HOUSE OF THE DRAGON "A Son for a Son" S2E1 Reaction & Review 

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Blood and Cheese asked Daemon "what do we do if we can't find Aemond?", and Daemon just smiled before they revealed his answer. It's implied that he said if they couldnt get their primary target, then they take Aegons heir, so they get a "son for a son". They didn't screw up the orders, they just had to resort to Plan B.

I love that Daemon is wearing his Crime Hoodie again

They probably told the White Worm to tone down her accent like 30% lol. I feel like a lot of people said it was really heavy last time.

Dalton Greyjoy is the most famous Greyjoy in his time, they call him "The Red Kraken"

Scorpions have existed since Aegon's Conquest. It's actually how Meraxes(and Rhaenys) died in Dorne. Rhaenys is one of Aegon's sister wives.

21:30 remember that one reason the fisherman scream and run is that there are wild dragons in the area that do as they please

The silent nod at "meleys must gorge and rest" xD appreciate you girl, thanks for posting this reaction - silently hoping for more :D

He’s the lord of Winterfell, that sword it’s ICE

And i think you guys missed that daemon wanted a son for a son if they couldn’t find aemond. Daemon gave cheese a smirk after he asked what to do if we cant aemond

The Scorpions existed in Dorne, they were used to fight Aegon's dragons during his conquest and they demostrated a dragon could be killed. Its one of the reasons Dorne stayed unconquered.

Alyria Florent is Alicents mother. Mysaria is the white worm.

I wonder if the sound crew like bought some animal bones and a saw and just went to town on it. Imagine going home to tell your family "yeah I simulated the sounds of sawing a head off today"

In the scene where Syrax and Rheanyra find Luke and Arrax’s body not only is Rheanyra grieving but Arrax is Syrax’s son as well. Both mothers are grieving together there

What a lovely surprise! Hi Stefani, lovely to meet you Mesel. There are a lot of comments about 'in the book' and what everyone missed mentioning is that the book Fire & Blood is written to be a combination of source documents from others - in MOST cases, there aren't only multiple sources, but sources that contradict each other. We the readers and they the GoT batch of characters, only know for sure what the provable events are. In this episode, all we know for certain is that after Luke was killed over The Gullet by Aemond and Vhagar, two people, a guard and a ratcatcher (only ever remembered in history by the names Blood and Cheese) infiltrated the Red Keep and killed Prince Jaehaerys. Everything else is speculation. GRRM is VERY much a part of the show writing process - as every alteration of the lore must go through him. He's said in multiple interviews that the reason there's no definitive series of events in Fire & Blood is that HE doesn't really know how an event came to pass, only that 'something' triggered an action that led to a moment he needed in history. There's loads more to unpack in the episode - and I'm sure when you edited, you spotted some of them. The couple of glimpses of Cheese in the background earlier in the episode - pointing out how freely he could move around the castle. The fact that Aegon has no trouble at all with the Iron Throne cutting him, even being comfortable enough to sprawl drunkenly on it. Alicent's strangely repetitive scrubbing in the bath, is she just anxious, or does she feel unable to get clean? Aegon attempting to do a better job of teaching his son something of ruling. Rhaenys being unafraid of defying Daemon, but Mysaria flinching when he even approaches. Emma D'Arcy rocked my world in this episode, just four words and yet she conveyed a torrent of emotion. She brought me to tears twice. Here's to the rest of the season being as well done!

32:06 the first candle Alicent lit was for her mother.

Yeah! Welcome Mr Mugshotz 😊 Nice to finally meet the person behind the brilliant channel WELL DONE 😘

If you rewatch season 1, you'll see many rats in the red keep. But you don't see any in GoT. You see cats like the ones Arya was chasing and Ser Ponce.

12:15 he brings up a good point. Last season they did establish the title "King Consort"

Two things can be true. Rhaenyra wants revenge but taking out Aemond removes Vhagar from the Green cause.

14:40 GGRM did include scorpions in his "historical" writings, you are right they were sort of a forgotten technology

Oh wow, didn't expect this at all, and it's definitely a pleasant surprise!

So Cregan Stark the guy with Ice over his shoulder at the wall, he’s Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. During the winter in HOTD days Stark’s brought their men to the wall to watch during winter. Which is why he’s there covered in Stark emblems

Qyburn said he read about scorpions in a book and rebuilt them.

A scorpion killed Meraxes and Rhaenys in Dorne during Aegon's Conquest. They've been around for some time. Also, Lady Mysaria, the White Worm, is from Lys.

The rat-catcher (Cheese) did ask daemon "What if they can't find Aemond"

Another mistake from the end of GoT. Dany's dragons shouldn't have been able to cross the Wall.

“everyone in kings landing are liars”.. cheese knew helaena wasn’t lying purely because he knows a liar when he sees one..

Alyrie Florent was alicent’s mother who died shortly before the events of s1 happened. So she is mourning for her mother, viserys, and luke.

