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“That’s the problem with naming everybody Aegon.” Is hilarious.
For sure! I actually laughed out loud last night when my wife learned that the twins' names are Erryk and Arryk. I guess she thought it was a joke last year. She went on rant about that, all the Aegons, and every other confusing Targaryan name. She says it's proof the author hates us.
There’s eleven freaking Aegon Targaryens we know about, not including the show calling Jon that name.
and on top of that there are 2 aegons who are counted as VI.
Yep, we already have two Aegons, another Jaherys (RIP...), and another Viserys. And the "history" between the time portrayed here and the time of GoT, there will be several more with those same names.
It's realistic though. The lack of name variety in royal and noble families in our own history is well documented. The UK had 4 Kings named George one after the other...
"Is this Laenor. Still rowing aftger all this time?" Caught me off guard 😂👍
like Gendry 🙂
I think “his custom” means the “princes daily routine”
What I love about this show is how we, as the audience, can take sides in one scene and then they complicate the character so we feel bad for choosing sides. The complexity they give arcs are so well structured.
Helena is called “a dreamer”, gifted Targaryens are either Dragon riders or Dreamers.
Dreamers can see the future, just like you said, they have visions as clear as a memory. ♥️
Helena is a Dragon rider
@@KlooKloo True, she is both. She has ridden Dreamfyre. (an appropriately named dragon for her to have claimed). And with the "dreams", much like Melissandre's visions, interpretation can be tricky.
Normally, the Dragon Dreams manifest when the Dreamer is sleeping. However, Helaena's experiencing her Dragon Dream visions while awake, as if she can't turn it off and struggles to differentiate what she Dreams from reality.
Daeron, son of Maekar, had the right idea to constantly drink himself into a stupor.
Danaerys had both dreams and dragons herself. As does Jon (in the books at least, I don't remember his clearly prophetic dreams being as much of a thing in the show), and going off what we've been told in the shows Aegon the Conqueror as well. Seems to have been fairly common to wind up with both talents. Indeed, with the great number of Targaryens who also went mad, I can't help but wonder if they too received Dragon Dreams but failed to process them as anything other than an increasingly destructive desire for Fire and Blood.
Syrax screaming when Rhaenyra found Luc's remains was not only her feeling Rhaenyra's pain but an expression of her own pain as she was mother of Luc's dragon Arrax. Two mothers mourning together.
I didn’t know Arrax was her baby 😭
@@funnylilgalreacts all 3 Strong boys had/have dragons from Syrax's broods 😢 crushing for both mothers to lose a child
I really like how they didn't just make Aegon into another king Joffery & he actually has a little complexity. I think the small folk cheering for him at his coronation had a genuine affect on him especially since its implied his parents weren't too affectionate with him growing up.
As bad as Joffery was, he at least had an interest in ruling & didn't have to be forced to attend meetings. He was also the only one who wanted to take out Dany's dragons the second he heard rumors about them, but Tywin wasn't concerned. He's in no way a good person or king, but sometimes his way of getting things done is missed.. like once Tommen became king lol
@@sproductionsinc Yeah true he did have a weirdly good knack of knowing what the big picture plays where, like dealing with Danny & forming a standing army. But between the two I'd pick Aegon over Joffrey no question.
You mean Aegon?
@@sproductionsincAegon II. over Joffrey any day!
@@sproductionsinc Aegon is more neglectful to his duties as a king, and obviously he's been horrible to women, but it's genuinely sweet seeing him interact with his children. Much bigger humanizing quality than anything we got from Joffrey.
Remember that many of the worst kings start off great - until as Alicent says the novelty of meetings and responsibilities wears off and becomes “no im king I can do what I want”
Emma D’Arcy did such an amazing job in the episode and they only spoke one line: “I want Aemond Targaryen.” 👏
Emma’s acting is so powerful. They only needed to say one line and they move me to tears twice.
They who? How many?
@@derf2580Don’t act daft
Being real you mean? 😂 who tf is they 😂@vjc25
@@vonbetter6478 you do know they can be used for a singular person way before any modern pronoun ideas existed
Aegon became far more interesting this episode, he loves his kids and he really does want to treat his people well. Like he's a drunk idiot, but not at all heartless or cruel.
He’s still a horrible person, but at least he wanted to be a good king
Didn’t he go to places to bet on kids in the equivalent of dog fights?
@@EN-Fitz oh yeah.. This episode made me forget about that 😅 he's horrible with a soft spot for his kids I guess.
He's still a rapist, but they give him more layers, make him a more complex character.
EVERYONE LOVES OWN KIDS@@traviscue2099
Aegon was the stand out for me, it's so great to see his character be fleshed out. Emma killed it, she only had 4 words of dialogue but she was still a powerhouse.
