Fun fact: that shot where they take off Aegons armour and it peels his skin off… that’s me! 😂 I was a stand-in/body double for Tom Glyn-Carney for a number of days towards the end of production last year at Warner Bros. Studios outside London
Damn, would love to hear your take on the set. I feel like with the writing on the show. Its more serious as to most made now. Was it serious when camaera were rolling? it was a serious scene and you nailed it. Were you also vocals for the heavy breathing?
I was also inside the box when they bring him in, and on my last day I was closed in the box for about an hour and a half whilst they got a shot of my hand, but they ultimately cut it (and righty so, alluding that he was in the box works better)! But they wanted to lift me out but because the director Clare wanted the guards to hold the tarp from the edges, they had to replace me with a dummy because otherwise my back would had scraped up along the box 😬 But yeah, 2 hours in makeup having that chest prosthetic put on was pretty dope 🤣
Bruh! That scene was so painful to watch! Great job! :D BTW you reminded me of Joey from Friends where he "acted out" the burnt body all covered like a mummy and Sussan Sarandon was like "That was a real person?" xD
That's a better description of that face than I came up with lol but I feel like ever since they changed for the aged up actress that is the ONLY face she knows how to make. And it aggravates me.
@@samatar6852 that’s why I said “in Westeros”. Compared to all the other couples we’ve seen in the franchise committing incest, abuse, r*pe, murder, medieval involuntary C-sections. At least they seemed to really love each other, and Rhaenys seemed to forgive Corlys without hesitation.
I mean Daemon was actually horrified when he realised it was his mother. His mother, Alyssa Targaryen, actually died when Daemon was 3 not long after giving birth to his younger brother Aegon (who died before his first birthday) so he wouldn't have a huge memory of her. This is clearly Harrenhal and Alys screwing with his mind again and making him lose focus. Daemon was there thinking it was just some random hot Targaryen woman he was dreaming of, telling him he should be King until she was all like "my favourite son" then he was like WTF???! 😂
Right😂 and yeah man she looked a bit like a younger Daenerys but imo this one was hotter. I was “ohh which Targaryen princess is this👀👀” 😂 Also, I think Alys Rivers is either 1. dead & haunting Harrenhall tormenting daemon & the chubby Lord Strong will be like “Rivers? Your grace she died here, many moons ago buried beneath the last Weir-wood tree”. Or 2: she’s real but I think she’s a ghost as no one acknowledges her. It looks like the Lord does but I looked again multiple times & it looks like he’s just trying to look at what Damond is looking at.
Indeed I was thinking it was a young Rhayneira at first, in age somewhere in between Milly and Emma, but then nope, lets go with absolute grossest options please! ' Also I agree that given Daemons age when his mom died, he would have very little idea what she looked like, unless he saw her in a portrait or something.
It had to end. Do you know how big the budgets were. The sopranos ended! Shows end and they have to be rushed sometime. Honestly don't know what you wanted to see or what more could have been seen in the later seasons of G O T!???!!? the high Sparrow story was terrible. I get it. Why didn't they just kill him..... or them.....? But otherwise the later seasons were grown dragon action packed episodes!!!
@@rjdub8455sounds like copium. What we expected was continued excellence. Instead…… The end of Game of Thrones was awful. There are no excuses. Deal with it.
Not her thinking she'd be queen when the council had been plotting to install Aegon before she even thought of it 😂 "look here comes a consequence, consequence, consequence, consequences of my actions chasing me rn" 😂
Aemond stepped right up and felt comfy doing kingly things. He was a natural and the council immediately respected him and obeyed his orders. The whole point of the blacks is that the people will support a male ruler over a female ruler so Alicent got outplayed by their own rules.
Not because she's a woman, but because she s*cked as a leader. So does Rhaenarys. Ironically, the Rhaenarys and Alicent were bolder and more assertive when they were teenagers. I've never liked the cast switch there and still stand by my opinion that the other two actresses would have been fine.
The fact that Alicent thought they would listen to her and make her regent after she stole the crown from Rhaenrya and told the world a woman couldn't rule was hilarious. Even Sir-Tongue-Alot didn't agree with her😂😂
I thought the conversation between Rhaenyra and Jaecerys at the end was extremely compelling and hooked me for where the seasons direction was going. Those two actors are so good together and it’s such a complex/healthy mother/son dynamic compared to the greens.
Precisely, I thought this episode was a Juicy Medium Rare Ribeye. Full of compelling character moments and beautiful acting; a perfect palette cleanser after Episode 4 for me. Dragonseed Arc begins and I’m so excited for it.
I mean it is annoying that they have 2 big dragons capable of challenging vhagar..........and they've just kept the underneath this WHOLE FUCKING TIME...and why? No riders...I mean really? Can a dragon lord ONLY bond with a single dragon? Between rhaenyra,daemon and rhaenys, and I guess the kids as well,no one thought to sideline their default dragons and try to use the vermithor and silverwing as plan A UNTIL NOW??!
This series is feeling very much like the classic game of thrones seasons that I loved. I was on the fence with season 1 because it just felt like a prologue of the actual story, but I am very much enjoying season 2.
When I saw the head of Meleys i was like this is bad idea if you want ppl to fear you now everybody going to think they can kill a dragon and shoot their shot LOL!!
I loved this episode! The acting is surpurb. I like ho Allicent is fighting within herself that she may have made a mistake. She's so conflicted and she portrays that so well!
Good transition episode, but people will still whine that it’s slow or that there’s not enough action unfortunately. Excited for the dragonseeds developments tho.
