Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is my full House Of The Dragon Episode 9 video
there were a whole bunch of Easter
eggs and references so we'll break it all down if you're brand new to the channel I'm doing videos
for all the episodes be sure to subscribe to get them and careful for spoilers from the episode
if you haven't seen it yet we'll start at the beginning and work our way through shop by shot
talking about Easter eggs and WTF moments but the dance of the Dragons has finally begun like the
opening Salvo has been fought the actual episode title is the green council it's a reference to the
new small council that Otto Hightower creates after they usurp the crown and name aegon the
second the next king killing or purging everyone in court in the small council who was loyal to
rhaenyra they changed the intro scene to represent viserys's symbol filling it with blood denoting
that he's died like anytime a member in the line of succession dies their symbol fills up with
blood you also may have noticed the sapphire on one of alicenit's children's symbols here
that's for Aemond because one of his eyes the one that got cut out is actually been replaced
by a sapphire I think we'll actually see it in episode 10 because it seems like he takes
his eye patch off in the trailer there's also new sections to represent the children that aegon has
had with Helaena we see them during the episode and also the new children that rhaenyra has had
with Daemon we actually found out about another missing child that they're going to feature during
season two that also might happen with some of the other children because like for instance aegon and
Helena have a third child but we haven't seen it yet so it might just not have been born yet so
as many kids as you think there are now there'll be more kids coming in season two but the actual
opening starts in the moments after viserys's death in the wee hours of the morning in the empty
iron throat I love the way that they start on the empty Iron Throne just represent what's about to
happen and it's pretty much the same deal around the rest of the red keep like it's totally quiet
totally empty until one of the random servant children finds that viserys has died if it wasn't
clear this young child here isn't one of the targaryens even though he's wearing red he's just
one of the servant boys they said that the whole varus storyline going on in the episode between
baseria and Laris strong because both of them are kind of like mistress and master of Whispers
so to speak in the whole spy network that larys tells alicent about when he's trying to basically
create the official master of whispers position on the small council is in telling her about
what's happening here like oh your servant girl is actually working for the White Worm this area
when the small council convenes right after this to discuss what they're going to do immediately
after and they joke about a possible war with Dorne the reason why they're joking about that
is because Dorne still isn't part of the Seven Kingdoms that doesn't happen until much later in
the timeline you also probably noticed that tyland lannister's ball is gold because Lannister's gold
reference A Lannister Always Pays his debts sounds like he's paying his debt with his allegiance to
this green Council but the crazy thing we find out is that they always had a plan to usurp the
throne kill runira and Daemon and their children no matter what happened so even though alicent
makes this big deal in the episode about hearing viserys's last dying wishes they really just use
that to kind of help their cause but they had always planned to use serp the throne it didn't
matter that viserys actually said that some of you are wondering about what alicent was going
to do like if she didn't hear viserys talk about aegon and the prophecy and mistake it for aegon II
would she still have done the same thing that's always possible but I think that doesn't matter
because the whole idea is that it didn't matter to her father like he was always going to use serp
the throne the they wind up having a big argument about that at the end of the episode so we'll see
what's going to happen with aegon the second like will he turn into another Joffrey because alicent
seems like she's trying to bring her father under her control will that work will it not work will
she be able to control igon II we'll see just remember Cersei was not able to control Joffrey it
seems like most people on the small Council will already Team Green before this but obviously Lord
beesberry is one of the lone dissenters is like wait a minute we can't do this this is ridiculous
R.I.P Lord beesbury though because Criston Cole kills him the only thing about his death is
that it seems that Criston Cole is surprised by actually killing him like he didn't totally plan
on killing him he was just trying to get him to shut up the way the actor who plays Criston Cole
talks about his character is he says he's a dirt bag and he just uses all these circumstances to do
whatever he wants to do to like free the Beast so to speak metaphorically and literally even though
he has all these conversations with aemond about being an honorable person and not getting up to
all the dirty stuff that aegon does in flea bottom really the actor is saying the inside he's just as
terrible a person and I think the same is true for aim it as well even though they don't spend all
their nights in flea bottom they're still really terrible people you have the whole conflict with
Harold westerling and Criston Cole it definitely seems like Criston Cole is going to try to kill
