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Here’s the new video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpDHG7YrihQ

I feel like this one got overlong in parts. Will try to be more concise and focussed in the next one.
Still happy with this video though. Lots of fun to finally talk about Vhagar! And Helaena is a delight – looking forward to more prophecies and/or bug facts.

Thanks for your support in this crazy busy time!

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House of the Dragon S1E06 Explained

Get a free audiobook with an Audible trial: http://www.audible.com/asx This video has no spoilers for House of the Dragon beyond Episode 6. It does have spoilers for the original Game of Thrones show. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveZqqGewoyPiacooywP5Ig?sub_confirmation=1 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AltShiftX Twitter: https://twitter.com/altshiftx Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWW6C71HUEN5iBuX8qq5xxw Audio feed: https://anchor.fm/alt-shift-zzz Weekly Alt Shift X HOTD livestreams every Sunday at ~10:15pm Eastern Time, right after each episode -- then an Explained video later in the week! Images and video from Game of Thrones used under fair use. Images from The World of Ice and Fire used with permission from Random House. Map from The Lands of Ice and Fire. Jocelyn by u/fkaluis: https://www.reddit.com/user/fkaluis/ Mushroom by Rossy Does Drawings: https://twitter.com/rossysculpts Pentos by Marc Simonetti: https://art.marcsimonetti.com/ Baelon by riotarttherite: https://riotarttherite.tumblr.com/ Dorne by Tomasz Jedruszek: https://www.artstation.com/morano Visenya by ProKriK: https://www.deviantart.com/prokrik Vhagar by Ertaç Altınöz: http://ertacaltinoz.deviantart.com/ Dunk & Egg by Gary Gianni Special thanks to Patrons Cameron Weiss, Michael Appell, Ryan Steele, Harry, Shane Veglia, Jason Rattray, NotGac, Tim Cunniff, T. Ledoux, Tessa Campbell-Kelly, Ilhuilkamina Urdiana, Ord X, Doctor Folter, MaxPal. 0:00 Rhaenyra’s family 04:27 Dragon lessons 06:28 Helaena Targaryen 07:28 Alicent Hightower 11:57 Training 13:58 Small council 17:49 Larys Strong 22:26 Harrenhal 23:25 Pentos 25:39 Vhagar 27:39 Rhaena Targaryen 28:06 Laena Velaryon #HotD

Comments

Anonymous

Did a double take when I heard my name at the end of the video. I thought getting a shout-out was a reward for a high tier, but I guess it's for new Patrons instead? Welp, my name's been immortalised in an Alt Shift X video. Now I can die in peace 🥲 All jokes aside, thanks for another insightful video. Is it difficult to make these videos knowing how the story is going to develop since you've read Fire and Blood? I imagine there's a bunch of foreshadowing and other stuff that you're dying to talk about, but can't since you're keeping things spoiler-free. Do you maybe have any plans to revisit earlier episodes in a later video?

Anonymous

Pour one out for Jace and Helaena, the greatest couple that never was. Rejecting the proposal was probably one of Alicent’s worst decisions. I took Larys’ speech about children being a weakness as a way for him to deflect the blame for killing Harwin—Harwin was at Harrenhal because he got into a fight with Cole, which happened because he was defending his sons. It lets Larys pin his brother’s death on the boys in his own warped mind. I don’t think the show established the stigma against bastards well. It looks like they assumed everyone would remember it from GOT, but GOT kind of gave up on that (and Night’s Watch vows) when Jon became king. So instead Alicent just comes across as being weirdly obsessed with Rhaenyra’s sex life.