The Reel Rejects - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2x1 Breakdown & Review!!!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:35 Oh, boy. I'm still house black. I mean, this was clearly some clerical errors. He clearly did not find the A squad to carry this out. They did not understand the technicality here. They thought it had only to do with just getting a prince's head. It was, it was very specifically aiming for many reasons. Yeah, he named him in the bargain.

Starting point is 00:02:08 Yeah. Oh, man, that was, that's, that's horrible. That is really icky. Yeah. Jeez. Oh, man, that's, yeah, I mean, that is really disgusting. Yeah. No wonder they put emphasis on him in the beginning of the episode.

Starting point is 00:02:23 Yeah, right. And you sort of care about them. Yeah, having him play around with, what's his name, with the Lannist. guy I wonder if she Thailand I wonder if she pointed to the sun in hopes that they would think that she was lying and then go through with it

Starting point is 00:02:39 I think she was trying to anticipate because you see because she can see ahead and I don't exactly know what her powers are she has some some capability of foresight and like she said the thing about the rats so I think

Starting point is 00:02:55 she might have saw like oh if I point to him that's what she was like going through her head that they might think the opposite, which the guy initially did. And I think that's why they made a whole moment of no one. And that's why she's telling the truth. Yeah. Oh, man, that was crazy. His whole episode was just like grief, pain, building to some horror.

Starting point is 00:03:14 And you're like, I don't exactly know what. All I know is we're getting a lot of screen time with high tower side of things. And so I'm just under the impression that we're like some terrible blow is going to be delivered. to the people at King's Landing. And sure enough, it was, that was really, that is so unsettling. Man, the first episode of last season, and this is, oh, Jesus, I just love doing horrible things. Yeah, no, absolutely.

Starting point is 00:03:45 Oh, God, because that first season, I just remember the first episode with the birth and then now to do this scene. Oh, Jesus. I hope nobody else has to give a birth in the rest of season two. but yeah like they do this emphasis on like royalty should feel like the most protected but it's the most dangerous oh yeah because everybody's gunning for you and and and in this day and age in particular like can you trust anyone ever really you know i do have some questions about why there wasn't anyone near to protect yeah you think there's someone there standing guard like a king's guard i feel like they should all yeah yeah to be protecting and i think like i remember in last season they would they would do that quite often like where were you Why aren't you around? And you think after a certain point, they didn't even like acknowledge it.

Starting point is 00:04:34 Like there's no one around to protect them. Yeah, you would think that in a moment in time where they are all clearly anticipating a looming war and are now aware of the fact. And they know that Renera is aware of the fact that Luke is dead. And this has taken place at Eamon's hand. Like you would think they would up security that much more.

Starting point is 00:04:54 Yeah. What did you think of the episode? I really enjoy. I mean, it's, it's got that same assuredness of hand. It's got that same sort of steady, you know, build to it that, you know, is exemplary of the best of just what this crew is able to put together continually, you know, barring the lesser seasons well-trodden of Game of Thrones. Like, nothing, there's nothing quite like this, you know, the way it moves and the way it breathes through these big cavernous castles and the way that, yeah, like, at the end of that first season, we have such. a, you know, clear flashpoint of like,

Starting point is 00:05:32 damn, this is the moment where, like, the war truly begins. And then yet, you know, even that, even though like the seed has been planted and we are past a point of no return, I always appreciate that they're able to, like, bring you back down to earth and remind you that, like, oh, no,

Starting point is 00:05:48 there are still many debates to be had and many tests of allegiance and a lot of machinations that need to take place before the actual thing we're all expecting. And I really like that they use the prospect of all-out war, of bloodshed in battle, of, you know, the big old kind of money sequences that, you know, you look forward to in a show like this. Eventually, I appreciate the way that they bring you back to Earth, and they're like, no, no, no, no, we can't just go straight to carnage in battle. You know, this is still a political game, and even though this looks dire, and even though, again, there are points of no return that have been crossed, there are still considerations we need to make.

Starting point is 00:06:28 and this is all still super fragile like our you know as the high tower side of things you know uh foists a gone onto the throne you know like they're still fresh off of what some might call a mutiny so like even their uh you know standing is questionable and i like that you know you take even those little moments because there's so much you know manpower and thought power that goes into you know keeping the realm what it is but then you have those little little little moments where you see somebody like Alice and grieve, you know, and kind of acknowledge the mess that all of this is.

Starting point is 00:07:03 And it does really nicely, even though it's been so long, you know, it harkens back to the core tragedy of just these two little girls, you know, grew up, you know, under the shadow of all of these political interests and have now been completely swept up into and corrupted by them.

