House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 Recap & Review 

Can we talk about the airplane joke that Daemon makes… “it’s a big throne with swords in it, but that’s not important right now”

Gwayne fought Daemon at the tournament on episode one season 1. He was introduced as Sir Otto Hightower's eldest son. The guy was named Ulf and he was shown in the previous episode looking at the rat catchers hung on the wall. He is another character not Hugh😊 I have been watching your recaps since Night Country and Shogun. As usual, great discussion and recap.

“It’s a big chair, made of swords” might be my favorite line of the series so far.

OMG im just realizing that the lady that tells Daemon he's going to die at Harrenhal looks EXACTLY like the red priestess that comes to Daenerys in Mereen!! Also Melisandre is like 400 years old in GOT i hope we get to see her in HOTD

To clear it up for you , Joffery and his dragon are going to the Vale to foster there and the other two boys are going to Pentos with baby Aemond's dragon. Baby Visarys will hopefully bond with one of the unborn eggs

The baby dragons are for the 2 youngest kids that left with Rhaena. The eggs are not taken by anyone yet. I don’t know the mechanics of how they get bonded but I’m pretty sure the 2 baby dragons are already bonded with the kids. They get placed next to them at birth and all that.

Daemon and Rhaenyra have been married for years and years. I’m pretty sure everyone knows

Luke didn’t know about sailing either and actually got seasick when on a ship. But Corlys was in total love with Luke being the heir. It’s funny now he can’t choose but I would see him picking someone with the name to carry no matter the blood relation.

If you guys remember in season 1 when rhaenyra listens to marriage proposals, some kid from the blackwoods got called a c*nt and he ended up killing the guy, those 2 people were from the houses that fought each other at the beginning during the burning mill

Yes alicent miss understood her aegons but Otto Hightower had long planned to usurp the throne from rhaenyra and had been speaking about it in court for years. He still would’ve made aegon king but alicent gave him a convenient excuse at the last second. He jumped at the chance to blame it all on his daughter and he was so ready for her to take the fall. AND he didn’t even believe that it even happened, he thought alicent was just making herself feel better about coming around to his plan to get their bloodline on the throne. So either way, the men in power were going to do as they pleased while allowing the women around them take the blame and the consequences.

The guy from the bar wasn’t hugh it’s a character named Ulf! Hugh has a nice beard as well and is a bigger guy than Ulf

They buried Erryk and Arryk together because they were “One soul in two bodies”

Can never not get hype to the intro song BWAAAAH BWAHHH BWAHHHH OYSTERS CLAMS AND COCKLES 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

i absolutely love how they’re telling the story of team black and team green through other families effected by it. the twins and how they killed each other while loving each other simply because of duty. brackens vs blackwoods representing how by the time the war is over, no one will truly know what it rooted from. was it alicent marrying viserys? the other kids bullying aemond? usurping the throne? aemond kinslaying? or shoot, Viserys letting Aemma die. by the time it’s over we won’t truly know what sparked it, just like the rivalry brackens vs blackwoods. i think it’s cool how the story is throwing itself in the targaryens faces and they won’t acknowledge it

Not a book-reader here and I originally tried to avoid spoilers (so thank you for being non-spoilery). The mistake I made is that I watch with closed captions. In episode 2, when the random guy was talking about the rat catchers, the CC named him as “Ulf,” so I knew that that character would be more important because most minor characters with speaking roles don’t have names. I then googled Ulf, Alyn, Adam, and Hugh. I blame the CC for giving me clues, but I did the googling.

38:00 the guy pops up when the rat catchers are hung

I feel like the House that the Dragons built behind the scenes show is also their way of defending the fact that each season is 2 years apart. They’re like “oh you want to complain about how long it takes? Well look at this, it took 5 months just to make Aegons armor” 😂

Alicent did try to bring up Heleana walking in on her and Cole in episode 2 but that was when Heleana just shoved the blanket thing for Jaehaerys at her and ignored it. She obviously had more important things on her mind. I did think the apology for Alicent was for Heleana catching her with Cole but I don't think she really cares all the much about it.

Loving the coverage guys.

I wonder if Larys will find out Alicent met with rhaenyra 👀👀👀

longtime Spotify listener, made the transition to RU-vid - great decision. Question for the experts: Do we at all feel like Dameon himself wants to be King ? Ie “his grace” and hesitancy to call Rhaenyra queen

Great episode. One thing though - the meeting didn’t occur in the Great Sept of Baelor. Baelor was not king until after all these events happened and the sept in his name wasn’t completed until after his death. Ugh. I just became that guy. 🤦‍♂️

Thanks, boys. Great listen as always.

We are so back

Great pod. Thanks

Great episode as always!

This was a GREAT episode, I mean of your recap & review guys. Kudos!

It's not Hugh. It was the same guy who was showed up at the hanging.

Loved the pod

I really enjoyed Barrett’s take this episode. Had me laughing all morning 😂

I listen to a quite a few of these podcasts thru the week but you guys always seem to come up with some new takes that build the world. Like Cole's chain of hands inlay from Jaxxon chains as I understand.

Sir Gwayne was in the tourney episode, Season 1

Time for another listen to the greatest HotD podcast in the realm!

