An incredible episode. The fact that I cried when Meleys died shows how good the writing is in this show. They've managed to humanize the dragons in such a way that we're crushed when they die. RIP to the red queen and the queen who should have been.
Best reaction to this episode. I don’t think she ever had a thought of going back. To me what Daemon said to her stuck with her. “You could have extinguished them all”. She felt the guilt and accepted her fate. Man that look back that Meleys gave to her was so sad. Kinda like “mama I’m sorry. I did my best”. And she strapped herself onto Meleys at that one part basically telling her dragon if u die I’m dying with you. This episode was so good.
Nah I don't think what daemon said got to her. if she fled the greens would've spread news that they let rooks rest be sacked and fled the battle which would rally more houses to the greens side and the realm would have lost respect for rhaenyra and the blacks. If rooks rest seen rhaenys flee they'd have surrendered and joined the greens
She had a job and she was going to see it through…she knew she would die, but she was a warrior and she wasn’t going to tuck tail and run. Meleys definitely had the “I’m sorry I tried” look…it killed me I was bawling!
@@kristymcdowell6185 appreciate the love!! We are happy you are enjoying our reactions to his series even though they keep stabbing us in the heart😂😂 Meleys and Rhaenys put in work. I would have done the same if I was Rhaenys, she had a job to do and she wasn’t leaving unless it got done. RIP 2 legends!
Arguably the greatest episode of the series so far because every scene mattered. Criston proved himself a great commander and Aemond showed how much better he was than aegon in every way. Rhaenys plan was to win the battle she didnt expect both dragons to be there n the reason y Rhaenys didn’t retreat because the reward was well worth the risk. RIP my favorite live action female Targaryen.
@deltadivaix we appreciate you two! It means a lot to us & much love💙 we try to put ourselves in their shoes no matter how “bad/good” a character is & glad you two took notice🙏🏾
I think Rheanys knew if she left it would let Rheynera’s side feel if they are losing then their dragon riders would retreat and not support them. She went out fighting trying to damage a major problem knowing it was suicide. There was no other dragon/dragon rider with experience to go up against Vhagar
Well there are tactical retreats when your outnumbered and are gonna lose. If you die and don't achieve your objectives, what is the point. Rhaenys and meleys died and the castle still fell to the greens.
@marcuswilliams7888 I dunno maybe they wanted to show that the blacks won't give up and run if your castle being besieged keep up the moral it does suck that she died tho
@@marcuswilliams7888 How would Rheanyra's supporters and the houses who are wavering feel when they hear that the help Rheanyra gave one of her supporters who was under attack fled when things went bad? Cowardice + child murderer. She would loose everything.
Here's a simple take on Rhaenys' decisions: She wasn't going to retreat and return with a loss. She wanted to make a statement for their side. Plus, how much fight did she really have left in her for this war? She was tired of all of this: losing her children, her relatives, being passed over for the Throne, clearly some past shame in her relationship, constantly watching her people in conflict, politics, patriarchy, etc., etc. She wanted to go out honorably standing up to a bad ass man! She went out like she lived: like a G!
She could not leave her post and the men fighting for Rhaenyra. The Greens army was still advancing, if she left word would get to the other houses who support Rhaenyra and all her allies would switch to the Greens/Hightowers.
Me too. I've been told in the books that Sunfyre and Aegon have a very close loving bond someone even said it seemed like the only being that Aegon felt truly loved by was Sunfyre. And it's said he was the most beautiful of the dragons so it's really sad to see him go. I know Aegon is a horrible person he attacks women & supports child violence in the fighting pits but the show does a really good job of humanizing, you see why he is the way he is it doesn't excuse anything but you can understand it.
We need to give some credit to Rhaenys and Meleys for being able to make old Vhagar fall to the ground😮 they were truly warrior queens. She had to stay and fight until the end, otherwise every allie would know that Rhaenyra didn't helped them and they wouldn't be supporting her anymore. There was no other choice. She had to fight until death.
And fight to the death she did. This will leave great word to Rhaenyra’s other pledged supporters like you guys aren’t the only ones fighting and dying on the battlefield. Let’s see how the rest of the season goes!
Lol like Sunfyre is playing around with him in the first scene we see him and then he’s on the battlefield with Aegon giving him the worst commands 🤦🏾♂️😂
I really like how Alys is not in the least afraid of the big bad Rogue Prince. Daemon is so used to intimidating and bullying people, and neither of those approaches bother Alys at all.
At least Meleys did great damage to vhagar that will help team black in the future! In the books, it was shown that meleys couldve taken out Sunfyre and Vhagar individually but together was too much to handle. I dont like that they keep trying to make Vhagar stealthy when its the biggest dragon of the time. That was bad writing.
That is true lol Vhagar is the biggest and she always seems to somehow get lost in battle! I guess it’s just the experience she has in battle plus having a good rider. Meleys did all she could.