@@Adam-xg1ch I thought everything going on in King's Landing was very interesting also Baela's conversation with Corlys and Jacaerys on his diplomatic mission to the Freys was really well done. I will say though as a whole i enjoyed the first half of the episode more than the second.
Be honest House of the Dragon is a bad copy of of Game of Thrones. The dialogue is not a good, the characters are not as good, the action is not as good.
I thought one of the most interesting story lines going forward will be that side story. The one about disinformation and getting the small folk to rise up. The woman in white, I don't remember her name, becomes the woman in red and goes to see the friend. Even after the gates are closed that guard still lets her in. It's like he knows something but doesn't know what he knows. The rest of the episode was good. I hope that pack a lot into next weeks last episode. I can't believe it's over, again, so soon.
Jace seems like he would be a good king. Don't know if he makes it but he reminds me a bit of Rob Stark. Which actually probably doesn't bode well for him.
If I were Daemon, I'd just ask for a different bed at this point Also, I'm surprised that for over 100 years, not a single person has tried to fix up Harrenhal.
Harrenhal is too much of a threat to King's landing to be given to someone who can actually repair and defend it. This is why in 300 years, nobody has maintained Harrenhal except in tjme of war.
In fairness, Harrenhal is exceptionally large and as such it's difficult to maintain. What's bizarre is that the series just sticks to the same spaces in Harrenhal and none of these spaces have been attended to (at least not in HOTD because in GOT they're very much being attended to whilst the Lannisters occupy Harrenhal in season 2).
They have done what I thought would be impossible. Like everyone else, I found myself very frustrated by the last few seasons of Game of Thrones and I really was not anticipating House of the Dragon. But it has fast become my favorite show. It is exactly what I hoped it would be. It is just fantastic and I find myself looking forward to every new episode. I'm just going to go ahead and say it: House of the Dragon is a better show than Game of Thrones. At least it is for me. Damn, do I love dragons and this show is giving me all the dragons I can handle.
Definitely the most political heavy episode. We have Alicent being dismissed, Aemond ascending, making plans for the riverlands, closing off the red keep. Corlys and Rhaena planning to show strength. We have Daemon committing war crimes and essentially losing his support overnight while sullying the Targ name in the Riverlands. Jace meets with the Freys. Attempting to treat with House Arryn. And Rhanera and Jace making plans for potential more dragonriders. Slowest episode but still managed to move the needle quite a bit
At this point I believe that Harrenhal witch is actively poisoning Daemon’s mind somehow. It’s like she knows what he’s thinking, and is always looking at him wild when he comes out of a vision.
No, Damon and his mom was definitely a jaw-dropper! Before even the reveal, I knew he was dreaming but the woman looked so much like Daenerys Targaryen I was like "OK, how did we get into the future?" But then she dropped the BOMB.😬😱🤬
Some of my favorite moments are from early GOT. Cersei and Robert talking for instance. Top 10 easy. And it's not a book scene. Tywin and Arya also would be top 10 moments. "Careful girl. I like you but careful." That was also not in the books. Harrenhal was entirely different.
Everyone remembers being introduced to the big ice wall in the first episode, Ned getting dead, Arya having her list, the red wedding, the purple wedding, and Oberyn getting his head popped. Great stuff.
S2 was peak GoT. And every scene with Tywin & Arya was amazing. As was Tyrion & Cersei in Kings Landing. Everything about S1-4 was far better than this show.
Pacing is a huge problem for this series. I’ve seen too many commenters mistake ‘pacing’ for action scenes or that character work is mutually exclusive of proper pacing (and that scenes of characters talking translates to character development). Every week we're provided additional scenes of Daemon hallucinating the same messages, Corlys struggling with the same doubts, Rhaenyra deliberating on the same crises of conscience, Alicent contending with the same struggles, etc so many of these characters are just spinning in place and these scenes are nearly just a reimagining of other scenes and conversations that we’ve experienced before. It doesn't help either that these private conversations are written as if the characters intend for it to be overheard (talking head syndrome for the benefit of the audience). The writers are clearly not providing these episodes with enough story to sustain their runtimes and instead of addressing this or reducing the runtime to compensate, they are padding them out with superfluous sequences that are making much of this season feel pointless or pointlessly dragged out.
Its more complicated but the main bloodline married back to other Targaryens while other bloodlines just diluted forever. Like one princess marrying Baratheon and her sons never married back to the main line of other Targaryens.
Every Targaryen alive in this story is at least half Targaryen or almost. Rhaenyra is talking about distant relatives that are not in the Royal Line of Succession.
Jeremy, your impersonation of Two-Face has made my day.😄 Your comedy talent is unmatched, so towards the season's finale, many folks would appreciate if you deliver your version of a fire-spitting dragon.
I love the slowburn and intrigue of GoT but in HoTD I have a feeling as if they are really, reeeeaally dragging it to get those 4+ seasons. For example Alicent just point blank staring for 20 seconds, Daemon hallucinating clapping cheeks of his mother... SMH
Even though alot didn't happen this episode, I felt the acting and charachter driven moment's were alot more earned/well written this episode, my favorite episode yet actually.
The whole " I thought the Dragons were Gods" narrative makes absolutely no sense, when the death of Meraxes, the killing of Aegon the Uncrowned and his dragon being very public knowledge. Not even mentioning the death of Balerion less than 3 decades prior to the current point in the story which was well known to be seemingly due to old age.
