I noticed that Larys walks perfectly normal and stands tall and straight in front of Alicent, but pretends to be small and weak around Aegon (just like he did when he first met Alicent). He's like maester Pycelle, playing a character to manipulate powerful people
He's nothing if not a master manipulator. Plus, if you come off as weak and pliable, everyone will think you're no threat. There's no point in doing it in front of Alicent because she knows all too well how dangerous he is. Difference between him and Pycelle is that Pycelle's only ambition was to keep his comfortable and influential position as long as he lived. Larys clearly has far greater goals.
I'm surprised that no one talked about the fact that Lukes dragon Arrax was hatched from one of Syraxs eggs, meaning that her child was killed along with Rhaenyras and on the beach they were both mourning their babies together. It's another neet little way to showcase how connected dragons and their riders can be.
Too bad HBO won't animate the dragon's face. That's too expensive. So, instead of a powerful scene like Drogon nudging Daenarys, we get Syrax gurgling and looking away. :(
I always got the impression that Alicent's issue with Rhaenyra was less about her doing things she wasn't "supposed to", and more about how she could do those things publicly, with no repercussions, while Alicent couldn't.
Rhaenyra is the one person utterly protected from consequence in that realm: because Viserys adores her (and her mother through her) and no one else. He also humanizes his daughter. She isn’t abstract to him, but a complete human being. He makes efforts to understand her, he excuses her faults, or sees how morally unserious they are (really!) because he cares about her. Alicent is an idea to her husband, father and lover. Not a full person. It must hurt terribly.
"Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin and everyone holds their breath to see what side it lands on." "Yeah, maybe that wouldn't happen if you guys would actually try fucking someone outside your own gene pool."
@@ADeina-tt7oh It's implied in F&B, though I don't recall the chapter. Same for Jace's Vermax and Joff's Tyraxes. Note the names as well, all with the same suffix as Syrax. Iirc, there's also a reference to Morning coming from one of Syrax's eggs as well.
I always watched your videos with my ex boyfriend. When we weren't together anymore, we watched them separately and then discussed it (we broke up in good terms). Last year, he decided he didn't want to live anymore. This is the first video I'm going to watch alone. Is so painful and yet bring me some very sweet and awesome memories. He was the biggest fan of yours. Thank you for what you do.
Aw, me and my ex used to watch his videos and discuss too. 😢 I'm so sorry you lost your person. I think alot of people find solace and distraction from traumatic things with this series. You're not alone, honey. Cherish the memories and hopefully you guys will meet again in a better place one day
15:32 A “rat king” is also a rare phenomenon where a bunch of rats get tangled up by their tails. It’s also a way of interpreting Helaena’s drawing. She’s predicting mutually assured destruction due to an easily avoidable entanglement caused by stupid, self serving decisions.
Gotta give Olivia Cooke credit. Reading Fire and Blood, I didn’t care for Allicent, but her performance has probably made her my favorite character of the show. Shows not inherently wrong, she’s just surrounded by psychopaths and ambition
There are two kinds of F&B readers, and they view the show differently. Some people understand F&B as a novel where what is written on the page is "what actually happened" except for where the text specifically calls something out. These are the people who will point at details and complain that they're different from the book, "made up for the show", or that this character wouldn't say/do that. Other people understand F&B as the history book that it actually is. AM Gyldayn was writing more than 150 years after the events he narrates. He uses multiple sources of dubious quality, each written at different times and for different purposes, to stitch together a narrative that makes sense while pushing his own political agenda which isn't necessarily interested in historical truth so much as authenticity. These readers understand that while there are immutable facts that cannot be ignored, the details of those events are open to interpretation. These are the people who are perfectly fine with changes in personality or detail from the books (The Princess and The Queen is a separate essay written by Gyldayn some years before expanding it into his magnum opus) but said "yes you should be" when Daemon said "I should be in Harrenhnal", and are increasingly worried about things like Daeron not even being named. The critics will have a field day when they finally introduce him... if they do at all. History remembers Jaime Lannister as the traitorous Kingslayer, the Kingsguard who killed his King to help the usurper Robert Baratheon claim the throne. While it's true in the broad strokes, the reality was quite different to the way history records it. GRRM frequently illustrates this by making Gyldayn compare accounts and decide whether eyewitnesses Orwyle or Mushroom are closer to the truth and sometimes he just acknowledges what they said while going with a different narrative from a different source altogether. Gyldayn never met Alicent, Rhaenyra, or anyone else he writes about. He bases their personalities on their deeds first, and the accounts of witnesses like Mushroom and Orwyle second. Gyldayn put the U in Alicent. HotD is showing us various realities that Gyldayn didn't know about, didn't think was relevant, or deliberately omitted because it didn't fit his narrative. This is why Alicent is a much more likeable character in the show.
@@sokar_rostauWell said. If there were to be a hypothetical in-universe history book about the events of ASOIAF it would make sense for many of the details to be completely wrong. Whether it's cos the details aren't known or the author's own prejudice, we'd all be like "that isn't how it happened!!!"