The scene cuts after they ask what if they don't find Aemond? But later on they reveal Daemon told them "a son for a son" which seemingly means if you can't find Aemond, the other will do.
Or maybe because Alicent dismiss them all, after all, by the night everyone should be sleeping, and she didnt trust them, and Cole really should be doing his job, but he was occupied.
Emma goes by they/them pronouns btw
Lmao you want to see a rapist loser fleshed out?
@@mochiyeosang1908 Thanks for the info, did not know that
Rhaenyras scenes, especially the one with Jaecarys, broke me
Emma is so good
Honestly I really didn’t feel bad for her in that scene beautifully acted scene definitely but Rhaenyra sent her son to the one house who could have gone either way king or queen all alone to me Rhaenyra and Aemond share the blame in the death of Jaec
I@@brianalex5083 it was Luke and no , rhenyrea had no reason to assume the baratheions would go against her nor did she know aemond was going to be there her only fault was going empty handed .
Yay! FINALLY a show I watch so I can watch your reactions again!!
the into is a tapestry
Yes, I love the Bayeux Tapestry approach, it's a book accurate and real world history reference. It makes sense to depict events in a way that non literate people can understand and access. Threads of history indeed.
"What does it keep out?"
"Six seasons of buildup for about 35 minutes of """pay-off"""!"
"*GASP*"
I'm quite sure, it was Deamon's instruction. When the assassins asked what they should do if they did not find Aemond, the show cut to another scene without an answer to this question. But this answer came in the conversation between the two assassins, that it should be a son for a son (Quote: "A son for a son he said"). Killing the child was therefore Deamon's alternative.
Helena had the vision with the rats (the maid remembered Helena's warning when the assassin stood in front of her). I think she had already seen the death of her son and wanted to change the future. That's why she pointed directly to her son, hoping the killers wouldn't believe her. In her vision, she may have pointed to her daughter and the killers didn't believe her and killed her son. Now she knows that the future is fixed and cannot be changed.
Another possibility would be that she immediately pointed to the son so that she wouldn't lose both children. If the killers had killed the daughter, her son would have died on the throne as king at the latest, if not earlier in the fight for it. A throne that her son may not have wanted anyway. At least that's what she told her husband. So she pointed to her son so that at least she wouldn't lose her daughter, because in this world women are less at risk.
By the way, there is still at least one male heir to the throne of Aegon. In case it was forgotten, Aegon fathered at least one son in the children fighting pits. We saw a son of his there last season. And I think when the time comes, the White Worm will intervene, because she knew what was going on, as did the twins and I think Aemond too (not sure).
By the way, there is still at least one male heir to the throne of Aegon. In case it was forgotten, Aegon fathered at least one son in the children fighting pits. We saw a son of his there last season. And I think when the time comes, the gray worm will intervene, because she knew what was going on, as did the twins and I think Aemond too (not sure).
Kristen Cole could also get into trouble, because according to Otto's order he should go to his post. The question is where this post was. If he should be at Helena's door, Cole has a huge problem, because he was in Alisant instead.
To make it clear, *we don't know* if it's Daemon's instruction.
The show left it ambiguous *on purpose* to spark discussions like this one. 🙂
Unless you're a mind reader or a clairvoyant (or GRRM), you don't know if it's Daemon's instruction. You're just guessing.
the kid in the fighting pits would be considered a bastard and would not have a claim, and even if he was legitimized would have a much weaker claim than Aemond.
@@mori1bund No, it was clear.
In the conversation between Deamon and the assassins, the phrase "a son for a son" was not mentioned. When the question came up what should happen if they don't find Aemond, they went into the next scene without an answer. In the bedroom with the knife at Helena's throat, one assassin said to the other: "HE SAID a son for a son".
Listening and thinking along helps. It doesn't get any clearer than that. The only reason the writer didn't let Deamon say his order himself at that moment was to keep up the shock factor and surprise until the moment came.
@@andalilbitqueer But he has a claim and that's what counts. Have you even seen Game of Thrones? Joffrey killed all of Robert's children for this very reason.
@@TomTomson81 he said that quote when he was with rhaenys.. so he must've said to assassins too
I don’t think they could have done a better job with this cast they play their characters perfectly
The series is based on 5 ou 6 chapters of the book Fire & Blood, which is a maester's narrative of the history of House Targaryen. Given that it is a historic book inside the narrative, it is ridden with inconsistencies, fallacies and biases, which makes it a fairly interesting read because you never know what's true and what's fiction (in the inner story).
The chapters that deals with the Dance of the Dragons (the Targaryen civil war that series depicts, although the maester tries to change the popular name given to the event, which I shall not say what it is because spoilers) have on some events 3 different versions given by 3 different sources gathered by the narrator, while others where there are multiple witnesses that tells the same story only one version is given.
