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Matt Smith makes it impossible to hate Daemon 🤣🤣🤣

LMFAOO 🤣🤣

True. Leaning is everything

And he's the most accomplished of them all so what does that tell you? Humans are extremely simple

Kinda reminds me of that little lady in GOT. I forget her name now......🤔

@@avigailomichael Lyanna Mormont

Yes He Plays really good

@@abhishekburra2341 exactly, thanks Abhishek!!!!!!!

The kid actor really got me rooting for aemond's character!

underated comment. 👍🏻

LOL

that's cool and all...but that traditional Targaryen wedding was fire! (see what i did there?)

Kid didn't learned to train any dragon bro. He just claimed the biggest dragon alive .

Witness protection program! 🤣🤣🤣

Probably the only character which has GOT shades,the rest are sus.

💯 Facts!!!

@@stevewonder8766 I agree. He has layers and layers of complexity. The rest are just a bunch of stereotypes lumped together.

Indeeed😂😂😂😂😂😂

Cause it’s been so long since he’d seen such family drama much rather being a cause of of it 😂 I just wonder how did he managed to live a ‘normal’ life without causing any chaos.

Rhaenys clearly regrets her children ever getting mixed up with the Targs and she's Targ herself!

And then your daughter-in-law marries your son-in-law. 🤔

Also her neice and her cousin.

But the son didn't died though.

I wonder how this plays out for Rhaenyra... will Rhaenys join the blacks after thinking Rhaenyra had her son "killed?"

Eggos

yeah he got recast for the next episode

"We will watch your career with great interest..."

ngl they should’ve had Rhaenyra and Daemon properly kill them lol, it would force people to stop seeing this as a typical “good guy vs bad guy” thing that’s it’s framing into

@@whoreofdragonstone1031 That wouldn’t really make sense tbh. He just wanted to be free of his duties and she wanted to marry Daemon from the start. Though it was a bit abrupt how they did it.

Yess 😊

@@whoreofdragonstone1031 I think there will be plenty of opportunities to show that Rhaenyra isn’t so good in future episodes

Spoiler.....,....... Wait i read that he died later on spicetown not Like at end of episode ?

It was also a nice departure from the "bury your gays" trope that GoT has been rather guilty of (to be fair, it kills tons of straight people too, but ALL the LGBT characters have died until now... except Yara Greyjoy... and I guess we don't know what happened to Oliver, but there was still no happy ending for him and Loras). This was actually a really pleasant surprise to see a happy ending for a gay couple, especially since it's a change from the book as far as I'm aware. I'm pretty sure Laenor actually dies in Fire & Blood.

@@AWSVids So he dies in the books? Is rhaenyra responsible?

@@tyler-hp7oqin the books, it was rumoured that daemon did it so that he could marry rheanyra

@@tyler-hp7oq in the books he dies similar way, by the hand of his lover who then appears nowhere to be found I think and it was rumored that he was payed by Daemon to kill Laenor so Daemon could marry Rhaenyra All rumores, ofc, as most part of the books

@@AWSVids Yara Greyjoy's book equivalent Asha was definitely not gay. She preferred gentler more intellectual men whom other Ironborn considered effeminate, but she definitely preferred men.

Agreed, one of the best in a great scene

It was ridiculous considering the only person who's been lying to everyone this entire time is Rhaenyra, lmao.

@@kstewsoctopus yeah, 5 min later she was already murdering a guard to look like Leiner, and said she had nothing to do with it. But as they say... we mostly see in others the same flaws we have ourselves... in this case, hypocricy.

And the adrenaline of the kids fighting. Let’s just say that a decade from now… Scores will be settled.

i got satisfaction for Alicent getting a stab in ngl, regardless of what you think of her from a motherly POV she needed that lol.

My fav episode so far. Beat 4th by a margin

You forgot the anger of "eye for an eye" like nooo, you put your children against their cousins (step nephews?) from the start, they get what they deserve!!

Belated d?? Have you seen her children? She's been getting the d all along. It's was caused this whole mess.

Does Daemond Know that plan?

@@JodiLosCules Daemon killed the servant to use his corpse in the plan. They were all in on it. They murdered an innocent man to achieve this plan, its just a taste of things to come.

​@@JodiLosCules Yes. He killed that guard on purpose. Did you not notice Laenor's lover wearing his boots? Then as he ran towards the boat he's completely barefoot. He took them off & put them on the dead guy to *prove* it was Laenor in the fire. Brilliant plan!

Why do you feel happy? Laenor will never see his family again, lord Velaryon has no heir and he and his wife had to go through the death of their child again after Laena's just passed. Rhaenyra as well as Daemon are cruel and only think about themselves and their power. I can only imagine what would have happened if Laenor did not agree to disappear.

