was not expecting that scene and my jaw dropped 😭

​@@peculiarpigit wasn't just your jaw mate

It doesnt matter how cultured you are, or good at sword, if you are weak inside

My dude, if you're a 6"3 Vampire Hunter D character getting laughed out by a 5"11, that's absolutely a _you_ problem.

​@@overlookers VAMPIRE HUNTER D 😭😭😭

Luckily, it didn't matter. Aegon was going to be crowned with or without Alicent.

​@@iliaponomarev1624 if it wasn't for Alicent, what other reason did they have for crowning? Rhaenyra could take over by people's support aye?

@@ayushsharma7184 did you watch the show? the green council were planning on crowning aegon for years lol without even telling allicent

She looked like she was going to vomit. Olivia was amazing. Emma too.

@@Gigipretty64deep down she HAD to know he meant the Conqueror. Like SURELY he didn’t mean my idiot son lmao

There were subtle hints that the dreams and hauntings may be weirwood magic. Perhaps a visitor like Bloodraven or Bran or whoever has come before or since

@@RussellB have you not read fire and blood? It’s really obvious who it is.

I see your comment under every important video about this episode 😂

@@BlueMoonlight777 Lmao this episode was great bro

​@@TH3DUDE0075i thought it was the women who made him hallucinate or smth just like melisandre

It’s gotta be the ghosts of harrenhal

was not expecting the full frontal, but a welcomed surprise for sure

@@AuGAlaNwiener wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener, one wieeeeener next to another wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener

i don't know what triggered the instant motivation in aemond to just snap out of the embarassment and show off his dongling bazooka

​@AuGAlaN I haven't watched yet, is it all of it?

Like them all realising they can’t have sex no more😂

Immediately following him drunkenly going partying with them anyway

@@BoadieBroadus3211 after staring into a mirror!! He doesn’t want to be who he is, in that moment. But he is who he is - so he crumbles. And he lands in that brothel.

@@BoadieBroadus3211But the Kingsguard weren’t with him, only his courtiers who hadn’t sworn vows, which Aegon also didn’t swear. I think Aegon is trying to take his duties more seriously, but if there’s no direct conflict, he’ll carry on as before.

@@Longshanks1690 ohh I guess I wasn’t watching closely enough I assumed he was with his drinking buddies/newly minted Kingsguard

At least he didn't give himself bangs.

In his “Witness” flop era

His new haircut is probably the best and only good thing of this episode 😂

HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂😂😂

Also common in the ancient world to groom hair before going into battle, for example Leonidas

also loved how ready Daemon was to throw down, only to find a damp empty castle and a chill old dude who he doesn't really know what to do with. he's chomping at the bit to put heads on spikes but he's trying to find enough pans to catch leaks in the roof.

Yeah bro was just over it

Who did George cameo as?

@@abelchavez2463 he’s saying Simon Strong’s actor looks like GRRM

Simon Strong, for those who don't know, is played by Simon Russell Beale, one of the UK's greatest living stage actors. I haven't read the book, but I imagine they've cast an actor of his calibre because there's meaty stuff ahead for his character.

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Shows that aegon the conqueror was a chad

That's even worse. You're telling me that heap of garbage is supposed to be the Conqueror's armor? It looks like a discount Uruk-Hai suit, not an armor of a dragon king.

​@@orrusfellin5150 My friend made that armour :( He worked really hard on it

​@orrusfellin5150 it looks cool lmao u just hating

​@@orrusfellin5150 look at the behind the scenes for the episode. That armour is crazy detailed and looks awesome

the castle was made of weirwood beams as well, so Harrenhal is at least quadruple cursed. You have the old god spirits that were killed and burned, you have the blood in the mortar from the enslaved smallfolk who built the castle itself, you have Harren and his sons being burned alive by Aegon & you have the Strongs being killed by the kinslayer Larys.

@@Jacob-fz5ho seven hells, you're right!

