Rhaenyes had too many opportunities to live. She could have killed all the greens at the coronation, she could have agreed to Daemon's request for them to double team Vhagar and they likely would have won, or she could have retreated after her and Vhagar killed Aegon and Sunfyre. She was bound and determined for this to happen.

So here it is yeah when Vhagar and Aemond took down Sunfryre with Aegon and she was leaving she looked back she knew at that moment AEMOND is dangerous very very dangerous and here is the thing right when great dragonriders and dragons who have experienced combat fight/clash or ride together/dance like Daemon and Laena did in season 1 they can instantly tell how good the other is and all just like how duelers and swordsman can have those convos in a fight after clashing swords so she knows that Aemond is a terrible threat and their best time to beat him is while he doesnt have enough combat experience that was only Aemonds 2nd Dragon fight right and after each fight the bond between rider and dragon deepens they synergize better and all so letting him go then would only make him stronger she saw a chance to stop this jaugernot who only gets better with time there and then she knew it was slim but took the chance and either she or Daemon have the best shot of getting Aemond the goal when fighting Aemond is not Vhagar but to unseat aemond or burn him which is what she tried when she went under because Meleys is more agile but VHAGAR BEING A SUPREME WAR VETERAN CAUGHT ON AND LATCHED ON TO MELEYS LEG BEFORE she could get behind her and hurt Aemond and after that clash she was disorented and she was leaving you saw that she was flying past the castle over the bay towards dragonstone and as she was leaving she was searching for Vhagar but Aemond being a prodigy used the castle to hide Vhagar just like he did at storms end so Luke didnt see him when he landed its tough to watch but her actions where 100% valid

@@melvinmacaulay711💯agree

Rhaeyns could not leave because the Greens army was still advancing and Vhagar was still there. If she left, word would get out to Rhaenyra's allies that her dragon riders leave battles and the allies have to face the Greens large army and dragons on their own. Rhaenyra's allies would stop supporting her.

😂😂😂

🤣🤣

@@bl1ss23 the bond is so strong between them Valyrian is not needed

Aegon taught English to Sunfyre lol

They didn’t even notice Aegon couldn’t speak Valyrian properly to Aemond at the table council meeting

On her fucking birthday 💔

Fitting obituary. Is that in the book?

@@ameliacraiig4193 yes

She lived up to her FAMILY words. FIRE AND BLOOD.

RIP to The Queen that never was🙇🏾‍♂️😔😔

Fr, if she crippled Vhagar the rest of the war would be easy work.

And she manage to take it down, for a while. So it's pretty calculated decision. Risky, but not imposible.

Also fleeing the battle would send a message to the rest of the realm, the Queen faction you sworn into would abandon you when the battle got tough. That’s not good.

I think she also didn’t wanna leave the soldiers of rook rest defenseless with vhagar there

Yeah she prolly thought this the best chance they got to hurt vhagar bc aside from Vermithor, Meleys was their biggest dragon

Exactly ! Seems like no one (like most ppl that watch the show) understand it! She couldn’t just leave, she had to secure the place and try her best to take out vhagar. She went out in pure Glory.

@@kathiamartinez2586I didn’t understand how a lot of people didn’t get that either

​@kathiamartinez2586 the self preservation of people personally makes us always think of flight instead of fight. But she went out with true valor and knew the risk fleeing in the long run with the war. You are right on the money with this 🎉

Exactly. Breaks our hearts, but Rhaenys stood on business til the end.

If she had managed to take out Aemond and Vhagar she would have won the war right there and then, she would have killed both Aegon/Sunfyre and Aemond/Vhagar, leaving the Greens with Helaena/Dreamfyre, who has no war experience and not in any way ready to fight after the murder of her son, and Daeron/Tessarion who is young, inexperienced and all the way in Oldtown, while the Blacks would still have Rhaenys/Melys, Rhaenyra/Syrax, Daemon/Caraxes, all with years of experience and capable dragonriders, not to mention the numerous other dragons at their disposal. If it went just a bit better for her the war would be over at Rooks Rest.

her husband Brotha Blonde is about to crash out next episode👀

Brans prob somewhere witnessing this cinema♿️🧑‍🦽‍➡️🍿

Well, there was the doom of Valyria that wiped out all but the Targaryen dragons.