In the book, the story tells a different (and crueler) version of what happens in the final scene of this episode: Blood and Cheese gets two of three children of Aegon II, the boys Jaehaerys (the heir to the throne) and his younger brother Maelor, and makes Helaena choose which one to kill. She chooses Maelor, but the duo not only kills Jaehaerys, they tell to Maelor that her mother chose him to die. As you can imagine, things will not go well from here on but you (and us) will need to wait the next episodes to discover that.
19:45 knew I could rely on you. I sobbed in this scene and haven’t seen anyone else have a similar reaction lol ❤
Larys does not need the Hand's business. He needs the foot's business 😂
The foot shows, the hand strokes.
Love the title cards you've been making.
Xander deserves all the credit!
Honestly if I didn’t see what he was up to in the previous season, Aegon would probably be my favourite character - I have to commend him for giving his son the attention his father denied him and breaking the cycle of neglect
He clearly cares about his people, he no longer ridicules Helaena’s strangeness and he gives major respect to his brother. I’m sure I’m gonna be given plenty more reasons to hate him as things progress and I’m obviously overlooking all the horrendous things from S1 but from this episode in isolation I could believe he’s a good guy
Here we gooo
didnt know you were doing this, a surprise sure but a welcome one
hey hey Happy Monday =)
It’s sad how identical this was to scenes from season 1
Alicent and Criston
Aegon rules just like his father and adores Aemond like his father did Daemon. The cycle never stops
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Aegon and Aemond actually have another brother called Daeron who should be a year younger than Aemond
He’s been in another kingdom serving there...from what I remember was stated in a recent interview
@@Persephone_Personified He's ward and squire in Oldtown for Otto's Nephew (who was mentioned in the Small council meeting)
I've watched so many reactions since the episode came out and the Jace/Rhaenyra scene always makes my eyes watery every single time, haha. Not many shows/movies can do that to me, but hearing Jaces breaking voice and seeing the embrace of a loving/grieving mother just does things to you.
Rhaenyra has lost so much. Her mother, her sibling who died not long after birth, her father, one of her children was stillborn, the father of her children, and now Luke. Her strength and perseverance is awe inspiring.
love your necklace ❤
Glad you’re an alicent fan and have compassion for her character.
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in Age of Empires, you know the greens always fuck everything up.
blue and red, you can trust them to be at each other's throats, and with a smile while at it.
teal, grey and orange, they mostly keep to themselves.... but green and yellow, they can go either way and bring trouble everywhere.
is that why vipers plays yellow and Larry randomly chooses colours
How many contemporaneous shows can Angela react to? MOAAAR!
That was such a strong first ep. Just everyone sort of reeling from what happened, until the end, when, fucking yikes, that sound. That sound.
Yay!
SPOILERS (kind of) :
In the books Blood&Cheese is much different.
First off, Aemond is never mentioned to be the target, and Rhaenyra is not the one to incite the mission. Daemon sends Rhaenyra a letter from Harrenhal (in the books he is already there) that says-
“An eye for an eye, a son for a son. Lucerys shall be avenged”.
B&C sneak into the Tower of the Hand, which is not guarded as heavily as Maegor’s Holdfast, where Aemond was, and they head for Alicent’s chambers, who is getting ready for bed (Criston and her are not a thing in the book). Helaena and her three children (Jaehaerys, Jaehaera, and Maelor, who was not present in the show version) visit Alicent’s chambers each night before bed, and were just about to visit. When they get there, they find Alicent tied to the bed and her bedmaid strangled. Blood bars the door and Cheese takes Maelor and tells Helaena to choose which son of hers will die. Helaena pleads that they kill her instead but they refuse, siting- “An eye for an eye, a son for a son. A wife is not a son.”
Cheese tells her that if she does not choose then Blood will grape her daughter and they will kill everyone in the room. Eventually, Helaena chooses Maelor, her younger son. Maybe it was because she thought he would be too young to understand , or perhaps it was because the elder boy, Jaehaerys, was Aegon’s first born and heir. Cheese holds Maelor up and whispers to him-
“You hear that, little one, your momma wants you dead”.
In one clean motion, Blood strikes of the older boys-Jaehaerys’s-head, and the two take off with it. When the guards finally burst through the door, they find Helaena grasping her son’s headless body to her, mad with grief.
So yeah, Blood&Cheese is much more tame in the show.
Aegon felt that Viserys didn't love him or like him. And apparently he doesn't know whether his mother does either which is why he asked her if she did. I think this sense of rejection is something he desperately didn't want for his son.
