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What really broke me this episode was the moment Aegon, actively drinking himself to stupor, had Sunfyre brought out. His gorgeous dragon clearly loves him so much. He gave Aegon a little bop, a little chest bump, and Aegon smiled so lovingly 😭 And the parallel with Rhaenys telling Meleys "We're off to battle again, old girl" 😭 The bond between dragon and rider is so strong. It makes this conflict so haunting and heartbreaking.

Aegon the second of his name. The burnt, the toasted, the flambe'd. 🔥🔥

R.I.P. Rhaenys!! Street will never forget your chapter

Rhaenys and Meleys' death paralleling Rhaenys and Meraxes' death, although unfortunate, was poetic. RIP, Red Queen and the Queen Who Never Was. o7

Without Vhagar Green wouldn't dare to take the crown of Rhaenyra

Previously Vhagar belongs to Rhaenys daughter Laena Velaryon.. So Sad.. 😔

Dragon being paraded through the streets while the king come home a box 😂😂

Rhaenys didn't even scream at all till the end. She was brave, smart and she dies with an honorable death.

These trailer breakdowns always make me more excited to see the next episode! RIP Queen who Never Was!

The best episode of the season thus far. Rhaenys and Meleys' death has been on my mind all day. Rhaenys was filled with wisdom and kindness and was a true friend. Plus, I had been looking forward to a dragon fight and oh, boy! We sure got it!

I think she knew she was on a kamikaze mission. She was the one til now saying never send in the dragons because it’s a nuclear option. She decided that’s the only option left and took it upon herself to do this showing Rhaenyra this is what they have to do. I guess Aegon shouldn’t have humiliated Aegon last episode. I feel that he’s still alive but in bad shape because they would’ve shown him dead. Sad to see her and her dragon go. It was truly heartbreaking

Anybody else confused how nobody is seeing the biggest dragon in the world before it attacks? This isn't like with luke, it's literally in a clear bright area.

I know they're just cgi dragons, but I really hate seeing them fight and die over stupid human bullsh*t.

Does anybody notice how surprised was Aegon that Aemond said ,,Dracarys,, in his face ? Aemond didn’t even tried to wait for the king to move away or anything ..

Sunfyre with the head boop

Next council meeting for the green will be ackward lol.

It was stupid for Rhaenys to fight the biggest dragon ever alone!😢

we thought viserys looked bad when he was about to croak. by how its described in the books. i think we are going to be more shocked by aegons appearance for the remainder of his life. the initial look of which is pretty fn gnarly. and doesnt look too much better over time.

He ain’t right doing Rhaenys dirty like that on the intro and outro with Sarah M song😂😂😂

