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# House of the Dragon S3E4 Breakdown: Every Detail You Missed!

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## Summary

This video provides a detailed scene-by-scene breakdown of House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 4, analyzing character motivations, hidden details, changes from the book 'Fire & Blood', and potential future plot points. The analysis focuses on Ormund Hightower's nativist ideology, Rhaenyra's political struggles, and the escalating civil war.

### Key Points

- **Ormund Hightower's Racism and Purity Obsession** [00:01] — Ormund Hightower is portrayed as a racist who is disgusted by smells and impure things, reminiscent of characters like Amon Goeth and Agent Smith. His nativist ideology drives his actions, including his treatment of the Footlys and his plan to make Daeron king.
- **Introduction of Daeron Targaryen** [03:05] — Daeron, Alicent's fourth child, is finally introduced. He has been warded in Oldtown and is being groomed by Ormund to become king, bypassing Aegon and Aemond.
- **Aegon's Descent and Sunfyre's Condition** [05:49] — Aegon is shown in a degraded state, having to sling poo and kiss shit-covered boots. He finds Sunfyre seemingly dead at Rook's Rest, but claims the dragon is alive and speaks Valyrian to wake it.
- **Alys Rivers' Mysterious Powers** [12:05] — Alys Rivers appears magically at Harrenhal, claiming to be a steward. She implies she is hiding Aemond and Vhagar, possibly on the Isle of Faces, suggesting she has supernatural abilities.
- **Rhaenyra's Rat Problem and Cat Solution** [14:07] — Rhaenyra discovers a nest of rats in Viserys' model of Valyria. Allen proposes using cats to solve the rat problem, a practical solution not yet implemented in the series.
- **Orwyle's Potential Conspiracy** [20:10] — Orwyle, the maester, may be part of a conspiracy to rid Westeros of dragons. He suggests Rhaenyra remove the High Septon, and may have written the 'Queen of Bastards' graffiti to provoke her.
- **Daemon and Rhaena's Confrontation** [22:46] — Daemon meets Rhaena, who has claimed Sheepstealer. She defies him by flying away on the dragon, asserting her independence. Daemon later lies to Rhaenyra about her fate.
- **Helaena's Pregnancy and Maelor** [28:35] — Helaena is revealed to be pregnant with her third child, Maelor, a character previously thought to be cut from the series. This could create tension between Alicent and Rhaenyra.
- **Ormund's White Supremacist Rhetoric** [30:11] — Ormund delivers a speech in the sept, using language reminiscent of white supremacists and the 'great replacement' theory, calling Targaryens a 'savage race' and 'brutes'.
- **Daeron's First Kill and Ormund's Plan** [33:18] — Ormund has Daeron kill a Hightower soldier to prove his loyalty, then wipes the blood on the body. Ormund plans to make Daeron king by eliminating Aegon and Aemond.

### Conclusion

The episode sets up major conflicts: Ormund's racist ideology driving the war, Aegon's potential redemption with Sunfyre, and Rhaena's rise as a dragon rider. The show continues to diverge from the book, introducing new characters and plotlines.

## Transcript

Rhaenyra's slam book will blow your mind. And no, it's not Ormund, that racist bond villain who hates stank. I'm Eric Boss of the New Rockstars channel, and this is a breakdown of House of the Dragon season 3 episode 4. Let's hold
our noses and dive deep into the sick mind of Ormund Hightower with a scene-by-scene analysis and explanation of everything that's going on, details you missed, changes from the book, and as always for any spoilers for future
plot events from Byron Blood, we will save that for the spoiler dungeon at the end of the video. Thanks to Fabletics for sponsoring this video, more on them animation has actually been updated. In the shot of Rhaenyra's Queen's Landing
with Syrax, Daemon, and Mysaria, instead of showing Corlys, Alicent, and Helaena to the right of Daemon, now we kind of skip past that to the people of King's from Rhaenyra's side in this episode, and while Alicent seems to have gained
Rhaenyra's trust based on what she revealed to the queen about Ormund, the pregnancy will certainly be a future point of contention. And then after the shot of the crowd, there's a new shot showing three figures. On the far right,
a portly bearded dark-haired man in blue that I'm assuming is Torrhen Manderly, Dan Fogler's noble from the north and now Master of Coin on the HBO series. the Manderly merman sigil on his chest, but you can see these house crests on my
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supporting us. But to the left of this Torrhen Manderly dude is a white-haired female figure, and then to the left of her is a bald man framed in gold. Maybe King's Landing who are quietly conspiring against Rhaenyra after the
rat banquet. And once again, we see the rats in the embroidery here in the swords of the Iron Throne, but now the tapestry splits on the rat as opposed to week for episode 3, the smoke on the final title was shaded with red light.
