House of the Dragon | S1 EP7: Inside the Episode (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2024
- Leo Ashton (Aemond Targaryen), Emma D'Arcy (Rhaenyra Targaryen), John MacMillian (Laenor Velaryon) and more speak to the fallout that occurs after Aemond loses his eye during a fight, and how Laena's death causes Laenor to reflect on his own life.
Everyone else in the cast: *giving deep insightful observations about their character*
Matt Smith: daemon's a leaner, i like that he leans
🤣
Matt Smith makes it impossible to hate Daemon 🤣🤣🤣
LMFAOO 🤣🤣
True. Leaning is everything
And he's the most accomplished of them all so what does that tell you? Humans are extremely simple
The child actor who plays aemond did a very amazing job.
Kinda reminds me of that little lady in GOT. I forget her name now......🤔
@@avigailomichael Lyanna Mormont
Yes He Plays really good
@@abhishekburra2341 exactly, thanks Abhishek!!!!!!!
The kid actor really got me rooting for aemond's character!
Man this episode had so much going on! We had a wedding and a funeral, We had uncle and niece incest, We got a kid who learned how to train his dragon, We got a gang fight, a chick fight, We got a guy who went into the witness protection program, good stuff!
underated comment. 👍🏻
LOL
that's cool and all...but that traditional Targaryen wedding was fire! (see what i did there?)
Kid didn't learned to train any dragon bro. He just claimed the biggest dragon alive .
Witness protection program! 🤣🤣🤣
I feel bad for Rhaenys and Corlys. Imagine losing both of your children in such a short order.
Rhaenys clearly regrets her children ever getting mixed up with the Targs and she's Targ herself!
And then your daughter-in-law marries your son-in-law. 🤔
Also her neice and her cousin.
But the son didn't died though.
I wonder how this plays out for Rhaenyra... will Rhaenys join the blacks after thinking Rhaenyra had her son "killed?"
Daemon standing in the corner and feeding off on all the chaos is a whole mood. 😄
Probably the only character which has GOT shades,the rest are sus.
💯 Facts!!!
@@stevewonder8766 I agree. He has layers and layers of complexity. The rest are just a bunch of stereotypes lumped together.
Indeeed😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cause it’s been so long since he’d seen such family drama much rather being a cause of of it 😂 I just wonder how did he managed to live a ‘normal’ life without causing any chaos.
Laenor sailing off at the end made this episode a 10/10. What an episode!!
ngl they should’ve had Rhaenyra and Daemon properly kill them lol, it would force people to stop seeing this as a typical “good guy vs bad guy” thing that’s it’s framing into
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 That wouldn’t really make sense tbh. He just wanted to be free of his duties and she wanted to marry Daemon from the start. Though it was a bit abrupt how they did it.
Yess 😊
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 I think there will be plenty of opportunities to show that Rhaenyra isn’t so good in future episodes
Spoiler.....,....... Wait i read that he died later on spicetown not Like at end of episode ?
The actor who played Aemond did a great job and even his insight was good to listen to.
Hats off to him. I hope he gets more opportunities to shine as his career goes on
He perfectly summed it up with "It's 5 kids battering each other. It's mental."
Eggos
yeah he got recast for the next episode
"We will watch your career with great interest..."
Although the start of the episode was overwhelmingly sad, I appreciate how many different emotions this one evoked, the excitement of claiming vhagar, the tense and emotional confrontation of the mothers, the satisfaction of rhaenyra getting her belated d, and the relief that laenor at least had a happy ending maybe
And the adrenaline of the kids fighting. Let’s just say that a decade from now… Scores will be settled.
i got satisfaction for Alicent getting a stab in ngl, regardless of what you think of her from a motherly POV she needed that lol.
My fav episode so far.
Beat 4th by a margin
You forgot the anger of "eye for an eye" like nooo, you put your children against their cousins (step nephews?) from the start, they get what they deserve!!
Belated d?? Have you seen her children? She's been getting the d all along. It's was caused this whole mess.
Fantastic ending to the episode. Rarely do you ever actually get to see the happy twist showing the characters cunning and loyalty to one another in contrast to the disloyalty between the families. The way theyre assembling the show to adapt to the book is actually brilliant.
It was also a nice departure from the "bury your gays" trope that GoT has been rather guilty of (to be fair, it kills tons of straight people too, but ALL the LGBT characters have died until now... except Yara Greyjoy... and I guess we don't know what happened to Oliver, but there was still no happy ending for him and Loras). This was actually a really pleasant surprise to see a happy ending for a gay couple, especially since it's a change from the book as far as I'm aware. I'm pretty sure Laenor actually dies in Fire & Blood.
