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Regular Westeros, House of the

1:23

Dragon season one episode

1:26

eight.

1:26

the lord of the tides.

1:45

Hello,

1:45

and welcome to Radio Westeros. I'm Yig

1:47

Boy, and it's great to be here to talk

1:50

about the eighth episode of

1:52

House of Dragon called Lord of the Tides.

1:55

Today, we'll be reacting to and evaluating

1:57

this episode as well as making plenty

1:59

of book comparisons because we are fans of

2:01

the books. but we'll avoid

2:03

spoiling the future plot of House

2:05

of the Dragon and we're gonna have

2:07

a spoiler section near the end and we'll

2:10

give you a giant heads up for that. So

2:12

whatever your song of Ice and Fire Game of Thrones

2:14

background, we have a lot to offer

2:16

tonight. In this episode, there

2:18

was a significant time jump

2:20

from last week of more than six

2:22

years. So far in House

2:24

of the Dragon, we've had episodes revolving

2:26

around a trolley, a hunt, a wedding, a

2:29

funeral, and the showrunners described

2:31

this week's episode as the

2:33

Hospice episode. Reneera,

2:36

Damon, and Family were visiting the Red Keeps

2:38

straighten out the succession struggle

2:40

developing on Driftmark, but at the heart

2:42

of the episode was the tail end

2:44

of Acerus' decline his

2:46

long period of suffering from a

2:48

leprosy esque wasting disease

2:51

reaches its conclusion. Being

2:53

king, though, Vicero's got little

2:55

solace in his dying days as important

2:58

political matters still needed to

3:00

be addressed. Last

3:02

week, focused on the tensions and violence

3:04

between a new generation of characters

3:06

who have inherited some of the conflict

3:09

laid down by their parents And

3:11

this week, we saw those children more

3:13

grown up and becoming young adults. With

3:16

all the recastings and time jumps

3:19

at last House of the Dragon has

3:23

really reached its final form, given

3:25

that the old only thing holding the peace together

3:28

was the ailing vesaries. His death

3:30

at the end of their episode is highly significant

3:33

in that it will surely begin a crisis

3:35

of succession. Before we

3:37

get ahead of ourselves though,

3:39

there's so much to in

3:41

this episode as we put Vocera's

3:44

final deeds under the microscope.

3:46

So with much to say, can't wait

3:48

to get into more depth, let's say hello

3:51

to my Radio co host,

3:53

Lady Quinn.

3:54

Hello. Good evening. Welcome,

3:56

everyone. Hello, Emily. Welcome

3:58

back. Hi. Glad to be back.

4:00

Hi. Yeah. Lots to talk about

4:02

tonight. My word, this was

4:04

an emotional episode. Was it

4:06

not? I cried a lot. acting

4:09

with top notch as usual. And

4:12

so, yeah, like your voice said, we have a lot

4:14

to talk about. But before we

4:16

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wear in life. Actually, I'm gonna

4:59

get us started this evening. we

5:01

opened the episode at Hy Tide, one

5:03

of my favorite filming locations, which I think

5:05

I say every time we talk about it.

5:07

We have Princess Rainey's receiving

5:10

news about her

5:10

husband Corley's with her granddaughter Beyla

5:12

by her side. In the very

5:15

first sentence of the episode, I thought this

5:17

was very cleverly done before characters

5:19

even on the screen. It's still black

5:21

screen. We learned two facts.

5:24

Korlyse has been away for six years, which

5:26

gives us the time jump more than six

5:28

years. AND NOW HE HAS

5:30

BEEN GRAVELY WOUNDED. THIS

5:32

NEWS COMES TO US FROM MACETER KELVIN

5:34

WHO WE LASSA LASSA

5:36

STITCHING UP Aymand and Reneera after

5:39

the brawl in episode seven. It

5:41

comes via a raven from Evenfall, the

5:43

island home of house terth, And

5:45

as Rainy's orders preparations to

5:47

be made to receive her wounded

5:49

husband just in just a few days,

5:52

whose survival by the way is by no means

5:55

guaranteed, his younger brother,

5:57

Raymond, steps forward. And

5:59

as Rainey sits the driftwood throne

6:01

in Corley's absence. Raymond

6:03

wants to know who will sit there

6:06

if

6:06

Corley's dies. Rainy's declares

6:08

that the matter has been decided. Corley's

6:10

wants his grandson looseris

6:12

to succeed him, but payment

6:15

is a truth speaker as we'll see

6:17

a couple times in this episode owed and really

6:19

just can't hold himself back from speaking,

6:22

something that Rainey's reminds him

6:24

could be considered treason. Raymond

6:26

Schiff's gears and accuses his absent

6:29

brother of bringing calamity after

6:31

calamity down upon their house

6:33

with his ambition and Reimbursement

6:36

again that the king, emphasizing

6:38

that he's her cousin, would

6:40

have his tongue for such talk

6:43

but Raymond counters that the king does

6:45

not sit the throne in king's landing. The

6:47

queen does. The winds

6:49

have shifted, he says, and it's clear

6:52

that House, High Tower, has gained a tendency in

6:54

the capital, and Raymond

6:57

intends to capitalize on that. And

6:59

that's where we leave high

7:01

tide. your boy. Yes.

7:03

So from there, we then go

7:05

to Dragonstone and there's

7:08

this long and wonderful CGI

7:10

shot going over the sea

7:12

and the castle and up to the

7:14

volcano. The volcano is

7:16

called Dragonmont. The dragon's

7:18

obviously love the heat and the environment,

7:20

and we see why Dragonstone is

7:23

therefore such a suitable seat

7:25

for Targaryens and their dragons.

7:28

and when you have happy dragons and

7:31

the conditions are right, then you

7:33

get clutches of eggs which of course

7:35

are invaluable. One

7:37

man who definitely understands their value

7:39

is Damon Targaryen, and we see

7:41

him scaling rocks and sliding

7:44

down crevices to look for

7:46

eggs. And yes, he finds a

7:48

clutch and cuts

7:50

through a layer of goop with a rock hammer

7:52

to get to the eggs. I thought this was

7:54

a great little sequence because

7:56

we get to see Dragon Mont

7:58

and how the eggs

8:00

look freshly laid. All

8:03

in all, a nice touch that gives

8:05

us some insight about the process of birthing

8:07

dragons and I thought it added to

8:09

the well building in the

8:11

books Sirex lays several clutches

8:13

of eggs during the time of

8:16

king vissaries, including a clutch that

8:18

more or less lines up on the timeline

8:20

with this one. Dragon's

8:22

eggs are a tricky business though.

8:24

Here we see Damon insist

8:26

that they'd be put in a warming chamber, and

8:28

we know that Targaryens try to form

8:30

a bond with the eggs, but there does

8:32

seem to be a hit or

8:34

miss random element to the eggs

8:37

actually hatching. and this is all part

8:39

of the mystery of dragons. And

8:42

as Damon gives the eggs to the

8:44

Dragon Tameses, they deliver a

8:46

message that's just arrived from

8:48

Lady Baylor on Driftmark.

8:50

So we had a look at it and

8:52

roughly it reads father,

8:54

I writes with news of Uncle

8:56

Raymond, who this moment sails

8:58

for king's landing, he plans to

9:00

petition his grace the king matters

9:02

of succession, rights, and the

9:04

sanctity of blood. He

9:06

wishes for the driftwood throne to pass

9:08

to him that is his by

9:10

rights and that he is the

9:12

only unattainted choice.

9:14

Baylor.

9:14

they'll After

9:16

this, we get a quick scene with

9:19

Reneera and two of her sons

9:21

focusing primarily on Chase. He's

9:23

practicing high valyrian, but he's

9:25

struggling. Reniro sees this

9:27

and is gentle with him. She's clearly

9:29

proud of him, but also doesn't, you know,

9:31

doesn't want him to beat himself up over it, reminds him

9:33

it takes a little bit more time than just a

9:35

day to perfect this. This little

9:37

vignette is I think meant to

9:39

contrast how little Aegon seems to

9:41

care to prepare for his vignette rule

9:43

rule. We'll see how much

9:45

time Meghanghan spends preparing versus

9:48

other activities soon. And we

9:50

got a little bit of that last episode as

9:52

well. We're

9:52

interrupted

9:53

by Damon who brings the news that

9:56

Yolked just told us about about the Valerian

9:58

succession.

9:58

The two

9:59

Reneer and Damon immediately get down to business ready

10:02

to head out to king's landing. Not

10:04

only does this issue threaten Luke's claim

10:06

to driftmark, but it also again brings

10:08

up Reneera in Jason's Place and

10:10

in the succession to the iron throne.

10:12

Yeah. I agree that scene of

10:15

gesseris had his lessons, especially

10:18

contrasted with later scenes of with Aegon

10:20

in in this episode really

10:22

put me in mind of the contrast that

10:24

was drawn by various in a dance with

10:26

Dragon between Aegon,

10:28

a KA YoungGriff and

10:31

Tom and Batheon,

10:31

which actually for what it's worth is equally

10:34

applicable, if not more so, to Tom

10:36

and his older brother, Joffrey. Verisk

10:38

told Kevin Lannister,

10:39

Aegon has been shaped for rule since

10:41

before he could walk. He's been trained in

10:43

arms as he fits a night to be. but

10:45

that was not the end of his education. He

10:47

reads and writes. He speaks several tongues.

10:49

He has studied history and law and

10:51

poetry. Asepta has

10:53

instructed him in the mysteries of the faith since was

10:55

old enough to understand them. He has

10:57

lived with Fisher folk, worked with his hands,

10:59

swimming rivers, and mended nets and

11:01

learned to wash his own clothes at need he can

11:03

fish and cook and find up a

11:05

wound. He knows what it is like to be hungry,

11:07

to be hunted, and to be afraid,

11:09

Thaman has been taught that

11:11

kingship is his right. egon

11:13

knows that kingship is his duty,

11:15

that a king must put his people first

11:17

and live and rule for them.

11:19

So this characterization of the two

11:21

sides of the house dragon thus

11:23

far seems to really

11:25

lean into this contrast. You've got

11:28

Reneer's children who I feel like

11:30

are being shown to be fairly

11:32

wholesome, polite, well educated, gessaras

11:36

in particular being taught

11:38

about his duty and, you know,

11:41

prepared to be a king one

11:43

day versus basically

11:46

what appeared to be at least for the males,

11:48

you know, entitled and

11:50

violent individuals on

11:52

the other side. poor Helena

11:54

will leave her out of this. She's another

11:56

thing altogether. She's fay and

11:58

gentle and she doesn't quite seem to belong

12:00

anywhere. We'll get back

12:02

to her later. Let's

12:04

move over to Kings

12:07

Landing.

12:08

Yeah. We next see Ronira and her

12:10

family arriving at the Red Keep

12:13

being announced by King's Guards or

12:15

Stefan Darklin, much like

12:17

the lackluster reception that Acerus

12:19

received at Driftmark years ago Reneer

12:21

and her family are received only by Lord

12:23

Caswell. You may remember him offering

12:25

Reneer congratulations on the birth of

12:27

Joffrey in episode six. Immediately

12:30

we see this branch of Acerus' family

12:32

is not welcomed by the other who now

12:34

control the court in the king's name.

12:36

Upon entering, Damon and Reneera

12:38

immediately remark on how unrecognizable

12:41

the Red Keep has become with Alison

12:43

seemingly taking her decorating duties

12:45

Instead of the Targaryen tapestries and the

12:47

erotic art, there is religious

12:49

iconography everywhere. While the

12:51

Targaryens did adopt the faith of the seven

12:53

when Aegon the first conquered the seven kingdoms.

