HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Episode 10 Reaction! 1×10 Review | Season 1 Finale Ending | Game Of Thrones
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yeah Egon has been crowned as his successor how did viserys die I could not say so soft-spoken that of a queen murdered my brother and stole his throne and you could have burnt little friend that war is not mine to begin I only rushed this morning to you out of loyalty to my husband and to my house the greens are coming for you rhaenyra oh we should leave Dragonstone at once yeah okay ever the conscientious one oh no blood is coming of course our term is far from complete this should not be happening it is
happening stress you know we’re kind of get up get up get up this show definitely makes birth seem like the most horrific thing conscript the dragon Keepers they’re capable Fighters waste no time it will be done my prince I hope everyone here remains loyal to you there’s got to be a spy in there somewhere what’s this to be done about it nothing yet where is Damon I don’t know gone to Madness gone to plot his War but leave them with me wow my pulse are so up the knuckles are white my mother has decreed no
action be taken while she’s in bed it’s good you’re here Young Prince did you hear what I said the Ravens looked at this I shall see it done yeah I’d lose I’d listen to demon come with me I’ll show you the true meaning of loyalty oh I’m grateful for your long service to the crown so I’m presenting you with a choice let’s do a little mutiny huh what’s the choice oh you knew you’re out to Rainier as your queen yep oh if you support yourself speaker now if you swear fealty now only to later turn
your cloaks huh know that you will die I was gonna say it looks like no one’s able to do anything what the hell wow oh oh my God oh how horrible Jesus Christ there’s a lot yeah foreign just seems awful whenever you see this guy around for a pregnancy he’s like pregnancy of any kind in this world is a kind of an awful experience no matter what did the whole thing herself bag that’s really that’s really brutal and I can’t believe they showed that much interesting how the first episode started off with her mother having
a failed delivery here we are bookending it seems like the beginning middle and end even have all been marked by bitter pregnancies Eric or Eric I swear toward the queen I shall take no wife hold no lands father no children I shall guard her Secrets ride at her side and defend her name and honor I mean she needed a significant moment wow come on Iranians bend the knee come on damn a hell of a shot this feels almost like Lucid it’s like you’re so steeped in all the emotion and the literal weight of the crown
it fell that is very beautiful let’s say I gotta get a hunk of wood and some candles and build me one of those you can buy one from Kmart thank you thank you Reina wouldn’t hurt to mix up the names George armor you know loses a baby immediately gets to work yo of course owns a power that has not been seen in this world since the days of old valyria dragons none of our dragons have been to war there are also unclaimed dragons she smokes still resides on driftmark oh Dragonstone has 13 to therefore I
also have a score of eggs incubating in the dragon Mound and we could have every green head mounted on spikes before the Moon Turns along gallium flying a banner of a three-headed Green Dragon although the watchtowers inside the skies dude Damon is ready he’s been waiting for this it’s just gone all in the hyper Focus mode yeah here we are again a little jittery there Damon a lot of mirroring happening this episode it Rhymes I come at the behest of The Dowager Queen Alice Lord and protector of the Seven Kingdoms where is the princess really
calling back cheese acknowledge aegon as king and swear a basins before the iron throat hell no it says Grace will confirm your possession of Dragonstone viserys will be confirmed as the legitimate air to drift Mark and all the lands and holdings of house valarian we’ll also be given places of high honor at court this guy’s such a dick rather feed my sons to the dragons and have them carry Shields and cups for your drunken new Serpent of a king yeah he was anointed by a septum of the faith before the eyes of thousands every symbol
of legitimacy belongs to him oh my auto God you own him more hand than egg of his King concentrator Grand maester is this you’re talking like so modern in this episode enough of the yeah cut the crap high tower Queen Alison has not forgotten the love you once had for each other no plant need to be spilled the realm can carry on in peace Queen Alison deeply awaits your answer she could have her answer now stopped in her father’s mouth along with his withered let’s send this mum as far no come on yes Queen King’s
Landing will have my answer on the moon dropping bombs when dragons flew to war everything burned I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of Ash and Bone yeah good boy father talking my father’s dead and he chose me as his successor to defend the realm not cast it headlong into the enemy have declared war what are you going to do about it I mean she’s like a spirit that’s just haunting I know she exists Beyond everything have fun guys my oath reaches beyond our personal Ambitions A Song of Ice and Fire the coming
