Right?!😂

I was looking for this comment 😂

I really hope this is his weekly cover show from now instead of Acolyte. Who wants to watch a man suffer? 😅😂

@@danishaiman2244 Thing is Jeremy knows he is gonna make some fucking money covering that shit 😂

Thanks to JJ and all the YT essay channels for saving the rest of us the unimaginable pain of having to watch the Disney Star Wars shows. And the Disney Marvel shows… and…

yea he's not a smart king but he's a giving one, but now that his fav son is dead he might turn more cruel

Yeah he seems like he has good intentions, yet he's young and naive enough to think all issues can be solved that easily

Eh, it felt kinda forced. Like they're trying too hard to have "shades of grey" to make it more interesting. Didn't like when the guy kicked the dog either, it was like, "How can we really easily get the audience to hate this guy? Oh just have him kick a dog, everyone likes dogs." Just a few contrived character elements to get people to like one side more, and hate the other more so make the morality more ambiguous. Like pick a personality for someone and stick to it. All that said though... LOVE the show.

​@@crazyfingers619Do you really think writers wanted to make us hate these characters even more after they killed a child? The dog didn't fit into the queen's bedroom scene, but a dog is a good feature for a rat catcher. How to get rid of a dog before the desired scene?That's right, make them flare up due to lack of professionalism and unpreparedness (which they are) and take out their anger on the dog, which is no longer needed for cover in quiet chambers.

@@beden653 I just find dogs used as emotional plot devices to be overdone and emersion breaking in a fantasy story is all. Just a nitpick.

Jace breaking down as hes reporting to his Queen/mother was heartbreaking!

On the other hand, Jace is having a new brother figure: Cregan Stark

@@margarethmichelina5146you mean older brother figure they have a 5 year age difference

top tier acting from both of the actors.

The scene between Alison and criston was emotional too😔

That might honestly be too much.

@@charley15z17it’s brutal but its realistic

@@charley15z17I think so too, it was enough to hear the noise

Only GOT fans can watch a little kid get decapitated and say it wasn't brutal enough lmao

nice

And then, as they walk through the hall, they repeat that Daemon said "a son for a son". In my mind, that's a clear instruction that, failing to find Aemond, they should kill the prince.

They keep it ambiguous on purpose cause the statement is soo vague.

OHHHHHHHHHHHH I was like how the hell do u mistake a kid for a guy with an eyepatch

Ooooh good catch!

I thought that as well. The producers also told us that daemon was evil before the season started.

Those tears were from the heart

Meh

Shut up bot

if only she was normal irl

@@closelaugh185 I don't care. She's a great performer.

Yeah, that reason shot him up as one of the most interesting characters in the show for me, his performance in this episode was so good

Utter stupidity of Daemon that, just creating more bad blood. Didn't see the episode but something tells me he didn't clear that part with Rhaenyra

Tying loose ends?

​@monmothma3358 my brother in christ what are you doing here.

⁠@@monmothma3358Deamon was never the brightest. In season 1, he was stuck at war with the crab king for years, unable to finish them even though he had a bigger army AND dragons. Well until his plot armor kicked in. Point is, Deamon isn’t a strategist. His bloodthirsty nature always pulls him towards violence before any other means.

@@monmothma3358 I mean Daemon’s goal isn’t peace- his goal is to eradicate the greens.

I'm team black but I really like Aegon, so good to see him put Otto in his place

@@skedda2861 same

@@skedda2861 i hope you remember hes a rapist

He's trying

Yeh I can tell he is trying which is more than I can say for Joffery which the show could have made Aegon just another one of him. I think what is happening is the result of his father Viserys never grooming Aegon to be king. Never inviting him to the small council, (which is why we see Aegon’s son in the council this episode) always focusing on Reynera because she was his era to the throne. So Aegon is simply out of his depth.

No need? Killing a messenger is usually a provocation of war. I come in peace and you kill the person delivering the message of peace. In this case they killed an individual that was a messenger/prince/heir all-in-one lol. Son for a son evens things out at least.

