House Of The Dragon Episode 10 Finale FULL Breakdown and Game Of Thrones Easter Eggs
Welcome back everyone it’s Charlie this is my Full House the Dragon episode 10 finale video there’s a whole bunch of Easter eggs and references so we’ll break it all down if you’re brand new to the channel I will be doing a bunch of bonus videos during the break between season one and season two and I will start doing more season two videos this week so be sure to subscribe to get everything careful for spoilers for the episode if you haven’t seen it yet but we’ll start at the beginning work our way through shop by shot
talking about Easter eggs and WTF moments starting with the episode title it was the black queen a reference to rhaenyra when she crowns herself Queen with her father viserys’s crown just like they now call The Greens small Council the green council her small council is called the black Council as well because now you have the king and the queen operating at the same time during the actual Dance of the dragons and even though you could point to a number of different points during the season where you could say this is the start of the actual
dance of the Dragons if you’re talking about actual battles the real start technically happens at Storm’s end like the Battle of Storm’s end between
also a way to show you that this whole episode is basically about a classic Game of Thrones theme like the best Game of Thrones episodes like you’re talking about the original seasons of Game of Thrones some of the best seasons are about really great meetings and how after everyone spends all this time having these really great meetings things just go completely off the rails like seeing how wrong everything goes in the most spectacularly WTF kind of way because this whole episode is them having a giant meeting around the map table in the map table room
it looked fantastic I love the big glow up literally and metaphorically that they gave to the map table during this series and even though it seems like rhaenyra might avert War like she doesn’t want to rule over the ashes which is also something that Daenerys said during the Game of Thrones series things go wrong in the worst possible way because it wouldn’t be otherwise in game of Thrones like it’s not Game of Thrones unless things go terribly terribly wrong for everyone during the opening titles there are a few minor changes that reflect the events of
episodes eight and nine at the very start when they show aegon the conqueror symbol Matt Smith’s name appears first replacing Paddy considine’s name because he’s dead he’s not on the show anymore you also notice that Steve Toussaint is back in the opening credits because Corlys Velaryon returns in this episode he wasn’t in the last few ones and also because of viserys’s death because they’re finally reflecting that his symbol fills with blood like the ones before like each time someone dies in this line of succession as the blood flows from simple to symbol from father to
children like the intro scene has been a really creative family tree like a 3D model of their family tree on Ancient Valeria because they are meant to be the blood of old Valeria the actual opening scene is of luceris looking at the unlit map table by himself in the room in this whole scene with rhaenyra is obviously meant to foreshadow his death at the end of the episode like he could become great one day even though he thinks that he’s not going to amount to anything it’s her telling him it’s okay to be afraid like
even when I was named air I was afraid I didn’t think that I was ready also the funny thing during their conversation too is that he says that she’s perfect like he thinks of her as a perfect person which obviously we know isn’t true because otherwise he wouldn’t have been born a bastard like she breaks rules left and right she even references that later like my father loved me very much and tried to help me along the way and that’s been one of the big contentious things that the greens have come after her for like
her father has been protecting her this whole time but she keeps messing up left and right but obviously the whole sad tone of the music over this scene is just meant to foreshadow basically the entire episode but mostly the end of the episode like the whole episode is meant to be all about loss things that renyra loses first she loses her father viserys he dies she also learns in the same moment that she’s lost the crown in the iron throne and then she loses her third child with daemon the girl that was named vicenya after
aegon the Conqueror sister wife bessenia she also wielded dark sister daemon’s Villa and sword so there was like a lot of meaning in them naming her visenya then she loses luceris at the end of the episode episode her second child with Harmony strong so the subtitle for this episode should be how much can rhaenyra lose in her life and still keep going like how much can be taken away from rhaenyra so it’s a very very sad episode even though they end the episode with that very drum beat Drums of War version of The Game of
