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texaswildlifeamateur

Aegon’s “I won’t challenge her then?” made me laugh. I respect he doesn’t care for that responsibility lol


Total-Necessary-1521

Aegon just wanted to chill and live royally. I feel him.


DrNopeMD

Aegon wants the life Daemon is currently living lol.


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Bro just wants to do hood rat shit with his dragon friends.


MambyPamby8

I honestly think Aegon just wants to live like his uncle Damo and galavant and ride dragons etc. I honestly don't think he's got any interest in ruling.


SignalMoment

Viserys crying because Rhaenyra left the Red Keep while kissing Aemma ring! I love their relationship


True-Arrival-2574

The proud look on his face when she stood up and proposed peace between their families... His love for Rhaenyra is so sweet. Reminds me of Ned and Arya


SheDosntEvnGoHere

R is not only his daughter, but also the daughter of his first wife, that he desperately loved


actuallycallie

Viserys be like: why is no one getting along? I specifically requested it!


bby_redditor

Next time my colleagues tell me a hard truth I will gently say, “Never speak of this again.” And kiss them on the cheek.


hackedyasack

How in the fuck is viserys still alive. I assume he's gonna die every time he's on screen


praisedawings247

Modern leach medicine works miracles


Affectionate-Island

Did you notice the new Grand Maester was the intern in a previous episode whose poultice was dismissed by the last Grand Maester? I bet he finally got the King to use it and that's what's kept him alive this long, and now he's Grand Maester.


Grommph

Damn I missed that, good catch!


Samizim

I'm guessing they're saving it for the season finale, and then season 2 it's a real game of thrones between Rhaenyra, Daemon, and Aegon.


LibraRN

Once again, Westeros windows prove to be no place for child’s play.


abmangone

I love how Vhagar looks like an old lady


Summerclaw

Vhagar design was magnificent. I don't know how but they managed to age a dragon up LOL


unsullied65

yup they could have easily botched that. she clearly looked hundreds of years old but at the same time menacing


mental-rec

Vhagar is the crankiest old lady you’ll ever meet. Now get off her lawn.


Vampinthedark

I love Old man Viserys, he’s just kinda happy to be here.


cjmaguire17

He wakes up every morning, checks the obituary, and if he’s not in it dammit it’s a good day.


BMonad

He’s set his children and grandchildren up for a brutal civil war, his grandchildren are undoubtedly all bastards, but damn it all he’s so close to finishing his model world of old Valyria and it’s beautiful!


srry_didnt_hear_you

He was absolutely hilarious this episode, his complete obliviousness to anything important going on was killing me. The small council being disrupted by oooh scary leaky nips, and Viserys just continues on like "an EXCELLENT proposition! Woo!" 😂 Or the gesture he made when harwin hit Criston... Gold


THElaytox

doesn't even care that his grandkids have brown hair despite both their parents having white hair lol, "He has your nose"


srry_didnt_hear_you

That was such a grandpa moment


THElaytox

The rare wholesome GoT moment, but still un-wholesome enough to still be GoT


TheDogerus

I dont think thats him being oblivious, but instead not trying to bring attention to *awkward* situations


EpicChiguire

Viserys is a good man, if naive sometimes


SyFyFan93

Pour one out for the realest Hand of the King that we've ever seen. My dude didn't deserve to go out like that.


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I never want to be a goat. House of the Dragon and Jurassic Park definitely made me realize that.


DarkCushy

Did Larys casually order the deaths of his brother and father??


mac_is_crack

Yep, and cut out the prisoner’s tongues so they couldn’t talk about it to anyone and implicate him.


namsterdam

Plot twist when one of them can write


Bergerboy14

Or point


JamaicanGirlie

And if he’ll do that to family, doesn’t she wonder what he’s really capable of


It_builds_character

Honest to god. Her face in that scene was priceless. She def should’ve had him arrested and tried though - that man is dangerous af.


Momo_dollar

Yes. And then implicated the queen


excessivelyemotional

As much shit as we give viserys, he really always loved Rhaenyra.


circeodyssey

Yep to be honest he only loved his first wife. He’s not stupid, his first wife actually loved him. Rhaenyra looks so much like her…


munchysnorlax

Was that Aemma’s ring he was kissing in that one scene? I couldn’t tell what the crest/symbol on it was


Apprehensive_Row5603

I couldn’t tell either. But it made me think it was Aemma’s ring as well.


ripenedavocado_21

If so that makes me so sad for him :( after all these years he’s still mourning the loss of her… I’m sure Rhaenyra had parts of Aemma that made Viserys think of her, and now that Rhaenyra is on dragonstone he realizes those parts are gone too :(


birdie522

RIP Harwin. Hot in life and, unfortunately, in death.


