House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 3 Breakdown & Ending Explained

[00:00] we're breaking down House of the Dragon. and basically basically a sort of day in the  life of a manager when everything's gone to crap.  

[00:19] Taking place predominantly at King's Landing,  we watch Reneira struggle with the weight of   the crown in a kind of kind of a bottle episode.  I'm doing a bottle episode. Episode 3 deep dives   into the politics of Westeros and how crushing  the weight of the crown is. There's lots of  

[00:33] metaphors throughout as well and some really good  carryovers from the rats in season 1. Don't want   to waste any more of your time though, so let's  just get straight into the episode. Must justify   my father's faith in me. Now, we open with Orund  brokering terms with Damon. Rather than starting  

[00:49] with the title sequence, this drops us right in  at the deep end. In case you don't know, Orman's   got the largest army in the war. And we see just  how huge his host is in numbers in the thousands,   and he also has Tisarian with him, who's one of  the green's last dragons. You can see the two  

[01:02] dragon handlers as well. And this sort of comes  full circle at the end of the episode. In this   scene, Ormond agrees to hand over Darren, but the  guy's done the old switcheroo. This is all new for   the show as well, but I actually figured out the  twist for it in last week's episode's trailers. We  

[01:18] actually saw the real Darren in episode 1, which  was confirmed by the casting. I actually think in   hindsight though, they could have kept him out the  episode and had this just be a twist at the end   before we then meet the real one. This standing as  well is actually way more accurate to the book and  

[01:32] I think that would have worked really well. But to  be honest, I didn't really mind it and even until   the end, I was constantly secondg guessing myself.  Now, the reason I didn't really hand him over is   because, yeah, he's got other plans. And Darren  is Orman's squire. And we have seen in stuff like  

[01:45] Night of the Seven Kingdoms, how they're kind  of like family. So, yeah, I didn't just think   he would go in and hand them straight over. In  the book, he was vital in helping Orman's army as   the nickname Darren the Daring, though they might  handle it another way in the show. A lot of the  

[02:03] big battles involving him have happened offcreen  which I think is likely due to budget constraints.   I do think the showrunners got really really  creative though and the fake prince storyline   is a nice little twist. But unfortunately because  of that even the the major fights like the battle  

[02:18] of Tumbleton have happened offcreen which we learn  about at the end of the episode. But I will cover   that when we get to that part. Overall though  I will say this is actually one of my favorite   episodes in the show's history. And though I think  it's simple, I think the pacing, storytelling,  

[02:32] characterization, focus, and score are all  excellent. Had we had last week's episode as   the finale and the one before as episode 9, then I  think season 2 might have actually been something   that people look back on fondly. But alas, HBO had  run out of coffers. Uh they had the the banks had  

[02:49] been stripped dry and like Reneer, they couldn't  afford to do it. The way this takes place in the   story though does kind of fit with the book as  we actually start a brand new chapter after the   events here wrap-up. This is part five of the  dance of the dragons with the title being rha  

[03:03] triumphant. It does kind of feel like a season  premiere as well with the starting things at   the beginning of a new arc. Now Damon is here to  accept Orman surrender as they have King's Landing   and the guys here are greatly outnumbered. This  was hinted at as an idea in the book with Reneer's  

[03:17] advisers suggesting that some of the lords be  pardoned should they bend the knee. Aemon is also   at death store as well and Agon is to the wind. So  Damon seems like he's the one with all the CS. The   dragon seeds are with him as well and it's so over  for the greens. At least that's what we're led to  

[03:33] believe. I know we could potentially have a dragon  versus dragon fight, but you've got a three versus   one and also Tarian is quite a young dragon. So  Orman is playing things strategically and he goes   along with the surrender. As always, he's followed  by Sir John Roxton, who's played by Joplin Sipine,  

[03:49] fresh off his superb role as Brasso and Andor. I  love how smuggman here is as well with him saying   the war is won. Matt Smith has been superb the  last few weeks, and it's amazing what you can do  

[04:01] when you don't lock him up in Luigi's mansion  for weeks on end. Damon is also a lof when he   says that Orman can return to Oldtown and live his  life in peace. It's almost like he just wants him   out of sight and completely away from everything.  Now, this bit has two meanings for me personally.  