@@Milothedog706 yeah I get what you are saying, but the book and the show are different. She’s an older dragon and them showing that Meleys scratched her it should definitely play so sort of role in the upcoming episode! We’ll see tho!🔥
"hotd is the show of 2024 the war is here!" 5 mins later: "i dont even wanna watch this show no more man" classic got 😂 i feel your pain, i'm so tired of taking L's. i loved rhaenys and meleys so much. i really hope we get to see some payback from baila or corlys this season.
Aegon's armor & helmet he's wearing was from Old Valyria. It belong to Aegon the Conqueror. The whole thing is Valyrian steel. Also Aegon's sword named "Blackfyre" was the Conqueror's as well
We didn’t even think of that! She went over looking for Vhagar and it just happened that the damage wasn’t good enough to really put her down. Vhagar is a beast!
No, the issue is that she is now the queen dowager. Her husband is dead. She cannot turn up pregnant after her husband has died. The first question will be who is the daddy? It is not good for her to be sleeping with and getting impregnated by the Lord commander/ hand of the king.
That’s what I (Sheim) was saying in previous reactions. It wouldn’t be wise of her to get pregnant especially it being Cole, Aegon would probably behead both of them 😂
If Viserys had not been so terribly ill and physically weak in the months and perhaps years before his death, Alicent could indeed have turned up pregnant; it's only been a few weeks or a month or two after his death (although the child would not have resembled him). But given Viserys' physical condition, no one would believe he could have fathered Alicent's child.
What y’all have to realize is that rainys didn’t have an option if she tried to leave I’ll aiming to go to done is chase her down to dragon stone which is just across the water and he would a torch dragon stone so she had to do her best to do as much damage to the dragons as she could and she did do killer damage to Sunfire and some decent damage to the old girl so it is what it is but she didn’t wanna die. She just knew that it was her job to do as much damage as possible and not bring the fight back to Dragon stone where people would’ve got hit with no warning by vayger they.
That’s very true & something we talked about during the outro! It was just sad to see both her & Meleys go out the way they did. Vhagar is just tooo strong!
Aemond was shocked that she was coming back for more so its clear he wouldn't have chased her to dragonstone. That wasn't part of his plan. They got Rooks Rest, injured the blacks biggest dragon and he possibly just became king. Aemond was chilling.
People forget that Vhagar has 180 years of countless battles under her belt. She has more combat experience and tactical training than all the other dragons combined.
That’s what makes her such as force in the sky. I would be terrified if I seen her in the air, it would mean a fight to the death regardless of the situation.
To me, Rhaenys chose to turn back because she needed to do her part to end the war ASAP. Up until now, she had been warning about how devastating a war between dragons would be, and she was constantly encouraging Rhaenyra to push for peace. Once it became clear that peace wasn't possible and she went to Rooks Rest to face Cole, there was a moment when Rhaenys was looking down at the scorched battlefield and devastation, and I think that's when she decided she'd do her best to kill (or at least severly injure) Vhagar, and "bring an end to this conflict" as soon as possible even if it meant dying - because prolonging it would be catastrophic to Westoros. RIP Queen & Meleys 🙏🏾
Daemon was right in the beginning when he said caraxes and meleys can put vhagar down because meleys herself ALMOST did but damn vhagar is too big even tho she’s old and slow. 😢 RIP to the Red Queen & The Queen who never was . Died like a real Targaryen. RESPECT to all dragons! 🙏🏻 I cried hard over CGI dragons 😅
i was reading how she died in the book .... and how they did this jawn in the show made a lil bit of sense. in the books supposed to be the brothers surprised attacked her together. so in the show, they trying to say aemond attacked his bro too and rhaenys was trying to damage him. this one hurt me thoguh!
rhaeneys attacked in the hopes of injuring vagar in hopes another black dragon can finish her off. (Meleys is one of the oldest and strongest dragons) or kill her or maybe kill aemond so vhagar would be riderless and out of the picture, she is more experienced at the end of the day Meleys was too injured to have made it very far & Rhaenys would have never abandoned Meleys even for the sake of her own safety. That last look they gave before turning back to fight Vhaegar again was a mutual acknowledgement they were going down together. Makes that whole moment that much more heartbreaking
I thought the same Aemond wanted to kill his brother he didn't turn to go after Rhanys but Rhanys had a mission and she was a warrior she wouldn't/couldn't tuck tail and leave. That one guy on Rhaynera's council was right it was a trap she shouldn't have sent anyone. Now they lost their biggest dragon and smartest advisor. Aegon is extra crispy maybe but he was wearing that armour.
As a new king it is normal and right to do nothing. He’s got years to study and learn from his Council. That’s the point she made about just wearing a crown doesn’t imbue you with wisdom.