@@sokar_rostau Exactly. I really like how the show has handled that issue of F&B being an intentionally imperfect account which sometimes features multiple versions of events. When the show has to show us its version of those events (which generally becomes the de facto "real" version), it's done in a way where you can clearly see how each different chronicler, with an incomplete picture and their own biases could have arrived at the version they did from the one version given in the show. Each different account contains some grains of the true events, but always incomplete and sometimes misinterpreted.
@@GodofChookie It's a joke based on a scene in Clash of Kings. Tyrek Lannister disappeared during the riot in King's Landing and they say he was last seen "ahorse" meaning he was still on his horse the last time anyone saw him. The joke is that people change it based on how you say it, becoming "last seen a horse" meaning he wasn't a man, instead he is or changed into, a horse the last time anyone saw him.
15:43 when lots of rats occupy a tiny space, they sometimes get their tails tangled. This is called a rat king. They are often unable to free themselves and will eventually starve to death.
The sound in the blood and cheese scene alone is so haunting. You don't need to see what they're doing to the child, your imagination is doing it for you
Also makes sense because when the Targaryens first moved to Dragonstone, Balerion was the youngest and smallest of the five dragons they brought with them, which is why he was the only one of those five remaining when Aegon began his conquest.
@@mst3KGf Its also informs us on why a dragon called " The Black Dread" that been know exclusively as a warmachine would choose someone like Viserys to be its rider.
Imagine if Cregan Stark found out the 2nd Long Night his family and the North have been readying for for thousands of years last just one single battle for a few hours.
Nice video I would add how Aegon is in daylight walking to the throne happy and with a happy public And Rhaenyra is broken angry with a silent public in the dark night
Great detail at 35:52 there are dragon egg cauldrons under both the kids beds, reflecting the Targaryen tradition of placing eggs in the babies cradles to bond with the egg and get it to hatch.
I actually love Aegon as a character now. He is still not a good person but he went from an evil brat to an exploration of how neglect can effect a child well into adulthood and in his own screwed up way he is trying to rectify that.
I agree, I think the show's portrayal of Aegon is very interesting. There's clearly a *person* there with some depth of character and some sort of internal logic, regardless of whether we interpret that person as good or bad.
I was about to say “About fucking time” because this video came out a week after the episode aired….then I saw the amount of work that went into making this.
I'm still not clear on "Beware the beast underneath the boards." The dragon later in the episode most definitely comes from outside the city, not beneath the boards or anything else.
@@vampiresforesl Huh? Where did you get that from? The beast beneath the boards is Meleys and Rhaenys killing hundreds of innocent smallfolk when she bursts out of the floor of the dragonpit at the coronation.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much Emma D'Arcy did with silence in this episode? Their face, their body language, their ability to communicate all the turmoil within Rhaenyra with just a look. A masterful performance 👏
only one line in an entire episode and yet still an Emmy deserving perfomance, at this point if they don't nominate them it's surely because they just don't know for which category right?
Some people found Blood and Cheese underwhelming compared to the book. It’s still horrifying and it’s important to ensure the wellbeing of the child actors. Even though it’s acting, it would be traumatising to reenact Blood and Cheese how they did it in the book. Apparently, when a hand covered Jaehaerys’ mouth, it was the actor’s father. There are laws and regulations regarding child actors.
Also, the scene in the book is objectively dumb. Two amateur assassins wouldn't risk their lives to torture the royal family just for fun. It's not like they were getting paid by the hour. It was literally just GRRM giving in to the worst "grimdark" tropes: pointless misery pr0n that is so stupidly depressing it breaks all immersion.
You know that you are watching a fiction, right? That there are cuts, montage, etc... you can easily film only the mother screaming without the children even in the scene. As a fan of the book, the scene as portrayed in the show is shit and we should stop finding obstuse justification for the filmmaker incompetence.
@@Nukefandango Hard disagree. It set off the series of events leading to Helaena's suicide, from the guilt of knowing she had just sentenced her own son Maelor to death in favor of his elder brother and the mental toll of having to live with that.
The tapestry opening is interesting as it no doubt was inspired by the Bayeux tapestry which tells the story of William of Normandy's invasion of England and the events immediately preceding and following it.
I think Aemond already knows about Criston's affair with Alicent. Everytime he makes a slide against her he carefully watches Criston's reaction. As if he was asking: 'How biased are you. Can you still see her faults or are to much in love to see the truth
Finally figured out why Larys’ “they no longer breathe our air” line sounded so familiar: I was hearing Sansa when she questioned Theon “tell me why Bran and Rickon should be gone while you still breathe the air-tell me to my face Theon!”
Also a convenient method to explain why that handmaiden working for Mysaria is no longer on the show, because she was played by the wife of the former co-show runner who left after the first season.
Dothraki review: "First death was promising, but then they didn't kill the queen and the other kid. No three deaths, deeply disappointing, one out of five stars."
