Discussing House of the Dragon Episode 3!
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The crab feeder already violated any decent rules of war with his cruel treatment of prisoners. False surrender pales in comparison to what the guy was doing.
I really like that scene at the end with Alicent advising Viserys on what to do with the war against crab feeder. You can see a lot of Otto in her and she also stays kind
I thought Targaryans couldn't get sick right? So diseases like greyscale don't affect them. I think this was also referenced when Jorah mormont got greyscale but Daenerys didn't
TO WIN AT ANY COST
02:13:00 The lennisters castel on the picture looks kind of like a lion. It has paws and everything
Laenor and his sons would only have a 'claim' to the throne if his sister's descendants were all female at any point in time. Otherwise the 'throne' would SKIP her older brother's line and belong to her line. The other 'Successional Line' thing you may see in history (or at least in film) is the RELATED ADULT male theme always ascending to the throne. I think Otto had intentions of eventually stopping the tendency of the Targaryens INTER-marrying their near relatives and have them continually marrying into his line or House and peoples.
So I’m the step stones war council there was a knight in service to House Velaryon as a background character but he’s has Asian features. So by going about this, I’d say what is a YITI man doing in the seven kingdoms, then it came to me that Corlys has travelled to YITI before during his great expedition so it might have been that he took in some new additions of the crew in exchange for their loyalty/fealty. These YITI deicide to hop on Velyron expedition fleet and sailed to the 7 kingdoms for a new life . Thus this particular YITI man became a soldier /knight under the command of Corlys
alt shift x: "no spoilers here"
also alt shift x in the very first second of the video: "KRAGAS CRABFEEDER, DEAD IN ONE EPISODE"
Greasy black stone isn't the base of Hightower. Fused black stone. 2 different things
I've learned yet again that you just can't read the chat without wanting to tear your own eyes before too much stupidity..
2:11:00 You got it right the first time, in ASOS it takes Robb several times to fully chop off Karstark's head
Open your eyes, sheeple! Crab Feeder ain't dead, he warged into a crab before died!
They couldn't cauterize the King's back wound if he was resistant to fire I think. P.S. Could the old maester's bad leeching advice (immediately countered by a younger measter) hint at/ be a nod to a maester plot to weaken the controllers of dragons?
Laenor obviously not Natty
I noticed the Crabfeeder's skin looked a lot like Ser Jorah's after Samwell had cured him of his Greyscale.
I wonder if he was one of Archmaester Pylos' patients.
If so, he could've still gone a bit crazy and attacked the Archmaester during the Friendly Flaying and given him the Greyscale that killed him.
To me , House of Dragons is to GoT what Mandalorian was to Star Wars.
Also I think that Milly Alcock who plays Rhaenyra is a perfect fit for that role.
Boys can change and grow a lot from say 14 to 17/18
Valayians can't get greyscale, they're immune from it
I really hated how a large number of the super chats are just tirelessly asking about the crabfeeder's "grayscale"…like come on stop and listen up!
I questioned why Jocelyn didn't have a dragon but she didn't have Targaryen blood so that's answered. We don't know anything about her tho. When Aemon died, do we know how old Rhaenys was? If her mother remarried or died? She might be still alive in the show's period, but I don't think they would do that.
Also, why didn't Aemma have a dragon? She had Targaryen blood from her mother, there were dragons around for her.
I'm not sure what the real history of the pug is, but you do find small lapdogs in Roman archaeological contexts…. it's not unreasonable that there could be sleeve dogs
you roasted matt smith so hard LOL
is only the king allowed to hunt in the kingswoord, right? then it is a further special sign that the princess killed the pig and also bring it to the camp – she shows: i am allowd to kill in these woods cause i will be queen – dont you think?
Robert is the kind of guy that wants to get his hands dirty. He's the kind of guy that WOULD go out with a few friends and get the boar on his own. In the show, they went out on a hunt at Winterfell. They showed all of them on horseback, etc.
I could be very wrong, but I thought that it was the Maesters and healers that stannis brought in to see princess shereen when she was a baby that halted the progression of her grayscale?
On the point of women "sitting the throne," yes, there were women who held court for their husbands or sons for a time. But in these cases, the proper, titled "ruler" is male. Sitting the throne should be interpreted to mean "crowned King." That seems to be what they mean by it in novel.
GoT showed us the salacious reality, and then later would give us twisted gossip version of the events as they would have been heard by common folk who weren't there. (like seeing the purple wedding, and then seeing the stage version of it that Arya caught in Braavos.) I think we need Mushroom to be a sort of mouthpiece to that end. HotD does a lot of time skipping, etc., because they have a ton of plot to plow through (and they have a real hill to climb in that regard, after GoT s8) so we don't get to see the story from all the varying perspectives the way we saw the previous. Mushroom can tell rather than show some of that variance we're otherwise missing out on.
Greyscale was actually a curse that was made for the Targaryen's when they had someone from Ashai? captured so they can get it. In the books with Stannis's daughter the woman Jon Snow was with said she was impure and that her greyscale could come back anytime and become dangerous again. So greyscale can stop and go dormant and then come back and go back to full grey scale. The only one to ever cure it was Samwell Tarley on Jorah and he has to cut the flesh from his body.
John Snow is also Not Immun to Fire because his Hand was Burnt while he was in the Nights Watch
The blackfish lives.
She killed the boar because it tried to kill her. Hardly any need to analyze it. If that boar had left her alone, it'd still be alive.
The characters 'Blood' and 'Cheese' better be in the show considering their actions are pretty pivotal in the Targaryen Civil War.
Tywin's brothers are good people.