HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 3 TOP 10 WTF Predictions 

I believe they can finish the whole book in just 12 episodes.

*The* *Queen* *Who* *Ever* *Was* The episode was only 109 minutes when I thought it would be 113? They cut a scene from the leaked footage. It’s a scene of Alicent and Helaena escaping. They’re both sitting inside a carriage. The part when Alicent secretly sees Rhaenyra made zero sense. She’s practically committing treason. Told Rhaenyra everything including an injured Aegon. Only five episodes earlier, Alicent told Rhaenyra it was too late. Was cutting that scene a way to have Alicent and Helaena remain at King’s Landing after it’s seized by Team Black? Scenes with Rhaenyra and Alicent were only created for Emma and Olivia to shoot scenes together. You can tell it’s a retelling of GRRM’s story. The other extremely divisive scene and perhaps the most divisive scene happens to be Daemon’s vision. Unlike Preston from RedTeamReview, I don’t have an issue that fate determines a character although Daemon loses this option. He said winter is coming in High Valyrian and it was cringe. My biggest problem was what Southern Mother of Dragons and Red said. Why lean on the previous show and White Walkers? Can’t House of the Dragon be carried by their own characters and not the backs of Daenerys and the White Walkers? It was great to see a book accurate Brynden Rivers / Bloodraven this time unlike having Max von Sydow (RIP). Joshua Ben-Tovim have eyes that beam like Cillian Murphy. The Night King did look awful like it was a cheap mask. Freeze frame it and it looks awful. Seeing the back of Dany’s naked body looked like cheap CGI/AI crap too. I had no problem with Daemon finally pledging his allegiance to Rhaenyra but that’s always been the case. His visions will probably have a pay off later on as Alys Rivers did tell Daemon he has gained abilities of a greenseer since arriving at Harrenhal. I believe they’re leaning onto this angle after Daemon dies to explain where his body was all this time. Season 2 didn’t feel it improved any of the established characters with maybe the exception being Aegon and to a lesser degree, Mysaria. I didn’t get anything out of Daemon, Alicent, Corlys, Baela, and Rhaena. Rhaenyra and Rhaenys were fine but they were always that way from S1. None of the new characters like Ulf, Hugh, Alys, and Jeyne stood out. I voted on a poll on The Plot Twist asking who is my favorite character between Rhaenyra, Daemon, Aegon, and Aemond? I was a surprised Daemon won from 24K votes at 59%. Rhaenyra is at 28%, Aemond is at 10%, and Aegon is 3%. When I voted for him, it still had 10K votes and he was at 57%. Aemond and Aegon dropped 1% each since then for Daemon to gain that 2%. It’s obvious at least 90% of viewers are Team Black. Rhaenyra was beating Aegon 93% to 7% in another poll. After S2 wasted Daemon, fans still love the D-man? I’m starting to question if he remains my favorite character as we didn’t the greatness coming from Daemon because the writers wants to keep humiliating him because he’s no Paul Rudd. While I didn’t enjoy every moment of Daemon from S1, he was a lot better in that first season than this one. Let’s say Bloodraven or Breakspear becomes my all-time favorite. HBO will find a way to ruin them. They always do. Their only clear improvement was with Viserys. Matt Smith could easily carry this show. Daemon has enough charisma to pull it off. But the writers wants us to hate on everyone in the show not named Rhaenyra or Rhaenys. They’re the perfect ones while everyone else is flawed. I know the Dance should center on Rhaenyra because this is her story but the writers are extremely biased towards her and only her. I feel she will get whitewashed at the end. Overall, I will give this season only a B-. I think it’s about as good as The Boys S4. Maybe I should give both a C+ instead? Half the season was good to great, and then the other half made some questionable creative decisions…. Good to great: Ep. 1, 2, 4, 7 Bad to questionable: Ep. 3, 5, 6, 8? Perhaps the strikes and WB only ordering for 8 episodes affected S2 to become worse. We should’ve ended S2 during the Battle of Gullet. So Episode 8 felt like a trailer to Season 3 or to an Episode 9 and 10 we should’ve got. If we had gotten 10 episodes, it would’ve finished with Gullet. Felt like Season 2 got limited by the budget and number of episodes. It was great to finally see Bloodraven in a more book accurate form although he looks too pretty like he’s live action Sephiroth. That’s how we should imagine Daemon from the book but without the birthmarks. Handsome and extremely charismatic. But S2 made sure Alys Rivers and Oscar Tully kept humiliating him and turning him into another Bran the Broken. HOT D S2 Character Rankings 1. Rhaenys 2. Rhaenyra 3. Silverwing (more character than the rest) That’s it for me. The rest didn’t seem to matter. I know Alicent taking so many baths or dips in water is for her to cleanse the impurities she did with Criston but we didn’t need to see her keep taking baths. We saw Aegon for half the season and only saw Otto for two episodes. We saw Tessarion but not Daeron. We get Tyland (mistakenly called Tywin) getting into a mud fight with a transgender RU-vidr who also appeared in The Acolyte. Sharako Lohar is supposed to be a male in the book. I guess he still is. Baela and Rhaena were wasted. Jace is always complaining. Got nothing out of the Jeyne Arryn scenes except her acting like a total bitch to Rhaena. Ulf went from fan favorite for people who never read the book into a moron after a couple of scenes in Ep. 8. I didn’t get much out of the Velaryons this season. It’s now official that I prefer Andor over House of the Dragon. I don’t have hopes from HBO doing this right. With Andor, while it doesn’t have enough lore building for Star Wars channels like Star Wars Meg and Generation Tech to talk about, it excels because Disney doesn’t meddle on what Tony Gilroy wants to do. I feel HBO is meddling too much on George’s work. It still hurts that we need to wait two more years for HOT D’s Season 3 which I expect to be a banger. I’m hoping HOT D does the opposite of Game of Thrones. GOT started great but ended poorly. HOT D starts off a bit too slow but ends amazingly. I expect S3 and S4 to be superior to S1 and S2. And we got A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms next summer to hold us over like Gen V did last year for fans of The Boys. Only 6 episodes but better than nothing. I wouldn’t have my hopes up too high for Baelor Targaryen, aka Breakspear. He is my 3rd favorite all-time character behind the Rogue Prince and Bloodraven. But after what HBO has done to GRRM’s favorite Targaryen in Daemon, their own “interpretation” of Baelor could end up far worse. We just have to accept the fact that HBO will dramatically change things, for better or for worse. GOT/HOT D Season Rankings 1. GOT S4 2. GOT S6 3. GOT S3 4. GOT S1 5. HOT D S1 6. GOT S2 7. GOT S5 8. HOT D S2 ⬇️ 9. GOT S7 10. GOT S8 I know GOT S8 is hated. But Ep. 2 was fun and Ep. 3 was still more exciting than most episodes that HOT D had. Maybe I should have HOT D S2 below GOT S7? GOT S7 still gave us 7x4 The Spoils of War and Euron savagely killing the Sand Snakes in 7x2. And 7x6 Beyond the Wall wasn’t that bad. At least we got Tormund and The Hound in the same scenes. The Acolyte or Game of Thrones Season 8? I would still take GOT S8 but would turn it off after The Long Night. I don’t need to watch the next 3 episodes after that where Dany forgot about the Iron Fleet and Rhaegal easily got killed, Dany goes mad and burns KL, and Bran gets chosen to sit on the Iron Throne. Jon should actually be beheaded for killing Dany. Not get his old job back where the White Walkers are no longer a threat. Jon basically got a slap on the wrist. Jon got off better than getting detention. I didn’t hate House of the Dragon S2. Still had some amazing cinematography and production values. The best set designs and costume designs in the business. I was still entertained by a couple of episodes specifically Ep. 2 and 4, but I can’t call it a great season overall. I was a little disappointed with the pacing, character development, and a few creative but odd decisions. Some of the story arcs for these characters went nowhere. If S1 was an A- or B+, S2 is a B- or C+. A letdown like The Boys S4. Oh well, I’m still optimistic for Season 3. With no more actors and writers strikes to interrupt production, I fully expect S3 to be far superior to what we got from S2. Let’s hope for 10 episodes instead of a measly 8 and we get to see several battles in it. We just need to expect that HBO will never try to emulate what’s written in the book and accept these changes. See y’all again next year for the Dunk & Egg series. It’s coming in the same month as Andor S2. ThroneVerse/ASOIAF is still a great lore to be part of! 1. Loki S1 (2021) 2. Loki S2 (2023) 3. House of the Dragon S1 (2022) 4. Andor S1 (2022) 5. House of the Dragon S2 (2024) Overall 1. Loki 2. Andor 3. House of the Dragon BTW, is Sunfyre dead or is Aegon only assuming he’s dead? They need Sunfyre later to explain what Joffrey told Margaery in GOT S4. All-Time Favorite Targaryens 1. Daemon Targaryen 2. Brynden Rivers 3. Baelor I Targaryen Who is HBO going to ruin next? Bertie Carvel better bring it next summer! Duncan the Tall is a fan favorite among book readers. I expect him to have many fans for the show next summer like Daemon has prior to HOT D airing in 2022. *A* *Knight* *of* *the* *Seven* *Kingdoms* (June 15, 2025 - July 20, 2025) Let’s hope for a teaser drop before this year ends.