So they have vermithor and silverwing this WHOLE FUCKING TIME...and only now did someone say "hey,we have 2 big ass dragons that could fuck up vhagar,maybe we should try something with that"😂
For me the thing that stood out in this episode is how the three princes dealt with the war. Deamon and Aemond is basically doing anything to replace those “above” them. They both think they should have been king instead of their brothers, they both are valued more because they have penii (don’t you know), and so Rhynera and Alicant have to step aside. Those are both willing to burn others to win (Aemond his actual brother). And they are both visited by a woman with some sort of dream/vision powers who challenges them when no one else will, but going for their conscious. Conversely, Jace was the winner in this episode. He secured the Starks’ road south and the allegiance of the Frey’s with good old fashioned diplomacy. Spare a thought for Alicant, who was taking care of her son in the same bed where she took care of her husband, both with ruined faces. Lastly, Cole seems to really have been changed by the battle. It’s not all tourney’s and killing old me in small counsels anymore. He seems to *get* a dragon war better than anyone. So much more to say, but those are my main takeaways.
There's no room in the fanbase for people to criticize something being not just slow, but very slow. Something can be slow and good... like Better Call Saul and seasons 1-4 of GOT. But some of the episodes this season are too slow, which I didn't feel about the first season of HotD at all. GOT early seasons were slow, but they were interesting and each episode ended with a hook for the next episode. Because so many characters die in this series, it kind of goes: death episode --> mourning episode --> planning episode --> death episode --> mourning episode I'm not asking for a battle every episode or dragons every episode, but I would like the plot to be a bit more focused. We're 5 episodes in, and it's still the same plot points of Daemon losing his mind, Rhaenyra complaining about her council and inaction, Jace being annoyed at his forced inaction, Corlys also basically doing nothing. Considering Team Black are clearly supposed to be the protagonists, I end up siding with Team Green cause they actually do things.
Negative. Your type of complaining is what inevitably leads to a lesser show. You're coming off the back of that Dragon episode and now it feels even "slower". People with your mindset need to be ignored. The show is telling the story it is telling and you can't moan because that story does involve alot of deaths, that's just how it is 🤷♂️. This comment section is so full of you folks just moaning and moaning. The shows fine. Not perfect but my god if they where to start taking in all this stuff it'd be GOT later seasons all over again.
Yet another episode where next to nothing happens. Aside from the pair of dragon fights, the battles on the ground take place off screen. Guess the budget didn't stretch far enough to have actual battles between armies during a war.
Budgetary reasons. They have to save money for the truly important scenes/battles. Reminds me of Season 1 of GoT where not one single battle was shown (ie. cut to simply Jaime already captured) or one dragon was shown (until the final 20 seconds of the season). It was all about the politics, scheming and in-fighting. Also happened to be my favorite season of the show.
I thought Aemond not saying anything in that scene was great. He had so thoroughly cemented his control that he literally didn't even need to argue or put himself forward, everyone in the room knew he was the pick, even Cole and Larys who are typically happy to simp for Alicent didn't dare defy him. It's like Tywin's line, "Any man who must say I am the King, is no true King." Aemond is not just the heir, he has the sheer force of personality.
I have a small tiny pinching feeling that this season is dragging? a bit?? dragons 0 - dragging 1? i don't know maybe these last episodes felt like that, too much talking, the fight on ep.4 was completely set aside and I had no suspense moment to cling to...
This is a random thought I had but Daemon sleeping with his own mother to me kinda gives off the “snake eating itself” imagery, part of the whole point of the show the start of the decline of the house of dragon. Valyria was doomed by practicing “blood magic” or something of that like. It was a society based on blood purity for its rituals or something like that. So daemons crave for power had him lusting after his brother’s sister, and in the vision it’s his mother… Idk if I’m making a clear point but it’s very thematic for his character and his linage as a Targaryen.
Fore the hook is just eanted to know where this goes with Aemond on the throne, Daemon going mad and right at the end with speculation of dragon riders from other houses. And who will claim Vermithor to challenge Vhagar 👀
Is it just me or is it getting a little weird to see the ladies on either side ONLY wearing their designated team colors? Like... they don't EVER wear any other colors...? It gets even weirder to see multiple people from the red side wearing red together in every scene, like they all talked about it
We did get a minor cliff hanger, Those who've read the story know what I'm talking about, the Dragon Seeds (New Dragon Riders ) are coming. We're going to have 4 new Dragons join the war for Team Black.
The hook was the decision by Jace and Rhaenyra to seek out dragonseeds aka Hugh Hammer, Ulf the White, Adam or Alan(can’t remember which one) of Hull, and Nettles(not shown yet)
I can only assume the Frey's get screwed out of their deal and this is what leads to their deep rage when Robb Stark breaks his deal with them a century later.
Personally, i like Jace a lot. He's smart, proactive, extremely motivated. It's kind of a shame that he basically has to die(i never read the book, but it kinda makes sense for him to not make it)
I am definitely NOT of the belief that all good episodes in this GOT/HOD universe must include blood, guts and battle. But these tired scenes at Haranhall are so overdone!!, it’s honestly painful and frustrating to see that the focus of the showrunner is being spent like this instead of on the development of the multitude of characters we have yet to discover and the nuance/layers to those characters we’ve already been introduced to. I watched a scene from early in season 3 of GOT and was astounded to see how many different storylines were simultaneously at play and the depth that the characters in each of those scenes had revealed, it made what I’ve seen from HOD so one dimensional and frankly, lazy, very frustrating!!
