Bros & Shows - Smallfolk, Bastards and New DragonRiders (Part 2 of 2)(House of The Dragon Full Recap)

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

How Art Thy Broseth? In our conclusion of our HoTD recap, Aegon begins to awaken. Aemond presses him in an attempt to remind him that Aemond is in charge now. Alicent is lost and alone now that she has no place on the council. Rhaena happens upon a scorched field with dead sheep setting the stage for Sheepstealer to enter the show. Jace tells Rhaenyra that Team Black needs Daemon which in turn causes Rhaenyra to question Jace's faith in her. Mysaria sends boats full of food to Kings Landing under the Targaryen banner to sway the smallfolk to Rhaenyra's favor. All hell breaks loose in Kings Landing when the boats arrive with food and Alicent and Heleana are attacked in town leaving the church leading to the Kingsguard killing and maiming the smallfolk (which should go over very well). Larys slides into Aegon's good favor again in his last attempt to remain in the game. Daemon receives word that Grover Tully has finally kicked the bucket leaving House Tully available for recruitment. Addam of Hull has a run in with Seasmoke. Rhaenyra and Mysaria share a kiss and Rhaenyra rides out on Syrax to meet this new dragon rider who is flying around on Seasmoke... This season has hit a bit of a lull so we are hoping next week kicks in heavy with the action! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So quick cut to Agon and Amand, and he walks in. And it just... When they're pulling whatever the fuck that was off his stomach, like I was like wincing. That looks really painful. And he asks him a question, a loaded question. What do you remember? Nothing. I don't remember a thing?

Nothing. Nothing. Hmm. You challenged me at least. It was pretty dumb. I don't remember anything. Nothing. I got nothing.

Don't kill me. Like, that's what that was. And for him to rest the ball on his chest, the king's ball is what I called it. That's not a peaceful thing. That's saying, hey, motherfucker. He was jabbing it inside of him. He was stabbing it on him, but it wasn't giving him the ball back. It was saying, this is my ball.

Yep. Here it is. You stay in bed. You're not going to make it back to the council. I'm the king now. Yep. I'm the captain now. Yep.

That's what that was. My ship. Exactly. So I'm curious what that storyline's going to look like. And we'll talk about it more when Laris goes and gets into Aegon's ear because it's his last ditch effort to stay in the game. Yeah. But I'm just, I'm very curious.

if we're going to see a, I guess you could say introspective, Egon, is he going to look at his new lot in life and figure out, okay, I do need books now. Okay, I do need to be more of a manipulator, a mental assassin, because I can't offer a lot. People aren't going to take me seriously, more or less. Are we just talking about the Laris conversation at this point, too? Yeah, well, I'm just lump it together. Just lump it together. Because I do think that I agree with you, Laris is using this like, oh,

Amon's not going to trust me. No, but you are still the king. So if you do make some sort of miraculous recovery, I want to still be in your good graces. Yes. So I could see Laris using that more and more.

And a little bit later, the Grandmaster says that he sleeps nine out of ten hours every time that he's doing this and he's taking milk of the poppy, he's sleeping, trying to recover. It's going to be a long road, whatever. I think Laris is just going to attach himself to Agon in whatever way he sees fit,

if that means something like sort of like Varus for Game of Thrones where he smuggles Tyrion out of the city and that's his last ditch effort. I could see something like that because as long as whoever holds the king holds the power, which we've heard a million different times in so many different ways

with both of these shows. So I could see Laris doing that and holding on to Agon as best he can. I don't think you're wrong. I think that's definitely a potential play. I'm getting more of a little finger vibe. Okay. where he's going to try to control the situation more so by moving his pieces rather than smuggle him out of the city and stay with him.

I think he's going to try to because when he says to him, help me. To me, that's relinquishing power, saying, all right, what are we going to do? Tell me what we're going to do and that's going to build this false sense of confidence in Laris where he thinks that Laris is looking out for both of them. Meanwhile, all Laris is doing is using the power of the king to wheel and deal. Well, the only reason, and I'm not saying that, not that he would smuggle him out, maybe he would hide him somewhere in the city or something like that, just because if Agon, if I'm painting this picture, if Agon starts to recover. Aiman's going to kill him. Aeman's going to kill him, or he's going to make sure that he doesn't recover. So he's going to order the Grand Master to keep giving him milk of the poppies, which is what Laris did not do.

He pulled the milk of the poppy away and said, you need to keep your mind intact. It was a trust move. Yes, that's a trust move, of course. And as much as he wanted it, obviously, that makes a lot of sense. So I could see him maybe keeping an eye on Agon and as soon as he starts to recover a little bit more, getting him the hell out of there and hiding him somewhere so that he can actually recover and then popping back up, I'm the king, here I am, Laris is my hand. That's what I'm kind of thinking.

Oh, that's it. I like that. I like that a lot. I can definitely see. I don't know if that's going to work out. I could see Aiman just killing Agon as soon as he can. I think we're going to get a scene where he goes to kill. Now that you said that, as piece of all again.