You're back! On the point about King Aegon telling a peasant he'll give him his "taxes" back, and that Otto has to explain taxes to him, that's sort of misrepresenting the scene a bit. Taxes are added to the cost of goods and services. That's not what's happening. It's the peasant's sheep, his livelihood- those very goods and services- are what he's lost. Feeding the dragons for the war makes sense, but what isn't discussed is that the dragons can eat other things. It is an example of how some of the normal people are economically suffering in a somewhat cruel way.
Taxes are pretty much that. A value taken by the government from the people by force or under the threat of force. It doesn't matter if it's called taxes, tolls, tariffs, wartime confiscation or whatever. It's still a form of a tax.
This was my first time watching one of your videos. I absolutely loved everything about it. You explain everything so simply and clearly and it's a pleasure to listen to your calm voice. Amazing work
Yes, but this is closer to the very first original story of the Dance than the later versions of the books. At least when it comes to the importance of Ser Criston for the story.
I actually didn't think the changes to Blood & Cheese were bad since Helaena still had to point at the kid who will get his head cut off - I just thought the whole scene was weirdly rushed and sandwiched before another random Criston/Alicent sex scene? What's the point of that? I feel like in the days of GoT it would have been a really chilling, slow and silent 15-minute sequence directly going into credits without music.
Best HOTD commentary in the word bro the visual and information given is like no other thank you I look forward to every video. I wish you were into Harry Potter too especially because they have a TV show coming up soon in a year or so.
I've read all of the books, and seen both shows, multiple times and written thousands of words on various forums about them. Believe me when I say, the struggle never ends. I think GRRM does it on purpose because he's a sadist that enjoys fucking with his reader's heads.
Corlys says he had a dagger commissioned for Luke... the dagger looks like the one Ser Qarl has in his hand before fighting Laenor in the Driftmark hall and faking Laenor's death
New ahorse lore dropped 21:10 and new Schwift family tree lore just dropped 39:03. Did we know he was his bastard half brother? How can he be an evil twin if they are only half siblings?
21:55 - This is a good point, Larys knows the value of sneaking murderous men into a Lord’s hall at night. He’s not likely to overlook Rat Catchers even if they live outside the castle. Maybe he was hoping for the Greens to fully commit to war with an outrage?
There’s something about menials though…the rich look past them. And unlike the servants, the rat catchers are not semi-intimates. They are semi-contractors. In and out, unnoticed. The first time we see Cheese, Alicent and Cole almost brush past him in the small council room. It’s like he doesn’t exist. They don’t even notice he’s there, or register his presence. That’s why the maidservants didn’t intervene. A menial was fussing over a trap. What harm could this menial be?
@@SuperStella1111 I wrote something similar about Larys, then I remembered what he’d done to his own family and that he wouldn’t overlook even a kitchen boy in killing the castle servants. Blood, the disaffected guard is out of place and was seen by the servant, who I believe ran straight to Larys (out of fear of Larys), raising the alarm with the one person who probably allowed this to happen. The Green Royal family have surrendered their security to Larys by Queen Alicent and only Otto has a hope of undoing that. I doubt Larys will let Otto continue beyond his usefulness to the war. Larys will find & bring Blood to a quick end, Cheese was likely ended by Blood before leaving the castle, with only his dog & debtors to grieve him,
This is the content I’ve been waiting on. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of what takes place in each episode and that just goes up to another level after each Alt Shift X breakdown.
I didn't take Alicent's line to Tyland as joining in on the shame, it came across more like trying to squash the situation and get on with the meeting rather than allow him to be humiliated.
Is anyone gonna mention how Blood and Cheese were supposed to kill Aemond? He’s one of the best swordsman living atm, and a couple of thugs were supposed to take him down?
It's been sooo long... After watching the episode, I remember that something was missing. That something is watching your video right after! That's for years of helping me enjoy the series much more ❤
1:14 the Targaryens weren’t the only ones to survive. There was a guy named Aurion who declared himself Emperor of Valyria and hired 30,000 mercenaries to retake Valyria atop his own dragon. He and all his men simply disappeared.
Quinn's Ideas, before Ideas of Ice and Fire was the goat for me ( still is, in Sci-Fi book recommendations department for me). Too bad later seasons of GoT broke him.
I hope this season they show the emotional bonds of dragons and their riders like they had shown for Rhaenrya and Syrax last season as she was in labor.
I like how Alt said during the after show live stream that they were going to try and get the recap episodes up earlier….only for them to still be uploaded the morning of the newest episode haha. Love the channel and please continue take your times on vids. I just though that was kind of funny
I was hoping the algorithm would bring me back to these with season two now I’m subscribed to never miss out your videos made last season so much fun to watch
Thank you for shouting out Abigail at PhilosophyTube - with her cameo in The Acolyte and now casting in HOTD, she’s a pioneer for the trans community and showcases how a RUclips creator can break out to the big screen
Maybe the illness of Viserys is linked with his long dead skeleton dragon Balerion. The flesh of his dragon was rotten and stripped away, so he's human body refuses to heal
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nah Alt Shift X sold out... promoting other 2 creators' content? How much did they pay, I cannot respect you anymore
@@vinogr00nko93I hope you are kidding 😂
@@vinogr00nko93 I hope he waited for the cheque to clear.
you do make us wait
I noticed that Larys walks perfectly normal and stands tall and straight in front of Alicent, but pretends to be small and weak around Aegon (just like he did when he first met Alicent). He's like maester Pycelle, playing a character to manipulate powerful people
I never even noticed that. You have sharp eyes 👌🏻
He's nothing if not a master manipulator. Plus, if you come off as weak and pliable, everyone will think you're no threat. There's no point in doing it in front of Alicent because she knows all too well how dangerous he is.