Fun fact: that shot where they take off Aegons armour and it peels his skin off… that’s me! 😂
I was a stand-in/body double for Tom Glyn-Carney for a number of days towards the end of production last year at Warner Bros. Studios outside London
Oh that's awesome! You lucky bastard!
That's awesome!
Damn, would love to hear your take on the set. I feel like with the writing on the show. Its more serious as to most made now. Was it serious when camaera were rolling? it was a serious scene and you nailed it. Were you also vocals for the heavy breathing?
I was also inside the box when they bring him in, and on my last day I was closed in the box for about an hour and a half whilst they got a shot of my hand, but they ultimately cut it (and righty so, alluding that he was in the box works better)!
But they wanted to lift me out but because the director Clare wanted the guards to hold the tarp from the edges, they had to replace me with a dummy because otherwise my back would had scraped up along the box 😬
But yeah, 2 hours in makeup having that chest prosthetic put on was pretty dope 🤣
Bruh! That scene was so painful to watch! Great job! :D
BTW you reminded me of Joey from Friends where he "acted out" the burnt body all covered like a mummy and Sussan Sarandon was like "That was a real person?" xD
“Loves the motherbox more than Steppenwolf” is pure insanity my man xD
Literally spit my coffee out. 🤣
Jeremy is too damn funny. I was dying when I heard that 🤣🤣🤣
The levels..........😂😂😂😂
Allicent having that "oh no how could the leopards eat my own face!" moment in the small council meeting was equal parts hilarious and deserved.
Poor Alicent
That's a better description of that face than I came up with lol but I feel like ever since they changed for the aged up actress that is the ONLY face she knows how to make. And it aggravates me.
@@LuisSierra42she sucks
@@earthrot666Considering the people she’s surrounded by, can you really blame her?
my favourite scene yet...a taste of your own medicine "woman"...or did she think they would stop at Rhanyera
Harrenhall looks and feels like something out of Dark Souls.
As it should be...
Makes sense. George R.R. Martin helped create Elden Rings world and characters with Miyazaki.
Just has the WORST vibes 😂
Definitely reminds me of New Londo Ruins
As it should
If he wakes up and says "My brother's a dick" that is going to be my top 5 favorite Game of Thrones / House of the Dragon moments.
It would be cool if he wakes up and flees to teamblack. Then again, now that I made that prediction, if it happens I'll be upset lol.
@@superkoopatrooper4879
@@superkoopatrooper4879 why would he do that? He’s still king
@@superkoopatrooper4879the book exists guy
Nah. He wakes up and takes the throne back.. Then his dragon eats rhanerya
Didn’t even mention the Sea Snake. Poor guy lost the love of his life. They were the best, healthiest couple in Westeros.
Yeah
Also, both of the actors had the best chemistry on the show but sadly we'll never see them together again
Maybe in all of westeros history besides Ned and Cat
Idk about the healthiest bro sure seemed to like cheating on the love of his life. Multiple grown ass bastards.
@@samatar6852 that’s why I said “in Westeros”. Compared to all the other couples we’ve seen in the franchise committing incest, abuse, r*pe, murder, medieval involuntary C-sections. At least they seemed to really love each other, and Rhaenys seemed to forgive Corlys without hesitation.
I mean Daemon was actually horrified when he realised it was his mother. His mother, Alyssa Targaryen, actually died when Daemon was 3 not long after giving birth to his younger brother Aegon (who died before his first birthday) so he wouldn't have a huge memory of her. This is clearly Harrenhal and Alys screwing with his mind again and making him lose focus. Daemon was there thinking it was just some random hot Targaryen woman he was dreaming of, telling him he should be King until she was all like "my favourite son" then he was like WTF???! 😂
Right😂 and yeah man she looked a bit like a younger Daenerys but imo this one was hotter. I was “ohh which Targaryen princess is this👀👀” 😂
Also, I think Alys Rivers is either 1. dead & haunting Harrenhall tormenting daemon & the chubby Lord Strong will be like “Rivers? Your grace she died here, many moons ago buried beneath the last Weir-wood tree”. Or 2: she’s real but I think she’s a ghost as no one acknowledges her. It looks like the Lord does but I looked again multiple times & it looks like he’s just trying to look at what Damond is looking at.
@@adaptivegamer9905that’s the real mystery!
Indeed I was thinking it was a young Rhayneira at first, in age somewhere in between Milly and Emma, but then nope, lets go with absolute grossest options please! ' Also I agree that given Daemons age when his mom died, he would have very little idea what she looked like, unless he saw her in a portrait or something.
i feel like it should still be wierd to find ur mom hot even if she is. that should be built into us genetically right?
@@adaptivegamer9905 well considering she bears aemonds child, id have to say shes real
It's good to see House of the Dragon is saving Jeremy's liver. He doesn't have to drink watching it.
😂😂😂
Unlike Acolyte which is actively trying to kill him.
Let's wait until Wednesday 💀
He's gonna die for the Acolyte finale
What a original comment never before seen on this channel!
Been watching you since 2009. Thanks for keeping me entertained for all these years.
This show has been so intriguing and just makes it more sad that GOT rushed its later seasons so much.
Don’t remind us bruh ! I can’t even rewatch the earlier seasons after that bullshit finale
It had to end. Do you know how big the budgets were. The sopranos ended! Shows end and they have to be rushed sometime. Honestly don't know what you wanted to see or what more could have been seen in the later seasons of G O T!???!!? the high Sparrow story was terrible. I get it. Why didn't they just kill him..... or them.....? But otherwise the later seasons were grown dragon action packed episodes!!!