Battle of Rooks Rest was meant to end like that and changed everything. One deviation tho was that the plan was two dragons against one but they made it like Aegon and Daemon had a beef so basically he attacked his brother. Also this episode showed that Aegon is basically illiterate when it comes to High Valerian. Rheanys was a warrior through and through and she died like one.
Enemy #1 on both sides😂 I think the reason she kept going back is to try and make sure they won because they can’t afford to let dragon stone get surrounded by land. Also that Aemond might follow her to dragon stone. BUT my girls Meleys and Rhaenys DROPPED Vhagar 😂❤
Yessir we have to put some respect on Meleys and Rhaenys name. They did the best they could especially taking on a 2v1. Let’s see how the season goes on after this tragic battle! There will be more blood and fire I expect 👏🏾👏🏾🔥
@@DaKidsReact I’ll have to back up and go from 1- meanwhile you think Laenor ( he’s dead but he’s not via Daemon helped him escape) that dude coming back when he hears who killed his mother? He’s a dragon rider….. they killed his mom.🔥🔥🔥
She’s drinking the tea because I think she’s starting to see that Kristen is not the white night she thought he was. She was pretty pissed off at him when he left so I don’t think that she wants his baby.
Rhaenys HAD to be the one to start it….she had pushed the blacks back so much they had to get some leveling ground. She was advising Rhaenyra I’m sure she felt some responsibility. But now BECAUSE of her death and the manner of it she has protected the Rook. This in turn will help to get their other allies and Daemon’s heads out of their asses.
Amon‘s whole goal after he saw his brother was let his brother go in and let Raineys kill his brother and be blamed for it and then when that didn’t work he lit them all up and I had Kristen not shown up here to put a sword through his brother
Daemon really letting Alys Rivers poison him! I can’t believe Rhaenyra wanted peace after they killed her son & tried to kill her. You really gotta turn off your book brain to enjoy this show after this. Aemond burning Aegon & trying to kill him was a shock. Alicent nursing a terminated pregnancy while saying how her husband died only weeks ago is nasty work. I think she was looking for written proof of the song of ice & fire. It’s sad we didn’t get to see Sunfyre who was claimed to be most beautiful dragon until he was f**ked up. Twice! Twice Rhaenys couldve fled to Dragonstone to get Rhaenyra, Jace, Baela to take out Vhagar by working together! RIP to the queen who never was!
Niiiice Reaction, thank you! In my opinion, Vhagar is not OP. Firstly, her rider Aemond is relatively inexperienced and impulsive. Vhagar has her problems with this, as she can only rely on him to a limited extent. She is old and proud; if she doesn't want something, she doesn't want it. Aemond can't control her then. Her prime is long gone. When she's not needed, she lies around and sleeps. Every flight and every fight exhausts her enormously. She is also very slow in the air and takes a long time to turn. Attacking Vhagar head-on means certain death, but if you stay behind her, she can hardly do anything. She was seriously injured by Meleys (stomach and chest torn open). As with humans, wounds are difficult to heal in old age. Presumably the wounds will affect her considerably from now on.
It's sad because I feel like if she had thought out the attack on Vhagar better, she could have killed, or at least hurt Vhagar badly. If she had flown as high as possible, and dived onto vhagars neck, Aemond wasn't expecting her to come back for round 2, what sane person would? RIP Meleys and The Queen that never was
rip meleys the red queen & rhaenys the queen who never was (should’ve been!)and yall are underestimating meleys. the book even states she has a chance against vhagar. (plus she’s bigger in the book)
Prediction (not a spoiler, I have not read the books): Leanor is not going to sit out this war. He loves Jace and Joffrey even though they aren’t his biological kids, and he is loyal to Rhaenyra. He’ll return to fight, and it will be so sad because his mother will not have lived to find out that her son is alive. She died thinking that both of her children were dead.
That’s a great prediction! This could possibly happen but I think he will try and stay out of the way because of everything that happened. But then again if he hears the news that his mother and Luke have died he might join the war!
@@DaKidsReact whatever u do, don't go back and watch GOT until ur done with this series. Becuz in GOT they're spoilers for House of the Dragon. Like when Joffery is talking to Margaery Tyrell , he tells the story of Dance of Dragons and says what happens to Rhaenyra Targaryen
We believe she lowkey wanted to die. But also its war and your duty is to fight to the death. RIP to two legends, they said the tone for everyone on Rhaenyra’s side to follow!
@@rosemarywatson1231 She also knew if she "cut and ran" from the battle Rhaenyra would lose even more supporters to her cause, a dragon rider running away would look like she wasn't fully committed to her queen. People would lose heart to fight in Rhaenyra's name. It would've done more damage then good, Rhenys is a smart woman she takes the long game into account. Even though the battle was lost she fought to the very end for her queen which shows the power of her convictions that this is the rightful heir to the throne.
when will yall stop watching this slop and go back to fun shit....i get it..views algorithms, yall cant actually enjoy this show right? and if you do, damn i was mistaken. eh. to each his own i guess