@@agpoland3632 🥱 If they only thought of themselves they would have actually killed him, his lover & told everyone to piss off... They didn't.

Alicent lived in the shadow of Aemma's memory and Viserys reached the age where he gave 0 f#**@ about the whole matter.

the kids are bastards, rhae is irresponsible and selfish trying to get away with such an obvious lie

@@jezeannwilliams1145 I think he also somewhat hated Alicent in the books. Like he knew his wife and the Hightower's ambition. Even in the end he insisted his throne would go to Rhaenyra and not Alicent's children.

@@monicacasis5626 yeah he dragged otto a few episodes ago for sending alicent in to seduce him and put his heirs on the throne. But the kind needed a wife so he kept her but knew that it was a loveless marriage

RHAENYRA is also his own child :) and first born (survived).

like he KNOWS but he also knows they ARE his blood and he loves his daughter

He’s a fool

Yh but his son losing his eye was worth only an apology he is so biased

bro people really don’t like grey characters as they claim they do i’m starting to see.

@UCbnBihkWT-iHqo3t2g6aUKQ because he probably got tired of being bullied by frauds/pretenders who forfiet their claim to what should be his and his brothers due to their mothers uncontrollable lust and stupidity outside of the marriage appointed to her. Seeing his own mother suffer everyday from trying to do what's right against a spoiled princess and brat who is careless with her inheritance would make any young kid go crazy eventually

Have you seen the previews for next episode yet?

Yes they are !

There’s another time jump so the kids will be older next episode

I think Milly Alcock was little too good sadly. Emma is doing an amazing job, but I guess the show makers did not expect Milly to be as captivating as actors of the like of Matt Smith. But I guess she could have not pulled of older Rhaenyra. The actor change was necessary sadly. Olivia Cooke is amazing as older Alicent, you look at her and you just see bitterness and envy.

@@suumcuique4530 they hired Emma and Olivia before Milly. It wasn’t until months after that they chose Milly for young rhaenrya but yes I agree, fans fell in love with milly much more than expected. Regardless, everyone is doing a fantastic job, even the kids. I just wish more humor was attached to the show

😩😊😊😊 Great comment.

"That was my mother's dragon!" "I missed the part where that's my problem"

If Corlys doesn't stand with Rhaenyra, that's as good as admitting to the world that he believes the boys are bastards and therefore, his son has participated in treasonous acts by not doing his husbandly duties and claiming bastards as sons/heirs to the throne and Driftmark. Then all his ambitions and pride would go down the shitter. Corlys seems like a good family man, more honorable than some, but make no mistake, he has his own games to play.

@@csegovia8846 he will play a very big role if the showrunners dont changa anything

Daemon ignores his daughters as said by one of his daughters to Laena. And I was wondering why he killed his first wife... now I knw.. just to marry Rhaenyra, coz they cud only marry when their spouse is dead. So may be for no good reason he killed his first wife too.

I cannot wait for baela to be the baddest bitch in the game.

​@@niddha9764 he killed his first wife because he hated her

When he called Alicent Aemma without realizing 😭😭😭

I have a feeling while Viserys liked having companionship and some comfort after Aemma in the form of Alicent..the two never really seemed 'close' or really intimate. Sure, they had sex (which created the 4 Green children), but emotionally, it doesn't seem like they're truly connected. The first episode with Aemma, it's very much implied they're intimate emotionally in addition to physically. No wonder Viserys prefers Rhaenyra too, she looks more and more like Aemma as she grows older.

@@NuggetEternal I DDIN'T NOTICE THIS AS WELL WHAT

@@krismaica7359 Viserys to Alicent : "I'm going to bed, Aemma". _ Harrold Westerling to Viserys : "Should I stay with Queen ALICENT, your Grace ?"

@@NuggetEternal omg I hadn't noticed! 🤯

He sees all the kids as his children

@@luf4rall yes he does

who cares about teamgreen or teamblack... I'm a teamViserys and always will!

He didn’t stand up for his own daughter though, he looked so weak in front of the queen. Any strong leader (Daemon, Robb, Tywin, etc…) wouldn’t let their queen question them at all, she would’ve easily been executed if she tried that shit with any of them.

@@feiyu8817 I think he did: he said before all the witnesses that whoever dares doubt the parentage of Rhaenyra's children, they'll have their tongue cut (and he menancily looked toward Alicent, who he knows told their children). Of course, he couldn't do anything more because he would risk to start a was on that right moment. Surely this will worse things after, but at that moment itself, i humbly believe he did right.

no i think not like between Ally and Matt

Chemistry is gone with the new actress.

