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House of the Dragon

JesasaurusRex said:
So on his death bed, the king was telling the queen that their son is the ice king or? Still not 100% sure what that scene meant or even if he knew who he was talking to.
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Way back in ep..2? I think? there was a scene where the king was telling his then-daughter about a prophecy where a King Aegon would lead the forces of good against the evil winter from beyond the wall or something like that.

On his deathbed he thought he was talking to his daughter.

IMO this is very much Alicent hearing what she wants to hear; most of the rest of us would ignore his ramblings as though he were a dude all hopped up on goofballs but now she can be all THE KING HATH SPOKEN.

augustiron said:
The creepy foot scene is doing a few things, besides creeping people out.

- showing that the queen is willing to debase herself for information/power.
- showing that Strong is effed up and twisted
- that Strong has power over the queen.
- their relationship is , something.....

She does not seem happy or readily willing, it is a price she is paying, is what I took away
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this +1

He's just proven he can command a queen - The Queen! to debase herself for his amusement whenever he damn well wants to, and she clearly is not into it but has to anyway. It's partly a foot thing and partly a control thing.
 
now that her son is king, is Alicent still the queen? or she like, "former queen", or "queen regent" or sommat?
 
Bowling4Bikes said:
now that her son is king, is Alicent still the queen? or she like, "former queen", or "queen regent" or sommat?
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I believe queen regent is the correct term. Same as Cersei was when Joffrey and Tommen were on the throne.
 
think technically, Queen Alicent now is a “Queen Dowager”—a former Queen Consort whose husband is dead? In England, Alicent would probably still use “Queen Alicent,” the way King George V’s widow, Queen Mary, was still known between 1936 and 1953, when she died, maybe.

think a “queen regent” is a little rare … a person who rules as sovereign while the king is still a minor or incapacitated or away from the realm … Catherine of Aragon and Catherine Parr were each appointed “regent” and served briefly while Henry VIII was off fighting wars. think that was why Cersei was a Queen Regent, because her boys were still too young to rule on their own?

Cersei was a Queen Consort, as she was only the wife of the king. She became Queen Regent after Robert died because she was serving as the regent for Joffrey (and later Tommen) while also being the Dowager Queen, as the widow of King Robert.
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think Rhaenyra will be fighting Aegon II to be queen or king “Regnant”—sovereign ruler in their own right, like Queen Elizabeth II was?
 
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Well whatever they officially call her, the real power/influence is her father. Still feels GoT/Lannisterish. Loose cannon clown on the throne, queen mother, hand of the king grandfather.

I don't mind those similar plot devices being used, just calling it like I see it.
 
Kurosaki said:
Well whatever they officially call her, the real power/influence is her father. Still feels GoT/Lannisterish. Loose cannon clown on the throne, queen mother, hand of the king grandfather.

I don't mind those similar plot devices being used, just calling it like I see it.
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I took the footsie scene as the Green Queen taking to herself the lesson her father beat into her when he schemed to use his young daughter’s attractiveness to further that family’s fortune.

After all, she was the person able to say to her execrable father that she was the one who had Aegon II—thanks mostly to the equally awful Mr Strong? put ol’ dad in his place, down a notch or two, I thought.

the one scene I loved from the last episode was when locked-up Rhaenys leans in to ask the Green Queen in a whisper whether she didn’t ever see herself as Queen Regnant on the Iron Throne … :gsxrgrl:party
 
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CHOMP!

Mama cried for 12 seconds, now it's gonna get ugly.

When is the next season due?
 
That felt more like the episode before the finale...the pentupisode.
 
Spoiler alert, don’t read further if you didn’t see finale:









They didn’t show the kid actually die, right?
 
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Bay Arean said:
Spoiler alert, don’t read further if you didn’t see finale:









They didn’t show the kid actually die, right?
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I guess that's true, kinda hope he's dead though lol. If that upcoming zombie show is half way as good as the trailer looks then I donno how much longer I'll be watching got if it doesn't pick up.
 
I don't know how they would write in surviving a chomp from a dragon who's mouth was as big as your dragon, and a fall from at least several hundred feet.... (They also showed multiple 'pieces' of the dragon/rider falling, so it was solidly chomped)

Can we talk about Dameon choking out his niece/wife/baby momma/queen?
Clearly he bends the knee in public, but feels he controls her in private. Let's see how that plays out.

Also, as a finale, what could be better than leaving an enraged mother to rage, stew and plot revenge and destruction for the murder of her child for an off season.... I'm glad they didn't start any of the retaliation/war. It is a new chapter.
 
I liked how they showed that the dragons aren't as controllable as they think. I think Rhaenera said that if there's dragon-on-dragon battles, everyone dies/gets burned/something like that. That felt very foreshadowy to me. (haven't read the book).

yeah that kid is dragon food for sure lol.
 
It was definitely a cliffhanger of an ending. I just hope we don't have to wait too long for the next batch of shows. The internets are saying it could be 2024.
 
Can you guys come up with a head canon way for how news of Luke's death would have made it to Daemon?

It was a dark and stormy night and presumably, the dragon on dragon violence would have happened way out at sea away from any witnesses.
 
I'm annoyed that we all pretty much saw the kid dying right when they said they wouldn't send Ravens. Maybe I'm being unfair to the show but it's all pretty predictable so far. Not like the original imo.
 
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