legit most of his problems would be gone if he actually made decisions
And I wonder why there are lots of people who failed to notice Viserys' pattern. He has been doing this since Episode 1, and yet they're shocked that he doesn't provide a proper solution to the quarrel between Alicent and Rhaenyra.
Yep. Also showcased by the spread of his leprosy. He could’ve had the finger off and dealt with it early but he delayed and ended up losing his whole arm.
Daemon isn’t a problem? Lol more like the problem SOLVER
Remember last episode when alicent told aemond “one day you will have a dragon”
And his sister Helena said “he’ll have to close an eye”
This episode:
Aemond: I may have lost a eye, but I gained a dragon
simple cross referencing.
Yeh a lot of people think she’s a dreamer like Aegon I
Durr
Alicent's children, Aegon, Aemond and Helena are Rheanyra's half-siblings. Which makes them Aunt and Uncles to Rhaenrya's kids, Jacearys and Lucaerys.
Another quick thing, Vhagar is a female dragon, and since Balerion is dead at this point, she's the biggest and oldest dragon in the world. Vhagar was originally ridden by Visenya Targaryen, one of Aegon the Conquerer's sister-wives. This puts her at about 170+ years old, while Balerion died at 200 years
Vhagar is the second biggest dragon ^.~ she is the biggest TAMED dragon.
@@adicusdeathreaper Who's the biggest then?
@@MrFredstt Balerion. But right now at this point Vhagar is the biggest dragon thats alive, and the only dragon from Aegons conquest
@@Random-qi3vv So a wild dragon will usually get bigger?
@@Random-qi3vv Balerion isnt the biggest. Not sure if itll be in the show but there is a wild dragon living on Dragonstone at this time Thats bigger than both Balerion and Vhagar.
Aemond earned vhagar
"You have a harder road. Baela's dragon was born to her. But if you wish to be a rider, you must claim that right. Your father would tell you the same." Laena velaryon herself agrees with aemonds philosophy of claiming dragons and so does daemon thats just the targaryen way
bro their mom JUST died and this nigga swoops in and "claims" it 😭😭😭
I knew Roshi was gonna love the pocket sand scene 😂😂😂
Pocket sand and a slash to the eye is a hell of a combo
@@slowbro173 nobody sees that coming
“Threw him under the dragon” LMFAOOOOOOOOOO PLS y’all are so funny without trying 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The past two episodes have had very little action, yet have been sooo intense and stressful.
Vicerys losing limbs, sanity, and favor every episode. 😂
That’s basically what makes this show Succession with dragons, the intensity doesn’t come from action but familial drama
@@littlelordfuckleroy3822 to be honest if familial drama means watching a bunch of tweens go full beast mode I'm all for this show.
@@michaelseifu3212 that was one of the best scenes I’ve seen in a while, I didn’t know I could get so heated from seeing a bunch of kids swing at each other
@@littlelordfuckleroy3822 I went from feeling bad for Aemond, and wanting him to get the dragon, only for him to make me regret that want 5 seconds after landing lmao.
I thought out of all the Hightower/Targaryens, he would be the good one lol.
just imagine when the real fighting starts.....it's gonna be horrendous.
Aemond said "Look at me, look at me.. I'm the dragonrider now" lmao
Don’t mourn me mother, I may have lost an eye but I gained a dragon….one of the hardest lines in GoT history
I haven’t even watched the reaction but I know roshi gon say something bout pocket sand jutsu 😂😂
LMFAO
@@YaBoyRoshi I love you guys Roshi but y'all are totally wrong about Aemond. You can't "steal" a dragon. Dragons aren't like dogs. They're highly intelligent. They choose who their master is. The girl had an opportunity to claim Vhagar earlier and never took it. Aemond went to Vhagar (without knowing that it was necessarily Vhagar there), and Vhagar CHOSE Aemond. Aemond didn't take anything. And then those kids attacked him out of spite and bullying. Aemond went up 1v4 and even showed mercy, NOT bashing that kid's head in with the rock. And they still chose to try to kill him. Even after all that he let LOSING AN EYE slide. I don't like Alicent, or Otto, or Larys. Any of them. Fuck Aegon, too. But Aemond's got that DOG in him. I respect the hell out of him.
@@YaBoyRoshi A note about that whole knife thing. It wasn't in self defense. It was because Aemond called them bastards. It was RETALIATORY. Aemond could have smashed his head in and chose mercy. THAT kid gets called a mean word and TRIES TO KILL AEMOND. It's not at all comparable. Aemond was right in every part of this.
