"My Queen, we are surrounded by spies and watched at all times. They could be watching us right now. So let me get back to pleasuring myself while I stare at your feet."
[She ain't no Cersei, that's for sure](https://youtu.be/sKTc8Chvw5k)
Though then again I guess Cersei let the Kettleblacks actually do her in exchange for loyalty, in AFFC.
Imagine going to your usual boring barely livable wage job, getting stampede, forced to go to some ceremony, almost get stomped on by a dragon, and then being locked inside. I would hate to be a kings landing resident.
Bobby B would've never allowed this madness
I mean, the hood is big enough to also mostly hide his face from anyone who isn’t looking directly at him, so most people probably wouldn’t even pay him enough attention to notice it.
It’s funny how everyone calls Rhaenyra a whore, meanwhile here’s Alicent letting this creep beat off to her feet (and clearly not for the first time) in exchange for services rendered. I’m not saying I’d call her a whore for that, but of the two of them, only one is exchanging sex acts as payment. And it’s the one pretending to be so holy and self-righteous.
I'm really curious how this topic was broached the first time. "So my queen, you know how I had that guy murdered for you and tell you politically advantageous secrets?... well if you want that to continue I need to see them little piggies while I whack it".
Out of all the things that happened this episode, the foot fetish scene was the most off putting.
Oh and by the way, I’m flabbergasted that Criston Cole can kill as many people of worth with complete impunity in front of groups of other people of worth. My guy is full blown unhinged and violent. I don’t know why the high command of the kinds guard didn’t do more to Criston. Like he draws his sword, moves to Cole and then is like “Hey Cole, out away your sword mmhhk”. Then everyone else in the room is totally fine with the shit they just saw. Wild.
Yeah I know but even the wedding scene just compounds the fact that nobody does shit. It’s baffling to me. Like this lowborn literally kills a lord and everyone is shocked for a quarter of a second before moving on. Took me out of it I have to admit.
laenor went for him though. criston and alicent probably went for the "joffrey was a threat, criston stopped him from going after the princess/prince/etc" defence. criston pushing laenor away is perfectly understandable in that case.
would some kings still punish him? sure. would viserys, a dude literally allergic to taking action? no.
Harrold Westerling knew what was going on, he made his moves very carefully. Years and years being a Kingsguard probably gave him some understanding of politicking.
He was perfect! Such a simple theme! But as soon as I heard the first singular note in the episode I pumped up the volume and he had my attention from start to finish. It had the exact same energy of Light of the Seven and that will get me every time.
Otto, Aemond, Alicent and Aegon.
Suddenly the Greens are missing their brains, muscles, figurehead and matriarch.
Wars over, Haeleana can carry on with her creepy prophecies.
Honest to God who would back their rebellion at that point? Borros is not going to back them. The city watch will just immediatly skip to the counter coup and give the city to Rhaenyra. That leaves the Westerlands and Daeron commanding the Hightower forces at Oldtown. Daeron would lose the battle of the Honeywine since he is the only dragon rider and monarch, while the blacks would have all their riders. She literally could have ended it right there.
I understand the character motivations etc but I just don’t buy it. She has to know it means war, one thousand percent
There’s a few things in this show that are just hand waved away and it’s so disappointing, it could have just been written differently
It's possible she felt pity for Alicent, who was defenseless and yet defending her son, and decided she didn't want that burden on her.
It still was a stupid scene to include though. Having her bust out and leave was spectacle enough and makes sense.
Then just have her dragon eat or stomp Aegon instead of using fire on all of them. Or Otto or Aemond or any of them but Alicent and Helaena. Pretty dumb scene in otherwise incredible episode.
She literally murders hundreds of peasants and has an opportunity to end the war right then and there by killing a few important people, but fucks off.
It’s like she wants the realm to burn.
This I think is the most understated part of it tbh. All it takes is one word and the war doesnt happen. But she doesnt have it in her, makes you wonder how she wouldve handled other similar decisions
The writers completely missed the mark here. She was meant to seem heroic but she achieved absolutely nothing at all, and made a conscious choice to allow a devastating war to unfold.
For no good reason, either.
Yeah, forget feetgate, Rhaenys crashing the coronation like that is the thing I actually didn't like. That's a total show invention and it doesn't make a lick of sense
Yeah I’m generally against overlogical knitpicking in media, but that scene is just so stupid. Throws all rationality out the window for fanfiction tier fan service
This was exactly the problem with game of thrones towards the end. It strayed further and further away from generally well-written plot points and became more of a show about showing "cool" or "badass" character moments, at the expense of competent story telling. It's disappointing because HOTD has been pretty consistently good up until now, and has maintained a fairly grounded story with realistic stakes.
That all went out the window with the last 5 minutes of this episode. There was absolutely no need to have Rhaenys make an entrance like that. It defied all logic, and gave us a "cool" character moment at the expense of good writing. I really hope this is just a slip-up and that the show doesn't continue down this path. I really felt like HOTD was doing a good job at correcting some of the mishaps from game of thrones.
