This!!!!

Yes.

I didn't catch that at first, but the dash down the stairs and I was like "oh, ok, got it".

It’s all rhaenys’ fault. She should have fried them all

Only for her to kills hundreds of them in a ‘heroic’ moment!

otto has been such a standout character for me since he's evil don't get me wrong but the things he does is filled with such drive and determination that I can't help but respect, even cheer on sometimes.

Seems kingslanding was pile of shit afterall.

But he is so lousy as the hand of the king. He looks like a sick man and very old. His voice is not that commanding. I wish they cast someone like Tywin Lannister.

he was giving same vibes of tywin lannister ruling indirectly 💀

Fr he always wanted the throne, from the beginning

And Tom is so stunning.

he won't be able to win viewers to his side tho no one will root for him because all will people see now is rapist almost all people root for Rhanyra like showrunners wanted but it is boring they really made good blacks and evil green and went fully mushroom on Aegon

I think she didn't want the "futur (?)" kimg to be dead.

@@zhixinli7826 WTF It’s her son

@@GabrieleTarallo yeah but she chose to put him in this dangreous position....I wasnt sure either if Alicent loves him...she knws very well that Aegon can end up dead

It was basically kid asking his mother question and the mother being like, “Why would you ask me such a stupid question. What do u think?”

@@HK-gm8pe Have you not paid attention to the whole series? Alicent put her son in a position to be the most powerful person in Westeros to protect him. If Aegon is not crowned King, he and his siblings' life will all end up at Rhaenyrya's mercy as they will pose as a threat to her claim.

The swiftest dragon

It also perfectly demonstrates it’s ability to magically shrink to half its size in between shots lmao, just moments before it was shown to be the size of a large van

@@rifroll1117 ye the dragon sizes are super inconsistent vhagar looks like a mountain one scene with aemond but when laena was riding him the dragon looked big but close to caraxes. And ye i assumed meleys was gonna burst through the doors but instead she somehow shrinked and then enlarged again ,magical...

Just IT

@@okdude8215that's exactly what i thought!

The love Viserys never gave him, too. I think Alicent’s children always knew that to Viserys, Rhaenyra was his only child.

@@SamudroEntertainment Viserys seems to see Rhaenyra as his Targaryen child and the others as his Hightower children.

@@rtozier2011 He loves Rhaenyra the most because he loved Aemma. He kind of loved Alicent but not like that, she was and remained only a rebound.

@@FrakkinToasterLuvva So it's okay to treat his OWN children like that?And why was he so desperate to marry after Naming Rhenyra as a heir?

@@apieceoflife2732 Where did I say it was OK?

Mercy in this world gets people killed. But then again; 'It's a pity Rhaenys didn't kill Aegon when he had the chance.' 'Pity? It's a pity that stayed Rhaenys' hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Aegon has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Rhaenys may rule the fate of many.'

@@lawrencefrost9063 I know this speech in Spanish! "¿Lástima? La lástima fue lo que frenó la mano de Rhaenys. Muchos que viven merecen la muerte, y algunos que mueren merecen la vida. Podrías dársela tú. No seas ligero a la hora de adjudicar muerte o juicio. Ni los más sabios pueden discernir esos extremos. El corazón me dice que Aegon tiene aún un papel de cumplir, para bien o para mal, antes de que todo esto acabe. La compasión de Rhaenys puede regir el destino de muchos."

@@lawrencefrost9063 Gandalf??

@@dantefromdevilmaycry9857 Yes

The book is already written im sure everyone knows shes not gonna set the hightowers into fire in that moment her fate is sealed

She's also great in Bates Motel

Yea she gave Clubfoot a good time too

@@ivanttosuckyourblood lol

Sound of Metal, man. Sound of Metal.

@@weespookyme I’ve never watched it! Gotta watch it now ❤️

@Rohan Chatterjee I get that, but yeah no it's still weird

Do him and the queen have an arrangement where she shows him her feet in exchange for info?

@@zaddyholmes6735 they definitely do

​@Rohan Chatterjee bro what? If someone is missing a arm would they touch themselves if they saw someone else's arm?.

@@StrikerTube People in real life get foot fetishes for less.

