Its about the same face I make every time Otto opens his mouth....to say he is annoying is an understatement....I wonder how he will take being replaced as hand of the king by Aegon? Of course at this point what will it matter, he wrongly put Aegon on the throne along with a majority on the small council other than Lord Lyman Beesbury agreeing to usurping the throne--
@@juliemiller3502 Otto is actually the good guy of this season not matter what shrewd and manipulative slouch he might be personally. This is a story about a conflict, not about good vs evil. Otto wants to avoid conflict and war and keep it all in the Red Keep and under his control which is better for the realm. The Blacks are charsimatic and sympathetic people, but they also give a fuck about the common people (Daemon cleansing King's Landing, Daemon murdering a servant to substitute Laenor and Rhaenyra being fine with it, Rhaenys crushing the Sept with her dragon), they give a fuck about the customs of the natives and instead dab in neovalyrianism and fire & blood and are out for war & conquest & glory, and they care a lot about their "special" blood. The Greens are shrewd and manipulative, but are the better option for the common people. Otto Hightower is responsible for the rule of two peaceful King, he didn't sell out his child spy, he agrees to stop the child fight arenas, Alicent pays out the girl raped by her son and gives her access to abortion and comforts her, they are natives well embedded in the customs and traditions of the realm such as the Faith of the Seven, which is basically the church, while the Fire & Blood stuff of the Targs, well what was Stannis daughter's name? Poor girl... And well Alicent's sons. have all the bad traits of Blacks and Greens but none of their good. But yeah the show wants to manipulate you into rooting Team Rhaenyra by highlighting what manipulative leech Otto is as a person, while downplaying his agenda that is more told in small scenes and symbolism (like the Faith symbols replacing the Targ iconography over the timeskip), while also downplaying stuff like all the murders Daemon does after the cleansing and besides Vaemund, like Craghas Drahar (hinted to have been brutal by his mutilated corpse, yet the actual fight is offscreened), his wife Rhea Royce (downplayed as in never gets mentionend again after the wedding/ consequences not yet played out), the Velaryon servant (so quick you are only supposed to catch what was actually going on when Laenor and Qarl are revealed to be on a boat at the end of the episode). This is far more intriguing than Thrones has ever been and is definitely worth a second watch before Season 2 releases. :)
I'm with Daemon here. You can't make 'offers' to the legitimate HEIR and pretend that they should accept or be grateful for such 'offers'. Rhaenyra doesn't need an offer. The throne is originally hers and she doesn't need to accept anything. Daemon is absolutely on point.
Lol wtf does "legitimate" mean? They've made this point a hundred times in the game of thrones series. Aegon the CONQUEROR wasn't the "legitimate" king, he was the one who won the war. Yeah she doesn't need to accept their offer but if she doesn't it will mean war and whoever wins will be the king, "legitimacy" be damned.
@@davedavidson4548 Legitimacy means by law and blood. She's the heir. It's idiotic to compare this situation to the conqueror because he "conquerered" lands, he did not inherit them. It's just not the same case.
she gets the throne then what she seats bastards on the throne, and wen she did 'win' the war she was a horrible ruler who only had fancy parties and INSANLEY HIGH TAXES, then riots came which killed her son joffrey and half the dragons in the dragon pit.
Because the 2nd queen and her offspring took off with the gold if memory serves me right… so essentially stealing from the townsfolk what exactly were they supposed to🤔
@@cristinaguzman8554 The Targaryen LAW states the the eldest SON inherits the Iron Throne from his father. Daughters have NO right to the throne and never had. Rhaenyra is a USURPER and will die a usurper's death.
i’m with Daemon on this one, Rhaenyra is right to be calm and diplomatic but she also needs to be more fiercer. As a woman ruler people expect her to be weak she is a very strong woman but she needs to demonstrate that more to the masses. And also I can’t believe Otto used the phrase “conspire against”. He’d been conspiring against Viserys for 20 WHOLE YEARS. Omg the hypocrisy!!!!
"Conspiring" is a rather strong word. Every single person person in the Red Keep is conspiring to one degree or another. From the time of its construction by Aegon to the time of its destruction by Dany. The Great Council proved that Westeros was/is in no way shape of form ready for any kind of female leadership. The only reason its ever entertained is due to their possession of dragons to stop dissent. It doesn't matter if its misogynistic, from antiquity to present day it was/is almost exclusively males who fought and died on the battlefield and thus male leaders had the loyalty of the armies. Crowns, oaths, and gold don't inherently give you power: soldiers, steel, and blood do. It's the same thing here. Even Dany would never have made it out of the Dothraki Sea without her dragons and thats a truth people just have to deal with. The ONLY time Daemon is right is when he says "Dreams didn't make us kings, Dragons did." The dream may have saved them from the doom but it was Balerion the Black Dread and its siblings that put the 7 kingdoms to heel.
Let's say Daemon and Rhaenyra were crazy enough to take the offer and surrender. They and their children would've been slaughtered the second they set foot in King's Landing. Can't convince me otherwise, especially when Otto was all for murdering Rhae and her family since the King's death. And the irony of all this is that for years Otto and Alicent projected their fears of kinslaying to gaslight their family into hating Rhaenyra and her kids.
Agreed. Rhaenyra wouldn't have done anything to her half-siblings as long as they didn't openly contest her claim to the throne and even then, she'd probably have preferred to exile them to the Night's Watch or the Faith rather than kill them.
@@samalvey8168 She would have moved over time to merge the bloodlines. Her kids with her brothers or their grandkids together. Otto was gonna murder her legitimate sons and that is why he wanted them at KL instead of her sons by Strong since their reputation was tarnished enough through gossip. He may have had a hand in killing her grandfather Baelon as well. Otto is the most dangerous man on the chessboard.
@@umitencho BS Otto is kind for the smallfolk and wants to avoid war. He didn't sell out his child spy, he stopped the child fights when asked for, he wants to avoid war and is responsible for the rule of two peaceful Kings. Alicent paid out the girl raped by her son and gave her access to abortion. The Hightowers are unsympathetic people, shrewd and manipulative, probably not likeable, but they are kind to the smallfolk and not warmongers. Otto never murederd Viserys, despite all other Targ lines - Rhaenys', Rhaenyra's and Daemon's being out of the castle and Viserys being a walking corpse. The reason why Viserys doesn't voice out his suspicion of Otto murdering Baelon is because he knows it is BULLSHIT and Otto is his friend, but their trust has been destroyed and now the seeds of doubt are plagueing Viserys. Appendix infection is common cause of death for people of any age even nowadays if left untreated, we can treat it well now, but back then... Otto definitely didn't murder Baelon based on his behavior with Viserys, and I don't think he would have murdered Rhaenyra's babies either. Killing babies is a moral taboo in Westeros and the Hightowers are pious, they aren't the Cleganes lol nor do they dwell in fire and blood. Otto would have married them into more Hightower branches asap or send them into the Faith or the Citadel to become Septons or Maesters in which case they have to be celibate. The most dangerous man is Larys Strong. That guy has basically danger written on his forehead.
Daemon staring down disdainfully like "Otto, are you fucking serious. That little shit's worse than I ever was. After twenty years of wailing at Viserys about how awful I am, I was hoping you could at least pretend to feel a little shame." Like, at least name Aemond if you want to pretend this was ever about making the _right_ decision. You're declaring for a slightly-less-awful-than-Joffrey who doesn't even want the spiky chair in the first place and you're still trying to hold your head high. Quiet down.
Otto is not really worse than Daemon, he is just more underhanded while Daemon is more flamboyant with his bad deeds. Both of them are power hungry evil people they hate each other because they are much alike. I think Daemon is worse since he is more impulsive and pettier( he tried to cripple Otto's son in the tournament by cheating and atacking his horse's legs just to spite Otto). Daemon is also more sadistic and enjoys using violence (when he slaughtered people in the streets and killed Vaemond) while Otto is more indiferent to its use, he prefers not to use it but when he does he has no empathy for his victims( when he executed the lords who stayed loyal to Rhaenyra).
