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@@sallycriss353 Makes me wonder why people feel so compelled to ruin it for other people, either that or they’re just not bright enough to know what a spoiler is, and how not to do it. 🧐
the main reason why Otto wanted Aegon to be bought to him first was because he could have manipulated his mind in killing Renyera and everyone on Dragonstone and he knew that if Alicent got to him first she would advised against it.
I also lowkey wonder if he was also possibly planning to kill or exile him as he was pretty unfit. But that's speculative. He did want him "outside the city walls".
@@SkavationNo because Aegon isn’t that interested in ruling so he’ll leave the day to day running of the realm to Otto and Alicent, who’ve proved themselves more than competent
Jaeherys was called the Conciliator because even though Aegon conquered the kingdoms it was his policies which were considered to have truly united them. For example, he reformed the laws so that they would be more standardized throughout the entirety of the realm, and also built the road network that connects all the kingdoms together.
The sword crossing, the tapestry, the bagpipes playing “king’s arrival” from GoT, proud Otto enjoying his life’s work, the veiled & somber Queen kissing the King, the Septons marking his forehead, the King bowing to the Seven as he is only accountable to god, everyone in turn bowing him. I was blown away by the details in the coronation. It was like watching Nicholas II being crowned in an Orthodox ceremony with all the hollow pomp & circumstance of a rotting system. It's what I'd always envisioned from a GoT coronation. Tom Glynn-Carney was terrific in bringing out Aegon's fear, hesitation, pride & euphoria all at once. I'm glad they kept much despised Criston putting the Conqueror's crown on Aegon II's head. The Kingmaker is born! What the show's doing really well is the details, down to locking up servants. Usually the passionate debates, the sense of treachery, the heartbreak are glossed over & we only see the regime change as a "fait accompli". This bring to life the mechanism that historically goes behind a coup, which I assume is as emotionally taxing for the people seizing power. That's why I like agonized & conflicted Alicent more than her steadfast source counterpart. It's more flesh & blood. She vacillates but her messianic fear for her children fates her to make a cursed gamble.
Larys Strong knows all the secret, hidden ways that are behind the walls. That's how he gets into her chambers. Just assume that nothing happens without him knowing about it. Think: Varys..... Larys.
@@mamaseesa3122 I know - and I find it fascinating. And then there is my idea about.. rats etc. I can't elaborate, because it would give away so much. I have just re-read Fire and Blood and man, now I'm even more sure.
@@bettinanielsen6336 if we're talking about the same incident, on the one hand Larys is team green, but on the other hand that rat in the book never got caught...
OMG, I'm CRYING off the look on Major's face, watching Larys GETTIN' BUSY looking at Alicent's freaking feet!!🦶🦶🦶🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 PRICELESS!! He was as stunned as I was!! 😂😂😭😭
Honestly, this season surprised me. It might not be as good as the first season of GoT, but it's pretty damn close! Like, really damn close. Man, the fact that the series is already this good is amazing in itself!
Beast beneath the boards is referring to much more than Meleys me thinks. It's basically referring to everything this episode and I think that's the point. It's referring to Aemond's ambitions for the throne. It's referring to Otto's brutal machinations behind his calm exterior. It's referring to Aegon's hidden depravity -- did you see the way Helaena recoiled when bowing to Aegon? It's referring to the White Worm's warning to Otto about how it's the people who ultimately enable them. As Larys said, Otto knew about the White Worm but allowed her to exist and essentially grow in the shadows. That was great writing. Our newly anointed king Aegon II was hiding beneath the "boards" too. Maybe we were looking at the wrong beast this whole time.
Your face when Varys was getting busy was priceless! I thought Alicent was supposed to be so self righteous and at one with life of the Seven. Aegon rides Sunfyre. His sister-wife Helaena rides Dreamfyre and their younger brother Daeron, who is in Oldtowne training this season, rides Tessarion.
"The child is a boy Aemma. I'm certain of it. I've never been more certain of anything. The dream. It was clearer than a memory. Our son was born wearing Aegon's iron crown. And I heard the sound of thundering hooves, splintering shields, and ringing swords, as the bells of the Grand Sept tolled...and I placed my heir upon the Iron Throne..." Viserys was right. It was just destined to be the biy he refused to acknowledge.
I know folks had issues with the time jumps but knowing that the older actors where cast first put me at ease we weren’t supposed to have them long and ppl change as they age. I looooovvvvveeeeeddddd this season it was fresh and a great welcome back to Ghetto ass Westeros 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣Im team Black Daemon is Bae and Aemond is side Bae 😂😂😂😂 And Alicent is down bad for being judgmental and she been selling feet peep shows 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Can’t wait for the crazy deaths and battles ahead and I know both sides are a mess I’m still TEAM BLACK🖤🐉❤️🔥
What I love most about the ending - Aegon Targaryen, Second of His Name, newly crowned King of the Andals and the First Men, bearer of Blackfyre, is hiding behind Mommy as the Red Queen opens her mouth ostensibly to Dracarys them all. This is the heir of the Conqueror?!!!! His own mother, Alicent Hightower, who was always afraid of dragons, has the guts to put her body in front of him and he LETS her do it? What a brave widdle king!!!! Well, Otto and Alicent have reaped what they've sown. And Alicent will still love the jerk.