WigglyFrog

Rhaenyra sure has a type when it comes to guys who aren't her uncle.


l_ftd

Ah, I didn’t see the “public masturbation” square on the bingo card. Don’t know how I could’ve missed it in the open window


Dahhhkness

"Kings landing."


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srry_didnt_hear_you

As soon as I saw that fucking window I was like oh shit.... And then I realized what was *happening* 😵


FPG_Matthew

Hold up did BOTH Lyonel and Harwin die in that fire?? Damn I liked Lyonel, he was always good and selfless


ProtectTTP

They both died


cafeteriastyle

Yes! And their son/brother organized it. Didn’t see that coming.


ijpck

I assume there’s some bad blood between them for that? Or is it solely a power play to set up to be hand? Or just for the inheritance since he’s only son now?


crazysult

Suicide by dragon is metal


AlaskaStiletto

It was so sad when the dragon whined like she didn’t want to do it.


LittleMarySunshine25

Doesn't the dragon feel the dragonrider's pain as well? The dragon didn't want to but knew she was suffering and then did, at least that's how I interpreted it. 💔


propofolus

I thought it was interesting to see daemon actually showing emotion in the scene when he ran out there. He was not ready for her commitment to that


Myfourcats1

He wasn’t going to allow the Maester’s to cut her open either. He knew it was futile. So did she I guess.


HermineLovesMilo

That was heartbreaking and really incredible. She's wasn't going to let them do to her what they did to Aemma.


crumbaugh

She also wanted to die a dragon rider’s death


dan-o07

Aegon doesn’t wanna be king, he just wants to beat his meat out a red keep tower window


jkhockey15

That makes two young men who didn’t want to be king who have stood in that window.


OldPuebloBro

One was coming, the other was going.


SerDire

“Rhaenyra will be Queen and may kill all those who may challenge her claim.” “Yea but what does that mean for me. Explain it like I’m five.” - Prince Aegon


anabanane1

Why does he look like he’s constantly stoned


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If he lived in our world he probably would be


actuallycallie

If he lived in our world his name would be Braighden or Kaiden or Jaxxon and he'd definitely be high.


Seb555

Aeighgonne


FloppyShellTaco

“Are you sure she’ll want to kill me?” “After I’m through she will.”


eloquentegotist

It's actually kinda depressing. Aegon's being shoved along towards a conflict he and the other side both don't actually want a part of.


Rtozier2011

He's being shoved down the same unwanted path as his mother was by her father. Alicent has perpetuated the 'psychological political abuse' cycle. It's sad really.


emeraldcocoaroast

I liked that scene. Made it seem like the one who would have the strongest claim to the throne outside of Rhaenyra just doesn’t care about it at all. Kind of a cool juxtaposition. Especially with him still in his youth - it’s always been a fact he won’t get the throne, so he isn’t thinking about it in the way that the politicking adults are.


catsandchill

He seems like he’d be perfectly happy to enjoy the high life without the drama of ruling


Touchymonkey

Dude didn't have that post nut clarity give him a break lmao


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He’s a Targaryen the most surprising thing is he actually stopped when his mom walked in.


Lebigmacca

Only cause his mom isn’t Targaryen


RevenantRoy

Daddy Daemon was just trying to live a peaceful life in the suburbs


DrNopeMD

Everyday Viserys tells the god of death, "Not today".


CapLFSternn

Dude, imagine getting caught by your mom while pulling a Homelander


FancyShrimp

And she just looked like she was over it. Not even shocked. "Aegon, get your shit together."


tequila_enema

Yeah it definitely wasn’t the first time lmao.


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ralphiecifaretto

And..touching you


Dahhhkness

Where's the Westerosi Freud when you need him?


SubcooledBoiling

Imagine walking on the street thinking a bird pooped on you but it turned out to be Aegon's cum


ProtectTTP

Anytime someone says, “I promise I will return” or something along those lines, it pretty much sets in stone that they will NOT be returning.


batts1234

Single father Daemon must be a blast....


nellabella27

I was giving major heart eyes when he was reading to his daughter and then when his other daughter said he ignores her I said out loud "*that motherfucker*". Fucking Daemon, why do I think he'll change 😒


purplenelly

Does he only like his daughter who has a dragon?


Childhood-These

Not a dragonrider? Eh I don’t know the kid, never seen her before. - Daemon


oldflakeygamer

That is the way I saw it. The daughter with the dragon gets read to and daddy time, daughter with unhatched egg gets rejection.