This week for episode 4, the smoke is shaded in a bit more green as this mostly contained within Rhaenyra's point of view, now we're seeing a true civil war. We open the episode on a rabbit sniffing around across the Mander
Reach near the border of the Crownlands. It's actually this river that connects Tumbleton a thriving trading post. But about this rabbit, remember in episode 3 could hunt in the Kingswood of the Crownlands, but
>> Neither stags nor boars. But uh rabbits, perhaps. >> So maybe this is one of those wascally wabbits fleeing the Kingswood from all Landing hopping all the way to the Reach where the biggest challenge to
Rhaenyra's rule is currently making a stand. Hightower soldiers order men from House Footly to haul in trees and other supplies. They are preparing for a siege battlements that Lord Glendon Footly tells Ormund that the town of Tumbleton
does not have. This Hightower occupation of Tumbleton does not happen in George character of Kat also does not even exist in the text and George R.R. Martin character or his relationship with Daeron. So much of what we see in this
HBO series. I like the detail that the people of Tumbleton wear wide-brimmed hats and carry these baskets that make them look like humble merchants who River. In general, I just appreciate the diversity of costuming from location to
location on this show. Kat, wife of Hugh the Hammer, is currently staying with her brother. He's a smith just like the guy his sister married. She just kind of then three Hightower soldiers are quartered at the house including Garrick
of Whitegrove who mentions there are 15,000 Hightower men in total. That's from the Eyrie promised and then denied Rhaenyra and Daemon. It's also considerably less than the 40,000 rivermen that Alys Rivers told Daemon
she helped him amass back in episode 2. Though we don't know if that's a tally in Fire and Blood was the bloodiest land battle of the war. I'm assuming it's were just talking after the battle. And yeah, the Hightowers are considerably
host led by Oscar Tully and Black Ally and Roddy the Ruin with the Winterwolves Hightower banners are raised over the castle of House Footly and Lord Glendon Footly and his wife Lady Sherri confront
Ormund bathes in front of them and on his table you can see that little dish of the scented potpourri or smelling salts whatever it is. And on top of wafting from the burner next to the tub. Alicent confirms that bad odors are kind
of a trigger for Ormund and I guess even this main room could risk a foul whiff. Like notice how even when Glendon Footly steps forward slightly toward Ormund, doesn't even look particularly stinky here. But I see this trait as
representative of Ormund's general nativism, his racism, his disgust of things he considers impure. It recalls Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goeth in Schindler's List being irritated by the smell of the concentration camp city he oversaw. With
precision of Allison Williams' character Rose in Get Out eating Fruit Loops in her particular way. I'm also reminded of Agent Smith in The Matrix telling Morpheus, >> It's the smell.
I feel saturated by it. >> I can taste your stink and every time I infected by it. It's repulsive. Yes, I did do that monologue for my ninth grade drama club class and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It's crazy to have this be
conditions such as these, most of the characters we see on screen are walking around smelling kind of foul. They don't have indoor plumbing, they use chamber antiperspirant. They're walking around stinky people everywhere. We're just
lucky HBO doesn't have a smell function. So for anyone to be holding their nose creative choice for the character. We can contrast Ormund Hightower's obsession with purity with the exiled green king Aegon having to sling poo,
hug fly swarming corpses of dragons, and even kiss a [ __ ] covered boots. And we wonder, who's the more deserving hero here? When Lady Sheras claims that Rhaenyra is the queen, Orman stands and reveals his full naked body to this lord
and lady in their own room. >> Or is she a [ __ ] with a dragon? >> Yeah, this whole idea of restoring the rightful line to the Iron Throne as he shows his Hightower bits does seem to stem from Orman's nativist ethnic
superiority of Hightower blood and the anatomy that sustains that precious pure bloodline. As Orman dries himself off, Lady Sheras stares at him in disgust, while Lord Glendon sweats and kind of has to just look over at his wife. She
relationship, but Glendon's awkwardness around Orman being naked is also telling us something else. poor dude, later Rhaenyra even calls him meek. And notice how Orman opens his robe for an extra few seconds of a view as he tells Sheras
few seconds of a view as he tells Sheras >> Provided of course by John Roxton who ends up claiming her as a kind of prize of war during this period. But this HBO series seems to be leaving out the Roxton Sheras subplot.