@@kvltofsobek90 the greens' arguement is that they are the suporters of the law and pass the throne to the eldest son. Bending the rules to give the throne to Aemond when Aegon already has kids of his own who are in front of Aemond in the line of sucession would destroy whatever image of legitimacy the greens had. They had to crown Aegon. Aemon was a maester and therefore could use his vows to refuse the throne and he had no children to follow him.
She's the legitimate heir and they're practically offering her nothing. Dragonstone is already hers and they're probably planning to take driftmark sooner or later. It's bullshit
@@drdst27 The King named Rhaenyra the heir. The Lords recognized her as heir and made vows of loyalty towards her. When Aegon was born, Viserys still mantained Rhaenyra as heir. Going against that is treason.
@@kenfresno5218 Having bastards isn't treason lol. How many bastards die King Robert have? Besides Laenor aknowledged them as his own. So did Lord Corlys and Rhaenys. And even then, since they would wed the daughters of Laena, the Velaryon blood would still own Driftmark.
They have to play this out so it looks like they ahve been robbed of their rights which they have. In short they don't want to make the 1st move in the war. The greens need to do that and everyone will come running to help the heir whose throne has been stolen and now her family is under attack.
If only they had made Syrax larger, I mean before this scene the last we see Syrax, Rhaenyra is a teenager. The book also describes Syrax as a large formidable beast.
And now the dragon landing behind them isn't their salvation, but the obstacle to their escape. Love it. Hell of a diplomatic move. "You're now surrounded, act accordingly."
I'm not even Team Black or Team Green, I'm just Team Kids. It physically hurts me to imagine what could have been. Jace, the wise and good king. Luc, his Hand. Baela ruling Driftmark, but of course the public excuse will be Luc's ineptitude at sea. Rhaena flying on her own dragon. Aemond marrying Helaena as he wanted to, and sitting on Jace's council. Helaena being heralded as a bona fide dreamer and having her little bug zoo. And Aegon drinking and whoring somewhere in the Free Cities.
They're bastards. If it's wrong for Cersei Lannister to try to place her bastard son on the Iron Throne, Rhaenyra is equally wrong. In any case Rhaenyra has no right to the Iron Throne. Rhaenys should have been queen and it might have ended all of this nonsense..
@@gerardjagrooI mean it’s not really the same. In Cersei’s situation, the throne is usurped because it’s not the monarch’s offspring that’s named heir, that’s not the case for Rhaenyra’s bastards.
@@gerardjagroo It is wrong for a bastard to sit the throne by medieval rules only, and let's get real even then that didn't strictly apply. There's nothing that makes it morally wrong.
@@gerardjagroo In GoT Ned even searches for Roberts bastards, because they would be heirs. Rhaenyra is the heir, not Laenor, so her bastards are capable of being heirs as well, while cerceis arent.
@@Miuranger1 She did not go to battle yes, but when she takes King's landing she arrives on dragonback and she and Laena spent a lot of time together riding their dragons.
Great acting by Matt Smith - showing Daemon being unable to stand still, constantly clutching his weapons, glancing over to Rhaenyra to see if (Gods forbid) she'll take the offer. He's mellowed with age, but he's still got that rage in him.
@@adamkowalski8835 First off, I'm *clearly* talking about the gods in the show. Second, I'm an atheist, and you've just disregarded almost every religion on the planet that isn't Abrahamic - go preach elsewhere.
@@amany247 Jesus Christ is the only God. You speak of a god you do not know nor have a relationship with. Muhammad wasn't even born until 500 years after Jesus rose from the grave. The quran has fulfilled no prophecy, it has been rewritten so many times no one knows what the original even says. Their is no truth to islam and the only way to the Father is through the Son. I speak because of Christ because I know Him and have a relationship with Him and because He has healed me from disease. You may know Him too if you truly seek the Truth.
And without being a absolutely catastrophe for the smallfolk. Otto and the Hightowers might be shrewd and manipulative, but they are kind for the small folk, as shown by Otto being responsible for the rule of two peaceful Kings, him not selling out his child spy, him ending the child arena fights as requested, Alicent paying out the girl raped by her son and giving her access to abortion...Meanwhile Daemon performed a Cleansing chopping hands off, and murdered his wife, and the poor guy that substituted Laenor. Otto had Lord Caswell murdered to prevent a war. Cole murdered Lyman Beesbury, who was 76 years old and would have kicked the bucket next week anyways, granted Cole is a psycho. But Otto is certainly not Tywin Lannister, who annihilated House Castamere, who did the Red Wedding in cahoots with the Freys and Boltons, who had the Hound and the Mountain and various other lapdogs raze the country. Tywin was a Tyrant, Otto is a scheming dick who is very power-hungry for the standing of his house but is otherwise a leftist politically that wants to rule with peace and all bellys fed, and all conflicts under his control in the Red Keep. You have to watch the show again to understand it properly, this is not about villains vs heroes, it is about charismatic, progressive but ruthless Targs vs shrewd and conservative but kind Hightowers, who in their scheme accidently raise Targ children only inheriting the bad qualities from either side (poor Helaena aside), and then, well we see that play out in the show...
"Aegon Targaryen sits the Iron Throne." Because you put him there, traitor! And all for naught, because the line of Aegon the Usurper ended and it was the blood of the true heir, Rhaenyra, that continued.
So, going back to 1x09 Alicent says she wants to offer Rhaenyra "true terms so she may accept without shame." The funny thing is, this is actually a decent deal on paper. (And before anyone comes for me, I said ON PAPER). Rhaenyra doesn't ascend the Iron Throne, but she and her kids' lives would continue similar as before. But that's the kicker. Rhaenyra doesn't GAIN anything from this deal either. Nothing to sweeten the pot or help lessen the sting of having the crown stolen out from under her. Obviously there's nothing Team Green can really offer that can truly compensate, but beyond the promise of pardons and "places of honor" for her and Daemon's sons, they're not offering anything she doesn't already have. No offers of gold, lands, castles, marriages or even empty titles. Plus let's be real. Little Aegon and Viserys would become hostages in all but name. Best case scenario would have them married to Aegon II and Helaena's kids to try to combine the claims, but a just as likely outcome is some "unfortunate accident" with the plausible deniability of "oh no, the kids with a claim to the throne arguably better than Aegon II have tragically fell down a flight of stairs. Anyway." Like, ALICENT wants peace, but Otto and Larys aren't above pulling something like this. Just a fun detail I wanted to point out.
Well to be honest, taking the deal would ensure the survival of their House and their own lives (possibly). Neither the blacks, nor the greens understood that it's not really about yourself, it's about the survival of your house and the realm. How they could not see that the Hightowers were pitting them against each other is beyond me. It is obvious, even under Viserys' rule. Viserys even realized it himself, that's why he dismissed Otto. But it still was a pretty bad offer. One that doesn't even address the elephant in the room: the dragons. I think that no surrender would have ever worked if they didn't give up their dragons. Which Daemon certainly never would. If the surrendering side gets to keep their dragons, they are too much of a threat to the Iron Throne.
This show is so good playing with our frustration it’s incredible. Like when you know that Alicent would have respected Viserys’ wish that Rhaenyra becomes queen if she didn’t misunderstand his last words… Also when you see that Aemond didn’t want Vaghar to kill Lucerys and it’s kind of an accident. The whole dance of dragons started this way (or at least in the show) and it’s this whole frustration that makes it so good !
@@zacharyradford5552 It definitely was. Aemond acts all tough and scary, but he is in reality a very poor guy trapped in the stories of glory and conquest he's been reading as a kid all while getting bullied for not having a dragon. Aemond is stuck in his own fantasy, that's why he dresses up like edgelord air pirate sky rider. He thinks he is a conqueror and has to intimidate others as that lies within his nature, but its actually just method acting gone wrong.
That's a VFX model from episode 2 they still used. It was to save costs. Syrax will be bigger next season when they have more money. Cause She would have to be for the story to make sense.
