One hopes that they come to it with a sort of fresh palette so to speak
so there's not too many sort of preconceived ideas no they're they're they're bonkers aren't they
they are they're absolutely mad the targaryens they're a right old bunch and emotional they're
so emotional and they can't talk to each other yeah they're quite across family deep down i
think they need a lot a great deal of therapy they do group therapy yeah yeah family therapy
i think there are like two main things that makes that make renera a character who interests me at
least she is both female and never expects to be air that's never on the table and everything falls
apart the moment that she receives the inheritance that um everyone looks for he's a slightly sort of
slight sort of different creature to most of them i think alison starts off as rhaenyra's
best friend and daughter to the hand of the king and she is a quite an anxious rule follower in
comparison to how free and mischievous rhaenyra is game of thrones it was the world was so big and
you were outside of king's landing and outside of the sort of central focus of the main family a lot
uh whereas this is a bit more sort of insular i think and there are more dragons in it for
one thing i think kind of damon and um feminine crazies are sort of one entity really they're
one spirits they're sort of avatars of one another they're both just grumpy and moody so i do think
there's an app there's a kind of weird symbiotic sort of molecular thing that goes on that show was
its own entity it was a cultural phenomenon in many ways and it was its own independent thing
and this is a new independent thing and it's a different story with different actors with sort of
different people making it with the same ambitions but um it will be different but obviously the way
we're telling it is the is the bit we'd like to keep secret and the sort of the elements of it
the bits of the story that we're focusing on and the characters perspective because that's what's
sort of different from the book isn't it it's the perspective of our show is slightly different
i mean there's a really lovely thing right in terms of any relationship between this show and
game of thrones in the future is i think some of the kind of historic events that we hear about in
thrones maybe a record gets set straight in house of the dragon. Welcome back everyone this will be
my brand new game of thrones house of the dragon trailer video there's a bunch of new easter eggs
that they drop they talk about their characters so we'll break it all down i will be doing videos for
all the episodes just like i did for the main show back in the day and because comic con is happening
next week as i'm posting this video they will be dropping even more trailer footage so of course
i'll do a video for that too when it releases big reminders that episodes are starting august 21st
and it'll be like the older seasons of the main show where there are 10 episodes per season and
they're close to about an hour long this teaser trailer mostly features the main characters and
there are a ton of main characters but what i would describe is the most important characters
for the story in the two different factions of the dance of the dragons targaryen civil war
the blacks and the greens led by rhaenyra and allison on both sides and just like matt smith
says during this trailer they will tell the story in a very different kind of way that means that
they're going to jump around the timeline a lot more that's why you see younger and older versions
of some of the characters played by different actors and some of the actors are playing both
the younger and the older versions don't worry i'll explain where we are in the timeline in all
the preview shots that they released there was a separate preview they dropped with scenes of the
younger versions of characters i'll point that out when we get to that part of the video a little bit
later but probably one of the biggest new things that they released here is king jiharis the first
in his family during the great council in the year 101 at harrenhal that's basically what's
happening here you're looking at king jahirus the person who was king of westeros before
patty considines viserys the first targaryen who you see in most of the other trailers
what's happening here is they're actually getting ready for the great council to decide that viserys
the first targaryen is going to be the next king because technically according to the rules of
succession that they had set up at the time he was not meant to be the next in line but that's
why jahiris the first is sitting on a different throne that's not the iron throne because they're
at harrenhal here you see it in the trailer it's like a much bigger version of harrenhal that we
saw on the original main show just because cg has gotten so much better since then but the
reason why they called the great council here to decide who would be king jaharis's successor
is because his original heir prince eamon the first targaryen had died and he didn't have a son
his oldest living heir was princess rhaenys this character here she's about 27 28 in the books
when this is happening even though she looks a little bit older in this picture but by this
point in her life she's already been married to cordless valerian the sea snake for a while he's
meant to be one of the wealthiest people in the kingdom next to the throne the way he talks about
his character he's kind of like a tywin lannister type of person like when you talk about lannisters
always paying their deaths lannisters being very rich during the original series at this point in
history corliss velaryon and his family are one of the richest families in westeros the reason
why they all have white hair is because they also descend from valyrian blood they're a vassal house
of house targaryen so they also share the same dna but they don't all ride dragons the same way
that the targaryens do so for instance because rhaenys is a targaryen she has her own dragon
but her husband who's a velaryon and has valyrian blood does not have his own dragon but because the
crown prince died without a male heir the realm freaked out and this is in 101 ac they called a
great council to decide who would be the next king and when it was put to vote rhaenys said that she
was voted down i think it was 20 or 21 lords of the six kingdoms in dorne that voted her down
and voted instead that viserys the first targaryen become the next king who was the brother of the