Orman makes this a teaching moment for Darren. In fact, Orman's full taking of Tumbleton seems to be a big teaching moment for Darren whom he plans to make a king on how to rule the entire realm. Yes, this auburn haired kid is Darren
Targaryen, Alicent's fourth child with Viserys I who has been warded in Oldtown. We actually saw a quick in focus shot of actor Benjamin Evan season 3 premiere, but they've kept him silent until now to preserve that twist
switcheroo. But then Roxton comes in bringing a message from Borros >> A lackwit sealed a marriage pact between Prince Aemond and one of his >> Orman reminds us of the events leading up to the battle over Shipbreaker Bay
from season 1 when Aemond arrived first to Storm's End in front of Lucerys in support for the greens instead of for Rhaenyra. Ever since becoming betrothed to Lady Floris Baratheon, we have not seen Aemond with her once. So, that plus
Landing might have led to Borros's hesitation now. Actually, in Fire and of stayed independent after Vhagar killed Lucerys and gathered an army of into the Red Mountains to fight the Vulture King instead. That's the excuses
that Roxton's referring to now. Rhaenyra now has a new Queen's Guard knight. This is Ser Adrian Redfort. She worries that attacking this humble reach market town would lead the realm to call her Maegor returned, referring to her ancestor
dynasty known for his barbaric actions. Rhaenyra offers Orwyle a place in the small council as grand maester. So, in the text, Maester Gerardys has this Dragonstone, but it seems like the HBO series wants to keep actor Kurt
about the Orwyle plan later in this video. Now, Orwyle reaches for the tradition kept by Rhaenyra's father, Viserys. It's kind of like marking your one of these balls was used to crush the skull of Lyman Beesbury
by Ser Criston Cole. So, perhaps that plus the way her father would use these part of why Rhaenyra does away with the balls as relics of the dead regime. It's not like King Robert Baratheon or Joffrey in Game of Thrones were using
the River host march past King's Landing to Tumbleton, and Rhaenyra orders that host to get there to send a dragon just to keep watch. And, notice how you can see Orwyle shift nervously in his seat. Mysaria recommends to name a master of
coin so that they could blame a fall guy for the lack of public resources. And, the text, Barthimos Celtigar from Rhaenyra's Black Council on Dragonstone different role at this point in history. Rhaenyra asks Alicent what she knows
cousin considers himself a scholar studying histories, collecting tapestries like the one every episode opens with. And, she admits this. When but Gwayne thought that of many. >> Ah, Alicent's brother Gwayne, currently
with Criston Cole, thought their cousin Ormund was cruel at times. It seems like Ormund's adulthood as he got better at hiding it. We see Helena playing with beneath the red leaves of the weirwood tree. This would be during one of the
scheduled visits that Rhaenyra allowed. And the young Jaehaera is now played by sister of Lulu Barker who played her in season 2. And fun fact, this little girl, Ziggy, actually played the infant version of Helena all the way back in
her choice to send Daeron away to Oldtown. That she bore Viserys three Targaryens, but for her last, she wanted him to be raised a Hightower. And as she mentions the madness that overtook her other sons, she picks at her fingernails
throughout the series. Rhaenyra reminds Alicent that she would have spared send fake Daeron to the wall. So, seeing a chance to spare her son whatever Rhaenyra may be planning, Alicent does confess one odd trait that she remembers
>> He has a sensitivity to odors. >> Yeah, I also like this detail. It's just have remembered about their weirdo cousin and how that always made them side eye him. So, how will Rhaenyra use this information? We'll see. She's
somehow coordinated 20 roasted rat dishes to be served to nobles all at and Mysaria's food boats to float by Tumbleton filled with Syrax's poop. Or tell the Winter Wolves to continue not showering and just stand upwind from
could block the sewers of Tumbleton so knowledge of Casterly Rock sewers was how Tyrion Lannister proved himself in Game of Thrones. Aegon and Larys make their way to the remains of Sunfyre left
Rook's Rest where it was left in season 2 episode 4. Aegon whispers, "My boy, I'm here." Flies buzz around. It doesn't look good. But in Fire and Blood, Sunfyre survives, grounded and terribly wounded, and the Greens keep a small
Rook's Rest while it eats all the corpses of the men who died and then the they may be going in a different direction. The dragon seems dead, or Because here, Aegon claims Sunfyre is actually alive and begins speaking the
Valyrian words of "Wake and arise." I honestly kept waiting for Sunfyre's eye in Game of Thrones season 7 to the Night King. Criston Cole and Gwayne Hightower patch of land torched by Vhagar when he and Aemond arrived at Harrenhal in
episode 2. And then there's this moment where they react to some noise in the where they react to some noise in the castle.