Starting point is 00:07:21 It's fascinating. What did you think? Yeah, I liked it. I liked it. um it uh there's i think like when i've just because it's like we're finally returning to it i've watched a little bit more of like a like from from the head less from the heart because i'm like i just want to make sure i'm even though it's actually it's a relatively easy episode to follow yeah i just want to make sure like okay where are we at where we at where we at and while this one felt a little bit more like set up for what's to come rather than true like rich character scenes like we still got like a decent amount of them you know but again a lot of it was like some

Starting point is 00:08:04 reminders like there's no recap that they play this with this on our end there's no recap here and there's there's uh that so there is some like okay we got to get like refamiliarize with some things and then we got to get some resolve some things that were perhaps we're not really acknowledged from the prior from where we left off before and I'm looking forward to seeing how immediate this plays out because the last season had so much time spanning and it seems like this one's going to be a lot more focused in terms of its time frame that they're going to be doing in terms of its buildup and to see like yeah the plotting and trying to form the allegiances still and yet even with it the part that tears itself from within is is like the family itself you know so you have like amen and christi and then you have like Kristen and and Allison and then you have Alicent and the friction she's experiencing with her father like all these like constantly being undermined by everyone whereas like House Black seems a little bit more aligned like you know like we I don't know the where this is all I mean I know like dance of the dragons and it's supposed to end with no dragons in the end it's like about as far as I know but I don't really know like the details where this all goes. Exactly. And so I'm still like, oh, there's still so much up for surprise that I'm going to be looking forward to seeing what they do.

Starting point is 00:09:32 And I think for like a first episode back, I'm like, yeah, it's like a solid 7.5 out of 10 for me, I would say. I was just happy to be back. You know, I was just happy to continue, you know. Yeah. They pick up in a nice way. And but yeah, a lot of it felt a little bit more. We've got to get some information out here. Less than.

Starting point is 00:09:53 But then the tension and stuff started kicking in more so in like. last like 15, 20 minutes of this episode. And then we started like, okay, now we're getting back to like the emotion. Because there's a lot of somberness and such, understandable. And like, you kind of, I kind of feel like the somberness and the grief would be a little bit more effective if you watch this episode, like right after the last episode. Yes. Yes. I agree. Like, because I did a rewatch. Um, and but the rewatch I finished like two weeks ago. So, uh, but like for a lot of people, they might have just watched a recap or they haven't seen it in forever so i'm like okay maybe some of this grieving stuff

Starting point is 00:10:31 would be like oh i'm probably crying with you there but even for me it was like oh it's been like only a couple weeks i mean i mean i just saw the finale again like within a couple days okay and i mean i'm not that far off from did you watch the finale or the whole show again i watched the show again okay yeah so then watching the finale again i oh it's still for you i'm like oh that's funny so you still weren't even like bad affected by the i mean this feels more like episode and maybe it is because of the proximity this feels more like episode 11 than episode one of season two in a sense sure like it doesn't feel as much like oh man we're starting off with some kind of like tone setting bang other than going to the wall going to the north you know kind of reminding us of all those things which was you know striking after all the time we've spent in other parts of the realm but this i mean yeah it does definitely feel like the only thing that really threw me was at first i was like oh that is jace because he does look markedly older than he did before you know in episode 10 of or you know in the in the most current day that we find ourselves in toward the end of season one um but other than that yeah

Starting point is 00:11:37 wait which one was jace he goes to the wall jace is the other son oh yeah because she sends him and lucer both or she sends luceris and he's looking up at the wall yeah yeah yeah yeah isn't the crazy short hair looking up yeah yeah and that's why and that's why he says that thing about like oh you know, I'm glad you didn't send your dragon to cook me. And I was like, oh, that's right. That's him, you know, because, yeah, he's just, he's just aged. He's a kid. But, yeah, like, this definitely felt more like a continuation, and I felt.

Starting point is 00:12:06 I thought there were, I thought Cregan was, I thought, I thought they said that's a Cregan. May, may have been. But that's, that's, that's Jace at the beginning, though, talking to him. That's Jase? Isn't it? I got so confused. Yeah, no, because he looks different because he's, like, gone through puberty. And, like, he's just got a slightly different, I think, facial structure than he did in the previous season.

Starting point is 00:12:29 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's why I thought I was looking at the Stark actor. Yeah, yeah, no, because, like, yeah, the Stark guy, I'm like, okay, so you're new, or you're, you're at least, you're not one of the sons. You're not someone whose face I should have, like, a full kind of, yeah, grasp on. And then I was like, no way. Because, yeah, you're in the while. You're sort of removed from the previous circumstances. And it leaves you to go, like, oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:52 Yeah, she did send the both of them on the dragons. We only really followed Luke. So long-haired one was Jace? Yeah, I believe so. God, that was confusing. I kept thinking I was looking at a different character. Yeah, at first, I was like, okay, we're just two guys? But I was like, no, no, no, this has to be him.

