Welcome back everyone big surprise HBO dropped the House the Dragon teaser trailer so we'll
break it down there's a whole bunch of game of thrones Easter eggs.
And references to a song of ice and fire.
So I'll explain what's going on.
Who all the characters are and what it is that they're referencing of course will be
doing episode videos for this.
Just like I did for the main show so be sure to subscribe to get everything.
I'll start at the beginning of this and work our way through shot by shot.
They focus on a couple core characters that are critical to the dance the dragons the
targaryen civil war that serves as for the basis for what the stories going to be you
notice that the theme song that they have playing in the trailer has echoes of the original
game of thrones theme song, but it's a little more subtle the official theme song for House
the dragons will play over the opening title scenes will be a little bit different though
range of body is also coming back to do all the music for House the Dragon he's the person
who did all the music for the original game of thrones series, so game of thrones probably
has some of the best music of any TV show ever so I'm expecting House the Dragon to
be the exact same the whole trailer is narrated by Matt Smith Daemon targaryen talking about
fire and blood.
That's the motto of House targaryen they quoted that all the time on the main show but Daemon
targaryen is the brother of the current king of Westeros when the series picks up Viserys
Targaryen the first he's the person the Daenerys his brother Viserys is named after because
her brother is Viserys the second his brother the king is being played by Paddy Considine
who some of you probably remember from some other TV shows and movies that he's done a
fairly prominent actor.
But the trailer starts with Daemon walking through the halls of Dragonstone obviously
it's very darkly lit most of the scenes are happening at night so he couldn't tell you
could make at the rockface behind him there in dragonstone a lot of this is happening
this is him on the beach in present day with his now wife walking out to meet him the older
version of Rhaenerya Targaryen the leader of one of the factions in the targaryen civil war
The dance of the dragons.
This is the younger version of Rhaenerya later in the trailer heavily featured in the footage
to so kind of seems like there either rolling really hard on flashbacks during House the
Dragon or the present the show with two different timelines like episodes or large sequences
during episodes will be set in the past intercut with scene set in present day, but then they
give you a better idea for when the series actually picks up 200 years before the events
in the main show.
This also covers the period leading up to the actual dance of dragons.
Like I said the actual war only lasted for a couple years a lot of the series will be
spent in the time leading up to the actual war.
Like a full-blown civil war when you see patient Dragon battles in the sky with the two different
sides going at each other that might not happen till the later seasons the show.
This is the giant Dragon skull of Balerion the Black dread.
If you couldn't tell and present day they showed it underneath the throne room liquid
so she's going to look at it with Tyburn to talk about weapons that he has these developing
to fight against the nurses dragons in the past though the big difference is the targaryens
when they still sat on the iron throne the schools of their dead dragons Balerion the
Black dread included were shown in places of honor much more prominently around the
red keep because as Matt Smith Daemon targaryen narrates in the trailer the secret to their power
The targaryen's was there dragons would happen was though, is that after Robert's rebellion.
When Robert Baratheon took the iron throne.
He took all the schools in the dragons and put them underneath the red keep in storage
so that he wouldn't have to look at them than this is a scene of the current hand of the
king when the show picks up.
Notice the pin on his chest their it's Otto Hightower played by Rhys Ifans who most of
you probably know from something else he's in a billion big movies and TV shows during
this period in history.
He's head of House Hightower and he's the father of the present day Queen Alicent Hightower
she's the leader of the other faction in the targaryen civil war affectionately refer to
as the greens the older version of Alicent is being played by Olivia Cooke she had she
might be playing the younger and the older versions in my just wind up being Rhaenerya
that has two different actresses playing the two different roles but she Rhaenerya are
basically the two people fighting for the iron throne Rhaenerya is the oldest living
child of King Viserys the first current king and eventually once he dies that big war for
succession starts the whole idea is that before he died he named his daughter Rhaenerya the heir apparent
But and after he did die his widow Queen Alicent said that her oldest son with King Viserys
should be the next king and you get in this whole conversation about how the line of succession
typically jumps over women.