@@RabidDogma found Aemonds burner account
@@TarheelCam92 man I wish I was Aemond, I'd have a sweet fucking ride
While I'm personally more like Rhaeneyra, Alicent has plenty of good reasons to be fed up with her. I know if my kid lost an eye, even without the other shit, I'd have probably reacted similarly. Also, Aemond didn't steal anyone's dragon. His previous owner is dead. It's callous, I agree, but he didn't steal anything from anyone. Rhaeneyra is playing just as many games as everyone else.
The struggle for everyone with the dark screen🤣 Best episode either way.
@Ape2020 xxx same
I was confused seeing people complain about the dark because I had no issues with it myself.
It looks fine on my TV
he didn't steal the dragon "a dragon is not a slave"
He did, stop looking at it from a technical perspective and from a moral one (aka the ones the kids see). That dragon was promised to her by her dead mother and someone stole the opportunity for her to claim it
@@Icy_815 He saw the opportunity and seized it rightfully without cheating. Aemond (or any other claimer) is not obliged to wait till the daughters try it.
Also if Vhagar really wanted Rhaena to ride her, she would've rejected Aemond.
@@Icy_815 No. The dragon chose. It could have easily killed him but chose to let Aemond ride
@@Icy_815 You are objectively wrong. What her mother says doesn't matter.
@@Icy_815 doesn't work Like that otherwise their mother would have Never Got the dragon
you can’t steal a dragon. It’s not a family heirloom. It’s a living creature that can choose who to bond with. Vhagar choose Aemond fair and square
Fundamentally once the Dragon is large enough it's the dragon's decision to travel and fly with whom they want. They are apex predators above even humans.
Hell, I suspect the farmers of Pentos are thrilled they don't need to sacrifice entire herds of cattle to feed Vhagar anymore.
Exactly, and I think that's why she was flying so erratically, she was testing him.
Well it wasn't fair and square if Aemond wasn't supposed to have a chance to bond with her
@@ryzmckenzie If you have the daring and will to attempt the bonding, then you have every right in the world to try it. The little girls did not have any more right than him just because their mother was the latest rider. That ain't how it works.
During the boat ride to drift mark the girl could have claimed vagar but she didn’t. It’s her fault now one boat ride later almond is here and he does it first chance he gets sorry. I’m black but if the whyte boy got the cohones then I guess black lives don’t matter.
Not surprised that the same director and cinematographer that did the Long Night did this episode 💀
It appears that folks that watch it on some TV screens with the normal settings (usually not optimized) have problems. I watched it on my computer and had zero issues.I also had no issues watching the long night. I’m internally screaming turn up the brightness lollll. Pause the thing and stop suffering
@Rick King 22 Same but I also watched it on my PC and not on a TV screen however far back these reactors are.
Reactors have issues because they have all the lights on with additional ring lights facing then making it harder for them to see the darker scene, than for us at home who probably had our lights off or at least not as many lights on.
The thing is, it was all shot during the day! It was color corrected to look dark.
The long night was shot during actual night wasn’t it? This episode was shot during the day and Color corrected to look like night in post.
Bruh, Viserys' new maester be working miracles.
Vhegar is so big because she is one of the original 3 dragons used to conquer Westeros almost 100 years before the start of the HOTD.
200
@@alipetuniashow closer to 150 ACHKTUALLY
I like that aemond scene was at night, while everyone else sleeping on the comfort of their bed, he was struggling for his life and glory on a dragon saddle.
No one there to cheer him up when he succeed, or to help if it went wrong. Just himself.
Now imagine it end like eps 3, when rhaenyra return to the camp and everybody watching her, but now instead with a boar, aemond return to the crowd on vhagar's back.
And then almost every audience member thinks he's the aggressor when he was just clearly defending himself. Jace was clearly attacking him with a knife and that was the only time he used the rock but Sheera said it was Jace who was practicing self-defence 🤦♂
@@iconoclast6555 Ong it's crazy. Someone accuses you of being a thief and then literally attacks you first but somehow the victim is the aggressor.
@@MrFredstt yeah I don't know how all these reactors saw it in a very different way. I'm just glad that Roshi still called out Rhaenyra for taking an innocent's man life so they're not so biased like the other reactors. Maybe they just need to rewatch the kids fight again to see that apart from being mean, he did nothing else wrong. It would have been over after Aemond lowered the rock but Jace pulled out a knife and started attacking him.