Difference between him and Pycelle is that Pycelle's only ambition was to keep his comfortable and influential position as long as he lived. Larys clearly has far greater goals.
@@mst3KGfand there is no greater goal than seeing Olivia Cookes little piggies
@@mst3KGfLarys really seems to combine Littlefinger, Varys and Pycelle into one person
Also very Derek Jacobi from I, Claudius inspired
I'm surprised that no one talked about the fact that Lukes dragon Arrax was hatched from one of Syraxs eggs, meaning that her child was killed along with Rhaenyras and on the beach they were both mourning their babies together. It's another neet little way to showcase how connected dragons and their riders can be.
Correct! I’m surprised not a lot of people caught this 👏🏿
I didnt realize that... 😢
Too bad HBO won't animate the dragon's face. That's too expensive. So, instead of a powerful scene like Drogon nudging Daenarys, we get Syrax gurgling and looking away. :(
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTrackingBut they’ll animate Vhagar roasting Laena lol
"Maybe incest is bad" is at the base of literally 4/5 of the conflicts in Westeros
Don't read my name
maybe the faith of the 7 was right about incest
And the remaining one is "Maybe necrophilia isn't great either"
I think class hierarchy is what you’re looking for
@@sansonefabio8177No way! That worked for thousands of years 👍🏻
I always got the impression that Alicent's issue with Rhaenyra was less about her doing things she wasn't "supposed to", and more about how she could do those things publicly, with no repercussions, while Alicent couldn't.
Rhaenyra is the one person utterly protected from consequence in that realm: because Viserys adores her (and her mother through her) and no one else. He also humanizes his daughter. She isn’t abstract to him, but a complete human being. He makes efforts to understand her, he excuses her faults, or sees how morally unserious they are (really!) because he cares about her. Alicent is an idea to her husband, father and lover. Not a full person. It must hurt terribly.
Correct, it was always jealousy
“Maybe incest is bad”
"Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin and everyone holds their breath to see what side it lands on."
"Yeah, maybe that wouldn't happen if you guys would actually try fucking someone outside your own gene pool."
If only Helaena x Aemond shippers understood that.
That one Hapsburg be like:
Such a hot take
Scrolled to the comments to find this exact comment. Had me howling 😂😂😂
"What name will Aegon choose? ...He likes 'the Dragoncock'"
"Daemon puts on his ~mischief hoodie~"
Stuff like this is why I watch these videos.
Dragon cock was said in the series, that was a direct quote. Mischief hoodie is original hilarity tho
Dragon cock is a direct quote from the show though. Mischief hoodie is original hilarity tho
It's noteworthy that on the beach scene, Syrax is grieving the loss of her child, Arrax. Both mothers are wracked by loss.
Where does it say it was her eggs?
@@ADeina-tt7oh It's implied in F&B, though I don't recall the chapter. Same for Jace's Vermax and Joff's Tyraxes. Note the names as well, all with the same suffix as Syrax. Iirc, there's also a reference to Morning coming from one of Syrax's eggs as well.
Don't read my name
Even if it can’t be proven completely each dragon IS a relative.
I always watched your videos with my ex boyfriend. When we weren't together anymore, we watched them separately and then discussed it (we broke up in good terms). Last year, he decided he didn't want to live anymore. This is the first video I'm going to watch alone. Is so painful and yet bring me some very sweet and awesome memories. He was the biggest fan of yours. Thank you for what you do.
Wishing you the best Anne.
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❤
Sending you love and hugs!
Aw, me and my ex used to watch his videos and discuss too. 😢 I'm so sorry you lost your person. I think alot of people find solace and distraction from traumatic things with this series. You're not alone, honey. Cherish the memories and hopefully you guys will meet again in a better place one day
I appreciate you putting character’s names, pictures when you’re talking about them. Helps a lot, a lot of channels talk as if we know everything
Don't read my name
One of the reasons i love this channel im hoping maybe one day he’ll make a video about the differences from the books and the shows in detail
Agreed
Everyone has the same name or almost the same name. The books were rough lol
@CoopaCoop yes such as Aemond son of aemond brother of aemond etc etc or some shit along that line
15:32 A “rat king” is also a rare phenomenon where a bunch of rats get tangled up by their tails. It’s also a way of interpreting Helaena’s drawing. She’s predicting mutually assured destruction due to an easily avoidable entanglement caused by stupid, self serving decisions.