[04:16] The first is that he sees living one's life in  peace as being a waste of time. Damon is only   happy when he's fighting or in conflict. Come this  episode, he and his wife have achieved their goal   and finally taking the throne, but he wants to go  out and take all of Essos. He's not interested in  

[04:31] peace and instead just suggests it for those below  him. James Norton is great as well and equally as   smug as Orman until he's told about the fate of  his uncle, who went off and had a nice night's   sleep. That's right, guys. Stay alive. I'll see  you later as long as you can. Look after yourself,  

[04:48] mate. Yeah, see you later, mate. Damon then  reminds him that if the army is to fight, they'll   all be toast immediately. Even jokes that Ol would  love to be the lord of Oldtown, which is something   that is a cheeky little setup for something  that's coming down the line. Olf, of course,  

[05:00] has wanted riches since claiming his dragon, and  he thought he'd be named a lord in episode 1. It's   something he's fantasized about ever since he was  a boy, and he even used it as a coping mechanism   to deal with his abuse. In this episode, he also  insults Reneer. It's complete and total opposite  

[05:14] of how the dubbing is treated in a night of the  seven kingdoms. And it starts a bitter divide   between the accepted and the bastards. Ol's  been raised his whole life to think that the   Targaryenss are exceptional. But now he's realized  that even amongst them, there's people who are  

[05:28] more equal than others. This ambition is something  that's really driving the character though. And to   be honest, it's something his kin also shares.  It's basically amongst a family who are like   doing whatever they can to get the Iron Throne.  And then even after that, Damon's like, "Nah, we  

[05:43] need to go somewhere else. Conquer that as well."  So Olf being that ambitious as well. They're not   that different. Orman then explains that he would  love to resist, but he has the lives of his men   to consider. This is something Damon just brushes  off, but as we know, it's all a massive trick. On  

[05:58] first watch, I did think it was a bit weird to  have him surrendered so easily. But again, it's   all a ploy for the blacks to think war is over and  that they pose no threat. This is all so they can   take and make the blacks think they've already  won. In the words of Bane, "Victory has defeated  

[06:15] you and if people think they've beaten their  opposition, they'll lower their guard." Kind of   like the tortoise in the hair. The hair of course  thought that he'd won, so he just put his feet up,   sat down, and watched heavy spoilers. But all the  while the tortoise was creeping up behind him.  

[06:29] So making people think that they've won, they've  gotten what they wanted, it's very much a way to   get them to fall into a false sense of security.  Orman then says, "Our campaign has ended. We  

[06:41] take the rose road homeward." This is also  something that reminded me of the German general   surrendering in Band of Brothers. What do you mean  spoilers? But the Rose is the path from King's   Landing to High Garden and Oldtown. It's sort  of like a golden path that connects these three  

[06:55] big locations. In the book, Orman was harassed  by those loyal to the blacks on their way up   to King's Landing when traversing it. The latter  mentioned that Tumbleton is also just off the road   near King's Landing. Also, shout outs to Miserable  Move 7956 on Reddit for providing a detailed map  

[07:10] of Westeros. Orman then thinks he's done, but he  gets Columbboed as Damon says, "Uh, just one more   thing. Give me my nephew." In the book, Darren was  seen by the blacks as being a major threat. So,   it's a two for one as they compress him for info  and also remove him from the board. Hostages are  

[07:26] also a common thing in Westeros. The on Greyjoy  was notably taken by the Starks and this happened   after a failed Greyjoy rebellion. Luckily, Orman's  expected that this is something that Damon would   demand and thus he gives over this fake one and  basically heads with his team to Tumbleton. Darren  

[07:40] the heron, his head is fake, is a boy from a  merchant family who has been strongarmed to   play the role. His mother was threatened and thus  he has to abide and it actually fixes the problem  

[07:52] that I had with the earlier seasons of the show.  Obviously, you know, they completely admitted him   from the series and I thought that meant that they  were just going to kind of jam him in last minute   in the same way they had callus and Lowa having  this big long beef that we've never heard about.  

