welcome back princess i trust your rape
was pleasant try not to look to relieve
sir welcome to watch mojo and today
we're counting down our picks for the
top 10 things you missed in house of the
dragon episode one aegon called his
dream the song of ice and fire for this
list we're looking at easter eggs
references and other subtle connections
that might have eluded your keen eye
during your watch through if you haven't
seen the series premiere yet spoilers
are coming anything else you noticed
loudly proclaim your findings in the
comments
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number 10 picking up where game of
thrones left off
okay not really seeing as house of the
dragon takes place 200 years before the
events of the main show but it's
interesting to note that this follow-up
begins in a very similar way to the way
the latter ended tragedy had claimed
both his sons
leaving his succession in doubt
so in the year 101 the old king called a
great council to choose an heir as game
of thrones fans will remember and
probably regret the final episode saw
the various remaining lords of the seven
kingdoms convened to elect a new monarch
in an unprecedented move they settle on
bran will you lead the seven kingdoms to
the best of your abilities from this day
until your last day
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why do you think i came all this way
well perhaps it wasn't quite so
unprecedented as house of the dragon
catches viewers up by depicting king
viserys's appointment after a great
council deliberates on the rightful heir
to the iron throne we guess history
really does repeat itself huh it is
declared by all the lords paramount
and lord's vassal of the seven kingdoms
that prince priscilla
the tourney of the air is essentially a
cornucopia of easter eggs featuring a
slew of sigils from the competing houses
we're sure you didn't miss them hanging
from the tilt barrier during the jousts
but we doubt everyone identified all of
them so that's why we're here a mystery
night
no a cola for stormlands i've never
heard of house clothes of course we all
know the targaryen sigil as represented
by a three-headed dragon and the black
pelleted sigil of house coal is
prominent as damon joust's kristen cole
also seen however are the lion of house
lannister house baratheon stag tully's
trout and the archer of tarly
lesser known ones include the literal
seahorse of house valarian malister's
eagle corbray's raven and the
high tower of house hightower pretty on
the nose there
targaryen
sir the wayne high tower of old town
eldest son of the hand of the king
number eight emma's bath in the first
act of the episode viserys finds his
wife queen emma bathing in the last days
of her pregnancy upon joining her side
viserys remarks upon the lukewarm
temperature of the water it's tepid
it's as warm as the masters will allow
don't they know dragons prefer heat
though dragons and by extension some
targaryens are drawn and resistant to
extreme levels of heat emma responds by
saying this is the hottest the maesters
would allow for of course anyone who
watched game of thrones knows that
daenerys targaryen constantly bathed in
scalding temperatures so this connection
is evident it's too hot my lady
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however seeing as emma's complicated
childbirth ultimately leads to her death
and the babies it's possible that this
scene could be read as foreshadowing
that fact i know it is my duty to
provide you an
and i'm sorry if i have failed you in
that i am
but i've mourned all the dead children
like
number 7. nymeria when princess nymeria
arrived in dawn who did she take to
husband
a man
what was his name
lord something
if you answered with lord something sap
tomallow will be furious it's not just
history that repeats itself as house of
the dragon also brings back familiar
names there's the obvious connection
between king viserys targaryen and the
viserys targaryen we know as daenerys
brother but we're sure fans ears perked
up at the mention of nymeria sitting
under a weirwood tree remember those
creepy things rhaenyra and alicent
recount the history lesson of the
warrior queen princess nymeria led her
ruiner across the narrow sea on ten
thousand ships to flee their valyrian
pursuers she took lord moore's martel
her husband
and burned her in fleet of sunspear to
show her people that they were finished
running of course we haven't met the
real nymeria with her having existed
even centuries before this show but we
have met arya's direwolf of the same
name
still this may be more setup than
reference as it's been reported that
another sequel series 10 000 ships is
set to recount nymeria's story
number 6. balon targaryen
the ceres isn't the only name targaryens
apparently like to reuse over the years
as king viserys decides to name his new
baby boy balon after his own father had
you and the queen chosen a name
much like his namesake balon isn't long
for this world but the similarities
don't end there at the beginning of the
episode we already know that the first
balon along with his brother have
already perished but book readers will
remember that balon's death was
attributed to a burst belly basically
appendicitis in the real world a
technique is taught at the citadel which
involves cutting directly into the womb
to free the infant
