can you PLEASE stop CONSTANTLY comparing EVERY SINGLE SCENE of hot D to something in game of thrones, its so unwatchable

in a early version of this episode that got leaked Laena was 10 not 12. also in the books the small council much bigger... another youtuber said alicent was 15-16 not 14. also the war against the tri was support by house hightower and the king by money

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If it wasn't for you. I wouldn't understand what was going on in HOT D. Thank you for your work and you get my likes!!

Wonderful analysis of the opening. Thank you.

True brothers

I like the complexity of it. Daemon is a dick but he's not black and white evil, he goes against his brother but he still loves him

@@seancrossey466 It's not even that, it is about the respect. The guy from a lesser house just came to him, asking him to low-key betray his brother, while showing zero respect for the institution of the king (that Daemon also wants), family connection, while being a duplicitous snake. It's like, you want to defy the king? Fine, but don't you dare disrespect him in front of me, worm. Know your place. Yes, Daemon is a complex character and he has feelings for his brother, naturally. But he understands the importance of hierarchy and respect for a position. If he allows a lowly noble to slander a king like that, what's to prevent him tomorrow to do the same when Daemon takes the crown that he wants? That is why he said that he, a prince and an heir (by tradition) can talk about his brother (the king) as he wishes - but a butthurt noble who's plotting sedition, could not. He should know his place, or if he keeps poking his head above his position, someone might just cut it to size. It is an extremely important aspect of a feudal society that Westeros is. It is even stronger than family bonds. People did not have much problem in that time taking over from their family, but they were really careful not to downgrade the position they are taking in the process. Stupid politicians do it today - they decide to go for a position, then shit all over the person currently holding it, and when they get to hold it they wonder why they don't command any respect and authority. No shit Sherlock, you just spend your entire campaign obliterating the authority of a position/institution, what did you expect?! That is why taking down a man holding a position is a hard thing. It is extremely hard to take it without damaging it. Daemon knows it. And if there is ONE THING that the usurper king needs when overtaking the old, it is the strength and the integrity of the title of a king. Which is also why Otto Hightower says in the first episode that he could have Baratheon's tongue for what he said. Man can be replaced, but the position he holds MUST NOT be downgraded and insulted.

@@Wustenfuchs109 dang great analysis!

Right, a rare moment of Viserys being authoritative. Seems like a pretty good guy but too weak to be a good king.

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Now I have to imagine a Duet between Corlys Valerion and Crabfeeder.

In depths he sang to me In water he came That voice which calls to me And speaks my name And do I dream again? For now I find The phantom of the Seashore is here Inside my Stepstones Swim once again with me Our strange duet My power over you Grows stronger yet And though you turn from me To glance behind The phantom of the Seashore is there Inside your Stepstones Those who have seen your face Draw back in fear I am the mask you wear It′s me they hear Your claws and your skittering In one combined The phantom of the Seashore is there Inside your Stepstones Is that the phantom of the Seashore? Beware the phantom of the Seashore In all your fantasies You always knew That crab and mystery Were both in you And in this labrinth Where night is blind The phantom of the Seashore is there Inside your Stepstones Swim, my angel of the sea

@@c0nn3 I like the cut of your jib Conne.

@@c0nn3 I picture you as Walt's underground lab assistant from breaking bad.

Yes! I thought that was perfect. There is this awkward walk and talk that the king has to perform, and the kid immediately goes "ooooh you rode on Balerion! How exciting, tell me everything about it!" And it also shows the tragedy of Viserys who seems to shiver at the sheer memory of it - this guy does not want power.

@@patryklewandowski2099 i mean i will feel embarrased if I have to explain to a 12 yr old that he only got to ride Balerion 3 times around King’s Landing even though he meant to go to Dragonstone

@@goguma46 after that horrible time Baelerion returned to Valyria can you blamed him for not wanting to go far away again?

Balerion, the black dread lived in the dragonpit. But, they say Vhagar is too big for the dragonpit?! I don’t get it.

@@NikhilAditya25 Its possible that the Dragonpit was redesigned at some point to house the increasing number of dragons. Balerion's 'room' may have been turned into four smaller 'rooms', or maybe he slept outside in the courtyard.

this actually annoyed me because i see more of a comparaison between valyria and rome, as both were great empires that spanned centuries and inspired different successor states to take their legacy, despite being quite bad (conquest, slavery, oligarchy)

Lmfao

So ironic to hear an american say such a thing

@@Jpodre98 I doubt Alt Shift is American base on his accent, probably English. Brazilian.