Not even “rare”, before Danny’s eggs hatched they were thought to be completely extinct for a long time then, no one expected Danny’s eggs to still have living Dragons within them

Yup Alan of hull is his bastard…it’s in the book

Not the first time

@@Siddharth-94 When was the first time? In Valyria, before the doom?

@@Gamer8kNo. Maegor killed his Nephew in a Dragon Fight

Their hesitation helped nothing in the end. Daemon was right, war was inevitable. If they listened to him in episode 1 and attached Vhagar 2 on 1, Vhagar and Aemond would be dead now instead of Rhaenys

@@Gamer8k during maegor's reign

lmao luigis mansion😭

They're butchering him this season. There's no way anyone is enjoying the dream sequences or whatever the hells going on with him.

@@DukeJimbob You can thanks Sara Hess for this fucked up plotline.

@@Cavpal is this storyline in the books cause it sucks

@@DukeJimbob Nothing like this, it comes from the distorted mind of Sara Hess, who hates Daemon as a character.

If ya son got gullotined a few weeks ago you’d be drinking lmao

@@DJsDomain_ I would drink all the damn wine in Kings Landing.

@@stew-03 yeah man people just want another Joffrey but Aegon isn’t like Joffrey. He’s not a psycho he just wants to be seen as a great king

Robert and Oberyn drinking before a fight be like...👀

@@CatotheE Did you learn this during your years in the fighting pits?

😂

Daemon's about to run into Nemesis.

fr lmao

daemon in his training arc in genjutsu dimension bro

Or daemon is stuck in the dark souls or Elden ring universe as a Witcher

everyone always expects the worst from him. they don't understand him as a character because they think there is only black and white.

Giving Homelander vibes

Crazy to even suggest he would. Banishment most he would do

@@__ActaFooL nah aegon is not like that lol

@@btstrasharmyexo-lbaekiesha2776 Exactly

The was Rhaenys and her dragon gave each other that last look, was so sad....

Yep, she couldn't fly off again seeing all those Vassals fighting because she was to honorable to resort to kinslaying during the coronation of Aegon. She said "if they dying going out fighting then me and my old girl are gonna join them."

@@ProperlyGamingi’m sorry that’s fucking stupid. You have a greater duty as princess

They miss a lot . They even missed Aemond about to kill Aegon with his unsheathed sword

Then Aegon's got some major balls too considering his dragon was the smallest there by an extremely large margin

Not major balls it's called liquid courage

She felt she owed it to Rhanerya to try and take Vhaegar down because its exactly what Rhanerya tried to do last episode when she risked her life to talk to Alicent. You take out Vhagar you win the war

Makes me wonder if she and Daemon had gone when he said, if they won't have won.? Them together with their fighting experience would definitely have been a problem. By herself and already tired and injured, she took Vhagar down, just a pity she couldn't her down. A moment of silence for the Queen That Should Have Been. She died a true Dragon Rider's death.

@@livelovelife32I think in just a pure 2v1 dragon fight they could definitely win, although likely at the cost of one of them cause they’d have to outmaneuver vhagar while she’s distracted by one of them. However them attacking kingslanding with all its defenses plus vhagar, no I don’t think so.

​@livelovelife32 nah if daemon, rhaenyra, baela, Jac, slid when Daemon was saying they shouldve then the green council and their uprising would've been ended that day.

​@livelovelife32 In the books, it was hinted that if Vhagar went 1v1 with Meleys then Meleys might have won, it's only because of the presence of Sunfyre is what made it difficult.

Meleys didnt throw vhagar, both spirald to the ground gripping eachother and releasing as they neared the ground. Meleys was younger and recovered slightly quicker than old vhagar. Neither was damaged in the fall.