@@rjdub8455sounds like copium.
What we expected was continued excellence. Instead……
The end of Game of Thrones was awful. There are no excuses.
Deal with it.
@@johnwicksdog4399 I caught a few episodes of season 1 on HBO recently and it was so fucking good... Makes what they did to the ending even worse
@@djomla9999 Season one was one of my favourites 👍
Aemond is a cruel vicious bastard but damn he's such a well written and acted character
The perfect villain
I can't look away
The dude is just cool... also with the coolest dragon. There is no match to that.
He has no lines...his character would be paper thin without the actor.
@@emhu2594aemond is a character who only speaks when he needs to ofcourse he doesn't have many lines
Everytime they cut to Aemond in this episode I giggled because he always had a smirk like yeah I did that lol
Jeremy is nailing his Aemond impression.
Best impression since he did Wilson Fisk.
@@Papadoc1981when I was a boy...
Alicent had enough salt in that council meeting to stock up all the McDonalds restaurants around the world. Damn, that acting! 🔥
Not her thinking she'd be queen when the council had been plotting to install Aegon before she even thought of it 😂 "look here comes a consequence, consequence, consequence, consequences of my actions chasing me rn" 😂
She was screeeeaming internally.
Sick of her
Aemond stepped right up and felt comfy doing kingly things. He was a natural and the council immediately respected him and obeyed his orders. The whole point of the blacks is that the people will support a male ruler over a female ruler so Alicent got outplayed by their own rules.
Not because she's a woman, but because she s*cked as a leader. So does Rhaenarys. Ironically, the Rhaenarys and Alicent were bolder and more assertive when they were teenagers. I've never liked the cast switch there and still stand by my opinion that the other two actresses would have been fine.
Well they didn't respect Aegon. People can tell when someone has things under control
The thing is I believe Alicent is now aiming towards ruling out Ser Cole from Hand of the King. He did too much.
I do think Aemond could be a good King leader, but he steps on too many toes and doesn’t want peace, he doesn’t have a lot of empathy.
@@jellyjell17 there have been plenty of tyrannical kings that have also been good for their country. It's not always a bad thing.
Instead of medevacking his brother back to kings landing, he let him go the snail mail route so those infections can fester.
Aegon II Targaryen , Stormfront and Anakin Skywalker are the holy trinity of
"We're getting BBQ'd but we survived anyway"
The fact that Alicent thought they would listen to her and make her regent after she stole the crown from Rhaenrya and told the world a woman couldn't rule was hilarious. Even Sir-Tongue-Alot didn't agree with her😂😂
I thought the conversation between Rhaenyra and Jaecerys at the end was extremely compelling and hooked me for where the seasons direction was going. Those two actors are so good together and it’s such a complex/healthy mother/son dynamic compared to the greens.
Jeremy doesnt pay attention a lot of times. Anyone who listens to the discussion realizes how massive of a hook that is.
Precisely, I thought this episode was a Juicy Medium Rare Ribeye. Full of compelling character moments and beautiful acting; a perfect palette cleanser after Episode 4 for me. Dragonseed Arc begins and I’m so excited for it.
I mean it is annoying that they have 2 big dragons capable of challenging vhagar..........and they've just kept the underneath this WHOLE FUCKING TIME...and why? No riders...I mean really? Can a dragon lord ONLY bond with a single dragon? Between rhaenyra,daemon and rhaenys, and I guess the kids as well,no one thought to sideline their default dragons and try to use the vermithor and silverwing as plan A UNTIL NOW??!
@@pamoweiberezi5315 Yes dragonlord can only bond with one dragon. Pay attention next time.
@@Zoltan1251 yet daenaerys had 3 dragons following her lead in game of thrones.....😐
The “mother box” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
King daemon the wildcard first of his name
Hope everything is okay, Jeremy.. Patiently waiting for the next review 😅
This episode needed some modern day hip hop music in the background in order for me to relate.
Maybe some Kendrick Lamar - Not like Us as Aemond goes to sit in his brothers chair
uhhh no
Don’t forget about a bit of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen.
@@NixLotusthis song so big in hearing abt it in a review of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON?💀
Is this an Acolyte reference? Cause if so genius
Luna Lovegood(Helaena) is Aegon and Aemond's sister btw 😅
Even incest between parents and their children is extreme for Targaryens
Legit tho
Marrying your cousins or siblings ✅️
Marrying your parents ❌️
Yall watch these shows for the weirdest reasons. . .
Is it tho?
@@co2_os Yea, there hasn't been a single Targaryen in the history of Westeros that I'm aware of, that has married mother/son or father/daughter
This series is feeling very much like the classic game of thrones seasons that I loved. I was on the fence with season 1 because it just felt like a prologue of the actual story, but I am very much enjoying season 2.
When I saw the head of Meleys i was like this is bad idea if you want ppl to fear you now everybody going to think they can kill a dragon and shoot their shot LOL!!
Also we not gonna talk about the 100s of smallfolk Melys smushed? No one? No one? Alright...seven blessings on the Queen That Never Was, I guess...
I loved this episode! The acting is surpurb. I like ho Allicent is fighting within herself that she may have made a mistake. She's so conflicted and she portrays that so well!
They’re calling all Targ bastards (dragonseeds) to Dragonstone to see who can claim a dragon and fight for them next week
It's not like giving some rando a dragon that is larger and meaner than any dragon your faction controls is going to be a problem or anything.
