HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 REACTION - THIS IS SO MESSED UP! - 2X1 - FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Hey guys! Thank you so much for joining us. This show holds a special place in our hearts because it's one of the first things we covered on this channel. We were about 3K back then. Thank you for all your support the past two years. If you enjoyed the reaction leave a like and subscribe! (it helps us out a bunch).

12:31 I'm sad that they didn't include the most hilarious scene from the books in the series where the Greens learned about Luke's death. In the books Alicent was horrified and Otto legit said to Aemond "You lost only ONE EYE, how could you be so blind?" 😂😂😂

Arrax is Syrax’s child that’s why she was also crying in that scene. So it’s two Mothers mourning their Children.

The death of the child is so much worse in the books, the killers make the queen choose between her children and declare which is her favourite, they then kill the favourite and leave her with the child she was willing to let them kill... And the children were awake for the entire interaction... You could imagine the resentment that child grew up with 😂

The acting in this episode was impeccable. Rhaenyra literally said 4 words the whole episode and you could feel exactly what she was feeling. Also when she was grieving on the beach and her dragon Syrax was feeling her pain was a little more than just feeling Rhaenyra’s pain, Syrax is the mother dragon to all of Rhaenyra’s children’s dragons

"Our victor depends on the efforts of the small folk" is the most intelligent thing he ever said... Aegon, consider me impressed

“I want Aemond Targaryen. “ **looking right at Daemon**

Jace and Rhaynera had me CRYING this episode

If you look closely you can see Cheese (the rat catcher) in the background of shots in the Red Keep several times throughout the episode. Shows how easily he can to blend into the background and move about without being notuced

“Then she is a fool” Aemond is VERY perceptive. He stares at Mr Crispy when “talking about Alicent”. . Aemond now knows Criston is a liability bc he cares for Alicent. Aemond made it clear that Alicent was against them... as in their enemy. Aemond never schemes with anyone beside Vhegar.

As soon as I heard the score in the beginning, I automatic knew Winterfell/Starks. I honestly loved how they have their own score from GOT series.

should start calling Criston the Queen F' er since he is the only person in the realm who has had both queens.

Okay let me phrase the timeline in the introduction: - Valyria's creation - Valyrians using black magic to bond with dragons - Daenys forsaw end of Valyria and Targaryens chose exile to get away from the catalyst that would occur. - Doom of Valyria - Targaryen siblings (Aegon on Baelerian, Rhaenys on Meraxes and Visenya on Vhagar) going for conquest. - Balaerian blasting Harrenhall - Field of Fire where House Gardener was destroyed and Lannisters bend the knee. - Arryns, Starks, Tullys bowing to Targaryens - rise of Targaryen dynasty - Maegor the cruel dying on the throne - Jahaerys and Alyssane rising as Maegor's successors - Jahaerys conducting the council at Harrenhall (1st scene of HOTD) - Greens vs Blacks as was prophesied by Helaena: ‘Hand turns loom; spools of green, spools of black; dragons of flesh weaving dragons of thread'

Seeing Rhaenyra grieve was just heartbreaking

Aegon and Aemond actually have another brother called Daeron who should be a year younger than Aemond

O was so focused this episode that I didn’t notice Rhaenyra had just one line 😂😂😂😂

Daemon is ruthless. Taking out the heir is more devastating than Aemond. It's simply cold and I didn't expect it at all.

The Winterfell theme is so good

That opening minute brought a tear to my eye. The soundtrack, the narrator, the world. It reminded me of how excited I was to watch every single episode of GoT. Enjoy guys 🤟

Aegon is indeed going to lose his shit

I found you guys literally from season 1 HOD. Congrats on your growth. Kicking dogs! Beheading kids! We are so back . . .

I was just about to go to sleep. Oh well, I can't resist

The opening with the Stark theme was just *chefs kiss*

Kinda weird they had Helaena offer up...a necklace. When in the original she was pleading for her OWN LIFE in place of her children.