*The* *Red* *Dragon* *and* *the* *Gold* Currently the highest rated HOT D episode on IMDb. Not only for this season, but for the entire series. Currently at a 9.7 as I type this, higher than The Lord of the Tides (S1E8) at 9.3. This makes up for last week’s episode which has the lowest IMDb score at 7.9, lower than The Princess and the Queen (S1E6) at 8.0. So it’s official, this is HOT D’s best episode ever so far among the 14. I’ll admit, this episode did start off a bit too slow. This is not on the level of close to nonstop action like The Watchers on the Wall and Battle of the Bastards were. But the last 15 minutes of this episode is easily the best action from the series only rivaled by Daemon fighting in the Stepstones from Ep. 3 from the first season. There’s a bit of deviation from how it was written in the book, but I was satisfied enough. It’s a better translation than how Blood & Cheese was shown in the S2 opener. Why is Daemon wasting time in Harrenhal? It’s a shitty, haunted castle with bad plumbing. Has not raised an army since pretty much everyone around him are either useless, clueless, or plain scared to fight. The visions were pretty cool and I did enjoy that Alys Rivers interaction as well as Matt Smith dressed up as Aemond. Great to see Milly Alcock again and Nanna Blondell (Laena) back. When Daemon chopped Rhaenyra’s head, I was like WTF? Then she’s still talking. Made sense to show Laena again because she was Vhagar’s previous rider. MVPs of this episode are Rhaenys and Meleys, but also credit to Aemond and Vhagar. Team Green did win this round. I like the scene when Aemond was speaking High Valyrian using words like sobriquet and lickspittles. Showing how much smarter he is than Aegon. Aemond attempting to kill Aegon does deviate from the source material. I actually didn’t mind it only because how Aegon mocked him in last week’s episode. And it shows how ruthless Aemond is turning out to be. Aemond might actually be the MVP of this war so far, or at least Vhagar. I’m loving Aemond as I want him to be the evil little shit he is in the book. The more evil, the more entertaining. In the book, Rhaenys does get ambushed by Aemond but she gets burned to the crisp. TV version gave her a more heroic death scene and she falls from the sky after Vhagar chomps on Meley’s neck. And it’s true, Vhagar and Meleys did love each other. Remember, they’re both she-dragons. Their former riders were Viserys and Daemon’s parents. When Viserys and Daemon were babies, Alyssa used to take them on joy rides while riding Meleys. While Vhagar used to be ridden by Daemon’s daddy (Baelon) and second wife (Laena). I hope we see flashback scenes of Baelon and Alyssa when Daemon was still a child. In HOT D’s 1x6, we saw Vhagar and Caraxes flying side by side above Pentos. That scene will only make the Battle Above the Gods Eye sadder. A W for the Queen of All Dragons over the Red Queen. Next up, chomping on another red dragon and former boy pal, the noodle neck nicknamed Bloodwyrm. RIP Rhaenys and Meleys I always thought Meleys was the best designed dragon in this series. She’s up there with Drogon. Love her color and her face. Caraxes looks too weird to me but I do love his unique roar thanks to his deviated septum. My favorite designed dragon will likely be Balerion if HBO ever comes around and gives us a series about Aegon the Conqueror. I love Balerion’s design as much as any Godzilla design. Not a big fan of Vhagar’s design. Is this my favorite episode of House of the Dragon so far? Maybe. I need to rewatch it. I still have Driftmark as my personal favorite but I will say this episode is the best of the series. We wanted dragons fighting, we got it. This is really the beginning of the Dance where there are no accidental occurrences. Full intention is to kill the opposition. Rhaenys and Meleys had to be the first major casualties in this war. The Battle at Rook’s Rest is when the Dance of the Dragons really started. Grade: A I think my personal favorite will be the Season 2 finale. If you’re Team Green, this should be your favorite episode because Vhagar did kill Meleys with Rhaenys being courageous and strapping herself to her dragon. Team Green did win this battle. But S2 Ep. 8 is The Fall of King’s Landing. That should be Team Black’s favorite. Someone’s head is going to roll and I expect viewers will be cheering loudly. Likely standout episodes from this series + Battle at Rook’s Rest (S2E4) ✅ + The Fall of King’s Landing (S2E8) + Battle Above the Gods Eye (S4?) + Death of the most important character (S4?) Season 2 Character Rankings 1. Daemon 2. Aemond 3. Rhaenys (went out like a legend) 4. Rhaenyra 5. Jace (gave his mom some attitude) 6. Aegon (went back down) 7. Otto 8. Alicent 9. Corlys 