12:55

It was often seen or

12:57

later seen as more of a savvy political

12:59

choice meant to gain the face support

13:01

rather than necessarily a true and

13:03

strong devotion The timing of

13:05

the change of the artwork suggests that it was

13:07

driven by the high tower influence. Oh,

13:09

yeah. Definitely. We've talked

13:11

quite a bit throughout this season about

13:13

Allison's devotion to the faith of the

13:15

seven, starting in episode two

13:17

when she teaches Reneera how to

13:19

pray in a great step too. So it's

13:21

obvious that Alison is

13:23

has been raised in the faith, Rainier,

13:26

maybe not so much. A little

13:28

bit of background on House High

13:30

Tower actually underscores the

13:32

significance of these changes. they

13:34

are a truly ancient house. It's rumored

13:36

that the high towers might

13:39

predate first men in Westeros. Over

13:41

the centuries from their fortress at the mouth of the

13:43

honey wine river, they've become not only one of

13:45

the richest and most influential houses,

13:49

first to the kingdom of the reach and later in the

13:51

seven kingdoms itself. But

13:53

they were also one of the first West Jersey

13:55

houses to embrace the faith

13:57

that the Andals brought to their shores from

13:59

Essos.

13:59

House High Tower funded the

14:02

foundation of the Star Recept and the

14:04

office of the high septon and soon became one of the

14:06

premier houses supporting and

14:08

defending the faith, which was centered in their own

14:10

city of Old Town. The

14:12

Targaryans on the other hand

14:14

brought their own religion from Valeria. And

14:17

like Anne said, though Aegon

14:19

allowed himself to be anointed at the

14:21

starry's help during his conquest.

14:23

obvious in house the dragon that many of

14:25

his descendants do keep to

14:27

their old valyrian traditions. So

14:29

this iconography of seven dominating

14:31

the red keep is truly shorthand

14:33

for a high tower ascendancy in the

14:36

capital. And speaking of

14:38

which, let's check-in with the very high

14:40

tower dominated small council.

14:43

Yeah.

14:43

You know, here's where we first see Alison,

14:45

and she's garb and very conservative

14:47

clothing now. I mean, fabric up to

14:49

the neck. wearing this

14:51

massive seven pointed star pendant.

14:53

The message delivered by the religious

14:55

symbolism that we've seen is reinforced.

14:57

She's sitting in Viceris' chair in the small

14:59

council chamber. The scene opens with

15:01

an elderly Lord Biesbury, master of

15:03

coin, at the end of what seems like probably a long

15:06

winded accounting. as an

15:07

unabashed diamond bee's very fan, I

15:10

feel bad for the old man. I mean, his

15:12

job as the realms accountant seems to be a

15:14

pretty thankless one these days. and

15:16

we even see shades of Ned Stark wondering

15:18

why the crown's coin is being sent spent

15:20

on turnies and festivals with that

15:22

mention of the festival, the mother. and

15:24

a very expensive related bronze

15:27

bust.

15:27

Allison seems beyond over whatever

15:29

he's saying and is about ready to come down on him

15:31

with a reminder when she's interrupted.

15:34

Lord Commander Harold Westerling

15:36

shows up to confirm the arrival of

15:38

Reneera and Company. And Otto tells

15:40

us that he's the one who instructed

15:42

that not so warm welcome. West

15:44

Sterling's downcast eyes and Allison's quick

15:46

glance at her father make it clear that

15:48

not everyone is entirely comfortable with this

15:50

break from protocol, Shirley Lanira's

15:53

station as heir to the Iron throne would have

15:55

merited a little bit more of a

15:57

welcome than that. Next,

15:58

the Valerian succession

15:59

crisis is discussed by the Small Council, and

16:02

it's a perfect topic to give us a taste

16:04

of everyone's personal opinions. The

16:07

new ish, I guess, he hasn't

16:09

had much screen time yet. Grand master

16:11

or a while reminds the group that

16:13

the current Lord Volarian wishes

16:15

Luke to succeed him. master

16:18

of ships, Thailand lannister,

16:20

is quick to call that into question. Reminding

16:22

us that house lannister sided with the

16:24

Greens following the rejection

16:26

that Thailand's Twin Jason received from

16:28

Princess Reneera. Lambsters are

16:30

famous for their pride, of course, so it makes sense that

16:32

they would hold this grudge nearly two

16:34

decades later. these very

16:36

pipes up that, you know, ability

16:38

to lead a fleet doesn't necessarily

16:41

alter Luke's claims. And with that, the

16:43

reason for Alison's to stay in towards it

16:45

becomes a bit clearer Ironically,

16:48

ability does not alter his claim would make a great

16:50

argument for Aegon, but

16:52

I digress. There's more back and

16:54

forth amongst the council. Very

16:56

few of them here seeming sympathetic to the

16:58

idea of Luca's heir. Allison

17:00

shuts down the in fighting since the crown,

17:02

which a shorthand for her and her

17:04

father. We'll hear out claimants tomorrow before

17:06

she exits the meeting chambers. Okay.

17:08

So now I'm gonna talk about the

17:11

Diana scenes So a quick trigger

17:13

warning for the next, like, minute. Yeah.

17:15

I'll keep it brief. Alison

17:17

is shown dealing

17:19

with situation that has risen with a son Aegon

17:21

and his children's nurse made

17:23

a serving goal called

17:25

Diana, her son, sexually assaulted

17:27

the young woman. Now we understand

17:30

why they had that window scene

17:32

earlier in the season. And

17:35

Aegon clearly sees himself

17:37

as above, not only other people, but

17:39

any moral code as well, while

17:42

Alison is outwardly kind to the

17:44

girl. She doesn't give her much

17:46

choice with the moon tea there.

17:49

Incidentally, the revelation that

17:51

Diana is a nurse made is how

17:53

we ascertain that Aegon and Helena

17:55

are now married with children,

17:58

though we have yet to hear their

18:00

names mentioned. So the scene ends

18:02

with Alison being angry with the

18:04

sun telling him, you're no sun of

18:06

mine, and him protesting that

18:08

he's done. Watch he asked

18:10

in spite of never wanting any of it, setting

18:12

up a possible reluctance on his

18:14

part to challenge his sister's success

18:17

session. not to

18:19

mention leaving the viewer with the

18:21

ugly impression that this

18:24

character is far from worthy of being

18:26

viscerity's successor. Correct?

18:28

Yes. Definitely have

18:30

that impression. While this is

18:32

all going on, the first thing Reneera

18:35

and Damon do when they get into the keep,

18:37

apparently, seek out viseris

18:38

in his chambers, echoing

18:42

their very muted reception The

18:45

series' chambers feel deserted. There's very

18:47

low light. The king's model

18:49

city is sadly covered in

18:51

dust and cobwebs, and it's

18:54

obvious. that the days of him sitting before it

18:56

tinkering endlessly are

18:58

long over. Rinnie

19:01

Refines her father in a curtain bed and

19:04

the change since we last saw

19:06

him is completely shocking.

19:08

He is a living skeleton. He has

19:10

his head bandaged for an

19:12

as yet unknown reason. And

19:14

both Fronira and Damon are

19:16

visibly moved by the

19:18

change here, the the love that

19:20

they each have for him is quite obvious.

19:23

But finding his brother awake

19:25

and aware, Damon cuts to the chase

19:28

and starts telling Vocera's the

19:30

reason for their visit. Although

19:32

he's obviously uncomfortable doing so,

19:34

he kinda stammers and stumbles on

19:36

his words. think this is probably the only time

19:38

we've seen Damon anything other than

19:41

fully self possessed, including that time he

19:43

was lying on the floor, the phone thrown

19:45

room being kicked around by his

19:47

older brother. But when

19:49

Vocera appears confused by

19:51

the details, Rydiay changes

19:53

tack and brings in her two youngest

19:54

sons to meet their grandfather. Aegon

19:57

and Viceris appeared to

19:59

delight the king, especially his name

20:02

sake. But then he suffers a

20:04

sudden pain and he asks Damon for

20:06

his tea, which

20:08

turns out to be milk of the poppy. And of course

20:10

Damon is nobody full and realizes

20:12

that his brother is being kept

20:14

sedated with his very, very strong

20:16

narcotic. And while his

20:18

condition indicates that there's a

20:20

need for something, you know,

20:22

it's still a cause for concern giving

20:24

that this leaves the ruling of the

20:26

realm and the day to day decision

20:28

making. in the hands of Alison

20:30

and Otto.

20:31

And to talk about the books in fire

20:34

and blood, regarding the

20:36

king's final illness, it

20:38

says gout chest pains and shortness

20:40

of breath continued to trouble the

20:42

king in the final years of his

20:44

reign as his health failed Viseries

20:47

left ever more of the governance

20:49

of the realm to his hand and small

20:51

council. So in keeping with

20:53

his personality, he was a

20:55

lover of feasts and entertainments, book for

20:57

series suffers from ailments

20:59

that come from over indulgence in

21:01

general lack of fitness. He's

21:03

out of shape with gout and

21:05

heart problems. Fire and blood

21:08

vissaries seems almost as though he's

21:10

given up. House

21:12

of the dragon vesaries is different.

21:14

He's suffering with a much more serious

21:16

illness. He's in great pain. And

21:18

parts of himself are literally falling

21:20

off and rotting away. Damon

21:22

and Reneira are discussing how to

21:24

help perhaps bringing

21:26

Mesa Girardis from Dragonstone

21:28

when Alison arrives. Yeah.

21:30

Allison enters the room

21:33

having dealt with the situation, and

21:36

Reneera initially is quite courteous,

21:38

but Damon doesn't restrain

21:39

himself from the get go from

21:41

commenting on their lack of reception, and

21:44

then

21:44

the subject of Alison ruling

21:46

in the king name comes up, and

21:49

Damon challenges her again on

21:51

his brother's condition, on how it's

21:53

been handled, and on her

21:55

own motivations. And this

21:57

scene really struck me as much as

21:59

Alison has grown

21:59

into her role as queen. It

22:02

is really impossible here

22:04

to forget that Damon has

22:06

much more history and experience with

22:09

his brother and with the

22:11

crown and the Red Keep and the

22:13

Game of Thrones in general. he just really

22:15

owns this exchange. Both

22:18

Reneera and Damon are

22:20

pressing their

22:23

indignation over the state of affairs, and

22:25

Damon offers another challenge on the the

22:27

changes

22:27

in the decor and the

22:29

heraldry. He wants to know why all visible symbols of Targaryen

22:32

power have been replaced by stars

22:34

and statues, things that

22:36

are undoubtedly far more indicative

22:38

of high tower presence

22:40

than Targaryens. Alison

22:43

is quite cool, and she speaks

22:45

of the guidance of the faith and the higher authority.

22:48

She also makes it clear that

22:50

she and her father will have

22:52

the deciding temporal authority

22:54

on the matter of the valerian inheritance

22:57

on the next day. In

22:59

all of Allison's scenes to this point, we see

23:01

her as a very

23:02

changed woman. Her dress

23:03

her hair, to mirror, almost

23:06

severe. And this is a

23:08

real contrast with the flowing

23:10

hair, fur, and bright

23:12

colors

23:12

that we seen from her in previous episodes, including the

23:15

very last one.

23:16

So combined with the changes of decor

23:18

and the Red Keep and her

23:21

manner in citing the seven almost

23:23

every other line

23:24

out

23:25

of her mouth. She's invoking

23:27

one of the seven. We see

23:29

that she's really become much more

23:32

pious, almost to the point of being sanctimonious.

