Love how Criston only started hating Rhaenyra because she expected him to be “the queen’s concubine” and now he’s the queen’s concubine

LOL at y'all thinking that it was Robb. That actor did a good job making people believe that he could be an ancestor to the Starks on Game of Thrones.

Syrax screaming when Rhaenyra found Luc's remains was not only her feeling Rhaenyra's pain but an expression of her own pain as she was mother of Luc's dragon Arrax. Two mothers mourning together.

8 and 10 is 18, the twins were 18 when they were sworn in as kings guards.

Apparently when Sean Bean was cast they asked him to do a more Southern English accent (more normal for international viewers) and he was like No. So all the other actors whose characters are from the North had to mimic his more Northern accent. It's crazy how his refusal to do a different accent set the standard so high that from the first line of this season I went "oh we're in the North I hear the accent" Also makes perfect sense as to why it sounds like Robb hahaha

Blood and Cheese was way more brutal in the books. When the assassins get to Helaena’s chambers they tie her and Alicent up. They ask Helaena to pick which of her sons they kill - the 6 year old Jaehaerys or 3 year old Maelor. When she refuses to pick they threathen her with r*apong her 6 year old daughter so she picks Maelor, hoping he’d be too young to understand what is happening. Blood then Whisperer into Maelor’s ear “You hear that boy? Your mama wants you dead” and strikes off the head of Jaehaerys instead.

The way ya'll were so silent while they were about to kill the boy. And your shock was palpable. Great reaction as always, Gek Boys.

Regarding Arryk and Erryk, "eight and ten" is how they say eighteen. Which is still impressive.

I love how when blood and cheese asked “what do we do if we can’t find him?” (Aemond) daemon looks at them and smirks so I’m thinking he gave the ok lol

Helaena is a dreamer. But no one knows. No one understands. Viserys wanted to be a dreamer. If he would have just paid attention to his kids, he would know. Helaena is misunderstood. And did not deserve any of it.

Jaime never praised Ser Criston. His icon was Sir Arthur Dayne. He lived during the Roberts Rebellion time

Just wanted to point out, Arrax (Lucerys’ dragon) is also son of Syrax (Rhaenyra’s dragon)… so both mothers are mourning in this scene at 9:30 😭😭😭😭

"The Hightowers are gone in Game of Thrones." Meanwhile Queen Margaery Tyrell, daughter of a Hightower:

Need to know that yall know Jaime did not kill Rhaegar. Jaime killed the mad king Aerys. Robert Baratheon killed Rhaegar (the heir) in battle before that. Could have just misspoke but this is like pretty important info to their characters.

Daemon was responsible for Jahaerys's death. He said son for a son and then the thugs asked what if they cant find aemond and it cut off implying daemon told them to kill the boy as plan b

The Velaryons and Hightowers aren't gone in GOT. They just aren't part of the main story

Daemon ordered “a son for a son” so when they asked what to do if they couldn’t find Aemond it’s pretty clear that he said to simply kill a prince and the only princes present at this point are Aemond and the child

cheese was folding HARD, like his hands were shaking when he held the knife to helaena. he didn't want to find aemond, found the kids instead, saw his out and took it. technically he can just tell daemon that they didn't find aemond and technically, killing jaehaerys still counts as "a son for a son"

The end gutted me because imo Helaena is one of the most innocent people involved in the war, including her children. She was in such shock too 😭 I’m not ready for the rest of the season

A couple of clarifications: Tywin wasn't descendant of Tyland Lannister, he was descendant of Tyland's twin brother, Jason Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock., and the guy who tried to move on Rhaenyra at the hunt last season. When Arryk says they were sworn at 8 and 10, he means 18 years old. They are twins. They wouldn't be different ages.

"Aegon the Magnanimous" LOL i was dying

Jae was clearly the plan b in case they didn’t find aemond

Daemon did give the order to kill the boy. Blood says to cheese that Daemon said to them "a son for a son". So he propably said that even if you cant find Aemond..i want a son for a son.

In the books, Aegon is actually celebrating Aemond killing Lucerys. He's having a whole mini party with his men

in the books it was even worse, as she had three kids, and they made her pick between jahaerys or her youngest son, she chose the youngest as he wouldn’t understand what was going on but they killed the oldest anyway.