It’s so cute the way you react sometimes! You looked like a kid in a candy store, with your hands together and the glee on your face, when that big ol’ dragon burst up through the floor! You were sooooo happy! LOL!
Alicent reminded me of Margaery Tyrell a lot in this episode because she wants to play the game without murdering or torturing innocent people. When Margaery played the game, she didn’t kill anyone in cold blood for her own gain at all. She manipulated people but didn’t get anyone killed. When I watched GOT, I always believed that despite Margaery being manipulative, she was genuinely capable of being kind and compassionate to certain people because she never brought any harm to them and gave them win win solutions that would or would’ve resulted in their favor alongside her own. Like Alicent, I believe she cared about her 1st and 3rd husband in a way and I don’t think she ever wanted to harm anyone or be violent automatically. So Alicent has a little bit of Margaery in her. Which makes since because Alicent is somewhat of an ancestor to Margaery and Loras because they have Tyrell and Hightower blood in them.
Margaery was an accessory to Sansa Stark's being framed for a murder she had no knowledge of; and I can't believe Margaery wasn't made aware that Sansa was the unwitting courier for the poison. Still, I'd rather deal with Margaery than with Cersei any day...
the Sept of Baelor has not been built yet (Baelor the Blessed who it was built for is Rhaenyra's grandson) the Dragonpit sits atop where the Sept of Remembrance once stood on the Hill of Rhaenys
"She said she was sending the boys to dragonstone I didn't think she'd leave" She said it last episode. She would escort them to dragonstone and then return to King's landing on dragonback Yes, coronations were done in the sept of baelor. But the sept of baelor doesnt yet exist! Your comment about there not being other aegons before this one makes me feel i should help clarify the time period. Aegon I Aenys I Maegor I Jahaerys I Viserys I Aegon II As you can see, the targaryens are relatively new and the 6th of the 14 targaryen kings has just been crowned
You should watch The Dark Knight Trilogy, Stranger Things, Peaky Blinders, The Last Kingdom, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Rome, The Crown, Succession, and The Sopranos after you finish Harry Potter, House Of The Dragon, and The Mandalorian
@@MFBloosh It is the best written show I have ever seen. I have watched it so many times. Now I go back and pick scenes just to enjoy the outstanding dialog.
When we finally got the revelation about Lary's and Alicents exchange all I could think about is how he was smirking at her all through Laena's funeral and on dat boat ride home. Ik there was more to it than the explanation she gave Ser Criston when he asked about it. SMH
The Lady of House Fell, who tells Otto that House Fell won't break its oath to Princess Rhaenyra, was, according to the book 'Fire & Blood', executed by Otto; and she wasn't the only one. The people who Otto is forcing to kneel and pledge fealty to Aegon are not just courtiers; they are lords or ladies of Houses, not Paramount Houses (such as Tully or Tyrell) but minor Houses of varying influence, or Otto wouldn't bother to force their allegiance (he'd just pen them up like the servants until Aegon was safely enthroned).
The younger Baratheon brother you were talking about is Renly Baratheon. He was the youngest brother of the three(Him, Robert, and Stannis)and the not so secret lover of Ser Loras Tyrell. His wife was Loras’s sister Queen Margaery Tyrell and he was killed by Melisandre(The Red woman)and Stannis to gain more power in the Stormlands. He did tell Ned to support his claim to the Iron Throne instead of Stannis’s in that convo.
Crazy enough. I know people give me shit for this, I actually like House of the Dragon more than Game of Thrones. Makes sense haha but this is all the Targaryen you could want and more lol. They're kooky family. They're nutcase bunch. Lol
Rhaenys hasn't read the book Fire & Blood to know of horrors to come. So her pre-emptively nuking half her own family would've been OP. Having said that, the Rhaenys bit was to give audience a 'send home happy' moment which wasn't necessary. The coronation was fantastic in itself. But gawd forbid the ''bad guys" are on top in one episode. Those who thought lowborns of KL have any obligation to support Rhaenyra are in for big disappointments. Aegon claims his birthright from popular King Jaehaerys' Great Council ordering that the king's firstborn male son is the next king. Viserys himself won it over Rhaenys like that. Best part of this was the politics, less dragons the better. Despairing mom version of alicent does highlight her humanity more than the colder iteration of the actual green council. A well needed adjustment imo but also a continuation of her temperament from the Harrenhall or dagger scenes. They've constantly shown subtleties in that character which the audience tend to wilfully ignore since we're watching this as a team sport and we gotta cheer team lovable manipulative dad. Her being more humanized shouldn't be an issue unless one wants the show to remain grotesquely tilted towards Black (Laenor's death,Rhaenyra killing Vaemond, etc)
@@jacklu1611 every show has one or two bad moments. There's nothing to overreact. It's nowhere close to season 8. The smallfolk during the Dance of Dragons does something to the Targaryens towards the end of the series. Their action would make a lot of sense when we take into account what Rhaenys did to them.
