HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Episode 2 Breakdown & Ending Explained | Review & Game Of Thrones Easter Eggs

welcome to the heavy spoilers show i’m your host paul and it’s time to lock up your daughters because game of thrones house of the dragon is back i thought this was another brilliant entry and throughout this video we’re going to be going through some of the law easter eggs characters and what you need to know about the events of the show like last week there’ll be no future spoilers about any deaths marriages or twists but we might talk about some things that could be coming down the line so if you’re someone who likes to go

into things as blind as possible then this isn’t the video for you if it is though then please hit the thumbs up button and make sure you subscribe for breakdowns on the series every week without the way thank you for clicking this now let’s get into house of the dragon okay so up top quick disclaimer for the breakdown as many of you know we get early access to the show and it has been said that episode 2 is where they’ll debut the titles for the series we didn’t actually get a look at them in the

early copy we were shown so we won’t be breaking it down in this video however if it does come with one

we’ll be covering it on a clip’s channel which will be linked as the pin comment on this video anyway we start off with a focus on several of craigs crab feeders victims he’s given crabs to thousands of people like ryan aries mom and come the end of the entry he’s set up as one of the main antagonists in the book he’s described as a merciless monster who is a nightmare in the stepstones this is

an area that lies between several important territories as shown on this map and crab feeder disrupts most of the trade routes for the realm by doing this come the end of the entry we watch as lord callus goes to damon for help and together the pair very much set out to take him down from the off we instantly see how he earned the name crab veda and the source material talks about him stacking hundreds of captured pirates out on the wet sands the book describes how he not only fed them to the crabs which we

see here but it also talks about how they drowned slowly as the tide rolled in it’s a brutal way to open the episode and it instantly sets up why he’s so dangerous last week corliss brought him up on the small council but unfortunately this fell on deaf ears becerras actually viewed crab feeder as doing good because it disrupted the pirate activity and this is why the lord turns to his brother instead corliss is head of the valerian household who are said to be even richer than the lannisters in the source material he is master of

ships and under his watch the family amassed the largest navy in the realm thus krager’s carrying this out causes major disruptions across the sea and therefore he has to create a pact with daemon so that they can take him out all the crown end up offering is compensation for the lost ships and for the family of those who run the boats however due to the ship flying his banner coolest caesar is clearly showing that crab feeder isn’t holding back and thus he decides to go above viserys’s head this has major ramifications going forward which will

likely be picked up in the next episode now we could have the small council and watch renera once more working as the cup era this was also a role that arya stark took with tywin and similar to her this gives rey an opportunity to listen to the biggest problems she ends up acting on one later in what’s my favorite scene in the season so far now the meaning starts with this little throwaway line about sir ryan so ryan was a strong lord commander of the kingsguard but he was ill for some time ryan was a

loyal member of the kingsguard and his death left a position in which sir kristen cole ends up filling now he was also brought up in the main game of thrones work when robb stark and jon snow were playing together the former pretended to be darren targaryen raz john said that he was sarim nicolas arrives and talks about how he wants to strike the stepstones and put an end to kragus but the council worries that this could cause all that war one theme that constantly pops up time and time again throughout the series is how the

seeds of war are often planted during times of peace this line is actually how the chapter heir of the dragons opens and this entire section of the book centers around what’s happening in the show it’s a statement that’s very true and we see it lace throughout every single aspect of the story whether it’s the battle with craggis or all the families attempting to set viserys up with their daughters it’s something that continues to pop up time and time again now the issue with viserys’s leadership is that he was almost too much of a pacifist and

therefore it allowed so many others to gain footholds in the realm king jahirus had reigned over a kingdom that was constantly at peace and it was seen as one of the golden times of the realm becerras wanted to follow in his footsteps but in doing this he ended up not really wanting to rock the boat pun not intended i said pun not intended now because there were no big battles this also meant that a lot of heirs lived long enough to find themselves getting viable positions to be the next in line on our last breakdown