@@hypothalapotamus5293oh its defo gonna be a problem :3
Good transition episode, but people will still whine that it’s slow or that there’s not enough action unfortunately. Excited for the dragonseeds developments tho.
It was slow AF ! And I’m willing to bet I wasn’t the only one who thought it. Don’t mind dialogue but dam
@@johnwicksdog4399so you're telling me you're impatient asf then. Early game of thrones was just like this. Build up, release, cool down, setup.
@@TheRibottoStudios early game of thrones had interesting characters and great dialogue. this episode had neither.
@@Adam-xg1ch I thought everything going on in King's Landing was very interesting also Baela's conversation with Corlys and Jacaerys on his diplomatic mission to the Freys was really well done. I will say though as a whole i enjoyed the first half of the episode more than the second.
Be honest House of the Dragon is a bad copy of of Game of Thrones. The dialogue is not a good, the characters are not as good, the action is not as good.
It was hilarious when they chose Fire over allegiance to Raynera
I’ve never seen a man as high on his own fumes as Aemond in this episode.
I thought one of the most interesting story lines going forward will be that side story. The one about disinformation and getting the small folk to rise up. The woman in white, I don't remember her name, becomes the woman in red and goes to see the friend. Even after the gates are closed that guard still lets her in. It's like he knows something but doesn't know what he knows. The rest of the episode was good. I hope that pack a lot into next weeks last episode. I can't believe it's over, again, so soon.
HOD season 2 has 8 episodes ending on Aug 4.
My excitement shot up about 1000% when they mentioned Vermothor (took them long enough. . .)
Did you miss him back in season 1?
@@drpuma_2901people are gonna be piiiiiiissed about him and it's gonna be funny asf
I've been questioning for a while now why they have not been doing anything with their largest dragon despite being at war.
Jeremy turning into Stephen Strange with the suave af greying hair. Got me feeling some kinda way 🖤
Jace seems like he would be a good king. Don't know if he makes it but he reminds me a bit of Rob Stark. Which actually probably doesn't bode well for him.
If I were Daemon, I'd just ask for a different bed at this point
Also, I'm surprised that for over 100 years, not a single person has tried to fix up Harrenhal.
Harrenhal is too much of a threat to King's landing to be given to someone who can actually repair and defend it.
This is why in 300 years, nobody has maintained Harrenhal except in tjme of war.
In fairness, Harrenhal is exceptionally large and as such it's difficult to maintain. What's bizarre is that the series just sticks to the same spaces in Harrenhal and none of these spaces have been attended to (at least not in HOTD because in GOT they're very much being attended to whilst the Lannisters occupy Harrenhal in season 2).
They have done what I thought would be impossible. Like everyone else, I found myself very frustrated by the last few seasons of Game of Thrones and I really was not anticipating House of the Dragon. But it has fast become my favorite show. It is exactly what I hoped it would be. It is just fantastic and I find myself looking forward to every new episode. I'm just going to go ahead and say it: House of the Dragon is a better show than Game of Thrones. At least it is for me. Damn, do I love dragons and this show is giving me all the dragons I can handle.
The Emmy award goes to the Dog!
Here’s footage if his response………….powerful stuff😂😂 😂😂😂😂
Definitely the most political heavy episode. We have Alicent being dismissed, Aemond ascending, making plans for the riverlands, closing off the red keep. Corlys and Rhaena planning to show strength. We have Daemon committing war crimes and essentially losing his support overnight while sullying the Targ name in the Riverlands. Jace meets with the Freys. Attempting to treat with House Arryn. And Rhanera and Jace making plans for potential more dragonriders. Slowest episode but still managed to move the needle quite a bit
Jace is absolutely SERVING this season and it's gonna make losing him hurt so much.
The problem with the greens moving into the riverlands is that Criston Cole is about as charismatic as a weasel covered in chicken blood.
Even during some stressful times for our country, I really loved your Two Face expression. You're quite a character.
The always sunny clip deserves a standing ovation
At this point I believe that Harrenhal witch is actively poisoning Daemon’s mind somehow. It’s like she knows what he’s thinking, and is always looking at him wild when he comes out of a vision.
Was thinking maybe she’s a red priestess.
No, Damon and his mom was definitely a jaw-dropper!
Before even the reveal, I knew he was dreaming but the woman looked so much like Daenerys Targaryen I was like "OK, how did we get into the future?" But then she dropped the BOMB.😬😱🤬
The Daemon complex bit oh my god hahahahahaha
Jeremy the eye patch caught me off guard lol 😆
Deamons mom died when he was 3... She was a freaking badass
And she was Meleys's previous rider.
@@ph89787 yup, also took both Viserys and Deamon on a joyride just days after boths births
@@rayous5480, Which makes this episode an especially big kick in the teeth. I'm of the view that the biggest victims of this war were the dragons.
@@ph89787The dragons....victims.....tf is wrong with y'all?
@@ph89787 1. it was everybody involved. 2. if you have to choose: it was the Targaryens, "who never fully recovered."
I bet most people don’t remember any episodes from season 2 of GOT besides that shadowbaby birth scene, “Blackwater” and the finale.
Some of my favorite moments are from early GOT. Cersei and Robert talking for instance. Top 10 easy. And it's not a book scene. Tywin and Arya also would be top 10 moments. "Careful girl. I like you but careful." That was also not in the books. Harrenhal was entirely different.
That birth is enshrined in a MAD magazine two page insert titled Over Realmed.
