To be honest, with Rhaenys getting all protective of her grandchildren I completely forgot that Daemon is their father.

Viserys was a good man, but his cousin Rhanys would have made a better ruler.

'She lived fearlessly, & died the same...' - never has seven words fit a character so aptly

Even though they didn't have much screen time together you can tell Rhaenys loved her children and grandchildren very much. I also love that after she talks with Corlys about the Laenor's son that she seems to accept them moving forward. One of my favorite moments for Rhaenys and Corlys was when they rushed to protect Jace and Luce when Alicent came at Luce/Rhaenyra with a knife. Now that the time skips are over, I'm excited to see her and Corlys get more screentime with their grandchildren.

The best line "History does not remember blood, it remembers names."

Bethroting Jacaerys to Baela and Lucerys to Rhaena Targaryen is a power move. Like their hypotetical children will still have Velaryon and Targaryen genes flowing.

Being adopted myself, Corlys's take on legacy made me feel warm inside.

Notice how Jace and Luke stood in a respectable stance as soon as Corlys is introduced.

Corlys never cared that Leanor's sons weren't biologically his he loved them

Favourite power couple honestly. The actors did such a fantastic job bringing these characters from the page into life!

I wish you included that scene where Corlys and Rhaenys protect their grandchildren from Alicent when she tried to put out Lucerys' eye.

I adore that Corlys and Rhaenys accepted Laenor's adopted kids. They had to have known this was likely his only chance to have kids, knowing his taste in people, and knowing that their son loved those boys and accepted them as his was enough for them. The only reason they bring it up is because they know what the rest of Westeros sees; bastards who should not be in line to inherit anything, and another reason to deem Rhaenyra as unworthy and only hungry for power.

Even though she knew they weren't her's by blood, she did love her grandsons. She found away to continue her husband's line in both name and blood. And she knew that her son loved his boys.

Sometimes Rhaenys’ screams over her son echoes in my head. Even though we know he’s okay, it’s devastating knowing that she lost both her children within so short a time.

Regardless of how much screen time and how much longer she will remain alive, Rhaenys is my favorite character.

I love them SO much! Eve Best and Steve Touissant are spectacular actors. My eye is always drawn to their performance. I love how Rhaenys is with all the children.

This show kinda feels like a peace offering after S8 of Thrones^^

The Driftmark and Valyron strand of the show is such a pleasant surprise. A few great, intriguing characters.

I love the actress who plays Rhaenys, she is amazing! 👏👏

In the books she arrives at her wedding on dragonback. Such a badass.

It's a bit of a pity that Rhaenys in the series does not have the features that she inherited from her mother Baratheon, in the books she was dark-haired and they were diluted only by gray hair with age

What I love about Corlys is that yet he is ambitious and ruthless and has had a huge ego, but he respects the women of his family, and loves his children and grandchildren, even those conceived by a surrogate so they are not his blood, and does not see them as pawns to be passed around. So different to Otto who sees his children and grandchildren only as ways to advance his own power.

She was a very loving mother and grandmother

I love the way her husband still cared about those boys even though they where not his blood an she was a good women

Such a happy family… thats why they have such few scenes 😂

Rhenys is a queen with good heart, always loved and wished good for her cousin viserys although she had all the reason to hate him

I love how Rhaenys supports Corlys naming Luke his heir to the outside, tho they were arguing heavily among themselves

5:55 Aegon going peak teenage brat, doesn't even care that things are going against his family, he's just like *ok that's settled can I go back to my room*

6:26 gives me chills every time. Such a power couple

Oh man, only 7 minutes out of the whole season...I wish we're treated to more of the Velaryons. Corlys and Rhaenys is one of my fave married couples in Fire and Blood. Jaeharys and Alysanne is another one...

I loved this woman's character in the series. I was however surprised her husband left home for 6 years! Season 2 will be very interesting. 😁

Heck yeah, adopted gang rise up 😤

Aegon smiling when Rhaeneys support the blacks 😂😂 That boy had zero desire to be king 💀

Could somebody PLEASE tell this poor woman that her son is in fact alive before she goes to her death?

The shot of Rhaenys walking out of the cave on Dragonstone to the beachhead was the EXACT same shot of John and Danny walking out in unison prior to Tyrion informing her about the destruction of the Greyjoy fleet and John advising Danny not to melt castles and burn cities with her dragons!!😮

Coris was great man he love strong sons as his honour man

We need more of the Velaryons, they are just glorified extras at this point and are too important to be afterthoughts like the writers have been doing, if they going to have biases (the writers) this deep, then just cast the color they wanted than comprise the story

I love her! Classy , badazz, loyal , loving and intelligent. Also....she has a kind heart Love this show. I'm like a dope fiend walking around waiting for HOD to come. I'm having GOT ptsd! 😂😭

Theres so much rhaes in the show. (Rhae-nyra, Rhae-nys, Rhae-na)

I feel bad for Rhaenys. She’s already lost two children(although one of them is still alive but she doesn’t know that), might lose her husband, as they seem to love each other, and now Rhaenyra really expects her to join them after not even telling her that Laenor is alive. As his mother, she has a right to know that. Even though Daemon and Rhaenyra didn’t actually kill Laenor, they are horrible people for not telling Corlys or Rhaenys at all. Shameful.