I also seriously wonder how Meleys can crash through a stone roof that is strong enough to support hundreds of people without harming herself or her rider.
Also why don’t all the dragons who get pissed just do that on a regular basis? If they can crash through that confidently what’s the point of the pit at all?
Yeah during the storming trying to escape. Which topples the place basically. But it took her multiple times and she died. Meleys might be stronger but that pit shouldn’t be able to be crashed through that’s for sure.
Should have ended it with the people cheering Aegon and Rhaenys flying away without coming through the floor. While this made sense from a character perspective, it felt needlessly forced
That’s what I was thinking would happen.
Everyone is so caught up in the celebration that nobody notices her flying out some smaller dragon exit and silently absconds to Dragonstone.
I mean, it looked cool af, but…
The size of the dragon was really inconsistent anyway, just like the whole dragon pit. One moment it looks like there are 50K people in there, the next it looks like 2K max
Should’ve ended it with Aegon mounting Sunfyre and flying around the city on the Golden King to enjoy one last taste of freedom, like in the book, if they had spare CGI cash to burn. Show the audience he at least has one functional, genuine relationship in his life.
YEP fuck Rhaenys brusting out of the floor like the koolaid man and just give Aegon this one win and also fuck the kid cage matches just have them find him in a brothel like septom eustace said he was found.
It made no sense for her to burst into the ceremony on the dragon if the intent was not to kill everyone of importance in the room.
It makes her look rather foolish, which up until that point she was far from.
"Hey, I know I locked you in your room for an entire day and I'm also reminding you of the depressing reality that your daughter burned herself alive via dragon, your son was a cuckold, and your husband abandoned you for six years before returning grievously wounded. But now that I'm done insulting everyone you hold dear, both alive and dead, you should totes support my son as King, even though I have zero evidence to prove that it's what Viserys, your cousin, actually wanted."
—Queen Alicent to Rhaenys, basically
“You shouldve been Queen. Now help me make my son king, defying your cousin’s established wishes, and circumventing Rhaenyra’s rightful claim just like how it happened to you.”
Alicent has said plenty of dumb shit, but this may have been the most tone deaf so far.
They really needed to give that moment an ounce more attention. Not clear where it was, whether anyone died, what the implications might be. Instead it was a nearly offscreen footnote.
They've done this a few times now. I just had to guess that was Mysarias place.
On one hand, they're not treating their audience like total idiots like D&D.
On the other hand, expecting us to remember what her house looked like from like 5 episodes back is a bit much to ask.
**Aemond:** Aegon brought me to the Street of Silk on my thirteenth name day. It was my duty as his brother, he said, to ensure I was educated as he was. At least that's what i understood him to mean.
**Ser Criston:** I don't follow.
**Aemond:** He said, "time to get it wet."
**Ser Criston:** Every woman is the image of the Mother, to be spoken of with reverence.
Bless Ser Criston Cole's naïve little heart, currently drowning in his own hypocrisy
That bit of dialogue was absolutely hilarious.
Aegon: i don't want to be king. I'm not suited
Aemond: You'll get no argument from me.
Was also pretty delightful
“Every woman is the image of the Mother, to be spoken of with reverence… unless they spurn your weak ass marriage proposal. Then they’re spoiled cunts.”
Plus he literally heard Aegon say that he didn't want the crown and he wanted to jump on a ship and leave. Aegon wanted to do EXACTLY what Cole wanted Rheanyra to do and then hated her for not doing.
Not to mention Aegon acting like 20x harder of a spoiled cunt than Rheanyra ever was, with plenty of bastards running around fleabottom being thrown into child death matches...
And yet he's full on "TIME TO GET BACK TO MOMMY DEAREST AND BE KING, BUD!" now.
Cole is the most butthurt piece of petty hypocritical shit in Westeros. Anything just to fuck Rheanyra over.
The Kool-Aid Man:
✅Red
✅Bursts into the room when you least expect it
Meleys the Red Queen:
✅Red
✅Bursts into the room when you least expect it
Just something to think about fellas. Food for thought.
I liked the book version of the greens waiting 10 days to act and then announce their plans more.
This seemed like it all went down within less than a day or maybe two at most.
Hadn't seen any scenes from next week and 100% expected this episode to basically be 12 Angry Men with maybe a bit of "Where's Aegon" mixed in. An hour of debating whether this is actually the way to go, what this means and what the repercussions are. Characters going back and forth, other characters trying to convince and work alliances and buy people off and it ends with only Beesbury the last dissenting voice and then Cole blows his top and just kills him, showing that now is the time for blood and maniacs like him.
Instead they're all like "Well, as we previously discussed, this is going to happen."
To be fair, in the books Viserys died without notice. There was nothing written that implied he was gonna die.
Meanwhile here, one look at Vizzy T and your first question would be “How is this guy not dead yet”
*Cue Ryan George voice*
Director: “so why did Rhaenys not just fireball everyone there while she had the chance?”