this haunted place, it makes it sound like the castle is alive and moving. hidden chamber beneath the castle who's just like moving around in his sleep. Then they hear this goat.
Yeah, we hear the goats, and then we see this area in the background, and then we cut back to that same spot, and Alice Rivers is just magically standing in she's taken the form of a goat. Damon saw a goat when he first walked through
as a goat in the first episode of this season. Now, Alice steps forward into the natural light, giving her an unnatural glow in this dim ruin, and she zombified movement. She claims to be a steward of sorts, and when they say
this sassy confidence. >> As I'm sure do many. >> Alice claims that Aemond was here, but he and his dragon left. But she's bleeding from his kidneys the last time we saw him. So, if Aemond was still
would not leave without him. So, it would seem that Alice is hiding Aemond and somehow his massive dragon. The fact that she could do that is terrifying. there would have to be some hidden crypts unfindable by the greens when
only an abandoned dragon nest as the green soldiers tells Criston in the following scene. So, I wonder if Alice transported Vhagar and Aemond to the Isle of Faces, the mysterious island in the middle of the nearby Gods Eye lake
with a grove of weirwood trees maintained by the green men like that show. That's the place where the pact was signed between the children of the forest and the first men. The island and its grove would be large enough and
thick enough and mysterious enough to hide a dragon that big and I think it's [ __ ] with Amond. More on this in the spoiler dungeon. Criston shuts down recalls his upbringing as a member of House Cole sworn to Lord Dondarrion. His
the Stormlands and he says that his father died of sorrow and that Criston has no home while warring against the throne. So Criston's plan for now, surprise guerrilla attacks and slow them down the best they can. Ha, hope it
works out for you dude. Rhaenyra uncovers Viserys' dusty model of old Valyria and inside she and Allen discover a writhing nest of rats which series is truly a song of dragons and rats. And I like how this conveys that
and scrambling that marked the final days before the doom of Valyria. Allen proposes the first practical solution for all these rats, cats. In Fire and brought in 100 cats to take the place of the hung rat catchers but until now no
one on the HBO series has suggested this easy easy fix. We need cats on House of ball. We need to meet Sir Pounce's ancestor. And mayhaps Rhaenyra could even use these kitties to chase the rats into nearby tumbleton to drive Lord No
Stinky insane. Aegon has kept a single golden scale picked off Sunfyre. Inside the walls of Rook's Rest they find the corpse of Meleys, the dragon of Rhaenys. Notice it's decapitated because as we saw in season 2 episode 5 the greens
paraded Meleys' head through King's Landing cited as a grotesque bad omen by Rook's Rest is Jonos played by Oliver Coppersmith with Tom Tangletongue played cleans the latrines. We should keep our eye on Tom Tangletongue because he has a
seems from this episode. In Cats Brothers place in Tumbleton Garick mentions having more fun here than in Honeyholt. Honeyholt is the seat of their first stop on the road from Oldtown after these greens killed off
poor Sir Lyman Beesbury. Next they insult his house. Dear me. And now sister-in-law's arm and then wallops her brother. Hey, this is why we have a Third Amendment in America against quartering troops. Sir Hugh volunteers
but Rhaenyra knows Hugh's wife Kat is in that city, so she charges both of the and each other in order to keep an eye on each other. She says it's almost in a which makes this an overall hasty decision to escalate a response to this
conflict with two dragons on site at certain times. The exact opposite of what Rhaenyra seemed to want to do at the beginning of this episode. Ulf joins folks in King's Landing reacting to anti-Rhaenyra graffiti, "Queen of
Bastards" with a blue, red, and green sigil. That's the heraldry of House Strong, as in Harwin Strong, the suspected actual father of Jace, Luke, to Hightower loyalists spreading propaganda to fight a war that they
lost. Indeed, it must have been someone literate who even wrote this. And most illiterate as this scene demonstrates by having the younger guy ask what it even people in King's Landing seemed opposed to the Hightowers and wanted Rhaenyra to
return. So, it really does seem like the HBO series is making the pro-green the rich nobles that Rhaenyra had antagonized, plus the faith, two groups working together to make it seem like the commoners are split on Rhaenyra when