Whats sad is everyone is a victim in this show to their circumstance in some way. Aegon was so messed up and it doesn’t help that he was pressured and responsible since day one but yet had no guidance or affection from anyone (Viserys didn’t even glance at him) Aemond considered it, but at the same time he was always about duty so he wouldn’t bend the rules and even if he would like to be king he won’t take his brother off since he is the eldest (which makes sense on what happened next episode, the book says he meant to do what he did- but it was based on the pov of random people on the ground, it wouldn’t make sense for his character to screw duty and mess everything up, which is why the show does so well with showing us what actually happened [GRRM also is the executive producer so it makes sense])
Fun Fact: the actress at 15:49 was one of Fabien Frankel's (Criston Cole) acting teachers. In an interview he said he was extra nervous filming this scene with her because he didn't want to disappoint 😅
"everything u feel for me…as ur queen." I can't handle that level of palpable sexual tension lol. Ironic cause in a way they are the cersei and jaime of this show lol.the last 3 mins aside,i thought this was an excellent episode. it felt like a white house political thriller with a "race against time" feel from start to finish suspense. When Otto was moving around these chess pieces, Beesbury screaming, Caswell hanging..I was on the edge of my seat. I knew how good it was when it had reactors already coping for comeuppance lol. Tom Glynn-Carney showed excellent range as Aegon. But it got overshadowed by 3 mins of a Rhaenys "happy ending" smdh lmao. This crowning ceremony was a visual historygasm, All the actors for Otto, Alicent, Aegon did a great job. And that "window in the wall of your prison" line is one of the most poignant lines of the series.
Rhaenyra stan learns about ambiguity & moral dilemma that comes with making a gamble of a lifetime, & finds anything more than Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss versions of characters hard to process. The Queen's issue wasn't that Aegon shouldn't be king. It was that the Queen and the Hand had two completely different visions of ruling, and Renly's "he who holds the king holds the kingdom" is apparently a hard concept.
I love the way Meleys chirps and trills as she's stunning and stomping people to (probable) death. To do her justice, I don't think the Red Queen (Meleys' nickname) is deliberately trying to kill the poor smallfolk, they're just all obstacles in her way out of the pit and she's too big to be delicate, and the crowd is too dense to avoid casualties.
House of dragon is in my opinion much faster paced and condensed with info and events on each episode, than game of thrones was at least as long as books were followed. Its much easier to get into, with just a few episodes because the scale is smaller and the characters fewer, so it has the power to introduce the few families much faster, and get the viewer hooked easier. Its not necessarily better or worse, its just different. Personally I love the pace on both, but game of thrones was much slower paced especially on early season 1 so it lost some viewers there imo. The great thing about house of dragon is that we have all the book material available for the whole story. That's amazing, because we all know where game of thrones went, when they ran out of material. Simply put it has the potential to be a perfect show.
I did not think I could dislike a courtier as much as Petyr Baelish but Larys Strong is up there after this episode. He does have a clubfoot (in the books he's called The Clubfoot). I don't know why he hates Rhaenerya so much, considering her children are his biological nephews. Though I guess he thinks she brought shame to his house. But I'd be more ashamed if word got out I was jerking it to feet. That's worse than sleeping with a hot princess in my mind. There is an interesting theory that Larys might be a warg (like Bran), and he uses the rats to see what is going on in the castle as Bran could see through Summer's eyes. I noticed you were wondering why there were so many shots of rats, so that is a possible explanation. Though it could just be a metaphor for all the schemers in the castle.
I think GoT season 1 was better because of Ned and because I think the relationships/ families were established a bit better because there were not any time jumps. I also think it's unfair to compare because GoT had ground breaking moments like Ned/ the dragons etc, because the world was new and the death of "main" characters wasn't that common at that time. With House of the Dragon, people are already coming in with previous expectations/ prior knowledge of the world. Having said that, I think the characters in HoTD are more grey and I think over time, this show has the potential to supersede GoT in terms of characters. I'm excited for S2 :)
In the book, Helaena and Aegon have three children at this point: Jaehaerys and Jaehaera (who are a little older, aged five or six) and little Maelor (aged two). I don't think Maelor is in the show, which is just as well, considering his fate in the book...