He goes to kill him and he's not there. And he's not there. And he's in hiding somewhere, whether it's in Kingsland. or some random town, or if he's down at Dorn, smoking weed, who knows? That actually sounds like a pretty chill life break. I don't know why people just don't go to Dorn. They seem to stay out of everything. You're Prince, like, hey, you know, I'm going to go Ward down in Dorn with the Martels and hang out.

They seem to be pretty chill. And by the way, phenomenal fighters, too, when they need to. By the way, everybody's hot. They're all hot. They're all hot. The dudes are hot. The ladies are hot. Go to Dorn.

Go to Dorn. Everybody stop fighting, and let's just go to Dorn. Let's go to Dorn. God damn it. Everyone, there would be no war. That's a good point. Go to Dorn. Yep.

Went in doubt, Dorn and out. This next scene got me fired up. No pun intended, because Rana is walking with the Targaryen lads. And she's going through this whole spiel of not everyone's called to greatness. And this is my lot in life walks up to a scorched part of the earth. And there's sheep laying there. And as we've discussed already, there is a dragon out there named sheepstealer. There certainly is.

And this, I got so amped up. I'm like, because I felt so bad for Raina, but why don't you get a dragon? You should get a dragon. That's the thing. I think she tried, but I guess she didn't get one because, so she's Damon's daughter. And I'm wondering, was she the one that Lena gave birth to and then died? No, she couldn't give birth to the third one. So she was already born.

I wonder what happened to her egg. Maybe her egg just never hatched. That's where I start to lose control of these things. I don't really know. I don't know. That's where it gets confusing. Maybe one of those eggs is hers. So there's four there.

Three of them end up being DeNaris's eggs. Right. And we knew that they... I assume they go to Pentos with... Does Joffrey go there? No, Joffrey stays in... Yeah, so I guess the youngest kids go over to Pentos and they bring the three dragons with them.

So there's a fourth one there. What happens to that fourth egg? Maybe that's Rainis? But it seems like she's going to take sheepsteal her. Sheep Steeler seems to be her. Yeah, that's what they're setting up for it. So I don't really know. Regardless.

Very interesting. It is interesting, but just, I'm stuck on the egg thing. As we know, eggs can lay dormant for a very long time. Look at DeNaris's eggs did not come to life. Jesus. Hatch. Hatch. So, as we know, that can happen. So maybe hers remain dormant.

Maybe one of those dragons that DeNaris has is her dragon because she got a sheep stealer and I never hatched. Who the fuck knows? But it doesn't matter. All signs are pointing to Raina being able to enter this fight. I think she's going to be a wild card that's much needed because I think Bela's going to fall. I think Raina's going to step in and be even better.

Okay. That's my, because I think what you have from Bela is, she's got a little too much Damon in her. Yeah. She wants to go scorched her. We saw it restricted when she went down and almost burned Kristen Cole and Grain. She didn't pull the trigger, but she was very close and also wasn't. is supposed to engage.

Yep. I think what you're going to get is her pulling a damon, getting too involved, dying, and you're going to get Raina stepping into her place. I can see that. More composed. Okay. That's my theory there. But regardless, she goes to Lady Aaron and says, you lied about this dragon.

There is a dragon. She goes, oh, it's large and formidable. But alas, it's wild, which is even cooler. Yeah. Like, you're the, she's more badass than anybody. You tamed a wild dragon? Right. Like, that wasn't hanging out under her castle.

So that thing is flying around murdering sheep left and right. It's getting bigger. Bigger and bigger and bigger. So I'm stoked to see Sheep Steeler finally. I just love the name. Yeah, it's such a good name. What do we call this thing? Steal Sheep's.

Sheep's Steeler. We're out of Vermithors and Vagars and cool names. Just fuck Sheep. Nobody ever named this thing. I don't know. We're not really Targaryen. What does he do? He steals a lot of sheep.

We don't have any cool names at our disposal. We can't call them Aaron. You call A-R-R-R-R-O-N. Y N, A-R-R-R-Y-N. Well, that's the name of the house, but yeah. Oh, God, damn. A-R-R-Y-N. Yeah, whatever.

Anyway, we move on. This is the scene that we got with Adam and Alan. We already discussed that once. Let's get to Jason Reneira, and I love their relationship. And I think it's important to note their relationship because their back and forth is sometimes contentious, but there's always a layer of respect there. And it shows the bond that Reneer has with their kids. And also, if he flashed back to when Raina was walking with the young kids, he says, I miss mother.

I want mother. Her kids actually like her. And that's a big part of this. Yeah, because the other side, they don't really. Yeah. Oh, we didn't even point out the baby dragon walking around there. Oh, that was so cute. It took a little nap.

Yeah. Yeah. They were like hanging out. I love the idea that the dragons grow up with the kids. Oh, yeah. That's great. That's sick. Yeah.