@@nancyzalpis9850 no it isn't

Younger actress had better chemistry

@@thehoopman88 relax. Yall had like 5 episodes for Ally's Rhaenyra. Doesnt mean she had more chemistry.

He’s a sweetie pie

… and she had zero chemistry with Matt. The beach scene was cringe af

@@ip7658 I don't agree. Bear in mind they haven't seen each other for years. And they didn't really part ways in the best terms. Rhanyra is not a kid anymore. She's a woman with 3 kids and Daemon had his own family too.

Bruh it’s part of the story they are targayren did u watch this show and did not expect insest to be the main relationship in this show

@Rohan Chatterjee they are Targaryens man you people why even watch this show you don't know how their family is

But she looks too old to be 25

Bad Ass lil girls.....they will fight.......

@@rickyb242 not in the books.

He is an incredible character when he grows up he will move the world of the House of the Dragon and he will be the favorite of many, it is incredible.

He's a character we love to hate like Clubfoot and Daemon. Meanwhile Criston Cole is just hate. Definite hate.

He is like Ramsay Bolton with a dragon big enough to melt castles with her breath.

Those two girls grow up to be my absolute favorites I’m so glad they race bended them. It’s so smart how they chose this family for that bc it makes sense and they get to look striking and unique and beautiful 🤩 I was sad to lose laena but I got two in return lol.

Ikr, the kids were my favourite in this episode. Also the scene where Corlys ask Luke about the inheritance of Driftmark but Luke denied it saying that everyone (his siblings and cousins) would be dead by that point. It’s so sad that these kids knows their fate but still would have to fight for survival. Baela punching Aemond for her sister was so satisfying and Daemon was so enjoying the drama that involved his daughters cause he knows his and Rhaenyra’s kids were able to harm Otto’s grandchildren 😂 but regardless it’s a sad episode for all the kids (including Alicent’s kids). Aemond giving his opinion of wedding Haelena for duties and coming to give his condolence to Baela and Rhaena but not being able to do so was also a nice touch to his character.

@@tbakhalid4781 Lucaerys was so cute in the scene with Corlys! He's rather clever for a boy his age! I agree, I adore the children in this and the previous episode. There is a strong sense of children being children. They get along, play pranks on each other, fight, argue and have their own little quirks. They don't give a shxt about who's next in line to be rule the kingdom and who's lord of god knows where. Re. Aemond, I noticed that too! I felt as though he seemed internally conflicted. It seemed as though he understood their sadness, loss and loneliness because he experiences that a lot in his own life. He definitely wanted to say something but couldn't express himself. I feel as though as a child, Aemond is inherently kind but his conditioning and circumstances have hardened him. His parents are either busy obsessed with the indecent deeds of his sister or severely ill and apathetic towards him, all the while favouring said sister. His brother teases him constantly and his younger sister is a little bit woo woo. He's bright and rather... normal for a child. I feel bad for the poor young guy.

@@FionasTeaParty indeed if only both sides of kids didn’t have such ambitious mothers (- Otto) then they all would’ve worked well with each other.

I hope nothing bad happens to these two sweet girls

"these two are destined to drive me crazy and now in unity, not separately", and dies of tiredness

@@depressed_firefly 😆😆😆😆😆😆

@@depressed_firefly And don't forget Otto who despises Daemon.

It will kill him

Will this drama never end, I've aged twenty years since Rhaenyra's trip to Dragonstone when she went to stop Daemon. I used to be beautiful now look at me. My arm's fallen off, my skin starts to flake and deteriorate all because my family loves drama. God I miss Balerion, he was chill.

I noticed that too,at first I was like whaaat and if I heard wrong.

Wonder if Laenor will make a return

@@maxgr540 what mistakes?

@@Usikoe23 damn I hope he wanted redemption nonetheless.

Yeah, despite the upside of it, the big downside is Corlys and Rhaenys believing he's dead. I see why he'd want to just make a clean cut and not risk them messing it up somehow, etc... but you also kinda wish he would have let them in on it.

@@AWSVids Rhaenyra and Daemon knows that Laenor is alive, they only planned his death. “Let there be witness” the instructions of Daemon.

Matt Smith coming in with the insightful commentary right there 😂

@@JackGreggs AHAHAHA indeed

@Rohan Chatterjee I guess everybody who gets a dragon should lose an eye

Yes. He's tired with all of this family issues

The only good person on hotd imo

I know, he just wants a happy family 😢

This whole thing is his fault. He’s the one who made rhaenyra the heir. All these problems exist because of that.

