How much do you want to straight up steal from LotR? G.R.R.: yes!!!

​@@gingerbaker_toad696oh really? George has more complex characters that Tolkien's dumb ones

@@Dolorous_Edd if someone as smart as you says so..😅

D & D only chose Arya because of the possible cliche of the hero thing, not because it was right. They even claimed that they had set it up in season 3 with the whole moment with Arya and Melisandre, which most knew was bs. It was just them trying to put their favorites in front.

They failed us

Don't like to talk about season 8, it's to painful

Jon should have killed the night king and Arya should have killed Cersei in revenge for Ned… would have been much more satisfying

But that just wouldn't feeeeel right

We don't deserve it, it'll be a privilege.

Jaehaerys and all his kids Would b insane

Yea I want that, or the story of the Doom.

Yes an Hebert cavil or be a perfect aegon the conqueror

I would love to see more of the realm like the Far East and all the crazy places

GoT famously adapted from War of the Roses.

​@@daisysw3147 nah more inspiration and it's better than war of the roses 🤷🏾‍♂️

I agree. To put together all these different families and different people with so many different paths into one story is just fantastic

@@daisysw3147 The author literally made up an entire history of multiple civilizations from another world. I think we’ve surpassed the inspiration part 😂

​@daisysw3147 yes War of the Roses is a big influence for GRRM and the story in general, but he took that inspiration and created an entire world around it, full of incredibly complex people, families, politics, religions, organizations, brotherhoods, magic and mythical creatures. He took inspiration from a real life historical event and built a dynamic, beautiful and intricate world around it

LMFAOOOO

Hell hath no fury than a scorned pissed off woman

"Fire it is"

the king didn’t know he was talking to alicent

That part annoys me so much and yes Alicent heard what she wanted to hear . Obviously her son doesn’t dream of anything other jerking off

All I keep thinking was: Which Aegon? Considering that Rhaenyra and Daemon talked to him earlier and he met Aegon III and Viserys for the first time? What if that dream he kept talking about actually showed his grandson and he realized it, when he saw him for the first time? He was about to die. Maybe he didn't even realize, that he was talking to Alicent and not Rhaenyra.

@@franziskaways4956 this what I was questioning too. I just finished the show and my thought was like "are they not aware?" But in the last episode Otto mentioned it. So they knew that there's another Aegon. So how can Alicent assumed that it was about her lad? I think we need season 2 ASAP.

I thought Alicent didn't care about what she heard, only that Viserys died and SHE was the one who witnessed it and the queen, so she knew they'd listen to her no matter what she said, so she put her son on the throne.

It was Vermithor , Former King Jaehaery's dragon

@@princenirmal4197 yeah I couldn’t remember his name. But it was a dope scene! Isn’t he the 2nd biggest and oldest dragon?

@@kentbeitel9966 3rd biggest

I like Daemon's dragon the most. I like the long lanky look and how incredibly scary it looks. It would probably be one of the greatest dragons ever if it had more time to grow. Vhagar was twice as big and strong and Caraxes still took Vhagar out with him just by pure ferocity

@@chipmunk1227 caraxes was puree legend a perfect fit for it's rider

Baelish won it in a game of cards from Robert.

I don't see how it gets forgotten that it was a dagger that belonged to Aegon the freaking Conqueror. That would increase its value considerably, especially as the more impressive valerian steel swords aren't hanging around.

@@eggled1566 because it’s kept as a secret and the secret only gets passed down from heir to heir

And truly it did still all stick. the dagger says "From my blood will come the Prince That Was Promised, and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire." He is the one that truly united ice (white walkers) and fire (Daenerys stormborn) He did unite them which was what the dagger said the prince (which he was) would do

@@scotthollars1555Jon is ice and Fire himself. Stark and Targaryen. Winter is coming and Fire and Blood in one person.

Someone got greedy. Maybe it was a new contract or the idea of a new series with the Targarians (?) As stars. I can't think of why it would have been so bad after all the season's before. There were new writers. Must have been.

@@peggyhall843 d&d were trying to rush to finish so they could start writing the batman movie at the time but the script got shot down after all the fan hate from game of thrones.....its a bitter sweet moment. I hate D&D

Shut up. They didn’t rush anything

Arya killing the night king was fine. When they sent Jon back to the wall I literally almost turned the show off, absolute idiots.