Thrones theme song they also start the camera on the map table on the North and Winterfell to foreshadow her conversation with daemon about aegon the conqueror’s dragon dream about the long night A Song of Ice and Fire and Winterfell and the Starks really happy to see that they’re bringing the Starks back into the story Krieg and Stark who they mentioned later in the episode is who jakaris is going to treat with eventually at the beginning of season 2 at some point his father ricken is the one that swore the oath to rhaenyra when she was
younger during the Game of Thrones series they named rickon after this rickon and even though we don’t get into a whole bunch of Winterfell stuff during this episode they just referenced it several times Cregan Stark went through something similar is what’s happening to rhaenyra right now with a succession of their family like the Stark Family itself came into question where an uncle was trying to see his power for himself and wasn’t handing it to the rightful son so Cregan is sympathetic to what’s happening to rhaenyra right now the camera also descends from the middle of
the Kingdom around the riverlands the King’s Landing harrenhal because as Daemon says this area is going to be the most critical part of Westeros for them to control in the dance of the Dragons we meet one of the other kingsguard for the first time this is Laurent Mar brand he’s one of the special ones that’s basically been on rhaenyra duty like alicenthas Kristen Cole on her personal security detail rhaenyrahas versions of that too he’s mostly a decent person he’s honorable loyal to rhaenyra like he swears fealty to her like the other kings guard that are
on Dragonstone at the time he doesn’t get up to any really shady stuff or anything like that like he’s not like Criston Cole he’s not a terrible person or anything like that rhaenys then finally arrives on melees and explains everything that happened her father’s death what they did with aegon II trying to crown him steal her crown it just the shock of everything causes her to miscarry like it causes her to go into labor way earlier than she’s supposed to it turns into one of the most wtf scenes that we’ve probably ever seen on any
Game of Thrones series like the original series or this current series the way the books recorded this event they talk about they kind of brush over a little but they take it mostly as an ill portent of things to come like things were only going to get worse from here on out and that’s kind of the way the episode treats this scene too like this is the beginning of the end like the beginning of things getting really really bad for everyone daemon is clearly upset at the loss of their child but the thing about daemon
in this episode is they really try to make it clear in all the scenes that he’s doing everything he can to push rhaenyra to declare war like immediately after he finds out what happens he starts theorizing that the greens actually poisoned his brother like he died under mysterious circumstances they did something there might have been a little of that like Otto Hightower said he had all these contingency plans to kill off for an era and steal the crown no matter what like they were always going to try and put aegon the second on the Iron
Throne regardless of how things went down but even if they were trying to hasten viserys’s death and keep him bedridden that would have eventually happened no matter what like his illness was so degenerative was hurting his body so much much that even if they have been able to help a little they would only extended his life by a couple years so even though during this entire episode it seems like daemon goes full little finger like chaos is a ladder let’s try to thrive in chaos which reminds me of that funny conversation today with Tywin where
he tries to give him the same chaos as a ladder of speech in Taiwan kind of claps back at him saying that’s a stupid idea he would say that as if you were the first man alive to think it yes a crisis is an opportunity what other brilliant insights have you brought me today despite daemon doing all that he’s not totally off base like he’s a little bit correct in thinking that the greens did something shady and one of the other big ideas that they try to get across and all of raniero’s scenes during this
episode in particularly in episode 9 as well if it wasn’t as clear in both cases alicentand raniera are trying to be as cautious and measured about what they do next as possible avert war as much as possible because as renura says very plainly in the episode she doesn’t want to rule over the ashes and in both cases it’s all the people around them that become the biggest problems preventing them from doing what seems like the right thing to do like Otto Hightower has all of his plans to kill rhaenyra and all of her family no