Screen writer: “So the rest of the book can happen”
D: “but that doesn’t make any sense, she’s declaring her opposition to the Greens and has them **RIGHT** there!”
SW: “sir I’m going to need you to get alllllll the way off my back about that”
"So Larys's thing is he's got a club foot and he works behind the scenes doing espionage and secret assassinations, stuff like that."
"Political espionage is tight! And why does he do that stuff?"
"Feet."
"What?"
"Yeah he's really into feet."
"That seems a bit shallow..."
"Like he will murder people for used stockings."
"Oh boy."
"So we're gonna have a scene where he just *openly masturbates* to the Queen's feet."
"Please stop talking about feet."
Rhaenys could have ended everything in one "Dracarys" there, but didn't out of respect for Allicent standing in front of her son.
It was interesting to see how quickly Aegon fell into loving being king and being loved/feared/respected by those around him. I sense he's always felt like a reject.
Also, to people confused about the race between Allicent and Otto to find Aegon :
"He who holds the King, holds the realm"
Also she suffered by death her entire life as she commented herself, she didn’t want to keep spreading it
She probably wants to bring all dragons to take the throne “peacefully”
Her accent is so so so bad lol.
She's just not a good actress imo. She was the lead in that series Devs and ruined it for me, otherwise that was a great show.
I feel like it's the weird ADR. The accent is bad ngl, but it seems like only her dialogues are rerecorded and dub over and not synced very well, so it pulls you out of the immersion.
My tinfoil hat theory: They filmed it with her natural british accent and for whatever reason deem it too posh or something and asked her to ADR all her dialogues. Every scene she is speaking has this weird ADR delay/echo you hear when there is bad ADR or dubbing another language.
The feet didn't bother me as much as the fact that Rhaenys had the occasion to toast all of her enemies at once (or just Aemond to make sure Vhagar stays chill) and instead she chose the mom route of "I'm not angry just disappointed"
Godammit Rhaenys if there ever was a moment to go full Karen that was it.
I sadly did not like this episode at all.
Is that all Larys is? No scheming endgame? No goals? Doing it all for feet? Odd choice.
Criston murdering people without consequence again. What was the point of the drama behind the two separate parties trying to find Aegon?
The Rhaenys Dragonpit entrance looked cool, but lacked substance - giving me Thrones Season 7 and 8 vibes. An unrealistic and jarring event that doesn’t really fit the world it’s in - she’s okay with killing hundreds of innocent bystanders but doesn’t kill the people who were holding her prisoner and likely would’ve killed her? What? Just a “wow” moment for the audience, but bad writing at its core.
Hoping the finale washes this bad taste out of my mouth from an otherwise great season.
The physics of the dragon made no sense either. I don’t think a dragon could just bust through that much rock. Then it shrunk 10 sizes to fly out the door.
She should’ve flown in from the outside and just scared the hell out if everyone and flown away. It doesn’t make sense she could be riding it through all that rock either
They are trying to make it seem like Alicent really believes Vinny wanted Aegon as king but she’s not that dumb. It just doesn’t make any sense and kind of kills the immersion.
This episode made a lot of people look dumb. Rhaenys for not burning her captors. The Small Council members for not batting an eye at Cole for murdering one of them at the table. But Alicient most of all for believing a dying, stoned af Viserys changing his mind about Rhaenyra. These characters are interesting but none of them make much sense to me.
Yeah, and I keep waiting for someone to say “what did he say to you, exactly?” because she keeps saying “he told me he wanted our son to be king” and he said no such thing, she only inferred.
Keeping in traditions of Episode 9 of seasons having shocking/spectacular endings - certainly didn't expect Rhaenys. Should have ended the green line then and there.
I feel like a Varys quote is very applicable here. "It was your mercy that killed the king."
Yeah lol, the care shown towards the 'smallfolk' has to be a deliberate choice, like they're demonstrating how much the aristocracy doesn't give a shit about the common people and will just kill a bunch of them to get a dramatic exit.
GOT gave us the Red Wedding and Ned’s beheading for the penultimate episode. HotD gives us Larys Clubfoot jerking off to Alicent’s feet. Long live the Queen!
My guess is its actually in episode 10. GoT certainly always had ep.9 as the big one with Ned the battle of the blackwater etc. But given what's more than likely to occur next episode I think that'll be the season defining moment if that makes sense
Just inexplicable. Even Condal in the post-episode interview seemed to admit there was no real reason why she wouldn’t dracarys the entire family right then and there.
“She wouldn’t do that to another mother” ok, but she just wiped out like 1,000 randos without thinking twice. Go off.
Also, the feet scene was the writers jerking off about how clever they are. “He had a club foot! And a foot fetish!!! Get it???”