him later even though he takes his white cloak off I don't think he's officially resigning his post
as Lord commander of the King's Guard he just says he's waiting for the next king whoever that might
be to give him orders but alicent basically says that Criston Cole is going to be named the next
Lord Commander so I think they're going to try and get rid of Harold Westerling no matter what
and even though they do try to make the green seem really shady with what's going down here they at
least want to make alicent seem like she's trying not to hurt rhaenyra like she doesn't want to kill
her even though she still believes in upholding the status quo like aegon must be king because
she gets so pissed off when she finds out their plans to just kill them right off and even later
in the episode she demands of her father that they not kill them and again to aegon when they're on
their way to the great sept to name him King this is also another reference to what app with Joffrey
Cersei and Ned Stark so the whole idea is that Ned Stark died in season one big WTF moment Joffrey
had him be headed but the thing was is that Cersei didn't want him to do that he went rogue and did
it on his own and it's another example of Cersei not being able to control him like wait Joffrey
you weren't supposed to do that we were supposed to offer him clemency that's the whole reason why
he confessed we'll see if aegon winds up falling down that slippery slope like will he become more
and more terrible your grandfather is going to tell you to kill your sister and her family but
don't listen to that Council so they're trying not to completely demonize alicent despite what
the people around her and her son might wind up doing I think that's because as we get into
future Seasons as the actual Dance of the Dragons gets really crazy like all the kids start fighting
each other on Dragon back and you start seeing bodies flying all over the place they don't want
to completely demonize either alicent or rhaenyra like everyone involved in this conflict is going
to wind up doing very very terrible things on both sides side Note 2 during this conversation
alicent mentions the wall and it's one of the only times someone on the show has mentioned the
wall aside from viserys during his dying breasts in the last episode then we see Helena Targaryen
with her children with aegon she says it is Our Fate to Crave always what is given to another if
one possesses a thing the other will take it away and that's obviously a reference to the events of
this episode them taking away rhaenyra's Crown you also notice that she's embroidering a spider which
is a call back to the spider from the dance of the Dragons Dragon dream that she had as a girl during
the last big funeral and talarus strong going full Varys like he is a spider like Varys was the
spider if it wasn't clear her two children with aegon here are jahiris and Jahira they do have a
third child like I said named mailor we might see them in season two the other missing child that
you may have heard about is alicent's fourth child with viserys like they had another child that they
just haven't featured on the show his name is Daeron George RR Martin said that he is alive and
they'll feature him during season two they just didn't have time to feature him during this season
when Helena says there is a beast beneath the boards and gets really upset when alicent starts
talking to her about aegon's whereabouts what she's talking about is another callback to last
week's episode where she made the same comment in a more jokey Manner and it's a reference to aegon
using the secret passageways to get out at night to go to flea bottom and these are the places and
just spend all the time with the women like later in the episode we find out that he probably has
many bastards running around flea bottom so that's the reason why she gets so upset when she says
there's a beast beneath the boards but I also think that it might be foreshadowing for blood
and cheese stuff in future Seasons no spoilers about what that means but if you know you know
it's all about the secret passageways with people using them to get out of the red keep and into the
red keep without being seen you also notice that aemond is the first person to come to Helaena's
Chambers because they have this weird connection like I don't know how Helaena feels about Aemond
but aymond definitely feels very special about Helaena I don't know if they have any kind of
crazy Jamie Cersei thing going on on the side because Aemond later tells Criston Cole about his
plan to eventually become king like it should be me I'm the one that's studying all this stuff I'm
much better than my brother I ride the biggest dragon in the Kingdom Loki I think the Aemond
wants to get rid of his brother somehow and marry his sister Helaena Targaryen they also kind of
imply there's this weird sexual connection between Criston Cole and alicent like whatever you feel
for me I'm your queen later might be some weird romantic thing that developed between the two
of them because there's a whole weird Kink going on with lyrics strong and alicent that we learned
about later don't worry I will address that in a second the reason why multiple different groups of
people are sent to find aegon is because they're really worried about what's going to happen to him
because of how fast they're trying to move and because they don't want aegon getting away they
imply the twin brothers are going to take aegon somewhere where he won't have to become king like