Honestly I can't blame Alicent for how she reacted. Viserys letting rhaenyra's kids off the hook for maiming her son literally confirmed all her fears.
Yup, blacks be like: “Alicent is paranoid, Rhaenyra wouldn’t hurt her siblings”
In this episode she literally asks Viserys to sharply question( =torture) Aemond, over an OPEN SECRET.
@@jeffrey6625 while I agree that this confirmed her fears, Rhaenyra didn't want Aemond tortured. She wanted him to reveal that it was Alicent who spread the rumours about her, which would bring her down in Viserys's eyes.
@@scientia.veritas sharply questioned mean torture
@@scientia.veritas She asked for a torture session with Aemond as the only guest.
@@Ronrukhaha, yeah. That shit is funny
After this EP Aemond is now my fav character 💚🔥.
me too ♥ rhaenyra and alicent are boring me now. I'm totally team Aemond and daemon now, whatever they do idc.
@Rick King 22 Because he's brave and a badass. Also was smart in realizing that if he gave up his mother it could have possibly meant her death under charges of treason. At the end he also took what happened pretty damn well considering he lost a fucking eye. He could've been whiny or super angry or many other things but instead was like "Meh, it's not that big of a deal. I got a dragon so I'm good."
Aemond after gaining the biggest dragon compared to the rest.
*WE UP NOW*
BTW Vhagar is female. She is the grandmother of both Daemon and Raenera's dragons and presumably Daenerys' trio from Game of Thrones as well.
There's actually a theory that Daenerys' eggs were the three eggs stolen from Rhaena Targaryen by her lover Elissa Farman around 70 or so years before House of the Dragon. They were sold off to the Sealord of Braavos and effectively disappeared from history from then on. Dany's eggs are stated to be "fossils" by the time she gets them, and she's the only one who sees them as anything more than just cool rocks before they hatch. So if that were true then Dreamfyre, the dragon ridden by Helaena(the daughter of Viserys and Alicent), would be the ancestor of Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal.
@@joecoffee93 No. When Dany and Viserys left Dragonstone after the Mad King died, they took 3 eggs from the island with them. These eggs were there since the times of Dance of Dragons - but they came from Dragonstone, not the Free Cities.
@@scientia.veritas that's incorrect. She was gifted the eggs by Illyrio Mopatis at her wedding to Khal Drogo.
@@joecoffee93 Thats exactly what I'm talking about... Rhaena Targaryen's dragon is Dreamfyre. Dreamfyre is also a daughter of Vhegar. That makes Drogon and his siblings the grandchildren of Vhegar.
@@Babylauncher3000 I wasnt aware of Dreamfyre being the daughter of Vhagar. Can you point out where that's written? Not trying to sound like a dick, if that's true I legit didn't know lol
Pay attention to Alicent's daughter Halaena. She is definitely a dreamer. Remember in Episode 6 when Alicent told Aemond he’ll get a dragon one day? Helaena said “He’ll have to close an eye.” Also in this episode Helaena was playing with a spider and repeatedly said “Hand turns loom, spool of green, spool of black, dragons of flesh, weaving dragons of thread.” So she's predicting the Black Vs. Green conflict in her Targaryen family! So Helaena predictions are coming true. 😉
King Viserys very clearly cared more about protecing his daughter's children's true idenity that he did about his own son's terrible injury. If I am in Alicent's shoes I would've lost it a lot more.
True. He could've at the very least given a slap on the wrist or a stern warning. But no, he didn't do anything.
Exactly.
His daughter children are his grandchildren and if you were in Alicent’s shoes you should have raised your children better than insulting their own sister in front of them and hitting them
Facts
The brother's synchronization and quick thinking was amazing, and Aegon's response was brilliant, he not only says the obvious, because everyone knows that Rhaenyra kids are bastard, they just don't admit it, but his answer also turns the tables, because he embarrasses Rhaenyra and make everyone turn their eyes in embarrassment for her, you can see in her face. Rhaenyra tried to frame Alicent and have her executed, but the brothers turned the table.
It's an incredible scene, because if they hadn't read the room, think fast and given the right answer, they were going to have their mother executed or one of them punished. Aemond was silent and read the room, then he says it was his brother, because Aegon is the only one besides him who would stay on his mother's side, and his brother is an irresponsible who just wants to drink and have sex, it could come off as gibberish said by a drunkard, no one would take it seriously. But still, he should be questioned, and if given the wrong answer, he'd screw up Aemon's play. Aegon and Aemond were amazing in how they acted.
