House of The Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 |The Burning Mill | FRR Reaction 

Alicent channelling Slim Charles - "If it's a lie - we fight on that lie"

The Hightowers are still around. They're vassals of the Tyrells, you remember them from game of thrones. Tyrells are the great house of The Reach the same way the Starks are of the North, and the Lannisters are of the West etc. Although they aren't a great house they're still very powerful, and their home is called Oldtown, a very important place in Westeros. Oldtown is where The Citadel is, where all Maesters are trained

Daemon entering Harrenhall was some straight-out-of-Dark Souls shit.

Imagine fucking up so bad a magic tree gotta make you feel guilty.

The spouse of the monarch is also called "your grace." Daemon is the King-Consort. Alicent is the dowager queen. Aegon IS married (to Helena).

Daemom's arrival in Harrenhall reminded me of Dark Souls or Elden Ring.

The babies are her brothers and her mother killed herself not to get away from the family but to go out as a dragon rider instead of child birth.

The producers has confirmed that 3 of those dragon eggs that Rhaenyra Targaryen sent away with Daemon's daughter along with her two babies are the same dragon eggs that belong to Daenerys in Game of Thrones. 😉

Dragonstone (and Driftmark) are in Blackwater Bay close to King's Landing and because the Velaryons control the bay it's easy for Rhaenyra (and Daemon a couple episodes before) to get to King's Landing with little resistance. Harrenhal is in the Riverlands which is probably at least a day's ride on dragon (so at least a month on foot). Cole's plan is to conquer the castles close to King's Landing in the Crownlands and then when he has a larger host move to the Riverlands and get to Harrenhal. Even if he's successful it'll take some time. Ngl while I did like the conversation between Rhaenyra and Alicent it felt they could have waited until later in the show and it kind of felt contrived that Rhaenyra got in because "men don't look at women". At least with Daemon he has familiarity with the area, connections with the Gold Cloacks, and didn't walk across half the city. Idk I just ain't feeling the "we can avoid war" rhetoric from Rhaenyra because how many atrocities need to happen for you to get your head in the game? And Rhaenys lowkey a hypocrite preaching that same rhetoric while having the highest body count so far.

Cole looking like Russel Crowe’s Maximus from Gladiator

I don’t like how Rhaena is treated. Her dad ignoring her, she got separated from her sister, now they send her away and give her responsibilities. In the book her egg is supposed to be pink and the writers even took that from her

Rhaenyra needs a solid Hand. I'd pick her aunt.

the chain is everywhere in the books nothing new about it

Cant say Rhaenyra didn't try 🤷🏾‍♀️.