@@thortrouble2311 and when they make that useless broken lad as a leader, they turned us into clowns if not it's already an entire circus in front of us.

Some people ensue love inside you, then there's Joeffrey. You just WANT TO slap the shit out of him every time he appears on the screen😂

@@thv353 🤣🤣🤣

In Fact Aegon III was the true Targariyan Son of Rhaenyra and Daemon. So he was in fact the True targaryen King. Other Brothers were Strong.

​​​​​​​@@tahirqazi6656egon III has a younger brother named Viserys and his older brothers are Velaryons and his older sisters are Targaryens and a stillborn younger sister Visenya . So he has 6 siblings

​@@tahirqazi6656they were Targaryen

Blame the Hightower twats

Blame pushover Viserys for his numerous dumb decisions.

They weren't even that powerful in old Valyria , no greater than most of the other dragonlords

You wouldn't have to imagine if you read the book.

It would be a southern based people, we have BBC (big blazing carnivores).

Makes sense!

but jon snow managed to unite everyone against white walkers So prophecy was fulfilled

And later you can see that the bond between Daenerys and Drogon became one, because Drogon can understand what Dany wants and feel, even when the show killed her.

And locking them up stunted their growth and development. A dragon is not a slave, nor should they be a prisoner

She locked the other 2 up because they burned a child alive

It was believed then that knowledge was lost over the centuries and that there was specific ways to keep them in control, but I guess that was proven wrong now.

@@eddiegreencheez Stunted their growth in theory, yet their are still bigger than lots of the adult dragons in HOTD? Something isn’t adding up with Dany’s dragons

What book is the blackfyre rebellion based on?

@@comfort7575 there are no narrative books that cover it, but the Knight of Seven Kingdoms (Dunk and Egg) deals with the fallout from the first Rebellion and literally occurs during the Second Blackfyre Rebellion.

I read somewhere that Dunk and Egg is on work, so maybe we'll meet Bloodraven soon

Aegons conquest is definitely my frontrunner for a new show

@@comfort7575 you should check out 'The World of Ice and Fire' which is like a history book about Westeros, Essos and other parts of this World

Most of the nobles are at some point related to each other through various marriage pacts. Especially the great Houses.

The only direct ancestor she had in the Dance was Borros Baratheon, cousin of Rhaenys Targaryen.

@@ferrm1992 Not true, look at the Robert, stanis, and renly, then look at bonebreaker strong, same manner of looks, face from anywhere can be linked to any northern family. The real blood is the Starks and strongs, they relate to almost every house.. the seed is strong has alot of meanings behind it. It related to house strong. Stark in german.. Translates. STRONG. Strongs are 1st men, from the north, that traveled from the north. Bonebreaker almost has his sons put on throne. They are related to many familes. Some say all, but it is clear where Martin is going with the strong family. He has included them more and more as the books go further in.

@@ferrm1992 not really. A sister or daughter of Aegon V married Ormund Baratheon (Grandfather of Robert, Stannis and Renly)

But when you trace Rhaenyra's line, all of it ended with Dany and Jon Snow, no Baratheon at all, the Baratheon ended somewhere in their relatives of Targaryens yes but that family ended just there..they may have Targaryen relative but just the spouse and the children that ended then and then

With some ancient gang bangs

@compilationhub54help😭

I've been saying that for MONTHS!!!

That is going to hurt so bad. I wonder where exactly they will end HotD.

EHHH maybe that's just what the Lannisters and Baratheons spread over time.

It's in the book lmao

@@AcAlbo I know. 😭

How does she die?

It’s proximity to the Isle of Faces has lead to some theories that the land itself was cursed long before Harrenhall was even constructed.

Probably it wouldnt be too smart to do a season on the scape from Valyrian (plot wise and budget wise). There's like 7 generations between Daenys the dreamer and Aenar and Aegon the Conqueror. Maximum a flashback or a starting episode... then Right to Aegon having a dream and waking up, speaks with his sister wifes (which after having being safed by the dreams of Daenys take Aegon's dream seriously) and they all agree they have to conquer Westeros. Then, they begin the conquest. That would tied up with HoTD tv show as well.