Let’s GOOOOO. THAT ENDING WAS INSANE

The Velaryons and the Hightowers still exist in GoT. The Hightowers run the Citadel.

House Clegane wouldn’t be a house for another ~120 or so years, under Tywin’s father’s rule in the Westerlands.

idk what's left me more traumatized, Blood and Cheese in the book (way more graphic and brutal but at least they did a quick clean cut) or the show (the effing sound effects of the slow cutting) 😭😫

Syrax is believed to be the mother of Arrax. So that’s Rhaenyra and Syrax losing both their children. 😢

"Thats not gonna be good enough for damond" what a fucking cope, these guys havent realize Damon specified it. A son for a son. The camera cut off when they asked.

In the books Blood&Cheese is much different. First off, Aemond is never mentioned to be the target, and Rhaenyra is not the one to incite the mission. Daemon sends Rhaenyra a letter from Harrenhal (in the books he is already there) that says- “An eye for an eye, a son for a son. Lucerys shall be avenged”. B&C sneak into the Tower of the Hand, which is not guarded as heavily as Maegor’s Holdfast, where Aemond was, and they head for Alicent’s chambers, who is getting ready for bed (Criston and her are not a thing in the book). Helaena and her three children (Jaehaerys, Jaehaera, and Maelor, who was not present in the show version) visit Alicent’s chambers each night before bed, and were just about to visit. When they get there, they find Alicent tied to the bed and her bedmaid strangled. Blood bars the door and Cheese takes Maelor and tells Helaena to choose which son of hers will die. Helaena pleads that they kill her instead but they refuse, siting- “An eye for an eye, a son for a son. A wife is not a son.” Cheese tells her that if she does not choose then Blood will grape her daughter and they will kill everyone in the room. Eventually, Helaena chooses Maelor, her younger son. Maybe it was because she thought he would be too young to understand , or perhaps it was because the elder boy, Jaehaerys, was Aegon’s first born and heir. Cheese holds Maelor up and whispers to him- “You hear that, little one, your momma wants you dead”. In one clean motion, Blood strikes of the older boys-Jaehaerys’s-head, and the two take off with it. When the guards finally burst through the door, they find Helaena grasping her son’s headless body to her, mad with grief. So yeah, Blood&Cheese is much more tame in the show.

The thing is, the greens should have expected this, the children should have been kept under lock down, they should have expected the blacks to seek revenge and avenge Luke's death

I like that Aegon is actually interested in being king and serving the people. He's not a 1-dimensional villain like Joffrey in GoT. And to be honest, all the greens are interesting.

17:55 those are common dogs used for ratting. they chase and kill rats after the rat has been pushed out of its hiding spot

brig looks like aegon with a haircut (not complaining)

“A son for a son” they switched up the blood and cheese scene a little bit but I loved how it came out. Luke’s funeral had me sobbing!

Leave the dog alone!

Someone was debating that now that Healena is queen, it makes sence that Criston was her guird, because now shes more important then Alicent and he wasnt on guird because was busy f*cking insted of protecting.

Apparently Cole was supposed to be guarding Helena and the kids witch makes it sadder he abandoned his post to sleep with Alicent

Literaly I watched the episode 5 minutes ago, the Emma darcy acting is really good

Crazy how fast you got this up. Props to you guys

PEAK IS BACK

I felt so bad for you guys watching the Blood & Cheese scene. That's what they're called in the books. And it was sooooo much worse in the books. Those sound effects were insane!

just fyi martin has said it would take 4 seasons to tell the full story of the dance of the dragons so the season 3 renewal announcement isn't that surprising, was just a matter of when.

In the book there's two boys and they make Helaena pick one and they whisper in his ear "You hear that, boy? Your mama wants you dead," and kill the other one.

Team Green! 💚💚💚 they’re so much more fun, messy and interesting

Criston is such a hypocrite. He hates Rhaenyra because she had sex with and made him break his oath, but then he goes and has more sex with Alicent.