[08:06] However, doing it this way actually think works  quite well. Most if not all of the blacks haven't   met him. And there is the feeling that the greens  wouldn't betray him. And boy is he also very lucky   that they executed Otto as his head would be on  the chopping block. And by executed Otto, I mean  

[08:21] he left and had a nice night's sleep. Enjoy guys,  stay alive. Yeah, see you later, mate. Damon then   leaves with him and the drums begin to thunder  as we cut to the titles. There's an addition   towards the end of them now that has the taking  of King's Landing Baroner last week. And in it,  

[08:34] we have her at the front, then Damon to the right  with C-ax behind her and Mysoria to the left.   They're also joined by Coris and what I believe  is Allison and Helena. This could even show that   history remembers them as being on the side of  the blacks as they're of course the ones that  

[08:49] let them in the red keep. We also see some rats on  the ground with these playing a big symbolic role   in the episode. The rat symbolizes obviousness.  After this, we then see the small folk cheer her   at the end of the episode which closes out the new  additions. This video is sponsored by ZuckDoc. So,  

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[10:19] We then cut to Reira who says the air is thick  with ghosts. She's haunted by visions of those   she's lost in the entry, including seeing  Jace walking in the halls. The madness is   starting to creep in and she begins to crack  under the pressure of grief. You see, kids,  

[10:34] you have to remember that she's lost two sons  within a matter of weeks and hasn't really had   any time to deal with it. She's then been thrust  into power and has to basically handle everything   with the war. It's often said that ghosts are just  the memory of the past, but the past is something  

[10:49] that's been full of trauma. I was also expecting  Viseris to appear in this episode as well. And   though they don't do that, it might be something  that they do in another entry. As we see,   she's in her father's old bedroom, though, which  is the spot where the character died. Over the  

[11:01] course of the episode, she also struggles to sleep  there. Rene holds Viseris in such a high regard,   and is aiming to bring peace to the realm as  he did. Along with Jiara, they broke it in   one of the longest reigning pieces in the entire  mythology. But he didn't exactly keep it that way.  

[11:16] His decision to name her as heir, her illegitimate  sons, all this [ __ ] with the Greens, it all just   caused so much fallout. He was strong then. You  want love strong? What do you mean by that? You  

[11:28] say them strong boys. I did think Rene in this  episode is basically determined to justify her   father's decision to name her his heir, and  she refuses to even take a breath to rest.   Damon then says they should have burned the  High Tower army, but this isn't how Reneer  

[11:42] thinks Viseris would have ruled. Personally, I  think her weakness is that she's trying to follow   her dad too much and Viseris wasn't really built  for war. Rene is basically trying to live up to   what he wanted her to be, though. So, she's  determined to be good, at least for a time.  

[11:57] We then kickstart a great marching scene where  we see her walking through the halls while the   green's decorations ripped down. I love that we  constantly have this happening throughout and it   leads to a big bonfire at the end. For now though,  she's determined to have a very big coronation,  

[12:10] which is the same thing that the Greens did for  Agon at the dragon pit. They use Egan's crown   to try and cement his legitimacy. And she wants  to have lots of Tories, get people to subscribe,   throw feasts, and just have a ball. Just in  the same way Agon had the conqueror's sword,  

[12:24] the conqueror's army, and the conqueror's crown,  she has to do symbolic things to show that she's   the right person to rule. even last week like  her killing Otto in front of everyone that was  

[12:36] showing that she was ruthless and could be the  rightful ruler. So now she basically needs to have   a show of wealth that she's very very rich and  kind of what you expect a royal to be. However,  

[12:48] there's a few problems blocking that. The crown  is broke as [ __ ] Beyond that, Septanist is also   refusing to declare her as the one true ruler.  This is something I actually think is playing to   a theory time that we'll talk about in our spoiler  section. But him refusing to do this is very,  

[13:03] very important. But because she has no money,  she's going to have to win over the small folk   another way. Though the crown had been flushed  with gold upon the passing of King Viseris,   Agon II, had seized the treasury along with the  crown, and his master of coin, Tylen Lannister,  