Plus there isn’t a lot of material to draw on to make a show about that escape from the Doom

While I agree the should've started with aegons conquest what your describing isn't that it's the Targaryen escape to westeros which would be a good prequel after the conquest

Yea; So were the celtigars

vhagar in house of the dragon is the same size as balerion was when he died.

@@AbduZadjali na I’m pretty sure it’s factual that Balerion was twice the size of vhagar when he was still alive

@@JamesHightower18 i’vs read fire and blood, the writer states so himself.

And The Cannibal is bigger than the two combined B)

I would love to see Balerion and even more so, Cannibal

It could also give us some insight on the Great Empire of the Dawn who were the 1st of the Dragonriders.

Imagine also jumping forward in time like the supposed SNOW show

im sure they will because of the succes of got and hotd

all indications in books and show, points to prophecy as misleading, and was intentionally created to destroy targs and their dragons.

house Celtigar actually appears in episode 10 of HotD. lord Bartimos Celtigar is a member of rhaenyra's Black council

@@NvardQueen I know, they just weren't mentioned in the list when velaryon was

House Belarys went extinct when Aurion, the dragonlord of Qohor tried to conquer Valyria but disappeared along with his dragon.

Sweet I want to know about those other houses.

Me too , I thought that was a great part in the Targaryen history , the death of the Mad King Aerys by Jamie Lannister , etc.. and is this THE Christopher Florio? THE Richard Florio’s nephew? 😎😉

Rhaegar and Robert Baratheons solo fight was epic.

@@robinpreese no I don't think so. I get that a lot though I think Florio is a common last name. You Italian?

I too would love to see Roberts rebellion turned into a TV series. I'm even hoping that at the end of house of the dragon we get an episode telling us a story leading up to king Aerys and the start of him going mad, which could lead to a series about Roberts rebellion

yesss. Aemond on the other hand.

Aww I felt so bad for Lucerys and Arrax 😢 they were both so little compared to Vhagar

Exactly!!

I think rhey are pretty much dead. But what could happen is that there is more creatures like ice spiders and ice dragons etc hidden away in the lands of always winter and Jon could be exploring that

it was also the blood magic that bonded her to the eggs. The Targaryens have a tradition of putting a dragon egg in the crib with a newborn, so Daenerys literally had 3 eggs with her. It's not always the case with dragonriders, as Leana Velaryon only gained Vhagar at 15, and Rheanyra actively looks for adult dragon riders for the old wild dragons

Valyria had enemies to the east who have powerful forces that would eliminate dragons, as well as weather that debilitates them. The Free Cities were established without dragonriders, so that would preclude them.

The Cannobal is actually supposed to be larger than even Balerion

@@siubhanward7631 he's literally not lol

Jon's duty was to unit the realm and he did that arya was a plot twist which actually neither effects the prophecy nor makes sense

@@awarabhopali it’s just years and season after season displaying that Jon and the NK were destined to face off against one another. Now that HOD confirms that cats paw dagger was passed down from heir to heir, it was meant for Jon (Aegon) to own it really.

I really thought it would be Arya would be the one to kill Daenerys, because I truly dont believe Jon would ever be able to do that himself. And we were all cheated by not getting the showdown between Jon and the Night King. Hopefully the Jon Snow series is able to correct that somehow.

not it doesn't confirm any such thing . you are assuming prophecy is correct. in fact all indications in books and show, points to prophecy as misleading, and was intentionally created to destroy targs and their dragons.

@@Chingon559 see that would have made a lot more sense.

nah. it has nothing to with romanians. Dragons were mentioned by other Nations of different variety. China, Scandinavian folklore and many ohers. GRR Martin right A song of Ice and Fire for a fantasy like story of England History. Think of Night King = William Wallace, Lannistrr = Lancaster, Stark = York, Targaryens = Vikings and Dragonboats were their ship equivalent to their mount. First men = Gauls, Children of the Forest were Celts. Dragons was also the emblem of Wales, did u know? Even Bhutan and Malta. Nevertheless, Dragons were only a personification of feared Race and Greed for Gold like the Vikings

there were early discussions of an anthology but HBO scrapped that out as it will panned the fans like the walking dead did to their franchise (3-4 series concurrently airing at one point making over saturation to viewers). maybe we will get one at a time but not all at once.