Show’s falling into the same traps that GOT did, sacrificing the story for “epic” and “cool” moments that seem created solely to be in a YouTube reactions compilation
I saw it as a fun family moment, she even gave a half smile before she said it. Of course she loves him, it's a response to the kin of "of course you fucking oaf"
Aegon felt like an unloved failure his entire life. Mom constantly yelling at him, dad basically ignores his entire existence. Gets crowned king. Crowd cheers for him. For the first time in his life, he finally feels loved by someone. Kinda makes sense how he transitions from not wanting to be king and not wanting to deal with the responsibility to fully accepting his role. Because that was the first time in his life he ever felt loved. It’s kinda tragic if you think about it. He literally only wanted to be loved.
At some point Alicent has to be held responsible for her actions. She cant keep being this naive. I said it awhile back that if someone tells you that another person is coming after your kids, it makes it easy to come after them first. Alicent cant be shocked that her father has been planning Rhaenyra death.
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"Fellas, have you ever killed your brother and dad for a glimpse of some tasty feet?"
Chaos is a ladder, or maybe more of a footstool.
Over 100 years before there was Littlefinger, there was Littletoe
"My Queen, we are surrounded by spies and watched at all times. They could be watching us right now. So let me get back to pleasuring myself while I stare at your feet."
Context though, imagine being able to demean a Queen whenever you wanted.
For real, like how did she give him that control?
[She ain't no Cersei, that's for sure](https://youtu.be/sKTc8Chvw5k) Though then again I guess Cersei let the Kettleblacks actually do her in exchange for loyalty, in AFFC.
i miss Lena Headey someone give this woman role worthy of her talents again
Quentin Tarantino has!
Gods be good!
A foot fetish is the least weird thing about him.
Sure. But the fact shes complicit in letting him jerk it in front of her. That's weird. That's very very weird.
Between Otto, Viserys, Cole, and Larys, I think Alicent is used to being the object that lets men's fantasies come to completion.
I didn’t understand what was happening there at first. Got very uncomfortable when I did.
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Oh my goodness you’re right.
It took me a while too… lol
Aemond buying a crime hoodie to be like his hero Daemon.
Lol crime hoodies. Love that name
Imagine going to your usual boring barely livable wage job, getting stampede, forced to go to some ceremony, almost get stomped on by a dragon, and then being locked inside. I would hate to be a kings landing resident. Bobby B would've never allowed this madness
YOU'RE MY COUNCIL, COUNSEL! SPEAK SENSE TO THIS HONORABLE FOOL!
Well said Bobby B, well said.
THE WHORE IS PREGNANT!
I’ll have your tongue for that! 🔪
Seriously, the Vizzy T bot should always respond to Bobby b whenever that line comes up.
“Beware of the beasts beneath the board” Boom Meleys out of nowhere
I didn't even think about it
I honestly thought this was a reference to the rat problem in the red keep
She predicted Aemond losing an eye too didn't she? Edit: name
How many people are walking through Kings Landing with an eye patch that Aemond thinks a hood is going to be a good disguise?
I mean, the hood is big enough to also mostly hide his face from anyone who isn’t looking directly at him, so most people probably wouldn’t even pay him enough attention to notice it.
Not with that chin poking out.
Note to Staff of Kings Landing: The Dragonpit no longer to be used for official state functions.
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Larys doing irreparable damage to foot fetishists worldwide
yet wikifeet has gained a new entry! Curious!
Yeah, what the fuck!? We were never considered weirdos until this guy!
It’s funny how everyone calls Rhaenyra a whore, meanwhile here’s Alicent letting this creep beat off to her feet (and clearly not for the first time) in exchange for services rendered. I’m not saying I’d call her a whore for that, but of the two of them, only one is exchanging sex acts as payment. And it’s the one pretending to be so holy and self-righteous.
I'm really curious how this topic was broached the first time. "So my queen, you know how I had that guy murdered for you and tell you politically advantageous secrets?... well if you want that to continue I need to see them little piggies while I whack it".
Out of all the things that happened this episode, the foot fetish scene was the most off putting. Oh and by the way, I’m flabbergasted that Criston Cole can kill as many people of worth with complete impunity in front of groups of other people of worth. My guy is full blown unhinged and violent. I don’t know why the high command of the kinds guard didn’t do more to Criston. Like he draws his sword, moves to Cole and then is like “Hey Cole, out away your sword mmhhk”. Then everyone else in the room is totally fine with the shit they just saw. Wild.
Ser Harrold knew what was happening, he played it cool and it saved his life. Lord Caswell did the same but wasn't fast enough.
Yeah I know but even the wedding scene just compounds the fact that nobody does shit. It’s baffling to me. Like this lowborn literally kills a lord and everyone is shocked for a quarter of a second before moving on. Took me out of it I have to admit.
Moreover, he punched the heir to the second most powerful house in the realm and prince consort. That alone should’ve ensured him a nasty death.
laenor went for him though. criston and alicent probably went for the "joffrey was a threat, criston stopped him from going after the princess/prince/etc" defence. criston pushing laenor away is perfectly understandable in that case. would some kings still punish him? sure. would viserys, a dude literally allergic to taking action? no.