Blood and Cheese finally
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Blood and cheese was way toned down from the books in the books jeharys was the target to beginne with and they tie her and alicent up a d tell her to choose which son they were gonna kill when she refused they threatened to rape her daughter so she points to the younger son hoping that he was to young to know whats going on and then blood leans in and whispers to him see that boy your mom wants you dead and then they kill jeharys.
I was a bit pissed that they did a very soft version of that, usually they don't hold back with violence
Really puts things into perspective. It is a war and both sides are monsters, there aren't any good guys in a conflict for control of a dynasty. There might be lesser evils, but they still cooperate with monsters and use cruel methods.
Daemon is an agent of chaos, more than any other in the series, in fact war was inevitable after Lucerys' death but this death of Aegon's heir will be the trigger for violence on both sides.
I want to add they adding the coins stuff, and how argon is not thinking before spending will be big part later. It'll take him 6 months to empty their coffers
Aegon and Aemond is like Viscerys and Daemon all over again only harder to control.
After this show is all said and done (probably a few years from now), I definitely recommend reading Fire & Blood in its entirety. All the books are just on a whole other level of depth and masterful storytelling, even though the shows are already incredible.
5:28 I thought it was bad that Jace came home straight away, I wanted to see more scenes of Jace in the north. The books have several moments of Jace in the north, but apparently the writers chose not to include them, it's a real shame.
Rhaenys' Scene with Daemon
Eva best who plays the character Rhaenys I talk about her scene with Daemon. "When we did that in the reading and it seemed like a kind of trump card, like whoever has more power" (...) so, what he throws at her in that scene entirely reflects him and his own vulnerability and a desperate need to blame someone"
"Understanding that thing about being an outsider. Those who have been mistreated, those who haven't gotten the position they were raised in or deserve, I feel like there's a deep understanding that Rhaenyra resonates with a lot."
As Rhaenyra was absent for days, it was probably the daemon who received Alicent's letters. I imagine he burned all of Alicent's letters. (I would do the same thing)
I'm sure he did this the first moment he read it
"Friend, how are you? How are you?🥰
I'm sorry for your son😰🤧 You know how it is, accidents happen🤷♀️ but move forward and lift your head so the crown (a princess's, not a Queen's) doesn't fall off, right lol I miss you already." (bro when Alicent speaks The fact that I sent the letters made me angry because, bro, it's only the scriptwriters who can do this shit, I hope Daemon burned all the fake letters.
I wanted to talk about Rhaenyra in the book in relation to how Lucerys' death happened. How sad Vhagar must have been, the dragon who ended her boy's life. Riding Visenya,a woman she clearly admired and then her beloved Laena. Rhaenyra clearly admired the conqueror. She wore her hair normally tied in a long braid, like her ancestor and even named her daughter after her, who unfortunately did not survive. Besides, in the book the relationship between Laena and Rhaenyra was different.They flew together,visited each other and she was with Laena in her final moments.They promised their children: Jace to Baela and Luke to Rhaena, when the boys were four and three and the girls two. How sad it must have been to think that the dragon that once belonged to a woman she so admired and was inspired by and then to such a dear friend was the very one who killed her son.
Daemon was Anxious throughout the episode, lashing out at everyone he talked to because he was worried about Rhaenyra. He probably hadn't slept for days, not knowing if she was safe. Then she came back and he did his best to comfort her. (The funny thing is that Dameon was mad at everyone and blamed everyone, but when Rhaenyra arrived he was calm with her presence)
They [Daemon and Rhaenyra] have a connection that no one else on the show shares, they are almost the same person, in different bodies. Sarah Hess.
Matt Smith: “[Blood&Cheese] It's love, grief and vengeance. Daemon feels it's impossible not to exact that feeling of revenge when it's in him... [Jaehaerys' death] isn't his mistake ultimately, but he does put it in motion.”
19:38 Jace's scene with Rhaenyra was very beautiful. Jace placing the crown in front of the mourning is Rhaenyra putting the pain aside to comfort. He trying to hold back to say what he managed and clinging to her afterwards. This scene is important to show that Rhaenyra raised her children in a very loving way. On the other hand, we have a mother (Alicent) who is extremely negligent and neglectful and on the other, Nyra is simply being loving towards all of her children.