I want a baby dragon. Me too. I don't want a big dragon. Well, it's going to get big. Yeah. They make mini dogs now. They make mini dogs now, so they're going to make mini dragons now? Why not?

We should have a Jurassic Park by now. This is insane. There's no way that at some point we don't have dragon. I'm sorry, dinosaurs. Dragons. Anyway, back to Jason Renera. Pretty much, he says, look, Stefan, bold move cotton, but I like it. I like the way you were going.

It didn't work out, but I like the way that your brain's working. and I heard you struck Lord Bartamus. Bartimus. There we go. Lord Bartimus. That's a made-up name. They're all made up. That one sounds more made-up.

Lord Bartimus. But she goes, luckily, I didn't have his tongue. What did he say? And she says, look, I'm just sick and tired of being protected. I'm so dumb with being protected. Everybody sees me as motherly and this figure that they need to guard. And they don't listen to me. They don't respect me.

And he says, you are motherly to me. And look, mom, we need Damon. Yep. We need Damon. Everybody's thinking it. Everybody's thinking it, but I don't think that Jace meant in a way of we don't need you, we need him. I think he's saying we need to come together. We need Damon in this fight.

You two need to bridge this gap because we're going to lose. We don't have a whole lot going on. He's off in Harenhol doing drugs. Yep. And you're over here and no one's letting you do anything. He is the missing piece. You've got Corlis now. Corlis, Damon, Ranira, four.

formidable. Yep. That's tough to beat, but you need to, it's almost like she has to get over herself, get over it. Like, yeah, okay, they're not taking you seriously. That's annoying. Sure, either kill one of them, cut out his tongue, or bring Damon back in. Just slap everybody. Slap them all. But what I'm honestly getting from all of it is, and she talks about it in a little bit, they are two pieces of this puzzle. They must come together. They are two halves of this whole. They make each other a very competent ruler. They are not, good enough on their own because they miss what the other one has. Damon has

the ferocity, the ability to fly in and do whatever the fuck needs to be done whereas Renera has the compassion, the ability to connect with the small folk and real, real care for her people. Yeah, and she even says that during the conversation with Masaria where she talks about how Damon wanted to be

king, he wanted all of this, he wanted the love of his brother, I was loved by my father, I was named the air, I wanted to be wild like him, I wanted to be dangerous, I wanted to have the freedom that he had, and we kind of completed each other and we found that in each other. There you go.

That's your answer. You just need to stop taking it personally that people want him back. It's not necessarily we don't need you. It's we need both of you to make this work. Correct. Anyway, Masario walks up. Jace kind of saunters off.

He's a little flustered, I guess, because I don't know if this is a moment where he's annoyed that she listens to Masaria more or if it was just he's frustrated because she is not listening to him, period. I think it's both. Maybe she, maybe he's starting to, question what the relationship is here, which we get to see at the end.

But maybe he's just a little wary of what's going on with this whole thing because she just popped up out of nowhere. And now she's the only one that Rainier is talking to, at least openly. Yeah, she's talking to Jace openly about everything. But now of a sudden there's a trust factor in here. And I don't trust her. Okay. All right.

I like that. I like that. But Masari lets her know the gifts have been sent. I love the code words. I love the, you know, the eagle has landed. Big time. We go to King's Landing on the shores and the small folk are out there picking clams, and lo and behold, a boat arrives on shore out of the fog,

burying the Targary and Banna full of food, scrumptious apples and whatnot. So many questions. So, so many questions here. How do they know the boats are going to get to shore? How many boats did they lose? What's going on that the boats were. appointed and they just all float to shore? Yeah.

Why? I don't know. It was on the bay, on Blackwater Bay, so maybe they just snuck in with one boat and just had a bunch of little boats that they could send out there. I don't have an issue with how they sent the boats. How do they know that it was going to get there? Get to the land. Yeah, they probably sent, let's say they sent 50 and they factored in a little bit of wind and said, you know what? Maybe.

They did that. They looked the finger. Well, what did, Reneera said something to Masaria. She said something like, I hope there's dark clouds over Blackwater Bay later. Is that literally dark cloud So that you can hide it Yeah, no, I think that's literally what it was I think you could argue

I think everything in the show It's more like a storm's coming Right, I think it's both Yeah I think yeah I hope that they don't see the boats And also there's a dark storm coming Correct, yeah Like ha ha ha ha

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She's lost. And she's sitting next to him, and the Grand Master arrives. He's like, I've sent Ravens out everywhere. There's war between the Beesbury's and the high towers. Yep. We haven't heard from Otto yet. There's war in the reach.

So things are falling apart for, for Team Green. Auto is MIA, which is interesting. And I wonder if being called on to be the hand, is he going to accept? That's a good question. I mean, if I'm Otto, probably not. I don't think so.

Based off of what's going on. And if you're hiding somewhere and nobody knows where you are, that's probably for the best. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But you can tell she's concerned that he's potentially dead. Look, I haven't always liked the Otto High Tower. Yeah. That guy's not dead. No, he's not dead.