Arryk is with Aegon. Erryk is with Emma D'arcy. Its easy:)

Lady Arryn wasn’t asking for a dragon to keep for the Vale, she was asking for someone with their dragon to come keep the Vale safe from dragon attacks. During Aegon’s conquest one of Aegon’s sister wives flew to The Vale and landed in the Eryie bringing the Vale into the fold without bloodshed. To avoid the Vale being undefended they want a dragon to protect it, not to keep cause the Targaryens wouldn’t accept that

Helaena was mumbling about dragons of thread at Laena's funeral. Perhaps she saw the new opening. Also Viserys mentioned tapestries when Daemon returned from the Stepstones.

Did you guys notice.. This was another incident where one of Alicent’s blood was killed on Ser Cristen’s watch

Btw... Vhagar is the oldest dragon so she's been in battle before. That's why she's got holes in her wings, poor baby ☺️

I don't blame you for not wanting to wait! I watched the first episode as soon as it came out!

The first candle was for Alicent's mother.

I would send some of the Velarion girls and her smaller dragon to the Vale, just to keep her out of the war. And I also would send the construction plans for scorpions with her, for the case bigger dragons should show up there.

Part of me hoped you'd wait for the others to catch up - but that's completely unreasonable! Hope you enjoy the show again, its been a wild ride already.

Buenas Noches Guapa Pareja, The King in the North did not kneel because his town feared being burned, nor was Aegon interested in killing Northerners, so Aegon told him the prophecy, which is what Cregan and Jacaeris imply with their words

Scorpions existed before Game Of Thrones. One shot down Aegon The Conqueror’s sister wife Rhaenys in Dorne. I always thought of it as Qyburn knew they existed from his time at The Citadel and went looking beneath The Red Keep for them. Then made more. Vhagar is a female dragon by the way. Alerie Florenz is Alicent’s mother. Also - Alyn is a Welsh name in the real world 😊 my cousin is named Alyn haha

In the books Blood&Cheese is much different. First off, Aemond is never mentioned to be the target, and Rhaenyra is not the one to incite the mission. Daemon sends Rhaenyra a letter from Harrenhal (in the books he is already there) that says- “An eye for an eye, a son for a son. Lucerys will be avenged”. B&C sneak into the Tower of the Hand, which is not guarded as heavily as Maegor’s Holdfast-where Aemond was-and they head for Alicent’s chambers, who was getting ready for bed (Criston and her are not a thing in the book). Helaena and her three children (Jaehaerys, Jaehaera, and Maelor, who was not present in the show version) were on the way for their nightly visit to Alicent. When they get there, they find Alicent tied to the bed and her bedmaid strangled. Blood bars the door and Cheese takes Maelor and tells Helaena to choose which son of hers will die. Helaena pleads that they kill her instead but they refuse, siting- “An eye for an eye, a son for a son. A wife is not a son.” Cheese tells her that if she does not choose then Blood will grape her daughter and they will kill everyone in the room. Eventually, Helaena chooses Maelor, her younger son. Maybe it was because she thought he would be too young to understand , or perhaps it was because the elder boy, Jaehaerys, was Aegon’s first born and heir. Cheese holds Maelor up and whispers to him- “You hear that, little one, your momma wants you dead”. Then, in one clean motion, Blood strikes of the older boys-Jaehaerys’s-head, and the two take off with it. When the guards finally burst through the door, they find Helaena grasping her son’s headless body to her, mad with grief. So yeah, Blood&Cheese is much more tame in the show.

What surprised me most about this episode, was that although I desise Larys and Otto, Aemond as king wasn't as bad as I thought he'd be. (at this point in the show).

So many reactors weren't paying attention when they asked Daemon what to do if they couldn't find Aemond. Regardless of what the writers intended, there is an implication that there's a plan b.

Blood and Cheese is way more traumatic in the book, they forced Halaena to choose between two sons and then kill the one she wanted to save---While they were awake.

That was really fun guys. Have either of you read "Fire and Blood?" They were supposed to kill Aemond, but he's a man. It was different in the books. In the books they went to the Tower of the Hand where Allicent moved after Vyseres died. Helena took the kids to visit her mother every night. Blood and Cheese broke into Allicent's rooms, killed her maid and waited for Helena. When she came in they made her choose between Jaheares and Maelor her younger son. She chose Maelor so they killed Jaeheres. The Episode is called A Son for a Son.

Blood & Cheese are such a savage

Luke's body was never found. One account from the book claims he suffered amnesia and lived as a fisherman.

13:06 excellent casting job for Allyn of Hull

Aemond is indeed a good strategic target. If he is dead, you could reclaim his big dragon, which will weaken the greens significantly. The son for a son plan B makes no real sense, has no strategic value and creates more rage. If someone should be punished, it is Aemond, who killed Luceris. If you can´t find him instantly, find out where he will be tomorrow and try it another day.

Oh this is a surprise . I was scrolling after watching you on you GOT reaction and came across this reaction which is a pleasant surprise.

YEEEEEY and good to see the face of the man (till now we had just seen his arm xD) I assume you have watched season 1 of HoTD right?