Umm that's a pride

That's what it was. She felt guilt for not ending it sooner.

@@MyloWho Not necessarily. Luke died because Aemond was still alive to kill him. She probably thinks, who else might die if I choose to leave now? When I can possibly end this now? She wasn't going back there without either taking down Vhagar or dying trying.

Nah it wasn't about all that. She stayed to fight because they were already losing support with every castle that Cole takes and this was the keep of a member of the Black council. If word got out that she was sent to protect that guy, but ran away the first time she could the rest of their supporters would be hesitant to stay loyal. Daemon is having enough issues rousing an army in the river lands and if word got out that their most experienced rider runs like a coward, the river lands would not stand with him. She also knew that she at least had a chance to do some damage, but as soon as she saw it was a 2v1 she knew she was gonna die.

@@MyloWhono, its honor. Rhanerya just tried the same thing and risked her life to go talk to Alicent. Now Rhanys is faced with the possibility of ending the entire war with one battle. She takes out Vhaegar, wars done, and thousands are spared. Pride got nothin to do with it

People hate him because he’s a hypocrite and has no real reason to hate Rhaenyra as much as he does. He’s just annoying 😂

Caraxes is the strongest Dragon in the blacks arsenal, Daemon is the only dragon rider who had seen war before this episode, and he is a better rider then Rhaenys, Caraxes agility is his biggest strength.

@lucasbelmonte2832 true that, but meleys was stronger and he fought before the 80-year peace

@@turboklanias9626 Meleys didn’t fight in before the 80 year peace, Meleys isn’t that old, she’s probably mid seventies or early 80s

He’s a great tactician and came into the series beating down Daemon. Haters gonna hate.

She 1v1 Aemond in this episode and lost.

@@jakewheeler6014 because of a surprise attack not to mention her dragon had already sustained enough injuries George R.R Matin wrote in Fire and Blood “Against Vhagar alone she might have had some chance, but against Vhagar and Sunfyre together, doom was certain.”

​@@hannahali5317Vhegar is twice her size, she never stood a chance

@@MrBuzzcake just because ur bigger in size, doesnt mean you cant be defeated by someone smaller. technique matters

@@MrBuzzcake Rhaenys had 2 advantages she had decades experience of being a dragon rider so had a great connection with Meleys and had the fastest dragon in Targaryen history and like I said in my comment the author George Martin indicated himself that in a single combat she could have killed Vhagar but her chances of survival were low because she was facing 2 dragons I believe if she faced only Aegon it would’ve either been a draw or she would’ve won also size does not make you more powerful

She couldn’t retreat in the books because it was a 2v1, they trapped her, both aegon and Aemond made the plan. Idk why the show went this route

In the book Vhagar was not hidden and Rhaenys did not have the chance to retreat she was attacked by both Aemond and Aegon it was said in the book that she would’ve had a chance to win against Aemond and Vhagar if they were alone but it was a 2v1

@@hannahali5317 strange what they did with the show

​​They probably wanted to go with the "aegon is an idiot who messes everything up and aemond really wants to kill him" angle@@Birdflaps20

@@wetdog_8887 yeah definitely it’s giving Got season 8 very rushed missing out on a lot important points and characters the slandering of certain characters is very obvious especially Daemon then finding out the reason why is because the writers aren’t a big fan of Daemon was disappointing strong characters in the books are weakened in the show etc but let’s see how it plays out

only Drogon and Daenerys came close!

Bran was there too

Only ppl who will remember them are the families of the hundreds of smallfolk she randomly landed on and killed during Aegon II’s coronation lol. Won’t be fond memories either

​​​@@dsa60no Vermithor is still riderless. he's the wild dragon that Daemon went into the cave to visit when he was whistling in season 1. If Vermithor is still on team black, then it's not over yet. Team Blacks in 6 lol.

Remembered as a traitor who supported Maegor with teats.