but the resulting bloodline seven house
bills while baby balon didn't die of a
burst belly he did come out of one as
the fraught birth requires a cesarean
section next time you're naming your kid
viserys try not to tempt the fates the
air for a day
did you say it
we must still mourn in our own way
number five a feast for crows while the
fourth novel in the a song of ice and
fire series of feast for crows is about
where the show began to diverge
story-wise screenwriters david benioff
and d.b weiss were still quick to drop
the title during a conversation between
ramsay and ruse bolton what do you
recommend let me not sit and wait for
stannis to decide what sort of fight
this is going to be that we hit first
and hit hard and leave a feast for the
crows obviously ramsay's being literal
about said crows and their feast but
when the line loosely reappears in this
episode king viserys is being a little
more metaphorical these recent tragedies
have left you without an obvious heir
the king has an heir my lord has despite
how difficult this time is your grace i
feel it's important the succession be
firmly in place for the stability of the
realm even though emma and prospective
heir balon have just died in childbirth
the small council is already fretting
over who's next in line incensed viserys
rebukes them likening them to crows
feasting on
and son are corpses
i will not sit here and suffer crows
that come to feast on their corpses
number four the iron throne sparrow
torivo
no sodium
the iron throne is a staple of game of
thrones so it's unsurprising that it
appears here however show watchers will
note that this one's looking a lot
pointier
indeed there appear to be a whole lot
more swords surrounding it than the last
time we saw it much more in keeping with
george rr martin's thousand sword
description in the books
heck the throne is so much pointier now
that it's giving visera serious pricks
it's a small cut from sitting to throw
it's nothing though martin was
disappointed with the throne on the
original show this may just rectify
things as it also matches the mental
picture daenerys had prior to her
actually seeing it what do a thousand
swords look like in the mind of a little
girl who can't count to twenty
i imagined a mountain of swords too high
to climb
so many fallen enemies you could only
see the souls of aegon's feet while they
might have taken swords away in the
years since it's too bad they never made
it comfortable
number three the death of an aaron emma
emma
i'm here
i'm here speaking of emma's death it
should be noted that she hails from
house aaron prior to marrying viserys
targaryen while the aarons don't have a
consistent presence on game of thrones
they ultimately play a major part in
kicking off the show's events lord
eddard stark
i would name you the hand of the king
as you'll recall the first episode's
inciting incident is ned stark being
courted by robert baratheon to be the
new hand of the king this of course
leads to eight seasons of misfortune but
it all came about with the murder of the
previous hand john aaron what if john
aaron told someone
but who would he tell
my husband
if you told the king both our heads were
obscured in the city gates by now
whatever john aaron knew or didn't know
it died with him while we're only one
episode in with house of the dragon
we're already seeing that this aaron
death is similarly having major
repercussions with westeros at large
number two the valyrian steel dagger
just as danish foresaw the end of
valyria begone foresaw the end of the
world of men
just to begin with a terrible winter
gusting out of the distant north more
than anything else in the episode the
ceres's speech to rhaenyra is teeming
with references to game of thrones
recounting aegon's dream of the events
of the great war between the living and
the dead obviously we're not seeing this
connection with something viewers missed
but a smaller moment occurs when viserys
clutches the dagger attached to his hip
this secret
it's been passed from king to where
since egon's time
now you must promise to carry it
and protect it it seems like fate that
viserys would have this dagger with him
at this moment considering its huge
importance in the events he describes
not only does the dagger kickstart the
war of the five kings with the failed
assassination of bran but it ends the
great war when arya uses it to end the
night king
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number one promise me
the valyrian steel dagger isn't the only
sly reference during viserys's speech as
one even slyer comes at the end when he
asks raniera to promise him to keep
aegon's song of ice and fire with her
promise
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promise me
the exact words promise me this rhaenyra
promise me may not seem like much but
they're actually eerily similar to
another pivotal moment in game of
thrones
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i'm here
in the season six finale bran's vision
takes him to the tower of joy where
lyanna stark gives birth to jon snow we
don't hear lyanna telling her brother
ned that rhaegar targaryen is the father
but when she similarly has ned promised
to keep jon safe her words are almost
the same as viserys's save for the name
change
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