My read on the Daemon Harrenhal scene where daemon refers to himself as your grace is that daemon is trying to declare himself as king and he went to the riverlands to obtain those 40k men for himself, not rhaenera, which is why the harrenhal dude was so taken back by it all. (Could be totally wrong but that was my interpretation)

Laenor is still alive somewhere and that’s why Seasmoke is starting to get lonely/anxious, I wonder if someone that doesn’t know he’s still alive is going to try to claim him and it’s going to go sideways somehow, or if Laenor will come back

In season one they brought up the boarder dispute of the Blackwoods and Brakens at the small counsel. I thought that was a good tie in.

I think the episode's Sept scene is my favorite one. The mirroring and symmetry between the Sept scene with younger Alicent and Rhaenyra. The secrets and misunderstandings between them. So you want these women to take decisions for themselves in the name of agency? And when Rhaenyra decides to meet Alicent is suddenly noo, stop her. The same regarding Alicent making the decissuon not to not give off Rhaenyra's presence is again suddenly -noo, they should not do that. Do you realize that full fleshed people make contradictory choice, have messy conversations and are often impulsive and absurd. I believe this kind of encounter would be a thing GRRM would have wrote. That type of scenes are the fun of storytelling. In addition, Condell and his team have to fill huge gaps on this characters, and for 9 of 10 times, the HoTD do an admirable job. I will be defending it to the bitter end as I would be defending A feast fot Crows, probably the best ASOiaf book.

The random guy in this ep stole an apple in front of the rat catcher hangings in ep 2

I know you guys were joking around and I laughed with you but I am also really, really hating how the conflict boils down to a misunderstanding over which Aegon was being referenced. I know the Greens had a contingency plan to seize the throne after Viserys died but I don't like how the spark is the misunderstanding of sick, medicated old man. It just cheapens the drama for me. I hate that trope as it is used to death in other shows. The sept scene is really damaging my respect for this season so far. Olivia Cooke and Emma D'arcy acted the hell out of it and I give them all the props for it. However, the writing contrivances to get there really bring back the PTSD of end season Game of Thrones. I know security can't cover everything but how easy is it to sneak in to King's Landing at this point? I would have thought that between Larys and Otto the vast majority of Mysaria's contacts would have been killed. Larys has purged the servants twice at this point I think. Both women claim that they want to avoid a war to avoid the slaughter. Rhaenyra can do this by withdrawing her claim to the throne. Alicent gave her that out with generous terms but she refused. She can't have it both ways and it seems like no on is calling her out for this. Both sides have lost a son in horrifying fashion and I can't imagine any message from Alicent no matter how sincere sounding would be believed.

I would note the online book readers have gotten some characters wrong, so sometimes their spoilers are disappointing the episodes... so good on ya'll not reading the books!

We have seen the guy in the bar before (the one that’s not Hugh). He was the one who asked who was hanging and what they had done (when the rat catchers were hung).

One great thing about HOTD on Max is that book readers are not always right cuz things like Leanor's death did not happen in the Max version. I feel like the producers know book readers are out there and so they change things up. For the best, I think.

Has been confirmed that three of the four eggs you see in the scene are, in fact, Dany's eggs that turn into her three dragons.

Been waiting for this podcast all day. Ps how bout them Astros!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽

Had a dream last night I met you guys :(

You know, maybe Christian Cole is Helena and the kid's bodyguard and someone else is Allicent's bodyguard, who is standing outside of her room. Maybe Allicent lures Christian Cole from his post leaving the babes unguarded. She knows Helena won't tell on her. But look at the outcome. It may well be Allicent's fault.

I figured Criston cut his hair bc he was preparing to go to war. Shorter hair is better in a fight and for maintenance on the road.

Idk how to say this any other way but the chick who told daemon he'd die in harenhall sounded a lot like the Natalie Portman's sidekick from the first thor movie

The guy in the bar is the same guy who asked who were the men that were hung ....and the lady responds they are all rat catchers.

Corlys is stalling to name and heir because he knows Alyn knows seafaring inside out, is his son and maybe can fly a dragon? Does the white hair mean you fly dragons? According to the book, families from Old Valeria had dragons.

I believe Otto mentions Gwayne in episode 2 ?

Not down for that baby killin but Team Black dawg lesssgooo

Rhaenys is actually supposed to be 55. Not quite in her 60s. 😁

I've had so much spoiled for me for this show already from the book readers. I never remember it being this bad with GoT. At least the reddit has 2 separate posts for book/no book spoilers. I find it a little silly ppl think it's ok bc the book has been out so long.

Literally haunted

Corlys being so upset about Joffrey being the heir to Driftmark doesn’t make much sense to me. He was full-throated in his support of Lucerys despite the fact that Lucerys was a child at the time. What changed?

mood striked me pretty early here

Within book canon Hugh and Ulf (Targaryen bastard) become players in the war similarly to Alyn and Addam

What happened to the episode 4 review?

The Burning Mill aftermath scene reminded me of the Gone With The Wind scene of the iconic overview of wounded Southern soldiers in Atlanta. Y’all are too young to get that reference I am sure.

That certainly was Hugh who said he was a Targaryen. C'mon guys, pay attention. :P

I enjoyed the episode other then the end. That whole scene felt rushed and lazy. The conversation didn't feel natural. Almost nothing happen other then Alicent knows who Visersy was talking about. Which is nice but it didn't feel organic. It was a bit comical. Like a light bulb was above Alicent.