[0:00] Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers Show. 
I'm your host, Paul. In this video,  
[0:03] we're breaking down House of the Dragon.
[0:10] The season 3 episode 3 trailer is now out, and 
in this video, we're going to be breaking it  
[0:14] all down. In it, I want to discuss what happens in 
the book, where things could lead to, and also do  
[0:19] some theory times about what could be going down. 
As always, we are going to play the thing first,  
[0:23] though, and then get into the breakdown 
itself. Play the clip. Sorry. Play the clip.
[0:31] All eyes look to me now. Must justify my 
father's faith in me. Rule as he would have  
[0:38] wished. At any rate, we must begin. There is 
none yet to control. In the matter of the bed,  
[0:46] your resources are small and your 
hazards are many. Darren Targaryen.  
[0:53] He's a claimment to the throne. 
You're going to have to kill him.  
[0:58] You may not rule and remain yourself. There is in 
you a door that must shut. You will do things that  
[1:05] your heart would have recoiled from. I dispute 
that I must become what I am not. Time will tell.
[1:19] Okay, so the trailer opens with Rene delivering a 
resolute but strange speech which seems like it's  
[1:24] in one of the bedrooms of the Red Keep. She 
says, "All eyes look to me now. Let's justify  
[1:30] my father's faith in me. Rule as he would have 
wished." Now, because of this, I do even wonder if  
[1:36] this is for Saras's bedroom, and she's visiting 
the place they last properly spoke. We cut to  
[1:41] her seemingly talking to Damon in front of a bed, 
and it looks like the place the king passed away.  
[1:46] For this, Rene appears to be in the throne room 
wearing his crown with the small folk before her.  
[1:51] Corus is to the right acting as the hand and it 
looks a lot like the scene in season 2 where the  
[1:56] small folk asked Agon for favors. We know that 
Corus is the hand as well because of the shot  
[2:01] at 20 seconds where we can see him wearing the 
pin. I did and I didn't miss that one. We also  
[2:05] see her gripping the chair almost anxiously. This 
actually makes it appear a lot like the pictures  
[2:10] from the Game of Thrones history special features 
where she's seen holding it while blood drips from  
[2:15] her hands. The throne cut her in the book and 
this was said to show that she was completely  
[2:19] unfit to rule. So, I do wonder if that scene's 
going to happen here. Quick cuts then show her  
[2:25] staff following her, saying loads of stuff, her 
hitting the thumbs up, the small council, and so  
[2:29] on and so on, and so on and so on. Rene has one 
hell of a job right now, though, because she has  
[2:35] to rule all while fighting the war. Plus, there's 
the rats. One runs by her, and the keep is full of  
[2:41] them because Egon had all the rat catchers hanged 
after Blood and Cheese, which she kind of, well,  
[2:46] not her, Damon caused it in the show, but in the 
book, she caused it. Rats of course symbolically  
[2:51] also hold lots of weight in the show. One appeared 
at the end of the episode when Rairo got married  
[2:55] and there were also ones scurrying around Viseris 
as the rats started closing in. Symbolically they  
[3:00] also show that the throne is being picked at 
and there's definitely a feeling of anxiety  
[3:05] throughout the small council as well showing 
that she has indeed came out and joined her. We  
[3:11] then get handing over what appears to be Darren 
Targaryen. This is the scene that we saw in the  
[3:16] leaks. And because of this, people assume that the 
Darren in episode one wasn't actually Darren. Now,  
[3:22] that takes us into theory time. Theory time. 
Theory time. That's why I [ __ ] your [ __ ]  
[3:26] you fat [ __ ] Get theories. Get theories. So, I 
actually think that the one in episode 1 is the  
[3:34] real Daron, and this one is a fake one. I feel 
like Orund is handing over a child to broke a  
[3:39] piece while really having his own minations. 
I think that Orman will learn of Otto being  
[3:45] killed and decide that he doesn't want to work 
with the queen. Darren has been his squire for  
[3:49] years and years. So I don't think he's gonna be 
like, "All right, well, yeah, of course I'm gonna  
[3:52] hand him over." He's going to want to protect the 
lad. We have seen a night of the seven kingdoms.  
[3:56] Knights and squires are like best mates. So yeah, 
I don't think he's going to do that. So instead,  
[4:00] I think he'll hand over the fake Darren to Reira, 
and then he and the real one will continue to  
[4:05] fight the war. I even wonder if Rene will execute 
the kid like Damon says and then she'll realize  
[4:10] she's killed another sudden fruitless endeavor. 
The entire trailer seems to center around the  
[4:15] idea that Reira must change who she is in order 
to rule. She's trying to set out to be like her  
[4:20] father, but obviously they're at war and she 
needs to be ruthless. But that's good morning.