Turns out sir Cristin Cole is a cunning linguist!
And a Royal one at that, he is tounges deep in both.
According to Ygritte Jon is one too.😂😂😂
The lord commander's kiss.
@@NKJonSnowBlack haired dudes tongues are just built different 😂😂
He’s very fond of his good friend *Colonel* *Ingus*
Gotta give Olivia Cooke credit. Reading Fire and Blood, I didn’t care for Allicent, but her performance has probably made her my favorite character of the show. Shows not inherently wrong, she’s just surrounded by psychopaths and ambition
exactly. Despite her flaws Alicent is a good person.
The show spends much more time on her, it was a good choice to get such a talented actress.
There are two kinds of F&B readers, and they view the show differently.
Some people understand F&B as a novel where what is written on the page is "what actually happened" except for where the text specifically calls something out. These are the people who will point at details and complain that they're different from the book, "made up for the show", or that this character wouldn't say/do that.
Other people understand F&B as the history book that it actually is. AM Gyldayn was writing more than 150 years after the events he narrates. He uses multiple sources of dubious quality, each written at different times and for different purposes, to stitch together a narrative that makes sense while pushing his own political agenda which isn't necessarily interested in historical truth so much as authenticity. These readers understand that while there are immutable facts that cannot be ignored, the details of those events are open to interpretation.
These are the people who are perfectly fine with changes in personality or detail from the books (The Princess and The Queen is a separate essay written by Gyldayn some years before expanding it into his magnum opus) but said "yes you should be" when Daemon said "I should be in Harrenhnal", and are increasingly worried about things like Daeron not even being named. The critics will have a field day when they finally introduce him... if they do at all.
History remembers Jaime Lannister as the traitorous Kingslayer, the Kingsguard who killed his King to help the usurper Robert Baratheon claim the throne. While it's true in the broad strokes, the reality was quite different to the way history records it.
GRRM frequently illustrates this by making Gyldayn compare accounts and decide whether eyewitnesses Orwyle or Mushroom are closer to the truth and sometimes he just acknowledges what they said while going with a different narrative from a different source altogether. Gyldayn never met Alicent, Rhaenyra, or anyone else he writes about. He bases their personalities on their deeds first, and the accounts of witnesses like Mushroom and Orwyle second.
Gyldayn put the U in Alicent.
HotD is showing us various realities that Gyldayn didn't know about, didn't think was relevant, or deliberately omitted because it didn't fit his narrative. This is why Alicent is a much more likeable character in the show.
@@sokar_rostauWell said. If there were to be a hypothetical in-universe history book about the events of ASOIAF it would make sense for many of the details to be completely wrong. Whether it's cos the details aren't known or the author's own prejudice, we'd all be like "that isn't how it happened!!!"
@@sokar_rostau Exactly. I really like how the show has handled that issue of F&B being an intentionally imperfect account which sometimes features multiple versions of events. When the show has to show us its version of those events (which generally becomes the de facto "real" version), it's done in a way where you can clearly see how each different chronicler, with an incomplete picture and their own biases could have arrived at the version they did from the one version given in the show. Each different account contains some grains of the true events, but always incomplete and sometimes misinterpreted.
21:11 - The subtle Tyrek Lannister ahorse joke in the subtitles. I see you, Swift
Can someone explain this joke to me? A lot of comments mention it
@@GodofChookie It's a joke based on a scene in Clash of Kings. Tyrek Lannister disappeared during the riot in King's Landing and they say he was last seen "ahorse" meaning he was still on his horse the last time anyone saw him. The joke is that people change it based on how you say it, becoming "last seen a horse" meaning he wasn't a man, instead he is or changed into, a horse the last time anyone saw him.
15:43 when lots of rats occupy a tiny space, they sometimes get their tails tangled. This is called a rat king. They are often unable to free themselves and will eventually starve to death.
good to know
“He puts on his Mischief Hoodie” made me giggle and almost clap my hands
It was such a strangely human moment when Cheese knows that Helaena is telling the truth, the slight hesitation like "holy shit, she's serious."
The "Cheese" actor is amazing. In the books, he gets away. I'm really sad he's dead. Wanted to see more of him!
The sound in the blood and cheese scene alone is so haunting. You don't need to see what they're doing to the child, your imagination is doing it for you
Daenys being Balerion's original rider is actually really cool.
Also makes sense because when the Targaryens first moved to Dragonstone, Balerion was the youngest and smallest of the five dragons they brought with them, which is why he was the only one of those five remaining when Aegon began his conquest.
@@mst3KGf Its also informs us on why a dragon called " The Black Dread" that been know exclusively as a warmachine would choose someone like Viserys to be its rider.
I didn't catch it in the show but yeah I love that lore reveal.
Don't read my name
@trippersigs2248 maybe he preferred dreamers.
Imagine if Cregan Stark found out the 2nd Long Night his family and the North have been readying for for thousands of years last just one single battle for a few hours.
_Season 8 does not exist. Seize this traitor!_
bro who the hell would listen to 23 hours of jon snow content
THERE’S NO TIME FOR THAT
the gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute banging content
I am a supporter of Glibus Waters.