Maybe its because I watched too many elden ring lore vids lately, but armored Daemon walking through that castle gave souls-games vibes.

@@illyria7756 yes! When he looked out into the great hall I was like, "boss battle?" 👉🏼👈🏼

Oooh, I really like that!

This will be my head cannon. It's more likely they forgot to use the updated version, there have been two additions so it would make sense that each episode has one new addition. That's not as fun though... I wonder what will be added from E3? The battle at the mill? The chat about the dream? Daemon taking Harrenhall?

​ ​ It would be cool to see the twins (Eryrick & Aryrick) burial, or possibly the battle at the mill?

@@sAINTDeVille Erryk and Arryk

I've seen so many people misspell names I thought cool lore was corlys

I thought almond was using reverse physiology to try n get AEGON to leave on dragon back hoping he would die, I n the episode he tells him it is to dangerous , I think he was proving him to go

Doesn't Aegon have a second son at this point? Wouldn't he be the heir if Aegon dies?

@@2Halfsif I’m not mistaken since Aegon’s eldest died, he would be next in line. But I’ll have to look it up.

@@SeriesQuerieswrong aemond does love his brother

​@@2Halfsin the book, yes, he has Maelor, but I think he was cut from the show

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Seasmokes been chilling for years but all of a sudden he starts acting weird and they comment that he might be “lonely.” It’s obviously forshadowing his claiming but it also fits really well with his connection to laenor having been severed. Laenor has been off adventuring for many years now and this world is very dangerous.

Exactly

Yesss I think the body gets sent back to Corlys and realizes he wasn’t killed all those years ago and then steps up as the hand of the Queen

​@@TehThxsishow did he even die

They should have just killed Laenor if that was the case.

I felt the same that someway he was referring to his brothers later days

He was definitely referring to viserys!

Yes he totally was talking about his brother it seemed

It's doubly ironic because Simon's leige lord is the club foot who he's willfully disobeying by capitulating to daemon and declaring for rhaenyra. And Tully is staunchly pro aegon so if the Riverlords respected their liege they would be fighting against daemon.

It was quite obvious when he looked away after he said that and grimaced

I agree but it is a patriarchal society and in order to not confuse the consort with the reigning monarch, a lot of cultures actually shy away from the title of King Consort. Just like with Queen Elizabeth and her consort Prince Philip. People would not hear King Consort but “King” which is what Daemon would’ve preferred

I thought the same.

But clearly if it were just that for daemon they’d not have put it in the episode. The intention was to show, or at least mislead us into thinking, that he’s… flirting with treason.

A royal consort would absolutely be addressed as 'your grace'; it is an uncommon situation for Westeros, of course, that in this case the consort is male, but the convention should hold nonetheless. Daemon corrected Simon, definitely, to please himself by a royal title, but I think even more so in order to remind the dude that Rhaenyra is the queen and so her consort is also royalty. (From Daemon's perspective, 'my prince' to Rhaenyra's husband reads as supporting Aegon's claim)

@@Krom5072 Nope, they would be addressed as your majesty or ma'am (for the queen consort) or sire for the king consort. You don't adress them as your grace.

Only further proof that all non-Larys Strongs are the BEST PEOPLE

It didn't even take a second for him to bow down, literally took daemon offguard

​@@KaritKtanaI don't know about this Robert Strong guy.

Homer Simpson in the navy reaching for peas

​@@KaritKtananah Larys is the best strong.. he's father was a good guy but his whole life got destroyed by Harwin brokenbones cause he couldn't keep it in his pants.. imagine dying just because you wanted to bang a chick 15 years younger than you who's already married

Get what your saying but its funny because 1917 technically has no cuts hahah

Wish we saw that battle tho!

​@@daytrip_films It technically has a lot of cuts, but they're all just blended and masked very well to make it seem like one shot.

The field filled with corpses had such a 1917 feel to it.

