HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 EPISODE 8 Rhaena Nettles and Sheepstealer | BOOK SPOILERS 

True. The reason is simple, these content creators don't want to shit on their income stream. If they say the series is shit what are they gonna do content on ?

For real lol

The night gone be long and full of terrors frfr

At least we'll get Dunk and Egg at some point in between ☹Hopefully it's good

@@pastapalads5598 looks good so far!

you must not remember the 2 year break she took after s1

8 of 10, that is

HBO always robs us with the best shows.

The writers wrote 10 episodes and HBO asked them to shorten it to 8. It's obvious now ... how could they tease it all season and not end with her claiming it ? I can't believe they would do that on purpose, they're not stupid

It was so bad. I'm so disappointed. It felt like aside from episode 4, SO little happened. And to take Nettles out of the show when she was such a good character... they could have added Nettles ENTIRE STORY instead of 4 episodes of Daemond having DREAMS OVER AND OVER 😠 Ugh I'm so disappointed because I loved season 1 so much. I feel like the reason it wasn't anywhere near as good as season 1 was because HBO is forcing them to drag it out for more seasons to make more money. (Just my opinion).

@@RiSK907liked then unliked because I disagree with your final point. HBO are not forcing more episodes on us to make more money, they’re compressing episodes into smaller chunks to SAVE MONEY, thereby denying us the full story. This was a whiplash episode like the finale of GoT sadly.

Same it sounds like something Damond would do finally bond with his daughter because she has a dragon and abandon the kids for her own selfish reasons

Same

I actually never found that theory that "child of the forest" theory very convincing to begin with. I mean, she is not exactly described as 4ft tall and spotted...

I'd genuinely cry from disappointment, it'd undermine the symbolism of Nettles

I am soooo happy that we dont have nettles, teenager who steals your husband...uhh I hate women like this also Daemon was almoist 50 while Nettles only 18

All rhaena did was scowl, run for 5 seconds at a time and stay in camera enclosed spaces

Very disjointed writing.

Well maybe they are building up to that, like Grey Area said , we should hold judgment till all is said and done . We don’t know what the future holds . As

Maybe the writers strike had something to do with it. Who knows

You're right. Some of the episodes had the characters doing the same things in multiple ways. It's like they had the writers work independently and not telling a cohesive story. Rhaenyra was constantly flip flopping between war is inevitable and actually maybe it's not for 8 episodes. That's really my main issue with the season. I could have learned to live with the changes if the rest was good

The Rhaenyra they have given us this far is amazingly better than what the book gave us, but with her future actions and inactions - she will need to do something out of pocket for us to dislike her, her demise is not supposed to be that sad per say, it will for me because I’m a Daemyra fan but the issue is, she needs to look totally unhinged, crazy and off the rails psycho for us to cope with what eventually happens to her, and setting up her youngest kids to be taken hostage due to Rhaena’s ego will begrudge her. Soon Rhaenyra will see and feel so much mistrust in everyone. She will lose trust in her, she will lose trust in her dragon riders, she has already shown her lack of trust with Jace going on dragon back (and this will prove to be a worthy worry), quite literally she is a victim of her own mistrust since the day she lost her mother, her baby brother, and since daemon abandoned her twice now, she almost thought her father lied to her too when she thought Alicent was being truthful about her fathers last words… When your whole world crumbles and you fail to trust people you tend to get paranoid and in her paranoia, I can even see her questioning daemon once again, even with his own daughter. That makes a better story than him doing something completely believable which would be to run off with another young girl regardless of reason, but I think in the end, our saddest moments are to come, when we see that Daemon never steered away from her, he questioned it once, at HH when she was so full of inaction - but he sees that this is just a cog on the wheel. I truly believe show canon Daemon loved Rhaenyra and will always - because she’s family and his brothers daughter… But when she starts questioning his relationship with his own daughter by Laena. We will probably want her to stop being ruler.

​@@aprilraynewhat you mean when you said she's will questioning him with his relationship with his own daughter

Rhaena has thought that claiming a dragon would make her useful to her family. Maybe her punishment would be to exile her?