Alicent could become a telenovela level evil stepmother easily but both actresses have really elevated her. Even though I disagree with Alicent for various reasons, I can't help but feel for her.

@@Rosula_D same. I think she's a tragic character. She's forced into a marriage of convenience by her father. Stood beside a man who did not love her and her children. I understand her play to put her son on the throne. All she really has are her children. I know id shed some blood to protect mine. Also, those saying that Rhaenyra will never hurt them are all naive and idiotic. She wanted Aemond to be tortured just by saying her kids were bastards and he was already maimed and just 10 years old!

@@maylynbayani i wish he was tortured

... It's 'imbecile'.

@Music that was an option

My exact thoughts also

Ramin's pieces that use piano are always the best, like The Light Of The Seven and The Night King

Exactly!

Best soundtrack on the show, so good

@@janellejulianajoy _The Prince That Was Promised_ is another undeniable vibe and a half.

I caught that, too! Definitely gave her an answer.

Nice catch

Oooo great catch!!

great observation

I find it more "great/terrible" than heroic. Big Galadriel in Fellowship of the Ring energy

Eh. It's kings landing peasants. They are always redshirt and typically morally grey in the shows. Plus the low born people are never really given much thought to nobles and such

@dehydrated plant true

@@mrgermanvono35 that’s hardly a justification for murder. They were all escorted forcefully to the dragonpit. We can also assume that children were also there, so does it make it not so bad because they are in Kings Landing?

@@mrgermanvono35 It's fine for people in universe to think like that and justify their actions that way. It is NOT fine for the showrunners to think like that. They're supposed to show how horrifying that line of thinking really is. A major theme of George RR Martin's writing is how the wars of the highborn hurt the innocent and the lowborn. We're not supposed to see their lives as meaningless chaff that should be sacrificed for a heroic girlboss moment.

It's Westeros...

@@ChristmasLore What a pathetic excuse

There's no such thing as innocent people in the game of thrones...everyone can die.

Yup, and still may be called heroic.

@@godfirst9990 ff's. The people of king's landing have no choice over who get's to rule.

That's right. I was nervous the whole time

My heart was beating fast for the second half of the episode, and I couldn’t explain why. They did a fantastic job!

🎉Such richness in having women write and direct episodes as well in the World of Ice and Fire!😄

@Jacob Magdaleno both Alicent and her father had their own motives but neither wanted to kill the other? Alicent wanted to get Aegon first to prevent the greens from trying to kill rhaenyra

@Jacob Magdaleno second it's in Otto's advantage to have the white worm on his side,he sees the information she has is valuable to him even in the long run,even in the previous episode they hinted how important the white worm is,and that's why larys strong wants to get rid of her,bcoz Otto will always be on step ahead.Third rhaenys is not useless she spared Alicent since alicent dis the same

A few episodes before he was like a comic relief character, only wanting to drink and have fun, he even stated that he likes spending more time with Jace and Luke than with Aemond. And in episode 7 when he said those things about Rhaynera's children he looks so sad, like he didn't want to do it but he did it anyway to protect his family. Having said that, with the bastard and rape reveal, he is definitely changed and not for the better and now he have complete power over everything.

He's really giving me Commodus vibes from Gladiator. An unhinged romantic who's also an unrepentant degenerate. I love it!

Are you dumb? Aegon is LITERALLY an evil dude in the show. They butchered his character. He is someone who is spoiled, rapes serving girls, fathers bastards and watches children fight to the death in pits (none of which happens in the book, by the way). How is that not a totally evil guy who is irredeemable at this point? You people are funny, man.

@@rickbrees3297 yes this is exactly what i got, he even looks like the actor

I mean, they're really trying to make the Greens evil and awful to make Rhaenyra look better(Larys Strongs making Alicent do Westeros OnlyFans was one of the standout moments). I really felt for Aegon this episode. He's a kid caught up in his grandfathers plots, but he wants to believe his father chose him for the crown and gave him the knife. The scene where he raises Blackfyre and is cheered made me really happy for him, despite knowing what's to come.

Who was supposed to say this line?

@@bakten5491 aegon

I loved when they incorporated when rhaneys burst through the ground during the coronation in the book as well!