I've been listening to it for an hour per day and I'm about half way through. I'm not sure why I'm doing this, but I sure am doing it.
girl what r u doin here
Nice video
I would add how Aegon is in daylight walking to the throne happy and with a happy public
And Rhaenyra is broken angry with a silent public in the dark night
Great detail at 35:52 there are dragon egg cauldrons under both the kids beds, reflecting the Targaryen tradition of placing eggs in the babies cradles to bond with the egg and get it to hatch.
I actually love Aegon as a character now. He is still not a good person but he went from an evil brat to an exploration of how neglect can effect a child well into adulthood and in his own screwed up way he is trying to rectify that.
I agree, I think the show's portrayal of Aegon is very interesting. There's clearly a *person* there with some depth of character and some sort of internal logic, regardless of whether we interpret that person as good or bad.
@@Wolfeson28 Yeah, he's complex! Really talented actor. The best characters of the books like Jaime, are all conflicted and complicated.
I was about to say “About fucking time” because this video came out a week after the episode aired….then I saw the amount of work that went into making this.
0:46 HOUSE CELTIGAR MENTIONED RAAAAAAAAAAA 🗣️🦀
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AVERAGE TARGARYEN FAN: 🤓🐉😡
AVERAGE CELTIGAR ENJOYER: 😎🦀🥰
🦀 🦀 _Fool the crab, get the claws_ 🦀 🦀
CRAB RAVE ??
This is the age of the crab 🦀🦀🦀🦀
I love how you see how Rgenyra threats her grieving child in this episode and how Alicent threats her son in episode 2 when he’s grieving.
"dragons of flesh weaving dragons of thread" could also refer to the dragons dying out and becoming nothing more than a part of history
It could be using 'dragons' as a stand-in for the Targaryns, so it is to mean that the living Targaryns are weaving their history
You seem to have forgotten a relevant real-world phrase: weaving the tapestry of history.
I'm still not clear on "Beware the beast underneath the boards." The dragon later in the episode most definitely comes from outside the city, not beneath the boards or anything else.
@@vampiresforesl Huh? Where did you get that from? The beast beneath the boards is Meleys and Rhaenys killing hundreds of innocent smallfolk when she bursts out of the floor of the dragonpit at the coronation.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much Emma D'Arcy did with silence in this episode?
Their face, their body language, their ability to communicate all the turmoil within Rhaenyra with just a look. A masterful performance 👏
only one line in an entire episode and yet still an Emmy deserving perfomance, at this point if they don't nominate them it's surely because they just don't know for which category right?
Delusional.
Who’s their?
@@MA-rf6bu Emma D'Arcy is Non-Binary. Their pronouns are They/Them.
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The long night is over, now my alt shit x watch begins
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Was that autocorrect? lol
43 minutes is kind of a long time to be sitting there you might want to try some fiber in your diet
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Some people found Blood and Cheese underwhelming compared to the book. It’s still horrifying and it’s important to ensure the wellbeing of the child actors. Even though it’s acting, it would be traumatising to reenact Blood and Cheese how they did it in the book. Apparently, when a hand covered Jaehaerys’ mouth, it was the actor’s father. There are laws and regulations regarding child actors.
That plus also rape gets overused by bad writers to make things look vile , it’s rarely needed in a script and it’s just heinous
What's really horrifying is that I had to see Alicent getting piped twice.
Also, the scene in the book is objectively dumb. Two amateur assassins wouldn't risk their lives to torture the royal family just for fun. It's not like they were getting paid by the hour. It was literally just GRRM giving in to the worst "grimdark" tropes: pointless misery pr0n that is so stupidly depressing it breaks all immersion.
You know that you are watching a fiction, right? That there are cuts, montage, etc... you can easily film only the mother screaming without the children even in the scene. As a fan of the book, the scene as portrayed in the show is shit and we should stop finding obstuse justification for the filmmaker incompetence.
@@Nukefandango Hard disagree. It set off the series of events leading to Helaena's suicide, from the guilt of knowing she had just sentenced her own son Maelor to death in favor of his elder brother and the mental toll of having to live with that.
This is as good as watching an episode of HotD
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The tapestry opening is interesting as it no doubt was inspired by the Bayeux tapestry which tells the story of William of Normandy's invasion of England and the events immediately preceding and following it.
I think Aemond already knows about Criston's affair with Alicent. Everytime he makes a slide against her he carefully watches Criston's reaction. As if he was asking: 'How biased are you. Can you still see her faults or are to much in love to see the truth
he doesnt know. Larys knows, Otto is suspicious. Nobody else knows for know.
Best part about this video is the fact that Alt Schwift X sponsored it
Finally figured out why Larys’ “they no longer breathe our air” line sounded so familiar: I was hearing Sansa when she questioned Theon “tell me why Bran and Rickon should be gone while you still breathe the air-tell me to my face Theon!”
Also a convenient method to explain why that handmaiden working for Mysaria is no longer on the show, because she was played by the wife of the former co-show runner who left after the first season.