@@aprilrayne I understand what you're saying. But as I said, its going to take a whole lot more than Rhaena chasing (and claiming) a wild dragon and not getting captured herself, for Rhaenyra to go "bring me her head!" I don't see it at all. But I think we can all agree that book Rhaenyra is different from show Rhaenyra. I'm not sure if it is just the biased reporting from those that documented the dance. But what I gathered when I read that section is that neither Rhaenyra nor Aegon were fit to rule. They were both cruel and one was selfish while the other was arrogant. I think that was the idea. But here in the show they haven't truly made any of them hate worthy. Aegon, apart from the cheating on his wife aspect, is largely just a funny guy trying to do what he thinks he should as a king. And Rhaenyra has been trying to avoid conflict at every turn. Neither of the two seem like genuinely bad people like Joffrey or Cersei. I like what the show did. But by making neither one a villain, they are either going to get boxed in a corner when we get near the end of the show or they are going to have to do a complete 180 on them early next season. I just hope we don't get another mad queen Daenerys abrupt arc for Rhaenyra out of thin air.

Exactly what I was thinking and totally agree with you!! No way Rhaenyra would demand Rhaena's head for claiming a dragon (that would help take King's Landing - if HBO doesn't change sheep stealer's story line...)

I'm on that hopium too.

Get over it, she’s not gonna be on the show

@@RahshiThompson Don't you have anything better to do?

​@@samf.s.7731me too

I’d honestly like to see sheepstealer just eat rhaena

Gives a little merit to my Lady Arryn/Rhaena theory tho 👀 😂❤

​@@LaffingTreeLadywhat's your theory?

@@psychedelicyeti6053 the lady of the vale is said to be interested in the company of women

On the aftershow I said this about Tessarion. The reveal should not have been done in the trailer

@@GrayAreaYes!! It just felt like the “beat never dropped” they could have swapped ep 7 and 8

This ^^^^. I thought the same exact thing. Why show the only scene in the trailer?

​@@GrayAreaRIGHT?? Tessarion fans got ripped off, hard.

I think when one or both of the princes, their dragons and eggs are kidnapped, Rheanyra ( " a son for a son") will go to question the Lady of The Veil in person. The Lady has already shown that she does NOT like Rheana, at all. She will tell Rheanyra that Rheana abandoned them and the valuable cargo to go chase a WILD dragon that probably killed her. That's why everything happened and the guards were killed. It was all Rheana's fault. This will probably happen during the Dragon Seeds betrayal and cause Rheanyra to mistrust everyone. Damon will just pour gasoline on that fire defending Rheana when she shows up ALIVE, instead of siding with his Queen in her time of need. Believable to me.

I think Rhaenyra will be furious with Rhaena for leaving the kids.

Yes he should be HUGE!!! But they don’t want this particular dragon to outshine any other is what I’m thinking.

It’s hard for me to understand as well, especially when we already saw the dynamic of the effects of not having a dragon in a dragon family likeee With Aemond

Couldn't agree more.

I don't think they will make him mean and a cold like Daemon

@@samer.4660 Daemon was DISGUSTED when he realized he was eating for breakfast the portal from wince he came. He had breakthrough after breakthrough and you will NOT see the same awakening in Aemond, I promise.

Da@@ facts never thought of it like that

It’s still crap - if the point is diversity, you don’t cut the only black character from the book. You can include them and add others, but it’s crap to push them out while you add others.

I read elsewhere that race in Westoros is not how we see it, but to them, it would be Valerian vs non-valerian. They still showed this, especially with Jace. Nettles would still bring that into question if she is not a descendant from any of the Valerian families.

​@@brittanyrae5771 Exactly.

Gee don't you sound racist...🥴🥴

No, I don’t think so. They are keeping their canon inline with GOT. Per GRRM in an interview.

I hope they do something great!

You sound like me and I know how delusional I sound😂

​ I'm delusional too. I hope they got the 2nd actress that played Claudia in Interview with the Vampire to play Nettles and she going to pop out and be like "Oye, that's my dragon" 😂😂😂

He doesn’t have time. He’s trying to finish winds of winter and he’s trying to finish dunk and egg. He reads the scripts and gives them notes.

@@GrayArea I'm aware. I just want better for the show.

🤣🤣🤣