@@aegonthedragon7303Syrax was a big dragon in the book. They did not make her bigger after the time-skip because the entire cgi budget was taken up by Vhagar vs Arrax in that episode
Nobody has mentioned this scene is identical to the one where daemon was first approached on dragonstone for stealing the dragons egg? And rhaenyra intervened
This isn’t much of an offer at all. The Greens offer Rhaenyra Dragonstone, which she already posses, and to recognise Luke as heir to Driftmark, something that’s already been settled twice, and are asking for two of her sons as hostages with none in return, and to top it off, they sent Otto, probably the worst person besides Aegon himself, who is despised by both Daemon and Rhaenyra, to make the offer. It’s bafflingly bad diplomacy.
See lots of debates on this of supporters of the Greens or Blacks. Just remember that in the end the history would be best defined by the Hour of the Wolf under Cregan Stark. They did great with Daemon, I hope Cregan gets just as good an actor.
He's got more firepower, more money, way more church support, and better advisors than Aegon the Conqueror did so that's something. If you ripped off the crown from his head he probably would be happy or just not care. Sunfyre might eat you though. My point is that even the most pathetic Targaryens (Pretty much all of them after Aegon I) have something going for them: privilege. I'd mess with them after their dragons became dead.
@@user-ti5cw1ug6l not more firepower. sunfyre and tessarion are impressive dragons but they are not comparable at all to the original 3 conqueror dragons. balerion was about the same size as vhagar is now, and meraxes was massive too. the only thing the greens have in terms of real firepower is vhagar and she was one of the og conquerer dragons too
@@Funtimesuntime3 What I meant by that is more dragons. More dragons means you can reign fire down in different places. If you are an army and you go up against Balerion or Sunfyre the outcome will be the same. You are equally screwed as they are both adult dragons. At some point extra size doesn't add anything but more dragons always will. Dragons like Verrmax and Arrax are too small however and they certainly wouldn't be able to take out great armies by themselves.
@@user-ti5cw1ug6l yeah but I'm still a bit confused on your point? like the greens only had 3 dragons more or less since helaena was taken out of commission. all the other dragons belonged to the blacks or they were rogue. i guess technically both aegons had the same number of dragons on their side, but the first aegon's dragons were much bigger and more powerful, hence more firepower edit: and what i mean by firepower is destructive capability. i dont think any of the greens dragons with the exception of vhagar, who is also a conqueror dragon, would be capable of completely destroying dorne for instance as easily as meraxes and balerion could. sunfyre and tessarion are much smaller than them.
Somehow, the first time around I missed how Otto just casually tried to depose the entire Velaryon line by handing Driftmark over to Daemon and Rhaenyra's son. Not even to their first son together, but to their youngest, which has to be some kind of extra insult to Corlys.
I think you misheard friend. Otto says that Lucerys will inherit Driftmark and all the lands and holdings of house Velaryon. Aegon, the younger and Viserys are to be the king's squire and cupbearer. But yes, the way Otto says "Lucerys" sounds a little like "Viserys"
After rewatching this, I never realized that Daemon hits Otto with his “let’s end this mumace farce” line. A line Otto had first said to daemon the time they met on the bridge episodes earlier.
Those are high position considering they are fourth and fifth children of rhaenyra and have been sired by her uncle. Eventually they could have been used for marriages to stregthen the targaryens hold over westeros.they would be princes of the blood and dragon riders, any lord would be happy to have them as good sons.
@@OreoCookie324the Targaryens came back strong in the books ? What 😂😂 a 16 year old girl 🤣🤣 and Robert didn't ask anyone about him being King , he just took the crown and the Throne becuse he could
I just peeped he didn't offer anything for Joffrey. I've watched this scene so many times and he didn't have anything for Joffrey. If anything Joffrey should've been offered to squire because he's much older than Aegon the younger. I guess Joffrey is the is the Daeron of Rhaenyra's faction lol.
I mean the way Otto thinks all of Rhaenyra's kids especially Jace and her two with Daemon need to go solely to protect Aegon's crown. Assuming she took the deal by the time Jace was in his 20s Vermax would probably be the size of Seasmoke if not bigger, he would have made connections across the realm and would have been trained extensively by the best warriors like Daemon for years. Add the fact everyone even the high lords like the Starks, Arryns, Tullys, and possibly even the Baratheons liked him when he was just a kid can you imagine how much they would like him when he was an adult. Basically, had Rhaenyra accepted this deal for whatever reason in 5 to 10 years after Jace would probably get pushed by people like Daemon to claim the throne because of how terrible Aegon would have been as King. This means there would have been a civil war anyway unless Otto could kill him before that.
I can't be the only one who realizes that Otto calls Rhaenyra by the wrong name twice... even the awful captioning says he said Princess Ramirez (it definitely sounds as though he said Rhaemyra, and the captions bear that out.) That's a fairly big mistake to let get all the way to the final cut, especially as Rhaenyra is the absolute main character that the story revolves around -- and he does it twice in one scene. It was probably the biggest error of S1, at least in my opinion.
The audacity to attempt to present such a mere offer, daemon should’ve taken Otto’s head for not even mentioning an eventual heir even tho their the sworn rightful heir smh
So I have not read the books or know too much world lore but the fact that the word "Hightower" does not appear in Game of Thrones I have a good bet on who is going to make proposals at the end of the war.
Haha 😂😂 Rhaenyra will be burned alive by Aegon II , Rhaenys will get killed by Aegon II , Jace dies in battle , Joffrey gets killed by Rhaenyra's dragon , Daemon and Aemond will die in dragon battle , people of King's Landing kill almost every dragon and Otto will die too Only Alicent , Rhaena , Baela , Aegon II , Aegon III and Viserys II will survive the Dance
Rhaenyra and Daemon conspire to murder children next season. They even murdered an innocent guy *this* season while finding someone to take the role of Laenor's corpse so he could leave to Pentos. This show has clearly demonstrated that both teams are not above evil acts to further their own goals. Sorry that's too much for your childlike mind to handle. Maybe stick to fairy-tales and babies' shows where good and evil are very clearly defined and never deviate. The whole point of this show is to explore the depths people will go to when they believe themselves infallible and right, and the lies they tell themselves so they can avoid the true horror of their actions. You've played right into that by actually being dumb enough to pick a "team", cause now you're gonna have to justify what they are going to do in this show in order to stay pure so much that the hypocrisy will twist you into pretzels and you're gonna end up sounding like a pretty bad person if you take it too seriously. You're going to have to simultaneously feign outrage over the killing of Lucerys while also hand-waving away the deliberate and calculated murder of an innocent, neuro-divergent Princess's/Queen's (Helaena's) toddler right in front of her by hired thugs. Yes these are spoilers. I don't care if you know what's coming or not. If you do that's arguably even worse. Numb-nuts, both teams do some evil stuff in this war. Also you're clearly a weirdo without a personality if you have to live vicariously through a character on a TV show and bring said conflict out into the real world to other people. There's a reason you have to make the effort to "feel better about [yourself]" - It's because you're a bad person with bad habits, and you know that deep down. And no, I haven't picked a team, I'm just laughing at the fact you have. Weak-minded.
That deal is insulting (I'd probably tell Otto to eff off too) ... but not necessarily a bad one in the long term. *IF* Rhaenyra and her descendants could guard against the inevitable Green plots against them, the Blacks would increasingly control the vast majority of dragon breeding in Westeros. js.
Sometimes i think that Rhaenyra gave dragon eggs to jace and luke instead this why she didn't ask them tk claimed Verminthor and Silverwing, as they were already full grown and riderless, with this they were difficult to defeated.
What I can’t wait on his Dameon and his nephew going toe to toe both crazy both dangerous only we seen Dameon does have a heart to Rae and her husband and his second wife his children and his brother whom he love the evil green loves no one not even himself
1:27 How did Rhaenyra dismount her dragon so quickly? It would appear physically impossible with no ground to the sides. The only ways I can imagine are extremely inelegant and unbefitting of a queen, such as sliding down the neck, which is dangerous. The only way I can think of to safely get off that dragon so quickly is for the dragon to pick her up in it's mouth and gently place her on the ground. But she'd be covered in dragon saliva. Not very regal. And not something we saw. I assume that there is no answer, it's an oversight. But I noticed it immediately the first time I watched this scene and I went back and checked if there was any indication. No, she just teleports off of the dragon, with the camera angles deliberately accommodating this. This must have been a deliberate creative decision, and I don't like it.