I think that really shows Aegon’s stupidity cause why was he attacking head on? 😭

Maleys attack wasnt a suprise attack aegon was simply inexperinced

@@kylewilliams4691 Meleys was attcking sunfyre from Aegons blindside, which is the same tactic Vhagar used on meleys.

@@kylemma33 Vhagars attack was intentionally sneaky while Maleys attacked head on and maneuvered to a blind spot that's is experience. I give Aemond credit for using strategy though, Vhagar is larger and slower makes sense to use her that way.

​@@kylewilliams4691dude there is no way you wrote that and thought it made sense. "... Intentionally sneaky" and in the same breath say meleys maneuvered to sunfyre's blindspot" which is literally being intentionally sneaky.

*She hoped.

she almost did, she wounded Vhagar and dropped him to the ground, if se(Vhagar) did not ambush her like that she would have gotten away after beating one dragon and wounding the biggest one.

And it was believable after she grounded vhaegar. She did her thing

If the showrunners didn't decide that Vhagar could hide behind a small castle, I think Rhaenys and Meleys could've injured Vhagar more before dying. Even in the book, it's stated Aemond and Aegon didn't want to attack Rhaenys and Meleys alone because they didn't think they could beat them alone. So they surprised her together. In the show they deviated and made it seem like it was a trap set by just Aemond and Cole, and Aegon was being an idiot. Even then, the struggle between Meleys and Sunfyre led to Sunfyre and Aegon being downed after Vhagar's attack, and Vhagar was taken down initially in the fight between Meleys.

She HAD” to.

I only had one Martini!! 😂

Vhagar did not have much chance of chasing down Meleys. Lucerys and little Arrax would probably have been able to outfly Vhagar, who is quite slow, if it hadn't been raining so hard with terrible winds. Meleys is one of the fastest dragons alive.

​@@gailf1617I feel like she was already injured when the spit fire at her

She could have outran vhagar and that would have been the smart thing to do is to get vhagar to chase. Once she took down su Frye they would have been worried about saving the king. And she has the advantage being so close to home. She should of ran and just played the long game.

Vhagar didn't chase her down. She went back go too them find aegan and Armand that how she got embrush

meleys was literally the fastest of all dragons alive at that time she definately could've escape

R I g h t

Bro what that is literally how all reptiles hunt

It wasnt smart at all though , killing the king was a win for the day , she had no chance 1 on 1 with vhargar. I wish she realized they needed her dragon in a team attack vs vhagar … i dont see it losing unless he gets jumped by the their best dragons

@@Dwhite690 I think she came back because she realized that with the king dead, Aemond would be next, and he would cause so much more damage. So it makes sense to try to end there because she wasn't going to take the risk of letting aemond become king, knowing he is such a manace

@@joaogimenez9504 yeah i still feel like she should have regrouped she had no chance 1on 1 . Better chance of taking the win by killing the king and regrouping to jump vhagar 😂

@@Dwhite690she’s there to protect rooks nest if she she’s seen as fleeing it would look bad for the blacks support

How did she win? Did you not see her get snacked?

@@MrBuzzcake "air 1v1" I'm referring to the first scuffle they had before she turned back.

​@@MrBuzzcakevhagar sneaked Meleys and did not want to engage in another face to face dance after meleys grounded her ass the first time around.

@@flamingbow10 Vhegar took a tumble suffering no damage and went on to one shot Melys

@@ProperlyGaming Yeah the Boeing sneaked up on her after doing a tumble, she literally took no damage

She never fear ain thing what you talking she fear about aemond. She come out badass lady she never scary

@@rai2423 Rhaenys and Meleys have never been to war, there was no war to fight, the only war tested dragons alive are Vhagar, Caraxes and Vermithor.

The smartest move would be jumping vhagar with melys and as many other dragons available. The best play was leaving after killing the king “that was a win for the day “ and running . Nobody stopping vhagar 1 on 1

@@Dwhite690They don’t have time for this. They could do this, but it could kill all the heirs to the throne making all this destruction meaningless. Rhaenyra can’t risk it, her son can’t risk it. I can’t spoil what will happen, but the blacks will come up with a plan that helps save the royal family while still using dragons.