Seriously, they put the scene of Alicent lighting the candle for Lucerys, seriously, scriptwriters, this woman doesn't care about Rhaenyra's children, she calls hers bastards and tried to take a child's eye out and then put this ridiculous scene of hers, She called the jace and luke from savages... said he would rather die than let Helaena marry jace... spent 10 years questioning the legitimacy of the Children and putting a target on their and Rhaenyra's foreheads... but yes he does everything I felt the parallel of the wake with Alicent's fake, They are forcing too much, Alicent clearly never liked Rhaenyra's children but is called empathetic for lighting a candle at Lucerys' death... however, Rhaenyra who never had anything against Is Helaena called fake for showing empathy towards another innocent mother? Sometimes it's difficult to understand people, but she's the victim, folks.. she started the war by accident.. she sent Larys to kill Mysaria's informants by accident.. she spent 10 years preparing Aegon to be king by accident. .she questioned the legitimacy of luke/ep8 without meaning to.. she is just the victim of the patriarchy, incredible how everything they do the producers want to make accidental. "Ah, they didn't want to usurp the throne", "Aemond didn't want to kill the boy", damn what a bummer.
20:29 They didn't have Lucerys' body for the funeral so to represent him throughout his life, Jace wore his newborn clothes, Joffrey his toy as a child, Rhaenyra her clothes as an adult.
Aegon the 2nds sons name was Jaharyes. Aegons wife is his sister Helena.
It took me awhile to figure it out too it was Jacerys definitely spelt it wrong lol the same boy Aegon asked for in the beginning and the same kid that was bugging in the war room.
I lost my daughter (my oldest) 22 months ago and Rhaenera's loss killed me dead, especially the scene with Jac, her remaining child.
I'm so sorry. A parent should never lose a child.
To see winterfell and starks and the Wall was something i have been waiting to see
That opening was so Jon Snow/Ned Stark coded. It felt like home somehow
Aegon II. 💚
They murdered Jahaerys. The heir to the throne. 😣
He was never an heir. And good riddance
Good riddance to an innocent little boy? Got it. 👍🏾
@@AkronRain69 yes he can burn in the seven hellz
@@AkronRain69 He's better off, let's be real.
So who was the other baby? They looked identical so I couldn't tell lol
I also found it interesting that she said earlier, "What if he doesn't want to be king," to Aegon about Jaharerys & the way she pointed to him seemed she like already knew something.
Angela, you're doing amazing with the names - you have no need to beat yourself up over it!
Because you said you wouldn't read the books, and the event has occurred - Cheese is all that remains in the histories of the person's name/description jointly responsible for the killing of wee Prince Jaehaerys (the other is remembered as Blood). Their Mom is Halaena, sister wife to Aegon II. HUGELY surprisingly the show has spared us the version given in the history. In that, Halaena is forced to choose which child, and the two kill the other, taunting the spared child by jeering that their mother wanted them dead. I'm grateful that the visual of Prince Jaehaerys' murder was deemed too much - even for this show - instead remaining with Halaena as she flees.
Aegon II is becoming far more interesting already. Taking Jaehaerys into the Council meeting is how most ruling Lords introduced their heirs to the process of ruling - something Viserys II didn't do for him, and only barely did for Rhaenyra. Showing a level of duty or care I really didn't expect from him.
Looking forward to next week!
Actor playing Blood would be great voice actor for anime.
the casting of Allyn of Hull is rather spot on
Its a big duty
Former queeen screwed up. Her lover should definitely be guarding there lol. I think he is toasted next episode :)
I can not recall the name of the visionary queen, bride of the king. I will not throw the name that comes to my mind, because it is of another story, apart from this, and I do not wish to muddy the waters for you. (Although if I said it, I am sure you would understand why that name comes to mind) She feared the rats. And it was the rat catcher that led the killer to take her child's head. [Edit: Since I just watched the next episode, Helaena is the name]
It did trouble me that the queen, had to traverse so much distance without access to a guard, to make her way to her mother-in-law (dowager queen?)'s chambers, in a time of war. Imagine if the rat catcher had been employed to bring a dozen killers in? The war would be next to over, as the dowager queen, queen, king and the heirs except maybe Aemond, would be dead.
I think we've seen the only time Aegon will be any sort of a kind person after what happened to his son. Also I think we're gonna see a different Alicent. They had the scene of Aegon bring ing his son to the meeting was just to show how much he loves him, and now with his son murdered, you'll understand why he turns hard. Also I think Helaena will change for the worse. I mean what mother wouldn't after what she had to do.
A lot of people who read the Book Fire and Blood don't like what they did with Cheese and Blood because they changed things. I'm going to give my opinion on the whole episode, so I liked the episode but I expected more from the episode, about the blood and cheese I thought it was cool but it could be much better.
I'm going to talk now about what really happened in the Book Fire and Blood.
Blood and Cheese is one of the darkest moments of the civil war between the Targaryens,known as the Dance of the Dragons.
After receiving information about Luke's death at the hands of Aemond, the Black Council met at Dragonstone and received a raven from Prince Daemon, who at that time was in Harrenhal.
"An eye for an eye, a son for a son," wrote Prince Daemon."Lucerys will be avenged."