Corlys and Viserys were honestly great fathers/grandfathers. They just wanted everyone to stop fucking up and fighting each other. They knew having family vs family would ruin both houses.

had to get a whiteboard to keep track of all the inter-family marriage this season

So good! Thank you for posting!

Rhaenys would have made a wonderful queen

Bran is watching all of this unfold

Imagine the pride Rhaenys must have felt when she and Laenor first flew their Dragons together.

Can’t believe they set laenor up for a marriage he could not fulfill and then had the audacity to waver support for his adoptive sons.

I like her character in the books, but it would've been nice to see her be a bit more supportive of Rhaenyra after she was named heir.

I wanna see if Corlys is gonna be so caring for Addam and Alyn. In the book hè genuinly loved them

Frankly Rhaenyra should have just chosen Harwyn from the start but Corlys’s line about history remembering names not blood was as good as him adopting the “strong” boys

Reheanys proposition for her daughter to marry Visery was a good idea because she saw even if her daughter bore a son the contention for the throne may lessen, and both side can easily marry each other

lord Corlys and Princess Rhaenys are one of the most best and respected people on the show ( Other than Daemon who is a badass and Viserys who is trying to be a good family man but a weak king)

Love the valariyons❤

Rhanys lost her children, please spare the girls…… Who am I kidding

Colys loves his grandchildren blood isn't everything.

Eve Best might be our next Helen Mirren.

hate to say…i think my favorite scene of her is when they find Laenor’s corpse. Eve ate that up the Best.

All that mature beauty and grace wrapped in formidable dragon knight-princess AND she's into black dudes? I am in love. Remember that scene when folks were bowing to her cousin and she just stood there looking at her like "we'll see..." Then she smiled at her when she kicked everyone out the room so she could yell at her uncle-husband Daemon, even though she had killed her son.

The Velaryons hair look like Mops

I wish she’d had the Baratheon black hair like she’d had in the books.

Biggest bullshit of the season was when we saw Rhaenys and Meleys riding in with Laenor and Seasmoke. WHERE WAS LAENA ON VHAGAR.. that would have been such a cool moment…

When Rhaenys is far way more intelligent than Vicerys. LoL if what if Daemond and Rhaenys wed each other. There would be no kore dance of the dragon from the very beginning.😂

It’s funny how she says “are not of your blood” because they are still of her blood even if it just her cousins 😂.

she would be THE queen

Actoraza!!

I think the dance was part of old king jaherys fault, he should've married viserys and rhaenys from the start.

I love both of them, the only true couple in all of Westeros at this time.

Rip luke and arrax 😭

The casting was off for the grandkids. They had biracial for the kids which was realistic but blacks for the grandchildren when they had one white parent and one biracial parent which would've made them 3/4 white or 75%.

As much as I like her show character, I still don't feel the show did enough justice to the character compared to the books. I truly hope we see that bad ass side of her in season 2.

The only thing i dislike is how they completely assassinated rhaenys’s character here 2:21 … i let the dragon pit slip but rhaenys would never say these things even in private. She’s spiteful of the system, power hungry, and too prideful to even acknowledge accusations even if it they are true.

And yet in the end he betrayed his Queen despite the fact that the Greens slayed his wife..He is lucky Lord Stark was merciful.

5:57 “Ag-“

Velaryons had their own flex. Such a shame they were gone so soon and their lands went to shitty Greyjoys

Idk why Rhaenyra and her husband couldn't make at least one kid together. Just to keep the blood line going at least lol

Oh nice. In front of a Raven's tree.