The blood that goes through opening credits flows one the signals that are dead the ones alive bleed through their children and the blood then goes through them as the series goes on it changes
Concerning Ser Harrold Westerling's age - the Kingsguard serve for life, until they are killed in battle or otherwise die, even if their skills are not what they were in their prime. Ser Crispy may be a jerk and a murderer, but he is an outstanding fighter; I'm not sure that Ser Harrold could defeat him, though it would be nice.
Rhaeynera dodged a bullet with sir crispin, he is so handsome but he is a maniac and I can't stand his ass, they committed treason in kings landing and they all know it too, just like how everybody knew Rhaeynera's kids were sir Harkins kids😊
Honestly Daemon and Aemond carrying the show. And Allicent, I won’t lie she’s been doing her best so far and is one of the most compelling characters. If anything and it comes to it I’d be fine if Aemond sat the throne and continued the Targaryen line
Rhaenys just killed hundreds of innocents instead of taking the dragon exits…. It just shows every character in this isn’t really a good character but cares for their own needs
Rhaenys had been told by Ser Erryk that the dragon exits (the tunnels) were guarded; she could not have escaped that way without risking her own life and/or that of her dragon and, if she had been killed, many more lives lost due to the resulting wrath of the Sea Snake and House Velaryon, whose Lady she was.
I’d rather say it just shows the show runners making one of the few mistakes of this season-wanting an epic wtf moment in order to continue the episode 9 tradition established by GOT. They say as much in the interview.
The cold opening episode 1 of GoT was all it took to have me hooked. It was so different to anything on TV. And the scene was so evocative. I binged the whole season in 2 days. HoTD is a different situation. I hated S8 and was hesitant about being drawn in again. But episode 1 was so strong for me. I was hooked all over again.
Welcome back Major Family! We're back with episode 9 of Hot D. The King is dead.. Will a new king, or a queen take the Iron Throne? Let the games begin! Remember to Subscribe, Like and Comment. Join us o. Patreon for full episode reactions, and of course on Discord, where you can leave suggestions for future reactions! Enjoy Fam!
Unfortunately, there are several big spoilers in the comments. 🙄🙄
@@sallycriss353
Makes me wonder why people feel so compelled to ruin it for other people, either that or they’re just not bright enough to know what a spoiler is, and how not to do it. 🧐
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U gotta remember, Otto put his daughter in that position specifically so HE could rule. Same as Cersei tryna control Joff and Tom from tha sideline
the main reason why Otto wanted Aegon to be bought to him first was because he could have manipulated his mind in killing Renyera and everyone on Dragonstone and he knew that if Alicent got to him first she would advised against it.
I also lowkey wonder if he was also possibly planning to kill or exile him as he was pretty unfit. But that's speculative. He did want him "outside the city walls".
@@SkavationNo because Aegon isn’t that interested in ruling so he’ll leave the day to day running of the realm to Otto and Alicent, who’ve proved themselves more than competent
@@Heisenberg882 Possibly. But it's interesting to wonder why Otto wanted to see him "behind the city walls"
Jaeherys was called the Conciliator because even though Aegon conquered the kingdoms it was his policies which were considered to have truly united them. For example, he reformed the laws so that they would be more standardized throughout the entirety of the realm, and also built the road network that connects all the kingdoms together.
The best king
Yes, that is why there is apparently significance regarding the crowns but I won't elaborate since I don't know if Major has reached the end yet.
Oh and he knew that a son comes before a daughter
The sword crossing, the tapestry, the bagpipes playing “king’s arrival” from GoT, proud Otto enjoying his life’s work, the veiled & somber Queen kissing the King, the Septons marking his forehead, the King bowing to the Seven as he is only accountable to god, everyone in turn bowing him. I was blown away by the details in the coronation. It was like watching Nicholas II being crowned in an Orthodox ceremony with all the hollow pomp & circumstance of a rotting system. It's what I'd always envisioned from a GoT coronation. Tom Glynn-Carney was terrific in bringing out Aegon's fear, hesitation, pride & euphoria all at once. I'm glad they kept much despised Criston putting the Conqueror's crown on Aegon II's head. The Kingmaker is born! What the show's doing really well is the details, down to locking up servants. Usually the passionate debates, the sense of treachery, the heartbreak are glossed over & we only see the regime change as a "fait accompli". This bring to life the mechanism that historically goes behind a coup, which I assume is as emotionally taxing for the people seizing power. That's why I like agonized & conflicted Alicent more than her steadfast source counterpart. It's more flesh & blood. She vacillates but her messianic fear for her children fates her to make a cursed gamble.
Once again Helaena predictions came true "Beware the Beast beneath the boards!" 😉
Third one in a row.
The one character just about everyone can agree on to hate sir criston! Lol
Nah i like him why do you hate him?
@@Heisenberg882 because he's a simp
I was hooked after Ep 1 of GoT and I was hooked on this one also on Ep 1
Larys Strong knows all the secret, hidden ways that are behind the walls. That's how he gets into her chambers. Just assume that nothing happens without him knowing about it. Think: Varys..... Larys.