If I had a dragon and landed where the queen did. I’d say “all kneel before your queen or burn” if they kneeled I’d still burn them cause I have a dragon and who’s going to say no? I would’ve then gathered every possible dragon rider and hit Kings Landing hard capture my siblings and end all this fuckery. But no they want to play the Game of Thrones. Like olenna told Dany in the show “be a dragon” I would’ve been just that but that’s me
Two acts of reckless abandon might have ended this whole war. 1. Syrax should have killed Otto and the knights here. 2. Meleys should have incinerated the Greens at Aegon's coronation. That would have ended the usurpation there and then. And Rhaenyra then would have ruled as queen, Lucerys ruled Driftmark, and have Jacerys as heir apparent, with Aegon III second in line. Then instead of everyone dying in the end, Daemon, Rhaenyra, Rhaenys, and Jace/Luce would all be alive.
I mean who WOULDN'T accept the deal of handing over your two toddlers as hostages who you'll likely nit see for YEARS (like Theon) right after you suffered a miscarriage
Jesus christ the worship you people have over these evil and twisted characters is absurd. I'm not just talking about the greens. Team black is just as bad as them
Worship has nothing to do with it. Both sides are equally Grey. It's the war that pushes them over the edge. A war the Greens cause because Otto Hightower wanted his legacy on the Iron Throne. People argue about who actually had the true claim. Has nothing to do with their morals. 😂
A second son, who earned his place thanks to his skills against a daddy's girl who never knew how to be worthy of what was offered to her, and a valyrian supremacist who wasted his time in pointless fights. Otto is absolutely right.
Aegon was a drunk mass rapist who had hundreds of bastard children fighting in the pits. Not to mention he never even wanted to be King and he made that clear over and over again. Besides, the Kings word is law. Viserys wanted his daughter as Queen. All those that went against that oath are the real traitors plain and simple.
One of the worst scenes in the entire series. How Otto Hightower was allow to leave Dragonstone is beyond comprehension. The fact he even when there made no sense as he would surely must have know that at best he would be taken captive and at worst, Dragon feed. Both Daemon and Rhaenyra know that he could never be trusted and likely to be the main person behind Ageon's accession.
Because Otto came as a diplomat. It wouldn't be good for your side to kill a diplomat no? The damage it would do to the reputation of the blacks far outweighs the benefits of having Otto killed because even if they have won, they would have that stain on their name. That action might even detract support for the blacks from the houses that are still hesitant to pick a side.
Daemons annoyed face every time Otto opens his mouth is my favorite thing 😂
Its about the same face I make every time Otto opens his mouth....to say he is annoying is an understatement....I wonder how he will take being replaced as hand of the king by Aegon? Of course at this point what will it matter, he wrongly put Aegon on the throne along with a majority on the small council other than Lord Lyman Beesbury agreeing to usurping the throne--
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@@juliemiller3502 Otto is actually the good guy of this season not matter what shrewd and manipulative slouch he might be personally. This is a story about a conflict, not about good vs evil. Otto wants to avoid conflict and war and keep it all in the Red Keep and under his control which is better for the realm.
The Blacks are charsimatic and sympathetic people, but they also give a fuck about the common people (Daemon cleansing King's Landing, Daemon murdering a servant to substitute Laenor and Rhaenyra being fine with it, Rhaenys crushing the Sept with her dragon), they give a fuck about the customs of the natives and instead dab in neovalyrianism and fire & blood and are out for war & conquest & glory, and they care a lot about their "special" blood.
The Greens are shrewd and manipulative, but are the better option for the common people. Otto Hightower is responsible for the rule of two peaceful King, he didn't sell out his child spy, he agrees to stop the child fight arenas, Alicent pays out the girl raped by her son and gives her access to abortion and comforts her, they are natives well embedded in the customs and traditions of the realm such as the Faith of the Seven, which is basically the church, while the Fire & Blood stuff of the Targs, well what was Stannis daughter's name? Poor girl...
And well Alicent's sons. have all the bad traits of Blacks and Greens but none of their good.
But yeah the show wants to manipulate you into rooting Team Rhaenyra by highlighting what manipulative leech Otto is as a person, while downplaying his agenda that is more told in small scenes and symbolism (like the Faith symbols replacing the Targ iconography over the timeskip), while also downplaying stuff like all the murders Daemon does after the cleansing and besides Vaemund, like Craghas Drahar (hinted to have been brutal by his mutilated corpse, yet the actual fight is offscreened), his wife Rhea Royce (downplayed as in never gets mentionend again after the wedding/ consequences not yet played out), the Velaryon servant (so quick you are only supposed to catch what was actually going on when Laenor and Qarl are revealed to be on a boat at the end of the episode).
This is far more intriguing than Thrones has ever been and is definitely worth a second watch before Season 2 releases. :)
Yesssss! He just wants to kill him every time!💪🏿😂
Otto is a talker. Listening to talkers makes me thirsty. And hungry.
I'm with Daemon here. You can't make 'offers' to the legitimate HEIR and pretend that they should accept or be grateful for such 'offers'. Rhaenyra doesn't need an offer. The throne is originally hers and she doesn't need to accept anything. Daemon is absolutely on point.
Lol wtf does "legitimate" mean? They've made this point a hundred times in the game of thrones series. Aegon the CONQUEROR wasn't the "legitimate" king, he was the one who won the war. Yeah she doesn't need to accept their offer but if she doesn't it will mean war and whoever wins will be the king, "legitimacy" be damned.
@@davedavidson4548 Legitimacy means by law and blood. She's the heir. It's idiotic to compare this situation to the conqueror because he "conquerered" lands, he did not inherit them. It's just not the same case.
she gets the throne then what she seats bastards on the throne, and wen she did 'win' the war she was a horrible ruler who only had fancy parties and INSANLEY HIGH TAXES, then riots came which killed her son joffrey and half the dragons in the dragon pit.
Because the 2nd queen and her offspring took off with the gold if memory serves me right… so essentially stealing from the townsfolk what exactly were they supposed to🤔
@@cristinaguzman8554 The Targaryen LAW states the the eldest SON inherits the Iron Throne from his father. Daughters have NO right to the throne and never had. Rhaenyra is a USURPER and will die a usurper's death.
i’m with Daemon on this one, Rhaenyra is right to be calm and diplomatic but she also needs to be more fiercer. As a woman ruler people expect her to be weak she is a very strong woman but she needs to demonstrate that more to the masses. And also I can’t believe Otto used the phrase “conspire against”. He’d been conspiring against Viserys for 20 WHOLE YEARS. Omg the hypocrisy!!!!
And they would call her hysterical at that point. There's no right way in misogynistic society
"Conspiring" is a rather strong word. Every single person person in the Red Keep is conspiring to one degree or another. From the time of its construction by Aegon to the time of its destruction by Dany. The Great Council proved that Westeros was/is in no way shape of form ready for any kind of female leadership. The only reason its ever entertained is due to their possession of dragons to stop dissent.
It doesn't matter if its misogynistic, from antiquity to present day it was/is almost exclusively males who fought and died on the battlefield and thus male leaders had the loyalty of the armies. Crowns, oaths, and gold don't inherently give you power: soldiers, steel, and blood do. It's the same thing here. Even Dany would never have made it out of the Dothraki Sea without her dragons and thats a truth people just have to deal with. The ONLY time Daemon is right is when he says "Dreams didn't make us kings, Dragons did." The dream may have saved them from the doom but it was Balerion the Black Dread and its siblings that put the 7 kingdoms to heel.