@@Ballzorz The running scene was one shot I think. Really just ONE complete shot

I swear I thought Aemond was gonna start speaking Japanese

@@williamjusino3640 start soliloquying IN HIS HEAD 🤣🤣🤣

I'd argue Condal is just keeping faithful to George R. R. Martin's style. GRRM's writing is basically just anime characters in a mediaeval fantasy setting.

The whole time I was asking myself, why is it so empty? But again, even the blood and cheese scene felt empty with them not having to navigate guards everywhere. It all seems a bit too easy

@@nassorm5634Harrenhal is noted for being too large to effectively garrison. Even when we see it in Game of Thrones and the entire Lannister army is camped out there, there’s plenty of space for Arya and Jaqen to sneak around

​@nassorm5634 Blood and Cheese got around easily cause of secret passages plus the guards in the Red Keep being a combination of inept and not expecting something so horrific And Harrenhal is fucking huge haha

@@nassorm5634 It's empty because the curse of Harrenhal is that it makes whoever holds it house poor, nobody can afford to maintain and garrison it except maybe the Lannisters or the Hightowers. Larys Strong is the lord of Harrenhal, but you can see his men and family hold no loyalty towards him and are doing the absolute bare minimum. Larys hasn't dedicated any resources to Harrenhal at all, totally ignoring it and focusing on King's Landing. It makes sense Harrenhal is practically abandoned at this point, especially as nobody was thinking there would be a war until like 2 weeks ago (which isn't enough time to upgrade and garrison the castle)

i really can't tell how he manages to do all this without even taking any time.

Shirley, you can't be serious!

@@jbug1979I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.

Becky, you can’t be serious?!

Oh stewardess! I speak Dothraki.

I had to pause at that point because I was laughing so much :D

Kinda weird but I wish they did this for the house of black and white or some place in the bravosi isle of gods

I haven't watched it yet but LMAO ARE YOU FOR REAL

Ахахаххахахаха, кринж.

Why is that funny

@@PittsburghSonido because I didn't expect to hear my native language in this context out of the blue?

It had probably existed since at least the time of Ser Ryam Redwyne, and possibly since the time of the first Hand, Orys Baratheon. Any Hand who regularly went about in armour would need a badge of office that didn't need to be pinned to a shirtfront.

It def existed from previous hands

People are so stupid 😂

Nothing as impressive as the quick little industrial revolution that took place between seasons 7 and 8 of GOT where they mass produced hundreds of those scorpions to protect the city from dragons

Can you watch the episodes again and look if the tapestry by Laenor's name changed? 🤔

Why is everyone keep saying Corlys becoming hand of the queen? Is this a spoiler from the books

@@Sui_Generis0 uhm, I honestly apologize. But in an effort to not spoil you I’m going to just not answer haha.

lmao fr

​@@jrlombardi5251Madara is Maegor the cruel 😂😂

Nah Jahaerys was 3rd Hokage. Longest and most peaceful. He even had the same problem when his designated successor died young

I'd argue the 3rd hokage was worse

@@TheYoutubakiAs much as the “make it up as it went along” style of writing made him and several characters in the original series look bad or incompetent? Not really. Ninjutsu and the knowledge of the use of chakra didn’t die shortly after he did. If the Third Hokage’s actions caused every single person to lose the ability to use their chakra for anything else other then living, he’d be despised. Viserys caused the death of dragons through his actions. I never exactly bought the supposed death of magic in the series being the reason why dragons died off. Especially when Bloodraven exists and Cannibal, the last Dragon Nettles bonded with, might also have existed as well to the present. Mostly because the idea that magic is dead comes from biased speculation. I honestly believe more dragons could’ve been brought back sooner if someone with conviction went through a similar process as Daenerys. A life for a life, basically. None of the other Targs had that.

Precisely, I don’t know how he butchered his reading of the scene that badly. This is a case of overanalysing leading him to missing the point because it really wasn’t that complicated and she was just trying to soothe her mothers guilt over where she was during B&C, not making a grand political statement.