23:34

And in fact, in the inside

23:36

the episode, the show runners indicate that

23:38

she's doing a penance of sorts. for

23:41

her outbursts on

23:43

driftmark. So that's

23:45

what's behind her really increased

23:48

religiosity. and let's

23:50

leave the very

23:52

concerned Damon and Reneira where

23:55

they are and check-in with

23:57

their kids. Yeah.

23:57

The kids, we get a

23:59

scene and the training

24:01

yard with Chase

24:04

and Luke Despite the lads

24:06

having lived at the Red Keep and trained

24:08

at the yard some years

24:10

before, Luke is feeling insecure

24:13

about his place in the capital. In some

24:15

respects, they're strangers in their own

24:17

home and you have to wonder what living

24:19

away on Dragonstone did for the

24:21

general perception of

24:23

Renewera's sons, given the rumors that they

24:25

were sired by Howin Strong, was

24:28

it a great mistake for Renewera

24:30

to live away and let Alison's family

24:33

comfortable in the capital. Time will

24:35

tell there. Luke

24:38

is really feeling like an outsider

24:40

and he actually says it's quite

24:42

sad. He wishes he looked more

24:44

tagarian like Alison's kids.

24:46

You can see that the rumors of

24:48

his illegitimacy, although quashed

24:51

in official channels are eating

24:53

away at him and leading him

24:55

to question his

24:57

own self. Jay's, though, seems

24:59

more confident and doesn't care

25:01

what anyone else thinks. That's what he

25:03

says. He's the

25:05

older brother and he's being characterized as

25:07

the strong one of the pair, and I do apologize

25:10

profusely for that choice of

25:12

words. The last

25:14

time we saw the boys training was

25:16

when Kristen Cole was teaching Aegon

25:19

to show no mercy to

25:21

And eventually, Harwin beat him

25:23

up. Then in the last episode, we

25:25

saw Luke blind Eamon

25:27

in one eye, So there's

25:30

groundwork being done and we sense that this

25:32

rivalry is only going to

25:34

grow. And here we get

25:36

an update on day Aymond.

25:38

Not only does he now have the largest most

25:40

ferocious dragon under his saddle,

25:43

he's becoming an excellent warrior

25:45

as well it seems. Kristen

25:47

Cole has obviously been mentoring

25:49

him, and now the pair are

25:51

sparring very seriously with no

25:53

armor or helms,

25:56

aiming avades Cold's

25:58

Morningstar, and eventually he

26:00

wins the bout and then

26:02

says he doesn't care about

26:04

turnies. So what's all the training for? What does he care about?

26:06

He immediately turns to his nephews,

26:08

and it invites them to

26:11

train and we can sense the Aymond,

26:13

now spoilt, sporting an eye

26:15

patch over his scar, has

26:17

not forgiven Reneer's sons for

26:19

what transpired between them. in the

26:21

last episode of course. Eamon seems

26:24

self possessed, confident, and very

26:26

capable, and Luke and

26:28

Chase look visibly intimidated. Considering

26:31

that Cole has been training Eamon, we can guess

26:33

that he hasn't been instilling a sense

26:35

of honor and chivalry in

26:38

him and that his previous message of no

26:40

mercy will more than likely

26:42

have been at the heart of Eamon's training.

26:46

With Chase, and Luke

26:48

Seaming, likeable characters, and

26:50

Eamon's glare having all the

26:52

warmth of a psychopath we

26:55

really feel the tension and

26:57

the threat here.

26:58

After we leave the training area, Raymond has

27:01

allowed an audience alone with Alison

27:03

and Otto. Again, we see

27:05

Alison seated in Vocera's seat.

27:07

She truly has become the crown

27:09

like Vaben had said early on, now that

27:11

he's grown to ill and frail to sit

27:13

and counsel or even on the throne itself,

27:16

his wife has taken his place.

27:18

Allison confesses unease in this situation,

27:21

showing that while she has gone

27:23

along with her father's plans for

27:25

years now, she still has

27:27

some trouble stomaching what she thinks they must

27:29

do next, which is actually

27:31

name Reneera's children's, bastards, and

27:34

very public way for the first time.

27:36

Otto reminds her that the realm

27:38

requires strength, something that Luceris

27:40

allegedly cannot offer being

27:43

a child. Vaiman adds that the new

27:45

Lord of the tides would be deeply indebted

27:47

to the crown wink wink nudge.

27:49

Considering Corolus is no doubt sympathetic to

27:51

his grandsons and Lucera's would support

27:53

his mother, Raymond, taking drift market, its fleet is

27:56

really the only outcome in

27:58

the succession crisis that will that

28:00

weakens Reneera and strengthens Aegon.

28:03

Ellison seems trapped here. We get the sense

28:05

that she's uncomfortable taking

28:07

matters this far, knowing that

28:09

we'll be against the will of Corillis and

28:11

her husband, the king. Yet,

28:13

they're both a bed and Otto will be the one

28:15

presiding over things tomorrow. Despite

28:18

all her implied power as queen,

28:20

she feels powerless. I think that

28:22

the framing of this scene is really creative in in

28:25

illustrating that using the furnishings of the

28:27

room to frame Alison as

28:29

though she's imprisoned both at the

28:31

very star and at the end of the

28:32

conversation. Great camera

28:34

work as usual. The

28:37

next scene is Renira

28:39

and Rainy's meeting

28:40

in the God's Wood. You have to

28:43

have a God's Wood scene at the Red

28:44

Keep. And this time, it is the

28:47

two princesses. They

28:49

actually show

28:50

up. It's Rayna,

28:52

Raynira, and Raynice at first after

28:55

a brief reunion of

28:57

Raynice with her granddaughter. Renera

29:00

asks Reina to leave them alone so the

29:02

princesses can talk.

29:04

She wants to know why

29:06

Rainy's is in the capital at all, but

29:08

it kinda answers her own question by

29:10

saying that she assumes it's going to

29:13

be to advocate for herself,

29:15

which really isn't too far from the

29:17

mark because in her husband's absence,

29:20

it is vitally important that

29:22

Rainy's choose the correct place to stand, both

29:24

for her own survival and that of her

29:26

family. Rainey's

29:28

ends up challenging Reneera over Edenor.

29:32

And we get to see

29:34

Reneera. Finally, I'm sure

29:36

this has been weighing on her for

29:38

many years. They did talk about it back on

29:40

Dragonstone. She can't

29:42

tell her the full truth, but she at least

29:44

gets to tell her a part of it.

29:46

She swears that she

29:48

She says I loved your son

29:50

and

29:51

swear she did not order his death

29:54

and was not complicit in it.

29:56

All true. then she goes on to offer double

29:59

betrothel, Lana's daughters to

29:59

Lana's two eldest sons. Breenera

30:03

knows that having rainy's support

30:05

could tip the scales away since House

30:07

Valerian United against Raymond

30:09

could be painted as just a

30:11

case of one man's kind of rogue ambition, whereas

30:13

if all the family of the sea snake

30:16

don't stand as one and they're all sort

30:18

of

30:18

going their own

30:19

way, they risk fracturing the

30:21

power of house valyrian and that is

30:23

very bad news for

30:26

Rainy's is very blunt and

30:28

tells Reneera, tomorrow, the high towers

30:30

lay on their first blow. They will force you

30:32

to your knees,

30:33

and I must stand alone.

30:35

She's

30:35

feeling distinctly the lack

30:37

of her partner, Korlyse. And even

30:39

knowing what Korlyse himself would

30:41

do, she's faced with this very difficult

30:44

decision. For all their

30:46

similarities, these two princesses

30:48

have been painted throughout the series so far

30:50

as quite different right from the

30:52

very first episode. And now

30:54

we see that they may actually

30:57

be at odds, maybe

30:59

not even on the same side. Rainy's

31:01

has a choice to make Without

31:03

her husband there to back her, it's very clear

31:05

that she's struggling with the responsibility and

31:07

the implications of acting in her own

31:10

interest. just to decide what that is.

31:13

So she departs without committing,

31:15

leaving a very visibly distressed

31:16

Reneera behind. and

31:19

continuing with Rainera.

31:21

She visits her father in here

31:23

is bed chamber. Remember

31:26

last week when Vocera's called

31:28

Alison Emma. Well, the

31:31

first thing to note here that is

31:33

that initially he calls Reneera Allison

31:36

a detail which becomes highly

31:39

relevant later when Allison visits

31:41

at the end of the episode Earlier

31:43

in the season, we saw Vocera's

31:45

Tell Rainera about the song of Ice and

31:47

Fire prophecy that came from a prophetic dream

31:50

experienced by Aegon the

31:52

Conqueror, Here, Ranira, who's not been having

31:54

a great day, reminds Vissari's

31:56

that you told me I was our duty to

31:58

hold the realm united against

32:00

a common foe, And of course,

32:02

the dreamers are referring to the White Walkers who attack

32:05

Westeros hundreds of years later in the main

32:07

series. But there's no time

32:09

stamp on prophecies So

32:11

viserys doesn't know that this will all

32:13

take place so far into the

32:15

future. Reneerys

32:17

says that rather than uniting the realm,

32:20

viserys insisting the succession went her

32:22

way has in fact divided it.

32:24

Now she's not sure she wants all

32:26

of that power. Although we'll reach

32:29

the corresponding scene with the

32:31

vicaries and Alison later in

32:33

the episode, it is worth

32:35

noting now that When

32:37

he's mixing up conversations there

32:39

and saying, sorry to Alison

32:42

later, he's probably responding to

32:44

these remarks here. Reinera

32:46

says if Vocera's wants

32:48

her to bear the

32:50

burden of leadership, he should

32:52

defend her here And the fact that

32:54

he later shows up at court says everything about

32:57

his firm view on the succession

32:59

going to Reneer and her

33:01

children The scene ends with Reneera

33:03

crying and Vocera's murmuring, and

33:05

it is so heartbreaking to

33:08

see that even when he's at death's

33:10

door, the obligations of rule must be tended

33:12

to. It speaks to how corrosive

33:14

the iron throne is to whoever

33:16

holds the power, especially when it's

33:18

someone not really cut out for

33:20

the role. Biseries' physical

33:22

corruption is a very on the nose

33:25

metaphor, and today it's a very

33:27

uncomfortable one. Yeah. The

33:29

the

33:29

next day, following that late night

33:31

visit, we see Grandmeaster or a

33:33

while and some attending Maesters

33:36

treating Vyserus. he really looks like death

33:38

warmed over here. Truly a

33:40

testament, I think, to the makeup and

33:42

prosthetics teams for how real and just how

33:44

gruesome he appears.

33:46

In a slow, wheezing voice, he

33:49

tells Otto that he wants to have a

33:51

dinner. It's subtle, but Otto pushes

33:53

back reminding him it's morning. you're

33:56

confused. Whether Otto actually believes

33:58

that Acerus is confused or if

33:59

he just wants to

34:01

misdirect confused old man away

34:03

from the ideas uncertain.