Rhaenyra wanted Aemonds's head & if she had got it I think Alicent would have accepted it but Daemon just wanted a son's head and that act is the spark that will really light the fuse. Also thanks for being the only reactors I have seen out of 4 so far that have commented on the dragons not wanting to go north of The Wall

4:27 yup if I remember correctly Cregan is talking about Silverwing, Queen Alyssane's dragon, the mate dragon Vermithor the Bronze Fury (belongs to Jahaerys I, husband of Queen Alyssane). When Queen Alysanne was in North for the construction going on in there, she sensed something wrong towards the other side of the wall. Silverwing refused to take her beyond the wall or crossing it herself.

so an explanation for the murderers that killed Aegon's son was blood & cheese blood a former gold cloak & cheese a rat catcher, Aemond hiring them was the intention to get even in the case "A son for a son" and when Helaena said she is scared of the rates she meant the rat catcher meaning cheese who held a knife to her throat, and in the books anytime she says anything strange it has a significance to the story, so when she gasped she felt something which could mean a vision or a new action in the coming war will happen soon. also, since now, Aemond is the wanted criminal for Luke's death. Every loyal servant of team black will be gunning for Vhagar and Aemond that explaining why Aemond wanted to go kill them as soon as Rhaenys arrived.

Helaena has autism, it was confirmed with the first season for those who have not read Fire and Blood, so between that and the fact that she has the "power" to see prophecies, her reaction is completely natural, she is in shock, the actress for me has done an incredible job and the scene, yes, it could have been murkier, but I prefer that it left me like Helaena, completely shaken

3:54 "Starks never forget their oaths." (Coughing)Robb Stark(Coughing)

Otto thought the realm was as dishonorable as himself and they would betray Queen Rhaenyra but he miscalculated how honorable some Lords are. Now the realm splits in half and burns 🔥

Blood & Cheese was a lot more darker in the book in comparison to what they showed in this episode. Also we got a name drop for Dalton Greyjoy aka the red kraken😈, and I hope we can see more scenes of the younger members of team black do their own plans. Because they are importent in the book an I just hope the writers remember that. And finally I'm patiently waiting to see if this is the season that we will get to see the lads of riverrun, or will they(the writers) save them for season 3.

Again, this shows no one on this show is truly good. Daemon told them to do it if they don’t find Aemond…. A small child. Ugh. I actually just feel incredibly bad for the son as well as poor Helaena

I can't claim credit for it as I read it elsewhere but someone said Helena's gasp down the stairs was her waking up to the reality of what happened. She has visions which blurs her sense of what's real and what's not. So its possible she thought everything before that moment was one of her visions until she "wakes up" holding her surviving child. (Again, I don't claim credit for this idea but it definitely gave me pause and broke my heart). My thought at the end of the episode was how will Rhaeynera react to finding out Aegon's son was brutally murdered. She had one demand to her council: I want Aemond Targaryen. I think it'll break her heart to know another mother, especially one so sweet lost, a child.

I STARTED WATCHING YOU GUYS WITH YOUR SEASON 1 REACTIONS WE ARE SO BACK

The sound effects as the young Queen runs from the room. They were grim and they were loud.

Daemon is gonna be a whole MENACE this season i'm looking foward to it 🙌.

I was expecting the brutal line "You hear it boy? Your mama wants you dead" from b&c. Anyway, they did great.

When Rhaenyra bangs Criston: "She's so empowered!" When Alicent bangs Criston: "What a ho!" Glad they're showing that Aegon II is not only a loving father(trying to be the father that Viserys I wasn't to him), but has the makings of being a good king. Just reminding people that Viserys could have stopped this if he had just loved all his children and not just his heir. He treated his boys like criminals when Aemond's eye got carved out and made no apologies or punishments to Luke for the action. Even in the penultimate episode, Aegon was sure that Viserys didn't even like him and questioned if his mother even did.(We have to see both sides, as the show is way too slanted towards the Blacks being the best(at least, until the end of this episode). If people still support Rhaenyra and Daemon after this, I'll be pissed. I support Greens and I always will just because of this.