war against the darkness in the north a conquerors dream if Sarah shared it with me when he named to me no dude my brother was a slave to his Island’s importance oh anything to make his feckless man appear tough purpose dreams didn’t make us Kings too far man yeah we gotta unpack that bro I never told you oh wow ouch I mean what do you have to know I guess no what do you have to know yeah never consider him to be one to inherit the throne or maybe Damon thought like he would be I
mean no he did he lives he lives his fever has broken I understand you have a new king no right to business everyone wait wait for No One in our son’s death that girl destroys everything she touches that girl is holding the round together at present wow we’re nearest the only one who’s demonstrated restraint an unlikely Alliance they both got poised look always felaria it wow very sorry about your father princess he’s a good man and I your brother where is Damon there are other concerns which demanded the prince’s attention he didn’t want an awkward
conversation he’s much happier playing with his dragons both Aaron and Baratheon share blood with my house but all of them swore Oaths to me as did house Hightower as did you yeah yeah yeah I did I’m gonna go lay down again this high tower treason cannot stand you have the full support of our Fleet oh my God oh my God I turn real quick on that chat save up money for season two we got some battles to get to uh consult a gold company could have killed aegon caution does not mean standing fast I wish
to know who my allies are before I send them to war now she’s playing a smart man yeah consequence of my near demise in the stepstones is that we now control them I took care to fully Garrison the territory this time oh the triarchy had been routed the narrow sea is ours in that grip I should take me Elise and Patrol the gullet myself are we going to war baby we’re going to war we should bear those mistress dragons can fly faster than Ravens and then more convincing yeah intimidate them and to agree that always
works Prince is right your grace it’s the cast of avatar The Last Airbender let’s take no part in any fighting swear it to me no under the eyes of the seven I swear I will not kill anyone I would hope that as men you can find some common interest yes as men as half black blonde men yeah always looks so unsure of yourself man go to it then chop chop this is the first episode with like like motivating music yeah yeah yeah we gotta reach further than we’ve ever dreamed before all right that’s beautiful it’s
like Avatar the James Cameron movie every Avatar well and this one it’s it’s funny this is the most like all the ways they capture the castle of Dragonstone it really does look like a big dragon curled up and especially when they’re having like meeting it’s so intimidating it looks like he’s trying to get more dragons how many dragons at once could he have loyal to him wow wow nice beautiful psychic connection Halloween ends I’ve seen everyone you’ve ever dracar East you’ve got this hiccup I’m real afraid one of these kids are gonna die yeah I
feel like this kid’s about to die I think they’re gonna kill that dragon foreign monster movie right here this kid’s a goat in the T-Rex pen I’ll bring a message to Lord Boris from the queen okay that’s fine that’s fine had a feeling man yeah Don’t Do It Eamon oh so the tracker does not seem to know who rules it Jesus he’s so good at that stair Eamon he’s gonna like charge him or some yeah he’s gonna slice his head in half or something if I do with your mother which one of my daughters will
you win I’m already betrothed so you come with empty hands I shall take your answer to the queen my Lord wait what what what I came as a messenger not a warrior I promised my mom fight would be a little challenge I want you to put out your eye wow I would not blind you I plan to make a gift of it to my mother oh she’s gonna love that then you are craving as well as a traitor not here get me all right I’ll not have blood shape beneath my roof take princess back to
his dragon oh this ain’t over better hurry up and get away man oh I think amen’s gonna find him in the sky or some yeah most definitely he only said no Bloodshed under my roof don’t stand around dude just get out of there oh no oh no sorry for this dragon just waiting for an appear man it’s like every one of these clouds is that it is not smart man get above it there it is oh still oh he’s just laughing maniacally wow oh my God the size to your advantage this is kind of crazy
we’re doing this until this looks amazing but this is scary no I’m I’m so tense right now he’s saying Vegas too big yeah I was gonna say I use that size to your advantage you can hide and do faster maneuvers oh dude oh oh no oh what is about to happen oh God it must be so cold up there oh oh wow oh wow foreign that was wild yeah I was and they had no control over their trash Damon’s returning huh what did he do did he did he gain some of the feral dragons or
something I think he’s given the message about what happened this poor woman man poor dragon oh what’s this look gonna be yeah right into your soul oh holy wow huh it’s a great last shot that’s crazy yeah hmm what’s really important is you guys buy a shopzeroedition.com get your support in for team black now you did team black now in order for us to win this war we gotta crush the greens yeah if you haven’t read the I don’t know what’s I’m like damn all this happened in that book all this and more is always