we talked about how there were 14 claims to the throne before this was picked and this left a lot of people angry and jealous that it wasn’t them this all ties back to how the seeds of war are often planted during times of peace and we’re slowly watching everything all fall into place to create this gigantic civil war within all the houses rhaenyra suggests sending dragon riders is a show forced to demonstrate to their enemies that they’re not weak she ends up intervening later on at dragonstone which i’m pretty sure is a new addition for

the show and whilst it seems like it could be a good idea instead she’s sent to pick the next night which leads to kristen the pair sort of get involved in a love triangle with another character that i don’t want to spoil yet but it builds upon cole getting her favor at the tournament last time nice little detail here as we close out on the council and if you look at viserys’s little finger you’ll notice he has a bandage on it not the first time there’s there’s been a bad little finger in game of thrones

hey now renera chooses knights in the same location where cersei would like to commission a map of westeros to be put on the floor here we’re introduced to some knights and they have ties to the book as i talked about in the last video the source material is more like a textbook rather than being an actual story but there are certain characters i get touched upon slightly in it and whilst sir desmond is absent the malicious of seaguard are brought up they actually pledged allegiance to rhaenys to be queen but as we know due to

her being a woman she was looked over in favour of viserys rhaenys ends up looking over the entire thing and due to kristin being the only one who’s fought outside of a tony ronira selects him the dornish marches are brought up and this was an area in the south of westeros that extended to the sea of dawn mentioned several times in the book these swamplands saw many great battles including the one that coal emerged victorious from kurta viserys going through his models with alison i’m guessing this is like the equivalent of when you make a

girl sit through every mcu movie about once every six weeks any that’s wifey now alison is once more wearing him with his dress to make her look older this clearly works and at the end of the episode becerras ends up taking her as his wife otto’s plan all fell perfectly into place and he basically did this because he wanted his family to have a claim to the throne not to spoil too much of what happens but i kind of think it’s okay to talk about his motivations as that adds context as to why he put

her forward judah vasaris not producing a male heir with emma he saw alison as an opportunity to come in get married have a son with him and so on and so forth this would completely remove raniera’s claims as technically viserys’s son with alison would be the next in line if the pair were to have a boy gets very complicated and i’ll not say what comes from it but that’s just sort of going over why the marriage with allison is a big win for otto the hand of the king’s role was way different during these times

of peace whereas game of thrones had a new one every season yeah they worked with their kings for a long time a guy who preceded otto was actually in his position for 41 years and this marriage offers security for him and his family now it becomes clear in the show that the pair never talked before this time but after their marriage a lot of rumors started popping up there’s a character in the source material called mushroom who’s basically a gossip and they said that allison and veers were actually sleeping together whilst emma was still alive

they avoid all that here though it may end up popping up later down the line now this brings up the black dread dragon after a figure of it breaks i think we actually saw a statue of this in the square last week and shout out simon aberman on twitter for pointing out that this is also the same location where ned stark became a foot shorter the black dread’s name was valerian and viz was its last rider we actually saw him visiting its skull last week with ronira and due to him being unable to bond with

another beast viz never ended up getting another dragon as we learn later on with daemon it’s tradition to place a dragon egg in the crib with the baby and this creates a bond between the pair that lasts their whole life cut a decept which according to cersei is the bomb anyway the place is pretty much like a giant cathedral and in here people even like candles for the dead similar to christian traditions yeah we see why rhaenyra feels sober tried by the end as she says and already they tried to marry my father off and

replace me as heir this is of course alison and otto’s plan and ranira is confessing why she feels so insecure whilst her closest friend tries to enact the thing that could end up posting her the pair have more in common than not as they both lost their mothers but this quest for power will likely drive a wedge between the two renera knows that she wasn’t chosen because she was the most favorable candidate it was just because baylen died and damon was a bit of it also forgot to point out last week that balin was the

name of viserys’s father which shows how much stuck he put into his son becoming the air go to what is the creepiest scene i’ve ever seen in a show for a long time how he watches the valerians try and put their daughter forward to be married to viserys you’ve already got enough trouble with teenagers and members of the royal family i’m glad that this was just like nah i’m not doing this if she didn’t watch the game of thrones finale because it was past her bedtime she’s too young for you bro it’s not even been

