Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're gonna be breaking
down House Of The Dragon season 2.
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The official instagram page for the show has dropped two big posts recently and we also
have a lot of big things to talk about with some behind the scenes images.
The first they posted the video that we've just shown with the season 2 being announced
and this was then followed up with another post of the Iron Throne.
This announced that Season 2 was in production and we have a lot to talk about.
Tik Tok has been filled with several different scenes that are currently being filmed and
throughout this we're gonna be going what those scenes actually show and how one of
them is gonna be this House Of The Dragon Red Wedding.
Because of that there's gonna be heavy spoilers ahead so if you don't want thing ruined then
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Season 2.
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Now House Of the Dragon Season 1 ended with Rhaenyra's son Lucerys being killed by Aemond.
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It was a big moment and it was the first blood in the dance of the dragons war.
Sent out as an envoy to negotiate with the other houses these were supposed to have
diplomatic immunity
But the death showed that the Greens weren't playing around.
Now Rhaenyra clearly was angry come the end of season 1 and it's not too long before she
makes her first move.
This is through hiring two assassins known as Blood and Cheese.
We've done a big breakdown on that entire story so I dont want to just repeat everything
but the gist of it is that they sneak into the Red Keep and go up to Alicents room which
is where they gagged and bound her.
You see every night just before Helaena put her kids to bed she'd take them up to say
night night to their grandma but upon arriving she found blood and cheese there as well.
They grabbed her and her kids and said that there would be an eye for an eye and a son
for a son.
Blood and Cheese then told Heleana that she had to choose which one of her children they
were going to kill to pay off the debt and Helaena uttered the name Maelor through gritted
teeth and tears.
However Blood and Cheese didn't end up killing him and instead they turned the blade over
to Jahaerys.
Killing him instead this eventually drove Helaena insane and it also caused a major
rift between her and Maelor.
He knew that his mother had picked him to die and therefore they had to live with this
super f**ked up thing.
The assassins fled and though they managed to evade capture for a couple of days Blood
was eventually caught with Jaehaerys head being found inside his bag.
Under torture he told them that he'd been instructed to take the head to Harrenhal and
that Mysaria was behind the hiring.
Everything came out in the end with it becoming clear that the blacks had been behind it all.
Now that takes us into the first video in which you can hear Rhaenyras new nickname
and also see somethings going on here.
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So yeah they are calling Rhaenyra, Rhaenyra the cruel.
This is a nickname that's playing on Maegor The Cruel who was the third Targaryen king.
Known as a Tyrant it clearly shows the kind of person that the Greens are painting her
out to be and when you see the kids coffin there you can kinda tell why too.
Now I think it was screen rant who put together the entire story of tweets and videos and
they said that they think this coffin my belong to Lucerys.
However his body was never actually found in the book and there were even some rumours
that he'd got ammnesia and had gone on to live a happy life.
I dunno though mate.
However I think that this more likely is the young Jahaerys and there's a couple of details
here that seem to confirm that's the case.
Firstly the Knight announcing Rhaenyra the cruel doesn't seem like something that they
could do if it was her son that died.
Lucerys being killed wouldve caused an uproar in the kingdom because many still saw her
as being the rightful heir.
Even though Aegon was given the big public coronation this was torn up by Meleys and
though this was something that didn't happen in the book they might have done it in the
season for a reason.
Rhaenyra may still be incredibly popular amongst the people of Kings Landing and thus the Greens
have to twist the publics mentality by putting it out there that she's Rhaenyra the cruel.
Now if this is the body of Jahaerys then that would be the perfect way to do it and marching
his corpse through the streets whilst shouting this would show how evil she is.
But I tell you mate, I'm ready to take the knee for Rhaenyra the cruel.
Let's go baby.
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Now beyond this we also have Alicent and Helaena in a funeral carriage.
We have some photos of the pair together and they're clearly dressed to show that they're
grieving.
They're not wearing full on black...cos...well that would be like wearing the team you hates
football shirt BUT they are wearing a very dark green to show that they're in mourning.
You can also catch Criston Cole riding behind them and it's probably cos man wants to be
in a position where he can sniff alicents farts.
Now the death of Jahaerys caused a hell of a lot of issues in the kingdom and rightly
so it led to some big battles.
That takes us into our next clip in which we see this....again yeah spoiler alert.
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So this
is clearly showing that they're filming two different scenes at once and obviously working
on different episodes at different times.
However this is a major moment and incase you don't know there's a big battle at Rooks
Rest in which Meleys and the Greens dragons go head to head.
This happens in 129 AC with Rhaenys flying out to the castle which had been stormed by
Criston Coles forces.
This seemed like a pretty easy task for her and her dragon to carry out however this was
all a ruse to draw one of Rhaenyras away.
Both king Aegon and Aemond arrived on their Dragons Sunfyre and Vhagar and the pair battled
in the skies about the location.
Rather than running Rhaenys took them head on but she didn't really stand a chance against
these two massive dragons.
Falling from the sky and burning each other the three tumbled to the ground which led
to them spiraling in a tornado of fire before they impacted the earth.
Only Aemond and Vhagar came out of it unhamred with Rhaenys body being so burned that they
couldn't actually tell if it was her or not.
Aegon was badly injured too with the fires being so hot that they actually melted his
armor into his skin.
This left him unable to lead for some time and in his stead Aemond took over.
I am very excited for that as he's one of my favourite characters and I think it would
be awesome to see him as being the main Green for Season 2.
Now again the Greens wanted to spin public perception in their favour after taking what
could be considered as two Ls back to back.
To be fair Meleys and Rhaenys being taken out was pretty bad but if you look at the
greens then they actually had dropped down in status quite a bit.
Season 1 of course showed how important the idea of a male heir was and they not only
had their king at deaths door but his first born son was dead too.
So the heir had been changed which showed that they weren't really the strong and stable
leaders they claimed to be.
Now in order to show this weakness they took the head of Meleys, dumped it on a cart and
carried it through the city.
The book says that this left the smallfalk in silence because no one had seen a dead
dragon before.
We of course know lots get wiped out during the dance of the dragons and this is why Game
Of Thrones doesn't have any in it early on.
Going back to that big attack by Meleys at the coronation this could also have been weaponised
to show that the greens are going to get the head of anyone who defies them.
I think it's crazy that the two scenes that have come out show whats coming in the aftermath
of two major scenes and I think that both of these events have the power to break the
internet.
Just blood and cheese alone is gonna be equivalent to the red wedding and it's gonna sky rocket
the series even further I think.
Now the writers strike is currently ongoing as well and this has affected a number of
titles.
The last of us is delayed, The Mandalorian Season 4 is delayed and we're gonna be seeing
a big knock on effect in about a year or so where a lot of shows aren't gonna hit their
release date.
Production has stalled on a number of things but to the best of my knowledge House Of The
Dragon won't be affected.
It's been said that the series had all of it's scripts completed before the strike began
and thus this should still hit the release date.
However it probbaly won't allow for things like rewrites and in the case of stuff like
Quantum of Solace I remember them saying stuff like Daniel Craig was having to come up with
lines on set and change the plot as they were making it.
With there being actual source material to base this off I'm not sure how much this will
change but shows and movies are always altering things on set which they probably wont be
able to fully accomplish without a writer there.
I'll of course keep you up to date though and I'm hoping that the writers strike gets
resolved soon cos there's a lot of things going on with it.
We actually talk about it in depth on a brand new show that me and Greg from Reel Rejects
have launched called Reel Spoilers.
This is a weekly podcast in which we go over all the news in the movie and tv world which
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With that out the way, huge thank you for sitting through the video, I've been your
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