House of the Dragon S2E01 Explained 

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nah Alt Shift X sold out... promoting other 2 creators' content? How much did they pay, I cannot respect you anymore

​@@vinogr00nko93I hope you are kidding 😂

@@vinogr00nko93 I hope he waited for the cheque to clear.

you do make us wait

"Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin and everyone holds their breath to see what side it lands on." "Yeah, maybe that wouldn't happen if you guys would actually try fucking someone outside your own gene pool."

If only Helaena x Aemond shippers understood that.

That one Hapsburg be like:

Such a hot take

Scrolled to the comments to find this exact comment. Had me howling 😂😂😂

THERE’S NO TIME FOR THAT

the gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute banging content

I am a supporter of Glibus Waters.

I've been listening to it for an hour per day and I'm about half way through. I'm not sure why I'm doing this, but I sure am doing it.

girl what r u doin here

I never even noticed that. You have sharp eyes 👌🏻

He's nothing if not a master manipulator. Plus, if you come off as weak and pliable, everyone will think you're no threat. There's no point in doing it in front of Alicent because she knows all too well how dangerous he is. Difference between him and Pycelle is that Pycelle's only ambition was to keep his comfortable and influential position as long as he lived. Larys clearly has far greater goals.

​@@mst3KGfand there is no greater goal than seeing Olivia Cookes little piggies

@@mst3KGfLarys really seems to combine Littlefinger, Varys and Pycelle into one person

Also very Derek Jacobi from I, Claudius inspired

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maybe the faith of the 7 was right about incest

And the remaining one is "Maybe necrophilia isn't great either"

I think class hierarchy is what you’re looking for

Right? A huge improvement over the original clockwork world's reuse with some changes.

It was me. I did it. Can I borrow 500 dollars

Big improvement over season 1

get a raise to Ramin Djawadi so he can compose an actual theme instead of reusing the old one

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And a Royal one at that, he is tounges deep in both.

According to Ygritte Jon is one too.😂😂😂

The lord commander's kiss.

​​@@DrDoom333Black haired dudes tongues are just built different 😂😂

He’s very fond of his good friend *Colonel* *Ingus*

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One of the reasons i love this channel im hoping maybe one day he’ll make a video about the differences from the books and the shows in detail

Agreed

Everyone has the same name or almost the same name. The books were rough lol

​@CoopaCoop yes such as Aemond son of aemond brother of aemond etc etc or some shit along that line

yeah dude it’s not like this happens with every single tv show

@@cashnelson2306true but HOTD/GOT are bigger than any other tv show and plus what other good TV show is there out rn besides The Boys.

@@cashnelson2306 Don't ruin the moment.

Good observation.

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ALT SHIFT 🐉 🐓

Shift the Magnanimous, Shwift the Dragoncock

Where does it say it was her eggs?

@@ADeina-tt7oh It's implied in F&B, though I don't recall the chapter. Same for Jace's Vermax and Joff's Tyraxes. Note the names as well, all with the same suffix as Syrax. Iirc, there's also a reference to Morning coming from one of Syrax's eggs as well.

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Even if it can’t be proven completely each dragon IS a relative.

Also makes sense because when the Targaryens first moved to Dragonstone, Balerion was the youngest and smallest of the five dragons they brought with them, which is why he was the only one of those five remaining when Aegon began his conquest.

@@mst3KGf Its also informs us on why a dragon called " The Black Dread" that been know exclusively as a warmachine would choose someone like Viserys to be its rider.

I didn't catch it in the show but yeah I love that lore reveal.

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​@trippersigs2248 maybe he preferred dreamers.

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AVERAGE TARGARYEN FAN: 🤓🐉😡 AVERAGE CELTIGAR ENJOYER: 😎🦀🥰

🦀 🦀 _Fool the crab, get the claws_ 🦀 🦀

CRAB RAVE ??

This is the age of the crab 🦀🦀🦀🦀

Wishing you the best Anne.

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Sending you love and hugs!

Aw, me and my ex used to watch his videos and discuss too. 😢 I'm so sorry you lost your person. I think alot of people find solace and distraction from traumatic things with this series. You're not alone, honey. Cherish the memories and hopefully you guys will meet again in a better place one day

EXACTLY. A simple psychological trick to get the other person (Aegon) to willingly change the topic without having to force them to do it. It seemed extremely obvious to me, but from the livestream to this video it seems to have gone over alt-shift-x's head completely. Which is even more odd considering it's in this *same* episode that Alicent says she worries that she is losing control and influence over her sons.

