HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Episode 1 Breakdown & Ending Explained | Review & Game Of Thrones Easter Eggs

welcome to the heavy spoiler show i’m your host paul aka george r or spoilings in this video we’re breaking down the game of thrones prequel house of the dragon the new hbo show is packed with easter eggs call backs or call forwards and a lot of big characters that we’re going to be analyzing in this video the entire series is based on the final third part of fire and blood which tells the tale of the targaryen lineage all duking it out to take their place on the iron throne as we know come game of thrones

the entire house was left almost extinct and this series will be talking about how the house of cards all came crashing down beginning at chapter 12’s heirs of the dragon the original work recounts all the ins and outs of the family tree and it basically gives you the idea if you want to be happy living a king’s life never make a pretty nice your wife now whether so bad now whether you’ve read it or not it doesn’t really matter as this breakdown will be covering it all and after becoming an expert on it last night

what did did no one else do the reading well i’m here to give you the ins and outs on every single

character because of this there might be some spoilers but i promise you that i’ll not give away any of the big twists or deaths in this video i just want to really use the book to add some insight to the characters if you read it then you’ll know that it’s more like a textbook rather than being a story and because of this it’s a bit of a slug to get through there’s massive pages that

just basically list character names talk about them for a bit and then that’s it however it actually gives the series a big advantage as it means they can pick certain sections and expand on them massively they have a few plot points that they have to stick to but beyond that they can really go wild with it and it leads to this being such a good first episode the show takes place roughly 172 years before the death of the mad king and the birth of daenerys we start by joining king jaehaerys who had a reign of

prosperity and peace after the first 100 years of targaryen rule however all good kings must come to an end and when his health starts to fail he has to choose an heir this is basically where the disputes all stemmed from and this show will be going over people vying for who should be the rightful ruler as we learn in this opening chapter which is narrated by an old rhaenyra women were completely looked over and the right to rule often fell to the males even if they weren’t direct descendants now djiharis and his wife queen alisan

produced 13 children with only four of these growing to maturity marrying and producing children of their own unfortunately jaehaerus and alisand’s two sons died and rather than passing the rule on to one of his daughters he ended up choosing her cousin viserys who’s played by patty constantine you might recognize the name viserys if you’re a game of thrones fan and dany’s brother was also called this too now allison believed that geharis should choose a queen and she actually fell out with him because he refused to do it there’s a great quote in the book where

she says a ruler needs a good head and a true heart a is not essential if your grace truly believes that women lack the wit to rule plainly you have no further need of me amazing impressions there and alison actually then flew the dragonstone on her dragon silverwing and the two remained apart for two years this was known as the second quarrel but jahira stood his ground and still refused to budge the choice is what we see playing out here and it very much fractures the entire family now due to all the peace and prosperity

that the targaryens had during this time they actually managed to have lots and lots of children this ended up leading to 14 potential people who all had a right to the throne and because of this the next ruler was highly coveted it was actually predicted that so many airs would lead to so much confusion and this would eventually cause what would be known as the dance of the dragons now whilst this sounds like a great little party it’s actually describing the battle for the iron throne which led to a lot of bloodshed we get this

great quote early on and that pretty much prophesizes everything that’s to come the only thing that could tear down the house of the dragon was itself oh here we also see rhines who comes to be known as the queen who never was she becomes somewhat of a mentor to rhaenyra which we’ll talk about more as we get into the season now from here we cut it the title scene which has the targaryen banner on it that you’ll probably recognize from game of thrones we next get a big time jump to pick up in viserys’s ninth

year of rule here we join rhaenyra riding on the back of her dragon cyrax which was known for its yellow scales it swoops through king’s landing and this scene is very reminiscent of dany’s attack during season 8. this time though she’s just here to check out the view and we get several monuments and little details in the location firstly she passes the red keep and you might notice that there’s some scaffolding on it because it’s still under construction next we see the dragon pit which is still intact this is where the houses all met during