34:05

However, there is some strength left in the king. He

34:07

says that he wants the whole family

34:09

to dine together, something that hasn't been done in

34:12

ages. As the seres has

34:14

helped up, he groans in pain and

34:16

auto demands that the maces bring milk of

34:18

the poppy. It reminds us of littlefinger demanding milk of the

34:20

poppy for sweet Robin using the medicine

34:22

to control someone who he really owes

34:24

his power

34:26

to. But Vesteros is an adult and can still verbalize his own wants

34:28

to some degree. So he refuses. He

34:30

says he doesn't want his mind to cloud

34:32

it now, and we'll find out

34:35

why in

34:35

a minute. We then cut

34:37

to Otto standing before the iron

34:39

throne. He's really ready to

34:41

formally hear the matter on the Valerian

34:43

succession that he's already kind of

34:45

figured out. This is meant to be political

34:48

theater, of course, for Otto and Raymond, have,

34:50

you know, made a closed door deal in in

34:52

a previous scene. Before taking

34:54

the throne, he reminds the entire court

34:56

that as hand he speaks with the

34:58

king's voice on this and all

35:00

other matters. This is

35:02

consistent with fire and blood, which

35:04

states that his grace has had

35:06

lost all appetite and ruled from

35:08

bed if he could even rule

35:10

it all. most days he preferred to leave, matters of state to his hands,

35:12

sir Otto High Tower. Otto

35:14

did look pretty comfy up there. I'm not iron

35:16

throwing, I

35:18

must say. So the

35:20

first petitioner is SurveyMonvolarian,

35:22

Coral's younger brother. He starts

35:24

with his little history lesson on the

35:27

houses. two of the last remaining Valyrian lines

35:29

found in Westeros. He mentions

35:31

his history, time spent on

35:33

driftmark in service to his house,

35:35

before coming to the true point that

35:37

he has true unimpeachable

35:40

valerian blood in his

35:42

veins. And Reniere could not abide this, interrupting to remind

35:44

Vayman that her sons also have that

35:46

blood running through their veins,

35:48

through their deceased father,

35:50

Leonor Valerian. She says if he cares

35:52

about blood, he would not seek to supplant

35:54

them. And frames, Raymond's

35:56

claims is grasping. Queen Alison

35:58

interrupts her.

36:00

She's dressed again in the subdued clothing with

36:02

prominent symbols of the faith, but notably

36:04

that gown is still green. While

36:06

Reneer for the first time is

36:08

opposite her

36:10

in that Targaryen black. And it feels a little bit

36:12

courtroom in that moment

36:14

actually. But Vaiman uses that to

36:16

turn and speak to Reneera being

36:18

condescending and

36:20

cruel. We get a bit of Eamon's smoking at Jason

36:22

Luke here too. Reneera is

36:24

now allowed her turn, and starts

36:27

her arguments, but is pretty immediately interrupted by

36:30

an unexpected arrival.

36:32

Yeah. Enter king PERSERIS.

36:35

first of his name. Titles, titles,

36:38

titles. When Veneira visited

36:40

her father during the night, she had told

36:42

him that his choice if Harry divided

36:44

the realm and she begged him to set

36:46

things right by showing his support if he

36:48

still believed in her. And so when the

36:50

king unix effectively and very slowly walks

36:53

into this wrong room, it should be

36:55

obvious that he heard her and that

36:57

this is his response. And if there

36:59

was any doubt, a a long look that he

37:01

gives his daughter as he passes her

37:03

on his way to the iron throne,

37:05

speaks volume. It says

37:07

I heard you and I intend to set things

37:10

right. Setting the tone

37:12

really not only for this court session, but

37:14

for the rest of the day

37:16

as well. In fact, when the business at hand is concluded and

37:18

he descends from the

37:18

throne, we will hear him say

37:20

to Alison, I

37:22

have to make it right. But

37:26

first, he has to make it to the

37:28

throne. Absolute kudos

37:30

to vicarious for apparently coming all

37:32

the way from his chamber to the throne room

37:34

under his own power and also to Patty

37:36

Considine for his fantastic portrayal.

37:40

In the last few steps, though,

37:42

there those are the hardest and

37:44

though he shakes off and attempted assistance from one of

37:47

his

37:47

king's guard,

37:48

when his brother moves up to help,

37:50

he accepts him. And the low

37:53

that passes between

37:54

them speaks just as

37:56

much as the look between him

37:58

and his daughter a

37:59

moment earlier. This moment, when the

38:02

rogue prince gently and humbly helps

38:04

his obviously dying older

38:06

brother to take

38:08

his throne,

38:09

replacing his crown on

38:11

his head was one of the

38:13

most most moving scenes in the

38:15

episode for me. this

38:17

episode where Patty and Matt's portrayals

38:20

of the sons of Balen the

38:21

Brave moved me to

38:24

tears more than once. We're

38:26

reminded of an earlier scene where the

38:28

brothers were reconciled after Damon returned

38:30

from the stepping stones, offering his brother

38:32

the crown that he had won there.

38:34

And I was also pointingly reminded

38:36

that the crown viceris Wearers is the crown of

38:38

their grandfather, Jaharis, the conciliator.

38:43

And I think the symbolism of that as

38:46

Vocera tries to reconcile

38:48

the warring haves of his own family is

38:50

quite potent. and we want to keep

38:52

an eye on this and more on

38:54

that in the spoilers section

38:56

later on. This

38:58

really seems it strikes me is the

39:00

most visible display of the Sayers exerting

39:02

his authority as king, possibly

39:04

in the series to date. He

39:07

declares himself confused as

39:10

to why petitions are being

39:13

heard over settled succession. And there's

39:15

a dual message here since even

39:17

in his decrepit state, Vesareus

39:20

knows that if Luke is

39:22

challenged, then so will Jace be and by

39:24

extension, so will Reneer be.

39:26

So in speaking of settled

39:28

succession, he speaking directly, not only to Raymond

39:30

Valerian, but for the first

39:32

time, to the Greens.

39:34

Regarding the issue of house Valerian, he

39:36

immediately differs

39:38

Iranies. And in so doing, he gives her the opportunity to align

39:40

house Valerian with her husband's wishes,

39:43

as well as with

39:45

her own family. as

39:48

Vocera's entered the throne room, we saw

39:50

that Rainey seemed quite moved by

39:52

her cousin's efforts and by the

39:54

change in him.

39:56

And also, I think

39:58

maybe I was reading into it, but by his

40:00

obvious devotion to his daughter and her

40:02

children. And perhaps in

40:04

that moment, she

40:06

remembered that She is actually part of the House of the

40:08

Dragon. Certainly, she decided that

40:10

standing united against the Greens and

40:12

their alliance

40:14

with Raymond is in her best interest as she asserts

40:16

Coerless' position and her

40:18

support of it. She also announces those

40:20

patrols, publicly

40:22

holding Reneera, to

40:24

that proposal that had been

40:26

made in private. And it's

40:29

a fair conclusion.

40:32

And Viceroy's declares that the

40:34

matter is settled again. Yes, again.

40:36

yes again Which

40:40

news is news that Vaiman doesn't

40:42

enjoy. So when Vocera's

40:44

concludes that the matter of succession

40:46

is resolved, Vaiman is seething.

40:49

As we learned in the last episode, unlike his brother,

40:52

Cordless, he values blood over

40:54

name and feels like house Valerian

40:56

are being cheated out of

40:58

their home. The problem for

41:00

him is that king vesaries is

41:02

never going to concede that

41:04

his grandchildren were signed by

41:06

Owen Strong and so Vamend is fighting a losing battle

41:08

that's very dangerous. Don't

41:10

you dare tell me who deserves to

41:12

inherit the name Valerian a

41:15

strong words to say to a king who holds

41:18

the power to execute

41:20

him. Then and there

41:22

really, so Vamend is

41:24

the kind of person who cannot

41:26

bite his tongue and he pursues

41:28

matters of honesty and integrity so

41:30

fiercely that it gets him into trouble. On one hand,

41:32

I can see his point of view, his pride of

41:35

his blood, and the history of

41:37

his house is palpable. yet

41:39

he's sort of committing suicide in

41:42

this scene really. I guess he'd

41:44

rather die than face the reality

41:46

of the king's decision. And, yeah, in

41:48

the end, that's exactly what happens. He begins to

41:50

rant lour louder and louder

41:52

before Damon nudges him

41:54

into the final

41:56

allegation that These

41:58

children are bastards. This accusation is

42:01

considered treason. And if the king were

42:03

to allow comments like

42:06

this, you would only serve to feed into the strong rumors,

42:09

which again is

42:11

ultimately calling into question his

42:13

own succession. Vocera's really

42:16

had no choice, but to declare

42:18

he will have his tongue removed

42:20

to defend the honor of his beloved daughter, yet

42:23

before the Seruits can

42:25

get to him. With

42:28

his valyrian steel blade

42:30

visceries go sorry. David

42:32

goes one step further and cuts his

42:34

head in half. Yeah. What a shocking moment

42:37

that was. If that cut seemed unnaturally

42:40

clean, remember that Damon

42:42

wields Dark Sister, the storied

42:44

Valerin Steel Sword that

42:46

once belonged to

42:48

Visenia and was ultimately taken

42:50

north of the wall by his great

42:52

grand great grandson

42:54

Blood Raven by the time we

42:56

get to the main series. In

42:58

Fire and Blood, Raymond was calling

43:00

his nephew and he was on Driftmark

43:02

making his noise Renewera sent

43:04

Damon to take his head, which he

43:06

did, and his body was fed to

43:08

Sirex. So in the books,

43:10

a different version of

43:12

events, but with similar

43:14

results. Yeah. Similar,

43:15

but I had kind of hoped to

43:17

see SciRacks in action there.

43:20

At least we got what is possibly

43:22

one of the funniest bits of dark humor yet in

43:24

the series when Damon Reilly remarks,

43:26

he can keep his tongue. which

43:30

is about all that's left in Raymond's head. We also wouldn't

43:32

have gotten to see the brief

43:35

scene that follows of Rainey's watching

43:37

the silent sisters, so Raymond's

43:40

head back together if he had been fed to Sirex,

43:42

so there's that. Rainy's has

43:44

an exchange with mister Orweil about the

43:46

ill luck of looking upon the face of

43:49

death he's encouraging her to kind of,

43:51

you know, behave like a proper lady and leave

43:53

the silent sisters to their work. But this

43:55

dragon princess is made of

43:58

valyrian steel she tells them she's seen plenty of death and that the stranger

43:59

cares little whether my eyes are open or

44:02

closed. I couldn't

44:03

help but wonder what she was thinking

44:05

about in this scene as she

44:08

watches the body being prepared. She doesn't say

44:10

much after that. It's really

44:12

all just, you know, what's going on in

44:14

her head and we're reading on

44:17

her face. You know, is she thinking about her

44:20

own dead Valerian children

44:22

of her husband whose fate she doesn't

44:25

know yet does she have memories of her brother-in-law,

44:27

whose family home that she shared

44:29

for several decades? Is

44:32

she thinking I warned you this would happen because she did in

44:34

the first scene.

44:36

Is she think of her own Targaryen family of

44:38

her father and her uncle both dead before

44:42

their time, which led to so much of what's

44:44

happening now and and so many

44:46

more deaths besides. Is

44:50

she remembering Raymond's words about the calamities brought upon

44:52

house valerian by Corley's and his

44:54

ambition and wondering if she'd made the right

44:56

choice affirming

44:58

his wishes Does

45:00

Rainy see her have premonitions of the

45:02

future? I saw

45:04

all of that more a woman

45:06

reflecting on her life family and

45:08

her choices. She's resolved on the one hand, but

45:11

she's still worried. You could see the

45:13

worry in her face about what

45:15

the future might

45:18

bring. I think after an episode that could well

45:20

have been titled, the choices of Rainey

45:22

Targaryen for all the focus on

45:24

her as the pivot point.