And Aemond's answer at the end was the final blow, the people where divided and fighting among themselves, forgetting the reason why all that was happening: The fact that Aemond had conquered the most powerful dragon in the kingdom, and when he brings it to light again, everyone looked scared, Rhaenyra herself is in shock, because everyone there realized the military power that Alicent and her lineage have in their hands, putting everyone in submission.
👌👌👌 some people are really failing to see the complexities of these last few episodes. They are expecting clear and cut heroes and to cheer for, meanwhile if it continues to be like this and with the source material there shouldn’t be any of the main players worth cheering for.
The show also brushes past Rhaenyra saying Aemond should be "sharply questioned" which in Westerosi terms means tortured for information, so the situation here was TENSE and Aemond knew exactly what he stood up against.
@@stoneheart8231 I think the show did a good job at it and the way the entire room reacted to it conveyed it, it’s most casual viewers didn’t understand what she meant.
@@neneray310 Yeah I like that they’re not beating us over the head with these double meanings. Alicent saying "over an insult??" like she thought Rhaenyra had gone mad, was the perfect response.
For the record, I don’t think Rhaenyra ACTUALLY wanted her 10 year old brother to be tortured, but Alicent has no way of knowing that. An empty threat is still a threat.
And this makes it so much more understandable how Alicent demands an eye for an eye.
Didn't Ned Stark get killed for looking into Cerci's children's lineage? That's how important the royal bloodline is in this series, Rhaenyra should have known this ,like she thinks daddy's get out of jail free card will always be there. Alicent did her duty to father house and king ,and the princess want the kingdom to accept and live with her lie. Go Team Green !!!!!!🐲🐲🐉🐉😁😁
No one talks about Aemond taking the dragon because he did nothing wrong, he was in his right to claim Vhagar and the dragon choses the rider, not the other way around, meaning she can't be stole. She made her decision, since she isn't supposed to go with the kids of her past rider (if that would have been the case then Laena wouldn't have been her rider), but to anyone who claims her and she finds worthy.
Aemond is so fucking cool can't wait to see his character play out.
“It’s him!”…”Its Me.”
@@Coffeewiththegods that shit was cold lmao
That shit was wild aemond came back in saying it’s me I’m him!!!!!
Alicent and the Greens have a lot of problems but seems the criticism is one way. Not saying it's nice what Alicent did but Alicent demanding an eye for an eye would probably be normal protocol in a pseudo-medieval setting like this. We saw this in episode 1 with Daemond delivering "justice" to criminals. Also, parents act irrational when something happens to their kids. Many people judging Alicent for that would likely act the similar in a medieval setting
Also, why are we skirting over the fact that Rhaenyra is trying to pass illegitimate kids as heirs to the iron throne?
Bc that would be admitting that maaaaybe Alicent and co. aren't really tripping and we can't have that
People literally overlook that as if bastards inheriting in this world isn't against the law. Not only inheriting something trivial, but the goddamn iron throne.
They are still targaryen, so their claim is still legitimate
@@chicanalex4529 You are wrong, it isn't legitimate. That's literally why the Blackfyre Rebellion started later and it was devastating for the realm, because the king legitimized his bastard sons like Daemon Blackfyre which was unheard of and illegal up to that point. Most kings have bastard kids, if they all had a claim to the throne there would be chaos.
Not only was it the dagger that killed the Night King, it’s the dagger that pretty much started the war in Game Of Thrones
"Level 100 Dragon with no badges?" this alone made this whole literally dark ass episode worth it 😂😭
That “where is duty, where is sacrifice” scene…Olivia Cooke doing some Dinklage level lifting there. The agony, the passion! That’s a Emmy nomination scene. “We Know Father. Everyone Knows”.That’s Aegon’s “the Prince will remember that little Lord” moment. Aemond taming Vhagar & holding his own in a 1v4 makes him the real chad in my eyes. Only wholesome moment, our Prince resting his head on his mom’s shoulder to let her know she can depend on him. Last but not least, GOATTO Hightower with the coldest win or you die reference, “we play an ugly game”...and I’m the meme of Homer Simpson decked out in green onsies, sitting on green cushions, wearing a Hightower snapback, holding a Go Greens flag with a Alicent poster on the wall😂. Meanwhile checking in on Blacks: “What is honor compared to a woman’s uncle”-Maester Aemon 😳
Okay so conclusion: you're leaning Green LOL
I'm more sympathetic to the blacks but the greens are giving me drama, theatricality, nerve and fierceness! They're just so much more FUN compared to Rhaenyra and her kids, I can't help but be charmed.