game of thrones but it was pretty run down whereas here it’s back to its full glory as i’m sure you can guess here captain obvious dragons were kept here and it was often theorized that this stunted their growth due to keeping them confined you also see some targaryen banners before rhaenyra drops in i love the way this is shot so we don’t actually see her and she drops down evoking images of dany due to her hair and dress we even get some notes from game of thrones reused in this journey to bring back good memories

of the show they were all good they were all good memories forget about the rest now here we also meet sir harold westerling played by graeme mctavish westerling is a character that served in the kingsguard back in the old days of jaehaerys and since then he’s carried forth this idea of honor and chivalry really upstanding bloke and next we meet alicent alison is the hand of the king’s daughter and she ends up taking care of viserys come the end of the entry this is a very important part of the story as it basically allows her

to get a foot in the door down the line now i don’t want to spoil too much but otto making sure that she comforts him has some big ramifications and this meeting early on between the two characters is very important next we travel through the streets of king’s landing and pass a statue of a dragon i’m not 100 sure who this is but i believe that it might be valerian the black dread which is why the monument is colored this way they then go to the red keep which is nice and red like that subscribe

button after you hit it and the thumbs up as well you damn some of a now we watches alison and rhaenyria travel through the keep and there’s that bit that you’ll recognize from that bit there’s that bit from then shout out to our editor map for putting this all together now here we meet her mother emma who ends up dying in the entry along with her son bailey the books talked about how he lived for a day and this insult ends up being brought into his nickname air for a day sadly we don’t really get

much with the baby and just see the pair on the funeral pyre together it’s one of the most heartbreaking moments in game of thrones history and watching the entire birth scene had me squirming as viserys’s ambition ends up driving him to choose his unborn son over his wife now she very much shows why rhaenyra wants to become more than just a walking womb though it was a queen’s duty back then to give birth rhaenyra sees firsthand what her mother’s death was caused by all in the service of trying to have a male heir i also

think she’s a bit angry how this unborn child has more right to the throne than she does because at the moment it’s shrouding his baby and might not even be a male we see that emma has been through a lot and discovered that she’s lost many children from here we could have the small council looking exactly the same as how it did in the original series here we see lord corliss valerian played by steve tucson you can’t catch his seahorse crest on his chest and his house ended up building the largest navy in the world

they also gained a vast fortune that made them even richer than the lannisters you also get this very important line here a man called cragus drejo dreja styled himself the prince admiral of this triarchy they call him the crab feeder i think the crab feeder is gonna be one of the big characters this season and he was teased out in the trailer he basically tied his victims to wooden pyres that were stuck in the sand and allowed the tides to come in so that the crabs could feast on them we also see otto here and

he can catch his hand of the king badge which of course also popped up in the main show now rhaenyra comes in and viz calls her his cupbearer this pulls directly from the book and in that we learn that she was given this role at the age of eight the passage says a table attorney and a court that the king was seldom seen without his daughter this passage also discusses how she was trained to ride dragons at the age of seven showing how many years she’s had experience of this you also see lord lymon beesberry

the master of coin and he brings up how damon is absent now daemon pretty much embodies the saying of how whenever a targaryen is born that the gods toss a coin he’s described in the burke as being cruel and ruthless and they discuss how he cut the hands off of thieves which we actually see playing out in this entry odaiman’s the younger brother of the king and he possesses the true blood of the dragon viz never had a loving son and this made him believe that he should be the rightful heir however his brother completely

overlooks him and at one point he caused a lot of issues with his mistress miseria she’s played by sonia mizuno who you might recognize from devs in ex machina he’s nicknamed misery and will probably play a big part in things going forward a damon makes one hell of an entrance and the first time we meet him he’s sat in the iron throne this is clearly symbolizing his quest to sit there officially and it sums up the entire character in this opening shot of him the original work had it as a throne with a staircase of

swords leading up to it but the first series turned that down thus these guys had to keep in line with that too but they kind of do build the sword staircase merging the series and book together now if you’re picking up on some sexual tension here then hey you might be on to something now he has brought her a gift namely some valerian steel this medal is so strong that when it’s forged into his sword it can stay sharp forever like my dad jokes now we get to alison and rhaenyria sitting going through the history