There's also a theory that he's a greenseer and the rats are all him.
@@mamaseesa3122 I know - and I find it fascinating. And then there is my idea about.. rats etc. I can't elaborate, because it would give away so much. I have just re-read Fire and Blood and man, now I'm even more sure.
@@bettinanielsen6336 yes! I've read the book as well. I know what you're referring to.
@@mamaseesa3122 whew! I thought I was alone in my theories. The idea is effing scary.
@@bettinanielsen6336 if we're talking about the same incident, on the one hand Larys is team green, but on the other hand that rat in the book never got caught...
OMG, I'm CRYING off the look on Major's face, watching Larys GETTIN' BUSY looking at Alicent's freaking feet!!🦶🦶🦶🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
PRICELESS!! He was as stunned as I was!! 😂😂😭😭
“Yo Ser Criston gotta get murked” took me smooth out 😭
Just wait he'll get his
Hahaha the look on your face during the Larys feet part is absolutely priceless. Just genuine shock. It's all it looked like it was hysterical!
Honestly, this season surprised me. It might not be as good as the first season of GoT, but it's pretty damn close! Like, really damn close. Man, the fact that the series is already this good is amazing in itself!
Aegon-“he could have made me his heir but he didn’t like me”
Major-“tru 👀”
🤣🤣🤣
Beast beneath the boards is referring to much more than Meleys me thinks. It's basically referring to everything this episode and I think that's the point. It's referring to Aemond's ambitions for the throne. It's referring to Otto's brutal machinations behind his calm exterior. It's referring to Aegon's hidden depravity -- did you see the way Helaena recoiled when bowing to Aegon? It's referring to the White Worm's warning to Otto about how it's the people who ultimately enable them. As Larys said, Otto knew about the White Worm but allowed her to exist and essentially grow in the shadows. That was great writing. Our newly anointed king Aegon II was hiding beneath the "boards" too. Maybe we were looking at the wrong beast this whole time.
Hope we see Lord Commander Westerling return but on Rhaenyra’s Queensguard guys a real one
Your face when Varys was getting busy was priceless! I thought Alicent was supposed to be so self righteous and at one with life of the Seven. Aegon rides Sunfyre. His sister-wife Helaena rides Dreamfyre and their younger brother Daeron, who is in Oldtowne training this season, rides Tessarion.
Those who hold the King, hold the power
"The child is a boy Aemma. I'm certain of it. I've never been more certain of anything. The dream. It was clearer than a memory. Our son was born wearing Aegon's iron crown. And I heard the sound of thundering hooves, splintering shields, and ringing swords, as the bells of the Grand Sept tolled...and I placed my heir upon the Iron Throne..."
Viserys was right. It was just destined to be the biy he refused to acknowledge.
I know folks had issues with the time jumps but knowing that the older actors where cast first put me at ease we weren’t supposed to have them long and ppl change as they age. I looooovvvvveeeeeddddd this season it was fresh and a great welcome back to Ghetto ass Westeros 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣Im team Black Daemon is Bae and Aemond is side Bae 😂😂😂😂 And Alicent is down bad for being judgmental and she been selling feet peep shows 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Can’t wait for the crazy deaths and battles ahead and I know both sides are a mess I’m still TEAM BLACK🖤🐉❤️🔥
That burning build was where the White Worm stayed. Larys was talking about getting rid of her but everyone got distracted by the feet scene. 😂
the actors and the story make it so easy to get hooked on it just like GOT just 🔥🔥 loved the reaction to the episode this season was amazing
What I love most about the ending - Aegon Targaryen, Second of His Name, newly crowned King of the Andals and the First Men, bearer of Blackfyre, is hiding behind Mommy as the Red Queen opens her mouth ostensibly to Dracarys them all. This is the heir of the Conqueror?!!!! His own mother, Alicent Hightower, who was always afraid of dragons, has the guts to put her body in front of him and he LETS her do it? What a brave widdle king!!!! Well, Otto and Alicent have reaped what they've sown. And Alicent will still love the jerk.
Let’s talk about how fire Aegons walk out was with the knights and the music 😭 that was beautifully shot
She looked like a total badass on that Dragon 🥰
30:20 "You can see it in his eye" lmfaooooo
It's not in GOT seasond1-4 level but it's still better than 75-80% others shows currently out
It’s so cute the way you react sometimes! You looked like a kid in a candy store, with your hands together and the glee on your face, when that big ol’ dragon burst up through the floor! You were sooooo happy! LOL!