@@AWSVids So he dies in the books? Is rhaenyra responsible?
@@tyler-hp7oqin the books, it was rumoured that daemon did it so that he could marry rheanyra
@@tyler-hp7oq in the books he dies similar way, by the hand of his lover who then appears nowhere to be found I think and it was rumored that he was payed by Daemon to kill Laenor so Daemon could marry Rhaenyra
All rumores, ofc, as most part of the books
@@AWSVids Yara Greyjoy's book equivalent Asha was definitely not gay. She preferred gentler more intellectual men whom other Ironborn considered effeminate, but she definitely preferred men.
"Exhausting, wasn't it? Hiding beneath the cloak of your own righteousness. "
Great line.
Agreed, one of the best in a great scene
It was ridiculous considering the only person who's been lying to everyone this entire time is Rhaenyra, lmao.
@@kstewsoctopus yeah, 5 min later she was already murdering a guard to look like Leiner, and said she had nothing to do with it. But as they say... we mostly see in others the same flaws we have ourselves... in this case, hypocricy.
Glad this made it more clear that it was Rhaenyra and Laenor's plan to fake his death, rather than Laenor's boyfriend changing the plan to save Laenor. It's also been a long time since I've felt so happy and relieved watching TV as I did when Laenor pulled his hood off on the boat
Does Daemond Know that plan?
@@JodiLosCules Daemon killed the servant to use his corpse in the plan. They were all in on it. They murdered an innocent man to achieve this plan, its just a taste of things to come.
@@JodiLosCules Yes. He killed that guard on purpose. Did you not notice Laenor's lover wearing his boots? Then as he ran towards the boat he's completely barefoot. He took them off & put them on the dead guy to *prove* it was Laenor in the fire. Brilliant plan!
Why do you feel happy? Laenor will never see his family again, lord Velaryon has no heir and he and his wife had to go through the death of their child again after Laena's just passed. Rhaenyra as well as Daemon are cruel and only think about themselves and their power. I can only imagine what would have happened if Laenor did not agree to disappear.
@@agpoland3632 🥱
If they only thought of themselves they would have actually killed him, his lover & told everyone to piss off... They didn't.
I think the personalities of Rhaenyra and Alicent are flawed where Rhaenyra can be irresponsible and it has ramifications for being a free spirit and reckless. While Alicent is so closed-minded thinking everyone should think and behave like her when the world doesn't work that way. This builds up negative emotions towards others.
I just enjoyed watching my boy Daemon leaning against the wall and watching the fireworks happen. His twin daughters were involved in the little rascals gang fight and he's so cool about it. Didn't even discipline them. It's not like they were the ones scarred or had bloody noses. And Baela got Aemond good from her first swing.
I like how Corlys stood behind Rhaenyra when she got cut. He might be an extremely prideful and ambitious man chasing legacy but he stood behind her knowing damn well Jace and Luke are NOT his biological grandsons. Mad props to House Velaryon. Baela rocks! Wait when she finally rides Moondancer.
If Corlys doesn't stand with Rhaenyra, that's as good as admitting to the world that he believes the boys are bastards and therefore, his son has participated in treasonous acts by not doing his husbandly duties and claiming bastards as sons/heirs to the throne and Driftmark. Then all his ambitions and pride would go down the shitter. Corlys seems like a good family man, more honorable than some, but make no mistake, he has his own games to play.
@@csegovia8846 he will play a very big role if the showrunners dont changa anything
Daemon ignores his daughters as said by one of his daughters to Laena. And I was wondering why he killed his first wife... now I knw.. just to marry Rhaenyra, coz they cud only marry when their spouse is dead. So may be for no good reason he killed his first wife too.
I cannot wait for baela to be the baddest bitch in the game.
@@niddha9764 he killed his first wife because he hated her
Viserys standing up for Rhaenyra and her children instead of Alicent and his own son is the straw that broke the camel’s back for her. Soon, King’s Landing will be a Nest of Vipers for Rhaenyra Targaryen
Alicent lived in the shadow of Aemma's memory and Viserys reached the age where he gave 0 f#**@ about the whole matter.
the kids are bastards, rhae is irresponsible and selfish trying to get away with such an obvious lie
@@jezeannwilliams1145 I think he also somewhat hated Alicent in the books. Like he knew his wife and the Hightower's ambition. Even in the end he insisted his throne would go to Rhaenyra and not Alicent's children.
@@monicacasis5626 yeah he dragged otto a few episodes ago for sending alicent in to seduce him and put his heirs on the throne. But the kind needed a wife so he kept her but knew that it was a loveless marriage
RHAENYRA is also his own child :) and first born (survived).