@@bakten5491 Aegon. Aegon said this line in the books. It was really informative of his character.

@@dashnerrr5549 brooo me too! completely undercutting the haunting victory of the Greens by suddenly putting them at the mercy of a dragon season 8 style instead of showing.. fucking anything. my god that was my favorite part of the book.

They should have had Rhaenys fight in the war on the stepstones together with Laenor, or they should have waited for her actions in combat later in the series, there will be several of them. Those would be good "Rhaenys on a dragon" scenes. This one just sucked, they made Rhaenys look evil and stupid while trying to give her a fake girlboss moment. Mindless spectacle at the expense of good writing, the worst scene in the entire series so far.

I'm attached to Daemon & Rhaenyra too but I don't think I'm going to get the satisfaction of seeing them prevail. I haven't seen e9 yet -- will be in a couple hours though. Looking forward to it! Sounds like it's going to be a blast!

Maybe at that time she thought she will kill all the hightower family members but suddenly she changed her mind so i guess that was the reason

@@warriorking125 or the writers need a girl boss moment for a character that wasn’t there in the books.

@@joshuaellery6167 yaa maybe

@@joshuaellery6167 or maybe this is a great way to show how utterly fucked up the nobles of Westeros are towards the people. (Pssst, this is like the main theme of source material )

I want an alternative episode that has been edited so that this coronation entrance is deleted, LITTERALLY didnt add anything to the episode, only fucked up the character and world-building.....

It’s kind of cringe playing piano music over nothing. Makes stuff way too overdramatic

It kind of makes me think of the season 6 episode 10, for some reason I felt like when they were funnelling people into the Dragon Pit it was like they were going to mass kill people but I guess it was just the coronation. It does have a similar meaning as the Winds of Winter opening except instead of blowing up the Sept of Balor they're just quickly getting Aegon crown to take power.

@@yarafakhoury6022 Thank you!

Scenes like that got us seasons 7 & 8 of GoT!

@@ferrjuan???? The Dance of the Dragons and HOTD focus heavily on how the careless fuckery of the nobles often end up in hundreds of thousands of commoners suffering and dying. This is excatly what they were supposed to do. (However them saying it was a "Heroic" moment is a little concerning, but this is mostly taken out of context)

Yep I could buy that she doesn't want to be a kinslayer, but the reasoning here is a bit dumb. They sacrificed some narrative coherence for an "epic moment" but if they keep going this route we end with season 8 all again.

that scene was made for twitter feminists

@@GrievyRZ if characters were capturted exactly like in the books i would be fine with it , but they changed alot of characterisations

eh, she is lord, and commoners are no people to her.

Agree

@@hirdbarding3399 That would make her an elitist tyrant. But the showrunners call this a "heroic" moment. That's what worries me. This is not supposed to be a heroic act we should cheer for, but they apparently want to present it as one.

But they're peasants so she doesn't mind as much. That's kinda the point of GRRM's work here. These people don't give a sh*t about what is good for the common people. They are all squabbling over questions of birthright, not about what's best for their subjects.

@@frankvandorp2059 She probably didn’t take joy in killing those people but that’s what war does, and they just happened to be in the way. Not like she was going out of her way to step on people. Honestly I’d be happy to die there then continue to live a shitty peasant life with Hightowers in power. 😅

Yeah, probably an 18month wait 😆😆🥲🥲😓😪

I have been waiting for episosde 10 since I read the book! Can't wait to see my families reaction when "it" happens!!! They are so invested in R's children lol

@Ajay the shooting starts at March 2023. They have already said that the season 2 will air on 2024

oh yeah she killed like 100 smallfolk such a moment, the common people are the only victims when the high lords play there game of thrones

@@clemenpog9079 life isn't fair :[

@@clemenpog9079 haha

@@clemenpog9079 what they were doing there when they know Rhaenyra is the true heir

@@clemenpog9079 How did Queen Alicent kill them? It was Rhaenys.

Loved that scene, totally showed how much Allicent has to sacrifice to protect her children etc, and you can see how ashamed she is here. Easily one of my favourite characters so far.