43:44 he was named Jaehaerys the Conciliator
Aegon: Sunfyre
Helaena: Dreamfyre (Who is the dragon that Daenerys's Dragon eggs came from)
Aemond: Vhaegar
Daeron: Tyserion
Dreamfyre.. X
Alicent reminded me of Margaery Tyrell a lot in this episode because she wants to play the game without murdering or torturing innocent people. When Margaery played the game, she didn’t kill anyone in cold blood for her own gain at all. She manipulated people but didn’t get anyone killed. When I watched GOT, I always believed that despite Margaery being manipulative, she was genuinely capable of being kind and compassionate to certain people because she never brought any harm to them and gave them win win solutions that would or would’ve resulted in their favor alongside her own. Like Alicent, I believe she cared about her 1st and 3rd husband in a way and I don’t think she ever wanted to harm anyone or be violent automatically. So Alicent has a little bit of Margaery in her. Which makes since because Alicent is somewhat of an ancestor to Margaery and Loras because they have Tyrell and Hightower blood in them.
Margaery was an accessory to Sansa Stark's being framed for a murder she had no knowledge of; and I can't believe Margaery wasn't made aware that Sansa was the unwitting courier for the poison. Still, I'd rather deal with Margaery than with Cersei any day...
Such a good episode! Great reaction as always fam! 💕💕💕
Major my day isn't complete without your reactions.
11:57 Renly Baratheon. Yeah i liked him. He should have stayed much longer also He had a dope armor and crown xD
Larys said WHAT THEM TOES DO THO
“She gonna tell Malaysia”
Bro 💀😂
Major gotta start sipping AFTER the show start 😅😂😂
@@serenitymuszings I am dead 😂
@@monahandshe have me like, Lawd he tipsy again 🤣🤣😭😭
Baelor The Blessed is the one who had the Sept of Baelor built. He was born after ( I'm not sure how long after) the Dance of Dragons.
I just knew your title would say something about feet! Yet I was wrong 😂🤷🏽♀️
You gotta use feet to dance so 😜
when they announced Aegon taking the throne it was like "and there was much rejoicing"!
Glad to see lots of Dubrovnik, Croatia (where King's Landing is filmed) this ep! It's a city near me, and my mom and dad honeymooned there 😊
You during Rhaenys moment had me so giddy along with you even though I've seen it a few times now. So amazing! The dragons are so badass.
I love how she could have ended all of it, but didn't. She put the fear of the gods in them
the Sept of Baelor has not been built yet (Baelor the Blessed who it was built for is Rhaenyra's grandson) the Dragonpit sits atop where the Sept of Remembrance once stood on the Hill of Rhaenys
Season 1 episode 9 of GOT is when Ned was killed. Nothing can hook you like that episode.
Ser Criston got that kitty and lost his damn mind.
Major coming through with the Banger tonight.. Thanks brother, Happy Halloween!!!
If it was Daemon and his dragon had been the one to break through the floor the show would now be over
"She said she was sending the boys to dragonstone I didn't think she'd leave"
She said it last episode. She would escort them to dragonstone and then return to King's landing on dragonback
Yes, coronations were done in the sept of baelor. But the sept of baelor doesnt yet exist!
Your comment about there not being other aegons before this one makes me feel i should help clarify the time period.
Aegon I
Aenys I
Maegor I
Jahaerys I
Viserys I
Aegon II
As you can see, the targaryens are relatively new and the 6th of the 14 targaryen kings has just been crowned
You should watch The Dark Knight Trilogy, Stranger Things, Peaky Blinders, The Last Kingdom, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Rome, The Crown, Succession, and The Sopranos after you finish Harry Potter, House Of The Dragon, and The Mandalorian
ooor Black Sails, Sons of Anarchy, Hell on Wheels
@@bettinanielsen6336 Black Sails is criminally underrated... It's in my personal top 5.
@@MFBloosh It is the best written show I have ever seen. I have watched it so many times. Now I go back and pick scenes just to enjoy the outstanding dialog.
HOTD is familiar yet different. The show is its own thing. Appreciate both shows but they're different.
When we finally got the revelation about Lary's and Alicents exchange all I could think about is how he was smirking at her all through Laena's funeral and on dat boat ride home. Ik there was more to it than the explanation she gave Ser Criston when he asked about it. SMH
1st ayyy. Watch peaky blinders after this, you won't regret it
Yes please and thank you
The Lady of House Fell, who tells Otto that House Fell won't break its oath to Princess Rhaenyra, was, according to the book 'Fire & Blood', executed by Otto; and she wasn't the only one. The people who Otto is forcing to kneel and pledge fealty to Aegon are not just courtiers; they are lords or ladies of Houses, not Paramount Houses (such as Tully or Tyrell) but minor Houses of varying influence, or Otto wouldn't bother to force their allegiance (he'd just pen them up like the servants until Aegon was safely enthroned).
The younger Baratheon brother you were talking about is Renly Baratheon. He was the youngest brother of the three(Him, Robert, and Stannis)and the not so secret lover of Ser Loras Tyrell. His wife was Loras’s sister Queen Margaery Tyrell and he was killed by Melisandre(The Red woman)and Stannis to gain more power in the Stormlands. He did tell Ned to support his claim to the Iron Throne instead of Stannis’s in that convo.