the impression I get all this but way more messed up wow we got some to talk about boy howdy all right guys so in between cuts as I heard there is so much I because of this episode you know there’s a little leak happened so I heard book readers really did not like this episode a lot obviously I didn’t know specifics as to why because I was like well if you can’t tell me because we gotta react to the episode so in between cuts I was like I really like this episode uh I mean I
got like I got like some some things that I thought were like why didn’t we talk about this yeah is there some some points that I like we probably should have had more of a discussion on on these things you know the baby the dragon flashes while the baby is happening parts of the baby will kind of look like a dragon yeah we could spend a little more time in the morning yeah there’s everybody that first found that yeah there were some conversations that I was like you know but still thought it was a great
episode yeah it was gripped the entire time so uh as I’m so I was like all right I want to look up because I’m like like crazy like am I wrong like what’s my enjoyment wrong and it sounds I mean there are things about the way the handling of the characters are that seems to have really pissed off some people I don’t know everything obviously because we didn’t read the book but uh we do have a shirt representing the book team black from a book that I’ve heard really inspires people to pick teams um yeah
I heard the see I thought the aiming moment as someone who’s all we can come from is like I gotta just kind of throw all that away anything I just learned in the past couple minutes I kind of just got to throw all that away and just talk about um how we felt about the episode itself because that matters like we didn’t read the book so you know like I’m not gonna be bothered by certain things other than things that I thought on a filmmaking writing poem like this should have been done a little better
but for the most part I still thought it was great but yeah that one of the ending one of the ending moment Parts is the thing that clearly is upsetting people looking online of uh like uh Veigar Vegas would be there right yeah it’s right there yes there you go Vega and Eric’s yeah there you go um so vegar all week two three hours of sleep guys my memory is going to be lapsing a lot more during this discussion of course gonna happen during the House of the Dragon finale but yeah I think the thing
that people was uh pretty upsetting with people is also the fact that Eamon didn’t directly kill yeah that it was like he lost control of the Dragon yeah it becomes there’s a lot apparently that they that they have the handling of the characters that they did differently that have really upsetting people but that’s like one of the last things I read but I don’t know I I I guess like sure it can undercut some of the you know the ruthlessness and determination and the and perhaps it can lend a little bit more to a situation
of next season of him being like it was an accident I don’t know a lot of looked pretty intentional for most of it and then it was like oh no didn’t want to go that far it’s like when the bully’s bullying someone and it’s like I didn’t mean to kill him yeah the ledge or something and oh there goes their spine um yeah or they got eaten yeah yeah because uh so far this whole season a lot of it has been feeling like a lot of things that have turning points feel like misunderstandings but in
terms of the episode itself I was gripped by it uh I like the Lucid quality to it and I like the the mournful side that also had this like uh inspiring angle to it and I think yep it’s already happening what is the actress’s name who plays renira darson Emma Darcy I think Emma Darcy has a wonderful internalized performance where I could feel there’s a lot more thought processing happening in arguments and conversations then she’s probably letting on sure and I really I really like the the pulse of the way the hostility within characters was
Rising because you would have like Damon who after learning of the death has become you know his way of grieving with this is Revenge they’ve wronged me they’ve wronged us they’ve wronged the family they’ve killed my brother and he’s just becoming a bull bulldog about it and he’s going straight into it but you know he’s also trying to honor reynera but there’s a there’s a battle of of the Soul here because it doesn’t feel like what rhaenero wants because he wants to just go in like let’s let’s murder let’s annihilate let’s get all these dragons
together let’s just F everyone up and she’s trying to take a more calculated approach as raining said showing resistance and I like that that tug of because you obviously Rainier wants to take action but it’s a very much like the the speed of them like is at odds with each other in the battle and the approach and how it’s tearing them apart I was surprised by it man like I The Game of Thrones World dealing with audiences is rough could be a rough Journey for people I understand I understand then all I think we can
