We Were NOT Prepared for War - House of the Dragon Season 2 Eps 4 Reaction 

Daemon is going to give Harrenhal the worst TripAdvisor review. Ever.

Dragons are fire made flesh, the blood isn’t acid it’s boiling.

"Princess Rhaenys made no attempt to flee. With a glad cry and a crack of her whip, she turned Meleys toward the foe." - Fire and Blood RIP to the Queen Who Never Was and to Meleys, The Red Queen.

Vhagar out here spamming Sneak Attack like it's a cantrip ☠️

Aegon: "I can haz war?" Aemond: 😏

RIP to the Queen Who Never was. The only one on Rhaenyra's council with some sense

The Dragons are like giant fire breathing dogs. They just want to hang out with their human lol

"Dragon Mommy was the only one I really cared about" It's George RR Martin. As soon as you have a favorite, their days become numbered.

Aegon pushing that pitcher off of the table is proof that the actors are cats in MoCap 😂

I like to imagine Bran is sitting somewhere by a tree 300 years from this episode just laughing his butt off , messing with Daemon

My fiancé was yelling "Make it stop!" when Sunfyre was screaming. What an episode!

Sunfyre's cries will haunt me to eternity... my poor puppy dragon 😭

Some in world lore trivia. Dragon blood isn’t acid…it’s boiling hot. Oscar Tully is the grandson of Grover Tully. Grover’s two sons were Elmo and Kermit. (Yep, GRRM named them after muppets) The Blackwood representative Daemon meets with is “Pinocchio the Craig Slayer” from season 1 episode 4 all grown up

Nana Vhagar: "If you young'uns want war grandma will show you how we play peekaboo"

the foreshadowing in this episode was great! the figurine Alicent holds which falls and breaks a wing (what happens to Sunfyre 😢) and the dragon pitcher falls and shatters (what happens to Rhaenys 😖)

I haven’t been so mad at a death on TV for a long time RIP princess

I think she wanted to do as much damage as possible to vaghar. Even if it was a losing battle, any injury will help long term.

I love the comparison between how Alicent mothers by putting her kids in place by diminishing them while Rhaynera educates her son.

When they attack Rook's Rest, look at the shields. The cannonfodder troops sent in first are bearing the colors of the "pacified" castles Shitstain Cole had already turned. He was risking them instead of his main troops.

Drinking witches brew in a haunted castle? Sure sure..good idea. The Blackwood guy who said he vyed for Rhaenyra's hand is the little kid from S1 who stabbed the Bracken.

Whether or not you respect the decision to stay and fight, Meleys was able to PITT maneuver Chungus Vhagar out of the sky, THAT is what an experienced dragon/rider pair can accomplish in combat.

“They attacked Maryland?” Cracked me up

21:39 Actually Jay, this was a brilliant battle plan. All those men up front getting shot at are the Darklynns and the others whose castles Cole sacked...former supporters of Rhaenyra. Notice how many Targaryen troops he's holding back in reserve, protected under the tree line. Forcing Rhaenyra's supporters in the castle to shoot them down ensures that those Houses won't turn back to her side if any survive, because they will pissed, and the best-case scenario is that they all get cut down. Besides, the whole plan was to FORCE Rhaenyra's hand and send a dragon to help. Only a dragon could get there quickly enough, and without her master strategist Daemon at Rhaenyra's side, there is no one to say "This is a trap, and we need to send ALL the dragons out." Daemon needs to get his ass back home where can HELP. HE is the one who has been saying all this time that DRAGONS are going to win this war, he is the one who went and sang to Vermithor, the next biggest dragon (not as big as Granny Vhagar, but big enough, and he's a little younger than her, so he has a good chance). He needs to get his head on straight, stop drinking that weirwood paste Alys Rivers is giving him, and get back to being the badass he was in Season 1.

This episode made me so sad, not only for Rhaenys, but for the dragons. Seeing them battle each other seemed so unnatural and foreboding…like no one wins from it. But farewell to my favorite character, she was mighty and fierce.

Turns out dragons fighting dragons is less like military tanks battling and more like beloved dogs fighting...it breaks the heart. Sunfyre was a beautiful dragon who obviously loved Aegon, and Aegon obviously loved him back. And Meleys, ofc, is a battle-tested old girl who had the courage to take on Granny Vhagar... the same kind of courage as her rider, which is no doubt why they bonded. This was the hardest battle to watch in the entire GOT universe.

"Let the bodies hit the floor" 😂😂😭😭

This is the first time in a long time that I have felt actual adrenaline while watching a tv show. I was shaking during the credits.

Sunfyre vs Vhagar are like a pretty influencer without job vs a grandma that survived second world war and catch racoons with a shotgun

Meleys looking back at Rhaenys in her final moments, "I tried mom." 😔 😢 RIP to the red beauty and fastest Dragon in Westeros and the Queen That Never Was.