That guy will worm as weather. He's very resourceful. Extraordinarily. He's somewhere doing just fine. And he's waiting for his time to strike, whether that be for team green or team black, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe he's down there with Darren, like, pledged fealty to him. Yeah, I still don't think he would leave his family.

I don't think he's going to turn coat. I don't think so either. I have him with Darren coming back. That's my vote. And I think that's probably an either end of the season, cliffhanger or beginning of next season. Yes. But she apologizes to Aegon. And this apology, I don't know what it was for specifically.

And the way that she even says it is ambiguous. It's not, I'm sorry you got burned. It's not, I'm sorry, I'm a bad mom. It's not, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to do more. I don't know what she was a problem. Maybe it was all of these things. Could have been, for sure. But I thought it was such a small one-off,

but such a powerful moment when she's standing outside, because we get a quick cut to her, just standing between two Kingsguard at the edge of the ledge right there. I thought she was going to jump for a split second. Like, she's going over. She's done. She's got nothing left. Old Tom and.

Yes. I thought she was going to go. And she didn't, but I thought she was. And all you're getting is she's lost. She's alone. She's got nothing. And her last ditch effort is to have Gwain make her feel better. Yeah, maybe.

Hey, bro. Hey, we're family. Hey, brother. Before you ride off into your probable death with that asshole over there. It's going to get you killed. Yeah, and she keeps glancing over as she's like, I want to offer you my favor. Anybody? Looking at him like,

Anybody? Kristen, are you paying attention? I'm giving him my favor this time. I want you to be curious. Didn't work last time for you. Well, maybe it did, but. You're still alive, so I guess technically it did. But gives Gwain the blessing, asks, hey, have you heard from dad?

Because I haven't yet. And he says, look, he's very resourceful. He's fine. If he wants to reach out, he's going to reach out. If not, he's not going to. So, shut up. Let's learn about Darren. Not what I expected.

No? No, I thought Darren was going to be more of a wild card, not a composed fella. Yeah. He sounds very interesting. It sounds, Darren sounds like a guy that I can hang out. He's a lewdest. Yep. He's also a master swordsman.

Mm-hmm. Very clever. He's a stalwart, and he's kind. Wow. He's very kind. Painting a beautiful picture of Darren. Darren sounds lovely. Yeah.

He's 10 and 6 now. 10 and 6. He's 16. He's got a cool dragon. He's 16. 16. And he's got a cool dragon. Cool dragon.

he hasn't been winged hasn't taken wing hasn't taken wing he hasn't flown yet yep again come on yep that's what i think like i i does he can fly but is he ready for battle like what where's the semantics in there i don't think he's flown the dragon yet okay i think he's got a dragon buddy but i don't think he's right flown the dragon yet maybe he's 16 years he's afraid of heights time to fly he's not 16 he's 10 and 6 time to fly it on that dragon that's when you can get your uh get your learner's permit your dragon license nobody's there to train him though uh it's a good point yeah that's a good unless auto's there i don't think you know how to train dragons no he's been around for dragon kings yeah and he can't watch how to train your dragon yeah that's a good point i wonder if they got that

from an old scroll from from this realm maybe how to train your dragon from uh the targaryans another crossover it's what's his name oh man um damn it that the kid's name yeah oh i don't Bear our shell, voices him. Yeah. Oh, man, that's a great movie. I love that series. The movies about the dragons, though. Yeah, I really is.

I remember Toothless. Yeah, Toothless is great. Toothless is awesome. But anywho, she asks him, her one saving grace, like, just relieve me of this guilt I have. Because he says to her, the keep does not seem like a good place to raise a kid. Yeah. It seems to turn them cold. And she goes, is it the keep or is it mom?

No response from him. Nope. He's like, ha, I got to go. I got to get out of here. It's you, you nightmare. You didn't hug them. There are plenty of kids that have grown up in that keep that turned out okay. Okay, I don't, there are never good.

Exceptional? No, not great. Okay, though. Different shades of okay. Yeah. Yeah, but you get this weird nod to Kristen Cole as he's leaving, like kind of a acceptance moment. I don't know. It may be like, mm, you're going to die.

He's like, I just shit my pants. Yeah. I really don't want to go back to battle. Please don't make me. I don't want to do this. have you seen them i don't even want your favor i just put a i just want to i just want to cry i think he's got i want to go back to dorm go no he's not allowed in the dorm he fuck up the vibe he's dornish though yeah but you know that's why he's not there anyway they probably kick out what a loser get out of here

you narc he's probably a narc yeah you're not chill yeah you fucking rat get out of here anyway you got helena and alison and i don't know if this has any meaning i imagine it will what the cricket not singing I am here's where my brain goes someone's going to stop singing well what is that one I don't know in my mind maybe somebody's going to sneak in

and the cricket is not going to make noise it's an alarm system that's where my brain goes could be I don't think that's going to happen I think it's a little more symbolic that the crickets represent either a person or a dragon but there's no crickets he's not singing I don't know any parallels that have

been made from crickets to people, though. Yeah, we don't have any cricket wards. No singers. Aaron's good with the loot. Maybe he's not singing yet. He's about to sing. He's coming in to sing. Maybe I don't know.