matter what aemond goes full daemon winds up killing lucerys in on rhaenyra’s side daemon basically starts calling the war banners even though we’re near specifically instructed him not to he even chokes her out when she seems like she might accept alicent’s terms like how dare you not go to war then they have a scene with raineys that based answers a lot of people’s biggest question after the end of episode nine because after episode nine came out people are like why didn’t rainy’s just burn all the greens why didn’t she kill aegon alicent and all of
them the queen who didn’t say burn them all her rationale is that there like it would have been a war over this no matter what but she didn’t think that it was her place to be the one to actually fire the first shot to be the one to actually start the war itself and if we’re talking about the actual start I think we can call the Battle of Storms and like I said aemond vs luceris and luceris’s death the actual start they have another crazy scene where they intercut with branera trying to give birth to
visenya while daemon is doing his best to completely ignore what’s going on where all the other people around the map table like all the other Lords that are there the other members of the kingsguard the other regular soldiers they have on Dragonstone all talking about what they do next you hear raenyra screams for like the next giant chunk of the episode and all the other people just keep looking around like hey daemon do you want to go maybe check on uh what’s going on with the rhaenyra and the maester and it seems like he’s trying
to do everything he can to just complete completely ignore it he does grieve a little bit later but it just meant to show you where daemon’s priorities are it’s also meant to be a parallel for rhaenys taking Corlys Velaryonto task when she’s like you left me you were a terrible husband why did you just take off this is kind of like daemon’s version of the same thing jacarison luceris’s fight practice on the beach is also meant to foreshadow the end of the episode too where lucerys very clearly does not like fighting like he is the
opposite of aemond doesn’t want to have anything to do with this the King’s Guard who’s helping them there is a new character we haven’t seen before named Stefan darkling but he’s one of the two kingsguard that daemon forces to bend the knee the reason why rhaenyra then reminds jakaris that he’s Heir is because she’s in so much pain during this birth and because the life expectancy of people during this era like even this meant to be a parallel for the Medieval ages in real life life expectancy was extremely low for women in this case so
she’s actually doing a very good job as a ruler trying to establish a clear line of authority in case something happens to her or she becomes bedridden and can’t make decisions look they do want to show you during this episode that despite the end of the episode she is making very calm very measured decisions she would be potentially a very good Queen you also notice that the boys don’t call daemon father they call him daemon just to remind you that they still think of Harwin strong as their real father because he is daemon probably cared
for them but I think in the same way that he cared for laena Velaryon like he didn’t actually love her he doesn’t actually genuinely love them he just cares for them because he has to when daemon mentions house darklyn house Massey and Bar Emmon house darklyn is where Steffon Darklin comes from kingsguard now one of rhaenyra’s kingsguard they control Duskendale which lies here close to Dragonstone on the coast house Massey and House Bar Emmon also control different points on this edge of the bay all the houses that they reference are houses around the bay here
so it’s them basically gaining control of the entire narrow sea in the entire area around the Blackwater Bay so they cut off all support for the greens from the East for the most part that’s why daemon keeps saying that them controlling the riverlands in harrenhal in the middle here is so critical because it’s them basically boxing in the greens on both sides most of the trouble that they reference that they’re going to get are coming from the westerlands because they’re controlled by House Lannister which are firmly Team Green in any of the other houses loyal
to them like they say west of the golden tooth which is also home to a place that’s controlled by House Lannister in the gold mines most of their supporters that were Nero references like those houses are actually towards the north just because of their common ancestry and like I said in the case of the Starks for instance they are going through a similar experience to what’s happening to rhaenyra right now with someone trying to take her throne from her and even though daemon tries to jump the gun and do what raniera told him not to
do send the Ravens out already preemptively and call the Banners To War like find out who their supporters actually are he tries to fly caraxes to the tullys to secure them because they’re so critical technically he’s not wrong and wanting to do that because by the time luceris makes it to Storm’s End aemond has already made it there and the baratheons were actually really critical for them to have support like times of wasting grab as many supporters in the great houses as you can you also notice when daemon is making Steffon Darklyn and Laurent Marbrand