Daemon probably knew they couldn’t kill Aemond anyway. I’m willing to bet he only said Aemond initially to make it seem like killing the kid was a last resort when in fact that’s what he wanted all along

​@@abongilezolanipeterson5588They kill each other in a dragon fight eventually, but Deamon gets the bests him first before they plummet into a lake.

@@abongilezolanipeterson5588 Agreed, no way Daemon thought Aemond could be caught off guard..

​@@ganggang3788Aemond was just trying to scare him, he literally yelled "vhagar no!" When the big dragon eats the little one. So, he really didn't plan to kill the boy whereas this was a proper plan to kill a child

It wasn't an accident here either. It was the backup plan, but it was still a deliberate act.

Thank God for that... At least rest of us who have read the books have surprises still left to look forward to

How was this an accident? Its clearly implied that Daemon asked them to kill a son if they cant find Aemond. You just need them to feed that to you in a little spoon, while most people get context clues.

@@vandanacasmI can’t trust someone who doesn’t understand what the book is. The book is not a novel that should be taken as fact. It is an in universe history book told from the perspective of different people who are unreliable narrators.

@@Brianmiguelroman "muh maesters"

Yall are gonna turn on this show eventually. The world is too fickle. Still in the honeymoon phase, I wouldn't get my hopes up tbh.

​@@robertl.wilson1199Except everyone should know, the story ends badly for almost all of the characters. As long as the writing holds up, it will be fine.

WAS she mental though? 🤔 she said she was scared of the rats and she was right.

That’s actually crazy I didn’t even notice, she conveyed so much without saying anything.

Yeah, ngl, book readers overhyped the whole thing for me. As someone who read the book when it came out, but don't remember a lot of it, I thought the show did a pretty good job with the scene. But then I went online, and everyone was talking about how the book version was so much darker, so I went back to read that section myself and was honestly underwhelmed for how book readers were talking about it. Also a change I like, that no one seems to be talking about, is how Cole let this happen under his watch because he was in bed with Alicent. And now Alicent is probably going to feel responsible. That's much more interesting and twisted, but because they weren't tied up and threatened, it's hbo censorship? Lmao

Didn't yall hate on GOT's final seasons 😂 we didn't forget how they dropped the ball. Even SW didn't want those writers after that disaster. But ok keep going with your narrative. SW bad/ GOT good.

​@@robertl.wilson1199Didn't realize there was a narrative like that. Pretty sure people don't like GOT to bash SW. Can't people just like what they like? GOT have other writers now and a finished book to go from, that could be a good thing for everyone

His liver is grateful

We don't know if he actually did it in the books. We only know someone's untrustworthy account. The book plays with unreliable narrators.

​@@IbbyMelbourne The series House of the Dragon isn't about the narrators. It's about the story of the narrators. And in the story of the narrator, Daemon specifically instructs (cant remember the name, starts with an M) to hire assassins (blood and cheese) to have Jaehaerys killed, at a specific place and time.

Still dumb regardless

Agreed with the sentiment around Deamon, but war already broke out. There is no peace talk after Luce was killed. The Blacks will not forgive Luce’s death and Greens will not abandon Aegon’s rule after they already crowned him.

He's also a showboat. Why be all clandestine? The Daemon from season 1 would do it publicly. War is upon them, why f*ck around?

@@willard39 Because Vhagar is at King's Landing, and he knows he can't kill Vhagar alone. He even tries to get Rhaenys to go with him at the start of the episode, so that they could face Vhagar together, but she refuses. At the moment, Daemon has no way of attacking King's Landing without getting himself killed.

Daemon has the hint of a grin on his face when the camera cuts, Blood explicitly says their instructions are "a son for a son" and it's the title of the bloody episode. I'm not sure how it could be any clearer, people's brains have been melted by Tik Tok and Disney

Aemond is the way he is because of the blacks..had they not cut his eye, he would be fine..