45:26

for a house full area and and the power struggled between

45:28

the blacks and the greens. This is how we leave

45:30

her. In a reflective moment, wondering

45:32

what's gonna happen next. and

45:36

as it happens, what

45:38

happened next was exactly what the king

45:40

wanted, a

45:42

dinner. So

45:42

we've seen a number of feasts in the series so far,

45:44

but none of them are as

45:46

intimate as this one. The series has

45:49

summoned his immediate family all

45:51

living Targaryens are present except for

45:54

rainy's and the very young

45:56

children. And with the

45:58

initial framing of Allison

46:00

and Reneera, strongly resembling the

46:03

fire and blood's illustration

46:05

of the feast of the blacks

46:07

and the greens. and near the two sides

46:09

of the family, a rate opposite sides of the table. We're

46:12

not really sure how this is going to

46:14

go. I

46:16

mean, nobody looks very happy.

46:18

Those two women sure don't look very happy.

46:20

But the king

46:24

arrives family

46:25

has assembled, and it becomes clearer

46:27

that this area has a lot to say.

46:29

But first, Alison prays.

46:32

She prays for the praise for

46:35

Raymond Valerian, which Damon Snickers and brels

46:37

his eyes about. Then

46:40

Vocera begins by toasting

46:42

his grandson's Gicerois

46:44

and Luceris congratulating them

46:46

on their betrivals to

46:48

their cousins. And Luke, on

46:52

his status as the future lord of the tides.

46:54

Aegon proves himself, once

46:56

again, to be trash, mocking just

46:58

areas, and making

47:00

rude

47:00

and suggestive remarks to Bayla

47:02

who shows herself to be very

47:04

fierce and able to stand up for herself.

47:06

while Chase proves that he has class and the

47:09

ability to rise above

47:11

and be diplomatic. Vasaris

47:14

presents himself as a man,

47:16

a father, brother, a husband, grandson,

47:19

grandson, who's nearing the

47:21

end of his days. and

47:23

whose only wish is for his family to set aside grievances for the sake

47:25

of the crown or for the sake

47:27

of this man who loves them all so

47:29

dearly and will not

47:32

be with them much longer. He actually removes his

47:34

golden mask and asks his family

47:36

to see him as he is.

47:39

his face scarred, rotting, missing an

47:42

eye. He wants

47:44

them to just appreciate the sacrifice

47:46

that he's making in order to together

47:48

for this occasion. In the previous episode,

47:51

he was full of righteous

47:53

anger commanding his family

47:55

to get along and love

47:57

each other as their king. Here,

47:59

he puts his weakness on

48:01

display and asks them to do this

48:03

for his sake. as a man. This is

48:05

literally his dying wish. And it's

48:08

clear that the older adults in the

48:10

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48:12

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48:14

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49:34

You know, throughout Vocera's words, the

49:36

camera focuses heavily on the reactions

49:38

of Damon, Reneera, and Alison. all

49:41

of whom look somewhat guilty and cowed by his

49:44

words. There's a lot of self

49:46

reflection going on, and it's Reneera

49:48

who first offers the

49:50

olive branch. standing to raise a toast to the

49:52

queen. She raises Alison's loyalty

49:54

to the man that she essentially has made

49:56

to Mary,

49:58

having unfailing devotion to vesareus despite her

49:59

circumstances. That's me editorializing

50:02

a little

50:02

bit. Renira put it a little bit more

50:04

nicely. Renira ends her toes with

50:08

an apology, and Alison seems to be moved by this.

50:10

Damon leans forward, showing

50:12

he's a little surprised by this.

50:16

Allison then in her own toast

50:18

focuses on their shared motherhood,

50:20

not surprising for someone who has tied

50:22

herself so closely to the

50:24

mother above. Allison ends

50:26

her toast saying that Reneera will make a

50:28

fine queen and we get a quick surprise reaction

50:30

from Otto. No doubt the

50:33

hand thought Allisonsympathies towards Reneera were long dead. Was

50:35

this a show for valkyries or a hint at some

50:38

uncertainties the queen has about putting

50:40

Aegon forth

50:42

as air? wouldn't necessarily blame her given

50:44

yesterday. Speaking of Aegon,

50:46

his baiting of Jason once again

50:48

shows the contrast between Aegon

50:52

wholly, uncomly, and unfocused, and Chase, who

50:54

has been more properly raised

50:56

to one baby king. Helena

50:59

chimes and snacks moderate a quick prophecy about the beasts

51:01

beneath the wall boards. I know you, Oak Boy,

51:04

you have some thoughts on this for our spoiler

51:06

section, so I'll leave

51:08

it there. there there really isn't

51:10

much reaction to this little line and the

51:12

princess jumps right to a toast about

51:14

how marriage isn't

51:16

that bad. casting a lot of

51:18

shade again on her her

51:20

husband Prince Aegon in the

51:22

process. Damon barks out a little laugh

51:24

and even Otto looks

51:26

vaguely amused. Miseries then calls for music and Jason

51:28

ever the gentleman gets

51:30

Lady's Bayless go ahead in

51:32

offering Prince Helena

51:34

a dance. We might remember

51:36

that Ramiro once suggested a match

51:38

between Jason Helena as

51:40

a way of healing the rift in

51:42

the family So this may have been meant to be a vision of what could been.

51:44

It's really a very sweet moment

51:46

and everyone at the table is enjoying

51:50

themselves Renewera and Damon look very much in love. There's some

51:52

cute moments with Luke and Reina as

51:54

well. Hell, even Otto looks

51:56

like a human being

51:58

for once. I

52:00

I hate to say it. It recalls

52:02

the passage from fire and blood, though

52:04

in that version it was actually Damon

52:06

and Otto rather than Reneera and

52:08

Allison doing the toasts. So here's a little passage from that. Many

52:11

declarations of love were made

52:13

to the king's great pleasure Prince

52:16

Damon raised a cup to sir Otto High Tower and thanked him

52:18

for his legal services hand.

52:20

Sir Otto in turn spoke

52:23

of the princess courage while Alison's children and Reneres

52:25

greeted one another with kisses and broke bread

52:28

together at

52:30

the table. We've

52:31

cut music, laughter, dancing,

52:34

everyone's happy, their faces look

52:36

more relaxed than we've ever seen them. I

52:38

mean, I was particularly struck by

52:41

people like Otto and Damon just looking like

52:43

they're having a good time and

52:45

they're happy. So

52:48

it's seems like there might be hope for peace in the House of

52:50

the Dragon or maybe at least a DAYTONT,

52:52

maybe everything could be okay.

52:56

Right? Yeah.

52:58

No.

52:58

Don't forget that this is Georgia or Martin's

53:00

story. So as soon

53:02

as Vocera leaves, the

53:04

mood changes. I do

53:06

like that they tempted

53:08

us into thinking that things might be

53:10

okay just for even if it was for

53:12

twenty seconds, it was a good twenty

53:15

seconds. I enjoyed the twenty seconds.

53:19

So the toast continue.

53:21

And with the king gone.

53:24

Some characters felt less

53:26

obliged to keep up the tone of root

53:28

reconciliation. Roast

53:30

pig is placed in front of Eamon and

53:32

Luke couldn't help but

53:35

Snigger the memory of

53:37

him Jason Aegon giving

53:40

a pig to aim and called the pink dread to mock

53:42

him for not having a dragon.

53:47

Well, it is pretty funny lady when. I know you enjoyed

53:50

that. I did.

53:52

I've been last thing about

53:54

it for two One person

53:57

who didn't find it funny lady

53:59

Nguyen was Eimand. He seems like

54:01

a humorous soul

54:04

these days and doesn't like being the butt of jokes anymore.

54:06

He's far too serious with that

54:08

now. He toasts Reneer

54:10

sons and calls them handsome.

54:14

and wise and strong.

54:16

With the emphasis on strong

54:18

and props to the closed captioner,

54:22

who understood and capitalized the words

54:24

strong in that sentence, given

54:26

that a fragile but seemingly heartfelt

54:30

peace had just been

54:32

established between Reneer and Alison.

54:34

This tone really breaks that

54:36

piece. We're learning that even If

54:39

the parents now try to work together to shore up these old

54:41

wounds, the tensions between their children

54:43

is simply too deep

54:45

to be healed. These

54:48

kids have grown up surrounded by this simmering rivalry

54:51

and it's ingrained in

54:53

their personalities now. Eamon seems

54:55

to have trained and worked on

54:57

himself relishing the idea that he might

55:00

one day get to base, get

55:02

to best, Chase

55:04

or Luke, It doesn't seem like to

55:06

them or ally with them anytime

55:08

soon. Maybe Gil Dane

55:10

says it best in fire and blood

55:13

sins of the fathers are often visited on

55:16

the sons, wise men have

55:18

said, and so it is

55:20

for the sins of mothers

55:22

as well. The n energy

55:24

between Queen Ellison and Princess Reneera was passed on

55:26

to their sons, and the Queen's

55:29

three the princess Aegon, Eamon, and

55:32

Deron grew to be bitter rivals

55:34

of their Valerian nephews,

55:36

resentful of them

55:38

for having stolen what they regarded

55:40

as their birthright, the iron throne itself.

55:44

So

55:44

so Repeating

55:46

the strong taunte, then

55:48

leads to violence. Aegon smacks

55:50

Luke's head off the table, Chase

55:54

punches Eamon, Allison tries to discipline him. It's all

55:56

chaos breaking out, but we

55:58

understand that Allison is

56:00

now powerless to contain

56:02

these ill feelings and are

56:04

children. For me, this is a great

56:06

depiction of generational violence.

56:08

Children who are born into

56:10

this rivalry and now they they know no other In

56:12

the books, the parallel scene is

56:14

very similar. Emily read a

56:17

bit of the earlier scene. So let

56:20

me read a bit more aloud.

56:22

Mushroom tells us that Eamon one eye

56:24

rose to toast his

56:26

biliary nephews speaking in

56:28

mock admiration for their brown

56:30

hair, brown eyes, and

56:32

strength. I have never known anyone

56:34

so strong as my sweet

56:36

nephews he ended. so let us

56:38

drain our cups to these

56:40

three strong boys.

56:42

Still later, the four reports,

56:44

Aegon the Elder took offense When

56:46

Tiseries asked his wife Helena for

56:48

a dance, angry words were exchanged

56:51

and the two printers might have

56:53

come to blows if not for

56:55

the intervention of the king's guard.

56:58

Where the king vesarius was ever

57:00

informed of these incidents, we do not

57:02

know, but princess Reneera and

57:04

his sons returned to their own seat on

57:06

Dragonstone the next mauling.

57:08

So in both books

57:10

and show, this tension in

57:14

the feast leased to Rinera taking her children back

57:17

to Dragonstone, leaving Alison and

57:19

her intention in the

57:22

Red Keep. where, of course, they can call the

57:24

shots. So what a fateful

57:26

moment this is going to turn out

57:28

to be?

57:30

Indeed.

57:31

indeed as

57:32

Damon sends the children to bed, including

57:35

the swaggering clone that he has

57:37

in his nephew, Ayman,

57:40

Ellison crosses the room to speak to Reneera.

57:42

Otto again looks mildly alarmed by

57:44

this, surely having thought all his indoctrination

57:46

would have put a stop to any

57:50

trace love between his daughter and her childhood friend.

57:52

Alison grabs Reneer's arm and holds

57:54

it, both of them looking down.

57:57

At first, I thought this was the same arm

57:59

that Allison cut into it driftmark, but after replaying

58:01

it a few times, it's not. Her

58:03

left arm is the one that gets cut

58:05

and Allison holds her right arm here in

58:07

the scene. Regardless, I imagine they

58:10

are both thinking about all that has

58:12

transpired between them in that moment and many

58:14

the other moments they shared over the years.