@@LegendInThaMakin Because he was in bad health and didn't have any sons, he didn't know that he would wind up cheating death and having shit tons of sons anyway, he had little choice. It isn't his fault his wife and son died at birth. Things happen

Right?? I was so happy and mind blown!

That was a welcome change from the book. I was 100% expecting him to die because that's what happened according to the book (minus Rhaenyra and Daemon's involvement. Laenor and Qarl got into real fight and Qarl killed him)

An innocent guard died for this. What do you mean he is a good man?

@@tsheporabekane4172 ikr? And his poor parents.

@Supriya Mukherjee Yeah this whole show is really slanted blacks.

The visible unfamiliarity of the cast in the scene mirrors the reserved behavior at funerals.

Yes time has passed it’s possible daemon could kick his ass now considering what happen at the end of this episode how daemon had no hesitation at snapping a guys neck. I personally hope daemon would just be a savage to him.

@@Mcherri Cole won the dual due to Daemon;s cockiness. Cole literally flailed him on the back to win. In a straight up dual, Daemon knocked him to the ground, it was just his arrogance that he did not finish the fight.

@@MyUniqueVibe true but I think daemon won’t make that mistake again. The only thing I didn’t get alicent when she was holding the knife said rhaynera can got away without doing her duty but that is utter bull rhaynera married laenor as her duty still birthed sons as what was expected of her just like alicent. As rhaynera said her and laenor tried to conceive it didn’t work I could understand if they didn’t try at all but they did then rhaynera had to look elsewhere because that was what was expected of her to produce heirs. I like this show because the book is written by a mastero in his point of view so it can be unreliable to what truly happen and history can be very unreliable just depends on who’s telling the story. The show stays within the range of the book but deviates due to point of view and I love that. I understand daemons daughter going off at aemond her mother literally died and he took vhagar on the night of laenea funeral. Glad rhaynera put alicent in her place a bit this episode.

​@@Mcherri cole kicked daemon ass twice there is no way daemon couldn't beat him🤣. daemon nuthangers still think he can beat cole

​@@Mcherri in the melee cole completely unarmed daemon. in the books it's even clearer who is a better fighter. cole beat him twice

Ew

all the cast is

@@-khelfallah5032 yeah and the kids are so good at such young age.

Best child actors I ever done see

@@possiblymaybe6711 Nah mate! Game of Thrones child actors were far better than these ones in HOTD

OMG! Agreed. Especially when we learned Aemond lost his eye. I was nervous for everyone. 😆

He brought all of this upon himself.

Cannot believe corlys sent his boyfriend after him lol. I wish my dad was that much of an ally but i thought it was careless of him to do that he should have fetched his son himself

I was so worried laenor was going to try to drown himself during laenas funeral in the water :( he does did in the book, so I was worried he'd die in this method on show. So thankful for the happy surprise ending!!

You can tell most of the scenes were shoot during the day and in post-production they change the lighting to made it seems it was in night, that's why it looks so dark and jarring, I don't know why they change it.

As already said, those scenes were filmed all during daytime and manipulated in post-production, but i can assure you that that's exactly what the producers wanted, a soothing and mesmerising scene which needs to be watched on a 4K HDR tv, and not on a mobile phone or whatever. They nailed both lighting and color palette!

I have no problem watching it on dolby vision format, but i believe in SDR format the night scene gonna be worse

@@thunderboltproductionsshpk exactly. I had no problems watching it in 4k res monitor

@@thunderboltproductionsshpk Yeh it looked like shit on my phone but on repeat viewing on my tv it was perfectly fine

Kid actor caught my eye right away. His stage presence stands Out

Same here I had to turn the lights off lol 😆

That's how they hide bad CGI.