swear fealty the structure behind them seems like an old house that hasn’t been used in a long time like maybe someone used it before the time of aegon’s conquest it’s just a way to remind you that Dragonstone is a very big island and we’ve only seen parts of it so far and a lot of people are confused about how caraxis seems to have this weird telepathic link with daemon like does he control the dragon telepathically that’s not exactly what’s happening usually the strength of people’s bonds with their dragons is dependent upon the strength of their
own well daemon’s very strong-willed person so that’s not a big issue for him but they don’t actually have a real telepathic link with the dragons like he can’t give the dragon commands telepathically when they’re close enough the dragons can pick up on their emotions and just respond to that they can also see visual cues too like if the person seems like they’re pulling out their sword and getting really pissed off the dragons pick up on that like oh time to burn something get ready for them to say dracaris there are a lot of scenes like
this during the Game of Thrones series with Daenerys and her dragons like if the dragons are close enough they kind of pick up on her emotions if something is wrong with her they get really pissed off but it’s not like Daenerys was calling drogue onto her like drogon come to me save me it was more like her freaking out and drogon sensing that like oh my mother is freaking out I need to go help her this also sets up what happens with aemond and luceros later in the episode where vhagar disobeys him and attacks air
acts against his direct wishes like even when he’s yelling at vhagar who doesn’t listen to him it’s a good example of how the bond actually works between dragons and writers like their bond doesn’t give them absolute control over the dragons the dragons still have this fight or flight Instinct that’s way more powerful this Primal Instinct that kicks in when they’re in trouble in for example vhagar was responding to arrax blasting her with fire so she’s like how dare somebody tried to come kill me I’m gonna go take care of that this sort of kicks her
into Primal fighter flight mode and anything else just becomes background noise to her like aemond screaming at her just background noise at that point they use it to pay off viserys’s conversation with rhaenyra when she was younger in front of blurring the black dreads skull saying that the targaryens controlling dragons isn’t a real thing like that’s is a myth their power we should have never trifled with and this is a good example like aemond doesn’t actually control vhagar more like giving polite suggestions to vhagar that she can choose not to listen to if she doesn’t
feel like it maybe you don’t eat my nephew here you know what I’m not gonna do that I’m gonna eat this dragon and your nephew it’s sort of like real life where you hear about people who keep giant exotic animals like giant tigers or lions as pets and they eventually get mauled by those pets even if they seem docile up to that point during the scene of daemon telling the kingsguard to bend the knee they also intercut with rhaenyra’s birth thing they also flash the scenes of syrax reacting to rhaenyra’s birth as well like I
said low level Bond syrax is picking up on rhaenyra’s pain which is why syrax starts crying out when he tells them if they turn on them later they betray them they’ll die screaming that’s foreshadowing for future Seasons not specifically for these two kingsguard but just metaphorically going into the future because this is Game of Thrones betrayal is par for the course and when rhaenyraa actually loses her child visenya it’s meant to be a parallel for what happened to her mother AMA dying in childbirth trying to give birth to their last son she’s even wearing the
exact same clothing that her mother was wearing you also noticed during the barrel ceremony the silent sisters are standing behind them because Ranier is doing it all herself normally they wouldn’t do that like renira is grieving by doing this herself during the actual burial ceremony when they burned the body as is the Targaryen custom I believe they also play the same sad music track that they’ve used in previous episodes for similar scenes like this I want to say they use the same music track during her mother’s funeral scene then Eric who had escaped from King’s
Landing earlier stole her father viserys’s Crown so that she could crown herself Queen in the oath that he’s reciting is the traditional oath that all kingsguard takes just in general when they become one or when a newer king or queen comes along succeeding the last one daemon also plays in the crowd on her head as a parallel for him putting the crown on his brother’s head previously and while they’re crowning her they play the same theme music from episode 1 at the end where her father had been forcing everyone to bend need to her as