58:16

Reneera says that she'll see the

58:18

children home to Dragonstone before returning on

58:21

Dragon back. This calls back to the girl's earliest two scenes

58:23

together with Alison watching Reneera with

58:26

SciRacks and later the princess saying

58:28

that she wished that

58:30

they could ride and drag him like

58:32

for just a moment, perhaps, all

58:34

could be sat right between them.

58:37

Allison may finally see that Reneera is capable

58:39

of wisdom, forgiveness, humility, things

58:42

that she values in leadership,

58:44

and that Things that her son, Aegon, clearly, lacks.

58:46

The scene ends with Allison smiling,

58:48

saying that she and the king would both

58:50

really

58:50

like that. Yeah.

58:52

And then all

58:55

the smileside. Yes.

58:57

Yes. So sad.

59:01

Before we get to the final scene, though, there's a

59:03

very brief scene. So

59:06

in the city

59:08

at Nyseria's Mats. So

59:10

let's take minute to just go through this.

59:12

We haven't seen malaria on

59:15

screen since episode

59:18

five.

59:18

It's just saying after last week's episode. I

59:20

wonder where she had gotten off too. But

59:23

here she is in her man's, in

59:25

the city on Rainy's hill, and

59:28

we see a hooded figure approach.

59:30

And I can assure

59:32

you, after watching the

59:34

preview, I was sure this was

59:36

gonna be Damon and his murder hoodie calling on his one time

59:38

lover. But it turns out it's actually

59:41

Alison's servant, Talia,

59:43

who we

59:45

saw in that earlier scene, bringing news to a

59:47

lady misery about all the goings on if

59:49

the red keep that evening. So

59:51

this is interesting because in

59:54

previous episodes, we saw

59:56

Missyria selling information to

59:58

Auto High Tower, and here we see

59:59

her presumably buying it

1:00:02

from a spy within the Red

1:00:04

Keep. So I believe this is

1:00:06

almost certainly setting her up as a source

1:00:08

of information for Rainer and Damon, but

1:00:10

we shouldn't forget that she's sold Damon O

1:00:13

on two occasions that

1:00:15

we know of. you

1:00:19

know, Lady Mizrahi's loyalty is probably only to herself,

1:00:21

I think even in

1:00:24

earlier episodes.

1:00:25

episode we

1:00:26

could've guessed that. We shouldn't forget it.

1:00:28

We probably won't. Unfortunately, I have a

1:00:31

bad feeling that Damon probably will.

1:00:34

but we'll

1:00:34

see what happens. And

1:00:36

now let us move on

1:00:38

to the final scene of

1:00:40

the episode in PERSERIS' chamber. yeah,

1:00:44

heartbreaking scene at the end here. The final scene in

1:00:46

this episode is a big one for more reasons

1:00:48

than one. We're in for series' bed chambers,

1:00:51

and he's not doing well. Being

1:00:53

at the end of the episode, we sense he's on his

1:00:55

way out of the story, but what

1:00:58

will his final act be?

1:01:00

Well, Alison comes to

1:01:02

comfort him and gives him milk of the poppy. We know

1:01:04

from the previous scenes that milk of

1:01:06

the poppy does his pain,

1:01:08

but also clouds his thinking

1:01:10

and judgment. When

1:01:13

he wanted to use his brain and resolve an issue and

1:01:15

be sharp, he purposefully didn't

1:01:17

take it, but here

1:01:19

he's drinking it. So he says

1:01:22

he's sorry to Alison

1:01:24

and we realized that he

1:01:26

thinks that he's talking

1:01:28

to Reneera and is

1:01:30

continuing the conversation that they'd

1:01:32

had together recently, which I

1:01:34

analyzed a little bit

1:01:36

before. Alison,

1:01:38

though, genuinely doesn't realize that the series is

1:01:40

mixed up and she believes he's

1:01:42

talking to her. Already we

1:01:44

have a major confusion and

1:01:48

cross wires and it's gonna get worse.

1:01:50

Reneera had asked viserys

1:01:52

if he believed the prince

1:01:55

that was promised prophecy that had been

1:01:57

kept in secret between Aaron King was

1:02:00

true. When he

1:02:02

in this scene mentions Aegon, meaning

1:02:06

the conqueror who saw the prophecy in a dream, Alison

1:02:08

thinks she's talking about her son.

1:02:10

There's a callback to Vocera's talking to

1:02:12

Alison about his dream of

1:02:14

his son, sitting

1:02:16

the iron throne in episode two, and they're

1:02:19

clearly communicating across

1:02:22

purposes. But Vysaris is

1:02:26

too sick and sedated to understand what's

1:02:28

happening. Given Ellison

1:02:30

has never heard anything about the

1:02:34

Congress' profits see of a dark force emerging from the north, she

1:02:36

can only try to

1:02:38

contextualize the words that she does

1:02:40

understand. Prince,

1:02:42

Aegon uniting the realm. You are the one.

1:02:44

You must do this. When

1:02:46

she says, I understand my

1:02:50

king, We know that Alison has interpreted the drugged up

1:02:52

rumblings of a dying man

1:02:54

who couldn't even comprehend

1:02:56

who he was talking to

1:02:59

as a cue to change the

1:03:01

royal succession. This means

1:03:04

the bloody succession struggle

1:03:06

that is bound to follow is in

1:03:08

part rooted in a major major misunderstanding.

1:03:12

And for those who believe that Alison

1:03:14

knew full well what was going

1:03:16

on and was simply being manipulative and hearing

1:03:19

what she wanted to hear. Guy

1:03:21

to Patel, the director of this

1:03:23

episode, had this to say The

1:03:26

intention was that she genuinely

1:03:28

thought he was telling her that her

1:03:30

son was going to be the heir

1:03:32

and should be the heir. Patel then

1:03:34

talks of Alison's more innocent

1:03:36

side that we saw early in

1:03:39

the season. So though

1:03:42

in the dinner scene, Alison did seem

1:03:44

to acknowledge Reneera Azaire, but this misunderstanding

1:03:48

changes everything Given

1:03:50

Vocera's is about to die and there's no chance for him

1:03:52

to straighten this out, Vocera's has

1:03:55

just inadvertently set the

1:03:57

realm against itself. Allison

1:04:00

is going to think Aegon is the

1:04:02

heir, a Raynira, thinks she's the

1:04:04

heir, and even the most

1:04:06

unsolied show watcher knows that

1:04:08

this is going to lead to

1:04:10

mayhem. Should Alison be

1:04:12

putting stock in the last breath of a

1:04:14

dying man who's on milk of

1:04:16

a poppy? yeah,

1:04:18

maybe not. Book readers

1:04:20

seem divided as to whether

1:04:22

or not making the final spark

1:04:25

of this impending conflict. due to

1:04:27

a misunderstanding of prophecy as being a

1:04:29

a satisfying addition in the show

1:04:31

canon because it doesn't

1:04:34

happen in the books like

1:04:36

that, but of course, you don't know the full

1:04:38

details in the books because it's told by

1:04:40

Maesters, so it's very

1:04:42

limited. While I understand everyone's

1:04:44

opinions here, And, yeah,

1:04:46

I do see both sides both

1:04:48

points of view. I would say that it it

1:04:50

does give an extra layer of complexity

1:04:52

to Alison and her cause

1:04:54

and it does carry the well established theme that prophecies

1:04:56

are a dangerous game rather well that

1:04:58

we've seen the main series and that's

1:05:01

very Georgiara Martin. Allison

1:05:04

leaves a husband seemingly convinced that

1:05:07

he had just reversed everything he

1:05:09

had said and done earlier

1:05:11

in the day and

1:05:13

we see Vocera's final

1:05:16

moments believing that

1:05:18

in everything he'd accomplished that

1:05:21

day, including his final conversation which he believed to

1:05:23

be with Reneera, he had reaffirmed

1:05:25

his wishes and settled the

1:05:27

question of succession Again,

1:05:30

he seems to relax for a moment. Possibly,

1:05:33

he's content in his mind that he's done

1:05:35

his duty to ensure a

1:05:38

peaceful transition and

1:05:40

there he is at peace and then

1:05:43

he dies alone. Moment

1:05:45

of silence

1:05:46

for Vocera's.

1:05:49

Earlier in the

1:05:51

season, Vocera's had expressed

1:05:53

quite

1:05:53

a bit of concern for his legacy. He

1:05:56

had a seen

1:05:57

where he spoke with his then hand, Lionel Strong

1:05:59

about

1:05:59

it. He had inherited a

1:06:02

peaceful

1:06:02

and prosperous realm from

1:06:05

grandfather, a question surrounding Tahira's

1:06:08

succession notwithstanding,

1:06:10

no doubt with that in mind, the

1:06:13

that is the questions

1:06:15

about succession once he

1:06:17

had decided that Reneera, his only child

1:06:19

with his beloved first wife Emma, would

1:06:21

be his heir, He never

1:06:24

wavered during his lifetime despite years

1:06:26

of pressure from his second wife and her

1:06:28

family and no doubt

1:06:28

quite a few of his lords as well.

1:06:30

Although Vyserus initially rejects the idea that Targaryens are

1:06:33

closer to gods than men,

1:06:35

he very much seems

1:06:38

to embrace the idea of absolute kingship, that is the

1:06:40

king's word is the law. So

1:06:42

when Raymond Valerian spoke of

1:06:44

centuries of

1:06:46

tradition, he might have been

1:06:48

referring to the Valerian succession in

1:06:50

the maybe even

1:06:51

the rights of sons over

1:06:53

daughters and true born children over bastards,

1:06:55

but he was certainly not speaking of

1:06:57

centuries of tradition of the succession of the

1:06:59

iron throne because there has been very

1:07:01

little precedent in the handful

1:07:04

of generations. since

1:07:06

the conquest. And even that was muddied by an

1:07:08

earlier conflict between rival branches, which

1:07:10

is the exact reason why

1:07:14

Tahira's called the Great Council of 101

1:07:16

In

1:07:16

spite of being characterized as amiable and

1:07:18

eager to please in fire and

1:07:22

blood, characteristics that really did get carried through to the

1:07:24

show, even with

1:07:25

the much greater complexity that House

1:07:27

of the Dragon brought to the

1:07:29

character of Azaris. spite

1:07:32

of those things, Xerris was also said to be

1:07:34

very stubborn and very single minded,

1:07:36

especially on the issue of his succession.

1:07:39

So rather than call a council as his

1:07:41

grandfather did to hear the opinions of

1:07:43

his

1:07:43

lords, he summoned his lords

1:07:46

to court to present them with his choice of

1:07:48

air and require their oaths

1:07:49

in support of her. And

1:07:52

this is likely because he knew that

1:07:54

his choice would be

1:07:56

controversial to

1:07:56

many, especially in light of

1:07:58

that recent

1:07:59

council. And, you know, to be

1:08:01

fair, Vocera's argue that the

1:08:03

Great Council of 101 was

1:08:05

intended to decide a single issue, not to

1:08:07

set a permanent precedent. And

1:08:10

much like England's

1:08:12

Magna Carta in real life, I

1:08:14

think any supposed president set by the decision of the

1:08:16

great council

1:08:18

was expected to be and would be swiftly discarded

1:08:21

only to be reasserted

1:08:23

by successive generations who found

1:08:25

it to be in their

1:08:27

interest until it could legitimately

1:08:29

be called the precedent. Even then, there were those who would

1:08:31

probably argue about royal prerogative and the

1:08:33

divine right of kings to rule

1:08:35

as

1:08:35

they see fit, but All

1:08:38

of that is a discussion for

1:08:41

another day. Biseries Targaryen

1:08:43

as portrayed by Patti Considine

1:08:45

and the writers of House

1:08:47

the dragon was a very conflicted king. His desire to please,

1:08:49

to be loved, and popular is

1:08:52

evident throughout

1:08:54

these eight

1:08:55

episodes, and it's something he clearly passes

1:08:58

on to his daughter as well. The

1:09:00

opposite side of

1:09:02

that coin of kingship, though, is ruling from a position of strength,

1:09:04

a a strength that inspires some

1:09:06

amount of fear in your subjects.