Thus begins one of the bloodiest chapters of Dance.
"Let it not be forgotten: in his youth, Daemon Targaryen was the Prince of the City, his face and his laughs were familiar to all the pickpockets, whores and gamblers of Flea Bottom. The prince still had friends in the lowest reaches of King's Landing and followers among the gold cloaks. Unbeknownst to King Aegon, the Hand, or the Dowager Queen, he also had allies at court, even on the green council... And another intermediary, a special friend whom he trusted completely, who knew the taverns and rat pits that festered in the shadows of the Red Keep, as Daemon himself had known, and moved with ease in the shadows of the city. He sought out this pale stranger then, by secret means, to enact terrible revenge."
Her intermediary, as it turns out later, was (Mysaria) and she is the one who recruits Blood and Cheese, in King's Landing.
Blood is described as brutish and deadly, and he had been a sergeant among the Gold Cloaks (City Guard), but was permanently dismissed for beating a prostitute to death during a drunken binge.
Cheese, in turn, was the rat exterminator of the Red Keep and therefore knew all the entrances and exits of the Castle and he is the one who takes Blood to the interior of the castle,without them being seen by anyone.
“Cheese knew the Red Fortress better than the shape of his own dick,” says Cogumelo. The hidden doors and secret tunnels Maegor the Cruel had constructed were as familiar to the exterminator as they were to the rats he hunted. Using a forgotten passage, Cheese took Blood to the heart of the castle, without being seen by any guards. Some say that the prey was the king himself, but Aegon was accompanied by the Kingsguard wherever he went, and not even Cheese knew of an entrance or exit from Maegor's Fortress other than the drawbridge that passed over the dry moat and its formidable iron spikes.
The Tower of the Hand was less dry. The two men climbed the walls, avoiding the spearmen stationed at the tower doors. Ser Otto's quarters were of no interest to them. They went directly to his daughter's quarters, one floor below. Queen Alicent had come to live there after the death of King Viserys, when her son Aegon moved to Maegor's Keep with his queen. After they entered, Cheese tied and gagged the widowed queen while Blood strangled her chambermaid. Then they sat down to wait, as they knew that it was Queen Helaena's custom to take her children to see their grandmother every night before they went to sleep.
Oblivious to the danger, the queen appeared as dusk spread across the castle, accompanied by her three children. Jaehaerys and Jaehaera were six years old and Maelor was two. When they entered the chambers, Helaena was holding his little hand and calling her mother's name. Blood blocked the door and killed the queen's guards while Cheese appeared to get Maelor.
-If they scream, everyone will die - Sangue warned His Grace.
Queen Helaena kept her cool, they say.
-Who are you? -he asked the two.
-Debt collectors -said Cheese. -An eye for an eye, a son for a son.
We just want one to settle the score. We will not harm
rest of you, not by a hair's breadth. What does Your Grace want?
lose?
When she understood what he meant, Queen Helaena pleaded
for men to kill her in the place of one of her children.
-A wife is not a son, said Blood. -It has to be one
boy.
Cheese warned the queen to choose quickly, before Blood was left
I'm tired of the little girl.
-Choose - he said -, otherwise we will kill everyone.
On her knees, crying, Helaena chose the youngest, Maelor. Perhaps she had thought the boy was too young to understand,or perhaps it was because the oldest boy, Jaehaerys, was the firstborn and heir of King Aegon, next in line of succession to the Iron Throne.
-Are you listening, little boy? -Cheese whispered to Maelor. -Your mom wants you dead. He gave Blood a smile, and the hulking swordsman killed Prince Jaehaerys, taking the boy's head off with a single blow. The queen began to scream.
Strangely enough, the rat exterminator and the butcher were true to their word. They did no harm to Queen Helaena or her surviving children, but they fled with the prince's head in their hands. A scream sounded, but Queijo knew the secret passages that the guards did not, and the killers fled. Two days later, Blood was captured at the Gate of the Gods trying to leave King's Landing with Prince Jaehaerys' head in one of his saddlebags. Under torture, he confessed that he was taking the head to Harrenhal, to collect his reward from Prince Daemon. He too
gave a description of the prostitute he claimed had hired them: an older woman, foreign in her accent, with a cape and hood, very pale.The other prostitutes called her Myseria.
After thirteen days of torment, Blood was finally able to die. Queen Alicent ordered Larys Clubfoot to learn his name so he could bathe in the blood of his wife and children, but our sources do not say whether this happened. Ser Luthor Largent and his golden cloaks searched the Street of Silk from top to bottom and investigated and stripped every prostitute in King's Landing, but found no sign of either Cheese or White Worm. In his grief and fury, King Aegon Il ordered all of the city's rat exterminators to be captured and hanged, and this was done. (Ser Otto Hightower took a hundred cats to the Red Keep to take their place.)