I wonder if Cole was supposed to be guarding Helaena instead of getting busy with Alicent. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Emma D’Arcy was amazing in this episode and only spoke one line of dialogue: “I want Aemond Targaryen!” 👏

"And who's fault is that?" Viserys's. His weakness caused all of this.

The rock lottery was a flashback.

Cheers Stef. Enjoy this and looking forward to see Ashley and Lindsay reach that point.

Corly’s family is pronounced VelAryan not ValYrian. Valyria is where the Targaryens and the Velaryans come from OH and Daemon is now King Consort with Rheanyra now as Queen and Jace is her heir

6:13 “Please don’t Jim the Camera like that.”

Regarding Daemon's hair. You did miss one white haired character in this episode...to be fair...

1:00 girl, who COULD wait? Hello, husband!

Lord Jesus you SAW LUKE GO INTO VHAGARS MOUTH but you ain't 100% he's dead??? My my

Erryk ... Rhaen-E-ra Arryk ... A-gon

Aegon was being a dick. Jahaerys has a dragon albeit a small one. He doesn't need to ride Tyland.

Yes, Mesel!! Perfect idea to do this, we get to double dip with Mesel and then the girls!

"dragon on dragon action" - heh heh heh - like dragons fucking. I want to see some dragons fucking. It will be hilarious. That's still my theory about the Dance of the Dragons, the name is a euphemism for the dragons fucking and everyone was just too embarrassed and pretended that they went to war instead.

As good as this show is I’m more stoked for Dunc & Egg, I really need to know what happened at Summerhall

Team Green?

The dagger was commissioned but bit given yet

Anyone else wondering who will be "the hand of the queen"?👀

Okay first off Daemon wanted to take out the guy who killed his step son first 10 mins of this show then his wife comes back then tells everyone I want him basically bring me his fracking head so Daemon goes to Kings Landing which is risky and dangerous for him to just do what he wife and queen asked of him he hires Blood and Cheese to kill the target bring me his head he tells the guys I want a son for a son they even asked ya what if we can't find him they caught away from that leaving you guess but being Daemon odds are he told them get me his head you get paid I want a son for a son so they go into the red Keep and can't find there target want to get paid and being idiots think hey we bring him the head of the King son the next heir to the throne he will pay us its even better. Sadly I think the Blacks will not be happy with Blood and Cheese the book writes that Daemon ordered this yet we seen he didn't do that yet its okay Son for a Son its war and the Greens deserve what ever happens to them period. When I think of the usurpers in GOT and House of Dragons how many kids died um lets just say Robert and Ned gang killed Dani whole blood line including Ella and her little kids so lets not forget usurpers are pure evil as hell and in war usurpers if they lose there whole blood line could be wiped out something to consider if you ever decide to over throw a government ! Anyway the Black Queen who we all side with has lost a daughter to still birth yes is was a girl and then a son to a dragon as a messenger no offense anything the Blacks do is acceptable it reminds me of people okay with Arya when she killed the whole house of Frey for her brother and mother death its okay people clapped but Dani burns down Kings landing killing the city that betrayed her whole family we call her mad seriously that's what happen Arya hero and Dani mad lol I know a killer when I see ya yeah because Arya you actually became one faster then Dani did when ya think about it !

Allyn isn't too strange when you consider Kevan and Jamie Lannister.

Yes!!! This'll be fun.

Cristan Cole is literally THE WORSTTTT

Yeah, another Mugshoter! the more the merrier.

Larys also mentioned he'd replaced much of the household staff, so another idea is he has less guards around for his own ends. I'd also say the whole point is we don't know what Daemon said, just like we don't know for sure if he had actually said the 'heir for a day' thing in episode 1. But yeah, as other people pointed out, it's amusing the split between book and non-book readers - Non-Book Readers: OMG WTH THIS IS HORRIBLE ; Book Readers: Meh - was much worse in hte actual book.

Love this reaction and love that you are doing this with your husband!! My only criticism would by that your (Steph's) volume is way too loud in comparison to the video and even your husband's. Keep up the good work!!

So happy you are reacting to this live, Stefani.

Alicent and Cole don't bang in the book. Heck, he doesn't even sleep with Rhaenrya. He is guilty of many things but breaking his vow of celibacy isn't one of them.

Your hubby looks like Chef Gregory Gourdet...

hello husband.... welcome

Not too much on Daemon 😂

You can't marry into royalty. That's why it was so egregious when Cersei took the throne. Daemon is the consort to Rhaenrya.

The white walkers gavebt been seen for thousands of years until GOT... So mo walkers will be iin This show.

i've not watched it your reaction yet, but why will this reaction be a one off?

Is Mesel Ethiopian?

I am team black, Helaena is the only green that I like I feel so bad for her loosing her baby boy.

oh how they can't read this... how do you manage to hide every time they get something right? The thing about Jon is not Ned's son in season 1 hahahaha I see you suffering more than them. Are you sure they haven't seen him behind your back?

In the books, it's even worse. Helaena is forced to choose which of her children she wants to have killed. She chooses the 2nd born, and Blood and Cheese simply kill the opposite after telling the younger one that her mom wanted her dead. Also, in the books, Alicent was there to witness it happen! Craziness.