10. Baela (hasn’t stood out yet) Season 2 Episode Rankings 1. E4 The Red Dragon and the Gold 2. E2 Rhaenyra the Cruel 3. E1 A Son for a Son 4. E3 The Burning Mill The character talking to Daemon in that meeting after another one of his visions happens to be Willem Blackwood. Remember the little kid in Episode 4 from the first season? That’s him all grown up. Willem Blackwood in Season 1 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esyIeaafqt2zkoU.htmlsi=38BJWv467kB9qH41 We finally got an episode this season where nobody was sneaking around in a castle undetected. Are the smallfolk really that blind they can’t recognize Rhaenyra dressed as a septa in broad daylight and when nothing is obscuring her face? Season 1 started off a little more consistent while Season 2 now officially has the best episode and perhaps with more to come. I do fully expect for S2 to be superior to S1. More action. The first season was only a prologue to the Dance. The Heirs of the Throne > A Son for a Son The Rogue Prince < Rhaenyra the Cruel Second of His Name > The Burning Mill King of the Narrow Sea < TRDATG The Acolyte: D Ep. 1: C- Ep. 2: C- Ep. 3: D+ Ep. 4: D Ep. 5: B- Ep. 6: D The Boys S4: C+ Ep. 1: C+ Ep. 2: A- Ep. 3: B Ep. 4: A- Ep. 5: C- Ep. 6: D+ House of the Dragon S2: B+ Ep. 1: B Ep. 2: A- Ep. 3: C+ Ep. 4: A Ranking GOT & HOT D Episodes 1. GOT 4x9 The Watcher on the Wall 2. GOT 6x9 Battle of the Bastards 3. GOT 6x10 The Winds of Winter 4. GOT 5x8 Hardhome 5. HOT D 2x4 The Red Dragon and the Gold 6. GOT 8x3 The Long Night 7. GOT 7x4 The Spoils of War 8. GOT 6x5 The Door 9. GOT 2x9 Blackwater 10. HOT D 1x7 Driftmark I’m aware The Long Night was NOT well received. I didn’t like the ending to it either with Arya’s fan service moment and it being way too dark. But credit for the effort. It was still an intense episode with certain characters dying (Jorah, Theon, Beric, and Lyanna). Whatever HOT D’s 2x8 episode and the Battle Above the Gods Eye episode will be called, they both have a really good chance making my top 10. Daemon vs. Aemond / Caraxes vs. Vhagar is really what most fans are waiting for. Ranking GOT & HOT D Seasons 1. GOT S4 2. GOT S6 3. GOT S3 4. HOT D S2? (likely above S1) 5. HOT D S1 6. GOT S1 7. GOT S2 8. GOT S5 (this gets underrated a bit) 9. GOT S7 10. GOT S8 While Game of Thrones S1 and S2 were great, it didn’t get going until Blackwater near the end of S2. But budgets didn’t get bigger until S4. I thought S4 was the first year we got more action. GOT S1 episode budget: $6M HOT D S1 episode budget: $20M At it’s peak, Game of Thrones was the more exciting and arguably the better series. House of the Dragon is more Succession meets The Crown. But the first two seasons of HOT D seems to be more exciting than GOT’s first two seasons because we do get dragons right away, the bigger budgets, and the production crew being much smarter and wiser. I was almost giving up on House of the Dragon after last week’s episode, The Burning Mill, failed to impress on top of the controversial changes with Blood & Cheese that George R.R. Martin wasn’t happy about. Ready to put Andor above it. The problem with HOT D is it’s based from a book. Any slight deviation can piss off readers. Andor doesn’t rely on books as a source. It’s free to do anything. HOT D has higher preset expectations. August 4, 2024 can’t come soon enough. The Fall of King’s Landing is going to have so much cheering in the Burlington Bar since I’m aware a majority are Team Black. When I saw The Red Dragon and the Gold was written by showrunner, Ryan Condal, I knew this episode was in good hands. I hope Ryan wrote the S2 finale as he did write the S1 finale but also the S2 opener which some people felt was a bit lukewarm. The aftermath from Blood & Cheese was great though. Do people think House of the Dragon can lasts four seasons as GRRM claim it could? I originally thought Battle at Rook’s Rest would happen as the S2 finale but we got it as soon as Episode 4 or midway of S2. I think once the most important leads die in this series, it should end the series. Will people care to watch The Hour of the Wolf? Viewers may stop caring once this particular female character gets burned and eaten by Sunfyre. The war pretty much ends with Daemon vs. Aemond. Making Aemond more evil and having him killing another one of his kins and trying to kill his brother will make the Battle Above the Gods Eye even more satisfying. Rest in paradise to the Queen Who Never Was and the Red Queen! You will always be true queens to us! After HOT D’s Ep 4, my favs of the 2020s 1. Loki (2021-2023) 2. House of the Dragon (2022-Present) 3. Andor (2022-Present) All three are better than The Mandalorian and The Boys. Let’s hope HOT D wins an Emmy for this episode or for 2x8.