Yeah, exactly, it was simple. Unsure how Shift got his interpretation

The calm before the storm that is next episode! I loved seeing more of the world this time around and how the war affects EVERYONE.

Okay yes! and Rhaenyra basically gave a dictionary definition of nuclear deterrence earlier in the episode 😂

What a cringe thing to write😅. JFK And Chruschev? Give me a break😂

My favorite one to date as well !

now I’m imagining Tony riding a dragon lol

​@@madyjulesI don't know, famously Tony was more into horses.

What's her role in the council? Master of whisper?

Daemon not coming back buddy

Sweet summer child

@@nfarotkMistress of Whisperers.

Babe wake up, new episode of Milly Alcock’s Nose Podcast just dropped 🔥

Then we got some real cock!

I found it creepy as hell but I loved it. I also love how they made Harrenhall feel actually haunted

I said the same thing! Loved that scene. Wish the show leaned into the fantasy elements more.

I don't think Daemon sees any contradiction. Rhaenyra is Queen and he is her King.

lets not kid ourselves daemons ego craves to be refered to as your grace

​@@yeahey5947so? His status literally entitles him to be referred to as such.

​@@yeahey5947 That doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he *should* be referred to that way.

You’re wrong. In a patriarchal society like Westoros, you cannot compare Alicent being called ‘your grace’ the same as Daemon being called ‘your grace’. They have very different implications. Daemon asking to be called ‘your grace’ means he wants to be seen as the king, as the ruler of Westeros. You can also clearly see this in Matt Smith’s acting.

Because he always fought for his own power, hiding behind the right of Rhaenys. It's no secret in this family

To be fair.. neither of them are his blood are they?

@@rias.gremoryyyRhaena is, she’s the daughter of Laena and Daemon. So she is actually Corlys’ granddaughter by blood

​@@rias.gremoryyy"History doesn't remember blood...it remembers names." - Corlys Velaryon Corlys wants a man with the last name Velaryon to sit his throne. With Luke, there was a sense that Corlys could teach and mold him to be the Lord of the Tides, but that was in a time of relative peace and now Luke is dead. It's unlikely that Corlys will live to see Joffrey become an adult and he's now worried that he will be the last Velaryon to sit at Driftmark.

@@Adamantium93 Depends if the history has photographs. The boy is whiter than Casper, they gonna remember the blood lol

Thought I was the only one thinking this 😂

for real I was getting old AC vibes, like AC1 with Altair or 2 with Ezio

It was straight out of AC2. So many cathedral assassinations haha

which part? the bullying, his reaction, or the totally hairless peen?

I use CAPS to PROVE my POINT

If you think about it you just need to stay over Vhagar, or any dragon, for burning or killing the rider

Sounds a bit like trying to get inside the Mountain’s reach; possible but likely to end in 💀

He's old, and there's never been a Queen in westeros before on how to handle the queen's husband,

I guess there was no Westerosi precedent for having a Queen Regnant so it makes sense there is some confusion over titles for her husband. In irl history, King Consorts aren’t usually referred to as kings, but princes, because kings outrank queens and it would cause an issue for the Queen Regnant. That’s why Queen Elizabeth II’s husband was referred to as Prince Phillip, never King. So Daemon here asserting he wants to be called “Your Grace” rather than “my prince” may still be problematic for Rhaenyra, but does not imply he wants to take her crown.

Yes. I hate when streamers spend half an hour saying hello to random people.

A prime minister being a 'right hand' or simply 'hand' is pretty common in many languages

​@@fauxhex96 What are some examples?

Bro “thủ” literally means head. Idk what r u talking about.

@@ShubertReads правая рука путина = Putin's right hand man, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. It's of course colloquial, and I don't know of any languages where the official title of prime minister is 'hand', to be clear.

​@@fauxhex96what you saying is insane. Russian words for Prime Minister is literally Prime Minister but in French.