do is go how did we feel about this on its own I do think some stuff should have been uh talked about a little bit more like she lost a baby in a very brutal way they had these inner splicing moments with the dragon and I didn’t quite know what to make of it there were parts of the baby that look like dragon scale someone was pointing that out to me and or someone was pointed out to everyone who will listen and I I was like yeah but I thought it could it just kind of
looked like a a dead baby like that that was born too early prematurely yeah it didn’t it didn’t read explicitly at the time in the moment as if the baby was like a hybrid of any kind but then they could cut him back to the dragon yeah so I didn’t know I thought there was more of an emotional thing they were doing some type of like the Dragon one in her but well and you know like the the obvious symbolism of like a a mouth but then cutting to a scaled up mouth with gnarled teeth
during a moment such as birth where you know I feel like there’s a pretty obvious kind of visual spiritual metaphor you can draw especially in a birth as hostile and harsh as this one is portrayed but they we didn’t do any real talking about it afterwards uh like no real like we had a scene where they grieved about it because that was such a harsh brutal like that was that was you know wow that is like that that was the I’ve had two pregnancy scenes in this in this like I’m I’m not a woman and
that was hard for me as a man it was a guy just observing like this is really hard for me to watch oh sure like the first episode in this like it is such they are both very hard scenes and this one also was just very hard and she lost a baby like she she lost a child and we’re not really no one’s no one really talks about it yeah and I mean you again I think you could argue that part of that has to do in the immediate moment it feels sort of like okay
it’s the compounding effect of her being so internalized and having to exert so much Poise because she knows she’s surrounded by people who are quick to action and you know maybe slow to thought but at the same time it feels like what’s been made of her children and their lineage and the fact that this is a child with Daemon I feel like there would be a more pointed yeah emotional response between the two of them and again I guess you could argue that they both close off and go do their own things when they’re grieving
but at the same time that and and viserys there are lots of Great Moments officers no and there are great moments that that ring that Bell to a degree and touch on those relationships well I think just the interruption sorry sorry you know I’m not a big fan of that um is is like I think the The Grieving of viserys is shown through Damon’s performance the whole time it is it is and and I already nourish yourself you know yeah yeah and I feel like that’s a place where I could have used maybe another scene
either good or or bad catharsis in terms of especially with them touching on this idea that you know viserys clearly he he showed his true error the the prophecy The Song of Ice and Fire and Damon is clearly hurt by that but but one thing that’s made Damon’s character so interesting is that frequently he will show that as Reckless as he is as much as he doesn’t care about how much of a detriment he can be to his family he still very much loves and cares for his brother especially and so yeah like because that
casts such a Paul and you have all the political stuff that it sets in motion but because of like the last time they all saw him and these circumstances like yeah I think the episode in the moment does a good job of sweeping you up into the like well we need to act like the machine is is running now like you know we there’s no time for these emotions and and yet I think yeah yeah if I one of the few gripes I would Levy in an episode like this is that yeah like especially because
the portrayal of visceras and it’s funny that people have had so many problems with the portrayal of the characters but unless he’s just you know marketing for HBO like George RR Martin was like yeah you’re like this is better than my character like I loved your take on this character and he has been a character that you know has been a a very big highlight is a weird word because he’s had a really harsh Journey but he’s a highlight of the series and so you would I think expect for the ending of the season and
for you know he will be remembered in the seasons to come but this is the time to pay tribute to him at the end of the you know this part of the story and so I feel like yeah we could have used an emotional unpacking or discussion or something about him from them specifically um or somebody like Otto Hightower could have also mentioned like I get why he doesn’t but somebody could have mentioned like oh yeah and by the way he changed his mind on his death bet like we could have also had that conversation
yeah because people clearly will talk about that at King’s Landing you know I mean there’s a whole lot of big chunks dedicated to that in the last episode I guess one part of me because it’s like yeah in the moment I I actually was thinking that I’m like are you gonna mention this and then the other part of me was like is there a point in mentioning like would that do anything would they believe you know it the only thing I could see it’s it’s one of those like I feel like he could use it