I mean they pretty much have that anyways, with the Death Star and Star Destroyer sets.

"Florida Woman eats Whole Sheep"

She made a retirement resort, call it Vhagar-a-Lago

This is the moment Vhagar became Kim Wexler.

@@VictorIV0310 Wouldn't mind riding both

@@spamquisition4046 Vhagar: "roars" Translation: "I'm going to build a wall, and make the Wildlings pay for it!"

Viserys thinks dragons are dangerous and sides with Hightower. He is not so much manipulated into it as consciously allying himself with the people he rules rather than cultivating an exclusive Targaryen or Valyrian position, as Velaryon wants to build. That's also why he sits with Strong and asks for his opinion. He wants to make him feel included as much as hear what he has to say.

Parts of the Dance was also a clash between those who supported the cultural "innovations" pushed by hardcore Valyrians like Daemon (Targaryen divine rights of changing laws as they wish, incest, polygamy, being above all laws, and so absolute monarchy), and those instead who defended Westeros traditions and tried to gradually fully absorbs the targs in their culture. Baelor the blessed, a fanatic religious Targaryen that rejected incest and destroyed most of the remaining Valyrian artifacts of the household as pagan idols, can be considered one of the most successfull example of a "westerosized" Targaryen.

Totally, i had the same feeling, you put it into words, 👏

Brilliant breakdown

@@TheUrobolos I would include Daeron II, Maekar, and Aegon V in the 'most Westerosi' of the Targs. All outside marriages too: Martell, Dayne, and Blackwood

I agree with you 100%. When Daemon asked where his brother was he lied saying he wouldn’t stoop so low to come, and the lord commander looked at him like “bro I was there and it didn’t go down like that”

He was pretty much was ready to sacrifice himself to start a war

We never saw how he ssid it

If Daemon wanted the throne he’d just fly Caraxes over to the Redkeep and take it. Otto knows this. They brought dragon tamers incase they had to bypass Caraxes but I think he knew Daemon wouldn’t do anything.

@@joshuaadams6565 That would be stupid. Rhaenys and Rhaenrya would fight Caraxes and Daemon and win. Also, the entire realm would reject Daemon.

I think they’re referring to the general experience of a son who is not the eldest son in a family feeling the need to prove and establish themselves

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More than proving themselves - second sons almost never inherited the demesne of the father, so they had to engage in other activities, such as going to crusades, becoming mercenaries, joining the knightly orders, becoming monks/religious figures and even becoming businessmen. In many cases, second sons were supporting the kings in their struggle against the feudal lords, as that allowed the second sons to find positions in the court.

Everyone reacts in disgust, but that whole "really young girls marrying much older men" thing was also very much a thing in medieval Europe... and China... and Japan... and really anywhere where Feudalism was the law of the land. People need to brush up on their history, methinks.

Second sons always wanted some form of political

I like that the dragons are being much more explored beyond giant killing machines. Dany's three dragons had very little to distinguish them except that Daegon was the one she rode.

You know what’s sad? Lots of younger dragons during this time could very well be Vhagar's descendants, ones later on in the show she would kill

You know that they're going to hook up later when she's already mature, right?

@@higherpurpose1212 What is it about this post that makes you think he wants to know about unrelated spoilers?

Nah, on a great hotd podcast a great observation was made that deamon actually wanted rhaneyra to show up. That he was testing her. I very much recommend the pod its the best hotd pod out there with amazing insight. Its called all bangers.

Exactly !

Daemon definitely loves her but I could see it crossing his mind "If I kill her and manage to get away...the throne could be mine..." but then his "wisdom" took over and realized all that would do is ensure the only way that would end with him on the throne is if he literally took it by conquering King's Landing, which he definitely did not have the man/dragon power to do. Daemon seems very much in the Jamie Lanister role right now as a petulant spoiled royal who will have a heroic arch...let's hope they don't completely screw it up in the final season like they did Jaime.

Curious how she speaks valyrian only to her uncle and not to her father or the others...

@@luca7069 Valyrian is the langrage of "private conversations" since most people don't know it. I think Daemon is far more comfortable speaking Valyrian than The Common Tongue

@@luca7069 no she spoke the language with the dragon keepers

Woulda been nice if after the Council scene, she was in her bedroom and rips the necklace off of her or something to make that even more explicit to the audience 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@Longshanks1690 Nope we dont need that kind of cringe scene.