New wonky accent just dropped!

And Cregan Stark 😁

@@gleann_cuilinn yeah, he was leaning in to the Ned Stark voice so hard he couldn't get his lines out properly

Wasn't it literally just a Scottish accent

​@@GeeBarone That's what people have been saying, but I'm a filthy American and all I heard was Westerosi Valley Girl. Which makes me wonder... Is Harrenhall near a valley? 😂

necessary plot device fr - R.R Martin

It wouldn’t really have mattered, Otto and the green council were plotting to seize the throne anyway. The name confusion only really affected Alicent

​@@niyatiarunit wasn't " the green council " it was THE council, literally nobody except one dude there wanted rhaenyra on the throne and even he was for rhaenyra just because he thought viserys wanted her as heir.. if everyone had the opportunity to vote like they did when they chose viserys, then I'm sure that Aegon would've been chosen as the next king.. viserys could have basically averted the whole conflict if he called the council

It's giving "One Hundred Years of Solitude" 😁 except here it's a literal problem, not a metaphorical one

It’s quite literally based on all the Henry’s and whatnot.

I think viserys truly believed that his family would do fine and ryhneara would be except3d as queen, yes he was sick of the drama but it was a Otta who was planning on usurping the throne even while vis3rys was alive I but bla e on the greens for not respecting the d3ad kings sucession plan, it's jot viserys fault they did jot listen

@@SeriesQueries yes, his actions completely follow the fact that he honestly believed his family would work it out and it would all "align" through the power of kindness and love, and that is his fault and biggest mistake, staring into the chasm that keeps getting wider and deeper and doing nothing besides telling everyone every 5 years to "stop the fighting" and trying to appeal to some emotional attachments through "if nothing then for the sake of this old man who loved u very much". The only relationships that he had at that table of a dozen people for the last supper were fading ones with Rhaenyra and Daemon, and the longstanding friendship with Otto. The kids, grandkids, his new wife, just pawns and people to ignore. As good and peaceful he was for the realm, his inaction and slow to react attitude that served it was precisely what severed any and all ties for his family. And he didn't do any favours to Rhaenyra by sidelining her in ruling after naming her heir and not affirming his decisions to the Lords and Ladies of the realm more often and more fiercely, given how controversial, unprecedenteded that decision was for so many, highborn and lowborn. Then married a child he watched grow with his daughter, made her into a broodmare and neglected every single one of them, including Rhaenyra, until his death. Bro is a whole ass adult, his decisions are his own, Otto's manipulations aside, he made choices for himself and it fucked everything up. And it all trickled down to the rest of the family, just not present and off in his histories and models while life happend around him. He could've done astronomically better. He wasn't the worst by any means, but what he was for all the things that were in motion for that time, was the first and biggest domino that fell in this civil war.

He knows he has plot armour

It's pretty in character from what we've seen so far haha

I wanna say “he has a dragon” but he literally walked in, after getting off his dragon and having it parked outside 😂

His dragon was perched atop the castle, threatening to burn it again like Aegon did. If anything happened to Daemon, his dragon would have gone apeshit and torn the place apart. None of the guards would dare attack a king consort with a dragon

@@pain002 The dragon being there, perched atop the castle, was an implicit threat. If anybody killed Daemon the dragon would kill everyone there

That role assured me he could fit Daemon to a T. Everyone was in a huff about it and I urged them to watch The Crown before writing Matt off.

Otto n the. Oucel was planningto overthrow, the greens didn't respect vicerys plan of sucession, if they had respected the kings susscesion plan ther3d be jo war

Viserys didnt want a new wife and more kids, his heart wasn't in it, it was with Aemma. He wasn't able to bond anymore. He was forced to choose a new wife and probably anyone would've been better than a Hightower.

Right. I want poetry and symbolism and cinematography with my violence, gore and gratuitous nudity. Thank you very much.

The regal schlong

The dragonkok is real

Yeah, that was a weird decision. Error?

