Welcome back everyone
it's Charlie
There's a new house
the Dragon Season 2 teaser
that was released for the battle at Rook's Rest
which is going to be one of the major battles of season two.
There's a bunch of new footage
with some cool Easter Eggs, so we'll break it all down.
If you're brand new to the channel,
I'll be doing bonus videos during the off season.
Episodes are still on track to release next summer, though, despite the strikes.
That's only because most of the cast are international actors.
They're not part of the unions. It's actually striking.
Some of them are, but most of them are.
So they can continue filming The footage is mostly of the Green Army
being led by Criston Cole, who's Aegon II
commander during this part of the dance, the Dragons Targaryen Civil War.
It's still relatively early days during the fighting,
but there have already been some minor battles.
This is meant to be one of the major ones early in the conflict.
Like major WTF moments.
pretty much all this teaser and footage is from episode four.
That's when the actual battle is going to take place.
In the footage you can see
Kristen Cole leading the Greens through the woods in Rooks Rest here.
It's a scene of how Staunton they declared for Rhaenyra.
And the blacks, like their house here, is along the basically
because pretty much all these houses declared for an era
the whole idea is that Lord Staunton is trying to defend
against the Green Army, which has about 3000 men and two dragons,
Sunfire and Vega, ridden by Aegon, the second in Almond, who are both there
in at least at this point in the teaser like here in the video, like this footage,
Rhaenys has shown up on her Dragon Melees, yet
she's the only dragon that shows up to this fight.
so the whole idea is that Lord
Staunton at this point is trying to defend his castle at Rooks Rest with only
about 100 of his regular guards that he'd normally have stationed at the castle.
Notice in the footage you can see Kristen Cole yelling at Gwyn Hightower.
This is their stunt doubles in the scenes.
That's why it doesn't look exactly like the regular actors, this.
What their faces in visual effects. Later.
But he's basically yelling at him because he's not properly dressed
for the battle on the morning that it actually begins.
Because they're preparing to lay siege to the castle.
bigger reminder because we haven't seen Gwyn Hightower
since the beginning of season one.
But if you remember during the tourney, Daemon basically put him on his ass
he was Otto Hightower son Alicent's brother the other really cool Easter egg here.
Zoom in enhance. This is Eddie Air.
He's playing one of the Hightower soldiers here, one of the Green's soldiers.
He was also on Game of Thrones
on the main show during the Tower of Joy flashbacks playing Gerald Hightower.
So the funny thing here is that he might he might wind up playing
one of his ancestors during this show, but we don't know exactly who he's playing.
Let me know in the comments
if you do think that he's playing one of his ancestors.
and this is super important to zoom in enhance you notice that Kristen Cole
or his stunt double is wearing the chain of the hand around his neck.
The chain is a bunch of clasped hands, as in hand of the king, like literal hand.
that's because at this time, during the dance of the Dragons, Kristen
Cole had replaced Otto Hightower is Aegon the seconds hand
because Aegon had gotten piston Otto Hightower's
performance during the dance of the Dragon.
So far, Normally Otto Hightower would have been able to push Aegon around,
tell him what to do, the same way that Tywin
Lannister was able to control Joffrey because everyone was afraid of him.
Even Cersei was still afraid of him.
But as we get deeper into the seasons,
you start to see more parallels between Joffrey and Aegon the second.
Now, Joffrey was a little crazier than Aegon the second,
but again, the second kind of bends in a Joffrey way
they started to tease this at the end of season
one like he starts to go a little drunk with the power
like it all starts to go to his head just a little bit.
Whereas before he just thought that he was complete trash
and would do whatever anybody told him, particularly Alison,
the only difference with Joffrey, Searcy and other people like Tywin around Joffrey
is that Joffrey rarely, if ever, listened to, certainly like
I don't know if she was ever able to actually control him.
there was like a brief hot second when Alison was able to control
Aegon the second, but the minute that the crown hit his head
and that's Aegon the conqueror crown to that he's wearing then
things really go crazy and he just starts doing whatever he wants to do.
Basically.
it what you see happen at the beginning of the actual dance, the dragons,
when the actual battles begin, One of Daemon's earliest acts
in the war was to take Herron Hall with his dragon axes,
which is meant to be a big callback to Aegon the conqueror burning Harrenal.
Demon loves those sorts of things, like he's an old school Targaryen,
so he loves any comparison that anybody would make to him to Aegon the conquer.
when Damian takes Herron Hall with Carax sees a bunch of houses in the realm
side with the blacks.
We'll probably see a version of that at the beginning of the season.
The first couple of episodes, maybe episode two or so,
you remember at the end of season one, Daemon kept telling Reinier in the War
Council around the map table that Herron Hall was a key strategic position
because it allowed them to box the Greens.
And so they basically trying to claim all these great houses,
all this territory around King's Landing, if they can.
Right now, most of the houses around the bay here support the black.
So they basically have them boxed in on the right.
But that's why
Criston Cole is leading the Green Army, two Rooks Reds to remedy that situation.
the idea is that Daemon was so successful early in the days.
The Dance of the Dragons, it pisses acorn the second off.
Who gets even matter?
Otto Hightower when he tries diplomacy with Rhaenyra
in the blacks, which Aegon perceived incorrectly as poor tactics.
there was a lot of conversation about this
between the characters during season one. Like, No, no, no, let's talk this out.