@@TheRibottoStudios sand snakes vs cersei's revenge. all of tyrion's scenes, esp the one with oberyn before he offered to be his champion
Everyone remembers being introduced to the big ice wall in the first episode, Ned getting dead, Arya having her list, the red wedding, the purple wedding, and Oberyn getting his head popped.
Great stuff.
S2 was peak GoT. And every scene with Tywin & Arya was amazing. As was Tyrion & Cersei in Kings Landing.
Everything about S1-4 was far better than this show.
The look at Jeremy face 😂💀
Pacing is a huge problem for this series.
I’ve seen too many commenters mistake ‘pacing’ for action scenes or that character work is mutually exclusive of proper pacing (and that scenes of characters talking translates to character development).
Every week we're provided additional scenes of Daemon hallucinating the same messages, Corlys struggling with the same doubts, Rhaenyra deliberating on the same crises of conscience, Alicent contending with the same struggles, etc so many of these characters are just spinning in place and these scenes are nearly just a reimagining of other scenes and conversations that we’ve experienced before. It doesn't help either that these private conversations are written as if the characters intend for it to be overheard (talking head syndrome for the benefit of the audience).
The writers are clearly not providing these episodes with enough story to sustain their runtimes and instead of addressing this or reducing the runtime to compensate, they are padding them out with superfluous sequences that are making much of this season feel pointless or pointlessly dragged out.
Hearing Jeremy say “Shite” warms my Scottish heart
The best part of the episode was her telling her bastard son that only pureblood is supposed to be able to ride dragons😅 cause her sons are pueblood😂
😂😂😂she meant dragonlords not really pureblood. Rheanys is half baretheon too isn't she
Jace is 50% targaryen, and Aegon and Aemon also are 50% Targaryen, but they were luke to be born with the silver hair
Its more complicated but the main bloodline married back to other Targaryens while other bloodlines just diluted forever. Like one princess marrying Baratheon and her sons never married back to the main line of other Targaryens.
Every Targaryen alive in this story is at least half Targaryen or almost.
Rhaenyra is talking about distant relatives that are not in the Royal Line of Succession.
3:36 “Targaryens being…Targaryens” 😂
I'm surprised Jeremy doesn't have a Targaryen shirt on in these videos XD
Or white hair for a review
At least he has the red and black
That's cuz it might have the wrong number of legs lmao.
He secretly a Blackfyre that’s why
Jeremy, your impersonation of Two-Face has made my day.😄
Your comedy talent is unmatched, so towards the season's finale, many folks would appreciate if you deliver your version of a fire-spitting dragon.
I love the slowburn and intrigue of GoT but in HoTD I have a feeling as if they are really, reeeeaally dragging it to get those 4+ seasons.
For example Alicent just point blank staring for 20 seconds, Daemon hallucinating clapping cheeks of his mother... SMH
Even though alot didn't happen this episode, I felt the acting and charachter driven moment's were alot more earned/well written this episode, my favorite episode yet actually.
You're in a Great mood in this one, love to see it.
The whole " I thought the Dragons were Gods" narrative makes absolutely no sense, when the death of Meraxes, the killing of Aegon the Uncrowned and his dragon being very public knowledge. Not even mentioning the death of Balerion less than 3 decades prior to the current point in the story which was well known to be seemingly due to old age.
What did Alicient get herself into. Damage control is out of the question now.
Episode 6 video soon?
It was nice to see more hardcore stuff and rough stuff like we are used to in old game of thrones again. May we see more of it pls
So they have vermithor and silverwing this WHOLE FUCKING TIME...and only now did someone say "hey,we have 2 big ass dragons that could fuck up vhagar,maybe we should try something with that"😂
For me the thing that stood out in this episode is how the three princes dealt with the war. Deamon and Aemond is basically doing anything to replace those “above” them. They both think they should have been king instead of their brothers, they both are valued more because they have penii (don’t you know), and so Rhynera and Alicant have to step aside. Those are both willing to burn others to win (Aemond his actual brother). And they are both visited by a woman with some sort of dream/vision powers who challenges them when no one else will, but going for their conscious.
Conversely, Jace was the winner in this episode. He secured the Starks’ road south and the allegiance of the Frey’s with good old fashioned diplomacy.
Spare a thought for Alicant, who was taking care of her son in the same bed where she took care of her husband, both with ruined faces.
Lastly, Cole seems to really have been changed by the battle. It’s not all tourney’s and killing old me in small counsels anymore. He seems to *get* a dragon war better than anyone.
So much more to say, but those are my main takeaways.
Daemon is such a fascinating villain. I can't look away
I would so much want to spoil you about Aemond but Im not such a bastard. IF the season's gonna end where I think it will, its gonna be *chef's kiss*!
There's no room in the fanbase for people to criticize something being not just slow, but very slow. Something can be slow and good... like Better Call Saul and seasons 1-4 of GOT. But some of the episodes this season are too slow, which I didn't feel about the first season of HotD at all. GOT early seasons were slow, but they were interesting and each episode ended with a hook for the next episode. Because so many characters die in this series, it kind of goes: death episode --> mourning episode --> planning episode --> death episode --> mourning episode
I'm not asking for a battle every episode or dragons every episode, but I would like the plot to be a bit more focused. We're 5 episodes in, and it's still the same plot points of Daemon losing his mind, Rhaenyra complaining about her council and inaction, Jace being annoyed at his forced inaction, Corlys also basically doing nothing. Considering Team Black are clearly supposed to be the protagonists, I end up siding with Team Green cause they actually do things.