I did not notice thats hilarious 😂

No thats actually an insane detail. To the south is the King's Gate, the largest of all the gates in Kings Landing, therefore the best if you need a small army to move through

Because in real life monarchies, Queens who ruled often had to safeguard signals of power to keep their position secure. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are a good example of this. They don’t really have a comfortable honorific for Daemon without insinuating that he is the King Regnant, rather than Rhaenyra. To avoid the situation altogether, Simon calls Daemon by his established title “Prince,” but Daemon likes using his marriage to Rhaenyra to feel like he is the acting King, so he forces Simon to call him Your Grace. It’s another reflection of Daemon fighting for respect and fear by undermining Rhaenyra.

Yesss!!! I knew there was something oddly familiar about it. He really does look like samwell

exactly what I was thinking the whole scene lol

Yeah I don't understand that weird double standard, particularly because if anything it would go the other way around

Alt Shift calling daemon treasonous for this was actually dumb af lol.

​@@FirstSynapseit's just shitty writing

​@@FirstSynapse it might be taken from the British royal family where the male spouse of the reigning queen is not given the title of king. Queen Elizabeth's husband was known as Prince Philip but her mother Elizabeth was called queen.

Kong consorts isn’t really a thing, atleast in the real world

Yea if I had to attack vagar on moondancer I’d be massively terrified

@@Ty-wy7yq the riders can still die,really don’t need to kill the dragon if you get the rider.

Luke really fell off at the end of S1

...or WW?

And they both love breaking their chastity vows. Only difference is that Jaime revels in it, which is much more fun imo. They will also probably be remembered the same historically. Jaime said so himself about Criston to The Knight of Flowers. "The best and the worst are remembered. And sometimes a bit of both. Like Crispy C*nty Cole." Well I paraphrased the last part.

he is, but I don't think its like advertised to the common folk so much. the greens paraded jaehaerys' body around kings landing for political gain, whereas the blacks didn't parade Luke's body around. on top of that, the blacks wouldn't have been able to do it with Luke as they wouldn't have been able to do it kings landing, which is very crowded etc etc

​@@tabithajones113 they also didn't have Luke's body. What impact would parading a part of his cloak have?

​​@@tabithajones113do you think the realm suspecting Luke being a bastard also plays a part? Jaecerys was a white haired Targaryen, Luke was a black haired 'Velaryon'

@@wasienka absolutely none, I imagine even if they did have his body (or at least parts of it) they still wouldn't have advertised his death. although this is speculation, I believe the blacks wouldn't have done it as rhaenyra(who is the mother of Luke) is more in control, whereas the greens are more controlled by men, granted aegon didn't want it so that disproves my thoughts a bit idk

@@govinddas7876 honestly I don't think so, its an interesting thought though. I feel like the common folk just see a dead child and feel for the family, because anyone would.

I don’t think so because Strong starts saying “I assumed…” (implying he assumed Daemon’s title would still be prince). there is no history of queen regnant with a king consort in Westeros so I guess confusion over titles is natural. However, usually king consorts aren’t referred to as King because that implies they outrank the Queen - in the English royal family, Queen Elizabeth’s husband was only ever Prince Phillip.

yeah, exactly, helloooOOOooooooOOOooooOOOoo?

Beria is the three eyed raven

(as Aegon is being crowned) YOU ARE ALL WITNESS TO A CRIMINAL TRAVESTY

Man, I was not expecting a Death of Stalin reference here 😂 God, I love that movie

fr get all these casuals back to ret-conning GoT

You mean trees in *real life* only get that way right? Because this is a fantasy show, and our rules shouldn't apply?

​@@whoschach you do know that Harrenhal is a short way north of the Isle of Faces, which is full of weirwoods?

Yes, but I see no new posts regarding Greens in Alt Schwift :( .

Team Daemon = Glidus

He's there before they arrive, standing beside the first curtain

I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. He needs a foot model replacement perhaps.