Viserys standing up for his grandchildren was everything
like he KNOWS but he also knows they ARE his blood and he loves his daughter
He’s a fool
Yh but his son losing his eye was worth only an apology he is so biased
bro people really don’t like grey characters as they claim they do i’m starting to see.
@UCbnBihkWT-iHqo3t2g6aUKQ because he probably got tired of being bullied by frauds/pretenders who forfiet their claim to what should be his and his brothers due to their mothers uncontrollable lust and stupidity outside of the marriage appointed to her. Seeing his own mother suffer everyday from trying to do what's right against a spoiled princess and brat who is careless with her inheritance would make any young kid go crazy eventually
Daemon’s daughters and Rhaenyra’s sons are so adorable together. Plus that shot of Daemon, Rhaenyra and Corlys together staring a hole through Alicent is brilliant.
That was the most intense episode so far and a roller coast of emotions. Viserys standing up for his grandchildren was astounding.
He sees all the kids as his children
@@luf4rall yes he does
who cares about teamgreen or teamblack... I'm a teamViserys and always will!
He didn’t stand up for his own daughter though, he looked so weak in front of the queen. Any strong leader (Daemon, Robb, Tywin, etc…) wouldn’t let their queen question them at all, she would’ve easily been executed if she tried that shit with any of them.
@@feiyu8817 I think he did: he said before all the witnesses that whoever dares doubt the parentage of Rhaenyra's children, they'll have their tongue cut (and he menancily looked toward Alicent, who he knows told their children). Of course, he couldn't do anything more because he would risk to start a was on that right moment. Surely this will worse things after, but at that moment itself, i humbly believe he did right.
I was sketchy about the actor changes but after this episode, I am not worried anymore. They’re absolutely dominating their roles!
Have you seen the previews for next episode yet?
Yes they are !
There’s another time jump so the kids will be older next episode
I think Milly Alcock was little too good sadly. Emma is doing an amazing job, but I guess the show makers did not expect Milly to be as captivating as actors of the like of Matt Smith.
But I guess she could have not pulled of older Rhaenyra. The actor change was necessary sadly.
Olivia Cooke is amazing as older Alicent, you look at her and you just see bitterness and envy.
@@suumcuique4530 they hired Emma and Olivia before Milly. It wasn’t until months after that they chose Milly for young rhaenrya but yes I agree, fans fell in love with milly much more than expected. Regardless, everyone is doing a fantastic job, even the kids. I just wish more humor was attached to the show
I felt sad for Viserys cause his beloved wife Aemma is not with him in his hard times. He really misses her
When he called Alicent Aemma without realizing 😭😭😭
I have a feeling while Viserys liked having companionship and some comfort after Aemma in the form of Alicent..the two never really seemed 'close' or really intimate. Sure, they had sex (which created the 4 Green children), but emotionally, it doesn't seem like they're truly connected. The first episode with Aemma, it's very much implied they're intimate emotionally in addition to physically. No wonder Viserys prefers Rhaenyra too, she looks more and more like Aemma as she grows older.
@@NuggetEternal I DDIN'T NOTICE THIS AS WELL WHAT
@@krismaica7359 Viserys to Alicent : "I'm going to bed, Aemma".
_ Harrold Westerling to Viserys : "Should I stay with Queen ALICENT, your Grace ?"
@@NuggetEternal omg I hadn't noticed! 🤯
Laenor reveal had me dead! Fantastic twist
Aemond: You're a bastard.
Jacearys: I'm gonna throw some dirt in your eye.
😩😊😊😊 Great comment.
"That was my mother's dragon!"
"I missed the part where that's my problem"
Look at the Amond kid really stepping up and getting serious, good for him.
Bad Ass lil girls.....they will fight.......
@@rickyb242 not in the books.
He is an incredible character when he grows up he will move the world of the House of the Dragon and he will be the favorite of many, it is incredible.
He's a character we love to hate like Clubfoot and Daemon. Meanwhile Criston Cole is just hate. Definite hate.
He is like Ramsay Bolton with a dragon big enough to melt castles with her breath.
But are we not gonna talk about how Aemond has a crush on his sister Helaena?? When Aegon says he doesn't want to marry Heleana, Aemond says he would gladly perform his duties and marry his sister if he was told. A true Targaryen he is
The chemistry between Daemon and Rhaenyera is out of this world. Can’t wait to see more of them
no i think not like between Ally and Matt
Chemistry is gone with the new actress.
