House of the Dragon
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Its ten years later, and we have the same old Westerosi troubles.
Martins highborn those that make it safely out of the womb, that is.
The Princess and the Queen is bookended with birth scenes.
The crew is a little tinder box of monarchical conflict, waiting to ignite.
Instead, Aegon is taunting his brother into the kind of froth that wont end well for anyone.
Imagine the rot that can set in for a royal family when brother turns against brother.
Then theres the scene in the training yard.
(Hemightbe encouraged by jealousy about his former lover.)
Do keep trying, Ser Laenor, Alicent intones from her bemused perch.
Sooner or later, you may get one that looks like you.
By rights, the little Velaryon/Targaryens should have the silver locks both parents possess.
Over on Essos, Daemon and Laena (Nanna Blondell) await the birth of yet another little Targaryen.
Even his hair has improved!
But this cozy little family breaks down in one episode.
Laenas demise leaves Baelas and Rhaenas destinies up in the air.
But after her death, a newly unhinged Daemon may not settle for anything.
Laena isnt the only one to meet a fiery end in this episode.
Every family that has since inhabited it has died out.
(Those tongues are snipped out to keep the arsonists from talking.)
And plenty more people are on the move.
Well have to wait to learn if either is accepted.
Aemond isnt the only Targaryen child without a dragon.
Thats the place we find her here keeping her egg toasty warm and hoping it will produce.
Daemons course varies greatly from how its laid out inFire & Blood.
In the book, he returns to Driftmark with Laena about a year after his girls are born.
This is the kind of writing we need to see more of.
Surely, in a world heavy with symbolism, that flower has meaning, but what?
Similarly, Larys and his cronies don beetles as their sigils.
They creep and live in the dirt, but is there more to it?
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