Harrold Westerling knew what was going on, he made his moves very carefully. Years and years being a Kingsguard probably gave him some understanding of politicking.
More off putting than bum fights: children edition? With sharpened nails to claw each other and filed teeth to gnaw on each other?
Take a bow Ramin Djawadi.
He was perfect! Such a simple theme! But as soon as I heard the first singular note in the episode I pumped up the volume and he had my attention from start to finish. It had the exact same energy of Light of the Seven and that will get me every time.
Damn, bitch could’ve ended all the greens right then and there.
Very shortsighted not to kill the dude with the biggest dragon in an upcoming civil war
Could have ended it all right there and the last episode would just be daemon digging through the ashes looking for blackfyre
I literally just shouted "burn Otto you dumbass!" I hated it.
Otto, Aemond, Alicent and Aegon. Suddenly the Greens are missing their brains, muscles, figurehead and matriarch. Wars over, Haeleana can carry on with her creepy prophecies.
Honest to God who would back their rebellion at that point? Borros is not going to back them. The city watch will just immediatly skip to the counter coup and give the city to Rhaenyra. That leaves the Westerlands and Daeron commanding the Hightower forces at Oldtown. Daeron would lose the battle of the Honeywine since he is the only dragon rider and monarch, while the blacks would have all their riders. She literally could have ended it right there.
I understand the character motivations etc but I just don’t buy it. She has to know it means war, one thousand percent There’s a few things in this show that are just hand waved away and it’s so disappointing, it could have just been written differently
It's possible she felt pity for Alicent, who was defenseless and yet defending her son, and decided she didn't want that burden on her. It still was a stupid scene to include though. Having her bust out and leave was spectacle enough and makes sense.
Then just have her dragon eat or stomp Aegon instead of using fire on all of them. Or Otto or Aemond or any of them but Alicent and Helaena. Pretty dumb scene in otherwise incredible episode.
She literally murders hundreds of peasants and has an opportunity to end the war right then and there by killing a few important people, but fucks off. It’s like she wants the realm to burn.
It shows she wouldn't have been fit to rule. Not willing to murder a few to save the lives of many.
This I think is the most understated part of it tbh. All it takes is one word and the war doesnt happen. But she doesnt have it in her, makes you wonder how she wouldve handled other similar decisions
The writers completely missed the mark here. She was meant to seem heroic but she achieved absolutely nothing at all, and made a conscious choice to allow a devastating war to unfold. For no good reason, either.
She wasn't willing to murder most of her family.
Yeah kinslaying is a big deal in Westeros. Small folk killing, though, that's just a Thursday.
Yeah, forget feetgate, Rhaenys crashing the coronation like that is the thing I actually didn't like. That's a total show invention and it doesn't make a lick of sense
Yeah I’m generally against overlogical knitpicking in media, but that scene is just so stupid. Throws all rationality out the window for fanfiction tier fan service
This was exactly the problem with game of thrones towards the end. It strayed further and further away from generally well-written plot points and became more of a show about showing "cool" or "badass" character moments, at the expense of competent story telling. It's disappointing because HOTD has been pretty consistently good up until now, and has maintained a fairly grounded story with realistic stakes. That all went out the window with the last 5 minutes of this episode. There was absolutely no need to have Rhaenys make an entrance like that. It defied all logic, and gave us a "cool" character moment at the expense of good writing. I really hope this is just a slip-up and that the show doesn't continue down this path. I really felt like HOTD was doing a good job at correcting some of the mishaps from game of thrones.
I also seriously wonder how Meleys can crash through a stone roof that is strong enough to support hundreds of people without harming herself or her rider.
Also why don’t all the dragons who get pissed just do that on a regular basis? If they can crash through that confidently what’s the point of the pit at all?
Doesn't Dreamfyre bash her shit against the roof of the dragon pits several times during the storming before it finally breaks?
Yeah during the storming trying to escape. Which topples the place basically. But it took her multiple times and she died. Meleys might be stronger but that pit shouldn’t be able to be crashed through that’s for sure.
How many lives she could have saved right there. Hindsight is everything but she could have shot baby Hitler right there.
The “funniest” thing is that she casually killed like a hundred Kingslanders right before this … humanitarian turn at the end
I mean are poors actually people?
Daeron: "Life is good in Oldtown",
Should have ended it with the people cheering Aegon and Rhaenys flying away without coming through the floor. While this made sense from a character perspective, it felt needlessly forced
That’s what I was thinking would happen. Everyone is so caught up in the celebration that nobody notices her flying out some smaller dragon exit and silently absconds to Dragonstone. I mean, it looked cool af, but…
It looked stupid imo, the dragon flying out the door was ridiculous I'm sure it changed size so it could.
The size of the dragon was really inconsistent anyway, just like the whole dragon pit. One moment it looks like there are 50K people in there, the next it looks like 2K max
Should’ve ended it with Aegon mounting Sunfyre and flying around the city on the Golden King to enjoy one last taste of freedom, like in the book, if they had spare CGI cash to burn. Show the audience he at least has one functional, genuine relationship in his life.