@@nancyzalpis9850 no it isn't
Younger actress had better chemistry
@@thehoopman88 relax. Yall had like 5 episodes for Ally's Rhaenyra. Doesnt mean she had more chemistry.
That speech by Laenor pledging his support to Rhaenyra that she needs a husband was made greater by the ending of the show, implying that Laenor accepted that it wasnt gonna be him and his support was thru leaving
He’s a sweetie pie
Rhaenyra and Alicent nailed knife scene. "Now they see you as you are" epic.
I noticed that Viserys called Alicent Aemma before he went to bed. One part sent me when Daemon laughed when Corlys brother spoke about how Valeryon blood doesn't run thin. I loved how this episode let the tension explode over between the two families! The fight between the kids was very intense! This episode was beautifully done! ❤️
I noticed that too,at first I was like whaaat and if I heard wrong.
Brilliant episode! I know a lot happened within it but I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate the scene where Baela, I believe, reaches for Jace's hand and holds it. After Rhaenyra has a word with Jace and tells him he should be there for Baela and Rhaena who are distraught over the loss of their mother, he expresses that they (he, his brothers and Rhaenyra) should also be consoled too for their loss but of course that isn't permitted for obvious reasons. Even in their own grief, the girls were kind enough to express their silent condolences and empathy to Jace for his own loss. That was a nice touch and very sweet. Laena would be proud of her girls!
Those two girls grow up to be my absolute favorites I’m so glad they race bended them. It’s so smart how they chose this family for that bc it makes sense and they get to look striking and unique and beautiful 🤩 I was sad to lose laena but I got two in return lol.
Ikr, the kids were my favourite in this episode. Also the scene where Corlys ask Luke about the inheritance of Driftmark but Luke denied it saying that everyone (his siblings and cousins) would be dead by that point. It’s so sad that these kids knows their fate but still would have to fight for survival. Baela punching Aemond for her sister was so satisfying and Daemon was so enjoying the drama that involved his daughters cause he knows his and Rhaenyra’s kids were able to harm Otto’s grandchildren 😂 but regardless it’s a sad episode for all the kids (including Alicent’s kids). Aemond giving his opinion of wedding Haelena for duties and coming to give his condolence to Baela and Rhaena but not being able to do so was also a nice touch to his character.
@@tbakhalid4781 Lucaerys was so cute in the scene with Corlys! He's rather clever for a boy his age!
I agree, I adore the children in this and the previous episode. There is a strong sense of children being children. They get along, play pranks on each other, fight, argue and have their own little quirks. They don't give a shxt about who's next in line to be rule the kingdom and who's lord of god knows where.
Re. Aemond, I noticed that too! I felt as though he seemed internally conflicted. It seemed as though he understood their sadness, loss and loneliness because he experiences that a lot in his own life. He definitely wanted to say something but couldn't express himself. I feel as though as a child, Aemond is inherently kind but his conditioning and circumstances have hardened him. His parents are either busy obsessed with the indecent deeds of his sister or severely ill and apathetic towards him, all the while favouring said sister. His brother teases him constantly and his younger sister is a little bit woo woo. He's bright and rather... normal for a child. I feel bad for the poor young guy.
@@FionasTeaParty indeed if only both sides of kids didn’t have such ambitious mothers (- Otto) then they all would’ve worked well with each other.
I hope nothing bad happens to these two sweet girls
Daemon just chilling there watching the pot being stirred is such a mood, whilst Rhaenys' wail was so heartbreaking 😭
Emma D'Arcy portrayal of Rhanyra is amazing. She can be strong, gentle, motherly, beautiful.. all of the above all at once. And her emotions with Daemon is🔥👌
… and she had zero chemistry with Matt. The beach scene was cringe af
@@ip7658 I don't agree. Bear in mind they haven't seen each other for years. And they didn't really part ways in the best terms. Rhanyra is not a kid anymore. She's a woman with 3 kids and Daemon had his own family too.
Bruh it’s part of the story they are targayren did u watch this show and did not expect insest to be the main relationship in this show
@Rohan Chatterjee they are Targaryens man you people why even watch this show you don't know how their family is
But she looks too old to be 25
i love the way daemon's tone is always so soft when he speaks to rhaenyra
I cannot wait to see Viserys' reaction to Daemon and Rhaenyra's wedding.
"these two are destined to drive me crazy and now in unity, not separately", and dies of tiredness
@@depressed_firefly 😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@depressed_firefly And don't forget Otto who despises Daemon.
It will kill him
Will this drama never end, I've aged twenty years since Rhaenyra's trip to Dragonstone when she went to stop Daemon. I used to be beautiful now look at me. My arm's fallen off, my skin starts to flake and deteriorate all because my family loves drama. God I miss Balerion, he was chill.