[13:17] had shipped off three quarters of the late king's  wealth for safekeeping. King Aegon had spent   every penny of the portion kept in King's Landing,  leaving only empty vaults for his halfsister when   she took the city. The rest of Asser's treasure  had been entrusted to the high towers of Oldtown,  

[13:31] the Lannisters of Castley Rock, and the Iron Bank  of Braavos, and was beyond the queen's grasp. I   love how they walked side by side as well, just  as they did when entering the castle. Episode   2's inside the episode explained they were  intended to look like one synchronized unit,  

[13:46] which I definitely feel here. She then runs into  fake Darren and I love how she introduces herself   like she has no idea who he is. We've not met.  I think it's fantastic how they play it here   though. And I have to say Emma Darcy completely  knocks it out the park. I know in episode one I  

[14:02] was like open the [ __ ] door. That didn't really  like that line. Uh but I think this is, you know,   credit where it's due. Strongest performance yet.  Absolutely fantastic. Bloody amazing. Reneer just  

[14:15] goes through a range of emotions throughout  and we get her being royal and polite, naive,   cunning, and also just shell shocked. Here  she demands to know what he knew about Orman's   role in Agon becoming king or where Aean and Egon  are, but he knows nothing Jon Snare. In the book,  

[14:30] Orwell was then sent to the dungeon around this  point and Reero pointed her, "Oh, Maan had posters   put up everywhere offering a reward for the  return of Agon." After saying Darren's to be   confined to his cell, we then sees the green  banners pulled down. I do also wonder if the  

[14:43] faith of the seven symbols will remain up as they  were put up by Allison towards the end of season   1. He then says that Darren is younger than she  imagined, which is the first hint that he is in   fact an imposter. Damon also explains that he's a  claimant of the throne and thus needs to go. This  

[15:00] is much like how the Lannisters ordered every one  of Robert Baratheon's bastards to be murdered. And   uh yeah, that thinking about what went down  with Robert Baratheon. Stall make me self.

[15:21] You bastard. Find your [ __ ] They never tell you  how they all [ __ ] themselves. They don't put   that part in the suns. Stupid boy. Get out. Rene  then heads to the small council chamber for the  

[15:40] first of her bad news this episode. Like the book,  she's broke and Orwell explains that Thailand   divided the gold and send it away for safekeeping.  He thinks it might have been sent to Oldtown,   Castelli Rock, and the Iron Bank of Braavos.  How about Cassie Rock in the book was sacked  

[15:54] by the Greyjoy. This is something I think might  be swapped with the Triarchy remnants that we   saw last week. H but Reneer has to basically go  out and get a payday loan. Mysaria also believes   that Orwell's not lying. No one asked you. There  is a bit of tension between them, and in the book,  

[16:11] the pair were actually lovers at this point.  Though never officially seated with the queen's   small council, the woman now known as Lady Misery  became the mistress of whisperers in all but name.   With eyes and ears in every brothel, ale house,  and pot shop in King's Landing, and in the halls  

[16:25] and bed chambers of the mighty as well. Though  the airs had thickened, the body that had been   so light and lissome, Prince Damon remained in  her thr and called upon her every evening with   Queen Reneer's apparent blessing. Let Damon slake  his hungers where he will, she is reported to have  

[16:41] said, "And we shall do the same." Septan Eustace  suggests somewhat waspishly that her grace's own   hungers were slaked largely with sweet meats,  cakes, and lamprey pie as Reneura grew even more  

[16:53] stout during her days in King's Landing. I don't  think they'll be having Dari put on weight for   the show, but they do discuss how she goes from  the realm's delight to Reneer the Cruel around   this time. Caller then says we must presume Sat  Tylen's dead. We last saw him fall into the drink  

[17:07] at the battle of the Gullet and his fate is kind  of up in the air. The only other person you might   know is Jasper aka Iron Rod with this nickname  being because of the verility of his member,   his cockmate, his [ __ ] but he got beheaded  last week mid-sentence. And he might have even  