@@Dwhite690all those dragons are babies lol vermax and tessarion would both get stepped on by vhagar not even breaking a sweat

@@infinitetk4165 daemon dragon and melys along with rhaenerys dragon would be enough , honesty someone needs to attack vhagars wings or try to dive through one of the holes 😭 1v1 she had no chance . She should have taken the win from killing the king and regrouped

yeah also if they killed aemond vheagar is riderless with no green to claim her

Right. Every single heir is handed the throne.

Not really because look at maegor, jaehareys, viserys all usurpers that stole the throne from someone else.

And Aemond knows it LOL. As was said in Season 1, Aegon knew he was ill-prepared to be king because he never took his studies seriously while Aemond studied very dutifully. Aemond took the opportunity to cleverly rub Aegon's nose in this fact after Aegon humiliated him in the brothel.

He was speaking low valyrian 😂

@@kylecedrickgraciano9743subterranean valyrian lmao

These dudes completely missed that Aegon spoke broke Valyrian and was inarticulate

Cuz why would Daemon be calling his wife the whore of Dragonstone 😂

That's exactly what I thought... and the fact that Corlys kept dismissing her every attempt to mend their relationship. she flew there to die IMO

@@marinaush8582 she kept coming back cause she new that if both Aegon and Aemond where defeated the war would be over.

@darthsampo3022 She took out Aegon, risking her and her dragons lives and knowing she had really small chance taking Vhegar and Eamond too was a suicide mission...

I’d rather believe Rhaenys knew that Vhagar was the biggest threat so she chose to sacrifice herself in hopes to either hurt either Vhagar or Aemond. She knew she had no chance of killing Vhagar, but she could at least do something. Reducing it to her feeling hurt by Corlys’ bastard sons diminishes her sacrifice. In the entirety of season 2, she supports Rhaenyra’s aversion to war and after Rhaenyra’s confession she met with Alicent kinda solidifies Rhaenys’ decision to fully support Rhaenyra which why she chose to sacrifice.

@@aglioeoilo a sacrifice is a sacrifice no matter what. It only meant that she was ready to die. Either way the whole purpose of her continual attack was to hurt vhagar but you could see her demeanor what her resolve was. Thats just based on my interpretation.

Cool story, bro

That was just a battle, the war will not be short

@@stwartic4296 soon they will claim the dragon almost the same size as vhegar 👀

@@marinaush8582after the war is over it won’t be worth it on both sides

Same here

He's really just glazing Aemond

Which one is rob?

​@@Hafsah_AdilThe one on the far left

@@Hafsah_Adil the one talking nonstop nonsense

Team black but it is frustrating that they haven't really took action except for rhanys but I feel like in the second half of the show the blacks are gonna more centered and start to make their plans. Greens are making plans but they are dysfunctional. Aegon killed innocent rat catchers, losing morale with his people and firing Otto who is probably the smartest one on the greens, making Cole hand even though he barley does his job, Alicent and aemond don't respect aegon at all. Aegon getting on his dragon drunk when that wasn't the plan. Aemond trying to kill aegon. Aegon is now burnt.

Torn to shit snd carrying the heaviest dragon is crazy . Vhagar looks like he should be fighting godzilla

Vhagar is a she

She killed the king already lol she could have left right after that . That was definitely a win the lords would have nobody to surrender to that day

I like it better this way why would anyone trust someone like aegon not to fuck that up after how he’s been acting

@@Dwhite690 Aegon isnt dead, this is the start of his best arc.

@@lucasbelmonte2832fr, he is way cooler after getting broken. He needed to suffer for character development.

@@lucasbelmonte2832 oh really , is sunfire either?

He has two sons.

@@rai2423 not in the show and in the books Malor died

@@killmonger5097 Malor is a baby in the show.

@@rai2423 malor is not in the show and we never saw a baby

@@killmonger5097 I remember clearly seeing two toddlers and a baby with Helena at the end of season 1 🤷‍♂️