​@@finaldaylight3804 He is that way because Viserys and Alicent are shitty parents, also Aegon himself encouraged his nephews to bully his own brother because he was weird lol. Blame the blacks all you wants, but Luke cutting his eyes was a consequence of both blacks and greens stupidity. 😂

@@tacituskilgore875 same goes for Aegon. He is the way he is because he’s been raised as a chess piece by Otto and Alicent, and been neglected by Viserys. Neither Aegon nor Aemond ever had a chance at being normal people.

@@finaldaylight3804lmao no he was always like that. Remember exactly how he got that eye? Because he was planning on killing his nephew and have him scream “the same way his real dad did”

@@sebastiaanv He was a kid back then, all kids have a violent side, he just latched onto it because they actually almost killed him

Whatever.

We didnd get Cregan here. We got a pretty boy plank of wood and no chemistry between the 2 like the books. He gives a "good guy vibe" which should not be. Should have gotten someone taller or at least buffer or some facial hair. Butch him up more. And better wig. Fuck, the Starks are not Targs, let the actors hair grow naturally and then get a clip on or weave or something if needed bit more lenght.

​@@alfredocornelio4329nah come on the voice alone was all Stark. He's a looker too

and he's carrying a fckin Greatsword on his back, so badass

​@johnnielurker not just any, but ice the ancestral sword of House Stark. God I love this man. I don't think we'll see more of him until season 3, but let's just say he's one of the few Northerners who doesn't melt when at King's Landing. Hegets sht DONE.

flight to the North took him a year 😂

Same here. I have a 3 and a 1 year old. I muted and fast forwarded it. That was too much for me. Then I went online and see some people saying it wasn’t brutal enough, like wtf

Which is why I can't decide if it's worth watching😂

Except for the main characters of GoT who made it to s8. Plot armor protected them lol

​@@monmothma3358Why wouldnt it be?

​@pwn1ngw4ffl3s unfortunately I've read the books, and they seem to be using the source material mostly. House of the Dragon will be VERY tragic. Lots of death. They can't really fuck with the timeline.

Yep this is literally a depressing tale of how the greatest dynasty in Westeros lost its major source of power. Fire and Blood.

I actually took that as him wanting to get the dog away from there. They're going into an area where just being seen is dangerous.

😴

Just wait til everyone turns on the show 😬

Queen slayer

​@@jaweel6205 he said what he said. Layer!

Just a queen's bitch.

*Ser Crispin Cream

11:22 here

Yea its 11:30 over here on the best coast

Yeah, not if he's on the west coast

@@mementomori771 real people time ammirite

Relax bro 😂 its not that deep

Awesome character. You will see

Remember the last seasons 😂

I mean there hasn't been a single hotd episode that isn't better than literally anything past season 4 of got

Yeah. Where the hell was Maelor?!

It didn't have much tension even though they could have built it up by tweaking it

​@SapphireCrusader1988, is he even in the show? I know, he was in the books. I hope he is. What happens to maelor was brutal af later on in the war

@@rektz2457 Quite the understatement.

​@@SapphireCrusader1988Maelor isn't born yet in the show timeline.

Why make it ambiguous at all? I really don't understand it. If you want to make characters gray, have them clearly do some good things and clearly do some bad things. Instead they've decided they'll just make everyone's intentions a mystery.

I actually love that about it. It makes you feel like you are witnessing a piece of history--all of the details can't be known. It's a bit like the princes in the tower during the Wars of the Roses. Everyone has a different idea of what happened exactly.

@@TheOjamaYellowThat’s not the case here though, George said the show is the definitive canon as it happened

@@leonrobinson2475 I mean, I think we should wait for the next episode. It might not be so ambiguous when he's confronted about it.

B&C do repeat "Daemon said 'a son for a son'" multiple times, so I'm assuming that's what his response was.

the book is NOT better lol, it's a fake inuniversy history book, there are no actual characters there lol

Well, the show is woke af, so of course they were gonna ruin the blood and cheese

@@rektz2457 oh so now "woke" is when 2 murderers kill a child in a different way than it the books? This words becomes dumber every day...

@@rektz2457 lol always love seeing people use the word woke and have no idea what it means.