a child then next to war like time for our real Great War planning meeting they start checking supplies and weapons we see them dress up the map table as aegon the Conqueror would have when he was planning the conquest of the Seven Kingdoms it’s meant to be a parallel for that you also have to admire how they’ve given this literal and metaphorical glow up to the map table like it’s the same one from the Game of Thrones series but they’ve enhanced it in little ways just to make it way cooler looking like they use the
candlelight to light it up and make it function like an actual map daemon then introduces her to the room for the first time using her full title as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms when he says first of her name that’s because when you ascend the Iron Throne you become king or queen you actually get the number designation so for instance she and daemon have a child named aegon III alicent’s son is named aegon II even Jon Snow would have been named aegon VI Patty sat on the Iron Throne otherwise Jon Snow would have just been
called to regular old aegon if he’d grown up in King’s Landing and not taken the Iron Throne when he says Queen of the Andals the royner and the first men those are the three major ethnic groups in West Rose the first men were literally the first actual humans to occupy Westeros they came over on the land bridge about 12 000 years ago about two thousand years before the first long night the Andals invaded Westeros about four thousand years ago they originally came from this northern part of essos up here they brought the faith of the
seven so that’s why there’s a high septon in present day because of the andal influence the people closer to the Andals in their genetic lines exist around the middle of Westeros the people up in the north like the Starks Winterfell the errands mostly descend from the first men and then the roiner are literally nymeria and her ten thousand ships who invaded Dorne about 700 years ago so when we talk about nymeria in the 10 000 ships she’s a royner princess who first fought and lost a war against the Valyrian Freehold who were expanding into their
territory she took the survivors and sailed them to what became Dorne that’s part of the reason why the martells and Dorne have always hated the targaryens because the valyrians were the whole reason why they had to leave essos all the people in the room here are amongst the houses that they mentioned are supporting them at the start here daemon also says that he sent word to his men in the city watch that are still loyal to him but remember he created the gold cloaks even though it’s been several years some of his men still sit
on the gold cloaks when maester Girardi says that house celtagar and house Staunton already sworn to them they’re standing in the room here like this is bartimos celtegar they’re actually the third house in the realm who comes from ancient Valeria so later in the episode where they say a mysterious ship flying a green Banner with a three-headed dragon on it has appeared that’s a reference to the three Bloodlines that come from ancient Valeria that are in Westeros House Targaryen House of valerion and house celtagar but the celtaguards themselves are not Dragon Riders neither are most
of the valerians some of them are but not all them and like I said all the houses they mentioned that support them initially like right at the start here control the northern part of the Blackwater Bay in the southern part as well as Corlys Velaryonin driftmark we find out also Now controls the stepstones which basically gives them control of the entire narrow sea Massey bar Amman darklin are the other Lords who form her black Council like her version of the small Council basically everybody around the bay here becomes part of her small Council Corlys Velaryonwinds
up becoming her hand of the queen and Masseria Becomes Her Mistress of Whispers rhaenyra reminds us that her mother was from house Aaron so they’ll likely support them her mother was of Targaryen blood she and viserys were first cousins her mother was jahiris’s youngest daughter then really funny Easter egg here that you guys probably noticed with their reactions when they say they’re going to send for help from house Tully they talk about the lord of the house his name is Grover Tully as in Grover from Sesame Street his son’s name is Kermit Telly in the
sun’s son like the grandson is also named Kermit so it just seems like George R Martin is a big fan of Jim Henson as he should be but now we have Sesame Street and Muppets in Game of Thrones they mentioned house Baratheon and Storm’s end just said at the end of the episode with luceris and amid in what’s happened during the last time junk the last six years is that Borman Baratheon the one who actually supported her in benthani has died and his son has become Lord of Storm’s end the reason why she’s so sure