Although Blood and Cheese spared her life, Queen Helaena didn't exactly survive the fateful twilight. Afterwards, she did not want to eat, bathe or leave her chambers, and could not bear to look at her son Maelor, knowing that she had chosen him to die. The king had no recourse other than to take the boy from her and give him to the their mother, the Dowager Queen Alicent, to be raised as her own. Aegon and his wife began to sleep separately, and Queen Helaena sank deeper and deeper into madness, while the king raged, drank and raged."
So I hate all the green people because they are all bad, the only person in the family who is good is Helaena, the rest are all rotten, poor people, he lost his son so she goes after his mother to ask for help and she ends up taking the mother having sex with her lover, what a horrible thing, I feel very sorry for Helena, she does suffer in this green family, but Aegon, Aemond, Alicent do not suffer,they are suffering, they are suffering and because the series wants to portray them as poor things, Helaena does not have love from no one in her family, they all mistreat her, Because Helena doesn't like Alicent or her brothers, you can tell by just watching all her scenes with her family, she never lets Alicent touch her.
Shit is about to go down, there is no holding back Aegon now. Otto is about yo get the boot and Larys will be very happy to stoop to as low as possible.
Not Ser Criston Cole smashed both Queens.. Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) only had one line the whole episode, "I want Aemond Targaryen." and gave a powerful performance.
Weird to see the Lord Commander tending to the Royal Shrubbery...Not sure that is part of his job description.
Rhaegar is not a typical Targaryen name… I can‘t remember any other Targaryen with that name, only a Frey called Rhaegar…
The most often used names for Targaryens besides Aegon are Aemon, Baelon/Baelor, Viserys, Jaehaerys and Aerys
There are far more Brandons, Bryndens, Rickards and Theons in First Men family trees like the Starks 😂😂😂
What will Aemon do now his own son is killed? 🤔
Considering how he was at the beginning of the episode I think he’s gonna be pissed and he’s really gonna want to go to war
@@funnylilgalreacts I agree... Even Alicent is probably going to be accepting of it!
Boy, it's gonna be full on I think!
Lol you also said it wasn't enough at the end of the season 1 finale. Just like this episode 1.
Did anyone else notice Helaena stopped and gasped and was completely rerouted when she got to the middle of the bottom floor? How is nobody talking about this???? She clearly saw something??? And they clearly pan the camera to show you it wasn't a person. Ghost of the former king??? Someone else dead? Just Sir Krispy Kremes absense maybe??? I cant find anyone talking about this moment???
And so the tragedies and atrocities keep expanding like ripples on the water, each more irreversible than the last. It can only end in horror.
It's particularly sad when you remember that Aegon and Aemond are Rhaenyra's brothers and Daemon's nephews. But fratricidal were historically more common than not (the last being the one between Queen Victoria's grandchildren)
random suggestion i think you should do a reaction on puss in boots the last wish.
it's a great watch
"cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!"
both aemond and daemon are proving to be the dogs in this war. once unleashed, anything can happen and violence cannot be controlled -- not its direction or intensity or intent. alicent didn't intend lucerys to die, nor rhaenyra jaehaerys, but now despite themselves the two are inexorably locked head-on course for mutually assured destruction.
I’ve been waiting since the show was announced to see how they’d handle “that scene”. Very milk toast vs the book. I can see the showrunner clearly didn’t want to rock the investor and publicity boat.
I just had like the worst thought about how all of this could be prevented .... and it involves playing by "Targaryen Rules" it's absolutely gross, but that's how they roll ....
“What if we can’t find him?”…
now read the title of the episode for the reply to that question.
I didn’t read the title on purpose. They spoil shit.
Am I the only one that thinks Tyland looks like a slimmed down Donal Logue?
Taking out Aemond was not a bad idea. Then his big dragon would be free to be claimed by someonle else
A head for a head.
After this episode I don’t know which house to root for. Everyone is going to burn that’s for sure though
If its helpful, the twin killed was Jaherys and the girl is Jahera (I am massacring those spellings).
People are being a little unreasonable that this is not quite as horrible as the book but it gets the same things done.
Blood and Cheese.
King Aegon is gonna get a lot of cats for the rats because of this night...
Deamon is king , king consort , and commander of the blacks army ..
The book version of this is far better
They come to the queen mothers room , where her daughter brings the children say goodnight ( every night)
Take her hostage the queen comes with 3 children boy , girl baby. She is given a Sophies choice between both boys . She choose the younger . He says hear that boy ? Your mama wants you dead ( younger boy) then he killed the older boy in front of them all and left.
Sweet monkey. Otto, not Odo. I love you, I don't mean that mean, I know your issues with ship names.