Rhaenys didn't deserve this :(
Wonder if Laenor will make a return
@@maxgr540 what mistakes?
@@Usikoe23 damn I hope he wanted redemption nonetheless.
Yeah, despite the upside of it, the big downside is Corlys and Rhaenys believing he's dead. I see why he'd want to just make a clean cut and not risk them messing it up somehow, etc... but you also kinda wish he would have let them in on it.
@@AWSVids Rhaenyra and Daemon knows that Laenor is alive, they only planned his death. “Let there be witness” the instructions of Daemon.
This Episode was an emotional roller-coaster
4:01 "he's a leaner." lmao this is how i relate to Daemon
Matt Smith coming in with the insightful commentary right there 😂
@@JackGreggs AHAHAHA indeed
The knife scene is so good I keep replaying it. The lack of music with just the actor’s visceral emotions and the tensions shining through, the sound of the blade being drawn then the kids screaming and the entire spectacle.
It was amazing from start to finish.
That's actually an incredible idea to do this scence first since the cast didn't know each other that great! This show has exceeded my expectations and it's only going to get better 💃🐉
The visible unfamiliarity of the cast in the scene mirrors the reserved behavior at funerals.
Aemond's actor was so set in his character, you can just see who he will become. A brilliant episode.
The way he loses his eye, I felt so bad 4 him
@Rohan Chatterjee I guess everybody who gets a dragon should lose an eye
A fantastic episode I was so upset then cried tears of joy when Laenor lived as I'm so used to this world being cruel. He's a good man and deserved a good ending with the man he loves. It's rare we get good news in this world.
Right?? I was so happy and mind blown!
That was a welcome change from the book. I was 100% expecting him to die because that's what happened according to the book (minus Rhaenyra and Daemon's involvement. Laenor and Qarl got into real fight and Qarl killed him)
An innocent guard died for this. What do you mean he is a good man?
@@tsheporabekane4172 ikr? And his poor parents.
@Supriya Mukherjee Yeah this whole show is really slanted blacks.
Aemond speaking valyrian is so good to hear. His accent is really convincing.
I love that every time Rhaenyra looks at Daemon she has this smirk on her face, now I don't know if that was intentional or not but that is perfect
Ew
During the whole blacks vs greens scene, I was literally leaning forward on my bed like I was on the edge of my seat
I just feel bad for king V he just wants everyone to get along poor old man
Yes. He's tired with all of this family issues
The only good person on hotd imo
I know, he just wants a happy family 😢
This whole thing is his fault. He’s the one who made rhaenyra the heir. All these problems exist because of that.
@@LegendInThaMakin Because he was in bad health and didn't have any sons, he didn't know that he would wind up cheating death and having shit tons of sons anyway, he had little choice. It isn't his fault his wife and son died at birth. Things happen
This episode was everything I imagined the show to be ! Alicent's anger, the children's battle, the intimacy between D and R, the happy end for Laenor.. I didn't see this coming and I absolutely loved it.
I looooved this episode, it was such a great decision to make it take place during a short amount of time, every scene had it's importance. the fight with the kids and then the reunion was amazing and incredibly tense. Also that Vhagar scene gave me more emotion than any of the dragon scenes from GoT after season 6
My only complaint: Please for the love of god fix the night scenes, it can't be that hard to properly light night scenes, they should know that streaming services struggle a lot on night scenes better than anyone, Jordan peele recently made "Nope" and most productions should take notes on that for how to properly shoot night scenes
You can tell most of the scenes were shoot during the day and in post-production they change the lighting to made it seems it was in night, that's why it looks so dark and jarring, I don't know why they change it.
As already said, those scenes were filmed all during daytime and manipulated in post-production, but i can assure you that that's exactly what the producers wanted, a soothing and mesmerising scene which needs to be watched on a 4K HDR tv, and not on a mobile phone or whatever. They nailed both lighting and color palette!
I have no problem watching it on dolby vision format, but i believe in SDR format the night scene gonna be worse
@@thunderboltproductionsshpk exactly. I had no problems watching it in 4k res monitor
@@thunderboltproductionsshpk Yeh it looked like shit on my phone but on repeat viewing on my tv it was perfectly fine
No matter how messed up Daemon’s decisions are, I can’t hate him and still drawn to his character. Matt Smith is playing that role to perfection!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
It was so intense in that room after the kids fought I was shaking 😂
OMG! Agreed. Especially when we learned Aemond lost his eye. I was nervous for everyone. 😆
The birth of Aemond One Eye!!!!