What if Daemon becomes the Three Eyed Raven before Brynden Rivers?

They just announced show is ending after season 4. 😢

Who is Nettles? Is she a younger sister of Raina?

Is it? When they’re shooting the equivalent of 3 movies then editing them in just under 2 years. Thats not exactly unrealistic. Who told you otherwise? What other TV that uses this amount of CGI and VFX comes out yearly? Not talking about marvel pew pew powers, we are talking castles, dragons/monsters, ships on the ocean type stuff.

I’m going to stop watching now let me know how it goes after seven years

@@J_ads2000 Thats precisely the main problem. External studios (VFX, CGI, soundtrack) are doing less for more paid. You can literally have your serie done in 3 months, but studios bureaucratized their times and efforts...

@@J_ads2000bro your one of those guys who thought AOT 1 episode every 9 weeks is also no problem. like come on dude this is not a new show starting from scratch.

​@@J_ads2000 dont talk like this shit is normal. When does it ever take this damn long to do 8 episodes?? We used to get 10+ yearly

Thanks!

I agree, that’s the first thing I do after seeing the episode

Thanks for all your work, Charlie

Yup

Better? This whole season was a major disappointment.. you need mental help They want to make it better than blood and cheese.. that scene sucked.. didn't even show anything!!! Shame on you too even compare this to red wedding..

@@sunkissed6220 I was wondering if she was going to call him out on it, sometime this season.

It took a while to get there, but I agree.

Agreed!

character development? he didn't really change from 0 mins till bending the knee. he may have bent the knee because her dragon was above him. he wasn't expecting her as he said. the 'turncoat' was amongst the crowd, so he had accepted him into his army. he is shown the future and perhaps that changes his heart. not really any development of any character going on in this show.

Yea I just wish they didn't use an entire fkn season to convey this.

Me too

Exactly, at least

and we should've seen Jace actually doing the negotiating and the Pact of Ice and Fire, not just 3 minutes of him talking to Cregan.

They ran out of budget

How? I didn’t see it, was it in the scene?

@@hectore.zarraga7605 It wasn't. Bloodraven is the last known wielder of Darksister and its whereabouts are unknown after he went behind the wall and became 3 eyed raven.

​@@freziiihopefully bran gets it ahhh

@@freziii how do we know he was? Is that on the GOT books?