Maybe it's nothing. This is really tough to make. Yeah, the cricket stuff is tough. Helena's dreams are tough enough. Yeah, now she's playing with crickets and I'm singing. It's a whole thing. But let's go light a candle. Let me take it in my spot.

I got this great spot in the city. I light candles there all the time. Last time I was there almost got, like, hijacked. I almost got murdered. Yeah. Could have been murdered. Could have. Didn't.

There was a knife in my belly, but, you know. Let's roll the dice again. Yeah, why not? Seems like a good idea. It's safe. It's fine. Everyone's super chill in Kings Landing right now. We're going to be okay.

And we get Hugh and Crackers. Crackers is, Jesus' dog, if you guys don't remember. I thought this was great. I was like, oh, crackers is going to join again. Crackers is hanging around for something. Yeah. Okay. He has been back too many times.

It's going to be a battle or something or a city. watch is going to try to stop somebody. Maybe Hugh's daughter is trying to get out at King's Landing and Cracker's going to jump up and bite him. I like that. And then they're going to get out. I have this image in my head because look, Hugh Hammer's riding a dragon. I don't know if it's silver. The name like

that, you better be. It's either hair like that. He fits that's, when you see Stefan Darklin like waddle up to the edge, no shot. Hugh Hammer walks up. And by the way, Hugh Hammer would stand there with his chest out and go, you're mine now. And he would leap from the

platform and land perfectly and then take flight. Probably. He would take wing. But anyway, I got him pegged for either Vermethor or Silver Wing. Yeah, one of the two for sure. It's got to happen. It's going to be some weird thing of like, because we saw his wife going through the market trying to get stuff and she couldn't get anything.

And obviously, we saw him a little bit later in this scene where he's finding out that there is a ton of food on the shore. He fucking sucker punches. Yeah, that was great. But I think what's going to turn, something's going to turn him and make him resent everybody and he's going to go to Dragonstone and do all of this because I think his daughter is going to die or somebody's going to die. Maybe his wife found his daughter is going to die and then he's going to say, I've got nothing left. I might as well. Because that's the kind of courage

that you need to ride a dragon. Agreed. I think he's going to lobby the council one more time for payment. I think they're going to deny him. I think he's going to need the money to pay for something for his family. Going to be incapable to do so. Somebody's going to die. I'm full-on team black now. Give me that fucking dragon. Let's ride. Where's my hammer? And here's what I was saying.

Crackers, hop on. And Crackers is riding the dragon with him. That would be sick. Wouldn't that be cool? That'd be great. Different movie. Get him a little saddle. Yeah, that would be great.

I don't know if it's going to happen. Talk about air bud. That's right. God damn it. That was really funny. He sucker punches that man for carrots. And Allison and Helena are in the church in Midtown and people are booing. finally get some tomatoes. Yep.

We're throwing tomatoes again. Oh, is a fish? The first thing was a fish. Gross. Oh, from the stew. Yeah, he threw the fish and he said, queen of fishes. Oh, that's what he said. I didn't hear that part. I must have been writing stuff down, not paying attention, but that's really funny. Yeah. The fish comes back. That's a full circle fish moment. Oh, yeah. Great.

Good job, writers. Love that. But you get chance now. Long live King Renera. People are privy to the food. They found, like, that's the funniest part. All you need to sway this crowd is fucking food. Yep. And aim into so incapable of knowing anything that the fact that he hasn't rid of it now i'm going to say it all the time take vagar ride out burn the boats come back nope that's all you have to do that's it quick but is vagar the only dragon they have there right now uh they still polina's who we haven't seen

yet dream fire but is she going to hop on that thing and defend the city i don't think so i don't see her doing that right so i don't maybe seen her ride the dragon yet so it doesn't seem likely But if he's willing to ride out and meet Kristen Cole when it's time to fight, that means you're willing to ride out on Vagar. That's what Jason wants, but... Well, he said to Kristen Cole that I'll join you when it's ready. Yeah, so if he... But my point is, if you are willing to leave at some point, you're going to leave King's Landing unguarded by Vagar. People will see that big ass old dragon.

Oh, well, I don't know. She's snuck up to Spirox rest. That's a really good point. Maybe he's going to think that he can do it again. I don't know. I've left once and it was fine. Ah, maybe false confidence. That will lead to the city getting torched.

Could be. Hmm, I like that. Chaos ensues. Long-lived King Rainera is being chanted out in the streets. Somebody grabs Allison. And it did not seem that he was trying to cause her harm. No, he said, my queen. My queen.