During this period in history is a very similar situation to what happened with Jon Snow and
Daenerys and who had the stronger claim for the iron throne.
The reason why Jon Snow's claim to the iron throne was stronger than Daenerys was because
the crown passed from the Mad King to his oldest son Rhaegar targaryen and then to his
only son Jon Snow skipping over Daenerys who was the Mad King's only living child by the
end of season one of the main show.
As I showed earlier this is King Viserys Targaryen the first sitting on the iron throne and holding
his valyrian the sword Blackfyre we been waiting to see a version of Blackfyre somewhere in
live action for so long.
But the cool thing about this period in history is that the sword had not been lost yet, so
that's why he's holding it year Blackfyre was the valyrian sword that famously belong
to Aegon the conqueror and what would happen is the each new king after Aegon would be
given the blade by the previous targaryen king is a sign of their right to rule that
is until the Blackfyre rebellion, which was another targaryen civil war.
There were many of them throughout history that happened about 60 years after the events
of the dance of the dragons that they're doing on House the Dragon.
So the Blackfyre valyrian sword was still around for about 60 years after the events
of House of the Dragon knows the ring he's got his finger wrapped around the hill this
got the sigil of House targaryen on it that be one of the rings that he just normally
be wearing as the current reigning king what my early theory is though is that he's going
to wind up being the new Ned Stark of House the Dragon like them killing them off in a
huge moment at the end of season one.
Maybe because the whole idea is that the actual dance of the dragons conflict doesn't really
get going until he dies in the war of succession starts this is the younger version of Rhaenerya
targaryen she was married and had a couple of children with another person from the Velaryon
Household during this period many years before the actual war started.
That's why say they might be doing two different timelines.
Her first husband was Laenor Velaryon of this character here.
He was the son of the sea snake Corlys Velaryon who control Driftmark, this island south of Dragonstone here
He was a very powerful person at this point in history the Velaryon's a vassal House
of House Targaryen and many of them also carry valyrian blood in their veins just like targaryens.
Thus, that's why they all have the white hair.
What winds up happening though is that he dies when he's younger, so she gets re-married
to Daemon targaryen that's what you see older Rhaenerya on the beach of Dragonstone with
Daemon here after they been married this is just the rest of the valyrian Household here
though knows their sigil is the seahorse usually sigil's on game of thrones her House the Dragon
now are the easiest ways to identify people in the show.
If you're not sure who you're looking at you notice that they're walking into the throne
room at the red keep your king's landing for a big banquet the scene kind of mirrors the
banquet being held by Ned Stark it winter fell for Robert Baratheon in the Royal family
during game of thrones episode one on the main show the be a lot of moments on House
the Dragon that they try to mirror from events from game of thrones.
This banquet that they're having here in this scene might be to celebrate King Viserys wedding
to Alicent Hightower or to celebrate one of their anniversaries or the birth of one of
their children not totally sure in the timeline here because kind of fuzzy in the background
then they show you bunch of footage from one of the tournaments there were a couple big
tournaments during this period in history.
So not exactly sure which one.
This is the most significant one was sort of the beginning of the feud between Rhaenerya
and Alicent like the actual beginning of the dance of the dragons.
There was a tournament held in 111 AC to mark the fifth anniversary of Alicent's marriage
to King Viserys Targaryen the first Alicent came to the tourney wearing a green gown and
Rhaenerya came wearing a black down.
That's why the two different sides in the targaryen civil war were called the Blacks
and the greens the Blacks were everybody who supported Rhaenerya's claim to the iron throne
because her father, the King Viserys had named her his successor, and Queen Alicent leader
of the greens everyone who supported her tried to say that her son with Viserys should take
the iron throne also funny coincidence like we talk about a war of succession with a person
named Aegon like you talk about the conflict between Jon snow and Daenerys that happened
towards the end of the main show Allison's older son that she was trying to put on the
throne was actually named Aegon he was Aegon the second as you can tell because Aegon the
conqueror was such a mythical figure within their family.