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gold. But among the crowd in this tavern is this dog. I really hope this is Cheese the Ratcatcher's dog because I think we all need him to be okay. Ormond hears the complaints of Cass family with Lyman and Eustace there advocating for
of House Hightower are, "Tread lightly here." Notice Ormond has his little potpourri orb hanging from his belt. that Garrick be gelded, which you know, means snip snip, and have his arm
wife, just like Jasper Wylde brought up his wife as a way to draw sympathy as he woman. Ormond leans into Darin to whisper that tensions are high. Yeah, it's clear that he issued these orders because this dispute was happening out
public. He just gave this order to avoid a riot in Tumbleton. If this was brought probably would have ruled in favor of Garrick. Ormund explains to Rhaenyra the the Faith of the Seven, both headquartered in Oldtown, along with the
paid for the construction of the Starry Sept, and how the Faith is truly woven in the tapestry of the Hightowers as dragons are for Targaryens. There's that motive of tapestries again. The season 3 intro shows that it's literally firing
family tapestry from below. Whereas I suspect it would be the stars from above one. Orwyle suggests the Hightowers derive their magic from the faith, magic from dragons kind of unnatural threat. Yes, truly before the Targaryen
conquest, it was really Oldtown of the other western end of the continent that with the Hightowers, the faith and the Citadel. That's why Orwyle says this That's because the whole faith of the Seven religion was brought to Westeros
by the arrival of the Andals from Essos 6,000 years prior, replacing the almost. And the Targaryens arrived from this. Orwyle tells Rhaenyra that it doesn't really matter if the High Septon
removal of the High Septon would spark an uprising from the faithful, a permanent removal. To which Rhaenyra expresses surprise at Orwyle's bloodlust. It's worth remembering that Orwyle, as a maester, would have trained
headquartered in Oldtown along with the Starry Sept and Hightowers. I still of the Citadel, the septons of the faith and the noble old houses like the Hightowers are all part of a conspiracy to rid Westeros of dragons. But Orwyle
so far seems to be somewhat anomalistic among the maesters with his experimental treatments that kept Viserys alive well past the king's expiration date and giving Aegon a miraculously speedy recovery. Notice how throughout this
scene with Rhaenyra, you can hear the frogs of his critter-filled lab table these things to Rhaenyra hoping to encourage her to start an open war with to remove all dragons from the game board. So yes, my theory is that Orwyle
or someone he conspired with was the one who wrote Queen of the Bastards graffiti with the House Strong sigil knowing that Rhaenyra would overreact against the innocent low folk for that. This is a rumor that only literate educated people
about and know how to transcribe and mark specifically with the heraldry of than 5% of people who live in King's Landing. And I also think Orwyle is correspondence that existed between Ormund and Otto, which is why Rhaenyra
empty-handed on that query. Orwyle tells Rhaenyra Ormund never responded to Otto while avoiding eye contact. And he smiling knows that Ulf was waiting right immediately after this tell Rhaenyra that the small folk were talking [ __ ]
about her. When in fact, they were actually defending her. Now, this theory and Blood, and I might be completely wrong. Ultimately, I really like the to pull some crazy [ __ ] Either way, I'm just saying to keep an eye on Orwyle. I
think this HBO series kept this maester in the position instead of Gerardys for the actor's great. Then in the Eyrie of the Vale, we see Caraxes on the bridge leading to the castle. Inside, Lady Jane brings up the tragic death of Damon's
whom Damon straight-up murdered in season 1. They reconstructed the Eyrie main hall with its iconic moon door that we last saw in Game of Thrones season 4 episode 7 when Little Finger pushed Lysa
little gust of wind we hear on this line. your womb. >> Damon confronts Jane on the 15,000 men she promised, to which she says were
Joffrey's small dragon of Tyraxes. She actually indicates in this scene that return to King's Landing. >> Prince Joffrey's dragon was years away Vale, and Rhaenyra took even that away. >> This transaction is hilariously simple
as Jane, after petting her dog, agrees to give gold instead, which Matt Smith has to heave onto Caraxes' saddle, disturbing the dragon so much that Damon has to go and smack Caraxes WITH HIS GLOVE.