Starting point is 00:13:08 And then he rides off on the dragon. So, like, yeah, he's. That's why I was like, he has a dragon? Yeah, no, and no, it took me a second, too, because I was like, am I just getting this wrong? Or has he just aged? And, you know, that's the trouble with casting actors. and then shooting for three years or, you know, coming back after, like, you know, years.

Starting point is 00:13:26 Right. But, yeah, and I like that show. And then again, like, that's a thing that makes it feel sort of like an episode 11 where it's like, yeah, we ended the last season with the boys being like, hey, we got to go out and, you know, let us be your envoy. Let us test the allegiances and, you know, make sure that these people re-up their oath to you. And so, yeah, it's like we end the first season with the tragedy that befalls Luke on his journey to. do that and then we pick this one up with Jace just successfully completing his mission and then returning

Starting point is 00:13:58 and so that's why that punch like that was a punch where he comes back and he doesn't even know yet and uh you know Reneera has you know started to bear the full brunt of the you know grief and all that but I but I do agree it's like this this episode is like keeping things moving like

Starting point is 00:14:13 you know you and you don't really spend much time really at all with Reneira like she's removed from so much and like that makes sense to me too in a contextual way, because obviously, I think you said, you know, it's like there's almost nobody here except for Jace who could, you know, really share like a tender moment with her or a moment of like true heartbreak and understanding and just like, you know, experience outside of our responsibilities and the tension surrounding our responsibilities as

Starting point is 00:14:43 leaders, bears to the realm, maybe, you know. Yeah, it was a good buildup. Yeah, I liked it. And it's like with that ending, too, you know, like this whole time, Allison actually seems a little bit divorced from just how much of an impact it might have on Renera that the fact that Eamon killed her son, you know? And she seems like, it's not apathetic. She's far from it.

Starting point is 00:15:09 But I don't feel like she's understanding the impact that that would have. And now she's going to feel it from her grandson being killed. Yeah, well, and this is only going to get so much worse because, yeah, it's like this is, I feel like if they had. just successfully gotten aim and there would almost be a way to to look at it and go well we all knew this would probably be in the cards or at least in an attempt like this would be in the cards but because they find the wrong prints you know i feel like yeah this is going to be it's it's always fascinating in in this universe the way you think one thing is going to be the

Starting point is 00:15:44 thing that kicks off like a grand again is like the precipice of the war the thing that makes everything go to shit but there's always like a couple more steps we need to go there's always like a couple more truly messy maneuvers that need to happen to like really pull all the gloves off because up till now everyone in in in team green has been sitting around being like you know amand is proactive and he's just got a lot of ambition you know like they're dancing around it uh and i think this is going to clinch the there's no more hope for goodwill until i'm sure whatever sort of of late on moment, or I would imagine late on moment between Allison and Reneer comes to pass where they can both be like, hey, this is super messed up and I hate you, but hasn't it

Starting point is 00:16:30 sad how far we've come? And an Agon as king is actually more fun to watch than I expected it to me. Yeah. Because I like how he's trying, there's almost like a homelander thing about him. Like he wants to be light still. Yeah. You know, the way how he's like kind of trying to be like a genie granting with. and be like this altruistic giving king without understanding the consequences or really the strategy behind how the machinations of what went down that led to a lot of these people being stripped from these things to begin with and so like having to have his grandfather be there to keep reminding him of things or to intervene like like the hand is supposed to be an aid but it seems like that he's really there to keep him in line you know especially and and watching how that's unfolding is

Starting point is 00:17:20 is really amusing because like again there's just so much friction within this targaryan household targary and high towers uh which i'm so yeah there's all there's a lot to look forward to there's a lot there's a lot of fun uh to be had here and i'm just kind of looking forward to watching it all sort of focus up watching it did take me a while that i like i i didn't realize this very much i was i was confused looking at the jace actor the whole time i was like is that cregan is that who i heard about yeah because i kept hearing about cregan stark yeah that's Everyone hyped up after season one was like they mentioned Cregan at the end and they were like, Cregan's Starry? So I was like, it's Cregan the long-haired one?

Starting point is 00:17:56 Because he looks a little bit like a Stark right now. Yeah, totally. It looks like a John Snowette's figure. And that's the problem is like, damn, I wish these kids were blonde. And we're so, I was like, wait a minute. Who's this? I was so confused for a second. Yeah, I'm like, oh, I forget like part of the whole troublesome thing about you guys is that you just look so plain.

Starting point is 00:18:17 Yeah. He just looked like so many other people, not just Lord, the late Lord Strong, which even that, like, Laris, like, is their direct relation. How does hair grow so much? How long have it taken to get them? That's a great question. Raven caught up to them past. Yeah, you know, he was traveling long enough that he went through another stage in puberty. Somehow the Raven caught up.