1:09:10

That's shown in his brother Damon who will

1:09:12

be his daughter's consort. And in

1:09:14

fact, if Veneer's succession had

1:09:18

gone or was going to

1:09:19

go unchallenged. You

1:09:20

know what? This might not have

1:09:22

been a bad combination. In

1:09:25

spite of probably being

1:09:27

unsuited for kingship, though,

1:09:29

Pesserus shouldered

1:09:30

the burdens of being king quite willingly, taking it very

1:09:36

seriously especially the part about Aegon's

1:09:38

prophecy, which had been passed down to him when he became his grandfather's

1:09:40

heir. And given

1:09:42

his intentions regarding this

1:09:44

accession, where

1:09:46

Vocera's really went wrong,

1:09:49

in my opinion, is

1:09:51

in remarrying at all

1:09:53

after Emma's death. It's

1:09:56

and

1:09:56

his death itself

1:09:57

represented a very problematic decision

1:09:59

that he

1:10:02

made at After the fact, he compounds his

1:10:06

decision making process

1:10:08

by getting remarried,

1:10:11

which opens the door to

1:10:13

be

1:10:13

challenged on this decision of naming Rainera as his

1:10:15

heir. So having done so and

1:10:18

now he's got this new

1:10:21

life and second family and sons. I think

1:10:23

he really failed in raising

1:10:28

of those sons. He could

1:10:30

have been

1:10:30

more assertive with Alison and with those boys. Had he taken, you

1:10:32

know, more of

1:10:35

a hand in raising

1:10:36

them rather than leaving them

1:10:38

to just be influenced by their mother and grandfather's

1:10:40

assumptions about Lanier's

1:10:43

intentions towards them. that

1:10:46

things might have gone very differently. Similarly,

1:10:49

had he acted immediately

1:10:51

to remove Kristen Cole after

1:10:53

he murdered the bannerman of a

1:10:55

guest at a royal feast. violating

1:10:57

guessed right

1:10:57

and probably his

1:10:58

vowels as a knight. You

1:11:01

know, maybe his sons

1:11:03

wouldn't have been in stilled

1:11:05

with a violent hatred for their young nephews from

1:11:07

an early age in the training yard. And perhaps plan to have them

1:11:09

race together in the Red

1:11:11

Keep would have actually

1:11:14

born the fruit of brotherly love

1:11:16

that he so desired to see

1:11:18

rather than a bitter rivalry,

1:11:21

which was very very much

1:11:23

encouraged by Kristen Cole.

1:11:24

Even much later, had

1:11:26

there

1:11:26

been some consequences following the

1:11:31

bral at driftmark, and I'm not talking about, you

1:11:33

know, an eye for an eye kind

1:11:35

of consequences. I mean,

1:11:37

you know, with the adults,

1:11:40

particularly with the queen who revealed

1:11:42

herself to be willing to counterman

1:11:44

the king's orders. and order a

1:11:46

night of the king's

1:11:47

guards to follow her

1:11:50

own

1:11:50

orders instead to attack

1:11:52

one of the royal heirs

1:11:54

in the name of vengeance. things might

1:11:57

have gone a little differently if he had had

1:11:59

some sort of firm consequences in

1:12:03

that

1:12:03

moment. So he had

1:12:05

a lot of opportunities to change things, to make

1:12:07

things better. In the end, he was a

1:12:11

flawed king. a good man who loved his family, but

1:12:13

one of those

1:12:16

parents who of those parents

1:12:18

who was too soft. He loved his family too much

1:12:20

to kind of take the difficult

1:12:22

positions and make those tough decisions.

1:12:25

He was haunted by the responsibilities conferred

1:12:27

on him by kingship. And

1:12:29

he never really effectively asserted

1:12:31

himself in public as

1:12:34

king until that final session of court

1:12:36

where he declared the matter of the

1:12:38

succession of

1:12:38

of Driftmark and

1:12:39

by extension of the Iron Throne

1:12:41

to be settled. But unfortunately for him, at that

1:12:43

point, it was too late. He didn't

1:12:45

realize it, but the seeds of civil

1:12:48

war had been sown

1:12:50

early in his reign and the sins of the mothers,

1:12:52

as we heard earlier, from

1:12:54

Giltane, have been passed on

1:12:58

to their children. The stage is set

1:13:00

for what comes next, and we're

1:13:02

gonna close our analysis with these

1:13:05

final words from

1:13:07

fire and blood. Viceris of house Targaryen, first of

1:13:09

his name, king of the

1:13:10

endiles, the Broynar in the first bed, lord of the

1:13:13

seven kingdoms, and protector

1:13:15

of the realm, closed his eyes

1:13:18

and went to sleep. He never woke. He was fifty two years old and had rained

1:13:20

over most

1:13:21

of Westeros for twenty

1:13:24

six years. and

1:13:27

the storm broke and

1:13:29

the dragons danced.

1:13:31

Excellent.

1:13:32

And I

1:13:34

think Patty Considine did such

1:13:37

an amazing job through the whole

1:13:39

season from episode one showing this

1:13:44

physical decline and, you

1:13:46

know, there's talk of Emmys and well, there's other great performances

1:13:48

out there, but I think a lot

1:13:50

of houses of track and fans are gonna

1:13:54

be rooting for Patty Considine. I

1:13:56

heard that Georgia Martin text Patty

1:13:58

and said your

1:13:59

vocaries was better than

1:14:02

my vocaries So coming from the top, you

1:14:04

know, it's sad to see him

1:14:06

go, but it does set up,

1:14:09

you know, an epic

1:14:11

battle to come. Okay. So

1:14:12

that's the end of our left to right analysis, but stay

1:14:14

with us because we've got some fun sections and

1:14:17

then we're gonna

1:14:19

talk some spoilery topics because we were

1:14:21

held holding some things back. Why don't we jump in

1:14:24

with the first

1:14:26

of our feature edits? Dragon

1:14:28

Watch. Lady Gwen, what was Dragon Watch

1:14:30

like today? This was the first delis

1:14:33

hot tea

1:14:35

in the season.

1:14:36

except

1:14:39

those three eggs. So

1:14:41

we we had

1:14:43

this egg statement

1:14:45

collect at the very beginning. Actually, we only saw

1:14:47

one of them. He'd said they were three, but they're we

1:14:50

only saw that one. Although we should not forget, as always,

1:14:52

that Tegarian Habit of

1:14:54

equating themselves with dragons. In which case this episode was full of dragons? Yeah.

1:14:57

Let's not forget

1:14:58

about the dragons on Emma's

1:15:00

dress

1:15:03

as well. That was awesome. I really just love

1:15:05

the costume of this episode. This is

1:15:07

an iconic dress

1:15:10

moment. So even if

1:15:10

it is taking the place of actual dragons.

1:15:13

I did like it

1:15:14

did remind me of alien

1:15:16

when he's he's in there with you know,

1:15:18

the egg and it's all goopy. I I

1:15:20

don't know why I would just really

1:15:23

love that scene. Being a

1:15:24

fan of alien, you know, did remind

1:15:26

me of that. So

1:15:28

why don't we

1:15:29

do champ or champ.

1:15:31

Each week, we name it's

1:15:34

light hearted, by the way, guys. We

1:15:36

name our champ and we name our champ, the

1:15:38

best and the worst of the week. Why don't

1:15:40

we start with the champ Emily?

1:15:42

Who's the champ of the week?

1:15:45

Okay. So

1:15:46

we can't give it to so I give it to I think have to give to Damon this

1:15:52

time. that mountain climb

1:15:54

into the dragon's eggs that we were just mentioning was a strong start,

1:15:56

but he's coming

1:15:59

in conversation with Alison his

1:16:02

moment with the series helping him up to the throne, which I guess the crown falling off was, like, completely ad

1:16:04

libbed. Show that after

1:16:06

everything he still loves in

1:16:10

supports his brother, the king. And then,

1:16:12

you know, beheading the man who calls his

1:16:14

steps on his bastard and insults

1:16:17

his wife. Even Eamon agrees.

1:16:19

Eamon is champ. So that leaves a champ. Lady Wayne, what have you got?

1:16:20

champ

1:16:21

that leaves the champ lady who and what we got

1:16:23

Could you

1:16:24

guess? my

1:16:27

of the Eamon for spoiling for

1:16:30

spoiling a perfectly nice

1:16:32

family dinner

1:16:34

with his stupid toast. also

1:16:36

for appearing to think that he

1:16:39

could cosplay his uncle as I've

1:16:41

seen it referred to

1:16:43

various places and sort

1:16:46

of kind of square

1:16:48

off with him. I

1:16:49

don't know what he was going

1:16:51

for there. I felt like Damon definitely

1:16:53

sized him up and was not all that

1:16:56

impressed to more likely resign that he's

1:16:58

gonna have to deal with this kid

1:17:02

one day. You know? He's definitely troubled.

1:17:04

Eamon's undoubtedly fun to watch,

1:17:06

but in this episode, he

1:17:09

has big chump energy. I actually don't

1:17:11

see that going away

1:17:11

anytime soon. So Why don't

1:17:14

we talk about things

1:17:15

that we wanted

1:17:18

to discuss but because of the spoiler policy and trying to

1:17:20

be inclusive to people that haven't read the

1:17:22

books, we couldn't say what was on

1:17:25

our minds. So lady go and take it

1:17:27

away. spoilers

1:17:28

are books. Okay. Spoilers or

1:17:30

books guys heads up to

1:17:32

anyone. chew

1:17:34

now if you don't want if you haven't read

1:17:37

the books and you don't wanna be spoiled

1:17:39

for the future of House

1:17:40

of the Dragon. Okay,

1:17:42

Lady Wayne, why don't you tell us what

1:17:44

spoilery topics are on your mind today?

1:17:47

Well, I have

1:17:47

a couple things, but

1:17:50

I want to preempt my spoiler

1:17:51

topics with sort of a

1:17:53

news

1:17:54

flash. This just didn't. Because

1:17:56

last week, we talked about Vocera's

1:17:58

and Alice since youngest son, Darren, and how

1:18:00

it was starting to look like a remote

1:18:02

possibility of him being included in the

1:18:05

show because he hasn't even been

1:18:07

so

1:18:07

much as mentioned. Well, just today,

1:18:09

George published on

1:18:10

his not blog confirming that Deron will be included

1:18:12

in

1:18:15

season two. So Maybe he'll still get

1:18:17

a mention in one of the episodes. We still have two episodes yet to go in

1:18:20

this season.

1:18:24

So we'll see. But yes, we don't lose

1:18:26

hope for Deron, and more importantly, his dragon to Sarion,

1:18:28

I think, is probably

1:18:31

what people were more. upset

1:18:33

about. For what it's worth, George also commented that the full story of the

1:18:35

dance of the Dragons! will take

1:18:40

four seasons of ten episodes.