dragons and their riders on the series, Damon now loses control of Caraxes, who here it's because Caraxes senses another all the dragons on this show, the sound design of Caraxes is really the best and
most specific, a high-pitched [laughter] whistle and cry with breathing specifically designed to sound like it's from a deviated septum.
the figure walking toward him, his daughter Rhaena. Rhaena looks even more rough than when we saw her in episode two with her hair having either been cut Sheepstealer. With shorter hair, she actually looks more distinguished from
her sister Baela and closer to how Nettles from Fire and Blood is depicted. and Sheepstealer both roar and their riders have to turn back to calm them. There's something interesting about old Underbite and old deviated septum
deduces that Rhaena was riding the dragon that Rhaenyra blames for causing she was only trying to help and asks if her cousin suffers, to which Daemon captioned. >> Don't break any tears.
with subtitles, but based on the context, it kind of sounds like some sort of reprimand or maybe a word translating to kinslayer. Daemon wonders still send Rhaena to Pentos. >> Leave the dragon behind.
>> I like that Sheepstealer knows what he's saying here and roars and Caraxes just just so great in this scene. >> He is mine. >> Yes, she gets that same wide-eyed look of dragon lord insanity that Jace had
before flying into the gullet. And she really makes this a personal referendum >> Rhaena, at least among [music] your children. Younger, and Viserys are children that
Daemon to just tell Rhaenyra that she was lost at sea. And Daemon says that he moments earlier suggest lying to Rhaenyra that Rhaena was on the ship to Pentos the whole time. Daemon in this scene gives off some Glinda vibes trying
to say she's sorry, but Rhaena's very, "I don't want it. No, I can't want it anymore." anymore." Before she leaps off to defy GRAVITY AND
>> HER WAY OUT OF THERE. Sheepstealer charges out of the cave, nearly running past the camera as it dives off the cliff. Whereas in episode one of this season, Rhaena screamed in a dive like this, now she's confidently silent.
this, now she's confidently silent. Caraxes roars its stuttery scream. hear what Sheepstealer sounds like from a distance so that he can one day find
Damon looks down at a goat herder and it'll be his head Damon plops on the small council table as the culprit who rode Sheepstealer, trying to pull a fake Darin-style switcheroo on Rhaenyra. We
see Ormund take a big whiff from this orb. to protecting him from that Tumbleton stank, whatever he's huffing is also
mind. You know, kind of like Rosanne when she took Ambien. As Ormund reads knows when his psycho lord is about to lose it and warns the steward. No. No.
Actually, in Fire and Blood, his sword is Vigilance, a Valyrian steel sword. cleanly through this wood. But, the sword still must be swung true. Rhaenyra Sister still wedged in Otto's back on
Valyrian power fail in the wrong hands. Ulf petitions Rhaenyra for favors for his drinking buddies Mud and Clay. For Mud, a holding outside Rosby and no taxes. For Clay, a pardon for various crimes and passage to the free city of
up a third of the Triarchy that that Ulf helped clean up the end of in the Gullet. I wonder what Mud and Clay to ask this of Rhaenyra because it comes
crew of oil drillers in Armageddon. >> Yeah, one more thing. Um none of them want to pay taxes again. >> Rhaenyra warns a Hightower agent could knife Ulf in his belly and bring down
response? >> It's my belly. Red Keep, prohibiting him from drinking in taverns and telling him he'll be service to Tumbleton. Seems like you can take a lot away from a guy like Ulf, but
this? Yeah, dude's going to snap. Loras tells Aegon that Rhaenyra declaring him a favor because now it gives Aegon anonymity and one hell of a comeback >> that your eventual resurrection becomes the stuff of song
>> Aegon stiffens on food and ends up slapping at Janos, and Janos makes him kiss his shit-covered boots, a shot that we stay in for way too long in a very slow take. Daemon returns to the Small Council Chamber to find Allen sitting in
Corlys's hand seat and Tyland Manderly sitting in the Master of Coin seat, and Orwyle as Grand Maester. These are all appointments that Rhaenyra made without checking in with Daemon. I love Dan Fogler's timing as he slides his
human head on the table. I don't fully understand why Daemon brought back any fake culprit head at all, just to lie and say sheep stealers never going to be predict where Rhaena might go on that dragon. Like, he could have just come
mentioned seeing Rhaena or sheep stealer at all, and then just acted surprised if got to live with this extra unnecessary lie. But based on the context of Daemon wanted the leverage of the small victory in order to get Rhaenyra to fund
More Gold Cloak funding. As the camera turns around Alicent, we see Helaena in nightgown on. As we see at the end of the scene, it's because her body shape the scene, it's because her body shape has changed.