​@@cm386464 what is cripple bran gonna do with it

Even Daemon playing Luigi’s Mansion for 4 episodes was impressive acting wise

except Rhaenas actor

@@toxicclonejr8411you just hating, she barely had scenes and even when she did, she did a great job 🤦🏻‍♂️ mfs always find a way to complain

Except the pirate with perfect makeup and teeth

i think alicent and rhaenyra missed in their dialogie scene, very bad acting

I'll do more season 3 videos soon! My Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Trailer video will post Tues!

i feel the same thing. it's a bummer that s3 is coming in 2026

Filler??? Dude We got blood and cheese, Rooks Rest, and the Sowing of the seeds. 3 major chapters in a small 8 episode season :/ plus a lot of plot/lore exploration

@@TheV8Pumpkin I said what I said

you only have 2 years to wait

I personally really enjoyed it. Going to set up a brilliant season 3 too!🎉

@@iammaster5556 I think season 3 is going to blow put minds

I get what you mean, we are so used to getting something dramatic near the end of each season but remember, this is a different story to game of thrones and it’s about to be a lot different to both season one and season 2 of house of the dragon. Think about Lord of the rings, we are about to get to Return of the King, big battles, lots of action, lots of drama. The finale was just getting us ready for tonnes of chaos that I believe will bloooow our minds!

​@@theshewolfnetwork7875 Problem is they spent an entire episode not closing ANYTHING and only hyping up what they've been hyping the entire season already. Definitely the worst episode of the entire 2 seasons so far

I agree. I also hate how much time we spent with tyland instead of deepening the other plots

Agree good episode but didn't feel like finale, more like a mid season finale if that

@@cappuccino.pillar I agree. Half of that could have been tossed. I get their probably trying introduce some fun or lighter scenes, but that chick Pirate thing or whatever the hell it was won't ever come close to competing with Tyrion and Bronn.

😂😂😂the only way they could salvage sheepstealers storyline is if he burns Rhaena to a crisp as nettles walks over the hill leading a flock to her dragon.

Exactly where the story seems to be going.

100%

Dayum I don't want to see this as huge is actually family

Really did some hardcore thinking to come to this conclusion huh? He basically all but says this in the video it’s heavily implied. Weird that you’d propose it as your own idea

YES! 😂😂😂

This is the best comment 😄

Interesting theory!

Or Mr Footsie as Aemond mentioned getting his grandfather at the meeting

Lol

Mr. Gency of the Aw'sum bloodline.

😂 so true!

Season had a couple of awesome episodes. Unfortunately the finale was probably the worst episode of the entire show

Exactly!

Word!

This! This is a multi-season fantasy political drama not a marvel movie 😂

Slow pacing works when there is a real finale with something big. The final episode felt like a mid-season episode. At least that is my complaint but all episodes as just episodes was good. But the finale as a finale for a season was really bad, imo.

@@sebulbathxnot only that, GOT had amazing writing! It felt like so much happened even though there was only conversations going on. HOTD does compare imo

@@MisterW-24 not to “save” budget lmaoo if they were to squash everything this show would last 2 seasons max and it would be a pile of dogshit

@@the600squad6 no, it is to “save” budget. Clearly finances were the issue. If they are gonna make another season and if you followed the books, you’d know that there will be more battles which means more money to spend..there for it is for budget purposes. Everything else you said was neither here nor there. So I’m not sure why that was a hard laugh for you.

Me😂❤

He heard it correctly. Charlie stated that Dan and Dave were given unlimited budgets for GOT episodes but they chose to create fewer episodes. Unlike HOTD, producers were given a budget that was about 40 million less than last year’s, hence the need to cut two episodes.

We've known that for years though. Try and keep up

Hate is a strong word incel😂

The *Rhaena* thing is obnoxious as hell. The show writers kept trying to build some sort of anticipation around something we've known was gonna happen for 3 episodes already and nobody notices her total dereliction of duty toward her younger half-brothers, who she left completely unprotected with the staff. Honestly IDK how much Gurrm had to do with how this season ended but if I were an HBO exec I'd be thinking about canceling the series. Game of Thrones season 8 writing is not what I started watching House of the Dragon for at all.

@@worldadventuretravel jajajajajaja you clearly are missing what they are setting up combining nettles and Rhaena's characters..... need a reason for her to be considered a traitor

​​​​@@worldadventuretravel The Rhaena payoff should have happened. Period. Because I agree, her boring ending was 100% predictable. There's lots they could have done and still kept her in the Vale and her dragon claim unknown until next season. They could have shown her almost get burned...not running around bug eyed with soot on her forehead... and from what? Touching ash? Or getting close to him?? Just dumb. And you're telling me HER guards aren't walking around looking for her??? She's the child of the King Consort 🤦‍♀️

Won't someone please think of the children!