@@cirilkiril dumb
Yeah and it makes me realize she really isn’t fit to be queen she relies on others to tell her
She will be in this new season…Aemond killed Lucerys remember? The ending scene to the last episode, spoke volumes
Let's say Daemon and Rhaenyra were crazy enough to take the offer and surrender. They and their children would've been slaughtered the second they set foot in King's Landing. Can't convince me otherwise, especially when Otto was all for murdering Rhae and her family since the King's death.
And the irony of all this is that for years Otto and Alicent projected their fears of kinslaying to gaslight their family into hating Rhaenyra and her kids.
Agreed. Rhaenyra wouldn't have done anything to her half-siblings as long as they didn't openly contest her claim to the throne and even then, she'd probably have preferred to exile them to the Night's Watch or the Faith rather than kill them.
@@samalvey8168 She would have moved over time to merge the bloodlines. Her kids with her brothers or their grandkids together. Otto was gonna murder her legitimate sons and that is why he wanted them at KL instead of her sons by Strong since their reputation was tarnished enough through gossip. He may have had a hand in killing her grandfather Baelon as well. Otto is the most dangerous man on the chessboard.
@@samalvey8168 she likely would put her siblings to the sword out of paranoia. She did demand one of them be tortured.
absolutely yes
@@umitencho BS Otto is kind for the smallfolk and wants to avoid war. He didn't sell out his child spy, he stopped the child fights when asked for, he wants to avoid war and is responsible for the rule of two peaceful Kings. Alicent paid out the girl raped by her son and gave her access to abortion. The Hightowers are unsympathetic people, shrewd and manipulative, probably not likeable, but they are kind to the smallfolk and not warmongers.
Otto never murederd Viserys, despite all other Targ lines - Rhaenys', Rhaenyra's and Daemon's being out of the castle and Viserys being a walking corpse. The reason why Viserys doesn't voice out his suspicion of Otto murdering Baelon is because he knows it is BULLSHIT and Otto is his friend, but their trust has been destroyed and now the seeds of doubt are plagueing Viserys. Appendix infection is common cause of death for people of any age even nowadays if left untreated, we can treat it well now, but back then...
Otto definitely didn't murder Baelon based on his behavior with Viserys, and I don't think he would have murdered Rhaenyra's babies either. Killing babies is a moral taboo in Westeros and the Hightowers are pious, they aren't the Cleganes lol nor do they dwell in fire and blood. Otto would have married them into more Hightower branches asap or send them into the Faith or the Citadel to become Septons or Maesters in which case they have to be celibate.
The most dangerous man is Larys Strong. That guy has basically danger written on his forehead.
Daemon staring down disdainfully like "Otto, are you fucking serious. That little shit's worse than I ever was. After twenty years of wailing at Viserys about how awful I am, I was hoping you could at least pretend to feel a little shame."
Like, at least name Aemond if you want to pretend this was ever about making the _right_ decision. You're declaring for a slightly-less-awful-than-Joffrey who doesn't even want the spiky chair in the first place and you're still trying to hold your head high. Quiet down.
Otto is not really worse than Daemon, he is just more underhanded while Daemon is more flamboyant with his bad deeds. Both of them are power hungry evil people they hate each other because they are much alike. I think Daemon is worse since he is more impulsive and pettier( he tried to cripple Otto's son in the tournament by cheating and atacking his horse's legs just to spite Otto). Daemon is also more sadistic and enjoys using violence (when he slaughtered people in the streets and killed Vaemond) while Otto is more indiferent to its use, he prefers not to use it but when he does he has no empathy for his victims( when he executed the lords who stayed loyal to Rhaenyra).
@@masterplokoon8803 man these are true asf but this doesn't stop the deamon stan from he is an angel and otto is the devil himself
Was there any reason Aegon couldnt refuse the throne and for Aemond to take it? Exactly this happened generations later when Aemon refused
@@kvltofsobek90 the greens' arguement is that they are the suporters of the law and pass the throne to the eldest son. Bending the rules to give the throne to Aemond when Aegon already has kids of his own who are in front of Aemond in the line of sucession would destroy whatever image of legitimacy the greens had. They had to crown Aegon. Aemon was a maester and therefore could use his vows to refuse the throne and he had no children to follow him.
@@masterplokoon8803 if daemon stans could read they would be really upset about this
She's the legitimate heir and they're practically offering her nothing. Dragonstone is already hers and they're probably planning to take driftmark sooner or later. It's bullshit
No, she is not. The eldest SON inherits.
@@drdst27
The King named Rhaenyra the heir.
The Lords recognized her as heir and made vows of loyalty towards her. When Aegon was born, Viserys still mantained Rhaenyra as heir. Going against that is treason.
@@juanlaise1059 having bastards and giving the throne and Driftmark to them is treason.
@@kenfresno5218
Having bastards isn't treason lol. How many bastards die King Robert have? Besides Laenor aknowledged them as his own. So did Lord Corlys and Rhaenys.
And even then, since they would wed the daughters of Laena, the Velaryon blood would still own Driftmark.
@@juanlaise1059 Yeah but before Velaryon blood inherits, Strong blood will. See the issue?
2:46 I must say Daemon had a much more restrained and politically correct response than I would have had...........
They have to play this out so it looks like they ahve been robbed of their rights which they have. In short they don't want to make the 1st move in the war. The greens need to do that and everyone will come running to help the heir whose throne has been stolen and now her family is under attack.
If only they had made Syrax larger, I mean before this scene the last we see Syrax, Rhaenyra is a teenager. The book also describes Syrax as a large formidable beast.
Syrax is the least intimidating dragon😂😂
@@insultlktell that to Joffrey
@@adb8003you wrong for this 💀
the show really didn’t manage to show the size of the dragons well
The book describes Syrax as spoilt and fat dragon that no longer hunts for food.
Love the near shot for shot recreation of the earlier confrontation on dragonstone when Daemon stole an egg
And now the dragon landing behind them isn't their salvation, but the obstacle to their escape. Love it. Hell of a diplomatic move. "You're now surrounded, act accordingly."
Daemon is just looking for any excuse to feed Otto to Caraxes and I don’t blame him.
That would make Caraxes the Red Worm Red Noodle ill. Best not to.
"Will be given places of high Honor at Court!....as servants."
It’s giving “you are now one of my elite employees😯😬” lmfaooooo
HOSTAGES
Syrax roar is like music in my ears
Syrax is going to kill Joffrey strong and will be killed by the people of kingslanding
It is the only action syrax will get bloody useless dragon
@@hirushadilhara7097 that dragon killed her own riders last living bastard so it a great debt to relam 😁
@@debamlyabanerjee4067 I think syrax is secretly green
@@hirushadilhara7097 🤣🤣🤣
Love Daemon’s disgust face
I'm not even Team Black or Team Green, I'm just Team Kids. It physically hurts me to imagine what could have been. Jace, the wise and good king. Luc, his Hand. Baela ruling Driftmark, but of course the public excuse will be Luc's ineptitude at sea. Rhaena flying on her own dragon. Aemond marrying Helaena as he wanted to, and sitting on Jace's council. Helaena being heralded as a bona fide dreamer and having her little bug zoo. And Aegon drinking and whoring somewhere in the Free Cities.
They're bastards.
If it's wrong for Cersei Lannister to try to place her bastard son on the Iron Throne, Rhaenyra is equally wrong.
In any case Rhaenyra has no right to the Iron Throne. Rhaenys should have been queen and it might have ended all of this nonsense..
@@gerardjagrooI mean it’s not really the same. In Cersei’s situation, the throne is usurped because it’s not the monarch’s offspring that’s named heir, that’s not the case for Rhaenyra’s bastards.
Bro, why are you spoiling?
@@gerardjagroo It is wrong for a bastard to sit the throne by medieval rules only, and let's get real even then that didn't strictly apply. There's nothing that makes it morally wrong.
@@gerardjagroo In GoT Ned even searches for Roberts bastards, because they would be heirs. Rhaenyra is the heir, not Laenor, so her bastards are capable of being heirs as well, while cerceis arent.
Rhaenyra & her boss entrances 💯🔥🔥🔥
In the books she never uses the dragon
@@Miuranger1 yup I know I read the Fire and Blood 3 times. But still I'll be very fine with it if they utilize Syrax in the show.