LMFAOOO
Older Alicent sounds much like Cerci until that scene. Then she sounds exactly like younger Alicent. Can't believe the actors didn't meet before filming. Well done.
Okay. Either my TV coincidently had optimal settings for this episode, or they aired a different version of this in Australia because it was NOT this dark for me. I could clearly see every moment and when articles came out "how to actually see the latest dark episode of house of dragons" I had no idea what everyone was complaining about... until I saw this reaction
Same, I’m also Australian and the version I watched on foxtel now wasn’t this dark either.
I watched it on PC and didn't have a problem either
@@MrFredstt i was watching on PC as well a few days later, i legit think it got patched lol
Yeah that was the blade that Arya used on the night king. It’s also the blade that little finger gave to the assassin to kill Bran to frame the lannisters. Man that blade has been around lol
" It’s also the blade that little finger gave to the assassin to kill Bran" That blade was never his. When Catelyn showed it to him he lied because he saw an opportunity to frame Lannisters. The blade was in Robert's collection, Joffrey stole it and gave it to henchmen he hired after he heard drunk Robert remark "It would have been better for the boy to die". Tyrion figures it out during the wedding, and Jaime later guesses too after Cersei mentions Robert saying that.
But it only ever killed one person.
The whole segment of them struggling to see the dark screen was funny as hell
Just pointing this out, riders don't really claim dragons. It's the dragons who accept riders. It's not like he forced Vhagar to be his mount. Kinda grimy for it to happen the day of Laenas funeral, but there's no real bureaucracy or standard for who get what dragon once it's available. It's basically a free-for-all everytime a dragonrider dies and a dragons up for grabs.
If its grimy to claim vhager(the most powerful dragon in the world) the night of the funeral tLaena's husband the night of her funeral then Rhaenyra is just as or worst because she slept with
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It was NOT self-defense. Everyone is so stuck on "Greens bad, Black good" That they all seem to deny that THEY attacked Aemond. HE was defending himself.
That is true but Aemond did instigate the entire thing, and threatened to kill them using his new dragon. Hes also the eldest one there and as we saw last episode Alicents children have been trained better than Rhaenryas sons because of coles bias and hatred. But yea it is true that they did jump his ass.
Who cares we love black, alicent a hoe
After he came in talking shit. And he was the first one to pick up a weapon. He threatened to kill them with dragon fire and insulted them with a treasonous insult. He’s lucky all he lost was an eye
@@Icy_815 He didn't come in talking shit. He walked in they accused him of wrong doing. Also, of course he picked up a weapon. If you had 4 people attacking you you'd reach for a rock too. wWhat "treasonous insult"? You mean the truth lol?
@@JPShadow What does him being better-trained matter in this context? THEY still attacked him. Was he just supposed to curl up and take an ass beating?
Aemond didn’t steal the dragon vhagar chose him
Dragons have multiple masters, wich is why king Viserys was the last rider of the infamous Balerion the dread who was the dragon ridden by Aegon when he conquered Westeros
Wait, THIS viserys rode Balerion? I completely missed that lol.
@@Mukatutu yeah he said he only rode him for a short while
@@Mukatutu Yh Viserys rode Balerion
@@Mukatutu Yes. He mentioned it to Rhaenera in the early episodes. He only rode Balerion once before the Dragon died of old age.
Fans going "sentence Alicent to death" "kill her" "touching Princess is treason”. So we just gonna forget that child who got his eye popped out like a champagne cork is Viserys' own son too?! He’s a Prince?! Viserys is gonna execute his wife for wanting justice for his own son?! Huh?? What kinda weak King does nothing while his own seed gets his eye poked out by a couple of bas-terds? He was more worried bout protecting Rhaenyra’s illegitimacy than his son. Ppl really acting like if some kids did that to your 10yr old in the sandbox ya'll just gonna be like "oh word? Kenny's the middle child. So no biggie.” A mother’s rage, while unhinged, is totally understandable. The king shoulda handed out a more reasonable punishment before it even got to eye for an eye. But he was gonna do nothing due to his gross favoritism for his daughter, which justifiably infuriated Alicent. The king is spineless.