The book is overrated as fuck you weirdo. It's basically a wikipedia article about events from 3-4 different perspectives. One of the few times the show is better than the books. Yeah it's a bit more brutal in the books, but only SoIAF fans would hear a small child getting his head cut off and complain about it being too soft.

the guy who raped a girl and participated in illegal child fighting rings is charismatic and now people liked him? Wow that never happened before what a suprise...

Yeah it’s a choice the show made. In the book Aegon isn’t that bad and Rhaenyra isn’t that good.

To be honest, if you put Rhaenyra and Aegon in a locked room, it's very likely that everyone outside screw up and kill each other. Thankfully they aren't going to put some of the awful rumors from the books. Otherwise not a single character would be enjoyable to watch.

He's going to snap after finding out that his son died. Even in Season One, he admitted that he's not ready to be the King and agreed that Rhaenyra should be the ruler. He's still wants to get drunk and have fun but too bad, his power hungry grandpa, his crybaby mom who's mostly jealous at Rhaenyra, his sociopath older brother and also his unpredictable King's Guard push him to be the king. At least he's not as spoiled as Joffrey.

​​@@margarethmichelina5146 Aegon 2 wasnt so bad in the books . He didn't ra-e , neither did he want anything to do with politics and only wanted to protect his siblings. But idk what dirt this female writer have with the DoD men that they made everyone a ra-ist.

someone said in the books, if they couldnt find aemond, daemon said to kill any targaryan son, a son for a son i guess, this will most likely make rhaenyra angry, cause an innocent boy like her own son died, and aemond still lives.

@@poggamus4330 ah shit I stopped reading your post. Because I’m a huge thrones lore guy but I’m doing everything I can to not be spoiled on this story even thought I know what happens, but I don’t really know so not diving into the KZfaq videos like you could for OG Thrones with theories

They ask Daemon what to do if they can't find him, and it seems that he said the phrase "a son for a son". So, I think he told them to go after the prince if they can't find Aemond.

You also gotta remember these dudes are amateurs. That's why the version in the book is clearly an exaggeration by the sources the maester writing "fire and blood" is using. They weren't trained assassins, they were a rat catcher and a city guard. They wouldn't necessarily think long term.

@poggamus4330 In the books, Aemond was never the target. It was always Aegons' son Jaeherys.

When Rhaenyra got off her dragon i could see the cgi and i can almost never see cgi so i know what you mean

Everyone is bored. They're coasting off the name of the show. I'm over it.

Well if you don't know then it wasn't lacking. Still a good episode nonetheless

Yeah the tension was kind of me like it was in a hurry

@@Ashbrash1998 maybe it was the grieving scenes, slowed it down, but the tension with jahaerys being killed off screen was crazy

As someone who had not read the book, it was already so bad to imagine what they're doing with the baby. It was ok for me.

@poyax. In the books: Alicent is also present, and there are three of Helaena's children instead of two, all of which are awake and forced to bear witness. Blood kills the bedmaid and guard; Cheese threatens to rapes Jaehaera when the queen takes too long to pick which of her children to kill; and when Helaena finally succumbs and chooses her youngest, 2-year-old Maelor, Blood beheads Jaehaerys instead, leaving Maelor with the knowledge that his mother wanted him dead.

​@@Gaite4354Them not knowing which one was a boy or girl was so dumb because they could have just checked themselves, which Cheese actually says🤦🏾‍♂️. It makes the whole choosing thing pointless

@memecity9849 There's a line in the book where cheese is mocking the kid: "Your Mama wants you dead," which was so traumatizing to read, and soo Grr Martin. It also shows how Daemon is the most dangerous man in Westeros. They really messed up the most important scene of this show.

I still think it's pretty damn traumatizing.

I think Joffrey was a psychopath. He wasn't even mean or firm. He just wanted to hurt people. Cersei was actually not a bad leader, it's just the things she did to get there is what got her and the father in trouble.

Wait, that feels very Game of Thrones. Why didn't they do that?

Kinda disappointed they didn't go that route