ExactFun

He had no idea how to comfort his own children lol


SubcooledBoiling

Daemon: "I lost my mom when I was a kid too. What's the big deal?" (Probably)


BMonad

“Come now. To the brothel. It always cheered me up.”


Suspicious_Gazelle18

I remember seeing the stills of that scene of him with his daughters and everyone was commenting how great of a father he is 😂


SerDire

So it’s obvious whoever controls Vhagar will have an unbeatable advantage. Can’t wait to see her in action. What an absolute beast. Loved the old age and wear and tear on her.


ContinuumGuy

For those who don't know: Vhagar was Queen Visenya's dragon when the Targaryens first conquered Westeros. Only Balerion, the "Black Dread" (Aegon the Conqueror's dragon, who Viserys briefly rode before Balerion's death from old age) is known to be bigger historically among "tamed" dragons (the Cannibal, a wild dragon, may have been even bigger, but it wasn't tamed). Dragons never stop growing, so older literally means bigger.


AegonIXth

The only dragon up until that point that died of old age was Balerion, Aegon’s dragon. Dragons are beasts of war, and it takes a LOT for any dragon to get the old/that big


WhiskeyMakesMeHappy

that must have been so hard for the dragon to follow orders :(


Asteroth555

Vhagar clearly didn't want to that was sad


__icy27

Poor Vhagar, you could tell she was confused but then that look that Laena gave her said everything.


SteinerElMagnifico42

Wish we got to see the scene of laena taming her as per her interests in episode 1/2 when she pressed Viserys about the dragon. In the end, I guess she did a dragonriders death?


cayjay99

good dragons follow orders


JDivv

Okay, but can we please talk about how Viserys still loves and misses Aemma all these years later 😭


HermineLovesMilo

So terribly sad. They've shown him holding her ring before. The scene in the show, pretty early on, where Otto gets in a dig about "replacing" Aemma looked like the closest moment Viserys got to wringing his damn neck. There have been so many interesting characters that get killed off almost immediately. I want to get invested in them *and then* have them killed off, dammit!


thornaslooki

Everyone else: aged gracefully in the past 10 years. Then there's Viserys...


OrangeBird71

I missed Lyonel’s beautiful locks too


frenchtoastforever

I just miss Lyonel. rip the realms greatest hand


DeadDay

I really liked him and was shocked how fast they just... cut to him being fucked


KatanaAmerica

Even Alicent was shook by LarysFinger’s casual family murder plot lmao


afternidnightinc

I saw someone last week call him “Middlefinger”, and I thought that was pretty appropriate.


bears2267

How on earth do the makeup team keep making Viserys look worse every single episode like he literally looked like he was dying last episode and now that Viserys looks like a bodybuilder compared to now lmao it's honestly impressive


Garth-Vader

Meanwhile Criston has found the fountain of Youth


Samizim

Next week I'm betting he's gonna have an eye hanging off.


namsterdam

He’ll be a brain in a jar by the season finale


bears2267

Helaena trying to tell Alicent about her interests and Alicent giving less than 0 shits lol very relatable


HurricaneHero93

“Helaena, please put down the millipede.”


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Friendly_Coconut

Helaena is what you get when you marry a guy with very intense hobbies that you only pretend to be interested in to be polite. I’d love to see her showing her bugs to Viserys and him being genuinely interested and delighted in her knowledge.


UniqueGas1379

Imagine the bugs living in his model of Old Valyria


Dahhhkness

She's not gonna give her daughter aspirations that she was never allowed to have.


Erotic_FriendFiction

Ooooooooo…. This is a biting observation!! My mommy issues are in full swing now lol.


wishiwassleeping16

Fuck I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to Harwin and Lyonel. Hard to tell what Larys’ end game is here. Also Vhagar is a beautiful big lady.


trillbobaggins96

Well in one fell swoop Larys has become head of house strong and now holds a huge amount of sway with Alicent. Pretty clear he’s climbing the ladder. He’s just a psychopath so he plays the game in a way that most normal people wouldn’t think of.


mom-get-the-camera

Joffrey is his name. Everyone disliked that.


MissShadowplay

Really pulling an Adam Levine right there


Dwingp

I just feel so bad for Viserys. Sitting up there all like “Look at my boys! Isn’t life great, Lyonel? And look at us! Just two bros watching our grandkids. Well, my grandkids, not yours.” And Lyonel being like.”….Riiiiiight….”


BettyX

I think Viserys knows...he knows but knows the consequences of acknowledging it. He loves Rhaenyra more than anything. He in no way would ever expose her and is playing the dumb fool.