Well, they made it clear, nobody wants to mess with the most dangerous & powerful soldier of Westeros.... and his dragon! Aemond! Man I love that character.. plus is the books he's more evil🔥

So glad you jumped on this! Great series and your reactions are the best

to be fair i found aegon more human than just a straight psycho

I think you can watch season 5 lore video of GOT, DANCE OF THE DRAGON section where they visualize how the whole scene of Blood and Cheese played out. The kids were awake the whole time. Helaena was made to choose between both of her sons. Helaena choose the younger one (Maelor) thinking that he's too young to understand so he won't be as terrified and also because the older one (Jahaerys) was the heir to the throne. Blood and Cheese instead choose to kill Jahaerys for the exact reason for which Helaena choose Maelor. They even traumatized the young Maelor by saying that 'his momma wants him dead', before saying the head of Jahaerys right in front of him. All kids of Helaena was a horrible death in the books.

I love rhaenys! She’s not just a princess, she’s a badass dragon rider, granddaughter of jahaerys and great great granddaughter of aegon the conqueror 👏🏻

I mean all the kids were bullies, including his own older brother. But aemond was gonna r.i.p. jacaerys with a rock, his little brother took action to protect him, resulting in aemond losing an eye. Sucks all around, maybe if the adults noticed the bullying or if they were watching their children, it could have all been avoided. Either way Aemond is sadistic, you can see it in his eye. Rhaenyra is the first born & she was named the air to the throne. Team Black 🖤

7:30 For anyone that played Assassin's Creed: Origins, the guy in blue is Abubakar Salim, the actor that voiced and mo-capped Bayek of Siwa.

After Lucarys' death, war was highly probable. After this is when it becomes inevitable. The Green's were mostly defensive with the possibility of war, no it is certain because they both want each other's heads.

I cant wait to see next episode. Aegon gonna kill it

I love the Daemon and Rhaenys dynamic as well, they are truly cousins LOL

As soon as Jace started struggling to speak, I was like it’s all good dude, let it out. No need to hold anything together. That poor family 😭

Those muffled screams from Jaehaerys and than this cutting noises...that's gonna haunt me forever 😭😭😭💚

14:24 Rhaenyra’s Dragon Syrax had a baby and its name was Arrax, which was Livery’s dragon. So on that beach two mothers were mourning their children

I’m freakin betting that when the rat catcher asked daemon, “what if we cant find him?”, the camera stays on daemon for a few seconds and he doesn’t say anything but it kinda looked like he was going to…..I’m betting that daemon tells the rat catcher to kill the child boy. I’m calling it. Lol😂

Cole where were you when the prince was getting beheaded…👀

Bonds is one thing but the dragon also grieving for her baby Dragons, which is lucerys dragon

Alarie Florent is alicent’s mother who died in case no one told you.

I will continue to say this. Aegon in this episode is the best on screen king we've seen in all of Game of Thrones

“Daaaamn get it jeeesus” got me rolling hahaha

Also not sure if either of you heard but a new game of thrones series called a knight of the seven kingdoms will premiere next year so we’ll have more Westeros content lol

Ur reactions to season 1 was when I found ur guys awesome channel. Glad to be back to what got our relationship started 😉 😂 we are in for a wild journey that’s for sure 😊

What makes me curious is was Cole supposed to be on duty protecting Helena and the kids and he was instead giving it to the Queen.

Team Black till the end but poor Helaena… she should be with the blacks 🖤

Daemon being calculating and cruel and Aegon being naive and eager to please is proof that these characters are not on Good Team and Bad Team. The show is much more entertaining when it's viewed from that perspective.

I'm so happy i found you guys earlier this year. I loved this one!