@@Miuranger1 She did not go to battle yes, but when she takes King's landing she arrives on dragonback and she and Laena spent a lot of time together riding their dragons.
@@siphiwokuhlekhumalo9835 yes even when she was younger she rode Syrax & would race with Daemon & Caraxes.
Admit it rhaenyra is as useless as aegon ain't no way she is fit to be the protector of realm.😅
Great acting by Matt Smith - showing Daemon being unable to stand still, constantly clutching his weapons, glancing over to Rhaenyra to see if (Gods forbid) she'll take the offer. He's mellowed with age, but he's still got that rage in him.
No god but Allah
Islam way for peace and real monotheist
Search about the truth with honest heart’..
Allah and god are the same. There are no multiple gods
@@adamkowalski8835 First off, I'm *clearly* talking about the gods in the show. Second, I'm an atheist, and you've just disregarded almost every religion on the planet that isn't Abrahamic - go preach elsewhere.
@@amany247 Jesus Christ is the only God. You speak of a god you do not know nor have a relationship with. Muhammad wasn't even born until 500 years after Jesus rose from the grave. The quran has fulfilled no prophecy, it has been rewritten so many times no one knows what the original even says. Their is no truth to islam and the only way to the Father is through the Son. I speak because of Christ because I know Him and have a relationship with Him and because He has healed me from disease. You may know Him too if you truly seek the Truth.
Bro made a comment about acting, yall out here trying to indoctrinate him into your cult. Classic internet
The irony is both of Daemon’s sons become kings while Otto is remembered as a poor Hand of the King.
and the tragedy is you spoiling things like that.
@@ricardoalcantaracampos4811 The outcome is already spoiled by Joffrey. ruclips.net/video/3i9EyFwh09U/видео.html&ab_channel=ShowsVideos
Gotta give it to Otto. Dude had balls.
God I hate Otto Hightower, he's the Tywin of House of the Dragon but without any of Tywin's mannerisms, explanations, or gigachadness
And without being a absolutely catastrophe for the smallfolk. Otto and the Hightowers might be shrewd and manipulative, but they are kind for the small folk, as shown by Otto being responsible for the rule of two peaceful Kings, him not selling out his child spy, him ending the child arena fights as requested, Alicent paying out the girl raped by her son and giving her access to abortion...Meanwhile Daemon performed a Cleansing chopping hands off, and murdered his wife, and the poor guy that substituted Laenor.
Otto had Lord Caswell murdered to prevent a war. Cole murdered Lyman Beesbury, who was 76 years old and would have kicked the bucket next week anyways, granted Cole is a psycho.
But Otto is certainly not Tywin Lannister, who annihilated House Castamere, who did the Red Wedding in cahoots with the Freys and Boltons, who had the Hound and the Mountain and various other lapdogs raze the country. Tywin was a Tyrant, Otto is a scheming dick who is very power-hungry for the standing of his house but is otherwise a leftist politically that wants to rule with peace and all bellys fed, and all conflicts under his control in the Red Keep.
You have to watch the show again to understand it properly, this is not about villains vs heroes, it is about charismatic, progressive but ruthless Targs vs shrewd and conservative but kind Hightowers, who in their scheme accidently raise Targ children only inheriting the bad qualities from either side (poor Helaena aside), and then, well we see that play out in the show...
"Aegon Targaryen sits the Iron Throne."
Because you put him there, traitor! And all for naught, because the line of Aegon the Usurper ended and it was the blood of the true heir, Rhaenyra, that continued.
More importantly it was the blood of Daemon Targaryen and not Harwin Strong :)
@@sou713nah, more importantly, it was the blood of Daemon, not Otto Hightower
@@sou713Harwin didn't do shit to anybody so his bloodline continuing wouldn't hurt anybody. But Otto's bloodline continuing is another story.
@@TheMelodicDreams His bloodline could continue literally anywhere else except on the Iron Throne. His sons are bastards.
That's not how history remembers it
So, going back to 1x09 Alicent says she wants to offer Rhaenyra "true terms so she may accept without shame." The funny thing is, this is actually a decent deal on paper. (And before anyone comes for me, I said ON PAPER). Rhaenyra doesn't ascend the Iron Throne, but she and her kids' lives would continue similar as before.
But that's the kicker. Rhaenyra doesn't GAIN anything from this deal either. Nothing to sweeten the pot or help lessen the sting of having the crown stolen out from under her. Obviously there's nothing Team Green can really offer that can truly compensate, but beyond the promise of pardons and "places of honor" for her and Daemon's sons, they're not offering anything she doesn't already have. No offers of gold, lands, castles, marriages or even empty titles.
Plus let's be real. Little Aegon and Viserys would become hostages in all but name. Best case scenario would have them married to Aegon II and Helaena's kids to try to combine the claims, but a just as likely outcome is some "unfortunate accident" with the plausible deniability of "oh no, the kids with a claim to the throne arguably better than Aegon II have tragically fell down a flight of stairs. Anyway." Like, ALICENT wants peace, but Otto and Larys aren't above pulling something like this.
Just a fun detail I wanted to point out.
No god but Allah
Islam way for peace and real monotheist
Search about the truth with honest heart’..
Well to be honest, taking the deal would ensure the survival of their House and their own lives (possibly). Neither the blacks, nor the greens understood that it's not really about yourself, it's about the survival of your house and the realm. How they could not see that the Hightowers were pitting them against each other is beyond me. It is obvious, even under Viserys' rule. Viserys even realized it himself, that's why he dismissed Otto.
But it still was a pretty bad offer. One that doesn't even address the elephant in the room: the dragons. I think that no surrender would have ever worked if they didn't give up their dragons. Which Daemon certainly never would.
If the surrendering side gets to keep their dragons, they are too much of a threat to the Iron Throne.
I think he meant pardon those Conspiring against the conspiracy of argon’s ascent
I love how Otto can stand there with a straight face and call making Aegon and Viserys hostages, "high honor" what a prick
This show is so good playing with our frustration it’s incredible. Like when you know that Alicent would have respected Viserys’ wish that Rhaenyra becomes queen if she didn’t misunderstand his last words… Also when you see that Aemond didn’t want Vaghar to kill Lucerys and it’s kind of an accident. The whole dance of dragons started this way (or at least in the show) and it’s this whole frustration that makes it so good !
It wasn’t really an accident he wanted to intimidate him and Vhagar took it farther because it’s a fucking dragon.
@@zacharyradford5552 That's what I call an accident
@@zacharyradford5552 Aemond is visibly shaken by the result of his foolish game.
@@zacharyradford5552 It definitely was. Aemond acts all tough and scary, but he is in reality a very poor guy trapped in the stories of glory and conquest he's been reading as a kid all while getting bullied for not having a dragon. Aemond is stuck in his own fantasy, that's why he dresses up like edgelord air pirate sky rider. He thinks he is a conqueror and has to intimidate others as that lies within his nature, but its actually just method acting gone wrong.
Respect to Daemon for lasting so long listening to Otto's bullshit before cracking.
This is the great move, trapping them in the middle of the bridge. They can’t move forward or backwards because each side has death 🤎
One word is all it takes my queen
Dracarys
Who are they to give Rhaenyra terms??
This otto and his pathetic drunken family
Aegon is the king's eldest born son
@@kngoepe4200 what of it?
@@Unknown-ux1uo hes the king
@@kngoepe4200 usurper king, he even knows viserys didn't want him to be his heir.. for now he is the king, but he is not her king.
Otto has balls of steel to go to dragon stone after everything that’s happened
Queen Rhaenyra has entered the chat
Syrax is still so small!? 😅 It looks like it could be the same age as Vermax.
She is a breeding dragon who was kept indoors most her life. She is highly spoiled and never hunts aka it stunted her growth
That's a VFX model from episode 2 they still used. It was to save costs. Syrax will be bigger next season when they have more money. Cause She would have to be for the story to make sense.
Syrax was bred for speed over size and kept in confinement more often than she flew/hunted.