books besides some weirwood the faces on them were carved by the children of the forest and they ended up having to flee north once the first men came to the continent and started a war these trees were later worshiped by the first men and they were meant to be shrines for the gods of the forest we hear the mention of the name nymeria a sort of warrior princess that could end up inspiring the direction that they go with rhaenyria she rips at a page from the book showing she’s got no chill when it comes to

tradition this of course also fits in with a woman sitting on the iron throne and the sun baby a queen is coming soon now we could’ve is getting seen too due to a cut on his back he then says this line it’s a small cut from sitting the throne it’s nothing this was actually something that was the case with a chair and the kings had to sit in a certain position to avoid getting cut by the sharp blades on it we even see this at the end when the king cuts his finger due to the

blade on the armrest the blood on the throne is of course symbolic and it’s very much a metaphor for the bloodshed that’s about to come now as for the wound on his back i’m not 100 sure what this is and we even had some talk in the heavy spoilers office that it could be greyscale whether it is or not i don’t know but i think it’s put in place to show that the king’s health is failing after a tender moment with his wife in which she says this is the last time the stakes that this

is the last chance for a male heir or planted in his mind sadly we know that it would have been a boy but due to his death the heirs all line up to stake their claim now we could to the night and see damon and his forces clearing up the streets before the tournament begins it’s very much done as an act of terror to show the peasants who’s in charge and it cements what kind of king that damon would be damon is of course a play on the word demon and he’s introduced in a paragraph

that describes him carrying out these cruel acts it says he slits the noses of thieves chop it off of our words that unfortunately i can’t say because it gets you demonetized on youtube and all round he just does what he wants we see it all play out here and the book also describes him as being someone who frequents wine sinks gambling pits and the brothels which is where he meets maziria the raid is super violent and i love the costume design on damon’s helmet it’s shaped like a dragon with the head at the top and

the wings around his face the raid causes a lot of issues and it very much splits the sides that support him potentially becoming the heir he clearly makes an enemy of otto and proper does him later on when he takes the favor of alison at the games god damn the disrespect now you also get a mention of lady ria who in the book comes from the house of royce damon didn’t want to marry her and he completely detests having her as his wife however they did have a house solidarity due to her being the heir

to the ancient castle of runestone damon much prefers the misery that he has in the brothels which leads to him publicly trying to have a relationship with maziria we catch it with her getting banged and i heard she was looking for a doctor who appreciated that she was bigger on the inside i thought my jokes were bad next we see a tournament playing out similar the one that featured early on in game of thrones whereas that introduced the mountain here we meet the knight kristen cole he becomes somewhat of a love interest for the young

princess and it’s likely gonna cause a love triangle with him and her uncle now the book cites this as being an event that saw damon and kristen going head to head with a ladder taking the win it’s described as being a humiliation for him with kristin knocking dark sister from damon’s hands with his weapon star now this is riffing on the tournament of maiden pool which was held when viserys took his ascension here it’s put in place to welcome his new son and it’s supposed to be a day of celebration that sadly ends in tragedy

feel really bad for viserys as he genuinely was a nice king that looked after his people he wanted nothing more than to carry on the prior king’s legacy and to create a dominion of peace and prosperity however due to all the airs that were created under this it made it impossible and much like how the joust was one of the last happy moments in the original got this likely will be too now here we meet a baratheon an ancestor of robert who would go on to become the king in the first season he was a

bloody said was a great guy skewed by a ball and i don’t mean me when i say it was a ball that actually was a really good impression of i’m proud of that one now they just kind of seem to push the events together as kristin took the favor of ryneria when she was seven which bit weird that mate so yeah glad they avoided that here with it taking place much later in the timeline sadly the celebration is cut short with emma going through a lot of issues during her pregnancy we hear that she’s given