as some kind of uh you know uh mind screw basically to sort of suggest that even though I’m sure she probably wouldn’t be inclined to believe it but suggested well this is what he said as he was dying you know like you know that that could at least be a mental manipulation mind you know land mine tactic or something but at the same time one thing the season seems out to do and one thing I think makes sense too in character is like no we’re not gonna fit around this we’re going to you know again
we’ve already taken action and you know and this was my plan all along like I always recognize this guy as the true air all along and you know that so I’m not gonna BS you look guys while I haven’t read the book I think I know exactly how this is going to end this whole show everyone’s gonna be dead it’s just going to be Allison and renera on the beach and they are just bleeding out and they are they have both have knives in their hands she’s got the Song of Ice and Fire dagger and
and then you know like when it’s when renera gets the final steps you know they’re slowly dying it’s like they get that you found like yeah yeah but I still respect you and uh and then she’s like what were my what were my father’s last words like she says that and then um she quotes his last words and then they’re like you mean to tell me this is all just a big misunderstanding what that’s the thing too that I that there have definitely been some significant complaints about and I’ve this is like if this just
got out to them like what exactly was said in that room I feel like that should maybe not exactly like that but I feel like that ought to happen because I feel I I understand that in the in the book it is different and a lot of things happened intentionally because here in this episode it’s an accident the way luceris died uh and you know this whole thing with uh aegon has been escalated because of an accident and and to me as a viewer of the show in isolation that has felt like a theme a
sort of you know these big plans in this these prophecies and this you know this Game of Thrones is all human and it’s all based on perspectives and and what messages are going where and sometimes the you know it’s a sometimes there’s a game of telephone and sometimes people just mistake stuff and then that’s the history now and so like I appreciate that as an idea as a theme and I have enjoyed it here and I have sort of uh uh you know I chalk that moment with you know viserys you know yeah spouting out
the pieces of the prophecy thinking he’s talking to ramira as part of that but I can also see why that doesn’t feel as satisfying as like a much more smart and deliberate choice I guess sure as it sounds like the book does instead of some of these things I don’t know out of town we get involved with the discourse I find it fun I’ve found it interesting to hear what book readers say because I respect it I can’t I would never be like hey it’s different you know different medium because I’ve had that with my
own experiences with other properties like it can be hard to divorce yourself from it and and feel like it’s I think that the thing is like what if it’s doing it on both levels like okay it’s an insult to the source of the book and then it’s also it’s also like contradicting or undermining things that came before in the actual show you know yeah like that’s what I think like okay and I got a real problem you know um because yeah it’s like that I love I love the I love it a lot about it
you know like rain is kind of just cracked me up in this episode God just give her the throne please Spirit walking around observing she’s like it’s not my War but I’m gonna kick it here because I’m literally kind of leaning here um so I’m a very subconscious level I’m very much leaning towards joining her side and that’s why I didn’t murder them last episode but I keep sticking around and even when uh uh oh Micah Corliss uh wakes up first thing I’m gonna start doing has been like you know she’s actually giving her together
real well yeah maybe we should have learned I got your back yep should have killed that kid sorry oh boy God and I love the two of them like and even the way that turns around like immediately because they’re talking about like I don’t know who we’re gonna lie ourselves with and the second he gets in that room he’s like well yeah I’m gonna die a treason if I say anything else but also yeah the scene when I the scene when uh Damon uh uh has is arguing with rhaenera and he chokes her that’s a
hell of a turning point that’s that’s like that’s HBO right there that’s it it’s not TV you can’t have it’s HBO can’t have HBO if you’re male leading actors not every pitch begins with that Mark of a good HBO show right there every HBO story is just about how we got to the moment when some of the male leads the male lead becomes domestically violent that’s that’s when you know you’re watching HBO show welcome back to the domestic violence Network um no that that is the turning point though for sure I think I think the