I was watching a stream about this episode and they were book readers and they said that in the book, the way it end there was much more harsher than what we saw. Daemon basically said to the two guys "a son for a son. kill one, let everybody else alive". So there was two sons(intead of a boy and a girl) and he asked the mom "who do you want killed?" she pick one and then the killer said "you see your mother hates you!" and then killed the other! (basically cut his head clean off)pretty insane

If you thought this end was bad, in the book it’s waaay more brutal. There, Helaena actually has 3 kids, 2 boys and 1 girl and Alicent is also present and all the kids are awake. They make Helaena choose which of the two boys to die, she chooses the younger one and then they tell him ‘Your mother hates you and wants you dead’ and then proceed to decapitate the other one in front of them. So yeah, I’m guessing HBO decided not to show a 4-year-old get decapitated in front of his mother, grandmother and siblings on live television.

Well Cheese is the rat keeper, so him being there at night, with his dog, it makes sense. It’s not like he isn’t supposed to be there

House Velaryon and House Hightower are still around in GoT. They just aren’t the power players of that era. Margaery’s mother is a Hightower and so was Jorah’s wife

"I think the heads are gonna roll"... Writers: say no more.

Rhaneyra in this episode told a whole tale while uttering only one line, and I think it is AMAZING. The actors did amazing with her and Jace's scene especially. Starting with the Stark music was a very "welcome home" moment. I loved that. I kept saying that the one thing this show was missing was the humor that characters like Tyrion and Hound brought. I did not expect Aegon to deliver, but here we are 😂 I hate that they made me like him some. I swear the dog was to still get a reaction from the book readers 😂 The guard being a Clegane ancestor is my new favorite thing. I wish Helaena was with the Blacks because her and her kids are the only ones with the Greens who did not deserve this, and they got the full brunt. Alicent and Crispy can F off on their piety high horses now. They suck.

in the book, Daemon ordered to kill Jahearys and not Aemond. And also Raenyra never said she wanted Aemond, it was all the white worm and Daemon

Blood and Cheese was WAY worse in the lore than the show. "When the guards burst in, they found Helaena, still clasping her dead son's body. Screaming, mad with grief. The grief and rage of losing a child can burn down the world. Only Aegon or Rhaenyra could deliver the end. But not both." - Catelyn Stark Dance of Dragons. This was way too anticlimactic for a hostage situation. I think the stronger ending would've been if they cut to black and we hear her screaming. Kinda like how they cut to black when Viserys dies but we hear him say "My love." I love when shows do that. It's very powerful. The rest was great though.

Criston cole is supposed to protect the royal family and command his guards to their post but he's just spending the night with the queen instead. Love your videos !

8 and 10 means 18 yall, they were both 18 years old

The hightowers are 100% not gone in game of thrones

no one is talking about how soon yall filmed & uploaded this. i love to see it🥹

"now its on" it was on when they took luke

3:54 y'all notice his sword? 👀

The Valyrians and Hightowers are in the Game of Thrones universe bit they are not major houses and weren’t featured. They aren’t extinct by that time. There are hundreds of houses that GOT leaves out.

@7:05 The Queen: “I’m afraid” King: “don’t be” Queen: “Not the dragons, the rats…….” BRUH SHE REALLY IS A DREAMER, and her abilities are clearly giving her some kinda mental illness, but she can really see the future, she knew the rat catchers kill her son if only she could communicate clearly.

So Criston didn't protect Aemond, and he lost his eye. And again, criston didn't protect the heir, so he got his head chopped off. Interesting.

Jamie never killed rhaegar. He killed the mad king, hence king slayer. Robert Baratheon killed rhaegar

That last 15 minutes was very rough, made me actually uncomfortable. Poor kid

No guys, S3 won't show any more history. This show is gonna have around 4-5 seasons which are all gonna cover the civil war of House Targaryen.

Rhaenyra and helaena are sisters and jahaerys is rhaenyra nephew, she will definitely be upset, and poor helaena, she is the one green you can root for to be happy

They aren’t skipping Ser Duncan The Tall lol he’s actually getting his own it’s in production now titled “A Knight of the Sevens Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight”

Love how all of you 4 clearly have something for Aemond

It’s weird Aegon and Aemond haven’t talked about their brother Daeron

When Cheese asked what if they could not find Aemond? and there us a cut. Maybe Daemon told them about kids as well.

Wow you guys are fast! Props to editing this that quick

I have to say is refreshing to hear that people who haven't read the books on how much loved this episode. Book readers are so annoying. They keep complaining about how much better the books handled the blood and cheese scene.

Anyone else notice the man with the dog near the beginning of the episode? He walked through the frame. Aegon saw him

Daemons gonna kill that guys, yup instead he is the one who ordered that. Son for a son. They just tamed it down, cause it's too gruesome to show it on live TV.