aemond the real fighter🔥

Love your reviews and breakdowns … for several years now. Always good

That's a series wrap on Eve Best and Meleys.

RIP to the Queen Who Never Was and the Red Queen Meleys ❤🖤

Best episode of the series so far. Last 15 minutes were excellent!

Excellent breakdown!😊

Great breakdown as always. Quick question though. I love the map you use for the illustrations. Where can I get the map online? Like a website perhaps?

After episode 4, the sheep are starting to party like it's 199.

Sunfyre Is the best dragon, burns and all!

Didn’t like the vhagar sneak attack yet again it’s getting lame. Needed to make it a quick 1 atatck fall where all 3 dragons fall but only vhagar survives. Also there’s no reason why aemond and vhagar couldn’t burn down dragonstone at any of the hundred times when caraxes meleys and syrax weren’t there

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Wait a second? Aegon does have another son who isn’t a bastard. They sent him Off in the books

Nice work bro

Rhaenys went ham. Great character

Looks like jace is going to be meeting with the frays at the twin next week show people going to be shocked or learn they are super honored and cool.

I miss your “Daddy loves you very much” video endings. Always made me laugh.

You're a legend.

I think this next episode will take a great turn for both sides.

Cant wait for the north to arrive

5:53 I think, by "heir" show means king's brothers, not his bastards. A bastard, even Targarien one, cannot inherit anything (that's why there was all this stuff about Strong boys), except by being legitimased by king himself, which Aegon probably didn't do and don't have any capacity of doing. So it's Aemond legitimate chance to inherit the throne.

Thank you for the spoiler disclosure up front ❤

Rhaenys - Queen who never was

I think the Bad Uncle Daddy is going to make his Grand Gesture and Sacrifice. The Blacks Need a Win!.

#TeamCaraxes

I think the dragon at the twins was Moondancer.

i cant f*** understand how hbo makes vhegar to apper out of nowhere that was so fake 🤮🤮🤮

The red woman might be speaking to Daemon

Hugh would ride his brother's dragon vermithor on the night of dance of Dragons!

i believe the mysterious knights on horseback are leading animals to feed sunfyre like in the books?

Bring back "daddy loves you...."

There is a shot in one of the previous trailers of what looks like Syrax flying at Harrenhal. I wonder if Rhaenyra will go to Harrenhal to try and snap Daemon out of his weirwood/greenseer dream state that he is currently in. Also, I think Daemon will become the Three Eyed Raven 👁️👁️👁️🐦‍⬛

Bro what about vermithor. What happened after, when Deman met vermithor in Last episode of season 1 Plzzz Bro. tell me something about that

Two dragons dying like that because of riders foolishness brings me to the lines what Viserys once said in season 1 to young Rhaeneyra...Sad to see Myeles die like that...Also it makes me sad to connect that Vhagar who killed Rhaneys was once rode by her own daughter😢

Just want to ask will there be another season?

I started having a panic attack when I realized Rhaenys was probably bought to d*e 😭

There's a spy on team black feeding team green with info

I still don't understand the purpose of that Alys. a character built uo without helping anything. Dreams, then what?

Move over Bran the Broken, Aegon the Burnt,Toasted, Crispy, or what have you is our King

I’m here for the book spoilers 😊 “Will you remember meee …” 🎼

Got to be honest i read the boo years ago the first season was good but season 2 not as good its not living up to the hype theyve added to many changes

no theories on who the woman in red is at the end of the trailer?

I wonder if Jace is going to die at the end of this season or beginning of next.

Is it blood or weirwood tree sap (or whatever Joan Rivers was cooking with) on Daemon's hand when he wakes up from his dream?

was maelys the daughter of Vagarh?

😢😮😅why the black sent just one dragon?!?! And can dragon fight without the rider?!?

Why didn’t they send a raven to Damon to join rook rest battle. If the blacks sent more dragons it would’ve been over. Vaghar wouldn’t been dead dead dead. 😂

sometime i want to quit watching this , it is painful to see dragon fight each other - - they screamed of pain still hunting in my brain all night ..