A lot of people who read the Book Fire and Blood don't like what they did with Cheese and Blood because they changed things. I'm going to give my opinion on the whole episode, so I liked the episode but I expected more from the episode, about the blood and cheese I thought it was cool but it could be much better. I'm going to talk now about what really happened in the Book Fire and Blood. Blood and Cheese is one of the darkest moments of the civil war between the Targaryens,known as the Dance of the Dragons. After receiving information about Luke's death at the hands of Aemond, the Black Council met at Dragonstone and received a raven from Prince Daemon, who at that time was in Harrenhal. "An eye for an eye, a son for a son," wrote Prince Daemon."Lucerys will be avenged." Thus begins one of the bloodiest chapters of Dance. "Let it not be forgotten: in his youth, Daemon Targaryen was the Prince of the City, his face and his laughs were familiar to all the pickpockets, whores and gamblers of Flea Bottom. The prince still had friends in the lowest reaches of King's Landing and followers among the gold cloaks. Unbeknownst to King Aegon, the Hand, or the Dowager Queen, he also had allies at court, even on the green council... And another intermediary, a special friend whom he trusted completely, who knew the taverns and rat pits that festered in the shadows of the Red Keep, as Daemon himself had known, and moved with ease in the shadows of the city. He sought out this pale stranger then, by secret means, to enact terrible revenge." Her intermediary, as it turns out later, was (Mysaria) and she is the one who recruits Blood and Cheese, in King's Landing. Blood is described as brutish and deadly, and he had been a sergeant among the Gold Cloaks (City Guard), but was permanently dismissed for beating a prostitute to death during a drunken binge. Cheese, in turn, was the rat exterminator of the Red Keep and therefore knew all the entrances and exits of the Castle and he is the one who takes Blood to the interior of the castle,without them being seen by anyone. “Cheese knew the Red Fortress better than the shape of his own dick,” says Cogumelo. The hidden doors and secret tunnels Maegor the Cruel had constructed were as familiar to the exterminator as they were to the rats he hunted. Using a forgotten passage, Cheese took Blood to the heart of the castle, without being seen by any guards. Some say that the prey was the king himself, but Aegon was accompanied by the Kingsguard wherever he went, and not even Cheese knew of an entrance or exit from Maegor's Fortress other than the drawbridge that passed over the dry moat and its formidable iron spikes. The Tower of the Hand was less dry. The two men climbed the walls, avoiding the spearmen stationed at the tower doors. Ser Otto's quarters were of no interest to them. They went directly to his daughter's quarters, one floor below. Queen Alicent had come to live there after the death of King Viserys, when her son Aegon moved to Maegor's Keep with his queen. After they entered, Cheese tied and gagged the widowed queen while Blood strangled her chambermaid. Then they sat down to wait, as they knew that it was Queen Helaena's custom to take her children to see their grandmother every night before they went to sleep. Oblivious to the danger, the queen appeared as dusk spread across the castle, accompanied by her three children. Jaehaerys and Jaehaera were six years old and Maelor was two. When they entered the chambers, Helaena was holding his little hand and calling her mother's name. Blood blocked the door and killed the queen's guards while Cheese appeared to get Maelor. -If they scream, everyone will die - Sangue warned His Grace. Queen Helaena kept her cool, they say. -Who are you? -he asked the two. -Debt collectors -said Cheese. -An eye for an eye, a son for a son. We just want one to settle the score. We will not harm rest of you, not by a hair's breadth. What does Your Grace want? lose? When she understood what he meant, Queen Helaena pleaded for men to kill her in the place of one of her children. -A wife is not a son, said Blood. -It has to be one boy. Cheese warned the queen to choose quickly, before Blood was left I'm tired of the little girl. -Choose - he said -, otherwise we will kill everyone. On her knees, crying, Helaena chose the youngest, Maelor. Perhaps she had thought the boy was too young to understand,or perhaps it was because the oldest boy, Jaehaerys, was the firstborn and heir of King Aegon, next in line of succession to the Iron Throne. -Are you listening, little boy? -Cheese whispered to Maelor. -Your mom wants you dead. He gave Blood a smile, and the hulking swordsman killed Prince Jaehaerys, taking the boy's head off with a single blow. The queen began to scream. Strangely enough, the rat exterminator and the butcher were true to their word. They did no harm to Queen Helaena or her surviving children, but they fled with the prince's head in their hands. A scream sounded, but Queijo knew the secret passages that the guards did not, and the killers fled. Two days later, Blood was captured at the Gate of the Gods trying to leave King's Landing with Prince Jaehaerys' head in one of his saddlebags. Under torture, he confessed that he was taking the head to Harrenhal, to collect his reward from Prince Daemon. He too gave a description of the prostitute he claimed had hired them: an older woman, foreign in her accent, with a cape and hood, very pale.The other prostitutes called her Myseria. After thirteen days of torment, Blood was finally able to die. Queen Alicent ordered Larys Clubfoot to learn his name so he could bathe in the blood of his wife and children, but our sources do not say whether this happened. Ser Luthor Largent and his golden cloaks searched the Street of Silk from top to bottom and investigated and stripped every prostitute in King's Landing, but found no sign of either Cheese or White Worm. In his grief and fury, King Aegon Il ordered all of the city's rat exterminators to be captured and hanged, and this was done. (Ser Otto Hightower took a hundred cats to the Red Keep to take their place.) Although Blood and Cheese spared her life, Queen Helaena didn't exactly survive the fateful twilight. Afterwards, she did not want to eat, bathe or leave her chambers, and could not bear to look at her son Maelor, knowing that she had chosen him to die. The king had no recourse other than to take the boy from her and give him to the their mother, the Dowager Queen Alicent, to be raised as her own. Aegon and his wife began to sleep separately, and Queen Helaena sank deeper and deeper into madness, while the king raged, drank and raged." So I hate all the green people because they are all bad, the only person in the family who is good is Helaena, the rest are all rotten, poor people, he lost his son so she goes after his mother to ask for help and she ends up taking the mother having sex with her lover, what a horrible thing, I feel very sorry for Helena, she does suffer in this green family, but Aegon, Aemond, Alicent do not suffer,they are suffering, they are suffering and because the series wants to portray them as poor things, Helaena does not have love from no one in her family, they all mistreat her, Because Helena doesn't like Alicent or her brothers, you can tell by just watching all her scenes with her family, she never lets Alicent touch her.