RENLY BARATHEON!
Foot cranker 🤣🤣
Crazy enough. I know people give me shit for this, I actually like House of the Dragon more than Game of Thrones. Makes sense haha but this is all the Targaryen you could want and more lol. They're kooky family. They're nutcase bunch. Lol
Rhaenys hasn't read the book Fire & Blood to know of horrors to come. So her pre-emptively nuking half her own family would've been OP. Having said that, the Rhaenys bit was to give audience a 'send home happy' moment which wasn't necessary. The coronation was fantastic in itself. But gawd forbid the ''bad guys" are on top in one episode. Those who thought lowborns of KL have any obligation to support Rhaenyra are in for big disappointments. Aegon claims his birthright from popular King Jaehaerys' Great Council ordering that the king's firstborn male son is the next king. Viserys himself won it over Rhaenys like that. Best part of this was the politics, less dragons the better. Despairing mom version of alicent does highlight her humanity more than the colder iteration of the actual green council. A well needed adjustment imo but also a continuation of her temperament from the Harrenhall or dagger scenes. They've constantly shown subtleties in that character which the audience tend to wilfully ignore since we're watching this as a team sport and we gotta cheer team lovable manipulative dad. Her being more humanized shouldn't be an issue unless one wants the show to remain grotesquely tilted towards Black (Laenor's death,Rhaenyra killing Vaemond, etc)
Yeah the reasoning the show creators give behind the Rhaenys scene is just deeply disturbing. Like have they learned nothing from Season 8 😢
@@jacklu1611 every show has one or two bad moments. There's nothing to overreact. It's nowhere close to season 8. The smallfolk during the Dance of Dragons does something to the Targaryens towards the end of the series. Their action would make a lot of sense when we take into account what Rhaenys did to them.
@@eadred9164 Ah true true, I never thought of the thing the smallfolk did, does tie in nicely.
Rhaenys FTW! 🔥
She could of at least had Meleys eat Otto.
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Whats sad is everyone is a victim in this show to their circumstance in some way. Aegon was so messed up and it doesn’t help that he was pressured and responsible since day one but yet had no guidance or affection from anyone (Viserys didn’t even glance at him)
Aemond considered it, but at the same time he was always about duty so he wouldn’t bend the rules and even if he would like to be king he won’t take his brother off since he is the eldest (which makes sense on what happened next episode, the book says he meant to do what he did- but it was based on the pov of random people on the ground, it wouldn’t make sense for his character to screw duty and mess everything up, which is why the show does so well with showing us what actually happened [GRRM also is the executive producer so it makes sense])
Bros beatin foot!
Larys strong knows all the passages ways in that jawn.thats how he just pops up in the room lol
Fun Fact: the actress at 15:49 was one of Fabien Frankel's (Criston Cole) acting teachers. In an interview he said he was extra nervous filming this scene with her because he didn't want to disappoint 😅
Get ready for episode 10 bro😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥
"everything u feel for me…as ur queen." I can't handle that level of palpable sexual tension lol. Ironic cause in a way they are the cersei and jaime of this show lol.the last 3 mins aside,i thought this was an excellent episode. it felt like a white house political thriller with a "race against time" feel from start to finish suspense. When Otto was moving around these chess pieces, Beesbury screaming, Caswell hanging..I was on the edge of my seat. I knew how good it was when it had reactors already coping for comeuppance lol. Tom Glynn-Carney showed excellent range as Aegon. But it got overshadowed by 3 mins of a Rhaenys "happy ending" smdh lmao. This crowning ceremony was a visual historygasm, All the actors for Otto, Alicent, Aegon did a great job. And that "window in the wall of your prison" line is one of the most poignant lines of the series.
I'm with you: Otto's an asshole &
Cole has gotta GO!
Isn't it funny that HOTD's spy is
Larys and Varys for GOT?!
Rhaenyra stan learns about ambiguity & moral dilemma that comes with making a gamble of a lifetime, & finds anything more than Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss versions of characters hard to process. The Queen's issue wasn't that Aegon shouldn't be king. It was that the Queen and the Hand had two completely different visions of ruling, and Renly's "he who holds the king holds the kingdom" is apparently a hard concept.
I love the way Meleys chirps and trills as she's stunning and stomping people to (probable) death. To do her justice, I don't think the Red Queen (Meleys' nickname) is deliberately trying to kill the poor smallfolk, they're just all obstacles in her way out of the pit and she's too big to be delicate, and the crowd is too dense to avoid casualties.
Maybe Peaky blinders is a good show to watch down the pipeline, one of my favoritwa
34 minutes and 48 seconds in, your face man, fantastic 🤣🤣🤣
larys strong lord of the feet
36 mins and 1 second, even funnier 🤣 😂 😆, I'm dying 🤣 😂
Is no one going to state the obvious? Major thinks this episode is the final. THERE'S ONE MORE!!!