@@mst3KGf wtf a show runner quit??!! what??!! who??!! wouldn't that be bigger news a show runner up n quitting???
We're already starting the season off with a death.
Seasons that start off without a death or ten is considered a dull affair
Dothraki review: "First death was promising, but then they didn't kill the queen and the other kid. No three deaths, deeply disappointing, one out of five stars."
Baby wake up. Alt shift x just dropped.
Oh and how many more will we see! Can't wait!
With season 8 logic
I sometimes look forward to these more than the actual episode :D Glad you’re back!
Thank you for making these videos for like a decade. Always incredibly well made. You’re a king.
You're back! On the point about King Aegon telling a peasant he'll give him his "taxes" back, and that Otto has to explain taxes to him, that's sort of misrepresenting the scene a bit. Taxes are added to the cost of goods and services. That's not what's happening. It's the peasant's sheep, his livelihood- those very goods and services- are what he's lost. Feeding the dragons for the war makes sense, but what isn't discussed is that the dragons can eat other things. It is an example of how some of the normal people are economically suffering in a somewhat cruel way.
Taxes are pretty much that. A value taken by the government from the people by force or under the threat of force. It doesn't matter if it's called taxes, tolls, tariffs, wartime confiscation or whatever. It's still a form of a tax.
This was my first time watching one of your videos.
I absolutely loved everything about it. You explain everything so simply and clearly and it's a pleasure to listen to your calm voice.
Amazing work
“work life balance is hard”🤣 I can't
This was just phenomenal. It must have taken so much work!!! My hats off to you.
To think this could've been avoided is Criston just kept his damn sword sheathed (again).
Yes, but this is closer to the very first original story of the Dance than the later versions of the books. At least when it comes to the importance of Ser Criston for the story.
32:20 - Cute Baratheon family picture there. Although it's funny that even as a kid, Stannis was already dour.
21:20 i understood Alicent calling Tyland intterrupting as wanting to stop that cruelty without directly opposing the king instead of bad behavior
Cheese kills child
Audience reaction: meh🫤
Cheese kicks dog
Audience reaction: 🤬🤬🤬🤬
That child would've eventually grown up into Targaryen, though.
Dog, on other hand, was just a good boy doing his work and he didn't deserve it.
@@whyareyoureadingmynickname8158 okay but the sleeping child did. Sure.
Book readers said meh a lot of the non book readers were shocked and disgusted.
@@Gopackgoinfinitynon book reader here thought the scene was super mid
@@mementomori771 cool your in the minority
I actually didn't think the changes to Blood & Cheese were bad since Helaena still had to point at the kid who will get his head cut off - I just thought the whole scene was weirdly rushed and sandwiched before another random Criston/Alicent sex scene? What's the point of that? I feel like in the days of GoT it would have been a really chilling, slow and silent 15-minute sequence directly going into credits without music.
David lightbringers theory about the song used by Deomon is pretty convincing, can’t wait to see where that goes
This is exactly the video I’m looking for on each HOTD episode-great breakdown with no future spoilers. Amazing video.
“as if Tyland Lannister was a horse”
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Best HOTD commentary in the word bro the visual and information given is like no other thank you I look forward to every video. I wish you were into Harry Potter too especially because they have a TV show coming up soon in a year or so.
I struggle with who's who because their names are so alike. I'm grateful for this channel thoroughly explaining to make it easier 🙏🏻
Ya it’s ridiculous
I've read all of the books, and seen both shows, multiple times and written thousands of words on various forums about them. Believe me when I say, the struggle never ends.
I think GRRM does it on purpose because he's a sadist that enjoys fucking with his reader's heads.
I think it's a reflection of real life British royalty. You have names like Henry and Richard repeating themselves throughout history.
Corlys says he had a dagger commissioned for Luke... the dagger looks like the one Ser Qarl has in his hand before fighting Laenor in the Driftmark hall and faking Laenor's death
maybe that’s the historical Velaryon dagger meant for the heir to Driftmark?
New ahorse lore dropped 21:10 and new Schwift family tree lore just dropped 39:03. Did we know he was his bastard half brother? How can he be an evil twin if they are only half siblings?
Shift and Scwhift clearly are the products of heteropaternal superfecundation .
Can you please please please do a video about Elden Ring lore. You’re the only person who can explain it
new shifty upload, it’s already a great start to this sunday
In your videos I like the maps showing where everyone is and the geographical relationship between all of the mentioned places.
21:55 - This is a good point, Larys knows the value of sneaking murderous men into a Lord’s hall at night. He’s not likely to overlook Rat Catchers even if they live outside the castle. Maybe he was hoping for the Greens to fully commit to war with an outrage?
There’s something about menials though…the rich look past them. And unlike the servants, the rat catchers are not semi-intimates. They are semi-contractors. In and out, unnoticed. The first time we see Cheese, Alicent and Cole almost brush past him in the small council room. It’s like he doesn’t exist. They don’t even notice he’s there, or register his presence. That’s why the maidservants didn’t intervene. A menial was fussing over a trap. What harm could this menial be?