Yeah but if you're talking about with Daemon she knows he won't hurt her which is why she confronted him so closely.

That wasn’t the last time. Vermithor and Silverwing flew to Oldtown to threaten the faith of the seven. They used 6 dragons at the wall to fight off wildlings and used 3 dragons to set the fleets of Dorne on fire… Meraxes was a one off. Meraxes and Rhaenys were also the instigators and actually rained fire down on Dorne. Rhaenyra was only suggesting a display of power.

@@SaneMillennial i think he was talking about fighting the crabfeeder and his triarchy

@@joshuaadams6565 It's been a year since I last read Fire and Blood, so I can't remember this event at the Wall with six dragons. When did that happen? Cheers

@Глеб Сальманов >mfw when you make a rebuttal to an argument that hasn't been made Omegalul

This is a great way of looking at their relationship. I think you're right 🤔😊

I like this idea. Pretty realistic

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I quite agree with you

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I think you're thinking of Lyonel strong. Master of laws. He earned six links.✌️🇺🇸

Could be he studied at the Citadel. I hope they'd clarify it if that *were* the case, otherwise him rolling around with a Maesters chain would be a bit confusing.

I would suppose all Hightower heirs get a first class education in both the citadel and with the faith.

I’m convinced that it was homage to ramseys famous knight ser twentygoodman

He was probably planning to fail, and return with the news that Daemon was even more in active revolt. Probably didn't expect Daemon to be bold enough to pull a dragon on them, though. Arrogant AF.

I don’t think he was planning on Daemon fighting back. I think the crown has been so complacent with his nonsense, that Otto expected a show of any kind of force to be enough to get him to acquiesce

@@LordOfTamarac to be fair I don't think Otto expected any fight at all. This was clearly another attention grab from Daemon and the only reason he didn't want the King to go was because then Daemon's ploy would have worked. On the other hand he probably knows Daemon enough that he wouldn't murder the Hand of the King, and 2 members of the Kingsguard over a dragonegg. I don't believe anyone was in any real danger unless Caraxes went Rogue and offed the delegation on it's own, but there is not really a way to prepare against that. With that said I don't think it was complacency Otto seemed perfectly aware of what was happening, to the point he tried to send his own dragon reinforcement away. And he has not seemed suicidal

@@joinjohn834 It's ser Twenty of House Goodmen.

I didn’t even consider this. But it makes total sense.

Nice one. I don't remember anything like that from the books though.

IIRC the marbles are kept on the table in the council room, and each member takes theirs to their spot when they sit down. That would protect much better against faceless men because they would probably take all their victim’s clothing & possessions on their person when taking their face, to best impersonate them. If they walked into council and saw everyone with marbles in front of them, they’d just go “oh, that’s what this is for,” and pull it out. Having the marbles selected in the room each time is a better protection because it’s a tiny point of knowledge that only councilors would know the correct answer to.

@@alisaurus4224 Whether or not they carry them around or keep them in the room, they definitely have some sort of security purpose. It’s hard to believe they’re just symbolic.

@@James-kv3ll agreed

To me the roar sounded twisted, just like Daemon is, and I loved it! 😁

I read somewhere that they wanted Caraxes to sound like he had a deviated septum, which explains the offkey honk that accompanies his roar

I remember thinking that for such a frightening and dangerous creature, his roar is very cute. Not complaining, I liked it.

@@anndruh they nailed that part for sure

Maybe Dragonstone stopped being active when the Targaryens lost power

And the battle between Caraxes and Vhagar will be even better if they actually do it right. Also have not read the Fire and Blood, is Aemond still riding her in the new story?

@@bohellan6227 pretty sure that Aemond has been casted, in one of the season trailers we also see a valyrian man with an eyepatch (my guess is aemond) so i'm guessing he still hets Vhagar

@@bohellan6227 To be book-accurate, he'd still end up with Vhagar, after Vhagar's next (next up in the show) rider's death.

Balerion, the black dread lived in the dragonpit. But, they say Vhagar is too big for the dragonpit?! I don’t get it.

@@bohellan6227 Yup, Aemond 1 eye is gonna be a badass character! Excited to see him in HotD🔥

Hahaha you'll be surprised a second time when the show comes to an end 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@dann5480 Aegon II (in season 4 of HotD): You know I actually really like my half-sister

Gods I'd missed analyses like these. Just recently watched ASX cover season 8 and he sounded so defeated 😂 at least he has some meat to chew on and little hidden Easter eggs to give us

@Batrick Pateman Try harder to get it

@Batrick Pateman he explains it pretty well in the video, maybe watch that part again

Lord Gyles is next in line, coughing his lungs out

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Shift broke this down when other content creators were complaining how it felt rushed and confusing I had no idea what it all meant till now. It's really well done

Think the music should have been different though

Yeah it could've been done better, but I think it's really fun to watch once you know what it is.