King Viserys is like the only good king ever that is also Targaryen
House of dragon is in my opinion much faster paced and condensed with info and events on each episode, than game of thrones was at least as long as books were followed. Its much easier to get into, with just a few episodes because the scale is smaller and the characters fewer, so it has the power to introduce the few families much faster, and get the viewer hooked easier. Its not necessarily better or worse, its just different. Personally I love the pace on both, but game of thrones was much slower paced especially on early season 1 so it lost some viewers there imo. The great thing about house of dragon is that we have all the book material available for the whole story. That's amazing, because we all know where game of thrones went, when they ran out of material. Simply put it has the potential to be a perfect show.
I did not think I could dislike a courtier as much as Petyr Baelish but Larys Strong is up there after this episode. He does have a clubfoot (in the books he's called The Clubfoot). I don't know why he hates Rhaenerya so much, considering her children are his biological nephews. Though I guess he thinks she brought shame to his house. But I'd be more ashamed if word got out I was jerking it to feet. That's worse than sleeping with a hot princess in my mind.
There is an interesting theory that Larys might be a warg (like Bran), and he uses the rats to see what is going on in the castle as Bran could see through Summer's eyes. I noticed you were wondering why there were so many shots of rats, so that is a possible explanation. Though it could just be a metaphor for all the schemers in the castle.
Sept of baelor hasn't been built yet... The sept you saw in earlier episodes was just the great sept
43:42 - It was Jaehaerys, "the Conciliator"
I think GoT season 1 was better because of Ned and because I think the relationships/ families were established a bit better because there were not any time jumps. I also think it's unfair to compare because GoT had ground breaking moments like Ned/ the dragons etc, because the world was new and the death of "main" characters wasn't that common at that time. With House of the Dragon, people are already coming in with previous expectations/ prior knowledge of the world. Having said that, I think the characters in HoTD are more grey and I think over time, this show has the potential to supersede GoT in terms of characters. I'm excited for S2 :)
20:25 Aemond for 2024
In the book, Helaena and Aegon have three children at this point: Jaehaerys and Jaehaera (who are a little older, aged five or six) and little Maelor (aged two). I don't think Maelor is in the show, which is just as well, considering his fate in the book...
Happy Halloween All!!!!
The blood that goes through opening credits flows one the signals that are dead the ones alive bleed through their children and the blood then goes through them as the series goes on it changes
No those are actual Lord's and Ladies of smaller houses who happened to be at court at the time
That dragon’s breath gotta be rank, lol. Well..the fake queen and Otto got her answer
Concerning Ser Harrold Westerling's age - the Kingsguard serve for life, until they are killed in battle or otherwise die, even if their skills are not what they were in their prime. Ser Crispy may be a jerk and a murderer, but he is an outstanding fighter; I'm not sure that Ser Harrold could defeat him, though it would be nice.
Rhaeynera dodged a bullet with sir crispin, he is so handsome but he is a maniac and I can't stand his ass, they committed treason in kings landing and they all know it too, just like how everybody knew Rhaeynera's kids were sir Harkins kids😊
Been waiting so ready. Hotd continues!
LETS GOOO MAJORRR!!! 🤩🔥🔥🔥
major finna lose his shit lol
Thanks to Rhaenys to not make the show a mini series lol
Honestly Daemon and Aemond carrying the show. And Allicent, I won’t lie she’s been doing her best so far and is one of the most compelling characters.
If anything and it comes to it I’d be fine if Aemond sat the throne and continued the Targaryen line
27:24 I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR HIM TO HAVE THIS MOMENT
They can jam more people into the dragon pit than the Sept.
Rhaenys just killed hundreds of innocents instead of taking the dragon exits…. It just shows every character in this isn’t really a good character but cares for their own needs
Or a scene just for spectacle. Got s8 PTSD.
Rhaenys had been told by Ser Erryk that the dragon exits (the tunnels) were guarded; she could not have escaped that way without risking her own life and/or that of her dragon and, if she had been killed, many more lives lost due to the resulting wrath of the Sea Snake and House Velaryon, whose Lady she was.
I’d rather say it just shows the show runners making one of the few mistakes of this season-wanting an epic wtf moment in order to continue the episode 9 tradition established by GOT. They say as much in the interview.
@@jacklu1611 yeah but looking at the books, it seems like every character is trash anyways. Not to say they’re hated. They’re just all horrible people
I think you were thinking I’d Renly lol
Lol, I hate Criston but he would stomp the Lord Commander in a duel.
Rhaenys and Meleys: THIS IS WAR!!!
Helena told them there was a breast underneath the board
The cold opening episode 1 of GoT was all it took to have me hooked. It was so different to anything on TV. And the scene was so evocative. I binged the whole season in 2 days.
HoTD is a different situation. I hated S8 and was hesitant about being drawn in again. But episode 1 was so strong for me. I was hooked all over again.