the thing that was kind of baffling to me is I thought they said some statement about like no don’t worry we cut back on like the harming of women and there’s only like really like Runner is like really hurt a lot in this I think they that that like if I didn’t hear that I think I don’t think I would have thought of that I mean obviously not um I think they meant they cut down on on a the amount of gratuitous brought those scenes and then B how many of those things escalate toward violence
got it got it got it got it okay yeah I think it’s more like no this is still a cruel world for women yeah you know yeah it’s cruel for everyone um yeah so but that but that moment what I thought was neat about it was because rhaenera doesn’t is not really fighting him she’s not even struggling like to really like it’s not like hitting him or whatever she’s like using the moment to listen to him and and observe what he’s saying yeah so when he’s done choking her she flips it on her like you
have no idea what I’m talking about he didn’t see you he didn’t really see you as a viable successor yeah like never did oh wow he really did believe in me yeah yeah that’s what I think I thought that was neat I mean I I feel like you know there’s there’s some subjects here within this episode alone that I’m like as as a guy I have my opinion of from observing but I’m sure like on a on a woman’s perspective it could be very different how some of these scenes are received you know so yeah
uh I thought the the final it was really obvious like I didn’t we didn’t read the book it’s really obvious to freaking just uh like the second he shows up and and it’s just a horror movies stormy night you’re just like okay they’re definitely dead uh it was still a really tense moment and I thought it was beautiful like I don’t recall Game of Thrones even doing a dragon scene of that like when would they have that uh like a this dragon writing through the night and that is and it’s like medieval fantasy landscape like
it was gorgeous to look at and was intense and there was that part of me that was like I hope not um and then like the reveal of agar like riding above them in the clouds it was terrifying like there’s terrifying I felt bad for the kid I felt like he was going to die the second they were like don’t kill anyone just message me yes I mean not that that’s as much like there’s a part of me that thinks part of that maneuver was a little bit silly honestly because it’s like you’re you’re sending
them into the lines then yeah they’re showing up a Dragon too you know you’re literally sending them to people you know have since broken their oath and are just expecting that it will be fine wasn’t it just yesterday when Eamon was ready to like kick your kid’s ass and what’s to say like the second he shows up at the end and vegar Rears her head like you’re like oh yeah well of course they would have people around here they’re the their the the source of all power right now in the in the realm so like
they would have people probably wherever all their allies are because they would expect be expect like I think she would I think it would be reasonable to expect that uh someone like reniro would know that there would probably be occupation or you know soldiers or something from the crown wherever she’s going to send these people because if their allegiance is in question of course they’re they’re going to know that too and want to solidify it you know yeah no I mean apparently it happens in the book but I think the I mean just a day
so that’s not on the show so that’s not a problem so yeah take that video message you know how smart are you now book JK the thing is you know what though the thing a while ago I was listening to something and and and you know the the critics said basically like the instead of reading a book and then watching a movie what he likes to do instead is do what the other the opposite way around and and this experience and then hearing not so much like with the end of The Game of Thrones series
because I think that went the way it did for other reasons but something like this I have thoroughly enjoyed for all 10 episodes and have you know like this feels like really gripping High Caliber event TV still for me and it also still gets me excited for the idea of diving into the book at some point you know and and and seeing the level of detail change and and all of that the expansive experience won’t do it no not until the show’s over no well yeah I mean that’s yeah for an ongoing experience like this
yeah I don’t I don’t want to spoil anything that might be rearranged out of context but it does make me curious messages would be cool to catch Easter eggs in the moment and stuff and then be like here’s what they changed and here’s where it’s gonna lead to or maybe not now they can’t be there yeah yeah I I like not knowing um yeah absolutely especially when seeing how upsetting it is I was like quite liked it I will say that generally this show has been every episode has gotten like a better for me okay
it started off great and it just kept getting greater and greater and greater and this was the first time I was like not greater like this is not my favorite like like every new episode was becoming like oh that’s a contender for favorite episode like that’s the way it was sort of going for me but this one um definitely like there were there were some some stuff about the last episode that made me go I’m not sure so great this sort of felt like the last and first episode of a season to me in in