Daemons giggle hit different
The moment where Rhaenyra stops the knife mid-air was very intense. The tension combined with great acting... Splendid.
Leonor being set free by Rhaenyra was really sweet and it certainly seemed like a pact was made. This episode drawing the battle lines of what’s to come was stunning. Viserys being fed up and telling everyone to get a grip is the reason why he’s my favourite character, I will miss him.
Weddings, funerals, and family strife; this episode had it all!
Emma and Olivia are absolutely phenomenal
all the cast is
@@-khelfallah5032 yeah and the kids are so good at such young age.
Best child actors I ever done see
@@possiblymaybe6711 Nah mate! Game of Thrones child actors were far better than these ones in HOTD
amazing episode! and the scene with Alicent and Rhaenyra just wow. alicent looking crazy and rhaenyra crying while she says "now they see you as you are"
Daemon stepping to Cole was everything his like I see u boi
Yes time has passed it’s possible daemon could kick his ass now considering what happen at the end of this episode how daemon had no hesitation at snapping a guys neck. I personally hope daemon would just be a savage to him.
@@Mcherri Cole won the dual due to Daemon;s cockiness. Cole literally flailed him on the back to win. In a straight up dual, Daemon knocked him to the ground, it was just his arrogance that he did not finish the fight.
@@MyUniqueVibe true but I think daemon won’t make that mistake again. The only thing I didn’t get alicent when she was holding the knife said rhaynera can got away without doing her duty but that is utter bull rhaynera married laenor as her duty still birthed sons as what was expected of her just like alicent. As rhaynera said her and laenor tried to conceive it didn’t work I could understand if they didn’t try at all but they did then rhaynera had to look elsewhere because that was what was expected of her to produce heirs. I like this show because the book is written by a mastero in his point of view so it can be unreliable to what truly happen and history can be very unreliable just depends on who’s telling the story. The show stays within the range of the book but deviates due to point of view and I love that. I understand daemons daughter going off at aemond her mother literally died and he took vhagar on the night of laenea funeral. Glad rhaynera put alicent in her place a bit this episode.
@@Mcherri cole kicked daemon ass twice there is no way daemon couldn't beat him🤣. daemon nuthangers still think he can beat cole
@@Mcherri in the melee cole completely unarmed daemon. in the books it's even clearer who is a better fighter. cole beat him twice
The Aemond Vhagar scene stands out for me in this episode. I loved every minute of it. When the traditional Targaryen Aaaaaaaaaaaahh theme kicked in I lost it 🙌💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The funeral scene where we see laenor in the water as if he didn't want to let his sister go was so sad I cried 😭😭😭😭
Cannot believe corlys sent his boyfriend after him lol. I wish my dad was that much of an ally but i thought it was careless of him to do that he should have fetched his son himself
I was so worried laenor was going to try to drown himself during laenas funeral in the water :( he does did in the book, so I was worried he'd die in this method on show. So thankful for the happy surprise ending!!
The kids fighting each other was anxiety-inducing
Imagine being Viserys... A woman you'd truly loved died, your grandson cuts your son's eye out, and your wife hurts your daughter... It's just too much!!! I feel so sad but also excited to see Rhaenyra and Daemon together!!! This show is just wow. Every single episode is truly outstanding. The bestest show I've ever seen!
He brought all of this upon himself.
Aemond claiming Vhagar was such a fun scene, everything I hoped for and more. It made me feel like a kid again, laughing out loud with excitement along with Aemond
Congratulations Ryan, the writers, Emma, Leo, the costumes makers, the CGIs, Miguel, HBO, everyone involved, you made an amazing job ! AMAZING !
I'm very grateful for the magnificent present this show is. THANK YOU 🙏
Loved the framing of the greens vs blacks ever so clearly in the drift mark throne room - the battle lines have been drawn!
Honestly I found that shot to be incredibly corny. Zero subtlety at all.
@@TheBlackBantha it made sense, people went to where they had their allegiance. It would have made no sense for Daemon to check on Alicent.
@@fayguled900 the framing of the shot is what I had a problem with, not the placement of the people.
@@TheBlackBantha man you people just like to complain there was nothing wrong with that shot
big props to Leo Ashton! I barely knew who his character was in episode 6. In episode 7 he did so much, and it was fantastic
Kid actor caught my eye right away. His stage presence stands Out
This was me at the end of the episode: FINALLY... GOD DAMN... FINALLY A FLAWLESS 10/10 EPISODE.