1:18:42

That's right, forty episodes to tell. So I'm not sure with

1:18:44

that if he's saying this is what

1:18:46

I

1:18:46

want to happen or if he's actually

1:18:49

confirming that we're gonna get four

1:18:51

seasons, but that's what he said. You said what

1:18:54

he said. So let us move on

1:18:56

from

1:18:56

that. You can find the full

1:18:58

post on non blog if you are in

1:19:00

student reading more, and we

1:19:02

retweeted it. So links there if you would like. Now

1:19:05

getting

1:19:06

into the spoiler league

1:19:09

topics

1:19:09

for this

1:19:10

episode. I'm gonna start us off with an observation regarding the crown of King Johannes,

1:19:12

which we see on

1:19:14

Vocera's head throughout the season.

1:19:19

When the green council crowns egg on, they

1:19:22

will choose to symbolically

1:19:24

use the crown

1:19:26

of egg on the cocker. But

1:19:28

Reneera has her loyalist in the city. One of

1:19:30

whom is Stefan Darklin, who we saw in this episode,

1:19:33

and at least one

1:19:35

of the royal stewards

1:19:38

who together make a daring escape to Dragonstone. Here's a quote from fire and blood.

1:19:41

dragon stone here's a quote from fire

1:19:43

emblem

1:19:43

They brought with them

1:19:45

a stolen crown, a band of yellow gold ornamented with seven gems of

1:19:47

different colors. This was the

1:19:50

crown king Biseries had worn,

1:19:53

and the old king, Johannes, before him. One Prince Aegon, had decided to wear the iron and ruby crown of

1:19:56

his

1:19:59

namesake, The conqueror, Queen

1:20:02

Allison, had ordered viserus' crown locked away,

1:20:03

but the steward entrusted with the task

1:20:05

had made off with

1:20:08

it instead. go

1:20:10

steward. So days later, Damon will place that crown on his wife's head

1:20:13

mirroring the

1:20:16

scene in that

1:20:18

we saw in this episode in which

1:20:20

he returned it to his

1:20:23

brother's

1:20:23

own head. It says, in

1:20:26

viral blood, three hundred sets of eyes looked on as Prince

1:20:28

Damon Targaryen placed the old king's

1:20:30

crown on the head of his

1:20:32

wife proclaiming her

1:20:33

Reneera of house Targaryen, first of her name,

1:20:35

Queen of the Gandals, the Roynar, and the

1:20:37

First Men. So how the show will

1:20:40

choose to handle getting

1:20:41

the crown to Dragonstone

1:20:43

with multiple loyal characters stilot Court, including

1:20:45

potentially sir Harold Westerling

1:20:46

and that sir Stefan Darklin, who did.

1:20:48

Finally, have a

1:20:51

speaking part in this episode.

1:20:53

That really remains to

1:20:54

be seen. But seeing Damon place the crown on Vocera's head has convinced me

1:20:57

that they are

1:21:00

going to stick to that

1:21:02

detail at least. I felt like they were very much reminding us that this crown

1:21:07

existed there. So

1:21:08

And speaking of loyal

1:21:11

characters, in the city, Reneese has just declared her

1:21:13

support for Reneira, and presumably

1:21:16

she remains in

1:21:19

Kings Landing as well. In Fire and

1:21:21

Blood, Princess Rhaenys plays a major role

1:21:23

in the Black Council, being

1:21:25

the person who points out the Black

1:21:27

superiority in Dragon numbers and enumerates them

1:21:29

to emphasize their value in

1:21:31

the conflict to

1:21:34

come. She says, find riders to

1:21:36

master Silverwing, VermaThorn, and see smoke, and

1:21:38

we will have nine dragons against

1:21:41

Aegon four, mount and fly their

1:21:43

wild king king, and we will number twelve even without cloud.

1:21:45

Princess Rainey's

1:21:48

pointed out That

1:21:50

is how we shall win this

1:21:51

war. And one of the things I wondered in her final scene in this episode is was contemplating

1:21:55

the potential need for

1:21:58

her to take Maylies to war at point what mean her her

1:21:59

And we'll definitely be talking more about

1:22:02

the

1:22:02

black council over the next

1:22:03

couple of weeks.

1:22:06

So let's switch up our colors and

1:22:08

look at the greens.

1:22:10

While we saw some new faces

1:22:12

on the small

1:22:14

council in recent episodes and I wanted to spend a little time

1:22:16

setting them up properly given the massive

1:22:18

role they'll play not only next week

1:22:21

but in the war to come. I won't

1:22:23

cover their whole histories, just give some interesting bits coming up,

1:22:25

and I will skip our friends the high towers

1:22:27

as they get plenty

1:22:30

of our attention already. First up is Grand Mesa Orawhile,

1:22:32

played by Kurt Eguin.

1:22:34

This new ish Grand

1:22:37

Mesa replaced the incompetent

1:22:39

and misogynistic Grand Mesa or

1:22:41

Melos after the show's time jump. He was chosen as

1:22:43

Grand Mesa by the Concave of Maesters in Old Town. Remember,

1:22:45

this is warehouse high

1:22:48

tower rules. It

1:22:50

said that under his care, Vocera's did

1:22:52

regain some vigor. I wouldn't say vigor

1:22:54

in the show so much as I'd

1:22:56

say he prolonged the life of a

1:22:58

man who looked to be on death's door years ago. Or while

1:23:00

it's one of the primary sources from much

1:23:02

of the dance of the Dragons and

1:23:06

Fire and Blood, So while we haven't heard too much of him on

1:23:08

the show so far, much of what

1:23:10

we knew of the dance in

1:23:12

the books is colored or

1:23:15

comes from his opinions. he presents himself

1:23:17

as a voice of a reason, being someone that reminded

1:23:19

the council of Rainier's place as heir and

1:23:21

the later councils aid

1:23:23

on the second to

1:23:25

send terms to his half sister. But it is hard to say how much of that was the Grand Master

1:23:28

to

1:23:28

portray himself

1:23:30

in a favorable light given

1:23:34

what came later in the of

1:23:36

ships.

1:23:36

He is

1:23:39

played by Jeffer Jefferson

1:23:43

Hall also

1:23:44

portrays Thailand's twin brother

1:23:45

Jason. As mentioned before,

1:23:47

Thailand seems

1:23:48

to carry a grudge

1:23:50

towards Bronera in her side after she rejected

1:23:53

his twin's proposal of marriage many

1:23:55

years ago. He is staunchly on

1:23:57

Team Green as we already

1:23:59

saw in

1:23:59

this episode. We'll see him move into

1:24:02

the role of master of coin in the future, something Lannisters no plenty

1:24:04

about, and become a troublesome thorn

1:24:06

in the side of the black

1:24:10

when they try to find the crown's gold

1:24:12

later in the war. Lord

1:24:14

Jasper Wilde is next known

1:24:17

as the master of laws. portrayed

1:24:19

by Paul Kennedy. A new face on

1:24:21

the council, Lord Jasper, is a stormlander

1:24:23

Lord who's often called

1:24:26

Ironrod due to his inflexible unbending interpretation

1:24:28

of the law or the stiffness of

1:24:30

his member if you believe mushroom. Ironrod

1:24:34

sided with Aegon, citing the great council of 101 as

1:24:36

precedent for favoring the male

1:24:38

claimant over Vocera's stated wishes. He

1:24:40

remained a staunch supporter of the Greens

1:24:42

for the first year of the war

1:24:45

till he lost his life for

1:24:47

this loyalty, insisting up to his death that a king's son must before a

1:24:52

daughter. And lastly, we

1:24:54

have Lord Linen Biesbury, master of coin, portrayed by Bill

1:24:56

Patterson.

1:24:57

the trade by bill patterson

1:24:59

Beehive rise up. Lord Biesbury is the

1:25:01

oldest member of the council with

1:25:03

a longer tenure

1:25:07

than Otto. he is the

1:25:07

only lord of the council who we saw swear,

1:25:09

feel to to Lanira as

1:25:12

heir early

1:25:14

on. Many of the other awards were too young for this

1:25:16

and it was, you know, there are four

1:25:18

bears who did so. Despite

1:25:19

evidence of some memory

1:25:22

issues throughout the show, Lord Lineman has not forgotten.

1:25:24

He's considered the primary

1:25:26

dissenter

1:25:26

at the upcoming Green Council,

1:25:29

though or while it will have

1:25:31

us believe he also brought forth

1:25:33

Reneer's claim. And as we'll see in the next

1:25:35

episode, he'll pay for that loyalty dearly. Expect me to

1:25:37

be pouring one out for my main

1:25:39

man, Simon, next Sunday. That's

1:25:43

a good hook

1:25:43

for next week when we're

1:25:46

gonna see the factions really crystallize.

1:25:49

in

1:25:50

the scramble after Vocera's death. And my spoilerory

1:25:54

topic you

1:25:57

might have noticed I've done a lot of

1:25:59

the prophecy. Well, I can't get enough of this stuff, so I'm gonna stay with

1:25:59

prophecy stuff. this

1:26:04

week, it seems like every week there's just

1:26:06

a little bit that, you know, and it it feeds the imagination of

1:26:10

the fandom and everyone goes wild about these I to talk

1:26:13

about it. This week,

1:26:15

we got another little

1:26:17

bit of prophecy

1:26:20

from Helena. She

1:26:22

seems to be a dragon dreamer with glimpses of the future. In previous weeks, we've heard muttering

1:26:28

about Aemond needing to lose an

1:26:30

eye to get a dragon, which came true. Then last episode, there was a line

1:26:32

about a hand weaving, a

1:26:34

thread of green and black, which

1:26:37

presumably is about the Greens versus the blacks. That will be coming into

1:26:39

fruition very soon. In

1:26:44

this episode, Helena just before

1:26:46

making a toast, whispered something else under her breath. I do love the way they're just

1:26:48

edging these bits of

1:26:50

prophecy in there. She said,

1:26:55

Beware the beast under the boards, so

1:26:57

I don't know what the

1:26:59

phantom consensus. I'm sure

1:27:02

there's many good ideas I think

1:27:05

one idea that I've seen that

1:27:07

I probably agree with is this could be referring

1:27:10

to a a despicable

1:27:12

attack by

1:27:14

blood and cheese, book readers.

1:27:16

We're not gonna forget this one in

1:27:18

a hurry. We've seen several rats in

1:27:21

the red keep and presumably at

1:27:23

some stage will see rat ratcatchers employ to deal with him. One

1:27:25

of them will be cheese, who with

1:27:27

his partnering crime, blood

1:27:30

the butcher will infiltrate The Red

1:27:33

Keep and Sleye Elena's son

1:27:35

prints Jaharis. So the interesting

1:27:38

thing here, I think,

1:27:40

if be where the

1:27:42

beast under the boards is really referring to blood and cheese. If that detail

1:27:44

is correct, then

1:27:47

Helena is in effect. she's

1:27:50

making a prophecy about her

1:27:52

own future and her own downfall

1:27:54

and trauma really. So presumably

1:27:57

she has no idea what

1:27:59

significance might be attached to the dragon dreams that she's

1:28:01

having. Given Helena seems like a

1:28:03

sweet character less affected by

1:28:05

the rivalries, I think we

1:28:07

could all expect to

1:28:09

be devastated when the beasts come out from under the

1:28:11

boards. Okay. So we're

1:28:14

gonna leave it there. I

1:28:17

wanna say a big thank you to our recurring guest, Emily.

1:28:19

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1:28:23

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1:28:28

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1:28:31

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1:28:33

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