six months since emma died but the inner circle viewed there being no male air as a vulnerability even with rhaenyra in a position of power many want to stick to the male tradition and this ends up splitting the houses now we finally see the little finger unbandaged and it does look like grayscale it does doesn’t it in the book they don’t really touch upon this at all so we don’t know for definite exactly what it is even though it does look very similar what they do talk about though is how the king is in ill

health so getting an air in place is of the utmost importance after maggots are applied to it we cut to otto’s reaction and you can slowly start to see his brain overworking when the valerian marriage is brought up now one thing i love about this show is that all these key families are big players in the series however come game of thrones we see as it’s the baratheons starks and lannisters that are on the top a baratheon is of course king in season one and ned you’re bloody blooded i told you not to get ahead

of your selfie get ahead of your selfie i said little robert baratheon joker you pass anyway ronira finds some commonality in rhinese and the ladder was of course the queen who never was hello i love my little robber baratheon impression said sir the only thing i’m good at you’re bastard now anyway radiera is similar to her in that she was almost queen but there’s also the potential that she can be ousted at any point by a male britney says that some men would rather burn the entire kingdom down than see a woman on the throne

and theorizes that viz knows this so he’ll marry and have kids in order to keep the peace occurred to allison and veers and adding onto this scene from before it’s clear that girls don’t really have a choice in the matter even viz at the end says that he’s chosen who he’s gonna marry rather than proposing to allison or even asking her we get a very interesting shot when we cut to her thumb and can see that there’s a weird wound around it this was also present during the model scene from earlier and otto later confronts

her about it he asks her why she picks away at it and it’s clear that she’s wrestling with the whole situation now we did have talks in the kevin spoiler’s office that this could end up being linked to the potential greyscale that the king might have might not but both she and viz both get focused on their fingers neither died from greyscale in the book so this might just be a reach or something new for the show with viz seemingly downplaying it all now huge shout out to modesty on twitter for pointing out that this

could also link to dany getting sick with pale mare she believed that targaryens were immune to sickness and didn’t think that she could get ill however we learn that’s not the case and it could be that the family just used to hide their illnesses away so that the peasants wouldn’t question them due their ability to ride dragons they viewed them as being gods and the idea that they could get sick would just lessen that image so viz doing this could end up affecting her own personal perception alison brings him his favorite type fixed up and

with his of course being a monument to the dragon he lost it means a lot to him now at this point the small council is called together by otto and we learned that damon has stolen a dragon egg that was due to be given to baby balin he’s bailing on everything and has gone to dragonstone which leads to a showdown of epic proportions now damon announces that he’s also going to marry miseria and he also says that she’s pregnant as we know she worked in a brothel so it might not even be his and if

that’s the case it could dilute the lineage which is a worry that pops up in the source material it isn’t as touched upon here but maizeria worries that there’s also a target on her back this is for not only the aforementioned reason but also because the baby would be seen as an heir we all saw with the baratheons what happened there and characters like genres and jon snow were seen as less than because they came from the side chicks now they changed thing well you just sort of didn’t but either way now they change things

spoiler and they change things up from the book and in those she was pregnant whereas here it’s just a play by damon in order to gain power she might end up getting pregnant down the line so we can follow what happens in the source material but this early on is just a play however like in the book viz doesn’t accept the marriage and he very much wants damon to return to his wife lady ria whilst viserys wants to be the one who confronts him at dragonstone instead it’s otto who goes the pair have a rivalry

in the book and last week they touched upon how damon was the master of coin the book tells us about how otto had him removed from this position and he was then placed as the commander of the city watch at the time all the soldiers were in pretty poor armor but damon outfitted them with expensive defense items and he also gave them golden cloaks this quote-unquote changing of the god backfired on otto massively as the entire army of 2000 men were now extremely loyal to daemon and we even see that they followed him to dragonstone