@@SuperStella1111 I wrote something similar about Larys, then I remembered what he’d done to his own family and that he wouldn’t overlook even a kitchen boy in killing the castle servants. Blood, the disaffected guard is out of place and was seen by the servant, who I believe ran straight to Larys (out of fear of Larys), raising the alarm with the one person who probably allowed this to happen. The Green Royal family have surrendered their security to Larys by Queen Alicent and only Otto has a hope of undoing that. I doubt Larys will let Otto continue beyond his usefulness to the war. Larys will find & bring Blood to a quick end, Cheese was likely ended by Blood before leaving the castle, with only his dog & debtors to grieve him,
"Blood & Cheese" sounds like house words. If I weren't already a Stark fan I'd pledge myself to House Ratatargaryen
"My bastard half brother Alt Schwift X" 😂😂😂
This is the content I’ve been waiting on. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of what takes place in each episode and that just goes up to another level after each Alt Shift X breakdown.
"House of the Dragon is back" and so are you!
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Been awaiting your HOTD review.
So detailed and excellently done.
I love the way you make your videos. My favorite HOTD, and GOT breakdowns. Thanks for your work!
ASX videos of the new GoT or HotD are such a great part of a new season. Love all these and the best analysis of the characters and plot and themes
That image of Daenerys Burning is ... not Daenerys, it probably depicts the death of Rhaenyra.
I’ve been checking your channel everyday since episode 1 for this.
Good work
33:16 mischief hoodie 💀
Couldn't describe the vibe better
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I didn't take Alicent's line to Tyland as joining in on the shame, it came across more like trying to squash the situation and get on with the meeting rather than allow him to be humiliated.
21:11 HE SAID THE THING 🐴🐴🐴
15:34 looks more like a stag with a crown below his antlers, foreshadowing Robert Baratheon who came into power later..
I’ve just noticed, from what we have so far anyway, that Rhaenyra hasn’t appeared to have told Jace about the prophecy yet
Good to see you are back. Was waiting for this. Best channel to understand in depth of the games and politics..
21:11 - Tyland Lannister is a horse, confirmed ☑️. The mythology deepens 😺
Is anyone gonna mention how Blood and Cheese were supposed to kill Aemond? He’s one of the best swordsman living atm, and a couple of thugs were supposed to take him down?
Ser Tyland was almost a horse?
A centaur? 😼
It's been sooo long... After watching the episode, I remember that something was missing. That something is watching your video right after! That's for years of helping me enjoy the series much more ❤
1:14 the Targaryens weren’t the only ones to survive. There was a guy named Aurion who declared himself Emperor of Valyria and hired 30,000 mercenaries to retake Valyria atop his own dragon. He and all his men simply disappeared.
you and david lightbringer are the GOAT when it comes to hotd and asoiaf analysis
"History of Westeros" is decent too
Quinn's Ideas, before Ideas of Ice and Fire was the goat for me ( still is, in Sci-Fi book recommendations department for me). Too bad later seasons of GoT broke him.
I hope this season they show the emotional bonds of dragons and their riders like they had shown for Rhaenrya and Syrax last season as she was in labor.
I like how Alt said during the after show live stream that they were going to try and get the recap episodes up earlier….only for them to still be uploaded the morning of the newest episode haha. Love the channel and please continue take your times on vids. I just though that was kind of funny
I want a Game of thrones spin-off show about house Celtigar. It should be called House of the Crabs 🦀 🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Crab people crab people
The crab show
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It would be the first ASOIAF spin-off that takes places millions of years into the future: everyone has evolved into crabs.
*Daemon with a hood* : i'm on my nefarious shit
Finally! Missed these videos 😍 Thank you!
You’re the only GOT/HOTD channel I watch on YT!
So happy to be back the sunday with my Coffee listenning to you guys ❤🎉
So good to have your videos again! Few minutes in fantastic ❤
Criston is the biggest hypocrite in the entire show.
…I love this channel 😂. I think I like it more than the actual shows. The breakdowns of lore is so entertaining informative. I just love lore dumps 😂
I've been waiting for this. I'm so happy shift is back for Hot D
I was hoping the algorithm would bring me back to these with season two now I’m subscribed to never miss out your videos made last season so much fun to watch
Thank you for shouting out Abigail at PhilosophyTube - with her cameo in The Acolyte and now casting in HOTD, she’s a pioneer for the trans community and showcases how a RUclips creator can break out to the big screen
Bro, great to have you back! We were hoping for more Dune content especially when part two came out, but amazing content as always!
I was waiting for it more than the actual show
again i am completely blown away with your content. thank you
Maybe the illness of Viserys is linked with his long dead skeleton dragon Balerion.
The flesh of his dragon was rotten and stripped away, so he's human body refuses to heal
It would be so interesting if Larys purposely allowed Blood & Cheese to happen. That would make his character even more unpredictable
Im so glad you pointed out that Cheese was the only one to actually listen to her