It's House of the Dragon time again!!! This brings me way back to the early days of watching this channel, what a nostalgic hit to help deal with intensity of this show. I got shivers when we saw Winterfell and the Wall. I was impressed that they took away some of the extreme awfulness of that ending, while still keeping it harrowingly haunting. Amazing acting from Phia Saban. And Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra too, watching all that grief was so impactful. We're so back!

Awww baby Ari and Baby Denise lol I also jammed out to the intro music while i shoved fries down my throat lol

"son for son, he said" is what Blood says, so Daemon asked them even though we didn't see it.

Notice the awareness of the Starks and the Targaryens about the threat from beyond the Wall. All the other houses are oblivious.

I think Helaena pointed her finger at her son hoping they would believe she was lying. Well, "based" on how it happens in the book

Daemons thinking is Rhaenys could've acted to prevent an all-out war. Her decision not to act against the Greens has allowed them to plan and prepare, making it more difficult for the Blacks to regain their rightful throne. Daemon isn't being impulsive. He's trying to utilize the element of surprise and offense instead of being reactionary.

29:22 one trauma after the other in one night for her

Decapitating a toddler is on par for this world, but kicking the dog is out of line. Yeah, I was also disappointed at them softening the scene of Helaena’s choice.

How so many people dont get the rats part bothers me lol It has 2 sides.She saw this happening (clairvoyant) and its the rats/people in the castle. That lady not crazy. Also it was son for a son if they couldn't find Aemund. I'm team black but ive always hated Daemon lol😂

