![]() The episode’s first scene hosts a tender moment between Rhaenyra and Luke, as she comforts her son. Yet this is only the latest in a series of McBain moments for Luke, who will soon meet his demise. “You go as messengers, not warriors,” she tells them, and asks them to swear on the gods to “take no part in any fighting.” Thus Rhaenyra finds an ostensibly peaceful mission for Jace and Luke, her two eldest boys with Laenor, er, Harwin Strong. And they develop a plan to lay siege to the landward side of the capital as well-but will require the support of the Baratheons, Arryns, and Starks to do so. Rhaenys will use Meleys to patrol the Gullet to cut off all naval entry into King’s Landing. Corlys Velaryon, now recovered from his injury suffered in the Stepstones that sidelined him the past two episodes, agrees to support Rhaenyra’s claim and use his family’s naval power to blockade shipping lanes in the Narrow Sea. Instead, after Rhaenyra and Daemon part, the blacks’ battle plans form in quick succession and triumphant music stirs. In this episode, at least, that fallout doesn’t materialize. One hopes that in Season 2, Dragon will explore the fallout of this violence with more care than Game of Thrones considered, say, Jaime’s rape of Cersei. This scene doesn’t appear in Fire & Blood, yet it befits a character who already killed one wife. Then follows a harrowing scene, as Daemon chokes his wife as they argue about Aegon the Conqueror’s prophecy-of which Daemon isn’t aware-and the proper path to save the realm. Yet at this encounter, she’s on Daemon’s side, not Otto’s, and she receives the greens’ terms for peace: If Rhaenyra swears fealty to Aegon, she’ll get to keep Dragonstone and pass it to her sons, who will be royally acknowledged as trueborn Lucerys will inherit Driftmark her sons with Daemon will become Aegon’s squire and cupbearer and all her supporters will receive pardons.ĭaemon rejects the terms at once and threatens Otto with his sword Rhaenyra preaches caution, lets Otto leave in peace, and agrees to consider the proposal. And in the latest, most urgent entry in the “quills and ravens, threats and promises” phase of the war, Otto Hightower arrives for a callback to Episode 2, as he once again sizes up Daemon across Dragonstone’s bridge.Īlso as in Episode 2, Rhaenyra arrives in style, fashionably late, on dragonback. ![]() Monarchs are a bit like quarterbacks, though: If you have two, you really have none. Rhaenyra’s coronation, by contrast, is a smaller, spontaneous ceremony, and carries much more emotional weight for the first woman to be named queen of Westeros. The “Control” of Dragons Is an Illusion.Īegon II’s coronation in “The Green Council” overflowed with pomp and circumstance it was a staged, public event that told the masses of King’s Landing that all the aesthetic trappings of power belonged to him. The ‘House of the Dragon’ Finale Exit Survey Viserys Was Right. Daemon places the crown atop Rhaenyra’s head, and the burial transforms into an impromptu coronation everyone present (save Rhaenys, who has yet to confer with her husband, Corlys, and pick a side) kneels. Her emotional roller coaster speeds around another bend as she buries her child, however, because Erryk Cargyll arrives with a gift, removing Viserys’s crown from his satchel like Flynn Rider in Tangled. Rhaenyra doesn’t die, but her sixth child does. And in Episode 6, Daemon’s second wife, Laena, died due to childbirth complications, as well.) (Daemon and Viserys’s mother also died because of a difficult childbirth, before the events of the show. Thus Dragon’s Season 1 finale bookends its pilot episode, when Rhaenyra’s mother died in childbirth. “The Black Queen” begins with a blow, when Rhaenyra, Daemon, and the others on Dragonstone learn about Viserys’s death and the greens’ coup.įor Rhaenyra, the news doesn’t just complicate her plans to sit the Iron Throne it also induces premature labor. War is no longer coming it’s here.ĭragon’s Season 1 finale is an emotional roller coaster for Rhaenyra, focusing almost exclusively on her and her supporters after Episode 9 focused entirely on the greens. But now, as Dragon’s first season ends, Rhaenyra’s second son is dead and her angry eyes seem set on vengeance.
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