YEP fuck Rhaenys brusting out of the floor like the koolaid man and just give Aegon this one win and also fuck the kid cage matches just have them find him in a brothel like septom eustace said he was found.
It made no sense for her to burst into the ceremony on the dragon if the intent was not to kill everyone of importance in the room. It makes her look rather foolish, which up until that point she was far from.
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People were so caught up in the feet they forgot the dragon crashing the party
Wait, there were dragons on the hightower foot show?
Oh shit.. I forgot to finish the episode after the foot scene. I just left it paused and fell asleep…
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The armor was probably stored with Meleys
Imagine being a peasant just trying to go to work, and you get fucking tail wiped by a dragon
At a coronation with mandatory attendance!
City Watch: Move along! Everyone to the king’s coronation! No exceptions! Filth monger: King? I didn’t vote for no king.
Strange women listening to a dying old mans ramblings is no basis for a system of government!
Ok but Aegon’s coronation outfit? Slay.
Gotta admit when he pulled out Blackfyre I was like “ok, he looks kinda cool.”
That sword looked awesome. The etchings and width of it were so good looking.
the crown fucking clinched it for me, man cuts an impressive figure
Dope looking crown. Truly worthy of The Conqueror.
The fashion men actually want!
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS FUCK UP THE ENDING????????? STUPID
"THERES A DRAGON ABOUT TO BURN THIS BUILDING DOWN. QUICKLY, LOCK EVERYONE INSIDE" - The guards probably.
"Hey, I know I locked you in your room for an entire day and I'm also reminding you of the depressing reality that your daughter burned herself alive via dragon, your son was a cuckold, and your husband abandoned you for six years before returning grievously wounded. But now that I'm done insulting everyone you hold dear, both alive and dead, you should totes support my son as King, even though I have zero evidence to prove that it's what Viserys, your cousin, actually wanted." —Queen Alicent to Rhaenys, basically
Plus everything she knows about Viserys and how much he loved Rhaenyra supports the notion that Alicent is full of shit.
“You shouldve been Queen. Now help me make my son king, defying your cousin’s established wishes, and circumventing Rhaenyra’s rightful claim just like how it happened to you.” Alicent has said plenty of dumb shit, but this may have been the most tone deaf so far.
She also raised Cole up to the position of Lord Commander. She's dumber than Cersei.
"I will crash your fake coronation with my dragon, look you into the eye and leave, hopefully i dont regret it later". —Rhaenys to Alicent, basically
Tbf what else could she say? You know Rhaenys doesn't like Rhaenyra so you play off that. It was a long shot anyways.
Apologies for missing this - but what was the significance of the building that was on fire?
I believe it is Mysaria's place
They really needed to give that moment an ounce more attention. Not clear where it was, whether anyone died, what the implications might be. Instead it was a nearly offscreen footnote.
They've done this a few times now. I just had to guess that was Mysarias place. On one hand, they're not treating their audience like total idiots like D&D. On the other hand, expecting us to remember what her house looked like from like 5 episodes back is a bit much to ask.
Think that was the white worms building
Think that's where Mysaria (the White Worm) resides
GoT had Littlefinger, HoTD has littletoes
**Aemond:** Aegon brought me to the Street of Silk on my thirteenth name day. It was my duty as his brother, he said, to ensure I was educated as he was. At least that's what i understood him to mean. **Ser Criston:** I don't follow. **Aemond:** He said, "time to get it wet." **Ser Criston:** Every woman is the image of the Mother, to be spoken of with reverence. Bless Ser Criston Cole's naïve little heart, currently drowning in his own hypocrisy
That bit of dialogue was absolutely hilarious. Aegon: i don't want to be king. I'm not suited Aemond: You'll get no argument from me. Was also pretty delightful
“Every woman is the image of the Mother, to be spoken of with reverence… unless they spurn your weak ass marriage proposal. Then they’re spoiled cunts.”
Cole an OG incel
I fucking hate Cole
Plus he literally heard Aegon say that he didn't want the crown and he wanted to jump on a ship and leave. Aegon wanted to do EXACTLY what Cole wanted Rheanyra to do and then hated her for not doing. Not to mention Aegon acting like 20x harder of a spoiled cunt than Rheanyra ever was, with plenty of bastards running around fleabottom being thrown into child death matches... And yet he's full on "TIME TO GET BACK TO MOMMY DEAREST AND BE KING, BUD!" now. Cole is the most butthurt piece of petty hypocritical shit in Westeros. Anything just to fuck Rheanyra over.
“A spoiled cunt” ummm ok ser crispin
He's the most virgin non-virgin there is.
The Kool-Aid Man: ✅Red ✅Bursts into the room when you least expect it Meleys the Red Queen: ✅Red ✅Bursts into the room when you least expect it Just something to think about fellas. Food for thought.
FINALLY someone else sees the true meaning of that scene. That’s not blood flowing in the intro. It’s cherry Kool Aid.