In the books Aegon had a grand feast in celebration for aemond killing luc. I always saw it as daemon wanting to hurt Aegon the way rhaenyra was. He made a mockery of her son’s death and praised aemond for kinslaying. I don’t think daemon ever would’ve realistically put such a difficult task as killing aemond into the hands of an idiotic brute and a rat catcher.

Even though the "Blood & Cheese" scene is way more brutal in the book (As several comments have already explained to you), I think the way they turn it down for the show was a good call, it would've been brutal to watch. However, what I don't understand and I think it was a good choice was Helaena's reaction. She was probably in shock and her look showed the horror in her face but, I don't know. Maybe her only thought was to save her daughter now.

"heads gonna roll" INDEED.

While its a toned down version of the original, I think it needed to be lol this episode makes me put faith back into the GoT universe.. Like even with the changes its ultra dark and fucked up.. But it's also raw in a way that makes sense.. When you hire fucking idiots to do a job, the job always get messy.

House Velaryon and House Hightower still exist in timeline of Game of Thrones. Neither really appear in the HBO show but both are featured in the A Song of Ice and Fire books and are certain to have larger roles in the next book Winds of Winter. The Hightowers continue to rule Oldtown and the Velaryons retain control of Driftmark. In the books, the Velaryons are one of the few houses to declare for Stannis but are captured at the Battle of the Blackwater and bend the knee to Joffrey. Cersei names a Velaryon bastard, Aurane Waters, as Tommen's Master of Ships. He then steals the royal fleet and becomes a pirate. The Hightowers are being mysterious, old Lord Leyton Hightower and his daughter "the Mad Maid" are studying books of magic at the top of the Hightower and have not left in a decade. They are being set up play a major role in Euron Greyjoy's impending sack of Oldtown.

It wouldn’t be the GoT-verse if there wasn’t a child murder

Daemon told them to kill the young kid if they couldn't find Aemond.

Lmaoooo covering the neck at that part is relatable af 22:35

Daemon won’t do anything but give them another half of the promised sum. It was him who told them “son for a son” if they didn’t find Aemond (although, they truly didn’t seem to try). It’s also not “worthless”, since they killed Aegon's heir 🤷‍♀️

Actually, all though they aren't mentioned in GoT, the Velaryons and Hightowers are still around. They're just not as prevalent in the story, but House Velaryon was pledged to Stannis until Blackwater, and House Hightower are besed in Oldtown and are bannermen to the Tyrells. In fact, Alerie Hightower is the wife of Mace Tyrell and mother of Loras and Margaery.

The death of the child was darker in the books: both kids were awake and I believe both were boys. Helena was made to choose which and when she did they killed the other one telling the boy “remember your mother wanted you dead”. Wished they did that would’ve been even darker 😢

those final 15 minutes had my hands going numb PEAK IS BACK. also i think the director did such a good job, a lot of shots felt real and grounded. idk how to describe it but the scouting was so good

I had to replay that opening with the Stark theme at least twice. It got me in the feels. 😢 In fact this whole episode had me teary.

They changed it from the book! I wish they kept it the way it was supposed to go down with them making Heleana choose then taking the other one and telling the one who survives “your mom wanted YOU dead” THAT was brutal

Thinking it's Robb Stark when he wasn't even born dawg lol

They actually tamed this scene down from the books. In the books both children are awake and they make Helana chose. She choses and then they kill the opposite child. After they kill the child they look at the surviving child and say to it - See there, your mama wanted you dead. So it was like a double edged blow that the child would never forget and tortured Helena.

Lets go boys getting this out so early! Strong start to the season, though it's depressing to think we are already 1/8th through with the season and then at least a year or two before the next.

in the books the kill is much more darrrkerrr :V , this was like the soft version

I totally forgot that’s how they do ages and I was sitting there like no shot Jamie lied about being the youngest person to join the kings guard lol

I was just thinking of this upload. Thank god it’s here

You know what really sucks? Criston should have been outside Helaenas door, guarding her the heirs, instead..he abondoned his guard for Alicent. Oof

the episode was amazing dude

Damn, Alicent is busy At the day Cole bending his knee to her, at the night she cowgirl him on the bed. Larys all day trying to be alone with her feet.