a sense yeah yeah I felt like they were really trying to wrap a lot up yeah and I was like why are we rapping stuff like we’re just set up yeah absolutely because I think you could still end on the same kind of note without having to wrap all that stuff up and leave some of that for later when we can expand on it yeah if it was there am I giving you reminders of when people try to wrap a series up well I’m like we’re not wrapping up a series wrapping up a season right
now but you’re also you’re leaving it open to continue it for next season so it’s it’s not like you have to end it in a way of we might not come back so you know we’ll wrap it all like that’s not what you’re doing so some stuff I thought was like no let’s deal with like the they just saw this series yeah let’s have the craving moments they just lost a baby like let’s deal with this let’s let’s go into the conversations it’s been a it’s been one of the best parts about this show and
they do take the time to have those conversations for a show that I feel like has mastered time jump they weirdly skip over a lot of it seems like very important things to to deal with with our characters that seem to be kind of like this happens oh I’m sad moving on as opposed to something looming you know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and I think that I I guess I would agree with that assessment yeah that like I like this episode a lot a lot of things about it it wouldn’t be yeah that continuous
rise and and partly because I feel like another thing that has made the show so good on top of the grip on time jumping is the balance between again the the big world political stakes and the small personal Stakes the weight of the crown and all of its Pursuits and this episode felt like it zoomed out more than it zoomed in and it left a lot of the zoomed in stuff I agree with that yeah in the performances so luckily you have Emma DARS and you have Matt Smith and people who can carry that around
with them but yeah I feel like the writing didn’t do such a good job at balancing the two here but uh for this one was cool I always love toilets I don’t remember what happened well and two it’s I think it is interesting and I would love to hear more opinions about the fact that like I feel like the show has been marked like you pointed out there’s the bookends of the birth with you know uh uh uh raniera’s mother uh uh you know in the early you know the first episode and then in the
middle you get not only a a raniera birth but you also get Lena and that whole thing and then you get this and uh and and and two like the whole Lane of thing not that it’s like directly tied to this but there is a very heavy Dragon element there so it’s like there there are these interesting symmetries and these interesting you know themes they’ve peppered throughout yeah I’m not sure the purpose of it other than the I mean it’s like the Symmetry is obvious yeah because I mean obviously correlate it it’s like first one
is renera’s Mom viserys dealing with this uh that’s like really tied to radera and then because that person could have been the boy right yeah the the King for a Day there for a day right so got his own funeral pyre that was uh more linked to Rainer and then the next one was more linked to Damon and then now this is about both of them yeah you know so it’s like yeah one two three commas this is the true like it’s the trilogy I wanted well and then two you have the the one right
near a birth which is like a weird display of strength where she’s like damn it I’m marching in Dallas this film with my baby and here it’s oh yeah there’s at Birth too yeah yeah yeah and then here you flip that around where it’s like no one I am doing this alone and I’m doing it on my terms and and and yeah it’s like a much more sickly kind of gollumy moment in a way so it’s like it’s never before have I seen his season so marked by traumatic birthing scenes well I think this episode’s
um pulse was interesting like it was a bit weird like a bit Lucid at times sometimes very uh sometimes felt very like definitely focused on the immediate moment but I think it was there were there were some shortcomings in the season wrap-up syndrome um and I because because there was plenty of times where I was like man this is really intense just I’m gearing up and learning information and getting ready to go like this is intense I’m so craving pizza right now by the way like this is so weird this is so intense um you
said a flash of Pizza House pepperoni wow I could see the crusted the cheese is she’s here and I just felt and screaming come over in my oven yeah but it was it was it was good it was it was a good one um I I I I liked it I liked it a lot it was a different it was very different than the other ones and I think sometimes because they didn’t have I got the impression that sometimes they didn’t have enough run time to do the dialogue scenes so they would try to really
make up for it with like mood and atmosphere and tone and like The Grieving scenes like just really no no one talked just really show it you know and to be fair to a degree it is a time for for you know Stone silence and reflective silence so I don’t begrudge the episode those tones either and auto man he shows up man what a dick every time well now more than ever Jesus master plan has come to fruition he is like all about himself right now Mr Coffee yeah no if there’s anyone I want to