I've given some 9s, some 8s, one 7. But finally a 10! I got no issues with this objectively or otherwise. The last shot that revealed Laenor was alive? Absolute peak. I literally never expected that twist. I read the book years ago but I purposefully didn't re-read to ensure that I stay in the dark about stuff I don't remember. So I don't know if that was what happened. But this was great and its good to finally have a "decent" marriage in the story with Rhaenyra and Daemon.
The MVP of this episode is called No Time Jump.
Wish I could share the same sentiment. As someone who’s been loving it so far, I found this episode to fall far in quality, predominantly through direction. Dark throughout and the fight between the kids was executed poorly. CGI was off with Aemond as he approached Vhagar. Aemonds attempt to secure Vhagar was like a scene from Harry potter 😂😂
A larger issue I’ve been concerned about which is coming into fruition more with each episode; the show runners are really not painting both parties as grey like in the books, the greens so far are clearly intended as the villains
Paddy’s acting was fantastic as always though
Yea I also thought it was too dark but the kids fighting being poorly executed seemed to be on purpose to show how inexperienced and brutal kids can be.
@@rob4926 I think that's there way you're reading it but lots of my friends think that they're clearing painting the blacks as the villians. i think it's a more emotional story than the books so you don't realise people see it differently than you
@@rob4926 cgi was insanely good in this episode tbh,best dragon scene in both got and hotd
@@rob4926 yeah you are in a very small minority on this one
The dragon riding scene was excellent. Gave me anxiety and a real sense of what riding a dragon could be like.
I do hope that it's revealed that Rhaenys and Corlys where let into the plan, bc seeing Rhaenys breakdown was just heartbreaking.
Yeah and they would only help Rhanerya if they know their son is alive otherwise Rhanerya is the killer for them
Miguel Sappochnik does love everything being dark... The Vhagar claiming scene gave me long night PTSD
Same here I had to turn the lights off lol 😆
That's how they hide bad CGI.
Trying to hide the shit cgi
@@anwynoakenshield Nah, they've done a lot of dragon scenes in the daylight. It's more because I think either Sapochnik or the DP he works with, Fabian Wagner, likes to do realistic lighting. And the scene was very realistically lit for what it would look like at night during a full moon, assuming you had a good enough camera with low light performance to shoot it. In reality, it's done with day-for-night on the live-action footage, and then graded down with the CG environment to match. If you don't grade the live-action footage down enough, then it looks too obvious that it's daytime. It has to look very dim to read as moonlight, and you can't light the actors faces with any lights that would be powerful enought overpower the sun, so anything that isn't directly highlighted by the sun just falls off into murky darkness. The scene with Rhaenyra and Daemon walking on the beach was a perfect example of this. If I had to guess, I'd assume that stylistically, Sapochnik liked this because this scene was a thematically "dark" one in which Rhaenyra and Daemon are descending into further "darkness" together, etc... and the darkness of the lighting matches that. Which, sure.. but... actually shooting at night and lighting in a way you can control better can let you achieve a dark look that actually still highlights the actors in clearly visible ways. But with the advent of digital photography that can be shot in flat dynamic range to get a filmic exposure and then graded later to add contrast... I think it's become very common for a lot of DOPs to fall into the habit of just using natural light, because digital makes it easy to just expose everything evenly. Film required more work to get a proper exposure in most environments and that led to a lot of creativity in how you'd light a scene. But now, so many filmmakers have just fallen into shooting with available light or flat light to get an easy exposure and then add some contrast and cool stuff with color (mostly teal and orange, or just mostly desaturated in a lot of stuff because too colorful looks digital and dropping the saturation is an easy way to make digital look more filmic).
I also wonder what kind of calibration professional color grading studios are using on their monitors. It seems like because they have the best of the best equipment and are looking at it in ideal settings... the practice of thinking about the worst case scenario for viewing conditions has fallen out of favor in professional environments. They're too used to looking at everything on nice, perfectly brightly calibrated expensive screens, most likely looking at it in HDR, in the raw uncompressed file quality. This can be less of a problem in the world of movies, when you're releasing in cinemas with properly calibrated systems and all that... but in the world of television, you kinda have to think about what's it gonna look like to somebody watching it on a 20 inch tv that's ten feet away in their living room as the setting sun is shining in the window. It used to be that keeping prominent bright highlights in the frame via bright hard backlighting in dark scenes would make them still read on any display. But the trend has generally gone towards keeping things more and more dimly graded and not exposing too brightly, and using very flat lighting with not a lot of natural contrast to it... since like... 2010, I feel like. Sometime around Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it was just like "Let's make night scenes actually look like night, even if we can't see what the hell's going on!"
@@AWSVids I'm not reading that...lol.