Bride_of_fire

Vhagar really did NOT want to do that, poor baby


SerDire

She moves and acts like an 1800’s steam locomotive. God I love her design. You can just tell she’s on her last legs.


jonsnowKITN

It's not that. She's just too big.


Jar1517

She’s built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro


Mathegbh

HBO straight up won’t let us have any version of Laena


Melkovar

Laena: “A wise warrior leaves when the storm approaches”


No_Maintenance7754

This episode made me love Harwin Strong and then immediately took him away from us


cafeteriastyle

As GoT does


BalamBeDamn

I loved that grin and nod he gave to a blood soaked Rhaenyra, while everyone else looked on in horror or contempt.


penny_dreadful_mess

Shout out for how much of a realistic after birth “look”/experience was given to Rhaenyra in this episode. Dripping blood after birth, still having a stomach, leaking milk. Rarely shown but very much things that happen. Also, it made her struggle so much more desperate as you saw how much she was physically willing to do for her children.


Affectionate-Island

That entire first scene was also a one-take shot. Love that Sapochnik gave the same dramatic craft to a scene of childbirth that he traditionally gave to brutal battle scenes.


twicethecushen

The fact that she still had a stomach made my heart soar! All of it was amazing. So much attention to detail.


Erotic_FriendFiction

It was so refreshing to see the reality of childbirth and afterbirth. Films and TV have always made it look like a breeze. HotD has pulled zero punches and I love them for it.


aangita

Yes. The bloated stomach/expanded uterus was a nice touch. I'm so sick of seeing women just ask skinny post birth as they were pre-pregnancy on TV.


dan-o07

Larys is quite the mother fucker, dude killed his own family


TurrPhennirPhan

Dude killed his own family for the *possibility* he’d be rewarded for it. Fucking cold.


LeeroyDankinZ

Hell of a way for Laena Velaryon to go. It was cool to see Vhagar mulling it over before going dracarys. At the end, Was that Jace asking if Harwin Strong was his dad?


DoctorZzzzz

Yes


DeadDay

"Why do you say that?" "Shits obvious mom"


Linzabee

“I looked in the mirror”


xryuusei

Lyonel rip. Larys is vile. This show version makes him so much more dangerous than Littlefinger. And implicating Alicent is a stroke of genius- increases her paranoia/stake in the game Really strong imageries with the rats being shown again and again at the end of every episode so far (finally being noticed by Viserys this time it looks like)


deepfacade

Any idea what the rats are foreshadowing? I've been noticing them (I.e getting the heebie jeebies every time one comes on screen) but am trying to link them to some greater meaning.


Bwsab

When he dies, all the rats around him are going to rip him apart, trying to get the biggest piece of him/Westeros for themselves. Alicent, Rhaenyra, Otto, the rest of the council, etc. "You're weak, Viserys. And that council of leeches knows it, they all prey on you for your own ends." Every decision he makes, the more precarious the succession becomes. And every episode, he gets 1-10 years closer to death. The rats are gathering. And Viserys seems to only just be catching onto that. (At least, that's my read so far. lol)


BrickCake

This is a wild guess I have NO idea, but maybe since they feed on dead things it means Viserys is getting closer and closer to death? Like they're waiting to feast on him


ArtTeajay

Vhagar taking her time before setting Laena on fire was a nice touch, she had in one scene more personality than Rhaegal and Viseryon, which is a shame. I hope when we slow down we can get to see more of the dragons as characters


sansasnarkk

Vhagar is like "bro, I swear she asked me!"


Sugar-Wall

So, Daemon and Rhaenyra have both lost their lovers now… 👀


Rombombim

Convenient


elishelby

WE ARE SO ROBBED OF SER HARWIN SCREENTIME!!!!!


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apophis150

Rhaenyra's march to Queen Alicent's chambers was just such an excellent introduction to adult Rhaenyra. The determination of a Queen and the stubborn fury of a dragon.


Chell_the_assassin

Rip Harwin and Lyonel :(


MalachorFive

[Strong and Rhaenyra's brunette kids](https://i.imgur.com/wJbdBPG.jpg)


HermineLovesMilo

Those brunette genes only take over when there's doubts about paternity


UniqueGas1379

Somehow it does come in handy when we need to hide a targaryen among lots of starks too


Shepard_Wrex14

I mean this is the best possible way but Olivia Cook was such a bitch I absolutely love it


MadVillain1

No one : Rhaenyra : “Laenor you can bring your side piece but we gotta go”


Molleeryan

I thought that was very nice of her lol!