There were so many different targaryens all over their family that were named Aegon he
was their most popular name for the person actually fighting here in the tournament is
Daemon targaryen Matt Smith character.
You can tell because he's building his valyrian blade dark sister given to him by his grandfather
King Jaeherys the first when he was knighted at the age of 16 dark sister had previously
belonged to Daemon's father Baelon targaryen and before him Aegon sister wife Visneyna
that's why the blade was given the name dark sister because it was Aegon's dark sister
wife you notice that Daemon's armor is very similar to the armor worn by Rhaegar targaryen
during Roberts rebellion even though you never actually see him wearing his armor on the main show
This is what it actually look like during Robert's rebellion that he couldn't tell who
this is this woman is Mysaria.
She was one of Daemon targaryen's lovers she's from episodes.
She later winds up becoming mistress of whispers for Princess Rhaenerya after she marries Daemon
targaryen if you don't remember, that was basically one of heiresses main jobs he was
master of whispers for the mad King the later for Robert Baratheon in then briefly for Joffrey
when he was king for just a hot second.
This is Alicent Hightower again after she's become Queen notice that she's wearing the green gown
Thus the leader of the greens faction in real big zoom and enhance you probably recognize
that dagger, because that is arias valyrian dagger.
Like I said the be lots of connections and Easter eggs for things from the main show
connecting it to the timeline a present day.
I boarded than many videos about the history of the catspaw's dagger and how little finger
got his hands on it and how he manipulated events to get into Joffrey's hands in into
the catspaw's hands.
It wasn't clear Joffrey was actually the person who hire the catspaw not little finger behind
her zoom and enhance you notice is Graham McTavish she's playing Sir Harold Westerling
on the show.
He's leader of the Kingsguard during this.
Like the Barristan Selmy of this era, you also notice that the armor is silver very
different from the armor worn by the kingsguard to present day.
Each time a new king comes to power they're allowed to alter the kingsguard armor just
a little bit to suit them.
But Robert Baratheon for example, made a huge change because he put the sigil of House Baratheon
on it replacing the sigil of House targaryen speaking of sigil's you notice later in this
other footage from a joust during probably that same tournament that we saw earlier you
see the flag of how stark I don't think that they confirm who's playing all the Starks
during this era the leader of how stark during this period was name Cregan Stark he was called
the wolf of the North he had nine children, so I'm sure we'll see most of them on the
show at some point in probably one of the other biggest changes on the show is, they
depict their version of the iron throne during this era much closer to what the actual iron
throne look like in the books with the melted down swords all over the place all around the throne
This is what it actually looks like in the books.
Just for comparison, so we're like
half way there.
But during this scene here.
This final scene the trailer.
This is young Rhaenerya walking into look at the iron throne is Matt Smith Daemon narrates
dreams didn't make us kings dragons did obviously this scene is meant to mirror the scene of
Daenerys is vision of her walking up to the iron throne and then later during the game
of thrones finale before she died.
Like her trying to fulfill her dream of the iron throne.
That's why they film young Rhaenerya here is meant to make her look kind of like Daenerys,
you also notice in the background to around these windows they don't have the seven pointed
star the faith in them because that was in at a till later in history.
The be a lot of other really minor differences in the set declaration.
But the major buildings were all their like this is still the red keep they still have
all the major locations in king's landing in dragonstone all over the different rate
Houses a Westeros so will happen is is the release more footage before the end of the
year some more teasers of course will do videos for those when they drop.
If you have any big requests are big questions about the show.
Just leave them in the comments below will probably get episodes around April or May
next year the be 10 episodes in season one.
So be a lot more like the scheduling of the early seasons of the original show.
And speaking of game of thrones.
There's a big game of thrones reunion happening in the marvel Eternals movie.
I just did a big trailer video for that with Jon Snow and Robb Stark kit harington Richard
Madden's characters.
You can click here to learn all about that and click here for all my other House the
Dragon preview videos and more details on the episodes that you so much for watching
everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!