We could figure this out Aegon the second and pretty much
all the other people around him, like Criston Cole, just want war.
I do.
Hightower mysteriously is trying.
Diplomacy is a tactic.
He kind of did that during season one, though,
to so there is you have all these people that want to avoid a civil war
because it'll just lead to the destruction of both sides of the house.
And then you have a couple of people within these great houses
that just want more war Aegon winds up firing.
Otto Hightower
replaces him with Criston Cole, who's every bit as nuts as Aegon is.
Look, you kind of saw
that happening during the events of season one,
especially when he started cozying up with Alison.
blood and cheese winds up happening, which is supposed to go down in episode one.
No spoilers for that, but it's a super WTF moment
and it's Demon's eye for an eye retaliation.
In response to what happened at the end of season one with Luther as an almond.
so most of the greens are hungry
for some kind of revenge, like some kind of military action
against the blacks Criston Cole takes a force of about 2400 men,
marches on Rosby and Stokeworth, who were too close supporters of Rhaenyra.
They surrender their forces in exchange for their lives
and basically their forces add to the Green's
they take their now larger force and lay siege to dusk and Dell.
They basically call it the sack of dusk. And it was a port town.
So they burned all their ships.
And pretty much anybody
who was still loyal to the blacks, a few of them joined sides with the Greens
after their success at duskendale they pushed two rooks rest
where Criston Cole caught hope to lay a trap for rear end.
Daemon expecting them to come to Lord Staunton's aid, where he planned
to use their superior numbers like vastly superior numbers into dragons
to kill them all, thinking it would end the war What ended up happening,
though, is that only Rhaenys came towards Staunton's eight on her Dragon Melees.
So it was a very one sided battle
and they didn't necessarily achieve exactly what they had hoped.
there's a little bit of footage of the Dragons here.
Like you can see all these charred soldiers
on the ground here that have been burned by Dragon Fire.
But mostly the dragons are visual effects, not practical.
So they have a bunch of stand ins for the dragon's heads.
So you see people walking around with dragon heads on stakes here.
they're using a couple of different heads to represent which dragons are here.
It's only meant to be sun fire, vigor in melees.
The whole idea is that males is a much quicker dragon in the air
than the other dragons.
And Rhaenys is much more experienced in battle than the others.
As you can see, there's a ton of collateral damage here.
In addition to each of the dragons trying to roast the other forces alive.
The dragons are like nuclear weapons.
A single dragon could take out an entire army
unless that other army was really handy with the scorpion.
And during this period in history, because dragons were so common.
everyone had scorpions.
It wasn't like the main show,
Game of Thrones, where Qyburn had to pull the plans for the Scorpions
out of the Citadel, dust them off and build a bunch of new ones.
And remember,
this is the targaryens fighting each other like a civil war within the family.
So each side knew how to train their armies
to fight dragons,
even though it had been so long since
anyone had actually needed to do that in the realm with a few exceptions.
Thus, a lot of the soldiers in the Green Army here are not experienced
in dragon combat the way that they need to be,
which is why males who is a much quicker dragon and Rhaenys,
a much more experienced fighter because she lived through
McGuire The Cruel in a lot of the wars during that period was able to basically
hold her own against 3000 soldiers into dragons
They'll deal with the aftermath of the battle in episode five,
there was a teaser for episode five a couple of months ago.
I already did a much bigger video for it, so I'll link Lincoln at the end of this
and down to the description below because it also gets super crazy,
Most of the footage here is the Green Army marching on the castle
with their siege weapons, getting ready to actually bust in the doors
The other major thing that just happened
is they confirm Robert Rhodes will play silver
denys is one of the dragonseeds that were near, and Daemon
tried to find for the available dragons they have access to on Dragonstone.
They're trying to find as many dragonriders as possible.
Silver Denys has this funny backstory that they might wind up
using for a big punchline moment during the series.
He's a very arrogant version of someone, say, like Gendry or Jon Snow,
like a bastard
who thinks very highly of themselves as opposed to Gendry and Jon Snow.
They didn't really want to play up their parentage that much until much,
much later when they were forced to SILVER Denis grew up on Dragonstone during Core
Targaryen era and would often boast that he was the bastard son of Megara
the cruel like it was a big deal for him and he let everybody know about it.
they needed anyone with any kind of valyrian blood in their veins
capable of bonding with a dragon no matter how much.
So he qualified per their requirements.
But no one was able to actually verify if he truly was Macau's
bastard because Megara was infamous for many reasons.
But one of the big ones was that he was never able to actually sire an heir
with any of the wives that he took.
Neither male nor female.
so it is always possible that these makers bastard
but a lot of people believe that he just came
from some other unnamed Targaryen inside the royal household.
the idea though is because of his age.
He does come from someone who was alive during make or break,
like some contemporary of make wars within the royal family.
He winds up trying to claim the sheep stealer.
One of the wild dragons.
I won't get into spoilers for that, but it turns into a very tough
kind of punchline.
Like a funny but really WTF kind of moment for his character
I already did a video for the other Dragons.
These we learned about most of them, so I'll link
that video in the description below to
they'll be filming for a while so we should get some more teasers.
If you spotted any other Easter eggs or references
in the footage or other new characters that I didn't mention the video right
then below in the comments,
there will be a bunch more stuff that they haven't revealed yet.
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