What kind kind of punishment for his like... 5 years old grandson?
@@laza0202 How bout he just showed some real concern for his son instead of interrogating him and turning it into an episode of Law and Order Westeros cause Rhaenyra said "Aemond should be *sharply* questioned" ...while the boy was sitting there looking like Harvey Dent. A little affection and maybe cooler heads would've prevailed.
THANK YOU DAMN you spilled ppl are hypocrits we can argue ab aemond’s behavior bla bla he wasn’t supposed to go there but in the end that’s a whole ass child who got blinded let’s address what matters. Why is this grown ass king so obsessed with gossip and keeping a false sense of unity that never even existed so much, and in such a moment ?? Him having the reflex to put everything under the rug, even his own son’s eye as soon as it’s not favorable to his daughter is tiring he aint rational enough for a king.
“The bones still sizzling!” 😂😂😂😂 Y’all are too much.
19:20 That dagger is the one that Arya used, Viserys still has it until he passes and then it will go to Rhaenyra.
It might seem crazy that Alicent didn't get executed for hurting the heir but I think people's view on the medieval political system is warped because of terrible kings in past GoT content like Jeoffrey, Cersei, etc who would just chop heads off willy nilly. Remember Viserys is a good man but a weak king, most people in that room could understand a mother acting rashly in the defense of her child but killing your queen would still seem out of pocket with most of the court. It would also fracture the 7 kingdoms by alienating a powerful house in the Hightowers and remember Viserys is all about keeping the kingdom together because of Aegon's prophecy.
Killing Alicent would've also basically ensured that the greens won, cause most of the major houses would've turned on the blacks in an instant.
That isn't defense. She was trying to maim her nephew. The Hightowers aren't that powerful a house. The King should have locked her up.
What I find funny is that most people think Aemond stole the dragon. No, the dragon wasn't Laena's property, it was her partner. Vhagar accepted and chose Aemond as her rider. If Rhaena was quicker to claim her maybe it wouldn't be such a shitshow.
Exactly and based on Vhargars past riders Beala wouldn’t of succeeded in bonding with her because vhagar prefers the more high spirited people
He did though. Technically he has every right, but it’s still morally wrong and frowned upon to take something that was promised to another. That’s why it is seen as he stole it.
I'm tired of this argument of " she should have claimed her quicker " I'm sorry you just like aemond forget her fucking mother died she's morning for God's sake you really think the first thing on her mind was to claim vhagar? And she's also a kid she obviously wouldn't think to rush and take it because there's no reason for her to assume some little shit was going to take her in the middle of the night the same day as her mother's funaral like God Damn you aemond defenders are so quick to defend him you completely disregard context entirely unless it applies to aemond.
@@Icy_815 But it isn't seen as that!
Because they don't reed the book or the lor
Your editing is fire and that intro was the best I’ve seen. You earned a subscriber. Let’s go.
Easily one of my favorite episodes that you three have done. Clearly everyone had fun with this one.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split."- Robert E. Howard
Wow, those kids fighting it out was the best action sequence of this entire show so far! Not kidding.
The Laenor reveal was so satisfying. That shit is one of the reasons I loved Game of Thrones.
17:19 Alicents face with the intent to kill and 17:21 the jab that made Rhaenyras son scream so nail biting. I bet it got every viewer on their toes haha amazing acting done by these 2. So much hate for the older actresses but I love them.
I love Alicent's older actress. She can go through the faces of stages of grief in a second. Watch her again when the maester says Aemond's eye is no more. She's just so Express
"threw me under the dragon" 💀
Honestly it's a Lil weird to me that they think Alicent was acting crazy for her kid literally getting maimed. That's her kid?? It's also the KING'S kid and yet he didn't do shit, because he loves Raenyra more than he does her half siblings and even his wife.
"she's out of pocket" her son's eye was literally taken what 😭 you're telling me you wouldn't be livid as a parent if your child was hurt that badly???
the Castillo edit sent me into outer space 😂😂😂
Daemon laughed because Vaemond was taking a shot at Rhaenyra's kids during the ceremony. Notice he
laughed when Vaemond started talking about not letting Velaryen blood thin.
*Viserys mistook Alicent for Aemma
Cersei: "Believe me, dear, that is just the beginning."
You can't steal a dragon though, they choose their riders...
I like how daemon ran up and stopped ser christen Cole like he want that rematch
09:30 i spit my fucking drink everywhere. editor needs his own damn show.