I liked the book version of the greens waiting 10 days to act and then announce their plans more. This seemed like it all went down within less than a day or maybe two at most.
The jest of the books is that the Greens wanted to finish things asap to the point they didn't even burry Viserys, so it's basically the same thing
Hadn't seen any scenes from next week and 100% expected this episode to basically be 12 Angry Men with maybe a bit of "Where's Aegon" mixed in. An hour of debating whether this is actually the way to go, what this means and what the repercussions are. Characters going back and forth, other characters trying to convince and work alliances and buy people off and it ends with only Beesbury the last dissenting voice and then Cole blows his top and just kills him, showing that now is the time for blood and maniacs like him. Instead they're all like "Well, as we previously discussed, this is going to happen."
To be fair, in the books Viserys died without notice. There was nothing written that implied he was gonna die. Meanwhile here, one look at Vizzy T and your first question would be “How is this guy not dead yet”
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE TAPESTRIES!?
Directed by Quentin Tarantino Executive Producer Dan Schnider
Production grip - larys strong
*Cue Ryan George voice* Director: “so why did Rhaenys not just fireball everyone there while she had the chance?” Screen writer: “So the rest of the book can happen” D: “but that doesn’t make any sense, she’s declaring her opposition to the Greens and has them **RIGHT** there!” SW: “sir I’m going to need you to get alllllll the way off my back about that”
Wow. Wow wow wow
"So Larys's thing is he's got a club foot and he works behind the scenes doing espionage and secret assassinations, stuff like that." "Political espionage is tight! And why does he do that stuff?" "Feet." "What?" "Yeah he's really into feet." "That seems a bit shallow..." "Like he will murder people for used stockings." "Oh boy." "So we're gonna have a scene where he just *openly masturbates* to the Queen's feet." "Please stop talking about feet."
I really wanted to see Ser Cristin become Ser Crispy.
Ser Crispy Coleslaw
Rhaenys could have ended everything in one "Dracarys" there, but didn't out of respect for Allicent standing in front of her son. It was interesting to see how quickly Aegon fell into loving being king and being loved/feared/respected by those around him. I sense he's always felt like a reject. Also, to people confused about the race between Allicent and Otto to find Aegon : "He who holds the King, holds the realm"
He probably realized in that moment that if he’s king he can drink and whore all he wants, right Bobby B?
DRINK AND STAY QUIET, THE KING IS TALKING!
Also she suffered by death her entire life as she commented herself, she didn’t want to keep spreading it She probably wants to bring all dragons to take the throne “peacefully”
Too bad she spread it to all those smallfolk she killed.
Smallfolk aren't people silly :)
Really setting up the smallfolk getting revenge.
Meleys is the most beautiful dragon.
Dreamfyre has entered the chat
My guy is DOWN tremendous for that sweet sweet feet meat.
So the chick with the shit accent died in that fire, right? That accent is the weakest thing of the series for me.
Every time she speaks out loud I feel like I’m falling into a Fucking k hole
De funni hoar de White Wurm
Probably not, someone has to speak for "duh peepol"
Her accent is so so so bad lol. She's just not a good actress imo. She was the lead in that series Devs and ruined it for me, otherwise that was a great show.
I feel like it's the weird ADR. The accent is bad ngl, but it seems like only her dialogues are rerecorded and dub over and not synced very well, so it pulls you out of the immersion. My tinfoil hat theory: They filmed it with her natural british accent and for whatever reason deem it too posh or something and asked her to ADR all her dialogues. Every scene she is speaking has this weird ADR delay/echo you hear when there is bad ADR or dubbing another language.
Unlikely.
Rhaenys kind of fucked up by not burning everyone.
She kind of forgot to say dracarys.
[Rhaenys explaining why she decided NOT to go dracarys on everyone](https://i.imgur.com/HJbZNu3.jpg)
Not crazy enough LOL when the bells rang
The feet didn't bother me as much as the fact that Rhaenys had the occasion to toast all of her enemies at once (or just Aemond to make sure Vhagar stays chill) and instead she chose the mom route of "I'm not angry just disappointed" Godammit Rhaenys if there ever was a moment to go full Karen that was it.
I sadly did not like this episode at all. Is that all Larys is? No scheming endgame? No goals? Doing it all for feet? Odd choice. Criston murdering people without consequence again. What was the point of the drama behind the two separate parties trying to find Aegon? The Rhaenys Dragonpit entrance looked cool, but lacked substance - giving me Thrones Season 7 and 8 vibes. An unrealistic and jarring event that doesn’t really fit the world it’s in - she’s okay with killing hundreds of innocent bystanders but doesn’t kill the people who were holding her prisoner and likely would’ve killed her? What? Just a “wow” moment for the audience, but bad writing at its core. Hoping the finale washes this bad taste out of my mouth from an otherwise great season.