that they’ll support them is because of the their common bloodline now she references rhaenys but they actually go way back with the baratheons all the way to aegon the Conqueror luceris is basically like the cousin of Boris Baratheon because rainey’s mother was a Baratheon she was the sister of borros’s father but if you remember house Baratheon actually was created from a bastard from House Targaryen so Orman Baratheon first of his name was actually the bastard half brother of aegon the Conqueror they were great friends growing up and after he defeated argelak durandan in the stormlands
during the war of Conquest aegon basically gave him the stormlands and that created house Baratheon Robert Baratheon during the main Game of Thrones series is also part Targaryen through his grandmother’s side so he was cousins with Daenerys and Jon Snow even though he didn’t know that then when bartimo saltagar mentions all their dragons and daemon starts talking about numbers like here’s how many we control versus The Greens currently their side has access to 13 with potentially more in the future to the greens four with potentially the greens getting more in the future as well too
remember everyone inside the actual nuclear royal families are Dragon Riders but but some of the youngest ones who were just born recently are too young to actually ride dragons which is why the numbers aren’t higher but the big idea is that Ranier has access to more than three times as many dragons as the greens do which gives them more power theoretically they have a daemon and rhaenyra’s dragons craxies and syrax jakaris and lucerus’s Dragons of Vermax and aerax baby Joffrey has a dragon called taraxis which daemon mentions bala’s dragon is named Moon Dancer Reyna doesn’t
have one yet but she’ll get one eventually rhaenys has melees and his demon says they have access to several more like sea smoke laners Dragon still resides on driftmark but is currently riderless Silverwing and vermithor were alisan and joharis’s former dragons who’ve gone rightless since they died vermouthor is also the largest oldest dragon in the Kingdom next to vagar which is why he’s such a huge asset metaphorically and literally in all three wild dragons Roost on Dragonstone currently but they’re only able to claim one of them eventually its cannibal Gray Ghost and sheep stealer so
now there’s this Mad Dash to find anybody bastards and all who have a little bit of Targaryen blood just enough to bond with Dragons because they have more dragons and they have actual Riders right at the moment so when we say they’re going to introduce more Dragon seeds in season two it’s just people that are capable of riding dragons currently the greens only have access to Amos Dragon Veigar aegon the second’s dragon Sunfire and Helena’s Dragon dream fire but remember Helena has two children at least right here who are old enough will be able to
ride dragons soon in a third potentially daemon’s main plan initially at least is to invade harrenhal and use it as their main base of operations because it’s so centralized They Don’t Really address that after this in the episode so I’m assuming that’ll be one of the earliest WTF battles they have at the beginning of season two because you also remember the curse of harrenhal strange things befall the people who hold harrenhal also it’s a parallel for aegon in the conquest burning harrenhal so when daemon summons vermithor and he breathes all this far like a very
extended fire breathing sequence it’s like them foreshadowing him taking vermithor to burn harrenhal as they take it and because Lair is strong Lord weirdo foot ho holds the castle it’s not like they have any moral quandary with them sieging the castle the whole scene on the bridge with Otto Hightower is meant to be a parallel for their standoff in episode 2. rhaenyra appearing the same way she did before averting disaster like it seemed like daemon probably would have tried to kill Otto if rhaenyra hadn’t showed up just like he would have done back during episode
two you notice when Otto is reading alicent’s terms to her alicent’s words describe jacaerys and luceris as their true born Sons meaning if she accepts her terms all the greens will stop it with all the strong boy stuff they’ll be allowed to keep Dragonstone driftmark in their family lines but they have to give up all claims to the iron throne and even though it seems like she might accept it and they might avert War you remember Otto Hightower had no plans to let things go through this way he was going to kill rhaenyra and her
family any chance he got no matter what is another example of how alicentrhaenyra try to solve things sensibly but everybody around them like daemon on radera’s side and Otto Hightower on alicent’s side trying to do everything they can to burn the realm to the ground when daemon says he’d rather feed their sons to to a dragon that foreshadows lucerius’s death at the end of the episode because that pretty much what happens to luceris he’s basically eaten by vhagar because when the pieces of air X are falling into the sea you don’t see any of luceris’s