Aught-O, not Oh-doh.
I always hesitate to comment on the appearance of my favorite reactors, but I must say, you look amazing. Not that that's what I watch for, rather your takes and insight, but... Damn, girl.
The stark contrast between how Rhaenyra's kids and Alicent's kids are treated re: love and support is striking.
In an episode titled "A son for a son", Rhaenyra's only line is, 'I want Aemond Targaryen".
When Cheese (the ratcatcher, in the book, those two are refereed to as "Blood and Cheese") says "If we can't find him, what then?", it's implied that Daemon replies with "A son for a son".
Blood and cheese my fav heroes…à son for a son
It was worse in the first draft. Blood and Cheese hold knives to each of her children and force Helaena to choose which one dies. She pointed to the younger child, to whom Cheese says, "You hear that? Your momma wants you dead." Blood then slits the throat of the oldest child and heir.
I hate Aegon, he's a bad person, but dang it they did make him likeable in this episode!
I propose that Angela Targaryen is the true heir to the throne! Just don't tell the dragons about anything.
Team green 🟢
Can i ask you a question funnylilgal?
If you had to give up a family member for death,more important your only son...
Would you just WALK OUT OF THE ROOM with the other kid and leave your son to be silenced and alone in his final moments ?
Yes. She and her daughter shouldn’t witness that. She couldn’t stop it and it was quick.
@@funnylilgalreacts Also, remember that Helaena is notoriously "odd": she might well be diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum in 2024. Her reactions to stressful events aren't neccessarily the stereotypical ones. If you remember when Daemon sliced Vaemond Velarion's head in half for calling Rhaenyra's children bastards in the throne room, Helaena's reaction was to put her hands over her ears instead of over her eyes.
Helaena was in full on dissociative mode. I'm guessing she will feel all of this very soon 😢
I recommend watching Alt Shift X analysis videos on HOTD episodes after seeing the episodes.
Seen people annoyed at how Aegon is portrayed as somewhat likeable. I think it’s good and reflects real life. Horrible people who do horrible things are charismatic and quite well liked. Daemon is fairly liked in the fandom but he is a vicious, terrible person. Aegon is a terrible person but there are going to be moments audiences sympathise.
I think they expect Joffrey instead they get a human.
@@funnylilgalreacts you’re probably right. That would be repetitive and it’s good to see different layers to these characters.
The blacks had some sympathy for the death of luke as a messenger. Not anymore. Now its "the queen who murders babies"
Syrax has not grown much since Rhaenyra was 15. Maybe she is on a Vegan diet
Master of Tongues
That was Blood and Cheese
That was a little blood and cheese light.
@blondymonk1535 I know but you have to remember the book Fire And Blood is very unreliable that's why George R R Martin said the events of the series is actually what happened
I'm a mixture of team Green and Black. Alicent is my favorite but I also love Rhaenyra. Criston Cole I like but I can't stand Daemon. I feel he is one of the worst humans on earth for all the terrible things he's done. Remember he murdered his wife, and having those goons kill that little boy if Aemond wasnt found. Yea he's just a very bad person. I dont think Rhaenyra or Alicent would have ever even thought of doing that.
not the pious, religious, faith before all is getting ate out by the man who pissed he wasn't chosen... Emma D'Arcy killed this with little lines hats off to them as an actor. po sweet baby Helana. they killed jaheris. Aegons heir. she saved her daughter Jahara. Rhae Rhae aint mean that; wants him dead obviously but BnC was all Daemon with assist from Mysaria
chesee asked deamon what if we cant find Aemond then it cuts away then later blood sad he sad "son for a son" so it was very clear to me that after they cut away deamon sad son for a son
how bout alicent lock her damn door lol
How are there like no guards around at all?
@@cedric13 bcuz Cristin was boning alicent lol
This premier did EVERYTHING it needed to without a wasted moment. The way Cheese kept popping up in the background was a deft touch, showing how arrogant the Greens are about their safety in the Red Keep. Why would the Queen Helena not have guards? Was it b/c Larrys Strong had rounded up so many castle staff...and if he replaced the people who left with others of his choosing..why were they incompetent enough to leave the Queen unguarded?
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I firmly believe Larrys is a Greenseer-that he can use rats or other small animals to spy and observe everyone in the castle. If this is true _why didn't he raise the alarm when Blood & Cheese infltraited?_ 1 sure way to power is to destabilize the royal family, remove the heir, cause paranoia & infighting and plant the seeds for a rift between the feckless monarch and his most competent advisor ...while positioning himself as a capable ally to both sides. This is the kind of evil ba$tard I love to hate.
Not enough...that's begins first born son now is aegon dies aemon is the next in line the violent psychopat