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We watch House of the Dragon on HBO Max.

This is a watch-a-long so you do need to bring your own copy of the episode to see it, there is no PIP. There are a few visual cues and a timer to help you sync up.

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Waka Flocha Flame

Ah yes, let’s give the crown to a dude running a Daddy Day Care fight club full of his own bastards. King material right there. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Kayla

Rhaenys didn't burn them to a crisp because she doesn't want to be a kinslayer and because the war hasn't quite reached that point yet; there are still people on both sides who want peace.

cmzaa

kinslaying is a huge deal in westeros

Robin Lee Melendez

Agree w/ Kayla! Also think Rhaenys didn't burn them because of the convo she had earlier with Alicent; she identifies with her as a mother & woman stifled by men. She saw Alicent place herself between Meleys and Aegon, shouting for Cristin to protect Helaena, who is also a mother. She couldn't kill her family members, at this point so many are still innocent of any wrongdoing. Even Aegon has been a pawn in this mess. Aegon is a pathetic, contemptible person who right up to the moment he's crowned wants nothing but for his parents to love him. You can see the moment he gets that love from the crowd, he becomes VERY invested in being king. Nikki called it: ego. Aegon is all ego & hedonism, nothing more.

Ashley

Aegon the Unloved. A mother and father who has never shown it. Alicent slaps him. He cries, “all I ever tried to do was please you and Father.” And now: “do you love me?”And she calls him an imbecile. 😭 So where does a boy who has never had a loving parent turn? Alcohol. Pleasure houses. Lost and broken. And in often terrible behavior. But, what did we see? The boy with no sense of love, stand in front of a crowd cheering and his face lit up as if for the first time he felt adoration. Tom is such a great actor, he is very much a Joaquin phoenix in gladiator. From the broken nature and emotive emotional state to living and breathing for the crowd’s love. 🤌🏼 I have a number of issues with this episode but I thought I would just stay on the positive!

KJ

With each episode, I'm more and more interested in what Halaena will do. She knows how much of a bad person Aegon is and I wonder whether she'll defect to team black since she literally can not stand the sight of him. She does not look at him at all once the crown is placed on him. Maybe she knows he is already doomed and not the rightful king...

Chandra

Up until episode 8 I felt sorry for all of Alicent’s kids, including Aegon. In every scene that showed Alicent holding a baby she never appeared happy. She always seemed ready to hand them off then fling herself from a window. By the time she caught Aegon jerking off she KNEW he would be an awful king. He never grasped the seriousness of what she was saying or showed interest in learning. We never got any scenes with Viserys and the children but I imagine that while he cared he didn’t show it much or spend time with them. Neither of her sons are suited to be king. Aegon and Aemond are Joffrey Baratheon split in two. Spoiled, thoughtless, apathetic, cruel and made that way by a conniving, ambitious mother and father that is uninvolved.

Jon Freezin-Rain

Larys burned the white worms house. that was the fire that they ran past while escaping

Acash33

Nah it was stupid and they’re barely her Kin. It was just really dumb to have that scene. It was basically season 5-8 of GOT. Looks great but the plot makes no sense.

Acash33

Nah it was just bad writing she literally looked at them hanging people and they threatened her and her dragon. The next people they’re coming at are her grandchildren. That scene just was dumb to an otherwise good episode.

Acash33

Good episode the end was just dumb though. They have tried every way to make Alicent look sympathetic which is dumb but whatever. I just hope it doesn’t suffer from what the original series did in the last 4 seasons.

Ashley

It’s one thing to make someone sympathetic but a quite another to remove any intelligence. No way the Alicent the wrote for 7 episodes believes Viserys was naming him heir. What made sense was what was set up: fear of children’s lives, which her father warned her of. And Daemon illustrated. And then, the idea that the realm wants a son. Neither were used in the Green Council. Instead a half-hearted a tempt at prophesy mishap. Without bringing up episode 3’s Visery’s dragon dream he confided in Alicent.

Kayla

Idk maybe I'm the only one but I don't think Alicent truly believes that's what Viserys meant. I think its what she's grasping onto though because she knew that it would get Aegon on the throne.

Ashley

I’m just going based on what the writers and the actor say and she truly believes it and she’s pious and she’s wanting to follow her husband

Acash33

That’s very weak writing like they are trying to force it right now with her. She’s been scheming for years and basically forced her kids to hate Rhaenyra. Now all of a sudden she wants Rhaenyra to be heir it doesn’t even make sense.

Ashley

I don’t actually see them much like Joffrey. He was just playing sadistic and didn’t have any layers. There was nothing to him but evil. But I do think that all of Alicent and V’s sons have layers. We’ve not seen a ton of time with them, but I feel like their lives would been very different if they would’ve been nurtured. The good news is they have different emotions and not just one emotion. So I think that will make for a better storytelling than a Joffrey.

Ashley

Yeah I have just been all week wondering if I misplaced my trust. I mean I get it, it is hard to have a writing staff. And it’s hard not to have a novel and only a book with history prose. Ryan Condal who is the lead storyteller, is very good and he’s a big geek for this world, but did have to share showrunning with Miguel, and producing with Sara Hess, who has had the weakest two episodes. I know once I had the most changes. And inconsistency in arc. Instead of allowing a Alicent to have agency in wanting power, it is seems is that they prefer to make her pious and not be at fault. This is a whole invention of the show to add a miscommunication of prophecy that in my opinion was not thoroughly set up for Alicent to even by much less the audience. It’s OK to make a woman wants power, and it was so brilliantly set up for the reasons why she would try and put her son on the throne. She would fear for her kids like her father told her and that was perfectly further illustrated in episode eight with the beheading. And then the whole idea that the realm would want to son or most likely not the realm by powerful lords, and that wasn’t brought up at all. And then there is supposed to be dislike inner circle in the small counsel that we never saw and they somehow just had this whole plan?! She’s been in on all of this, so it was really strange that they just threw that in there without any X position in previous episodes or showing these guys meeting in corridors and in shadows. I don’t know what type of manager Ryan is, he did say that he didn’t have to do any editing to Sara’s episode six script. So I don’t know about this one. He’s a great writer I did episode one episode two and he’s doing episode 10. Miguel and Sara seem to have come up with Rhaenys. Killing 500 people or whatever it was, it seems like they didn’t even realize that that was happening or that would be a communication to the audience. It was just a girl boss moment without thought. I was more frustrated that they didn’t pay off any of the dialogue. And the whole thing came off so messy in the council chamber, just a very uneven episode and in my opinion by far the weakest.

House Powers

To say that an episode is akin to 3 seasons of GOT is such rigid thinking. And yes, they are Rhaenys' kin, and she would have been known as a kinslayer. Just as Aemond is known as a kinslayer for killing Lucerys - bastard or no, mistake or no - he was his nephew. And I think she was right not to kill them because it wasn't her place, it was smarter to escape where she can return to Driftmark and rally her own forces for staying neutral, taking a side, or at least to just not be under guard somewhere she cannot access her most lethal weapon, Meleys.