I do like that Rhaenys is not on board with Daemon or Rhaenyra’s bullshit.Like when she approaches her by the heart tree, and tries to be all casual despite the fact she literally decided to not deny she murdered Laenor and thought it would make her feared and respected, and Rhaenys just looks at her like “The audacity of this bitch”.Or when Rhaenyra tries to get her support at first with nothing to offer, and a empty promise she did not kill Laenor, as if it’s fine that her only true grandchildren will get nothing and be disinherited so her bastard kids can have driftmark and the iron throne. And she’s not pleased with Daemon at all, she knows him far better then Rhaenyra can pretend she does, she knows he’s been grooming her since childhood so he can marry her and take the throne, and she blames him for Laena’s death and the fact she could never see her daughter again nor even her own granddaughters until their mothers death.She knows just what sort of man he is and suspects he had Laenor killed, and the audacity of him to marry Rhaenyra so soon after Laenors death, so soon after his own wife Laena died. And she’s not impressed because Rhaenyra is just being his pawn, she’s a fool who thinks he loves her only and is someone he is not. Season 2 I think she’s going to get more disillusioned and fed up with both of them, and this will likely carry on to Corlys and Baela and Rhaena, since Daemon does Blood and Cheese and the head of Jaeharys is diplayed by him like a trophy to Rhaenyra, which I doubt the two girls, Corlys and Rhaenys will be fine with, then Rhaenyra being cowardly by not sending anyone to fight and Rhaenys herself having to fight, then once she’s dead Corlys will hate Rhaenyra and see her and her sons a lot less positively since now Joffrey is the only way Velaryons can have driftmark and he’s way too young, the two girls will also resent the R and D for this and then when the battle of the gullet happens even more anger, since they have lost driftmark, high tide, the wealth, 1/3 the fleet and Rhaenys, and now it means that Rhaenyra can only bethroth Joffrey to one of them, which means Rhaena will be lady of driftmark with no ties to the throne now since only 1 strong remains. Rhaenyra will i suspect end up with a siduation like the karstarks, close kin and powerful allies whose loyalty is now frayed and she must do her best to try and keep them on her side, despite the loss of their family, home, castle, and wealth in support of her.

They completely screwed the boys over by giving their grandmother silver hair. She had dark hair like the Bratheons. So the boys dark hair could have come from her side. But they wanted to make Allicent look like the good guy. ( She was not.)

1:41 is Rhaenyra, not Rhaenys

Rhaena Targaryen is made for BWC

What have you done to my beloved house Velaryon? Love their looks, but those wigs. Jesus.

Otto and Alicent is greedy. Their are not gonna share power. Otto went as far as trying to marry baby Aegon to Rhaenyra. If Alicent is really smart - she had have Helaena marry Jace and Aegon and Aemond marry the Velaryon girls. That ensure all her fort covered - from the Targaryen to Hightower to Velaryon. Daemon won't be able to do anything cause his not the head of any house. At least Rhaenyra attempted to permanently squash the problem at one point, unlike Alicent. Corlys is right. His choices - in the end - always benefits and made sure his name survive. Who needs legit heirs when the line is running extinct? Who cares if they don't have Laenor's blood if they carry the name? Heck, Laenor happily named the youngest after his lover. He wanted his "first born" - Jace - to be named Joffrey but Corly's did not agree. LOL spoiler: Corlys named a bastard - a Velaryon in the end... to make sure his family name survive.

In the book Rhaenys' hair is black and then turns white after old age, but in the show she starts off as blonde then later goes full white

Jace lowkey looks like Craig from Degrassi 💀random thought cuz the actors face looks strangely familiar

Can someone who read the books explain how in the world they managed to 1. get a volunteer to throw themselves in the fireplace OR 2. get an already dead body thrown in the fireplace??? Never could figure out how we went from one "faked" dueling scene to POOF! throw another body in the fire so badly burnt even the parents can't recognize it's not their son, run off into the sunset, AND all this happened with guards stationed just outside the doors. Anyone??

How could Rhaenys support Rhaenyra if she thinks that Rhaenyra killed her only son?

Did she say marry her sons to Lord Corlys granddaughters? They are also his grandsons

Who was the burnt person

Rhaenys was actually black haired as opposed to what was shown in the show

God, the 7 Kingdoms were so much wealthier, more lively, had fuckin dragons etc before the Usuper and Mad King. Too bad the future isn't bright either with freakin Bran as king.

Who was all burnt up?

how did no one realize rhaenyras kids weren't the one guys? he black with white hair as is all his family...why did they assume rhaenyra whom also has white/blonde hair would birth dark haired kids with no ethnic anything to them...

Rhaenys didn't love her grandsons did she?

The hair and makeup department did a disservice to the Velaryon actors/actresses. Their hair looks like bad Halloween costumes.

I’m mixed race and the casting for Laenas kids are waaaay off. Laena is mixed race and daemon is white, those kids blacker than Laena 😂. How Laena got curls and her girls got locs beyond me.

Little 🐍🐍🐍

I can't stand her , sorry but she is just a shadow of the real Rhaenys from the books they also made an amazing house ( Velaryons ) useless and annoying in the show

sadly she's going to die soon

I don't think her son could have kids

Yeah sorry mate the little white boys with brown hair ain’t related to you 😅