bits vhagar is so big though it’d be like being eaten by a house Otto Hightower also mentions Storm’s end they’ve sent Ravens already they’ve sent aemond just foreshadowing the end of the episode when they mention the Tulles 2 the tullys are a bit like what’s going on in Storm’s end like it’s a situation where you have half the family that support the greens and the other half that supports for an era so it’s a big question as to which side that they’ll go with but obviously they’re leaving that for season two then he gives her
the page of the history book that raniera tore out the day that she and alicenthad been reading in the godswood when they were younger so despite all the acrimony between them everything that happened across the years it’s meant to be a symbol of their relationship alicenthad kept it this whole time like there’d always been a chance that they’d eventually make up which they kind of did at the end of episode 8 but then obviously things go completely off the rails the page is what makes rhaenyra actually consider accepting alicent’s terms even though daemon chokes are
out for it the actual page was all about Princess nymeria the 10 000 ships in her invasion of Dorne it was meant to be a parallel for rhaenyra like a powerful woman Queen because nymeria wound up becoming the first queen of Dorne arya’s direwolf is also named after her so she’s like the most famous woman in the history of Westeros next to Daenerys although Daenerys is more Infamous than famous for obvious reasons but you get the parallel here like they’re trying to make you wonder based on what happens in this episode and what will eventually
happen to the dance of the dragons with the scorched Earth policy well what happens with renura be more like what happened with Daenerys or will it be more like princess nymeria conquering Dorne also zoom and enhance on the part of the actual text of this page about nymeria talks about her Fleet dispersing during the first storm sweeping the coast you could call that foreshadowing for the Storm at Storm’s end that luceris dies in at the end of the episode with aemondn vhagar and when she says she’ll give them her answer tomorrow had luceris not been
killed by aemond they want you to think that she probably would have accepted the terms like it’s luceris’s death that catalyzes her to call for a full-blown war in the actual start of the dance of the Dragons which is why the war drums music starts beating at the end of this like the war drums version of The Game of Thrones theme song and I’m sure aemond is going to regret his actions along with all the other terrible stuff most people will do on both sides of the rest of the conflict in future Seasons like it’s
full-on scorched Earth the phrase that she mentioned to Daemon earlier is very important I don’t want to rule over the ashes and when dragons go to war everything gets burned Daemon talking about dragons killing other dragons dragon slaying is more foreshadowing for the end of the episode you can also say it’s foreshadowing for the rest of the dance of the Dragons just in general too because there’s going to be so many dragon battles and when she talks to him about aegon’s prophecy you also notice that she’s standing near the north of the table right near
the actual wall the Frozen North the lands of always winter and we find out that viserys never told Daemon about aegon’s prophecy of A Song of Ice and Fire the long night the white walkers so even though Daemon understands what dragon dreams are he knows that they exist it sounds like he’s just trying to ignore everything she says as nonsense because he wants War so so badly I’m really interested to see with his character in future Seasons if they pay this moment off in some interesting way with Daemon getting his comeuppance so to speak by
learning about the white walkers the hard way like either gets turned into a white walker or a white or something like that something similar because the books never fully explain what happened to Daemon at the end of the dance of the Dragons they just say that he disappeared quote unquote after his final fight so it just leaves a lot of room for the show to pay off his ending in some really creative epic way you can let me know in the comments like what do you think will eventually happen to Daemon at the end like
will he get turned into a white or a white walker or something like that we finally get to see Corlys Velaryon come back and rainy has it out with him basically kicking him to tasks for being a terrible husband you kind of expect a version of this with rhaenyra and daemon at some point too like boroniro is actually like you’re a terrible partner for me he wants to pack it all up go back to driftmark and just secure his house like we need to take care of our own to ensure the survival of our house
the reason why they can’t do that is because he wants lucerys to take driftmark eventually and the greens have to kill all of rhaenyra’s family at least initially he declares for rheanyra and they get rhaenys in melees as well because obviously she comes with her husband but it’s very clear that Corlys does not like rhaenyra so keep an eye on him long term also a big surprise turns out he didn’t know what happened to his brother during episode 8 while he was recovering this also the reason why Daemon makes himself scarce when corlys comes to
