Ok so House Of The Dragons is about to do a big ten year time jump that will pick up
far after the events of episode 5. We also have two of the main characters recast and
I love how the show has gone from debating who the true heir is to now who is the true
Rhaenyra and Alicent.
The trailer for episode 6 has a lot going on with it and throughout this video we're
ognna be breaking it all down and going through what we think is gonna happen based off the
books.
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then we'll get into everything that happens in it.
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Ok so we pick up ten years after the events of episode five. We open with Caraxes aka
Daemons dragon and learn that he's fled to the stepstones with Laena. The pair have had
several children together and in the book though she was initially due to wed someone
from Bravos, Daemon murdered them so he could take the spot.
The pair had two children including Rhaena and and Baela, the latter of which was named
after Daemons and Viscery's father Baelon.
Laena seems to have already had the one and be pregnant with another though this could
end up being the third child that the pair had which led to a big tragedy.
Now even though episode 5 ended with Viscerys collapsing we see that he's still alive and
kicking a full decade later. Though I knew what happened to him in the book, I actually
thought that they'd changed it up a bit and killed him off earlier than they had in the
timeline. Even with the timejump he's still here though he is extremely week. You might
notice that he's sitting down during every shot in the trailer and this is because he
ended up being almost unable to walk due to the disease taking over his body.
Paddy Considine recently cleared up that this is actually a form of leprocy and we've recently
done a video discussing his comments with entertainment weekly which will be linked
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Anyway this is starting to cover his face and he looks like how I feel after staying
up until 3am to post out our 20 minute episode breakdowns.
But I digress.
The big thing he's getting angry about in this teaser is that people keep suggesting
that Rhaenyra's children are bastards and that they don't actually belong to Laenor
who she wed in the latest entry. Now to set the stage the books go into this in a lot
more detail and they said that after Criston Cole rejected Rhaenyra that she ended up running
off into the night which is where she bumped into Harwin Strong. He ended up taking her
virginity and due to her marriage with Laenor having a hall pass in it she started to have
an affair with him. Though Criston turned her down he still loved her but this and the
wedding proved too much and he ended up growing bitter and twisted. This pushed him into become
Alicents royal protector and he became a staunch supporter of the Greens.
Harwin became Rhaenyras lover and the pair ended up having several children together.
Now why this caused a lot of issues is because she's of course married to Laenor but you
could see that the kids weren't related to him at all. The Valeryons of course have long
white hair and I think they might even tie it into the character's race. Though there
were the cries of the show going Woke when the Valeryions were revealed I actually think
this adds another dimension to it. Rhaenyras kids are whiter than Jesy Nelson and they
don't even have a little mix so it's clear that they're Harwins which is the big rumour
that Viscerys has to shut down this week.
Kinda feel sorry for the guy and know this of course angers Alicent and her kids who
we see several of in this new look. They all knew that the kids are bastatrds and therefore
illigitmate but they're actually regarded as being the next in line due to the promie
made to the Valeryons.
It causes a lot of problems and I think we might even see Harwin strong striking Criston
at one point.
In the books Criston ended up kicking the crap out of him at one of the wedding tournaments
and he broke both his collarbone and elbow. This led to him being called Harwin Breakbones
and they should call me Harwin Breakdowns.
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boo you suck.
Ironically Harwin and Rhaenyra could've been married without all this controversy surrounding
them if his dear old dad had've suggested him as a suiter during episode 3. Harwin is
known as the strongest man in the seven kingdoms and he's gonna be a big character going forward.
Alicent is still wearing Green and her and Rhaenyra are now clearly enemies. In the books
it was said that the pair never got along but I'm glad they made them friends first
so that we get even more drama when they fall out with each other.
I believe that we see Aemond in this teaser and that they mix some of the things in with
Aegon including the scuffle that htey have with Joffrey.
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That name again. Joffrey Lonmouth was of course Laenors lover and they ended up naming one
of their kids after thim. One night Aemond snuck down out of bed to attempt to ride the
Dragon Vhagar and Joffrey ended up popping up and shouting at him. Aemond called him
a strong and he kicked him into some Dragon Manure before he jumped onto of Vhagar.
This kick seems to be carried out earlier in the day by who I believe is Aegon. Lucerys
Valeryon ended up cutting out Aemonds eye because of this and he was later known as
Aemond one eye.
Alicent demanded that his eye should be cut out as well which I think we might see playing
out here. It was very much an eye for an eye but Viscerys said that there would be nothing
of the sort. In the end Aemond said that he lost an eye that day but he gained a dragon
so it was a fair trade off. However the rivalry continued with them still not believing the
children were legitimate heirs.
Because of this Rhaenyra demanded that anyone who said such a thing should be thought of
as committing treason and we get a potential nod to one of the punishments.
In the book, look I've put it on screen, we have a picture of the eye getting cut out
and also the punishment for anyone who called them strongs.
This included cutting someones tongue out who said it and as I'm sure you can guess,
mother f**kers just couldn't keep their mouths shut.
So this of course ended up happening which I think we could get a tease towards. It was
during this that the King had it carried out on two people and he slipped and sliced his
hand on the throne. It was at this point in the story that he got a fever and had his
fingers removed whereas in the show it's happened a lot earlier with none of the Strongs being
born at this point.
Haha I'll say that they're Strongs I don't give a f**k, can't hurt me..bluh bllduuauaadddada.
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Now rumours of course still persisted with this punishment and I think that a lot of
it is gonna happen in this upcoming episode. Obviously the Targaryens have bright blonde
hair and the Valeryons have white so it's gonna be pretty easy to tell that they aren't
either of the bloodlines.
I think this is what angers Alicent so much as she's well aware of the illigitmacy of
it and it's even more frustrating because her and her father gave a lot up to get their
kids on the throne.
Now on the other side of this is Daemon and his wife who too see themselves as being legitimate.
We even see them getting Dragon eggs which were of course placed in the cribs of Targaryen
children so that they could form a bond.
This is something that Daemon wanted to do for the child he wanted with Mysaria but it
was taken away from him. I think it might be the same egg that was going to be used
on the Heir For A day Baby Baelon and somehow Daemon has managed to get it back.
Either way this is setting up a big event in the timeline called the Red Spring in which
several of the main characters die and and it leaves some of the others having to marry
and form alliances in order to keep things strong.
Harwin Strong.
Nah got nothing to do with him but they are definitely setting up a lot of things here.
I am interested to see how it all plays out and I hope that the recast works out even
though I would've preferred the two main girls to have just been aged up with makeup. We're
getting what we're getting though and of course let me know your thoughts on the teaser below.
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