This just made my day 🤣🤣🤣🥂🥂🥂

I was also pleasantly surprised. I was still angry and spiteful after the original series and wanted to put those feelings on this series too. I had no plans to watch it at all until one of the channels I watch on YT gave me the thumbs up.

ROP is embarrassing

@@Hero_Of_Old I tried to watch it but I couldn't even get my attention span to hold on to it. It seemed like a teen fantasy drama. Bad. I'm someone who enjoyed Tge Hobbit movies more than anything.

They did make house Velaryon black for no reason

And corlys’ actor is great

I mean of course those surface-level lore-unaware standard reviewers would not know the signifigance and meaning of the intro.

The war of the five kings did that too, though, and none of it was about women. Rhaenys just believes what she wants to.

Crazy what having competent and passionate writers and the author of the books behind you does. I hope DnD are seething at all the praise hot dick is getting and people looking at their later seasons in retrospect realising even more so what a shit show it was.

also its not post the diaster d&d brought upon us so you can repress that

As long as they don't get the services of Dumb and Dumber Weiss and Benioff again esp. now the Miguel Sapochnik has resigned, this will be a great show, much better than Season 8 ending!

I lost all interest in discussing GoT when S6 started. The junk was so obviously contrived to shake morons that there was no point left analysing it. HotD has reverted this decision and quality is back where it was before.

Pretty interesting that the Chinese don't make claims about the dragons (or just about anything in the world, esp. the seas around Asia) since they always do the dragon dance in China town.

There's a lot of videos of this kind of stuff.

These videos explain the theory from the books: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZtxmJeq26usonk.html

Hmmm, maybe, but we see later he def still plans on becoming king. It would be naive to think the thought didn't cross his mind of literally eliminating the heir. I don't think it was his love for her that stopped him but the realization that at this point, he can't take King's Landing by force even if he would be the un-crowned heir. Viserys could just name Rhaenys his heir then.

Or he just thinks: that woman is hot, I should totally marry her someday.

@@szbszig he definitely does but in that scene specifically I feel like it was an acceptance of respect

​@@mattm7798 Im sure everyone has different interpretations but I think based on the scenes he's had, he genuinely loves his brother and has affection for his niece. I think he was more impressed that Rhaenyra was calling him out. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS he also supports her later and "teams up" with her to oppose the hightowers power and not just to be the sole ruler

Probably intentional, seeing as septs are also built with seven sides.

​@@CollinBuckman - I do not doubt it. George Martin may be a gardner, but an intentional one.

When tha shit goes down, ya better get ready!

Yeah but you got to shuffle for a while. With no sleep, food or drink

Maybe the crabs of HOTD ain't afraid of a little thrashing around

Fed many people to crabs have you?

This world has dragons, wyverns and basilisks. The crabs are probably OP.

Good job they're not mudcrabs from TES

As long as they don't get the services of Dumb and Dumber Weiss and Benioff again esp. now that Miguel Sapochnik has resigned and they need great writers to replace him. This will be a great show, much better than Season 8 ending, just keep Weiss and Benioff out of it!

@@higherpurpose1212 Why is the Sapochnik bad? Was he responsible for the writing of the later seasons as well?

@@pg1448 Your comprehension needs further enhancement. No one said Miguel is bad, in fact he's better than Dumb and Dumber combined! I just highlighted the fact that he resigned and no one should look in the direction of Dumb and Dumber ever again should they need to find a new show runner!

@@higherpurpose1212 re·sign /rəˈzīn/ verb past tense: resigned; past participle: resigned 1. voluntarily leave a job or other position. "he resigned from the company in protest of the treatment of his co-workers" I think his reading comprehension is just fine.

@@abasslinelow and you're another one. Miguel 'resigned', not 're-sign(ed)', get it? HE LEFT! NOT JOINED! HE QUIT!, sigh... 'resigned' -1 : to give up one's office or position : quit. 2 : to accept something as inevitable : submit.

Caraxes is a freak himself among dragons. His long neck is very unusual for his kind, and from a biological POV, a long neck would produce a high pitched voice. I love this small detail.

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