Dragonstone like where’s Daemon oh you know he had stuff to do he’s busy somewhere else just because probably wasn’t a good idea for him to be standing there when corlys walked in if they wanted his support when bartimos celtegar suggests laying siege to the red keep that’s meant to be a parallel for Daenerys burning King’s Landing seige of King’s Landing but it takes a long time for that to actually happen so they’ll be like the end of season two maybe the end of season three they send all the kids off in different directions to treat
with the great houses to see whose support they can get and her telling them not to fight is just to set up the aemond versus lucerys’ fight where he refuses to fight tries to fly away and despite their best efforts even aiming to lose saris’s efforts the dragons go at it these three dragons that are flying off are arrax and Vermax the boys dragons and rainey’s on meleys who said she was going to go Patrol the gullet Daemon goes to the dragon caves on Dragonstone singing a Valyrian song summoning vermithor like I said biggest oldest
Dragon next to vhagar and the fact that he blows so much fire here probably just foreshadowing their Siege of harrenthal using him just like aegon the conqueror use blurring the black dread to burn harrenhal great way to stick it to Lara strong too even though they don’t know about all the weird feet stuff when lucerus arrives at storm’s end we get the best look at the exterior of the castle they’ve ever given us love the foreshadowing of vhagar in the background just to give you a sense and scale of the dread like the whole part
of the episode kind of turns into more of a horror story than a thriller the weather in the stormlands is also usually like this that’s why they call it the stormlands we meet borros baratheon for the first time then they had this funny moment real briefly where he gives him the message and they imply that borros can’t read like he gets really upset when he looks at the note someone bring the maester because the maester has to read it and explain it to him even though it seems weird that someone so Highborn as him can’t
read that’s not unusual for medieval times in books for instance were extremely expensive and valuable which is why it was such a big deal that renero ripped the page out of that one book that alicentkept you have to imagine that most of the realm is actually illiterate can you read everyone can you read even though he seems really prickly his major objection to their message is mostly that they don’t offer him anything like a marriage to his daughters or something else like he just wants some form of payment from rhaenyra or some tribute which the
greens did offer even though he doesn’t say they imply that because aymond is standing next to one of his daughters here they pledged aemond’s hand in marriage to one of his daughters aemond goes full-on Daemon chaos is a ladder and won’t let him leave without pushing for a fight wanting a chance at revenge an eye for an eye calling him a strong boy telling him to take his eye out just like they did back in the past revealing the sapphire eye that now sits in the place of the one that he lost this is also
right out of the books like he had a sapphire fake eye and like I said earlier I don’t think aemond wanted to kill him he just wants to see him experience some pain and toy with him in a really sadistic kind of way clearly things got out of hand that’s why I said earlier they pay off this earlier comment about them not really being able to control dragons because even though luceris tries to fly away like he just tries to get away as fast as possible it seems like when arrax attacked Vega that was him
going rogue it wasn’t luceras telling him to attack vhagar then it triggers vhagar’s flight or flight response who goes after arrax and lucera’s dying as just collateral damage of that it’s just an unfortunate side effect but now we get to see how Daemon in rhaenyra are going to respond to that like they said they’re going to give the greens their response on the Maro their response is probably going to be something really crazy Daemon is probably going to go off the chain with his revenge they’re all chasing his death scene was also great too so
rip press F to pay respects too bad we’ll have to wait till the beginning of season 2 to actually see them pay off their revenge but overall it was a great episode great finale I felt like they did a good job of wrapping things up and pushing into season two it felt a lot like the older Sseasons the original seasons of Game of Thrones if you spotted any other big easter eggs or references in the episode that it didn’t talk about in the video or big questions just write them below in the comments and I’ll
do a big top 10 WTF predictions video for season two next you can click here for that I’ll update the link as soon as I post that and click here for all my other house the dragon videos thank you so much for watching everyone stay it safe and I’ll see you guys in the next one!