Starting point is 00:18:39 Yeah. How does hair grow so long? You know, it's movie magic, baby. He left. It's a long ride. He left with short hair. It's a raw. A really long hair.

Starting point is 00:18:50 Yeah. I don't know. I like his new haircut, though. It looks good if he fits him. Hopefully there won't be any more cause for confusions like that. Because, yeah, the other kids do look pretty much the same. Or at least Agon and Aymond to do. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:06 And yeah, I agree. Like the whole Agon stuff. I'm curious to see and I'm excited to see what happens with him because, you know, obviously he's going to want his own autonomy. And, you know, they established that whole. bit about like ah he's not really interested in being the king and like i like watching as he tries to get interested and then it's quickly reminded by uh auto like of the mundanity and of the like ah you can't really do all the kingly shit you want to do because we've got a whole bunch of other concerns all right all righty guys what did you guys think about that episode um i liked

Starting point is 00:19:41 it liked quite a bit can't wait to see the rest of the season unfolds that ending was a shocker that's for sure uh leave her thoughts down below man that that's wild yeah watch a whole season television i recognize oh for sure i was sitting there wondering myself yeah as i was re-watching boys i was switching off between boys and house of the dragon uh in this rewatched period that's funny oh well house of the boys house of the boys leave your thoughts down below be sure subscribe leave a like and uh we'll catch you all soon reject nation peace Tyler Hank, Tyler, this month we are shouting on our patrons and we are going, which son of a bitch to a celebrity did they remind us of the most?

Starting point is 00:20:28 Which son of a bitch? And you know which celebrity you remind us of the most? Like, I don't even, in a blink, I'm like, boom, that's it. Boom. Right there. You know what celebrity you remind me of? Mm. The Incredible Hulk.

Starting point is 00:20:47 Yes, he's a very real world celebrity, the Incredible Hulk. Mind me of the Incredible Hulk. Mm-hmm. Because you're like, ah, he's nice. He's a fun-loving guy. He's a fun-loving jovial teddy bear of a man. Look at him. Gentle Gigante.

Starting point is 00:21:04 But then the second you turn off, one of Tyler's monitors, oh my God, he'd be thrashing and dashing. They're calling the police on Tyler. The amount of domestic violence disruptions from. from neighbors. There's no one even in his apartment. No. It's just his neighbors complaining about the noise from him destroying yet another unit in that building. Soon the thing's going to collapse, Tyler.

Starting point is 00:21:30 But Tyler, you've got to learn how to wield that anger to do good in the world. That's right. You've got to focus that energy. For example, there's like crazy homeless people outside of my house these days. Hell of homeless folks. I could use a Hulk. You should smash them. Do they directly talk to me?

Starting point is 00:21:49 No, but they're talking to something. They're talking to someone. They're yelling profanities at something. And frankly, they need to be crushed. Yeah, that's the only solution. So, Tyler, I would love for you to use your Hulk skills and come out of here and clean up the streets of the homeless out here in L.A. We need it, man.

Starting point is 00:22:10 They don't really ever do anything to us, but, you know, they're just kind of weird to look at. But, you know, they, they force you to confront a side of reality that just I just don't want to acknowledge at all. It means make you a little uncomfortable when you're filling up gas at the gas station. You know, you think like, crap, I don't have any money. I mean, 99% of the time they don't even ask you for money. But, you're like, I don't like the way you look. You just look like money. I just want you to smash them.

Starting point is 00:22:36 Mm-hmm. If you don't mind. What's a few people smashed among friends, you know? Especially ones who, frankly. are not really contributing to the economy at the time. They're not really helping the bottom line. If you're not helping out the economy, are you a person? Why are you alive?

Starting point is 00:22:57 These are real questions. These are the deep philosophical quadries, boy. And you could help us solve them by not ever having to engage with them again. So Tyler, get to work, man, because I just don't like those seconds of my life. When I glance over, it just means. Makes me, ugh. Yeah, I don't like being removed from my bubble. Yeah, I don't like driving in the street and looking to the left of me,

Starting point is 00:23:23 and there's some person shouting some racist slurs at the light. Yeah, while trying to clean my window. It's like pick a lane. Yeah. Are you helping me, or are you racist? It's kind of contradictory. And why are you in the middle of the street? With one boob hanging out.

Starting point is 00:23:43 With one boob. I got beat them up Tyler That's right Tyler It's the only way It's the only thing can be done Because those seconds Are just unpleasant Across a lifetime

Starting point is 00:23:53 That's at least a minute or three Minute two Three maybe five Maybe ten minutes And frankly I still got time for that Nope That's ten minutes

Starting point is 00:24:02 It could be used elsewhere Like shouting you out Stop being lazy Yeah And clean up these streets Get out there Tyler Avenge us Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2x1 Breakdown & Review!!!!!

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