Aemond was fantastic, he speaks Valyrian very well.
If Viserys was a good dad he wouldn’t have let Otto anywhere near kingslanding…the man plotting against his family. Smh
Aemond's actor seems so chill. It'll be hard having him be replaced although by this point it's expected.
Fantastic episode! Love how Rhaenyra shielded her children. So badass!!! 10/10
Thank you, we needed a show like that again, every week an amazing spectacle!
Aemond flying with Vhagar is one of my favorite scenes so far in the show. Also the score behind the scene was so thrilling ! This scene sits next to Alicents entrance with her green dress
Once again, brilliant! Not a disappointing episode yet!
Every episode keeps getting better and better. Amazing show. The plot twist (literally) at the end is *chef's kiss*
Best episode so far! We got everything: funeral, dragon “theft”/claim, kids fighting, s*x on the beach, huge family fight, staged murder and a marriage.
Plus: Daemon and Otto, each with an agenda enjoying everything
I was just happy to see the dragons all hanging out
This episode was the absolute best. And what Emma says (I love her omg) is SO true: Daemon and Rhaenyra are so alike that it becomes a dangerous match.
That smirk Rhaenyra gives after she whispers to Alicent that her true colors are showing. Checkmate😁😁😁
It shows how deranged Rhaenyra is.
"Aww yeah my boy just slashed out your boys eye out and now everyone can see how upset you are soo embarrassing"
It's like one of those painfully oblivious AITA scenarios.
What true colors? Her son just lost an eye, was she supposed to be happy and jolly about it? Rhaenyra is so delusional.
@@LegendInThaMakin maybe should have taught her son not to be stealing dragons. Rhaenyra's sons might be bastards but they act more well behaved than Alicent's sons.
@@killiasi Wasn't his to claim and you know it. But as I've said from another comment, Rhaenyra's kids might be bastards but they seem to have more honor for their age than Alicent's kids
@@killiasi the Velaryons and the Targaryens had different stock of dragons. How would you feel if someone stole your dog? Would you feel happy?
That was some crazy good television right there! Shit is going down in Westeros!
What's more terrible than a Westeros wedding? A Westeros funeral!
@@caronstout354 anything less than two deaths is considered a dull affair
@@Caraxes8687 Three deaths.
This was the best episode thus far ... loved it.
This is the first episode of the season I will rewatch... 👍
This has been one of the best episodes so far
This is best episode till now.
Everything music, story, acting....great.
Masterpiece of episode
The episode is brilliant! Such a good performance by the cast, good writing as well, not everything has to be cgi effects to produce an intense season
Thank you for a "better" explanation than I've come across so far.
best one so far.
I really really love this show. The dialog, storylines acting is par excellence.
They did our girl Laena dirty, taking her dragon and her husband the night of her funeral smh. Amazing episode though, the drama and tension is building even more and I'm here for it.
Tbh daemon wasn't happy being married to laena.. and she saw that.. Hes much happier now that he's married to rhaenyra
@@oliviamadison5989 Yeah because he's consort now lol plus he gets to bang his niece, Targaryen's love that
kinda didn't like this change from the books only cuz i want them to be happy but it's totally in daemons character to have it like in the show
Oh shit u right lmaoooo
@@oliviamadison5989 wait till you see neatles. They’re relationship goes down the gutter soon before her brother fed her to his dragon.
One of the best so far
Best episode yet. 💯
I knew the instant he started uttering "It's all fun and games" where Ryan was going with that 😀Brilliant stuff. With these first 7 episodes, he and Miguel have really consigned the travesty of the GoT finale to the dustheap of history.
Best episode of the season yet!
Daemon and Rhaenyra are the ultimate power couple. I'll be cheering for this one!
Ew
That music at the end IS CRAZYYYYY. Literally fire and blood.
Amazing episode!
I'm so happy for Laenor!! Rhaenyra omg you almost got me there lol
So you are happy a gay lived but don't care they killed an innocent man?
I mean he's her cousin and husband. They like eachother even if there is no love.
They did kill an innocent man though, but no one seems to care.
"find himself at this funeral, feeling along and detatched" sounds like it could describe Vhagar too. Kinda interesting they didnt address that angle here
The wistful daze that glazes over Aemond’s face in the moments of heightened anxiety!
Leo Ashton’s performance is...dracarys🔥
Amazing episode, especially the Valyrian wedding at the end and knowing its from their line that Dany, Jon and all the rest come. Whats with the lighting though? I can understand it in an episode titled The Long Night, but I could barely see Daemon and Rhaenyra on the beach or Aemond approaching Vhagar