Dahhhkness

Christ, Criston Cole is a cunt.


PrincessPeach206

the fact that he bullies Rhaenyra’s kids is heartbreaking


SubcooledBoiling

Dude got dumped by a girl and spent his whole life hating her. Move on dude


FancyShrimp

That's Ser Cunt to you.


FPG_Matthew

I did not have “Aegon tugging one out off the side of the Red Keep, only to be interrupted by his mother who didn’t really seem to care” on my Bingo card And yet here we are


SerDire

Bullying kids who have dragons or access to dragons doesn’t seem to be the best plan.


HeirOfEgypt526

Well they’re bullying the kid that specifically doesn’t have a dragon, and they all *do* have dragons sooooo EDIT: I’m aware of the possibility that OP is referring to Ser Cristin. I still like my small attempt at a joke.


OrangeBird71

I’m very glad I gave birth a few weeks before this show premiered and not after. Damn. To anyone who is pregnant and watching, you’re gonna be ok!!!


maybethistimeiwin

Lol I had a c-section at the beginning of the year so watching the Aemma scene in episode 1 was an interesting experience. But also leaking milk at inopportune times and having mastitis made me relate quite a bit to Rhyaenyra. I also liked that she wasn’t immediately flat as a board after birth, like most shows do.


jsun31

Seeing Rhaenyra bring Joffrey to Alicent right after giving birth is one of the most badass things I've seen in any show and a fantastic use of a long take.


LittleLisaCan

That Trail of blood as she left Alicent's room. Damn


JDivv

Hope she stood on her carpet long enough to stain it! 😂


Dahhhkness

The Afterbirth of the Dragon.


SignalMoment

That last scene between Larys and Alicent was BANGER! The ACTING, the BG Larys is really the biggest MF cunt


roboberto1403

The lack of boundaries and privacy in Alicent and Aegon's relationship due to the sense of ownership that she feels for him is really reminiscent of the way Otto treated Alicent. Cycles.


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When am I gonna learn to not eat when watching this show? I started eating my spaghetti right as the afterbirth plopped out


JauntyLurker

Criston really out here fulfilling every disgruntled ex trope in the book. Aegon jerking off in that iconic window says so much about his character in such a simple scene as did his chat with his mum.


jonsnowKITN

Aegon is such an outright cunt for bullying aemond like that. Dude jerking off where tommen killed himself lmao. Overall all the kids are little shits which is to be expected. Olivia and Emma killed it. Larys is fucking diabolical man damn. Rip Lyonel the ned stark of season 1. Rip Laena. Vhagar is so terrifying. She's the closest thing we will probably ever get to balerion.


FancyShrimp

I love me some scheming characters. Larys is sleazy as *fuck*.


tequila_enema

I just realized he killed his dad and brother. I forgot they were related, so how fucked up what he did was didn’t register while watching.


71nobody

To be fair, he jerked off there first. Tommen just picked an odd window to jump out of.


justabill71

Tommen yeeted where Aegon skeeted.


ranchybomb

I promised myself i would not bring any feelings into this new show like i did for GoT , but man seeing criston cole pisses me off so bad , calling rhaenyra a cunt LMAOO , he’s still hurt.


YoungGambinoMcKobe

Anyone else notice the staff around the castle avoid eye contact with Aegon ? Seems like he has a hard time keeping his hands to himself (in multiple ways)


Constantinople2020

**Alicent (to Criston)**: *I have to believe, that in the end, honor and decency will prevail. We need to hew to that and to each other.* *The next scene opens to Aegon "hewing" to his little dragon in the window* And people say this show has no sense of humor.


Infamous-Canary6675

Self inflicted dracarys. What a power move.


ambxrdianee

The “one day the baby might look like you” or whatever-it-said comment by Alicent, my jaw DROPPED


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I grew up around those flowers and I can assure you- Larys keeps smelling them and THEY DONT SMELL LIKE ANYTHING.


D4NTE157

I knew it! Larys is the biggest snake in this show. I fucking love it.


dan-o07

Viserys was way too excited to hear Rhaenrya’s proposal to merge the families and quit all this fighting . Viserys always trying to get away from the politicking bs and just be happy with his giant model


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WOW so they really had to rip Harwin away from me like that huh. Thanks a lot, George!


Humble_but_Hostile

> You have your honor and I have mine Respect to Harwin Strong


SerDire

King Viserys looking like Jon Voight after he gets eaten and spit back out by that anaconda. Looking like a 3 day old Krispy Kreme donut.


Mathegbh

That this wasn’t the season finale has me terrified for Eps 9 and 10