Negative. Your type of complaining is what inevitably leads to a lesser show. You're coming off the back of that Dragon episode and now it feels even "slower". People with your mindset need to be ignored. The show is telling the story it is telling and you can't moan because that story does involve alot of deaths, that's just how it is 🤷♂️. This comment section is so full of you folks just moaning and moaning. The shows fine. Not perfect but my god if they where to start taking in all this stuff it'd be GOT later seasons all over again.
M waiting for episode 6 review pls release it already
I have been literally stalking ur page for the review since yesterday
Yet another episode where next to nothing happens. Aside from the pair of dragon fights, the battles on the ground take place off screen. Guess the budget didn't stretch far enough to have actual battles between armies during a war.
I hate that Bracken vs Blackwood conflict was reduced to bullshit off the screen fights over a fence or some shit. WTF was that?!
Budgetary reasons. They have to save money for the truly important scenes/battles. Reminds me of Season 1 of GoT where not one single battle was shown (ie. cut to simply Jaime already captured) or one dragon was shown (until the final 20 seconds of the season). It was all about the politics, scheming and in-fighting. Also happened to be my favorite season of the show.
I thought Aemond not saying anything in that scene was great.
He had so thoroughly cemented his control that he literally didn't even need to argue or put himself forward, everyone in the room knew he was the pick, even Cole and Larys who are typically happy to simp for Alicent didn't dare defy him.
It's like Tywin's line, "Any man who must say I am the King, is no true King." Aemond is not just the heir, he has the sheer force of personality.
I have a small tiny pinching feeling that this season is dragging? a bit?? dragons 0 - dragging 1? i don't know maybe these last episodes felt like that, too much talking, the fight on ep.4 was completely set aside and I had no suspense moment to cling to...
This is a random thought I had but Daemon sleeping with his own mother to me kinda gives off the “snake eating itself” imagery, part of the whole point of the show the start of the decline of the house of dragon.
Valyria was doomed by practicing “blood magic” or something of that like. It was a society based on blood purity for its rituals or something like that. So daemons crave for power had him lusting after his brother’s sister, and in the vision it’s his mother…
Idk if I’m making a clear point but it’s very thematic for his character and his linage as a Targaryen.
Fore the hook is just eanted to know where this goes with Aemond on the throne, Daemon going mad and right at the end with speculation of dragon riders from other houses. And who will claim Vermithor to challenge Vhagar 👀
I can't believe Jeremy stopped covering this show week to week. now I don't even feel like watching it
Is it just me or is it getting a little weird to see the ladies on either side ONLY wearing their designated team colors? Like... they don't EVER wear any other colors...? It gets even weirder to see multiple people from the red side wearing red together in every scene, like they all talked about it
Game of Thrones, House of Dragons, never leave you with warm and fuzzies, just shock and awe.
We did get a minor cliff hanger, Those who've read the story know what I'm talking about, the Dragon Seeds (New Dragon Riders ) are coming. We're going to have 4 new Dragons join the war for Team Black.
“Not yet!” Had me rolling 😂
A Wild Wild West reference! No one ever gets that when I say it..
"Alive and Kickin! Well alive anyway..."
Aemond was positive they were going to select him so he kept quiet until it was time to make BIG KING MOVES
I actually thought the hook at the end was great! I immediately started thinking wow maybe they will unleash two more bigger dragons with new riders
The hook was the decision by Jace and Rhaenyra to seek out dragonseeds aka Hugh Hammer, Ulf the White, Adam or Alan(can’t remember which one) of Hull, and Nettles(not shown yet)
You'd think Jace would stop by Harrenhal on his back and forth trips to the Twins, to check in on what his crazy stepdad is up to, but no.
I can only assume the Frey's get screwed out of their deal and this is what leads to their deep rage when Robb Stark breaks his deal with them a century later.
You are the reason I'm here... those impressions are why I stayed.
Personally, i like Jace a lot. He's smart, proactive, extremely motivated. It's kind of a shame that he basically has to die(i never read the book, but it kinda makes sense for him to not make it)
Dude! The sim city from SNES sent me back 30 yrs!!!
0:41 wild Wild West reference. Right on time!
Aegon got the Anakin treatment
I am definitely NOT of the belief that all good episodes in this GOT/HOD universe must include blood, guts and battle. But these tired scenes at Haranhall are so overdone!!, it’s honestly painful and frustrating to see that the focus of the showrunner is being spent like this instead of on the development of the multitude of characters we have yet to discover and the nuance/layers to those characters we’ve already been introduced to.
I watched a scene from early in season 3 of GOT and was astounded to see how many different storylines were simultaneously at play and the depth that the characters in each of those scenes had revealed, it made what I’ve seen from HOD so one dimensional and frankly, lazy, very frustrating!!
lol killed me on the two face impression.
Aegon: “My brother’s a dick!”
Aemond: “Damn man, I’ve been saying the same thing for years!”
When I see ameon, all I see is “crimson chin”from the “fairy odd parents”
It was a filler but they where moving the chessboard in position for the next episodes
I wouldn’t be so weirded out if Daemon pulled a Homelander instead of going for the motherbox. 😳😨
"That was his mom..."
The dude in the tavern that said he was a Targaryen at the table with his boys will be the dragon rider I assume
The guy that was carrying his daughter too I bet.
No one noticed how Alys Rivers simply vanished behind Ser Simon Strong when he walked in at around 41:27? Think she exists only in Daemon’s mind