they're going to help him get away alicent wants to prevent that that's why she's asking Criston
Cole to make sure that that doesn't happen like make sure he comes back to me also it's
more about her taking power back from her father like her father seems like he's been pushing it
around this chessboard playing the game of thrones with her this whole time she even references that
during the episode so she's trying to realign power around herself so to speak love Aemond's
story about back during his 13th birthday party it's time to get it wet aegon trying to be the
good brother helping his other brother get laid the woman remembers him ah my have you grown when
she says the aegon's tastes are less discerning than they used to be that's just a reference to
all the fighting pits that he goes to like this really crazy stuff that messerio is trying to
get rid of that's part of the bargain that mysaria makes with Otto Hightower remember your grandson
is becoming King only because of me all the children that are fighting in those pits are just
from women that had Random Encounters that work at the pleasure houses so there's just a bunch
of Orphan kids that nobody cares about except for people like Miss area we see one of aegon's many
bastards we'll see what happens to them in the future because if you remember in season two I
think with season two episode one Joffrey had the goal closed around and kill all Robert's bastards
without being able to find Gendry Otto Hightower has all of renira's supporters amongst Lords and
Ladies of the realm like the more powerful people the more powerful houses either bend the knee or
get kicked out most of them aren't killed except for Lord Caswell he tries to escape but then is
caught and hung inside the red keep the silent sisters prepare viserys's body remember they're
going to burn him because it's part of the Targaryen Customs one of the Dragons will
incinerate his body obviously it's also meant to be a parallel to him doing the same thing to his
wife Emma burning her per their Customs we get this really great scene with with rhaenys and
alicent with her trying to convince her to come to Team Green the funny thing here though is that
alicent basically insults the hell out of her and her house she says all the things that she refused
to say out loud before she even tries to appeal to the fact that she should have been Queen instead
of her husband viserys like you should have been the one to sit on the Iron Throne my husband was
just meant to read books and study history and play with his models but the reason why rhaenys
really gets upset with her is because alicent is just trying to uphold the status quo saying that
no women shouldn't be on the Iron Throne we're only meant to advise men and rhaenys is like oh
hell no like she calls alicent a prisoner to the establishment so to speak like you're creating a
window in that prison of yours that you're living in during Otto High Towers meeting with Miss area
there's a little bit of foreshadowing too when she says there's no power but what the people
allow you to take that's going to be a reference to Future Seasons because there are a couple
riots that happen during the dance of the dragons we'll talk about a future season some of them are
a little bit spoilery so we'll wait to talk about them but it's another callback to Daemon telling
rhaenyra to listen to the will of the commoners because for the most part the commoners don't
really care who their next king is or who the next ruler is as long as there's stability in the realm
that's why during the actual coronation later when they're actually putting the crown on aegon's head
the crowd is just kind of like oh okay I guess this is okay let the people cheer a little bit
but it's not like everybody is going crazy at the thought of him becoming king love the scene and
then trying to drag aegon out of the great sept he does not want it he's going full Jon Snow don't
make me take the iron throne but Criston Cole and Aemond show up to grab aegon from them they only
get Arryk with an a Erryk with an e is the one that gets away to go back in free rhaenys also
love the scene where aegon makes this impassioned speech to Aemond that they both just take off on a
ship and never come back no one will ever find us let's just run away which is meant to be a
parallel for Criston Cole telling the same thing to rhaenyra when they were younger let's just get
out of here we'll run to the east nobody will know who we are we can do whatever we want then we get
that crazy crazy scene with Lair strong telling alicent all about mysterious little birds her spy
Network so to speak to convince her to to set him up is the official master of Whispers on her new
green small Council her green Council Varys was Master of Whispers to the Mad King and then to
Robert Baratheon and then to Joffrey and so on and so forth but the position of Master of Whispers
didn't always exist I think they're trying to say that it started around this period when they show
his Cane there's a B on it that's meant to represent his role in alicent's life so you
remember the conversation they had in the godswood where he was looking at the flowers making this
metaphor about how she was like a flower surviving in this foreign environment inside the red keep
where nobody liked her nobody supported her but she's flourished since then bees pollinate flower
and help them survive So lyrics has helped her survive this whole time but the crazy dragon
in the room we have to address it seems like this whole time part of their Arrangement is that when