5:03 I thought it was bad that Jace came home straight away, I wanted to see more scenes of Jace in the north. The books have several moments of Jace in the north, but apparently the writers chose not to include them, it's a real shame. 5:44 Rhaenys' Scene with Daemon Eva best who plays the character Rhaenys I talk about her scene with Daemon. "When we did that in the reading and it seemed like a kind of trump card, like whoever has more power" (...) so, what he throws at her in that scene entirely reflects him and his own vulnerability and a desperate need to blame someone" "Understanding that thing about being an outsider. Those who have been mistreated, those who haven't gotten the position they were raised in or deserve, I feel like there's a deep understanding that Rhaenyra resonates with a lot." 11:03 As Rhaenyra was absent for days, it was probably the daemon who received Alicent's letters. I imagine he burned all of Alicent's letters. (I would do the same thing) I'm sure he did this the first moment he read it "Friend, how are you? How are you?🥰 I'm sorry for your son😰🤧 You know how it is, accidents happen🤷‍♀️ but move forward and lift your head so the crown (a princess's, not a Queen's) doesn't fall off, right lol I miss you already." (bro when Alicent speaks The fact that I sent the letters made me angry because, bro, it's only the scriptwriters who can do this shit, I hope Daemon burned all the fake letters. 14:18 I wanted to talk about Rhaenyra in the book in relation to how Lucerys' death happened. How sad Vhagar must have been, the dragon who ended her boy's life. Riding Visenya,a woman she clearly admired and then her beloved Laena. Rhaenyra clearly admired the conqueror. She wore her hair normally tied in a long braid, like her ancestor and even named her daughter after her, who unfortunately did not survive. Besides, in the book the relationship between Laena and Rhaenyra was different.They flew together,visited each other and she was with Laena in her final moments.They promised their children: Jace to Baela and Luke to Rhaena, when the boys were four and three and the girls two. How sad it must have been to think that the dragon that once belonged to a woman she so admired and was inspired by and then to such a dear friend was the very one who killed her son. 19:35 Daemon was Anxious throughout the episode, lashing out at everyone he talked to because he was worried about Rhaenyra. He probably hadn't slept for days, not knowing if she was safe. Then she came back and he did his best to comfort her. (The funny thing is that Dameon was mad at everyone and blamed everyone, but when Rhaenyra arrived he was calm with her presence) They [Daemon and Rhaenyra] have a connection that no one else on the show shares, they are almost the same person, in different bodies. Sarah Hess. Matt Smith: “[Blood&Cheese] It's love, grief and vengeance. Daemon feels it's impossible not to exact that feeling of revenge when it's in him... [Jaehaerys' death] isn't his mistake ultimately, but he does put it in motion.” 20:57 Jace's scene with Rhaenyra was very beautiful. Jace placing the crown in front of the mourning is Rhaenyra putting the pain aside to comfort. He trying to hold back to say what he managed and clinging to her afterwards. This scene is important to show that Rhaenyra raised her children in a very loving way. On the other hand, we have a mother (Alicent) who is extremely negligent and neglectful and on the other, Nyra is simply being loving towards all of her children. Seriously, they put the scene of Alicent lighting the candle for Lucerys, seriously, scriptwriters, this woman doesn't care about Rhaenyra's children, she calls hers bastards and tried to take a child's eye out and then put this ridiculous scene of hers, She called the jace and luke from savages... said he would rather die than let Helaena marry jace... spent 10 years questioning the legitimacy of the Children and putting a target on their and Rhaenyra's foreheads... but yes he does everything I felt the parallel of the wake with Alicent's fake, They are forcing too much, Alicent clearly never liked Rhaenyra's children but is called empathetic for lighting a candle at Lucerys' death... however, Rhaenyra who never had anything against Is Helaena called fake for showing empathy towards another innocent mother? Sometimes it's difficult to understand people, but she's the victim, folks.. she started the war by accident.. she sent Larys to kill Mysaria's informants by accident.. she spent 10 years preparing Aegon to be king by accident. .she questioned the legitimacy of luke/ep8 without meaning to.. she is just the victim of the patriarchy, incredible how everything they do the producers want to make accidental. "Ah, they didn't want to usurp the throne", "Aemond didn't want to kill the boy", damn what a bummer. 21:38 They didn't have Lucerys' body for the funeral so to represent him throughout his life, Jace wore his newborn clothes, Joffrey his toy as a child, Rhaenyra her clothes as an adult.

The only thing I could think as they was killing that kid was “GOTEEEM”😭😭

i watched a lot of reaction to this episode and i find it really funny that people are more angry that Blood kick his dog the the acutal child murder XD

I have read the book and I know everything that is going to happen but even at the beginning of the book George R. Martin says that not everything written can be true because it is written from the perspective of the maesters, understanding that there are readers who may be upset by some decisions in the series but, personally I love the decisions that both the writers and George and Ryan Condall as showrunner are making.

26:43 blood and cheese is what lore remembers their names as, it’s a reference to the fact that Blood doesn’t cringe at killing he’s ESSENTIALLY the hound but even more ruthless. Cheese’s name refers to the fact he’s a rat catcher. The rat he’s all over the set of the first season (especially drinking the blood of Joffrey Lonmouth’s body at Rhaenyra’s wedding) is that all around this story is just death and chaos and attack and counterattack

Fun fact the dragon that Jace died on is also the offspring of rhaenyras dragon. That’s why she also cry’s out.