@@MrMagicRman twitter is full of #BlackTeam. I hardly see any support for Green team . I m kinda leaning towards green one. Alicent and Aemond are among my favourites

That was so weird, it honestly was a bad thing to add to the show because it's very clear in the beginning that the relationship is platonic with the intention of helping each other to get what they want, and then you have him have a foot fetish and her obliging to it like wtf? It's like sleeping with someone to sleep to have a place to sleep in and then trying to have business relationship like???

@@wingsofwinter2600 I think there's still a business aspect to the relationship. I'm sure the show writers wouldn't have Larys killing his dad and brother while snooping around just for some feet pics.

@@wingsofwinter2600 i have heard grr martin say somehere that there is nothing called platonic relationship 😂😂

The king's arrival was used in the previous episode when viserys walked in

Many of ramins motifs have been used all season. Danys Breaker of chains is used when viserys tells nyra about ageons dream/tptwp in ep 1. You can hear dragon stone gongs hit when rhaenys enters the dragon pit with melyes.

@@bobbasseyjnr240 Yeh, but that was the music piece itself, not actual in-universe trumpets

Also used at winterfell when king Robert baratheon arrived season 1

@@MoejiiOsmanTV yeh, that’s what the track is 😜

heroic - behaviour or talk that is bold or dramatic. That's correct.

​@@221B.Crime.Science So killing is heroic?😅😅😅😅😅

Yeah, she is legit the most evil person alive right now in this universe lmfao.

Season 8 level of writing

D&D would be proud

next episode, Rhaenys : "It will not be me who starts this war" also, the green king: "do you know what the common people are shouting in the streets demanding for me to do with you?"

Well this scene wasn't' in the books so....

That feeling, when you have to scroll for few minutes to find a comment that calls Rhaenys out..

She's a Targaryen, not an idiot. If she burned them all, there would just be even more chaos, she knows that. The crowd was clearly enthusiastic for Aegon, if she just killed so many of them and then killed the adored new king, she would make herself and her allies (including Daemon and Rhaenyra) hated. Hard to rule if you're hated. I think this scene was basically her way of saying to the Hightower branch "Good luck stopping me" and showing that they are weak (which is much more effective than just killing them all in terms of getting public support). Also, of course, to get out and start the war. Rhaenys, it's been shown, doesn't seem like the most ethical of people, more than anything she wants the power that was denied her. So I doubt she cares about the deaths of thousands in a long war, so long as she has the new queen's ear and thus the power she craves.

​@@kohlcooke8789so she doesn't want to be hated by the people and then slaughters the people just to show off.

The most pointless scene thanks to this Sara Hess fire her she cannot write

It was horribly done. There was no indication of the plots or schemes. She murdered tons of innocent in the end and then just left the guilty. This was nothing like the schemes and plots in house of cards.

@@user-lh2xg5uf3y awww ok kid now go do ur school homework

@@user-lh2xg5uf3y thats what i was thinking lmao. dude in the video said "doesnt want to be responsible about doing that to another mother" right after squashing countless people............. thats a writing fail in my book

@@KZfaqEnjoyer100 they are targaryens she probably doesn’t care about the common folk

@@user-lh2xg5uf3y I felt the same way. She should've roasted everyone if they wanted that ending.

Shes a black supporter so of course she is a saint deep down🙄🙄🙄 is it really hard to make all of them the SHIT THEY ARE?

All main black players are hypocrite 😂

@@Lord_bobby_ same with the fans

Every noble in this conflict is a selfish asshole. This is one of the main themes of the books.

​@@GrievyRZThe main problem is not what Rhaenys did in this moment (even tho it is out of her character, she was supposed to be better suited to rule over Viserys, the guy who cared about ppl but Rhaenys doesn't care about the ppl??). The main problem is that the writers themselves have mischaracterized their own story. They saw it as "heroic" which it isn't. She killed innocent commoners with her dragon because the writers wanted spectacle. Story>spectacle, always!

That scene was Season 8 level of stupidity

Umm Daeron wasn't there or Aegons 3 kids. So wiping out all of them? Can you count?