Eh, I feel like that would be really boring. It’s basically Aegon and his sister-wives show in Westeros and wreck everyone with their dragons. The only interesting thing that actually happened was Rhaenys and her dragon getting shot down in Dorne. Besides that, it’s a really straightforward and kind of boring story.

@@Garrus1995 how about a Movie ?🤔

@@Garrus1995 well a history about Valeria is lit for me firewyrns wyerns, how and who made dragons, dragons bigger than balerion as you know before the doom the sky was ruled by 300+ dragons and aegon's family was a mid size lord family

CORRECT!!! 💯💯

Have you ever wonder why the three eyed raven trap in the North? Bcoz 3 Eyed Raven is probably the only one who knows to dispel the Curse after the War of the First Men. Theres must be something amiss between their contract. So 3eyed raven, always find a way for escape through Hodor, Madking, and many others. The Night King was the weapon of the Children of the Forest to reclaim their homeland from the First Men

I agree but I Think that was more for the fans of the show who are just that and dont read the books etc. and gave them a way to “connect” GoT to this. Either way I can’t wait for season 2

No it was explained what happened to aerea it wasn’t from balerion it was their journey to old Valeria where there are unspoken horrors there one of which she got (fire parasites)

Viserys died from a from of leprosy, according to his actor. Aerea Targaryen died of a horrible disease that seemed to resemble greyscale, the green fever and skin cancer. Balerion was heavily wounded from the flight by unknown forces. Anything that could wound the Black Dread is frightening enough.

Tyrion was not only born a dwarf but with different colored eyes and hair with deformed genitals.

Tyrions mom which was tywin lanisters wife got raped by the mad king. So that makes tyrion half targarion and half whatever his mom was before the marriage.

GOT is better then House of the Dragon in my opinion think it's mainly due to the characters and different locations used in the series.And the writing is a bit better not to say HOD isn't any good just a bigger fan of GOT I just finished watching it for the 4th time lol

@@superunknown2812 that's not really a fair comparison to make at this point in time. Game of thrones has 8 seasons of content to assess whereas house of the dragon has only one. Instead you should compare the first season of each series - in which house of the dragon really gives GOT a run for its money. While i wouldn't say its better than S1 of game of thrones, it comes extremely close, and is much better the the shit show that is season 6, 7, and 8 of GOT. The writing in HOTD is amazing and each character is very well written (just as GOT 1-4 was). If HOTD keeps this standard up through its whole duration it will be a really good comparison to make between the two shows.

@Marcus Lee fair enough yes just wondering what the plan is to take it so far in terms of storylines

@@marcuslee698 it’s not close bro, sorry but recency bias is clouding you.

@@deedstaar7520 Not at all... I generally dont see what they couldve done better in season 1 - which is why I said if they keep up the quality in the seasons coming, it can definitely reach he highs of GOT

Prophecies aren't always 100% correct. As an example, during Viserys and Aemma's dialogue he told her he saw their son ascending the Iron Throne. Aegon's prophecy also does not specifically say that it will be the Prince of his blood that will kill the NK, it says the Prince will unite the realm and lead the fight. Jon somewhat accomplished both to some degree.

@@cyber2cyke agree, except jon didn't actually united the westeros, only northern kingdom and queen dany (with one baratheon, and 2 lannisters). That was like 4/8 of the regions.

@@cypr7120 Hence the words somewhat and to some degree. He was able to get a (very) temporary truce which again backs what I said that prophecies aren't 100%.

What if the king of the Whight walkers isn't dead and is again shown in the Jon snow series and it turns out to be someone from House of the dragons. What if there wasn't only one night king.

Just give a thought to my words Brian and arya were Bastards from blood raven bcz lady stark was fed of jon's existence and cheated on ned as a revenge. Now we know how arya was ahai and brian became next raven

Smallest of aegon's dragons

@@awarabhopali Of course but in Arrax's time that was far from the truth.

My guy literally specified she was only referring to the TV shows and not the books.

True but not the GOT series fans who just watched the show and never explored the lore. I have a few friends like that whose knowledge of that universe comes strictly from the GOT series.

How many people watching the show do you think have read the books?