milk of the poppy which is a game of thrones staple given to help ease pain we had my guy vomiting which is what i was doing watching this gore on the battlefield and the pain that emma was going through it’s such a devastating way to start the series and it shows us that this series will not be around killing not only a pregnant woman but also a baby you’ve got to have balls to do that in the first episode and yeah really messed up congratulations your grace you have a snow even the congratulations here feels

so devastating and it rips your heart out when you see him on the pire 2. in targaryen fashion a dragon is used to burn the bodies and after they were cremated they were placed into a sept you also get this bit which means dragon fire in high valerian it’s also what dany of course said during the series when she wanted stuff to kick off and sadly this is forced that night to discuss a new heir for the stability of the realm daemon is put forward but otto argues against it we hear how he sabotaged his

career and viz also says that his brother doesn’t really have the patience to be king oh he’s listening in isn’t he well they bring up that he’d be a second maegor who was a targaryen known for his ferocity nicknamed mega the cruel he lived for war and murder and the raids would become commonplace if damon got in a position of power the arguments here very much set of the greens versus blacks and this basically had people choosing allegiances between damon and rhaenyria the blacks were known as the party of the princess and they supported rhaenyria

which is who we see showing up at the end once he’s named air in the king’s chamber we catch him building models and it reminded me a lot when dudes you know they just play with model trains my guy has made a pretty good recreation though and he finds some comfort in his new girl now the pair had lots of visits together in the box and they grow really close in the absence of his wife after damon’s air for a day celebration viserys calls him forth and we see him on the throne along with his

sword blackfyre this was an ancestral weapon of the targaryens carried by the kings throughout their conquests this insult really pushes the king over the edge and it’s the final straw that makes him choose an heir damon tells him straight and says that he’s a we king who gets preyed upon but he tells him to return home and that rainer will become the air instead how’d you like them apples avis goes to a giant dragon’s skull evoking images of cersei going to one in the main series he meets raineria and tells her the knowledge that she

needs to be a ruler and impart in her mind that dragons can’t be controlled he apologizes for wishing for a son whilst she was there and we watch as she’s clothed by alison really important scene as this friendship doesn’t last too long once the politics come into it and the divide between the two grows more and more as we get deeper into their history whilst rhaenyria gets her allegiances we see misery visiting damon and it very much speaks to the misery that’s soon to follow the pair leave together which ties into the issues we were

talking about before and that will no doubt show up next time and the king very much brings up a dream by aegon that talks about winter coming from the north this would of course play into the main series and we even get a cameo by a stark whilst he goes through this said to be the great winter this has the potential to wipe out the world of men if a targaryen isn’t sat on the iron throne it’s obviously setting up the white walkers and along with what i believe is jon snow he’s said to unite

the realms against this and it’s known as the song of ice and fire might have my analysis off there so i’m not good at interpreting dreams so let me know below if you have your own thoughts and theories on who it could be but yeah that’s who i took it as how he grips the valerian steel dagger and if this looks familiar it’s because it’s the blade that was used to kill the night king really sets up things beautifully and it ends this brilliant entry now as for my thoughts on the first episode i really

enjoyed it and kind of going back to the heat straight heat i got for saying she hulk was mid i think this is how you kickstart a series it’s got a lot of big moments in it introduces some intriguing characters has progression and also feels like they put all they could into making sure that this was something memorable have to say i was someone who felt a bit disappointed with season 8 of game of thrones yes sir i know there’s not that many of us and uh yeah even after buying the 4k setter we watched

them last year it definitely felt like a low point that kind of ruined all the goodwill that people had for the series however something about that theme playing up seeing the dragon swooping through king’s landing it all brought back the feeling of why i fell in love with the show in the first place the prequel did such a great job of instantly placing us back into that world that it’s difficult not to admire it even though it’s all new characters you can see how their characteristics would carry over to their ancestors and it’s really well

thought out and put together like i said i think the book is pretty basic in its storytelling with it being used more as a way to describe all the different houses but they really brought to life and made me appreciate the original text in a way that i never really had before the first episode was a great way to kick things off and i can’t wait to see what happens next time the lord of the rings show has a lot to do to match this and it’s going to be interesting to see who comes out

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