Don’t drink and Dragon

Sunfire is so much smaller because Aegon was lucky enough to have his cradle egg hatch, so Sunfire is basically the same age. Both Rhaenys and Aemond claimed older dragons with previous riders.

Your rapt investment in every series is what makes you two of my favorite reaction reviewers.

"... and no war so bloody as a war between dragons."

Ser Christon and the Crispies found out How to Drain your Dragon

The real ghosts are the friends we met along the way. 😂

Always fun to see the reaction of people who haven't read the book. My stomach was in knots the moment I heard the name Rook's Rest, knowing what was to come. Fasten your seatbelts, boys!

I’m so upset about dragon mommy. She was the best part of this show. Also, I read somewhere that the guy Daemon was talking to when he was trippin out on the berry juice was the Pinocchio Craig Slayer all grown up! He lives! Craigs beware! 🤣🗡️

Even after everything that happened this episode, I was waiting so excitedly to witness your reaction to THE RETURN OF THE CRAIGSLAYER!

The exchange between Alicent and the meister reminded me that - in the books - the Dance of the Dragons was orchestrated by the meisters of the Citadel to get rid of all the dragons and kill the magic of the world.

S2 Ep4 “Return of the Craig Slayer”

Aemond is such a fucking menace! Absolutely love Dragon Granny but I felt saddest of all for the dragons. =[ poor scaley doggos

At least Rhaenys died the way she wanted. Her daughter told Daemon dying she wanted to die a dragon’s death. I’m sure Rhaenyra thought the same way. She didn’t want war. She respected Rhaenyra because she risked her life to dry every possible alternative to war so she was at peace when she volunteered. Rhaenys was my favorite and the show made it meaningful & emotional for me even though I read the book which says a lot. HotD is a great show ✌️💚

Ngl I was pacing and cried when the battle happened. Idk what else I expected when the Big Chonk was there

I find it so funny how people are so pissed at Cristen Cole that they just keep assuming he's incompetent. Emotionally unstable yes, unable to deal with his own feelings of self hatred that he takes out on others, yes. But he isn't a moron especially militarily, so it's fun to see people watch this episode and assume that he is just making all these mistakes. Shows how much our feelings towards a person influence everything about how we view them. Also tons of praise towards Fabien Frankel for his performance, doing an amazing job of being so hateable.

Look I hate Cole as much as anyone. But he is smarter than people think he is. He’s always been a good fighter and clearly had a plan for the battle that worked out, for the most part, how he wanted. Even sending Erryk while impulsive wasn’t a terrible idea

An entire war is kicking off and Daemon's stuck in either Dark Souls or Silent Hill

Just a reminder they (The Blacks) still have multiple dragons in the caves that they just need riders for, including Vermithor; the one Daemon sang to at the end of season 1, who is basically a more able-bodied and ferocious Vhagar (almost as big, too.)

All I could think when that soldier collapsed into ashes was "This is what happens when you forget to hydrate!"

Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! … wait. No. Not like that!

I’m so happy I’m not the only person who quotes “say hi to your mother for me “ 😂😂😂😂

"They attacked Maryland?" THANK YOU omg lmao, as a proud Marylander living in exile, that was my first thought when I saw House Darklyn's coat of arms. GRRM has some funny easter eggs in his books, so it wouldn't surprise me if this was intentional. 🦀🦀🦀

When you realize Vhagar killed her former rider's mother 💔

Losing Rhaenys is devastating both in the story and the show as a whole. Eve Best was one of the greatest parts of this show and I'm truly gonna miss her.

RIP Rhaenys andMeleys. Went out like true dragon warriors. They’ll be sorely missed. I feel like this episose was like 80% literal and figurative burns and everyone, particularly the greens, just being absolutely done with each other.

This episode made me WEEP for over an hour after the episode 😢 Rip to the queen who never was.

I live in Maryland and that's exactly what I said when I saw the shields 😂😂😂

I think Rhaenys wasn't going to leave without trying her damn hardest to kill (or at the very least severely wound) Vahagar. She knows that as long as Vahagar lives, the Blacks have no chance of winning the war against the Greens. Even if they all end up dead in the end, one house might go out "victoriously" and Rhaenys had made up her mind that it would be them. I also think that with her family separated (Corlys off to sea again, Baela at risk of being shot out of the sky at any moment, and Rhaena sent away to Pentos) there wasn't much left keeping her in Dragonstone. She fought bravely and admirably until the very end, and with all of her past years of warring behind her both she and Meleys may finally rest. ❤

20:40 Technically two targaryens are there, and its the cats paw dagger that kills the night king

I found it interesting that aegon didn't properly learn valerian kind of shows that he didn't pay attention to any of his lessons he was given growing up. more or less enforcing he was never meant for the throne

I think Adam snorted some Mountain Dew before filming 🤣

When the dragons his the ground and appear to explode, I’d say that’s probably them getting the wind knocked out of them

Did he just call Brandon Stark an eldritch bird god? 😂😂😂

I made the mistake of having a favorite character in a GOT show...This was a large mistake.