That was, I think, the last ditch effort for them to maintain control. Yeah. And that was what it was showing. And it was definitely one of Agon's dumb-ass friends that cut off his hand. Oh, for sure. Sure. That's what you did. You put these people in command of your Kingsguard, and they don't know how to handle this. Except for the one guy who was trying to lead him through the streets. Right. You cut his hand off, and now all of you get killed. Yep. Nice job, Dickhead. They get Alice and Helena out of there, but the damage is done.

They've seen in this moment they're all, it's not even that they're anti-crown right now, I don't think. I think they're just long-lived King Rainier. We got food. Help us, you idiots. And then, oh, you're going to fucking cut our hands off. All right, now we're a full team run here. Boo, let's throw some more fish at these people. My other thing, they get in the carriage and they're safe. They're not even phased at that point. They're like, whew, we made it.

We're good. What do you mean? And how the hell is six Kingsguardsmen, assuming some of them are Agon's peeps, they're not getting you out of there? No. That whole scene was a little janky to me. Didn't appreciate that. You got on there, and then the carriage just takes off, and you're good to go.

No issues whatsoever. What if there's people in the way? I get you trample them, but that cart's going to get stuck on a limb. If somebody's arm gets stuck in there, you know what I mean? Now you've got an arm that's blocking it. Or maybe it's the, oh, that's why they cut the guy's hand off because his arm got stuck, but it didn't get stuck all the way because the hand was off. So the cart kept going.

Totally. That's what happened. That's what happened. Okay, that makes my sense. Nice job, Kingsguard. You did save the day. This is the scene with Aegon and Lars, who already went over that. So we'll see how that comes into play later. We've got some predictions on the board for that.

I'm excited to see if those pan out. But back to Damon, and this is another Vassar's vision. What I believe to be the last, there may be another vision along the way. I do believe this is him being able to move forward. And I do think we're going to see next week of him walking out of Harenhaal, walking out of doors into the sunlight. This is finally his chance to show remorse and be there for his brother because he wasn't there the first time when Emma. Yeah, Emma died. And that's what Viseras is doing.

He's mourning his wife passing away while she was trying. trying to give birth to the air. Vesaris, by the way, chose the error over his wife, which we saw Damon did not when Reneera had a similar situation. Who's actually cool? It's Vsaris's fault.

Yeah, we had to play the blame game here. Damon was not there the first time around. He was not there for his brother, and he finally has this breaking point. He has to be there for his brother, and it was a good, feel, good moment. He's still very sad. He starts crying, and he continues to cry.

He cries, he says, I'm here now. I'm here now. And in his last vision, Vassaris was saying that, where were you? When he goes to the whole thing, did you say it, the king for a day? When I was mourning the loss of my son, you were out celebrating your rise to the throne. You should have been here. I needed you here. I'm here now.

I'm here now. Tears, hug, big moment. That heart grew three sizes that day. The grinch. Yeah, he ungrinched himself in this moment, and he wakes up and he's still teary. And lo and behold, Grover Tolly is dead. Thank God. that vegetable finally kicked the bucket.

How did he kick the bucket? Well, look, we sent our best people. This is where you're a confirmation, Alice Rivers. He's alive. Real person. Real person. It's a big moment. There's a lot of speculation.

Big reveal. Alice Rivers real. So he says, look, we sent our best over there. Alice Rivers went over there. If she can't do it, nobody can. And Damon's like smirk. He's like, hmm. Three days, huh?

It's been three days, I guess. It worked out. He has no idea how long it's been, by the way. He's been tripping balls for potentially a year. Three days already? Whoa. Whoa, that went really. We've had that conversation.

When she left, my vision kicked in. I was with my brother. What happened? But I said, she's real. Damon cries, bring out the hood. It's war crime hood time. I don't know if he's going to go back to war crimes after this, though. I don't think so, but I think that's okay.

Look, for the grand scheme of Team Black, he can't put the war hood on except one more time. Just one more time. No, I'm serious. is that he's going to have one more Damon moment. To kill Amund? Probably. Okay.

There's going to be a battle. For sure, but there's going to be one more moment because I think that's what Reneer is going to need out of him. That's the difference this time. It is going to be an impactful war crime, not an emotional war crime. Yeah. Which, you know, let's move on. Yeah, we'll move on.

A queen sanctioned war crime. How about that? Yeah, sanctioned war crime. But you get Adam and C-Smoke. This scene was awesome. Yeah, this was crazy. Seas Smoke buzzes his tower. He starts running through the trees and he was looking left and right.

Seas Smoke like over his head again. Disappears. You get a shot of a bird off in the distance. He's up against a rock and you think. At least for a second you think that he's okay. For a split second, you think things are okay. But. But.

Seas Smoke comes down and lands like fucking skids out. And I just wrote down. because they're staring at each other. And you see him in the beginning. And I think this was the do not show fear thing that we heard earlier. He's panicked. But as they lock eyes and see smoke starts to like get down on his level,

his breathing levels out a little bit. It's almost like he gets it. Yeah, well, this is Adam's moment too because you see him talking to his brother Alan about how he refuses to just stand up and admit that he is a valerian bastard. He's cordless his son. Why are you shying away from the limelight?