Y’all should react to Castlevania ❤️🙏

"I feel bad for them" spoke too soon

I absolutely love to see you all's reactions to these shows! The slaughter of that child at the end, still has my nerves shook! Can't wait to see your reactions to EP. 2

I was here for season 1 ❤ got to know many good movies that I missed thanks to you guys, so I will be here all along 🎉

Yo I'm Early! Ima be back to watch this with y'all, I'm sure it'll be fire but I gotta watch the ep myself first 😂

Welcome back, guys ❤

Been as subscriber since Season 1! 😄

The symbolism in this show is amazing. The kingsguard is swore to celibacy. That cloak is the symbol of their oath. Alicent putting the cloak back after he just pulled his head out of her honeypot was really telling how far both of these characters had gone. BTW something to think about. Otto told Criston Cole to go back to your post which means he was on duty. Cole is the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. At night time if he is on duty I would imagine his post would be outside of the King's room. If Alicent wasnt riding Cole's Hightower he would've been able to stop them from killing that child. Once again the layers...even though Daemon is responsible for the attack he is not the only one to blame for that child's death. Personally I really prefer the book's version of the events though but I'm sure it has been mentioned in the comments already. That being said they might had a reason to go this way and they will address this scene later so I will judge them when I've seen it all I feel like thats fair. Once again I have to mention the casting team for their continued excellence for over a decade at this point. Those two guys were outstanding. This is how you stand out when you get a small part in a huge production. Just do your best, be professional and people will remember you for it. They were great. Menacing, crude, genuine, everything about them felt natural. Outstanding performance from the both of them. Really liked the episode, very well put together, beautiful shots, great lighting and creative camerawork. Movie quality throughout. The scene between Rhaenyra and Jace had me tear up. Lesser writers would've wanted more dialogue between them but Jace trying to be the best heir he could possibly be and stay professonial ends up breaking up in front of his Mom was really sweet. And she just stands up to hug him. Really nicely done. At the beginning when the time jump happens seeing Emma D'arcy was a bit jarring but she was really good and by this point I am really enjoying her as Rhaenyra, she is doing a phenomenal job. Must also mention the actress who plays Helaena. I'm pretty sure she has autism (or something similar) but that actress is doing such a great job with that character from the beginning and nobody really talks about it. Really strong start of the new season, it's so nice to see such a high quality production ( mostly talking about the writing and acting here ) I really cant wait to see the rest.

I didn't think I would like thos series and I was absalutly surprised. Thanks for your reactions ypu guys are great❤❤

I've just watched this in England, got up early to watch it before work, what a great start ratcatcher aside... poor little guy. Looking forward to the coming weeks watching with you guys! ❤

the new intro showing the Targaryen story since Aegon I till the start of the Dance of Dragons? amazing, pure cinema

I am still team black and I feel for Helaena after she lost her son. Only greens I like is Helaena and her children they haven''t done anything that makes me hate them. Shout out to Emma their acting was absolutely fantastic.

My 2 favorite reactors reacting to my favorite show. Thank you both!

The new intro is SO much better. I’m relieved they got rid of that stupid blood going everywhere, whatever the Hell that was. The tapestry makes a lot more sense. It’s emblematic of the real people juxtaposed with the myths - the characters being stitched into history, the icons and their stories woven into the culture of Westeros forever.

I have been waiting for you guys to react to the second season. Anyways, nice reaction.

"..... NOW LET ME SEE THOSE FEET-" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Hell yeahhhh HOTD! Been supporting y’all since the first season and have found y’all to be one of the best reaction channels out there so glad you guys are finally getting some spotlight 🎉🎉🎉 so happy to be back in this universe with y’all you guys always catch what’s up ❤❤

Aegon is going to be wrathful, I also wonder if he will blame Alicent because Christian was very obviously not at his post when all of this went down. Aemond started all of this off. Daemon escalating things further only made it worse.

I’m actually glad they’re showing more humanity from Aegon. It seems that season 1 tried to make him too unlikeable (the rape scene last season wasn’t in the book), so I’m glad they’re fixing that. It’s only going to make his descent into rage all the more upsetting

15:23 That smith Hugh note his hair color. A dragon seed

Great reaction! I felt so bad for Rhaenyra and Syrax; they're both mothers who lost children, Luke and Arrax.