now making Helaena pregnant with her and Aegon's third child, Maelor, a character we previously assumed would be written out of the series based on statements was foreshadowed by Helaena in episode two finding the caterpillar in the
saying that it wasn't the right season. It seemed like a portent of her own Maegor was actually alive at the time of Viserys I's death along with his two And he was also present on the dreaded night of blood and cheese. Actually,
which of her sons would die, the older Jaehaerys or the younger Maegor. And thinking as a two-year-old, he would be too young to understand what was happening. But then Cheese leans over to Maegor and says, "Hey, that little boy,
just killed Jaehaerys. Yeah, it's way worse in the book. At first I thought the blow. But now it seems like they're delaying Helaena's pregnancy with Maegor their storyline at this point of the season. I'll go more into this in the
are shocked to see Vermithor flying low overhead, the strong gusts from its wing wide-brimmed hats. Hugh lands on the other side of the Mander River. I think that's where the rabbit was. Meanwhile, Luthor Largent leads his gold cloaks to
in King's Landing seeking a forced confession for the graffiti. I'm clubbed to death did not do it. That dude's probably illiterate. And it would outside your own home. They're searching in the wrong neighborhood. It must have
been some literate highborn like or wild who did this and chose a poor episode in the Sept of Tumbleton where Darren keeps to Sarion beside this candlelit seven-pointed star altar. Already we're seeing a desecration on
septon protested Rhaenyra about. These dragons are abominations. But it's interesting that this whole ceremony happens in a house of worship. The way Ormund describes his disgust with the Targaryen bloodline is fully coded in
white supremacist phrasing. >> But there is a taint in your blood. The Targaryens are a savage race, poor in intellect but rich in cunning. >> I do not mean to equate the fictional Targaryens with any real-world group
white supremacist antagonize at all. Nor nor I mean to overly defend all Targaryen traditions in George R.R. Martin's lore. Like obviously incest is on these shows and how this series expects us to keep rooting for Rhaenyra
couple, it's something that I've never really been okay with. And the show has made it clear that dragons and any human attempt to control them leads only to madness and mass casualties. Yes, for the Westerosi natives of this world, it
is expected that a self-styled scholar and snob from a very old family would view the Targaryens as foreign interlopers with unnatural customs to steal their power. But at the same time, there's nothing subtle about
Ormand Hightower's word choice in his shit-eating didactic tone here using the supremacists and proponents of the great replacement theory. >> With dark spells, they created abominations to subdue what was rightly
>> Yes, the whole [clears throat] idea of superior men comes from Friedrich Ubermensch, which informed both the eugenics movement of the early 20th century and all of Nazi ideology that as superior men, they were morally
justified in exterminating some races. And specifically in his next words, he calls the Targaryens the brutes for raising a woman to the Iron Throne. faction. Viserys the First made that decision. And calling them the brutes
literature of this kind of language. Joseph Conrad in 1899's Heart of Darkness, Mr. Kurtz's postscript of "Exterminate the brutes" to his report that Francis Ford Coppola would adapt to Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Ormand
considers it a miracle ordained by the seven that Daeron was raised in Old Town as a Hightower and that it's Daeron's destiny to ascend to the Iron Throne. This is a wild plan. It's one thing to assume Aegon is dead, but to even plot
this, he would have to kill Aemond, which would involve some treachery to guess to complete this tutelage of future Hightower King Daeron, Ormand did for laying his hands on a Hightower soldier, whatever the context, and
sword, Vigilance, just like Daemon gave Rhaenyra his Valyrian steel sword, Dark Though there, Daemon and Rhaenyra did it for the eyes of the court. Here, it happens in a sept, a house of worship, in the eyes of the Seven Gods. Daeron
stabs this man in the heart, and Ormund wipes the blood on the body before now, Ormund turns his back on the Targaryen and Valyrian right of passage. Tysha stomps over the several candles of the altar for the Faith of the Seven.
