House of the Dragon
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Catharsis, its what we came for!
In its seventh episode,House of the Dragontips that convention on its side.
Here are a few things we learn right away.
(Aegon is also a pre-teen lush.)
Viseryss mind is wearing down like his degrading body at one point he calls Alicent Aemma.
(This infographicmay not be perfect, but its helpful.)
Shes also a storied warrior, originally ridden by Aegon Is sister/wife Visenya during the Conquest of Westeros.
With tiny Aemond on her back, her size is even more apparent.
The scene is also a clever mirror of how the adults handle the same accusations and slights.
Like her son, Alicent has grown a backbone the size of Vhagars.
And oh how she flies at Rhaenyra!
After all, they do literally bind their blood.
The Targaryen marriage ceremony stuffed into this episode, to its detriment requires multiple wounds and saguinal exchanges.
Imagine ifHouse of the Dragonwould slow down, just a bit, and let us live in uncertainty.
Why exactly would Viserys invite Daemon back to Kings Landing,again, even if ten years have passed?
You abandoned me and look what my life became.
Daemons reply, You were a child!, is more of a self-indictment than he thinks it is.
Finally, Eve Best is put to great use.
Her indignance at Corlys refusal to let the crown go!
By my measure Rhaenyra gave birth a few days ago.
Has her maester cleared her for sex?
And are those stitches really the best a maester can do?
Its hard to imagine sedately uttering, Do not mourn me, mother.
And in her proposal to Daemon, Rhaenyra calls the Hightowers the greens for the first time.
Even considering all the earlier tensions, these are the first real rumblings of war.