If that was me, I'd be standing up I'd be the first mate immediately. I want the recognition. I want to do all of these things because that's my true right at this point in time. Because everybody else is dead. All of your other kids are dead.

This is our moment. This is our moment. What are you doing? This is Adam's moment. And he finally realizes that I think it's kind of funny because it's probably like see smoke just kind of flying around.

He's like, that guy kind of looks like Lenor, but he's not blonde, but he smells like Laynor. That's my guy. That's my guy. That's my guy. I'm coming after that guy. That smells.

It has to be like the first. ever dragon choosing a rider. But this is why I think that this next round of dragon riders is going to be so badass and influential because you got one, if Raina's able to rain in sheepstealer, you tamed a wild dragon. That's fucking, that's tough. Cool. If Seasmoke chooses from the air a bastard sun, that's tough.

Those are way cooler stories than you have to go stand on that rock and try not to get burned alive. Good luck. Yep. That's fun. Yeah. These are cooler origin stories for Dragonriders. So I think that this round of, they're going to be more connected to their dragons. I don't know. I think you're going to get a much better batch of fighters

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It's Ray. Rina and Masaria are discussing things. And Raneira, what you see with Masaria is of full confidant. She is not afraid to spill the tea to her. I don't think we can win. I'm afraid we can't win this whole thing. And she's like, well, don't worry. The boats worked.

She's like, well, Jace questions me. My own son doesn't believe in me. He wants Damon back. And that's where she goes into the speech. She talks about earlier, you know, two halves of all. whole like he was dangerous he was free all these things that I wanted to be and was never able to be always wanted to be him

and I fear that he's turned on me that he's going to go do his own thing he's no longer pledging fealty whatever I have no army you have me the minute she said that I'm like oh they're totally going to be the funny thing is and obviously we get a nice little

heartfelt speech from Masaria talking about her childhood and how she doesn't trust anybody anymore but I do trust you okay great that's awesome what did you say about our childhood story that it was traumatic oh I think you said we get a feel good story no no no no horrible story no no no absolutely not

maybe I did I need to go back and listen it wasn't feel good but we hear all of that and obviously it ends with but I do trust you I haven't trusted anybody but myself now I trust you okay great this the kiss at the end of the scene

was not scripted it was just Emma Darcy felt like it was a good connection. It makes sense for the characters. It makes total sense for the characters. Great call by her. But yeah, that was not scripted. Wow, that was a great improv moment because you felt the tension. Oh, yeah. I mean, you felt the tension every time that they're together. There's a real connection between the two of them. They're also both phenomenal actors. So it's no surprise. I did not know that the kiss was improv. This is an episode for Dragon Riders. We got another Dragon Rider right there. Oh, yeah. Beobo, beo! Beepo! Oh, the horn.

But anyway, somebody walks in on them, oh, sorry, I just got news. We have a dragon flying about with a rider. What? It must be a sea smoke with a rider. We got problems potentially. It's got to be team green. Somebody's got to have gotten sea smoke. We have no more dragon riders.

There's no way that there's anybody else. Yeah. So this is her moment. She's fed up. I'm going to, this is her proving point. I thought that it was, at first I thought maybe she would have done it because she thought that it was Lainor because she knows

that Lainor is not dead. I was surprised. I guess he is and there's some stuff in the books that George R. Martin ran through as far as like how dragons work and everything and apparently he has to be dead. The bond is never actually severed

unless somebody dies. So theoretically he's dead. Which we never really trust if you don't see the death on camera. That's my whole thing. Tough thing. But in my mind I'm thinking oh maybe Reneira thinks that Lainor is back and that's why

she wrote out to go do it. But I think you're right. I think she's completely fed up and she just wants to go do something queenly do something as a warrior and get the hell out there with syracs yeah i think it's her proving moment where it's like fuck all of you you think you can tell me what to do at the end of the day i'm the queen watch this what i'm afraid of i don't think it'll happen no what i'm afraid of is she's going to get up there and kill him and that would suck that would suck i need c smoke and alan adam sorry to to cause some some trouble for team green i need them to get out there this is the next they will and i think that

he being adam he always talks about corlis in a nice way yeah like he does like i i or jesus christ alan is the one who talks about how you know he was never anything to us growing up he cast us aside but adam's the older brother you know what i kind of would be part of all this whole thing and now i am i can prove myself to my father and we'll see how it goes so i think i think he's going to be on their side. Yeah, and I think that, you know, we already discussed it, but just the sentence of, shall I summon the council, and she's silent and just walks to go get her

dragon, Cyrax, flies out. That's her saying, I am the council. Yes. Questions time. Questions time? Question time. Questions time? Time for questions. Question time. Question time, time for questions. We get one of these every week, so I'm just going to start it right away.