Trying to hide the shit cgi

@@anwynoakenshield Nah, they've done a lot of dragon scenes in the daylight. It's more because I think either Sapochnik or the DP he works with, Fabian Wagner, likes to do realistic lighting. And the scene was very realistically lit for what it would look like at night during a full moon, assuming you had a good enough camera with low light performance to shoot it. In reality, it's done with day-for-night on the live-action footage, and then graded down with the CG environment to match. If you don't grade the live-action footage down enough, then it looks too obvious that it's daytime. It has to look very dim to read as moonlight, and you can't light the actors faces with any lights that would be powerful enought overpower the sun, so anything that isn't directly highlighted by the sun just falls off into murky darkness. The scene with Rhaenyra and Daemon walking on the beach was a perfect example of this. If I had to guess, I'd assume that stylistically, Sapochnik liked this because this scene was a thematically "dark" one in which Rhaenyra and Daemon are descending into further "darkness" together, etc... and the darkness of the lighting matches that. Which, sure.. but... actually shooting at night and lighting in a way you can control better can let you achieve a dark look that actually still highlights the actors in clearly visible ways. But with the advent of digital photography that can be shot in flat dynamic range to get a filmic exposure and then graded later to add contrast... I think it's become very common for a lot of DOPs to fall into the habit of just using natural light, because digital makes it easy to just expose everything evenly. Film required more work to get a proper exposure in most environments and that led to a lot of creativity in how you'd light a scene. But now, so many filmmakers have just fallen into shooting with available light or flat light to get an easy exposure and then add some contrast and cool stuff with color (mostly teal and orange, or just mostly desaturated in a lot of stuff because too colorful looks digital and dropping the saturation is an easy way to make digital look more filmic). I also wonder what kind of calibration professional color grading studios are using on their monitors. It seems like because they have the best of the best equipment and are looking at it in ideal settings... the practice of thinking about the worst case scenario for viewing conditions has fallen out of favor in professional environments. They're too used to looking at everything on nice, perfectly brightly calibrated expensive screens, most likely looking at it in HDR, in the raw uncompressed file quality. This can be less of a problem in the world of movies, when you're releasing in cinemas with properly calibrated systems and all that... but in the world of television, you kinda have to think about what's it gonna look like to somebody watching it on a 20 inch tv that's ten feet away in their living room as the setting sun is shining in the window. It used to be that keeping prominent bright highlights in the frame via bright hard backlighting in dark scenes would make them still read on any display. But the trend has generally gone towards keeping things more and more dimly graded and not exposing too brightly, and using very flat lighting with not a lot of natural contrast to it... since like... 2010, I feel like. Sometime around Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it was just like "Let's make night scenes actually look like night, even if we can't see what the hell's going on!"

@@AWSVids I'm not reading that...lol.

It shows how deranged Rhaenyra is. "Aww yeah my boy just slashed out your boys eye out and now everyone can see how upset you are soo embarrassing" It's like one of those painfully oblivious AITA scenarios.

What true colors? Her son just lost an eye, was she supposed to be happy and jolly about it? Rhaenyra is so delusional.

@@LegendInThaMakin maybe should have taught her son not to be stealing dragons. Rhaenyra's sons might be bastards but they act more well behaved than Alicent's sons.

@@killiasi Wasn't his to claim and you know it. But as I've said from another comment, Rhaenyra's kids might be bastards but they seem to have more honor for their age than Alicent's kids

@@killiasi the Velaryons and the Targaryens had different stock of dragons. How would you feel if someone stole your dog? Would you feel happy?

Yeah and they would only help Rhanerya if they know their son is alive otherwise Rhanerya is the killer for them

Wish I could share the same sentiment. As someone who’s been loving it so far, I found this episode to fall far in quality, predominantly through direction. Dark throughout and the fight between the kids was executed poorly. CGI was off with Aemond as he approached Vhagar. Aemonds attempt to secure Vhagar was like a scene from Harry potter 😂😂 A larger issue I’ve been concerned about which is coming into fruition more with each episode; the show runners are really not painting both parties as grey like in the books, the greens so far are clearly intended as the villains Paddy’s acting was fantastic as always though

Yea I also thought it was too dark but the kids fighting being poorly executed seemed to be on purpose to show how inexperienced and brutal kids can be.

@@rob4926 I think that's there way you're reading it but lots of my friends think that they're clearing painting the blacks as the villians. i think it's a more emotional story than the books so you don't realise people see it differently than you

@@rob4926 cgi was insanely good in this episode tbh,best dragon scene in both got and hotd

@@rob4926 yeah you are in a very small minority on this one

Honestly I found that shot to be incredibly corny. Zero subtlety at all.

@@TheBlackBantha it made sense, people went to where they had their allegiance. It would have made no sense for Daemon to check on Alicent.

@@fayguled900 the framing of the shot is what I had a problem with, not the placement of the people.

@@TheBlackBantha man you people just like to complain there was nothing wrong with that shot

What's more terrible than a Westeros wedding? A Westeros funeral!

@@caronstout354 anything less than two deaths is considered a dull affair

@@Caraxes8687 Three deaths.

Tbh daemon wasn't happy being married to laena.. and she saw that.. Hes much happier now that he's married to rhaenyra

@@oliviamadison5989 Yeah because he's consort now lol plus he gets to bang his niece, Targaryen's love that

kinda didn't like this change from the books only cuz i want them to be happy but it's totally in daemons character to have it like in the show

Oh shit u right lmaoooo

@@oliviamadison5989 wait till you see neatles. They’re relationship goes down the gutter soon before her brother fed her to his dragon.

Ew