Evil Legolas 😂

I'm gonna miss dragon mommy. She was my favorite too.

Poor Sunfyre really thought he and his owner were going on a joyride for sheep and ice cream.

Oh no. It’s the chungus

Vhagar truly is the hide and seek champion, but you gotta admit, clever as fuck to hide her in the woodland in case a dragon pulled up. Rhaenyra probably should've stuck to the initial 'if we use dragons everything will be worse' statement, because now it is indeed worse

I think a big part of Rhaenys continuing back to battle was Daemons words ringing around in her mind. “You should’ve ended this when you had the chance.”

Say hi to your mother for me 😂 classic skit

In the original series most of the battles were against an our heroes and their foes. The White Walkers, Boltons, Lannisters (for the most part). And the battles were kind of fun and seemed entirely necessary. But this war feels icky, and wasteful and painful. The small folk, the land, the poor dragons all dying for another family’s quarrel

Calling Aemond “Wa-legolas” really got me 😂

Rest in power to the queen who never was. That was an awesome scene 31:30 . When Meleys and Rhaenys share one last look at each other…… and then Rhaenys releases the reigns. God dammit

Come on, guys. Jace? Baella? We really don't care about any other characters? Cregan Stark's coming back at some point.

“They attacked Maryland??!” The funniest thing I’ve heard all month.

So, y'all think Corlys will take Rhaenys's words to heart, and acknowledge his Sea Sons?!?!? After all, there are dragons that need riders. And I think one has already been checking out Adam.....

Sunfyre was described as the most beautiful of dragons. He was just a good boi who loved his Targ. 10/10 didn’t deserve what happened to him. To the Queen who should have been and the Red Queen, hail the victorious dead! I knew what was coming and I still cried from the moment she said she would go until the end. Daemon’s reaction should be something. That was his mother’s dragon before Rhaenys.

What makes Meleys death even more sad and tragic is that her previous rider was Daemon and Visery’s mother and Vhagars previous rider before Leana was Daemon and Visery’s father. Vhagar and Meleys once flew together as a family in an era of peace and now they are fighting in a civil war of their own, not just the targaryans civil war and if you look at the family line of the dragons Meleys is technically Vhagars granddaughter.

Man I sure do hate it when the Combat 747 comes flying in low across the battlefield

The fact vhager was her daughters dragon just makes it sadder too 😢

Rhaenys knew leaving dragonstone this could be a suicide mission you could see it, she decided to stay out of it at the start of the series and didnt burn them as it wasnt her fight, but in that battle she wasn't gonna turn away and that's why she kept on going back. Because it became her fight.

The broken dragon wing on the sculpture and the broken vase was our omen that we were about to lose some dragons

Interesting how the Hightower-son probably is the one leading the final assault on the keep in the background while Cole stumbles away looking for Aegon.

Remember when Benjen had Bran drink a mixture with rabbits blood GOT season 6 episode 6. It was mixed with hearts tree sap. Visions ensue.

So few things are as Terror inducing as the sight of the forest floor lifting off its foundations, to reveal that its just a Bid Ass Dragon. But seeing that moment when Rheanys and The Red Queen Meleys crashed the Chungus into the ground was a perfect note that at least let those two ladies go out in style…I just wish she had disengaged in that moment, instead of that round 2.

If Melisandre offered me something strange to drink I’d never take it. Alys might be able to talk me into it idk

Watching this makes me wish that Alan Taylor, who directed this and a few other episodes of GoT, was allowed to do more with Thor: The Dark World.

Great reaction guys. I normally watch you guys via the J2O channel. However, I felt like I had to see you guys react. Also, whoever had the idea for the show to "speak" to Jay *chefs kiss

its not acid blood, dragon's blood is just boiling hot

sunfire was breaded to be good looking, not for combat

I really don't understand how after being slammed into the earth that dragon just gets up and flys away

22:58 . Aemond will get his And it's glorious. Wait for season 3.

Rhaenys should've repeated the attack she did on Sunfyre on Vhagar. Going for the wings is the safest place to attack; away from the mouth/claws and can render a dragon near useless in a dragon war by taking away it's flight. Meleys might not have been able to take the full wing in her jaws like Sunfyre; but simply cutting/biting a large tear or rip in the patagium (the webbing/skin part of the wing) would render her flightless, especially considering how tattered her wings already. Vhagar is so big and old she can barely move on land, which would've left Aemond completely open to being burned/snatched off her back by Meleys.

Oh my god. A Mary Renault reference. My classics prof heart is singing.

Aegon II got burned multiple times in this episode, in multiple ways.

Thankgod Alicent drank that tea. We don't need any little Coles just runnin around😂

14:03 Craig Slayer returns! I loved this guy! ❤

Love the Klingon speak!

Got a double dose of “Why do you think I came all this way”😂

@20:40 Hey Adam. There were 2 Targaryens at the time and they were both on dragons fighting. This channel is the embodiment of "We mock what we don't understand."