he gives her information or helps her out the payment that he receives from her is that she
basically just feeds his kink by showing him her bare feet like that's his Kink he even goes for it
right in front of her like she just kind of wait like okay just finish finish so we can get out of
here somehow that seems crazier than some of the spicier Game of Thrones scenes that we've seen so
far rhaenys winds up getting out of the red keep using the secret passageways with the help of the
other twin brother Eric who escaped she's able to use the crowd to get to the Great sept and use the
confusion to get to the dragon pit and get on her Dragon melees we'll get to that part in a second
we have to talk about the coronation for a little while they show you a lot of the items they're
using at the actual coronation they have the special scroll that the high septon uses at each
of the different coronations that seems like it goes back to the time of aegon the Conqueror the
important thing about becoming king of Westeros is that the high septon actually has to perform
the ceremony so even though Westeros used to have all these Petty Kings these different kingdoms
before the conquest when aegon conquered the Seven Kingdoms right afterwards he went to Old Town and
had the high septon of the day name him the king of Westeros it was until after that that he moved
the capital to King's Landing they use aegon the conquerors Valyrian steel Crown you notice it has
the same red ruby in the middle of it that's on the Valyrian dagger which they also wind up
giving to egg on the second they also give him aegon's ancestral Valerian blade blackfyre which
is typically passed from each King to the next but I love on the way to the coronation like this
is more of aegon not wanting to be king he doesn't believe his mother about viserys he never loved me
he's only half true about that like viserys didn't hate his children with alicent he just didn't love
them as much as he loved runyera clearly he also loved his first wife Emma way more than he loved
alicent but when she shows him the Valerian dagger for like a hot second you could see on his face
like he wants to believe it like I kind of don't believe you but I really want to believe you that
my father loved me and when the gold cloaks Usher him to the dias and they start naming
him king start performing the ceremony it seems like he actually wants to believe the hype for a
second like he starts to drink the Kool-Aid just a little I love the way that Helaena is clocking him
during the ceremony too like everyone is kind of looking out at the crowd but Helaena is staring at
him you have to remember she has dragon dreams all the time so she's seen aegon's future even though
she doesn't totally understand it probably one of her early Ddragon dreams was actually about aegon
II's future I don't want to talk too much about at it here because it's kind of a spoiler but
it'll probably get paid off in maybe season two maybe season three we'll see like however many
seasons the show winds up running they implied the show will run Four Seasons so it might be season
four but remember the look on aegon's face when he pulls out blackfyre and holds it up to the crowd
like he starts to drink the Kool-Aid do you think that he's gonna find out being a little bit like
Joffrey will alicent be able to control him so to speak also important side note one of Criston
Cole's nicknames is the king maker mostly because of his support of aegon II but that's why I think
in the episode he literally places the crown on aegon II's head just to pay off that reference
then we get the awesome dragon attack by rhaenys in her really really cool looking Targaryen armor
now it's red for targaryens but also her dragon melees is referred to as the Red Queen and this
is why her armor looks similar to Daemon's dragon scale armor when she says she's afraid to leave
melees in the dragon pick like I'm not gonna leave her behind that's another big deal too
because you remember the dragons are basically trapped inside the dragon pit so even though
the dragons are like nuclear weapons you'd think that they'd be super powerful people they become
incredibly vulnerable when they're held inside the dragon pit so you actually don't want that
technically like the whole concept of the dragon pit was a bad idea it was actually maegor who
created the dragon pit on top of the last great sept after a big faith militant Uprising so they
wanted the moment of rhaenys crashing through the top of this great steps to be really ironic
in that sense like haha we're destroying another great sept with dragons just like maegor did a
long time ago but unlike maegor she doesn't want to kill the greens remember way back in episode
1 she referenced maegor saying that had been a long time since the realm had experienced any
real war so there's just a lot of maegor easter eggs with rhaenys character but she's not like
megor at all like she's actually a pretty good person even though there's a lot of collateral
damage happening in here inside the great sept she spares the family I think because she doesn't want
to be a complete psychopath like she's showing them mercy and then takes off to Dragonstone
obviously to tell rhaenyra about what's happened and they can formulate their plans for the coming
War the dance of the Dragons if you spotted any other Easter eggs and references in the episode
that I didn't talk about in the video just write down below in the comments in my full episode 10
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thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!