Yeah, I saw it as Alicent stopping Aegon without outright denying him. She gave Tyland a small embarrassment to spare him a potentially greater humiliation and redirect Aegon's attention.

@@celeste7987 Yeah, recovering from the embarrassment of being ridden as a horse in a meeting would have been hard and would have the potential to endanger their relationship with the Lannisters in the long run

Same but she was still enabling Aegon Right outcome, wrong means

was just wondering if i should comment about this and i see there's a comment already! 100% agree, she was definitely expertly de-escalating what could've been an even more humiliating situation.

exactly. Despite her flaws Alicent is a good person.

The show spends much more time on her, it was a good choice to get such a talented actress.

There are two kinds of F&B readers, and they view the show differently. Some people understand F&B as a novel where what is written on the page is "what actually happened" except for where the text specifically calls something out. These are the people who will point at details and complain that they're different from the book, "made up for the show", or that this character wouldn't say/do that. Other people understand F&B as the history book that it actually is. AM Gyldayn was writing more than 150 years after the events he narrates. He uses multiple sources of dubious quality, each written at different times and for different purposes, to stitch together a narrative that makes sense while pushing his own political agenda which isn't necessarily interested in historical truth so much as authenticity. These readers understand that while there are immutable facts that cannot be ignored, the details of those events are open to interpretation. These are the people who are perfectly fine with changes in personality or detail from the books (The Princess and The Queen is a separate essay written by Gyldayn some years before expanding it into his magnum opus) but said "yes you should be" when Daemon said "I should be in Harrenhnal", and are increasingly worried about things like Daeron not even being named. The critics will have a field day when they finally introduce him... if they do at all. History remembers Jaime Lannister as the traitorous Kingslayer, the Kingsguard who killed his King to help the usurper Robert Baratheon claim the throne. While it's true in the broad strokes, the reality was quite different to the way history records it. GRRM frequently illustrates this by making Gyldayn compare accounts and decide whether eyewitnesses Orwyle or Mushroom are closer to the truth and sometimes he just acknowledges what they said while going with a different narrative from a different source altogether. Gyldayn never met Alicent, Rhaenyra, or anyone else he writes about. He bases their personalities on their deeds first, and the accounts of witnesses like Mushroom and Orwyle second. Gyldayn put the U in Alicent. HotD is showing us various realities that Gyldayn didn't know about, didn't think was relevant, or deliberately omitted because it didn't fit his narrative. This is why Alicent is a much more likeable character in the show.

​@@sokar_rostauThere's two kinds of F&B readers, those that understand it's not a novel but a lore book told by two unreliable narrators, and the illiterate

​@@sokar_rostauWell said. If there were to be a hypothetical in-universe history book about the events of ASOIAF it would make sense for many of the details to be completely wrong. Whether it's cos the details aren't known or the author's own prejudice, we'd all be like "that isn't how it happened!!!"

Correct! I’m surprised not a lot of people caught this 👏🏿

I agree, I think the show's portrayal of Aegon is very interesting. There's clearly a *person* there with some depth of character and some sort of internal logic, regardless of whether we interpret that person as good or bad.

Lancel should have been praying every night that Robert didn't ask him to be his horse. "Listen up, you golden haired ninny! I'm mounting you today! And that's AFTER the breast-plate is stretched!"

I laughed out loud when he said that hahaha

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Your alt what??????

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Was that autocorrect? lol

43 minutes is kind of a long time to be sitting there you might want to try some fiber in your diet

Lololol

Dragon cock was said in the series, that was a direct quote. Mischief hoodie is original hilarity tho

Dragon cock is a direct quote from the show though. Mischief hoodie is original hilarity tho

It could be using 'dragons' as a stand-in for the Targaryns, so it is to mean that the living Targaryns are weaving their history

You seem to have forgotten a relevant real-world phrase: weaving the tapestry of history.

I'm still not clear on "Beware the beast underneath the boards." The dragon later in the episode most definitely comes from outside the city, not beneath the boards or anything else.

@@vampiresforesl Huh? Where did you get that from? The beast beneath the boards is Meleys and Rhaenys killing hundreds of innocent smallfolk when she bursts out of the floor of the dragonpit at the coronation.

Seasons that start off without a death or ten is considered a dull affair

Dothraki review: "First death was promising, but then they didn't kill the queen and the other kid. No three deaths, deeply disappointing, one out of five stars."