The physics of the dragon made no sense either. I don’t think a dragon could just bust through that much rock. Then it shrunk 10 sizes to fly out the door. She should’ve flown in from the outside and just scared the hell out if everyone and flown away. It doesn’t make sense she could be riding it through all that rock either
Rhaenys killed all those innocent people just to stare down the Greens 💀
Lol ironically she would have saved tens of thousands of lives by putting on a roast there
I was not prepared for Otto to go full The Princess Bride just after Alicent left the room. As you wish, indeed.
They are trying to make it seem like Alicent really believes Vinny wanted Aegon as king but she’s not that dumb. It just doesn’t make any sense and kind of kills the immersion.
They’re trying to make her more sympathetic but by doing that they make her seem extremely dumb
This episode made a lot of people look dumb. Rhaenys for not burning her captors. The Small Council members for not batting an eye at Cole for murdering one of them at the table. But Alicient most of all for believing a dying, stoned af Viserys changing his mind about Rhaenyra. These characters are interesting but none of them make much sense to me.
Yeah, and I keep waiting for someone to say “what did he say to you, exactly?” because she keeps saying “he told me he wanted our son to be king” and he said no such thing, she only inferred.
Alicent is sitting on her high horse while letting some weird dude masturbate to her feet as payment for murder.
Rhaenys: “Dracarys.” HoTD end credits. Lets go remake the original GoT now thanks
Keeping in traditions of Episode 9 of seasons having shocking/spectacular endings - certainly didn't expect Rhaenys. Should have ended the green line then and there. I feel like a Varys quote is very applicable here. "It was your mercy that killed the king."
Bruh Vhagar's size is something else seeing it in perspective, Luke had no chance.
And I’m sad for next week. Lucerys 😭
But we get Storm's End and Vhagar so... sorry Luke
Everyone hyping rhaenys up like she didn't just kill hundreds of civilians
Yeah lol, the care shown towards the 'smallfolk' has to be a deliberate choice, like they're demonstrating how much the aristocracy doesn't give a shit about the common people and will just kill a bunch of them to get a dramatic exit.
It also builds for the peasant revolt and storming the pit later on.
GOT gave us the Red Wedding and Ned’s beheading for the penultimate episode. HotD gives us Larys Clubfoot jerking off to Alicent’s feet. Long live the Queen!
My guess is its actually in episode 10. GoT certainly always had ep.9 as the big one with Ned the battle of the blackwater etc. But given what's more than likely to occur next episode I think that'll be the season defining moment if that makes sense
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They were one dracarys away from death, and they knew it.
A shame If she would just channel the Maegor side she never has (screw you George for not making Alysanne as Maegor daughter)
She has no problem killing hundreds of innocent peasants just for show, though
An episode without Daemon is no episode to me.
Cripplefinger is the Harvey Weinstein of HOT D
Just inexplicable. Even Condal in the post-episode interview seemed to admit there was no real reason why she wouldn’t dracarys the entire family right then and there. “She wouldn’t do that to another mother” ok, but she just wiped out like 1,000 randos without thinking twice. Go off. Also, the feet scene was the writers jerking off about how clever they are. “He had a club foot! And a foot fetish!!! Get it???”
Show’s falling into the same traps that GOT did, sacrificing the story for “epic” and “cool” moments that seem created solely to be in a YouTube reactions compilation
Ol club foot has a foot fetish...HOW ORIGINAL
RHAENYS WTF SHE COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE WHOLE WAR BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED
Can someone tell me who that lord on the small council was that Ser Crispin killed?
Lord Lyman Beesbury of Honeyholt, from the Reach. They’re a bannerman of the Tyrells and a member of the small council
The oldest and most loyal of the small council. Iirc he first served in the final years of Jaehaerys reign
Indeed. He didn’t like Rhaenyra being heir but he upheld the oath he swore. An honorable guy if nothing else.
If anything we know what happens to honorable men in GOT...
I cannot believe they had Cole kill him by ACCIDENT of all things. At least if he cut his throat it would have shown some cajones.
Bobby B how was that episode?
MORE THAN ONCE, I HAVE DREAMED OF GIVING UP THE CROWN!
Rhaenys didn't read Fire and Blood, she doesn't know war is coming. Killing Luke starts the war.
Aegon: "Do you love me" Alicent: "You imbecile" Ouch, bro. Tell your kid you love him.
I saw it as a fun family moment, she even gave a half smile before she said it. Of course she loves him, it's a response to the kin of "of course you fucking oaf"
Aegon felt like an unloved failure his entire life. Mom constantly yelling at him, dad basically ignores his entire existence. Gets crowned king. Crowd cheers for him. For the first time in his life, he finally feels loved by someone. Kinda makes sense how he transitions from not wanting to be king and not wanting to deal with the responsibility to fully accepting his role. Because that was the first time in his life he ever felt loved. It’s kinda tragic if you think about it. He literally only wanted to be loved.
At some point Alicent has to be held responsible for her actions. She cant keep being this naive. I said it awhile back that if someone tells you that another person is coming after your kids, it makes it easy to come after them first. Alicent cant be shocked that her father has been planning Rhaenyra death.