@@aegonthedragon7303Syrax was a big dragon in the book. They did not make her bigger after the time-skip because the entire cgi budget was taken up by Vhagar vs Arrax in that episode
When I say next season is GOING TO BE FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAAAANNNN!!!!!
Nobody has mentioned this scene is identical to the one where daemon was first approached on dragonstone for stealing the dragons egg? And rhaenyra intervened
This isn’t much of an offer at all.
The Greens offer Rhaenyra Dragonstone, which she already posses, and to recognise Luke as heir to Driftmark, something that’s already been settled twice, and are asking for two of her sons as hostages with none in return, and to top it off, they sent Otto, probably the worst person besides Aegon himself, who is despised by both Daemon and Rhaenyra, to make the offer.
It’s bafflingly bad diplomacy.
I like Daemon’s reaction with his wife’s entrance; “tell it to the dragon ding dong”
loved the recreation when in time daemon stole the egg, but this time it's queen rhaenyra and prince daemon on the same team vs team green.
The disgust from Daemon is just fantastic.
She was bout to say ok and deamon is like f no
Otto: *speaking like Tywin Lannister*
Me: You are not same as him! Not a little!
Otto: This looks oddly familiar, have we been here before?
I love what Damian said
Tryna figure out what animals they used to make syrax’s roar. Elephant and what else
"MY sons" ... true hero of the story
Where is this from
0:54 the disdain on his face. 😂
See lots of debates on this of supporters of the Greens or Blacks. Just remember that in the end the history would be best defined by the Hour of the Wolf under Cregan Stark. They did great with Daemon, I hope Cregan gets just as good an actor.
I would have ripped that crown off Aegons head. He’s nothing compared to Aegon the Conqueror
He's got more firepower, more money, way more church support, and better advisors than Aegon the Conqueror did so that's something. If you ripped off the crown from his head he probably would be happy or just not care. Sunfyre might eat you though. My point is that even the most pathetic Targaryens (Pretty much all of them after Aegon I) have something going for them: privilege. I'd mess with them after their dragons became dead.
@@user-ti5cw1ug6l not more firepower. sunfyre and tessarion are impressive dragons but they are not comparable at all to the original 3 conqueror dragons. balerion was about the same size as vhagar is now, and meraxes was massive too. the only thing the greens have in terms of real firepower is vhagar and she was one of the og conquerer dragons too
@@Funtimesuntime3 What I meant by that is more dragons. More dragons means you can reign fire down in different places. If you are an army and you go up against Balerion or Sunfyre the outcome will be the same. You are equally screwed as they are both adult dragons. At some point extra size doesn't add anything but more dragons always will. Dragons like Verrmax and Arrax are too small however and they certainly wouldn't be able to take out great armies by themselves.
@@user-ti5cw1ug6l yeah but I'm still a bit confused on your point? like the greens only had 3 dragons more or less since helaena was taken out of commission. all the other dragons belonged to the blacks or they were rogue. i guess technically both aegons had the same number of dragons on their side, but the first aegon's dragons were much bigger and more powerful, hence more firepower
edit: and what i mean by firepower is destructive capability. i dont think any of the greens dragons with the exception of vhagar, who is also a conqueror dragon, would be capable of completely destroying dorne for instance as easily as meraxes and balerion could. sunfyre and tessarion are much smaller than them.
@@Funtimesuntime3 Balerion was bigger than Vhagar
Somehow, the first time around I missed how Otto just casually tried to depose the entire Velaryon line by handing Driftmark over to Daemon and Rhaenyra's son. Not even to their first son together, but to their youngest, which has to be some kind of extra insult to Corlys.
I think you misheard friend. Otto says that Lucerys will inherit Driftmark and all the lands and holdings of house Velaryon. Aegon, the younger and Viserys are to be the king's squire and cupbearer. But yes, the way Otto says "Lucerys" sounds a little like "Viserys"
After rewatching this, I never realized that Daemon hits Otto with his “let’s end this mumace farce” line. A line Otto had first said to daemon the time they met on the bridge episodes earlier.
Man my otto said “they’ll be given high pisitions at court as a squire and a cup bearer” 😂😂😂😂😂
Those are high position considering they are fourth and fifth children of rhaenyra and have been sired by her uncle. Eventually they could have been used for marriages to stregthen the targaryens hold over westeros.they would be princes of the blood and dragon riders, any lord would be happy to have them as good sons.
Lol super subtle with the rips here in your list… ☝️
Daemon just waiting for the nod from Rhae and Otto is sashimi 🤣
Do we really have to wait till 2024 until season 2 🥺🥺😭😭🥺
APPARENTLY!!!!!! THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!
Yes ❤
Rhaenerya with the crown riding Syrax just looks so correct.
To PRINCESS Rhaenyra
Such fun to watch House Targaryen implode 😂😂😂😂
I hope the show continues to Robert's Rebellion. 😂😂😂
I wont so keep crying the targs come back strong in the books. seethe
and robert has targaryen blood which is the only reason why the great houses allowed him to be their king... the targs still never lost😂😂
@@OreoCookie324the Targaryens came back strong in the books ? What 😂😂 a 16 year old girl 🤣🤣 and Robert didn't ask anyone about him being King , he just took the crown and the Throne becuse he could
@@OreoCookie324The Targs don't leave for another 200 years..I don't know what you on abt
Man to have Daemon as the king consort is like have another extra lord commander of the Kingsguard.
I just peeped he didn't offer anything for Joffrey. I've watched this scene so many times and he didn't have anything for Joffrey. If anything Joffrey should've been offered to squire because he's much older than Aegon the younger. I guess Joffrey is the is the Daeron of Rhaenyra's faction lol.
Yay offer up her six year old as a hostage instead of her toddlers.
Otto,”dragons again.”
Why did they condense so much into so few episodes
I mean the way Otto thinks all of Rhaenyra's kids especially Jace and her two with Daemon need to go solely to protect Aegon's crown. Assuming she took the deal by the time Jace was in his 20s Vermax would probably be the size of Seasmoke if not bigger, he would have made connections across the realm and would have been trained extensively by the best warriors like Daemon for years. Add the fact everyone even the high lords like the Starks, Arryns, Tullys, and possibly even the Baratheons liked him when he was just a kid can you imagine how much they would like him when he was an adult.
Basically, had Rhaenyra accepted this deal for whatever reason in 5 to 10 years after Jace would probably get pushed by people like Daemon to claim the throne because of how terrible Aegon would have been as King. This means there would have been a civil war anyway unless Otto could kill him before that.
Otto when that message is passed on Damon said HIS sons not step sons fed to the dragons!
It's his sons from rhenera
@@-_--qn4mu yes I was referring to ryneryas son that was actually attacked by a dragon
The terms mentioned her sons by Daemon that is baby Aegon and Viserys to be Aegon's cupbearers
If only Rhaenys was the Queen this all will not happen
The Greens offered rather reasonable terms here tbh, even allowing her Bastards to have a bit of "legitimacy", which is wild.
That offer was an insult and they all knew it
Otto got bigger balls then tywin it would only take one word
I can't be the only one who realizes that Otto calls Rhaenyra by the wrong name twice... even the awful captioning says he said Princess Ramirez (it definitely sounds as though he said Rhaemyra, and the captions bear that out.)
That's a fairly big mistake to let get all the way to the final cut, especially as Rhaenyra is the absolute main character that the story revolves around -- and he does it twice in one scene.
It was probably the biggest error of S1, at least in my opinion.
I don't think so. It's just the way Rhys speaks
The audacity to attempt to present such a mere offer, daemon should’ve taken Otto’s head for not even mentioning an eventual heir even tho their the sworn rightful heir smh
Where's the light
Dracarys would have ended this quickly.
Can't the dragon eat otto hell can't the dragon roast the whole lot
"Queen"
(For your drunken userper €u nt of a king ) said Deamon who's absolutely not a drunker or userper
is this show any good? should i watch it? or is it woke af?
So I have not read the books or know too much world lore but the fact that the word "Hightower" does not appear in Game of Thrones I have a good bet on who is going to make proposals at the end of the war.