From Jenny Jordan, should I watch House of the Dragon? Game of Thrones ended so terribly. Yes, you should. Absolutely. 100%. Start from the beginning. Don't start with this episode. You'll be bored. Yeah. From Zoe Cudla, Polay, is it just me or is this season not worth the two-year wait? Oh. Two-year weight is really rough. Your weight was too rough. I agree with that. But I think, look, based on these last two episodes, again, you have to understand this setup and watch the best seasons of Game of Thrones. Some of the best one, season two, had some lull. Like, there is pauses in between the action. And I think,

that people forgot that. Yep. Because there was like a three-week stretch where it's like, Jesus Christ, nothing is happening. And then they come in

with just such an epic episode. But that was the thing with the Game of Thrones early on. Every year there was a new season. They were constantly filming to like five seasons and then six,

seven, eight took forever. That's right. So, okay, to sum it up, was it worth the two-year wait, arguable. Yeah. Okay, that's arguable.

You could say that it wasn't, you could say that it was. We're just happy a too. This show is great, period. So it's here now. Now, let's rejoice about that and pray to the old gods of the Riverlands that there's not a two-year wait for the next season. Yes.

From Daria underscore PNG. Are Damon and Alice going to hook up? Maybe. I don't think so. Ooh. But I, no, I don't see it coming from her ends. No, I think he respects her, weirdly. But, yeah, I don't see a hookup coming from them.

Probably not. I think he's going to get back to Reneer at some point. They're going to be madly in love, honestly. Okay. From Chappas, 0907, why do you think that Alan was able, well, it's Adam, why do you think that Adam was able to ride Seas Smoke if he is Corliss's son, but not a Targaryen? He's got Valerian blood. Yeah, it's the Valerian blood, but Lainor, no, he doesn't, he has Valerian blood, but

Lainor was able to ride because he was Raineese's son. So if Adam is just Corliss's bastard, I'm going to... I'm going to... Valerians had dragon blood. They have ancient blood, but not dragon blood. They haven't been able to ride dragons. Traced a line. He's got...

I think it's... I think it's... I think it's... I think that they were like, oh, we're the best and we're the closest to the dragons, so... Oh, you're saying that it's not necessarily... Yeah, I don't think it's necessarily true. It's going back to...

That's a callback to when Jace was like, yeah, you're going to believe like a thousand-year-old propaganda that only... only Targary. Yeah, same thing. I think that was thrown in there for a reason. All right. That's an interesting premise.

Either that or he, maybe there is some Targaryen blood in there and Corliss fathered a bastard with somebody who was like an offshoot that was also a bastard of, I don't know. I have no idea. I'm going with the propaganda.

Maybe he is Rainis' son. I doubt that. I do too. I'm just saying in this world, nothing's off limits. That's a good point. From Chuck Spadena. Do you feel bad for Agon?

It's not like he's Joffrey. He's just a doofus. No. I don't really feel bad for him now. That guy was the worst. No, I wish he died. I wish that another thing. Rainis squished dragon explosion because dragons explode when they land or fall from the sky, which is...

That's awesome. Amazing. Yeah. His dragon blew up, too. Did you see that? But the dragon's still alive And he's still alive Yeah

Is that because No, because she shouldn't have burned alive Because they got dragon blood I don't think that Sunfire blew up There was like a big puff And there was an eruption Was it an eruption? Yeah, go back and look

I'll have to go back and look Because that was the first time I was like oh shit dragons explode When they fucking fall down Yeah maybe And we'll do one more here From Nick Sims Why does Gis resent his mother so much

I don't think he resents her It's not resentment I think it's more frustrated He's flustered because I think he wants to be able to have more of a say. Yep. And I also think that I think that's it, honestly. I think he wants to be taken more seriously by her and not seen as her son. And it's the same thing that she feels by her counsel, where she feels like she's overly protected.

He feels the same thing from her. Right. He wants to be a warrior, join the fight. She's not allowing him to do so, just like her counsel is not allowing her. Right. So I think that's what it is. Yeah. But that's all I got.

Well, look, next week is going to be, there's something's going to happen. You can't have two lull episodes in an eight episode season, especially leading up to the finale, which I'm sure is going to be wild. But we're going to get some shit pop off next week. I am definitely lobbying for a Kristen cold death. I think that makes the most sense to me. That would be great. Could see a corless death, and that allows Adam, or sorry, Alan to step into the game more so

because Adam's in the game now. Yes. So now Alan being able to step into the game would make a lot of sense. Corliss and Rainis. literally sail off into the sunset. So, yeah, I could see that, but something's going to pop off. Something's going to pop off either next week, definitely by the end of the season, I hope so. I mean, yeah, that would be poor, crazy.

Poor television making, if nothing happens for the rest of the year. You better have season three ready to go in like six weeks at that point. I'm so curious what the timeline's going to be. If it's years, I'm going to be. Could be. I don't think they started filming out, so. I'm going to be Sad Boy Club. Yep.

How do you know that? How do you know? You got to keep track of these things. You don't know. You don't even know. Maybe they kept it under wraps. Who knows? You don't know.

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