Yes, fully uncaring about the new gods of this continent that the Hightowers food. >> And now, we begin.
Tysha crunching the corpse. Ormund truly believes that this is the first step to purifying these invasive bloodlines and traditions from Westeros. Plotting for Daeron to be king by killing Aegon and Aemond? Sure. But from a purely military
position, how would Ormund vanquish Rhaenyra's six dragons, especially if Aemond and Vhagar wouldn't be cooperating? This guy is just nuts. But theories I've shared up until this point are truly just me flying blind based on
nothing from Fire & Blood. But now, my theorization is going to reference watching if you don't want to know anything about future events. So, Sunfyre must still be alive, right? Because in Fire & Blood, Sunfyre has so
much left to do in Aegon's redemption plot and for the ultimate fate of Rhaenyra. After she flees King's Landing following the storming of the Dragonpit, she ends up on Dragonstone, where she's burned and eaten by Sunfyre. Now, that
the unreliable narrators of Fire & Blood. It would be a pretty gnarly way of season 4. So, I've long wondered if the HBO series is somehow going to alter her fate to either keep her alive, or more likely, make her death just
pretty thrilled that the show brought in Tom Tangletongue as a latrine co-worker of Aegon here in Rook's Rest, considering how long Tangletongue is Dragonstone. It sounds like at some point in the second half of the season,
Sunfyre will awaken and Aegon will mount the dragon and use him to get vengeance on Janos and the rest. I actually think Aegon will first stab Janos with that think it was a scale. But let's talk Maelor. Uh poor Maelor does not have a
smuggled out of King's Landing along with Princess Jaehaera, but the toddler killed at Bitterbridge in disputing accounts involving a mob attack in the arms of his protector Ser Rickard Thorne. Now Ser Rickard was last seen
season, but I also worry that Helena won't even survive long enough to could just be introduced to create tension between Alicent and Rhaenyra as a still alive Aegon would now have a new male heir and this could lead to a
could just end up in that trailer shot of Helena looking like she's about to be consumed in dragon fire's dragon fire. And all this could just amount to more pregnancy trauma porn. But the sighting of young Jaehaera in this episode
before the season that 10-year-old actress Pearl Clark was cast as a slightly older version of Princess Jaehaera for this season. So maybe we're daughter's future life. Now the fact that it could still be a bit before we
Criston Cole is aiming to intersect with the River host before Tumbleton. It get our Butcher's Ball. But something about the directions of all these characters makes this idea of the HBO show's version of the Butcher's Ball
Cole. It kind of feels like he's being swatted off by Roddy the Ruin as they Tumbleton. I don't know, we'll just see how the show adapts it. So let's talk Blood, Lady Sharra from Tumbleton is said to bear John Roxton's bastard
child. I wonder if it's going to be Ormund's bastard child on this show. But noble women of the Reach and Westerlands who rebuilds the realm after the civil a sense of that here with how much she's advocating for her people. Actually the
detail of the locals by Rook's Rest charging Larys and Aegon a penny to comes from Lady Sherri and Fire and Blood charging travelers a penny to look Vermithor and a star to touch them. Yeah, they definitely gave Lady Sherri a
just curious if the writers are going to make room for her in the second half of season 3 and season 4. And we'll end on Aemond and Vhagar. They got to be on the they be? Now, I'm going to share a theory that I have not indulged in. It's
people are saying, but I am starting to open my mind to this possibility. That since the Night King was able to mount the dragon Viserion, that the Night King might have to have come from Valyrian descent. And that in this show, we might
the Night King by the Children of the Forest, the guy that Bran saw in the Raven in Game of Thrones season 6 episode 5, was either Daemon Targaryen or Aemond on the Isle of Faces. It would have been a fate that the text of Fire
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