In the books they were more background characters. Lord Tyrell is married to a Hightower and mum to Loras and Marg
At the time of the books, the Hightowers are rich and powerful af. Margaery's mom is a Hightower.
Haha 😂😂 Rhaenyra will be burned alive by Aegon II , Rhaenys will get killed by Aegon II , Jace dies in battle , Joffrey gets killed by Rhaenyra's dragon , Daemon and Aemond will die in dragon battle , people of King's Landing kill almost every dragon and Otto will die too
Only Alicent , Rhaena , Baela , Aegon II , Aegon III and Viserys II will survive the Dance
if you feel dumb remember there are people who are team green 🤡
Lol and you’re proud to support a wife killer and mad queen who plots to kill her sister children?
Really these black supporters lacks common sense
@@amandahiya8989 you make me feel a lot better about myself
Rhaenyra and Daemon conspire to murder children next season. They even murdered an innocent guy *this* season while finding someone to take the role of Laenor's corpse so he could leave to Pentos. This show has clearly demonstrated that both teams are not above evil acts to further their own goals. Sorry that's too much for your childlike mind to handle. Maybe stick to fairy-tales and babies' shows where good and evil are very clearly defined and never deviate. The whole point of this show is to explore the depths people will go to when they believe themselves infallible and right, and the lies they tell themselves so they can avoid the true horror of their actions. You've played right into that by actually being dumb enough to pick a "team", cause now you're gonna have to justify what they are going to do in this show in order to stay pure so much that the hypocrisy will twist you into pretzels and you're gonna end up sounding like a pretty bad person if you take it too seriously. You're going to have to simultaneously feign outrage over the killing of Lucerys while also hand-waving away the deliberate and calculated murder of an innocent, neuro-divergent Princess's/Queen's (Helaena's) toddler right in front of her by hired thugs. Yes these are spoilers. I don't care if you know what's coming or not. If you do that's arguably even worse.
Numb-nuts, both teams do some evil stuff in this war. Also you're clearly a weirdo without a personality if you have to live vicariously through a character on a TV show and bring said conflict out into the real world to other people. There's a reason you have to make the effort to "feel better about [yourself]" - It's because you're a bad person with bad habits, and you know that deep down. And no, I haven't picked a team, I'm just laughing at the fact you have. Weak-minded.
If you feel dumb, remember there are people chosing teams in a show whose whole point is that no one is right and everyone is wrong.
@@morgumal When it comes to legitimacy, you're pretty dumb if you choose to be team green pal, that's the bottom line.
That deal is insulting (I'd probably tell Otto to eff off too) ... but not necessarily a bad one in the long term. *IF* Rhaenyra and her descendants could guard against the inevitable Green plots against them, the Blacks would increasingly control the vast majority of dragon breeding in Westeros. js.
Not to forget the velaryons fleet and the riches of house velaryon at their disposal
Sometimes i think that Rhaenyra gave dragon eggs to jace and luke instead this why she didn't ask them tk claimed Verminthor and Silverwing, as they were already full grown and riderless, with this they were difficult to defeated.
I'm white fixing the the fuc** the sounds volume and the quality of the video before you thinking of, uploading the video to RUclips
My man said your sons can be my grandsons cup bearers lmfaooo crazy disrespectful
My man spoiled that he downloaded series from torrent? 😮😮
Daemon and Rhaenyra are my hottie couple🖤
Rhaenyra is about to get really hottie when Aegon roasts her with Sunfyre 😂😂😂😂😂
@@gerardjagroo Aegon II is about... oh i forgot... he's about nothing. Just like his entire useless bloodline 😂😂😂😂😂
@@hereiam8he was remembered as the king after viserys and Rhaenyra has a shameful usurper
What I can’t wait on his Dameon and his nephew going toe to toe both crazy both dangerous only we seen Dameon does have a heart to Rae and her husband and his second wife his children and his brother whom he love the evil green loves no one not even himself
1:27 How did Rhaenyra dismount her dragon so quickly? It would appear physically impossible with no ground to the sides. The only ways I can imagine are extremely inelegant and unbefitting of a queen, such as sliding down the neck, which is dangerous. The only way I can think of to safely get off that dragon so quickly is for the dragon to pick her up in it's mouth and gently place her on the ground. But she'd be covered in dragon saliva. Not very regal. And not something we saw.
I assume that there is no answer, it's an oversight. But I noticed it immediately the first time I watched this scene and I went back and checked if there was any indication. No, she just teleports off of the dragon, with the camera angles deliberately accommodating this. This must have been a deliberate creative decision, and I don't like it.
If I had a dragon and landed where the queen did. I’d say “all kneel before your queen or burn” if they kneeled I’d still burn them cause I have a dragon and who’s going to say no? I would’ve then gathered every possible dragon rider and hit Kings Landing hard capture my siblings and end all this fuckery. But no they want to play the Game of Thrones. Like olenna told Dany in the show “be a dragon” I would’ve been just that but that’s me
Yeah, not for long
Commonwealth mayeb
Two acts of reckless abandon might have ended this whole war. 1. Syrax should have killed Otto and the knights here. 2. Meleys should have incinerated the Greens at Aegon's coronation. That would have ended the usurpation there and then. And Rhaenyra then would have ruled as queen, Lucerys ruled Driftmark, and have Jacerys as heir apparent, with Aegon III second in line. Then instead of everyone dying in the end, Daemon, Rhaenyra, Rhaenys, and Jace/Luce would all be alive.
Thumbnail misleading in several levels...
Dany would have supported the Blacks
so would olenna, ned and caitlyn. tywin and stannis not so much
@@MeleysTessarion Stannis would have burned his own children and failed at everything lmao
Danny , jon , ned all the starks , Tyrion, olenna
All would have supported her
Considering Rhaenyra was her ancestress it would be beyond weird if she didn't.
She would have supported herself and created a third faction
Syrax so lil
If i was rhaeyra i would have commanded to burn them all at once especially otto
I mean who WOULDN'T accept the deal of handing over your two toddlers as hostages who you'll likely nit see for YEARS (like Theon) right after you suffered a miscarriage
Jesus christ the worship you people have over these evil and twisted characters is absurd. I'm not just talking about the greens. Team black is just as bad as them
Worship has nothing to do with it. Both sides are equally Grey.
It's the war that pushes them over the edge.
A war the Greens cause because Otto Hightower wanted his legacy on the Iron Throne.
People argue about who actually had the true claim. Has nothing to do with their morals. 😂
Team Green
A second son, who earned his place thanks to his skills against a daddy's girl who never knew how to be worthy of what was offered to her, and a valyrian supremacist who wasted his time in pointless fights. Otto is absolutely right.
Aegon was a drunk mass rapist who had hundreds of bastard children fighting in the pits. Not to mention he never even wanted to be King and he made that clear over and over again.
Besides, the Kings word is law. Viserys wanted his daughter as Queen. All those that went against that oath are the real traitors plain and simple.
One of the worst scenes in the entire series. How Otto Hightower was allow to leave Dragonstone is beyond comprehension. The fact he even when there made no sense as he would surely must have know that at best he would be taken captive and at worst, Dragon feed. Both Daemon and Rhaenyra know that he could never be trusted and likely to be the main person behind Ageon's accession.
Because Otto came as a diplomat. It wouldn't be good for your side to kill a diplomat no? The damage it would do to the reputation of the blacks far outweighs the benefits of having Otto killed because even if they have won, they would have that stain on their name. That action might even detract support for the blacks from the houses that are still hesitant to pick a side.
@@soulblade3291 Yeah, can you imagine how well the Starks, for example, would respond to that?
Am I the only one who thinks Syrax didn't grow and was still the same size.😅
THIS ain't dragons but wyvern
Danny 's were real dragons
Like Danny making entry riding on drogon was epic badass
What do you mean?
Daenerys' dragons were wyverns as well
Rhyenara is destined to fail. I can see now why lol.
Soon the Age of Monarchs will be over and the time of the Presidency will begin
*Evil laugh 😆😆