@@michaelnkomphela8231 yeah ok you think of Rhaenys toasted all of them, the remaining dragons are riderless and Vhagar may be claimed by Daemon's dragonless daughter, than (1) Daeron with (1) dragon and 2 children are gonna stand against them? Okk

@@AllTheArtsy they won't need to. NO ONE in the realm will support team black who just murdered the royal family. Not a single house will stand by them. They will put Aegon 2 son on the Iron throne. Ps. NONE of Rhae kids are legitimate = Ser Laenor is still alive.

He’s not dumb

@@elwinjohnson4004 he isn't

I get that but it's not her fight. It's rhaenyras

Exactly!! Why even put that scene in there. So dumb. Everything else was fine, but that was bad writing. What person on a dragon who had the power to stop a war and give true justice wouldn't just kill them all right there?! Stupid!

@@dominickuharski9796 it’s not stupid. What’s stupid is one Targaryen killing all the other royals. She’d have just looked mad or rogue. She’s telling them it’s war. She’s also still a mother- when alicent stood infront of Aegon it made her rethink. She needs alliances. She’s not a mass murderer- she’s just not into treason.

@@okaysxo if she really cared about the "mother" thing, she wouldn't have killed hundreds when she busted in with her dragon 🤣🤣.. hello.. bad character writing

Or aegon be married to rhaenyra

A stupid unnecessary scene, it was meant for something more... like feminism shit

When did she kill 500 people are you talking about Rehynese?

​@@VolkerDrach when she broke through the dragon pit. Are you blind or plain stupid.

Made the same exact comment without seeing this 😂

​@@VolkerDrach Rhaenys* Damn you were horrifically off the mark

i love this

It began with a discovery of witches. I had to. Lol 😆🤣

Cringe

The only way they can save it is if they use it to build a grudge in Aegon and Aemond against Rhaenys that will come to scorn in the Battle of Rook's Rest

Is it a good one

It seems like the nobles don’t give a shit when it comes to the “small folk”

@@Samechii845 I totally agree with that. I know the scene is supposed to make Rhaenys look cool (which she is, the actress playing her always gives a good performance), but they could had accomplished the same result by different means. I don't know, perhaps is just me, but this scene kinda bothered me, but I digress.

@Rohan Chatterjee Dude, this event has not yet occured. These people were forced to attend the coronation, just to die from a fucking dragon.

If this is here "heroic" moment i don't want to see her go crazy.

Symbolically, historically, the consequences are nothing alike. Also, there's a curse on kin-slaying in Westeros- among other very good reasons not to fry them there and then. That said, I was whispering "do it" / "Dracarys". But Rhaenys was the better woman, for one moment, a true Queen 🌿

@@ChristmasLore You're out of your mind.

My thoughts exactly

Agreed The greens are very interesting.

Exactly it didnt make any sense Yeah it looked cool and badass Its like they are gonna make the Same mistakes as got s7 and s8

Yes. Saving 'Dracarys' for another day.

Can you please tell me what makers changed with Alicent Character

It was good until the end. The writers made a mess, she can kill hundreds but not the usurpers.

I'd call it a case of the show writers choosing spectacle over sense.

It's Meleys

@@marianaruiz9203 thank you 🙂

"beware of the beast beneath the boards" 👀

@@dw1419 Welcome to fantasy television.

She hit it so hard it went into season 8 of GOT

@@LukaPavlovic1 This was not even close to Season 8 GOT. All character motivations made sense, the pacing was very well done, it wasn't too dark, there was satisfying pay-off to the beats set-up throughout the show. Are you some sheep buying into the woke SJW narrative that HotD is bad?

@@guzkus1 Lol it isnt S8 but not a great scene. It's awful.

@@isiaharellano3789 I don't understand what's awful about it. Rhaenys needed to get her dragon, she wanted to throw salt on Aegon's coronation, she killed two birds with one stone, a bunch of peasants, and said byebye. What's awful about that, it pays off its set-up nicely.

@@guzkus1 Carefully read your comment again. This is the same bitch that said "Men would put the realm to the torch than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne" Complete betrayal of character. If they wanted people to hate her then they've succeded

For a staring contest with the Greens lol

I want an alternative episode that has been edited so that this coronation entrance is deleted, LITTERALLY didnt add anything to the episode, only fucked up the character and world-building.....

