Ewan Mitchell as Aemond Targaryen in "Home of the Dragon."
Photograph by Ollie Upton / HBO
This week’s episode of the “Sport of Thrones” spinoff “Home of the Dragon,” includes a long- awaited game-changing loss of life, a clumsy household dinner and a dramatic beheading.
Spoilers forward for episode 8 of “Home of the Dragon.”
King Viserys (Paddy Considine) is lifeless finally, after more and more deteriorating every week all through the sequence. This has main repercussions for the story, together with the query of whether or not his daughter and named inheritor, Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), will really be capable of succeed him to the Throne, as deliberate.
The episode begins with yet one more time bounce. It’s now been a number of years since King Viserys’ brother Daemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra acquired married on the finish of final episode. They now have two sons, and he or she’s pregnant once more.
Certainly one of her sons is known as Aegon, which is a hilariously petty transfer (since that’s additionally the identify of her half-brother, Alicent’s oldest son). However for some motive, the present determined to skip over giving us perception into whether or not it was Daemon or Rhaenyra who made this alternative – or, exhibiting how Alicent reacted to it. Apparently there’s no room for some juicy drama after we’ve acquired to skip over it for time jumps!
The meat of this hour includes the difficulty of who will rule over Driftmark, which is Corlys Velaryon’s (Steve Toussaint) seat of energy. He’s been injured offscreen. Formally, it’s imagined to go to Rhaenyra’s son, who's Corlys’ grandson. However her sons’ standing as bastards is an open secret, so Corlys’ brother, Vaemond Velaryon, decides to make a stink about it, claiming that he ought to inherit it as an alternative.
Everybody convenes at court docket to get this matter settled. For Daemon and Rhaneyra, who've each been away for years, it’s an unsettling homecoming. Of their absence, Alicent has traded loads of Targaryen decor for non secular imagery.
Alicent’s youngsters are additionally extra grown up, traded in for older actors after this time bounce. Her son Aegon (now performed by Tom Glynn-Carney) assaults servant women, and he or she covers up his crimes. His brother Aemond (now performed by Ewan Mitchell) now wears an eye fixed patch and is a bona fide weirdo. And Heleana (Phia Saban) is now married to her brother Aegon, in a union that doesn’t appear too blissful.
Rhaenyra and Daemon are each shocked to see how far Viserys has deteriorated. He’s primarily half-dead now, and by the way in which that Daemon sniffs his cup suspiciously, it’s implied that the Hightowers have been both poisoning him, or else have been maintaining him in a weakened state. Alicent and her father Otto have been performing because the proxy rulers. So, his poor well being is handy for them.
Within the Throne room, Vaemond argues his case that he ought to inherit Driftmark moderately than Rhaenyra’s son. Sadly for Vaemond, Viserys rouses himself away from bed in time to defend his daughter. Additionally, Daemon beheads him, whereas Aemond seems thrilled by this.
Later, at an uncomfortable dinner, Viserys entreats the hostile factions of his household – that are primarily Staff Alicent and Staff Rhaenyra – to come back collectively. Rhaenyra and Alicent really appear to patch issues up. Naturally, Aemond ruins this, goading Rhaenyra’s sons about their true parentage, and the dinner dissolves right into a combat.
By the tip of the episode, Viserys lastly attracts his final breath. His spouse Alicent is by his facet, and as he mumbles concerning the prophecy of the “prince who was promised,” which he instructed Rhaenyra about earlier within the season. Alicent assumes that his ultimate message is a beg to place her rapist son Aegon on the throne.
So finally, the King is lifeless. Rhaenyra is meant to succeed him on the throne, however that’s not going to be a peaceable switch of energy, if Alicent thinks that she now has a holy mission to place her son Aegon on the throne as an alternative. This complete story has been resulting in a Targaryen civil battle about who will succeed King Viserys — and now it’s recreation on.
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