"Exhausting, wasn't it? Hiding beneath the cloak of your own righteousness. But now they see you as you are."
What a line and burn. Of course, no one is the good guy or bad guy. That's the whole point. While you can see both sides of the argument and both have their fair points but at the end of the day, its not all that simple since both parties do and are into shady shit. No one is a saint and no one is perfect. Totally flawed humans just going at each other.
Nah that gunshot edit has me crying!!! Love you guys' reactions 🙌🏽
Ameond did not steal the dragon. Vhagar's rider was dead which means anybody can claim it. You can't even steal a dragon because It only lets it's owner ride it. Which aemond is now. And no the girl clearly pushed him first. So I'm really not sure how aemond instigated that fight. Maybe the pig comment but c'mon is that really considerd instigating.
It's instigating but he didn't put hands on them till they did so fair in any opinion really😂
@@adreyenbarnes2876 THEY instigated against HIM. Then they knife him in the eye because he called them bastards. It wasn't self defense.
@@adreyenbarnes2876 how's that instigating when they literally sent him a pig last episode?
He instigated it by insulting baela about her dead mother on the day of her funeral.. aemond's attitude clearly changed after gaining vhagar and was such an asshole on that scene.. but to be fair with aemond, he only fought back and reciprocate what was thrown at him, he even shown mercy when he got the upperhand
@@heisenberg6197 No, SHE instigated it by claiming he "stole" something that can't be stolen. And keep in mind, you're defending the FOUR in the FOUR ON ONE who bullied him.
It's Catspaw! Viserys has worn since episode 1. The same one Arya used to kill the Night King.
you can't steal a dragon she had weeks alone to bond with and didn't but aemond did, you can't call dibs on dragons lol she needed to just cope about it but aemond was kinda rude about it all
Bro, "Pocket sand!" had me dying.
"I need another black" had me crying
Dragons follow the same basic rule of all reptiles which is they only stop growing when they die. That’s why Aegon the 1st’s dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, was soooo big
Aemond didn’t start it, rewatch and you’ll see all of his actions are in self defense. And rheanyra was referring to torture by the sharply questioned .
roshi's favorite moves: pocket sand and the side step
You cant steal dragons even if they are untamed - the dragon doesnt get passed on, they choose the rider if the rider is fit. Aemond was right, she should've tried her hand with Vaegar first but she didnt. Vaegar recognised Aemonds bravery and chose him. From her point of view though, she's grown up with Vaegar her entire life knowing that she belonged to her mother and hoped she would one day bond with Vaegar. It would hurt to see a piece of your mothers memory bond with another.
Lupa: "It's like watching hand puppets...in the shadows!"
😆
"i need another black" lmfao
"'Ey boss we're almost outta money!"
"SELL. THE LIGHTS."
"OMG PHEW... Thank god they did not kill laenor. It was just a random guard who did no harm to them. Yay.. my queen Rhynera is so good "
Don't you think it's dumb enough to think fans will care about a nameless, faceless character.
Y'all greens didn't say sh*t about Ser lyonel and ser Harwin's death.. Can't wait for you to start clapping for Aemond's actions 😏
Lmaoo
@rickking228 I feel like it's even worse with rhaenyra lmao. cause it's not just that, but it's also the hate for alicent, makes the viewers blind
No name, no emotional atacchemt
man i love when yall be clowning on roshi 💀💀💀 i swear yall got my sense of humor
if it's one thing about Aegon he a clown fr especially this episode 😂 why he getting thrown around like that by everyone. When he got blamed and said me? to Aemond I lost it lmaoo
😂😢poor Aegon
At 9:28 I tried looking at what they were trying to see on the screen and burst out laughing LMFAOOO
Rhaenyra and Daemon did a good job of making people think that they would do something like that as a warning to their enemies so I’ll give them that. Other than that I was on Alicent’s side this episode, I love her lmao. Aemond was an opportunist in this episode but I was cheering for him claiming Vhagar. I also feel bad for Rhaena, Baela, Jace, and Luke. They’re mourning their parents. The last scene of Daemon and Rhaenyra getting married made me feel for them because the girls are mourning their mother and the loss of Vhagar while the boys are mourning two fathers. Hopefully they at least tell the boys about Laenor but then again idk if they told Rhaenys and Corlys either. They said their side will know the truth, I assume they mean the blacks.