The show was hammering on our heads that she should have been queen, and I liked her. Now I'm like THANK GOD she was never queen. THANK FUCKING GOD. Viserys for life. First she hardcore gaslights Alicent, then she does fucking terrorism. All in 1 episode.

@@cancerino666 Indeed, and it's hypocritical of her to accuse Alicent of giving in to the whims of the men in her life, when she herself is shown to regularly give in to her husband's political ambitions.

Girl boss moment. Understand being woke means being stupid.

Amazing? She just murdered hundreds of innocent people

So did I...

@Rohan Chatterjee Yes but there are different sources from few maesters and Mushroom, not a single one said that Rhaenys was at Kings Landing and disrupted coronation, that is a pretty big deal to be missed upon. I feel that showrunners wanted to add some scene with big impact since we didn't get much action in these episodes, but adding this illogical scene where she could have ended greens right then and there is pretty stupid, don't get me wrong it's still a good show but i hope they won't deviate from the books that much.

The Targaryens / Velaryons / Hightowers don't care about the common people. That's just obvious at this point. Their morality is reserved for each other, the family that Viserys begged them to keep together.

Hopefully this level of writing remains to a minimum cuz if they continue making dumb decisions like this we will get a repeat of seasons 7 & 8 of GoT! Cuz they choose spectacle over story cohesion!

Calm tf down, being a kinslayer is far worse in Kings landing than killing a bunch of random people. You people like whining over the dumbest shit.

I think you’re all missing the point, there isn’t any good people in this story - they’re all scum bags basically. They don’t see the small-folk as equal to themselves either. Rhaenys probably didn’t kill the Greens because of the taint of kin slaying. The small folk who died in the process were probably, in her mind, the equivalent of stepping on a spiders nest and killing 100 spiders to save yourself.

@@ferrjuan I agree, I love this show but I really disliked the mass murder of civilians like that, didnt feel in character at all and made me think about Danearys in the last season of GOT.

Yes she was I was kinda hoping that she would have told her dragon to burn them all but.... She just wanted to get the hell out of there!!!

I AM OVER HERE SCREAMING......YESSSSS YESSSSS........I JUST FINISHED WATCHING

@@dawnprudenti1964 SHE IS GOING TO TELL RHAENYRA

Yess, she killed only innocent poor people that were manipulated to be there, such a girl boss 🙄🙄🙄

@@mariatereza9721 THERE IS NOTHING NICE ABOUT WAR

doesnt happen in book, they just wanted girlboss moment

@@sillylittlesheepjax6009 what happened in the book

Rhaenys is not at Kings Landing. The coronation goes as planned and Aegon flies Sunfyre, i was waiting that :(

@@luisa.acevedo3326 omg same!! i was waiting for Aegon to walks towards Sunfyre and ride him around King's Landing then ending the episode :(

Rhaneys: (kills a hundred people just to make an entrance) Internet: yaaaaasss queen, slaaaaaayy

@@rifroll1117 it was a bad ass entrance Wether you liked it or not

This was the worst scene in the entire show and they never should have put it in. It's just mindless spectacle for the people who want mindless spectacle. They made Rhaenys kill hundreds of innocent smallfolk to get to her enemies, which makes her evil. Then they have her spare her enemies and miss out on a chance to end the war before it starts, which makes her stupid. I loved Rhaenys character. She was relatively wise and good. This scene made her stupid and evil. And the showrunners don't even seem to realize it. I despise this scene.

@@iouplayyy9191 It turns Rhaenys into a vain, murderous and rather stupid villain, whether you like it or not.

@@frankvandorp2059 Omg you didn't even listen to the show runners. Rhaenys was ready to burn all of them BUT Alicents parental protectiveness caused Rhaenys to falter.

When asked if Alicent loved Aegon, she laughed because the answer was obvious. She did. She threw her body in front of Aegon to protect his life.

@@RanwulfMaxwell lol won't make any difference all the stage going to get burn

it was season 7&8 level cringe and bad

@@Soxcus thank you, exactly especially with what's coming next, it's like did the show runners read the book?

@@Soxcus bye

Nope 😂