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I think it's worth pointing out that Arrax was Syrax's son. So when they're on the beach and Syrax calls out while Rhaenyra is crying over Luke, Syrax is crying for her son as well.
The chad Criston Cole the QueenLayer!! But on a serious note this dude slept with Viserys daughter and wife, he may have betrayed Viserys worse then jamie betrayed aerys💀
Alicent scrubbing her skin reminded me of Lady Macbeth - “out damned spot” - with her being haunted by her part in the death of the king and repeatedly scrubbing at her hands to try and remove the “blood” from her skin
10:45 Aegon began the building of the Red Keep, Aenys and Maegor completed it. Maegor had the builders killed after completion to keep the construction of the secret tunnels to himself.
Aegon built Kingslanding Margot built the red keep as he took it from the seven as it was a chapel/church before he took it and he built the red keep with all the secret passages and yes killed all the builders when done
In the book, they make Helena choose which one of her children, the younger or the older, she wants to be killed. She chooses the youngest, but they kill the older one instead. My wild theory is that, at that moment, she 'saw' the book, she saw what was supposed to happen, so she tried to trick destiny, but Cheese guessed it. That trick with her visions and destiny broke her like Bran broke Hodor... And at the end, I believe there is a double meaning to Helena saying "they killed the boy". The Blacks have kilked the heir, but they also killed boy Aegon by killing his child.
I like the dude on the left. I like that you guys put in someone who hasn't read the book. Someone like me who's going in blind who has a bunch of questions. You should keep him around.
Part how the books shows this physic bond is that the dragons begin to snap and snarl at each other more and more as the hatred is growing between the blacks and the greens even before the hostilities get violent
I feel like everyone is overlooking the fact that Christian Cole was not on watch guarding them Bec he was with Alicent. What are they going to tell Aegon when he asks why weren't you guarding my wife and kids?
I was listening to this video in my headphones whilst working and when I finally looked down at my phone after 30 minutes and saw Brandon in the wig I almost died of laughter aha , great sport!
There was a special feature that showed Helaenas chambers. And If you look at all her drawings on the walls and stuff, she saw daenerys and the birth of her dragons and also the meeting of daenerys and Jon snow, so she has seen into the far far future. It's pretty cool
I found it really hard to watch the scene of them getting rid of the child. It was so sad. And the captions said bones cracking and you could hear them killing the kid even though they didn’t show it. 😮 😔
It is implied that the eggs that hatch Viserion, Rhaegal, and Drogon are Dreamfyre's. Elissa Farman, Queen Rhaena's girlfriend, wanted Rhaena to build her a ship to cross the sunset sea. Rhaena said essentially, "I'll give you anything you want as long as you don't leave me." Seeing as she had already lost most everyone she had ever loved. Eliss eventually got fed up with waiting, and stole three eggs from Rhaena's dragon, escaping Dragonstone and fleeing to Bravos, where she sold the eggs to pay for a massive ship. King Jaehaerys freaks out and sends someone to get the eggs back, but the sea master of Bravos said "hey I definitley don't have the eggs, but if I did, unless they hatch, they're just three pretty rocks, so what are you worried about?" Jaehaerys and Alysanne didn't want anyone knowing about the theft, so they kept it mostly secret, by the time Viserys (technically the sixth person to be named his heir) was chosen, Jaehaerys probably had more important things to warn him about than three infertile eggs stolen most of a century ago.
Well maybe because minutes later he does something A LOT worse! 😬 ….. but yes, I would’ve got em for kicking that poor doggy before he even had a chance to do anything else haha
Those dragons on the books are the wild dragons that never had riders and a few will get riders during this war but one never dies who is called Cannibal
Yea that’s what was happening and I knew they wouldn’t show it but she talked it up way worse. The sound was bad enough so I agree they made the right move
I'm super behind on shows, but I'm playing catchup. 1) I love the 3 of you together! Chef's kiss. 2) Jessica, you look beautiful! 3) Brandon, you also look beautiful! 4) Zach, your joke about Criston Cole & Alicent was so freaking good! Kudos to you, sir! 5) This season is bonkers already, and it's only episode 1! I can't wait to see where this is going since I haven't read the books yet.
Nope no switching sides team green deserves all they get. They do not belong on the throne soooo you get what you get. Vacate the premises and all will be forgiven. Team Black allllll day
The world is unhinged enough. I am glad the writers producers whomever scaled down the horror the childs death. There are people who are actually mad the scenes were not true to the book!? The final product on this TV show is bad enough
“These three women haven’t done anything horrible yet”…..um, both Rhaenyra and Alicent have done some pretty horrible things😂Rhaenys is the only one thats been thru and thru a good person. Also, the men being ready for war is obviously NOT a bad thing, but it’s when they seek out war, such as Daemon and Otto, that it becomes bad. I think the theme of the show isn’t women are restrained, men aren’t, but rather Rhaenyra and Alicent are restrained, but Daemon and Otto aren’t. There’s a difference. Im not taking two characters actions and saying they represent every man in the show. Thats ridiculous.
I’m still team Aemond. Got cast aside as a child for being a second son, didn’t get a dragon like the rest of the kids, got bullied by all the kids and got his eye stabbed out. I just wanna see him wreck shop
This is the most 🔥 & 😂 HotD Review on the RU-vid: High marks for the "Cristian Cole is the Queen b/c you are what you eat" + the Elvis & Dune 💩-eating bit at the end 👍🏾👌🏾🫡
I was actually prepared for that scene to be much worse. I didn’t expect her to be so calm about the situation. Or maybe she wasn’t but it was awkward to me.
Blood and Cheese being more diabolical leads to many theories that Cheese is Lary Strong and he is faking his club foot and is playing both sides as his goal is aligned with the maesters to get rid of the dragons
Rhaenys’s dragon is Meleys not Meraxes - Meraxes was the dragon of Queen Rhaenys (as in Aegon, Rhaenys and Visenya), who was killed by the Dornish along with Rhaenys
I think Jessica is dead wrong about the women being blameless. It’s actually a bit ridiculous. And of course no one on the show is gonna challenge that notion out of fear of being called an “ist” and a “phobe”.