[4:28] Anyway, um, in general, Darren, aka Agon's 
younger brother, he's the writer of Tisarian  
[4:34] and is positioned as being an active rival to the 
throne, not to Aegon. But in the show's timeline,  
[4:40] with Agon, the second status being 
uncertain to the royals and commoners,  
[4:43] Darren becomes a symbolic and literal claimant 
for Team Green, especially with the High Tower  
[4:48] army led by Almond High Tower. The blunt advice to 
assassinate him also underscores how the war has  
[4:54] stripped away any true honor or family connection. 
You see, Darren is also one of Iseras's kids as  
[4:59] well. And I think he's half brother, like half 
brother to her and like nephew, brother-in-law  
[5:06] to to Damon or some [ __ ] No idea what that is. 
So, one of those things. But in the book, he's  
[5:12] portrayed as valiant and honorable due to winning 
at Honey Wine. His fate isn't really a happy one,  
[5:16] but he doesn't die the way the show seems to 
be setting up, which again makes me think it  
[5:21] isn't him. And I won't do the theory time jingle 
again. Now, in Fire and Blood, Darren is never the  
[5:25] primary rival while Egon the second lives, but he 
represents the surviving Green Male line. Calling  
[5:30] for his death reflects the Targaryen's descent 
into total ruthlessness and how bad things are  
[5:35] getting amongst the households. We've had deaths 
and battles and such before, but never them just  
[5:40] coldly executing each other. That all changed with 
Otto, and I think Rey might get a taste for it,  
[5:45] but Reneer is going to have lots of conflict 
because of this. Allison says she can't rule and  
[5:50] remain herself and that she'll have to do things 
she would have once recalled from, such as killing  
[5:54] a kid, I imagine. We know that eventually Rene 
becomes Rene the cruel and that the common folk  
[5:59] hate her. This was because the bank was robbed of 
its money by the master of coin and so Rene has to  
[6:03] put taxes up if she starts killing kids as well. 
It's going to look bad. But yeah, upon taking  
[6:08] King's Landing, ReeroRa was initially welcome, but 
the treasury issues, riots, and what happens with  
[6:14] the dragon seeds fractured her support and 
ultimately left her at her lowest point. We  
[6:19] then see her having a big banquet, which probably 
won't go down well with the common folk and also  
[6:24] snuggling up to her hubby/ uncle at night. This 
is all going down while people are starving, and  
[6:30] it makes her rule extremely unpopular. She moves 
through the kingdoms and we see the green banners  
[6:35] being torn down. We also see the dragon seeds at 
one point as well. This is all likely building off  
[6:39] the scene in the weeks ahead trailer where we saw 
them being kned. There's also lots more stuff on  
[6:44] the floor there as well. Anariniro was getting all 
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throughout the trailer capture the core theme.  
[7:14] The show is about the erosion of the Targaryenss 
and the death of the dragons during the Civil War.  
[7:19] Though the dragons aren't wiped out entirely, the 
species is sent to a place that they don't really  
[7:25] recover from. Rene also resists becoming a tyrant 
or monster. And unfortunately, the circumstances  
[7:31] demand ruthlessness. It all builds to the 
burning of the green cloth, which is the last  
[7:35] symbol of their hold in the kingdom. Allison and 
Helena are prisoner at this point, as is Daron,  
[7:40] if that is really Daron. Aemon is at Harrenhal as 
well, dying from a stab wound, and Aegon is badly  
[7:46] burned and lost to the wind. Bira is trying to 
put things back in order and expelling the Greens  
[7:51] from within. However, it will all come at a big 
cost, and if she has to kill a kid, then that's  
[7:56] really going to sit with her. think it's going to 
be even worse as well if it turns out this wasn't  
[8:01] even Darren and that he remains with Orund and 
also has a dragon. In the end, Rene's arc here  
[8:07] positions her not as a flawless hero, but as a 
ruler forced into doing bad to try and do good.  
[8:12] This aligns with Mon's theme that power exacts a 
terrible price. Overall, this trailer captures the  
[8:18] rough road ahead she has when it comes to ruling. 
It's exhausting, morally complex, and it all comes  
[8:24] with a cost. The show has kind of shied away 
from Reneer going into her full villain arc. But  
[8:28] it does seem like that they're setting the stage 
here. So, I think that will be what they kind of  
[8:33] lay the groundwork for. And if she has to kill 
a kid, it's like, "Oh, are we are we the baddies  
[8:37] now?" And then it'll all kind of go from there. 
Episode 3 seems like it's going to be handling  
[8:41] the escalating stakes though. As the war grinds 
forward at Tumbleton, it'll also probably set  
[8:46] the stage for the riots and the eventual mutual 
destruction of both Targaryen factions. Reneira  
[8:51] must decide what and who she is willing to become 
to not only claim the throne but also to keep it.  
[8:57] I think this is going to be the first episode in 
which we really see what would happen if Rene was  
[9:02] in a position of power. And it's going to be 
interesting to see how heavy bears the crown,  
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