we end up visiting this location later on in the episode and you might recognize it from the main series of game of thrones it’s where stannis predominantly operated out of and we can also catch the dragon markings on the wall that were present when he resided there i love how we also see the targaryen ship as we travel to it if you look at the front then you’ll see that the mast has a dragon’s head on it along with the claws used for a number of reasons this is such a mysterious place blanketed in fog

along with whining staircases that look like the great wall of china the standoff here is so tense with otto and damon’s forces meeting in the middle we get some more tension with otto and kristen the latter of which drops this line perhaps my prince recalls when i knocked him off his horse very good now the last time they met was at the tony last week which is said in the book to be one of damon’s most humiliating moments damon announces that he’s going to marry myseria which makes her instantly worried and after everyone draws their

swords she sees how dangerous it is to be messing with dangerous damon however he has some backup that comes in the form of karaxis love how when it opens its mouth you can actually see the holes on the side that allow it to breathe fire and it’s not the only dragon that shows up almost like a shark moving through the ocean we watch as the clouds start to shift and cyrax flies in rhaenyra is once more wearing the dark grey cloak that echoes what dany had in game of thrones and it’s a great entrance that

lays the foundation for her descendant as she is the princess of dragonstone and she wants him to hand over the egg i love the scene with the pair where she challenges him to strike her down if he still wants to be the heir the pair have a really complicated relationship with each other and if you want to know the full history of damon then we have a video breaking down his entire story linked on the channel now he throws the egg back and ryan era ends up placing it in a scorching hot cauldron like how

they were kept in the main series a miserian in the book is totally different appearance wise to how she is here she’s described as having skin pales milk and blond hair similar to the targaryens however i quite like that they changed this up and to me this was done so that she’s similar to shae from the main series in that she too was a lady of the night that ended up embroiled in the royal squabbles and i definitely think they’re drawing parallels between her and shea now viz is still going back and forth over who

to marry much in the same way that queens were expected to provide sons kings were also expected to secure the realm he’s advised to marry lena but yeah nonce who breaks the news to rhaenyra and i love how they have the model behind him showing how the kingdom is always there in the background on his mind by era seems to understand why he’s got to do what he’s got to do and he calls together the high council before announcing his marriage to allison it’s a big blow to corliss who sees it as him spitting on

his offer of unifying their houses and thus he turns to his brother it also causes issues with rhaenyra and it leads to a lot of conspiring going on i love the mood that’s said in the meeting with corliss and damon and we cut to fish girls littering his study as well as the statue of a man’s face adorned in shells it very much speaks to how the valerians are pretty much one with the ocean and why stopping crabtv corliss recounts the history of house valeria and it speaks very much to how they’ve struggled in comparison

to the targaryens who had dragons his family very much crawled their way out of the sea and he finds some commonality in damon due to them both being overlooked they are the second sons and in the source material could still harboured a lot of resentment over the fact that his wife was looked over in place of viserys he calls on him to step up where his brother failed to and it’s at this point we get our first look at crabtv i really think the character design is absolutely captivating and we see his cracked skin from

the sun in sea water making him look absolutely terrifying his disfigurement completely juxtaposes the way that daemon looks and it sets up a lot of things for the future now i want to talk about some spoilers in terms of what corels does for the union with daemon again no death spoilers or major twists just talking about the next step for the pair if you don’t want to know that then i appreciate you watching until this point and hopefully i’ll see you next week on the next one anyway so corliss is so serious about this union

that he actually makes damon the king of the stepstones this means that in some ways he finally got his crown and it basically makes the entire area his he is of course coming off the back of being scorned by his brother who has rejected not only him but also his lover mazaria i think next time we’ll likely see somewhat of a ceremony showing this going down and it will make damon’s ego even bigger than ever anyway that was the major spoiler sorry if it’s a bit of a disappointment but as for this episode it wasn’t

a disappointment did you like how i tied those together now i don’t think it was as good as the first one but to be honest it wasn’t too far behind it loved the bridge scene and there was some really great dynamics in this one that made it super interesting it’s great watching the book get brought to life and they did a stellar job in putting it on the screen obviously i’d love to hear your thoughts on it so make sure you comment below and let me know we are in competition right now and giving away

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