I just knew “I am delivert!!!!” Was coming somehow 😂😂😂😂😂
its the opposite vhegar is one of the oldest dragons alive which is why its the biggest right now dragons never stop growing if raised correctly and freely so they become huge with age vhegar was one of the 3 dragons used to conqure the 7 kingdoms and also dragons only listen to there sworn master when alive (though they dont enjoy killing targearans in general) but once the master dies they are willing to take on a new master
" I need another black" lmfao I love you guys 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Why are people cool with them jumping him? And they attacked him first.
This is Game of Thrones logic don't make sense sometimes
Probably cause he was saying some mean stuff to the girl, like the pig comment lol
@@leonardohenrique5172 no. Comments don’t allow for physical attacks. Plus they all were picking on him before. Them kids was jealous
@@chrissisney3049 I agree, they shouldnt have attacked him
@@chrissisney3049 tell that to Viserys. Openly calling them bastards is not “making a comment” like normal kids and that was the second time Aemond threatened to kill one of these kids before they moved lol. Also, the one leading the earlier teasing of him was his own brother Aegon, who you notice isn’t here.
I see a lot of people judging Alicent but if your son had his eye cut out and his father not only didn't care but used it as an excuse to prop up his child's lie you would probably lose it to.
Thats no excuse to try to mutilate a CHILD
I don't understand why this episode was literally so dark compared to the previous episodes. I had the same struggle as you trying to watch the episode.
If you ever visited a beach on night, you would know.
@@scientia.veritas but they didn't have to commit to a full immersion, it would just ruin the viewer's experience.
I literally thought I was hallucinating when I saw that guy in the corner at 9:31 💀😮💨
This editor has got my heart, skipping a beat ong
Average day in the life of Team Black : If someone used my son’s eye as a pizza slicer imma walk up to them, give my sincere apologies and offer them my son’s other eye. Must be exhausting having to defend child mutilation, treason by siring illegitimate heirs, & a plot to fake murder your own husband whom you’re cheating on to boot(which is real murder in book). Viserys the worst too. Cares more about protecting his daughter’s dirty little secret than his own son's safety. But hey it's all gucci cause Hoenyra & Wifeslayer Daemon, who is also an equally shItty human having murdered his own wife, had incestu0us happy hour on beach. Slay!! Hot Girl Summer!! Hashtag Daemyra Rights!! When Daemon murders a child in cold blood stans will defend that too but Alicent went too far.
Shireen was right. Don't choose sides.
I can't believe this is an unpopular opinion in the fandom! If it was Rhaenyra's son who lost an eye she would've done the exact same shit as Alicent, except Viserys would've probably allowed it to happen 💀
@@lauxantilles She had it coming for being a dirty fencesitter - Mannis 😆
Don't forget Aemond is a scumbag for claiming Vhagar during the funeral and deserved to be maimed but Rhaenyra and Daemon literally having sex, which is the ultimate disrespect to all of House Velaryon, is perfectly fine! Go team blacks!
It's really weird to see so many people on Rhaenyra's side, and just ignoring everything her and Daemon have done. I can't even pick a side, because they're all terrible people, lol.
19:26 Yup, that's the dagger Arya used to kill the Night King.
LMAO that edit @9:30
You can't technically steal a dragon, the dragon chooses its next rider.
Episode thoughts:
God, you could cut the tension during that family intervention scene with a knife! And it wrapped up poetically with the lines being clearly drawn between Rhaenyra's faction and Alicent's faction. It won't be long now...
Also crazy seeing Aemon grow a backbone now that he rides Vhagar. I've seen some people who are surprised he acted the way he did now and I'm like, the dude was disrespected most of his life and now he has the largest, oldest and most powerful dragon on his side, of course he'd start being more aggressive!
Lastly, it was interesting seeing Rhaenyra orchestrate Leanor's "death." Like I had a feeling she wasn't going to actually have him assassinated because even htough she wants him out of the picture, killing him wouldn't be her style so it was clever of her to make everyone think he's dead while he gets to run off with his man.
Creates a dangerous game though. Even if you actually aren't that cruel you are purposefully creating that image in the minds of your enemy. She wants them to think of her as cruel. However, what happens when her enemy is actually willing to go that far in order to stop her? She then either has to stoop to that level in order to survive or die.
About deamons laugh: if you pay attention you see the moment everyone take notices of the shots being throw and you see the moment Daemon take notices of Rhaenyra feeling some type of way about it. His laugh was basically "Ha Ha you know what I'm about keep fucking with my niece and see what happens"