EXACTLY it's obvious to Game Of Thrones fans

Egg apparently tried to use wildfire and Essosi magic, but as with all things fire related it went out of control. The seasons seem to reflect a planet that has a slow orbit, with calendars determined by artificial rather than natural measures. People have regular namedays despite the seasons.

@@SantomPh thank you George Martin for answering my questions. Now I don't have to read your books.

Seasons of TV used to be in the 20s lol.

It’s one of the worst things to ever happen in a TV show dude. Jon snows whole story is about the white walkers then Arya comes in literally last minute and gets the payoff. Some of the worst storytelling ever in a Tv show.

BURN THEM ALL!!!!

@@mvader7188 I actually wonder after watching HoD... maybe Mad King last words was reffering to the white walkers ?

@@paulstokowski1466 which one are you referring to since in the books he never says burn them all

So, as I´m not in the matter entirely I´m not sure how precise my answers are going to be, but I´ll give it a try. If you're really interested, there are also yt videos to most of these questions. 1. the faceless men are seemingly simply assassins who worship death, and therefore believe that only life can pay for death? 2. Arya saved Jaqen Hghar earlier in the show and 2 other prisoners, so for saving these three lives, he offered to take 3 others. 4. If I recall correctly, Kinvara was simply one of the priestesses sent out to preach of the lord of light. 8. The Valyrians were known to mix species, resulting in hybrid forms, using blood magic, which is supposedly similar to today's genetic engineering. In order to create dragons, they mixed the naturally occurring wythers and wyrms (not sure if those two are spelled correctly), using said blood magic. They then proceeded to bind the valerian houses to the dragons using blood magic, resulting in them actually having dragon blood. This is also the reason why the Targaryans try to keep their bloodline as "pure" as possible, as intermarriage with non-valerian houses would "dilute" their blood, and weaken their bond to the dragons. 9. I don't think that the situation with the gods is ever entirely explained, but each of the ancient "races" has a connection to a certain type of magic, which they, later on, refer to as their gods. The Targaryans have their fire magic, and the lord of light, the north, descending from the first men have their animal possession and the old gods etc.

@@Genastor your reply to point no 8 is somewhat correct and reply to point no 9 is 30% correct. For rest you know nothing. Nobody does. GRRM himself has not given any answers to these burning questions yet and I want them in upcoming books. The show was perfect in each aspect except that they also failed to give reply to these questions and not their fault too as they had no clue about them since everything came out of mind of GRRM and at a certain stage the show crossed the books. Also let me be clear no KZfaq video is there to explain first few questions.

@@tarunshukla00 we got some insight into Kinvara in the show, and many of the other questions were discussed in previous books

@@Genastor Discussed but not answered.

Aren't all the gods real?

It would be a bad decision to change the story. The ending of game of thrones is proof of that. They showed that jon or Dany can be the prince that was promised, on several occasions they hyped a sword fight between night king and Jon just to end with Arya jumping out of nowhere and killing the night king.

Or Clive Standen

Or just the guy that played gendry, apparently he was a dinger for a young Robert

How could Henry Cavill play a young Robert? He's 40 years old

Then why Aegon specified the gender in his prophecy "Prince - male"

@@princenirmal4197 no, Viserys was talking about the vision Aegon I have had when he was alive not about Jon Snow, you people don’t put attention and he said to Rhaenyra that she’s the one that had to seat in the iron throne in case the walkers attacks and that means that a woman can be the prince or Princess that was promised also Jon Snow till the 5 book is not mention that he is a Targaryen.

@@MrDavidSosa Actually i think Jon was revived for the sole reason...and also the showrunners confirmed it that he was the prince who was promised

@@princenirmal4197 the show does not follow the event that happens in the books and after season 5 everything is invented by the two people who ruined GOT and like I said before, the prophecy clearly said that can be a woman too.

Well yes the show often doesn't follow the books or change things but it was confirmed years ago that GRRM asked the showrunners who the thought Jon's parents were and they apparently gave the right answer or they wouldn't have gotten the rights to the show. So that particular aspect is confirmed to be true

Well show wise he is but GrrM quite literally said “the stuff going on at the wall is (ice) and dany and her dragons are (fire)”. I believe Daenerys was the original asoiaf/ Azor Ahai but D&D messed it up.