Don't the Blacks have spies in Kingslanding? No one noticed that Vharga wasn't there? Why didn't she flee and get reinforcements from nearby Dragonstone? How could Vharga hide behind the castle? The Blacks are even more naive than the Starks in the original series. 😂

Rhaenys death "And that's for Kings Landing!"

One Word: dragonseeds

I thought all Targaryens were fire proof

next thing that will happen is alicent starting to lose her shit for real mentally. kings landing will be closed off by order from fear of retaliation for rhaenys and meleys by rhaenyra and her forces she is beginning to rally. maybe closed off while they search for aegons bastards to off them in aegons state so aemond can stay protector of the realm and do as he wishes to an extent. its going to end with the next episode being certain of another battle, there are 3 more big battles and things that happen and can happen in the length of episodes for this season. the season will end at harrenhal.

bro isnt it said that the throne injures ppl who shouldnt be on it like it did with daemons brother. prob the same is happening to daemon showing him that he shouldnt be on the throne with those hand injuries

The Dance of Mistakes

Long as vaghar around greens will destroy everything but episode 4 looks like the blacks took a lot of L's

Aegon the Toasted Marshmallowimous

I hate watching the Dragons die just because their humans are idiots! Gee sounds vaguely familiar...

Alfred Broome is right sometimes ...but hes a disloyal jerk

These dragon riders have never heard of weight classes. Why would you fly your dragon head on against another that is 10x your size!

well I knew she was gona die this season last year when a video leeked online of her dragons head being carried threw the city

Who was the woman in red? It wasn't Rhaenyra

So the Greens want to put Aegon's bastards on the throne ... The same hypocrites were complaining about rhaenyra's bastards😂😂😂

I am Team Black, yet a have sympathy for Aegon because he was never prepared to take the throne. Otto, Alicent, his various uncles from Oldtown just let this guy drink his way through Kings Landing without oversight, consequences, or lessons. Aemond had the will of someone who could be King because he kept to his studies and trained. He was natural for the throne. Once Aegon started acting out, someone should have taken him underneath their mentorship. Aegon is but a simpering boy-king who is unfit-but he always knew this about himself and tried to live up to expectations despite his own misgivings. This does not excuse his behavior yet points to how so many failed him from the very beginning. Having said that, the person I blame most is Viserys. Next are Otto and Alicent. While Rhaenyra is imperfect, she never schemed against others (at least on the show). She tried to make her voice heard, but she had little support other than Daemon. These two are much alike, as Viserys once stated. I think that while Daemon wishes he was the heir, he would never turn against Rhaenyra despite his resentment.

Has to much spoilers

If I find that spoiler😑😑😑😑

All I keep thinking about is how princess Rhaenys could have killed all traitor greens!!!! And all of this will have never happened!!! And the rightful heir Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen would have taken the her throne!!!!! Team Blackk all day 😅

I’m on the side of the blacks even though Ik they lose

I am waiting for daemon to kill vhagar

The best actress is gone now, what a mess!

The greens are not too smart 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ Showing off that the Targaryens most valuable weapons, the dragons, can be killed, will embolden the hungry, angry small folk who storm & attack the dragonpit later in the war 🙄🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️

i stop watching after 3:47 SPOILERS BROTHER WTH SERIOUSLY? AH

I don't know why people hate Aemomd... For me He is one of the top most characters in this show considering the pain he went through in childhood. And I'm eagerly waiting for his character in the next episodes.

Deute. 18:10-14,

I just can't deal with the molasses-drip of story knowing everything to come. It's tiresome, with sprinkles of "Oh cool". Season 2 will end on the "Dragons Fall at Harrenhal"

Sorry how can you parade the head of Meley’s like really! That pisses me off big time. No respect for your great Aunt? Aemon will get his.

With every episode I get more angry about how much of an idiot Viserys was!!!

Check you microphone your voice is sounding like your talking i to a toilet. Fix it please!

Meleys flying around like a chicken with its head -- oh, right.

Not enough action to much talking about war and not actually fighting a war the battles on GOT were so much better