Baby wake up. Alt shift x just dropped.

Oh and how many more will we see! Can't wait!

With season 8 logic

That plus also rape gets overused by bad writers to make things look vile , it’s rarely needed in a script and it’s just heinous

What's really horrifying is that I had to see Alicent getting piped twice.

Also, the scene in the book is objectively dumb. Two amateur assassins wouldn't risk their lives to torture the royal family just for fun. It's not like they were getting paid by the hour. It was literally just GRRM giving in to the worst "grimdark" tropes: pointless misery pr0n that is so stupidly depressing it breaks all immersion.

You know that you are watching a fiction, right? That there are cuts, montage, etc... you can easily film only the mother screaming without the children even in the scene. As a fan of the book, the scene as portrayed in the show is shit and we should stop finding obstuse justification for the filmmaker incompetence.

@@Nukefandango Hard disagree. It set off the series of events leading to Helaena's suicide, from the guilt of knowing she had just sentenced her own son Maelor to death in favor of his elder brother and the mental toll of having to live with that.

Ya it’s ridiculous

I've read all of the books, and seen both shows, multiple times and written thousands of words on various forums about them. Believe me when I say, the struggle never ends. I think GRRM does it on purpose because he's a sadist that enjoys fucking with his reader's heads.

Also a convenient method to explain why that handmaiden working for Mysaria is no longer on the show, because she was played by the wife of the former co-show runner who left after the first season.

@@mst3KGf wtf a show runner quit??!! what??!! who??!! wouldn't that be bigger news a show runner up n quitting???

he doesnt know. Larys knows, Otto is suspicious. Nobody else knows for know.

That child would've eventually grown up into Targaryen, though. Dog, on other hand, was just a good boy doing his work and he didn't deserve it.

​@@whyareyoureadingmynickname8158 okay but the sleeping child did. Sure.

Book readers said meh a lot of the non book readers were shocked and disgusted.

​@@Gopackgoinfinitynon book reader here thought the scene was super mid

@@mementomori771 cool your in the minority

She was deftly trying to get Aegon to stop harassing his Small Councilor

Yeah I saw that immediately, she was clearly trying to pacify both sides

💯. It was her way of managing the situation to save Tylands ego and not be seen as opposing the king.

Wait, really? That's so cool. If teachers had done this in school, I might have made decent grades.

Yes, but this is closer to the very first original story of the Dance than the later versions of the books. At least when it comes to the importance of Ser Criston for the story.

Shift and Scwhift clearly are the products of heteropaternal superfecundation .

Ooh, nice catch!

​@@theofficialguyA total power play from the club foot

He's pulling a Pycelle...

Thanks for watching :)

There’s something about menials though…the rich look past them. And unlike the servants, the rat catchers are not semi-intimates. They are semi-contractors. In and out, unnoticed. The first time we see Cheese, Alicent and Cole almost brush past him in the small council room. It’s like he doesn’t exist. They don’t even notice he’s there, or register his presence. That’s why the maidservants didn’t intervene. A menial was fussing over a trap. What harm could this menial be?

@@SuperStella1111 I wrote something similar about Larys, then I remembered what he’d done to his own family and that he wouldn’t overlook even a kitchen boy in killing the castle servants. Blood, the disaffected guard is out of place and was seen by the servant, who I believe ran straight to Larys (out of fear of Larys), raising the alarm with the one person who probably allowed this to happen. The Green Royal family have surrendered their security to Larys by Queen Alicent and only Otto has a hope of undoing that. I doubt Larys will let Otto continue beyond his usefulness to the war. Larys will find & bring Blood to a quick end, Cheese was likely ended by Blood before leaving the castle, with only his dog & debtors to grieve him,

A centaur? 😼

I'll bite you

only one line in an entire episode and yet still an Emmy deserving perfomance, at this point if they don't nominate them it's surely because they just don't know for which category right?

​Delusional.

good to know

There are dozens of us

I once read a reddit post that poetically put it: They were too focused on looking for attacks coming from above, they never considered an attack can come from below.

Next to Alicent, right?

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Crab people crab people

The crab show

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It would be the first ASOIAF spin-off that takes places millions of years into the future: everyone has evolved into crabs.

"History of Westeros" is decent too

Quinn's Ideas, before Ideas of Ice and Fire was the goat for me ( still is, in Sci-Fi book recommendations department for me). Too bad later seasons of GoT broke him.