previous heir the younger son of jiharis the first in the previous trailers you actually saw an older
version of rainey's basically telling the younger rhaenyra about what had happened because younger
rhaenyra almost goes through the exact same thing that leads to the actual targaryen civil war the
dance of the dragons so they're basically giving us all this backstory to explain oh we've already
been through this once before and this is what happened and this is why it's happening again
during some of these previous scenes you see the younger version of rhaenyra in the iron throne
room here in the lords of the realm swearing filthy to her her mother the queen died without
giving the king a male heir so she was like the oldest living heir to the iron throne so
viserys the first wanted to avoid a similar grey castle situation like what happened with rhaenys
earlier in the timeline the cloak that she's wearing here also has the symbols of all the great
houses of westeros on it just to hammer home the idea that they all swear fealty to her and support
her claim to the iron throne but what happens is a little while after this the king winds up
getting remarried to her best friend growing up at court who's also much younger and she bears him a
son that's where you get to the start of the dance of the dragons because the new queen alicent says
that her son has rights to the iron throne and her claim is better than rhaenyra's claim to the
iron throne right after the lords of the realm had basically sworn filthy to her supporting her claim
all the great houses of westeros didn't split into the different factions of the civil war
the blacks and the greens until after a great tournament to celebrate the fifth anniversary
of the king's remarriage to allison and the reason why they called them the blacks and the greens is
because princess rhaenyra and queen allison came to the tourney wearing a black gown and a green
gown but remember this is the younger versions of the characters so like the actual targaryen civil
war the dance of the dragons didn't start till a little bit later so it took a while for this to
all spin up behind the scenes but that's what matt smith is talking about when he says that
they tell the story in a very different kind of way than they told the story from the original
game of thrones show the funny thing too is that rhaenyra and alison both named their eventual sons
who became heirs to the iron throne at different points in the timeline aegon aegon was a very
popular name in the targaryen family because aegon the conqueror was so famous but remember most of
the events on this show are taking place about 200 years ago in the timeline from the main show
aegon the conqueror is about 300 years ago so about a hundred years have gone by since
aegon the conqueror but that's why there's so many dragons and all the dragons on the show
are so big so much bigger than daenerys dragons because this is still relatively during the height
of the targaryens power in westeros and just for reference jon snow would have been aegon vi had he
have actually taken the iron throne but all this footage of damon targaryen is of younger damon
targaryen getting a version of dark's sister the valyrian blade and using it with his dragon scale
armor remember rhaegar was supposed to wear a suit of armor that looked kind of like this too later
in the timeline damon is called the rogue prince just because he's such a hothead and he usually
is on the outs with his brother viserys the first targaryen the current reigning king like you see
him getting dragged in by the kingsguard here most of his time is spent scheming and plotting
finding a way to become the next heir to the iron throne and a lot of that gets tied in with what's
happening with the dance of the dragons we make a lot of jokes about how jaime lannister was like a
golden trash bag on the original game of thrones show damon targaryen is actually the person who
created the gold cloaks the city watch of king's landing that's why you see him in the scene here
wearing the gold cloak because this is like the first time that that happened you could think
of him as kind of like the glorious golden trash bag of the house of the dragon series
there's a scene of him in the trailers where you see the king's guard in otto hightower the hand of
the king trying to take the dragon egg from him you see him earlier in this scene grabbing the
actual dragon egg before the king's garden found him i believe what was happening here is that
earlier in the timeline he had sired a bastard and because the bastard was born to his bloodline and
was born with the dragon rider gene he was trying to give him a dragon egg so that when his bastard
grew of age he could eventually ride a dragon too but one of the crazier things about the
targaryen family is the way that they treat their dragon eggs like they're more precious than gold
so for instance viserys the first targaryen played by patty constantine is supposed to be
a relatively decent person but when he finds out that damon targaryen tried to steal a dragon egg
and give it to one of his bastards he said hell no give the dragon egg back right now because
the whole idea is that the dragons have been the key to targaryen power in westeros for hundreds of
years at this point like it's a capital offense to steal a dragon egg but because there are a
billion different things that we could talk about for the show what'll happen is i'll do another
trailer video when they release it next week and there's gonna be a bunch of trailers for the lord
of the rings tv show too which is gonna take place during the second age so there's gonna be
like a lot of fantasy stuff happening in the next couple of months i will also do videos for all
the lord of the rings episodes too there's only going to be eight episodes of that so there'll
be more episodes of the house of the dragon game of thrones series there's also going to be a lot
of marvel trailers dropping next week too all throughout the week so be sure to enable alerts
for my channel so you don't miss any of that stuff i will try to do videos for as many things as i
possibly can there's going to be a lot of really cool stuff coming george rr martin just confirmed
what was going on with the jon snow sequel series to the original game of thrones show you can click
here to learn all about that and click here for my brand new loki season 2 first look video in easter
eggs thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys in the next one!