​@@worldadventuretravelyou're delusional

I loved it too😊

I did too and thought that's how Helena dies...kinda like how the book tells it.

@@chrisnavasatis6461 Except in the book she does herself because of Blood and Cheese.

@liamroarke7991 I knew that...didn't want to mention for Spoilers incase people are now reading it for the 1st time.

ooh I like this theory

oooh I like this. I can totally see Rhaneyra being upset with her abandoning her sons after she told Rheana will have the most important task...keeping the future targaryen line safe.

If you don't like it ,don't watch it then simple, no one is ever happy

I dont think alot of the people complaining understand what's to come.

​@MADGUNSMONSTER Yes, there are 3-4 big events coming. I suspect they'll combine the first and second battle of Tumbleton to be more concise but that still leaves the HUGE battle of the Gullett to start season 3 with. The storming of the Dragonpit, and the battle over the God's Eye; which I think might be near the series end.

I can. I love Jace 😢

Yeah I felt that too 😅

Yes. We were looking for some action. Cliffhanger city.

I excepted more, it was disappointing

@@masahei78 hell yea! watch marvel for some action.. i love the buildups and the actual dialogue to get the payoff great and not just action sequences!

No way you watched the first few seasons of game of thrones live

You should buildup all season and you should get a payoff at the end of the season. To spend all season building up just to wait 2 years for the payoff is insane ​@the600squad6

He looks bigger then the greens dragon

Sunfyre devours Rhaenyra at the gates of Dragonstone

In the books, yes. But clearly in the show it will be different

In early GOT we see the outcomes of the battles which caused plans to change, armies to move and new schemes to hatch. Here it feels like nothing actually matters because everyone just stays put

@@alechammond367 not really lmaoo season 2 of GoT was ALL dialogue except for the battle of blackwater lmaoo we got the battle of rooks rest this season which was mostly made up of character development and dialogue..

@@alechammond367 That’s what Season 3 will be lmao

I don't care if there is a lot of action or not, the point is that nothing substantial is being done. Explain to me why Daemon, perhaps the most important character in the show had to spend the entire season watching illusions?

Not remotely close

Have fun!

My pleasure!

He will most likely appear as a surprise. He thinks the dragon is dead but he really isnt.

or that no one is shown feeding it in the woods?

I think they give that to Tesserion

I totally agree with you. I felt alot more engaged and excited to watch GoT compared to HotD. So many people with too little story. It gets very confusing and it seems like a much smaller world. It is King's Landing, Dragonstone and the docks. They didn't need many set changes so that couldn't have blown their budget.

im pretty sure its just a lie right now, so then when sunfyre returns later its a shock factor

Facts​@@hbks5299

Thanks!

Why? That dragon is a weak dragon, fights only those that cant defend themselves like baby dragons, eats their corpses and dragon eggs and carcasess of big dragons who died of old age or are to ill to defend themselves.

@wokeaf1337 He is not weak. The weakest dragon in Game of Thrones is the last dragon

​@@ThePresence8815 He is because he doesnt prey on adult strong dragons.

@wokeaf1337 If he is so weak, why hasn't anyone claimed him with ease or killed him?Because none of them will be foolish to try to even get close to him

@@ThePresence8815 A dragon is not a slave, if the dragon doesnt want to be claimed, u cant claim it and if nobody knows about a drgon nobody will search for it either.

Thank you so much!!

Huge the hammer was the main betrayer in the books. So that's a good theory to incentivize his betrayal in the show. It's definitely misdirecting you

I don't think Rhaenyra would kill Helaena.... She always talks about how much of a sweet person she is and how awful it was that her baby died, etc. She is probably the only person I can see that would not be killed from that family including her baby girl.

@KristineElizabethKraycer yeah probably it's gona be interesting seeing rhaenyra react to aegon being gone when she gets to kings landing and all she finds is the queen

Thanks!

You're welcome!

i hate it. Where is nettles