see die it’s him horribly I love watching him but he’s also the one I’m like man you show up and just you talk like you’re so pompous you’re so arrogant I just want you to die like smug is the word yeah you’re a smug seldom have I experienced a character where like when he when he gets you know he relieved the first time of being hand and they send him away rarest Decades of Mormon damn I’m kind of sad to see him go and then the second he shows back up I’m like I hope someone
kills him yeah but he showed up here I was like just go for it yeah just kill him you know what’s coming you know what’s gonna happen yeah yeah yeah I’m also I’m curious to to see how this sits with me and how part of me thinks it’s cool that they ended the season on here’s one episode only from one perspective and one episode only from the other and part of me wonders if there could be some kind of maybe lacking Symmetry and that we should have some kind of I don’t know side by side
at the very end but I don’t know I thought it was kind of a unique Choice given how much each episode is usually shown you a bit of everything which I think I think doing that really helps establish the Divide yeah yeah of Team Green versus Team blacks I I think that that was a great choice damn you were saying something no no I don’t think I really needed them to come back around to say anything including both sides like I think I think you’re probably yeah it’s like you leave us off with just how
bad things have gotten at home in the last one and then this one it’s yeah here’s here is the fight for next season and here is you know from our main perspective from Rainier’s perspective you know what is to come I think you know like Eamonn having like vague like Eric’s accidentally attacked like Eric’s out of um luceris’s control attacking didn’t bother me um vegar attacking out of eamon’s control didn’t bother me it was only when I heard why I bothered people that I was like oh yeah I guess that would have been a stronger
Choice see in the moment I was at the moment I didn’t I didn’t mind I was like oh that’s terrible and even though they’re both you know Dragon Riders to different degrees you know how can in control are they really their kids to some degree still you know so in that moment I bought it for those various reasons so then yeah yeah but when hearing that I like I like the choice more of Amen was like uh Eamonn if Eamon was um it it is stronger to me if aemond is as opposed to like ah
great another another mistake he’s just upgrade it yeah another mistake that’s gonna either make this character try and get more sentimental or just become much worse because I still feel like to me it doesn’t undercut that Eamonn made a mistake still that this is still eamon’s mistake he’s still the one who chose to like relentlessly pursue this guy out in this weather but then ride that dragon and he was like see the whole time I thought he was trying to kill him yeah so like um you know as opposed to just get the eye it
the whole time I was convinced he was just trying to kill him okay and so this is still his fault you know like because like he oh he can’t walk away going it’s not my fault he’s like you can’t walk away say that even though it was vegar who didn’t listen to him you can’t say that because I’m like well you gotta pushed it to this point man yeah you invited this 100 I’m sure Vegas probably only the impression that doesn’t support his job was you wanted that kid to believe he was about to die
and probably his dragon as well so what do you expect yeah yeah I still I still felt like it was his it was his fault regardless not like he’s not he’s not revoked of responsibility like I still feel like no he’s pretty much like 99.9 responsible for what happened so I think that’s why like I like the choice of him just going headstrong into it um but you know if he tries to like do a whole episode of like copying out of it like it was an accident which I don’t think I don’t see him
it almost seems like in this world Eamon would just be like uh yeah I killed him yeah I guess I did yeah sure you know he should have just let me take the eye it’s his fault you should have just let me exact my equal revenge and that’s it instead he got himself eight and and burned up all right guys well House of dragon you know it’s like I think the thing that has me worried is that the the show’s been so positively received yeah and then when this leaked it was like oh my God
the book readers are all like pissed off yeah yeah yeah yeah they would be the ones who were like no no I don’t care about the viewing experience I’ve got to go right in and see what this is I think I don’t wanna I don’t want to do this again we’ve all been enjoying it please please I know there’s some who don’t just let us but it seem like everyone was happy let us have one satisfying finale I can’t do this to my soul again I know what’s season two gonna be like is it gonna
be a disaster no Miguel sapochnic maybe it is a bigger deal uh alrighty I hope it it’s I hope it’s good maybe they’ll take some some notes from the internet we’ll see you guys thanks for being here much love see you in two years