[17:21] expl I don't think he was going to explain  where the gold was, but he might have. Also,   love how everyone's kind of annoyed, but Damon  just laughs at that revelation. Rene then says   that Egan's coronation was done in haste, but  she needs to have a proper one. However, Myaria  

[17:36] reminds her that having a lavish event while a  small focus starving would not set a good example.   It's a theme of the episode where a socialist  queen steals from the rich and then gives to the   poor. It also kind of mirrors real life as well  as in jolly old England, we had a massive lavish  

[17:51] funeral for the queen and then a big coronation  for the king during a time in which people were   still struggling with the cost of living. There  was lots of reports and uproar about it. And I do   wonder if the show will reflect that. But again,  it does come from the book. Attacks on property  

[18:06] was decreed. Rich merchants in their manes or  beggars in their hvels all must pay depending   on how much land they took up. Not even [ __ ] are  safe. The small folk told each other. The see you   next Tuesday tax will be next. And then the tail  tax. The rats must pay their share. She even set  

[18:22] things up where she said that those who'd paid  taxes to Egon previously had funded his war and   thus committed treason. In order to get back in  the good graces, they had to pay their tax back   and a bit more to make things right. They also  started throwing executions in the dragon pit, but  

[18:37] charging people to watch. So, the show is playing  things differently as she's considering the impact   of her rule on an already ready to explode tinder  box that is King's Landing. But love and hate are   two faces of the same coin as fresh heads began  appearing daily upon the spikes above the city  

[18:52] gates accompanied by ever more exacting taxes. The  coin turned. The girl they had once cheered as the   realms delighted had grown into a grasping and  vindictive woman. Men said a queen as cruel as   any king before her. One wit named Rene King Magor  with tits. And for a hundred years thereafter,  

[19:09] Magor's tits was a common curse amongst the  King's Landis. Now, beyond this, I think My   Zarya brings a fresh perspective to the small  council as someone who's seen the absolute worst   of the city and how desperate the small folk are.  This is something we saw in season 2 with Alf and  

[19:25] also Hugh and his family when the price of food  went up. As well as this, the Triarchy remnants   are sacking the villages and charging ransom for  women that they take. As mentioned earlier, this   is pretty much what happened at Lannisport and  Castley Rock, including the women being kidnapped.  

[19:38] Not only this, but the granaries are empty and the  fields are follow. There's no food and Rene must   find grain for bread or the people will go hungry.  It is a neverending inconvenience, this insistence  

[19:50] of the people being fed. What a line from Damon,  but he's quickly reminded how dangerous a starving   population is. This is something that both calls  back to season 2 and foreshadows what's next.   Mysaria convinced Rara to win the small folk over  which included sending boats of food to King's  

[20:05] Landing. Provided some relief to the people who  were being starved to death both by the war and   the rich hoarding their food. At the time, it won  people over, but again, as they say in the book,   the coin can quickly turn. It of course also plays  off real life events like the Russian Revolution,  

[20:21] which was caused by extreme poverty. Rene  then says she's sending ravens to Lady Joanna   Lannister. In the book, Joanna is currently under  siege by Dalton Greyjoy and his Ironborn. But as   we mentioned, I feel this plot is being swapped  for the triarchy remnants. I do think that we're  

[20:34] going to see how the tax basically swallows up  the small folk in the following episodes as at the   moment Reneer is only taxing the rich. However,  she will run out of money very soon. The rich will   likely move, do something, get accountants in, put  it all on business expenses, something like that  

[20:50] to get around it, and thus the small folk will  be turned upon. Damon then seems happy with her,   reminding them who rules the realm and that they  don't want to bring her small council to King's   Landing. Nothing but snakes, just me and my boy  from now on. She also gets the grim news that Aean  

[21:05] has taken Harren Hall, burnt the garrison, and  killed Simon Strong. Damon then asks about Alice,   but Orwell hasn't heard of her. In the  book, little is known of the character,   which does track with how the show is handling  her. According to some reviewers, we won't see  

[21:18] Aean until episode 5 at least. And then I think  we'll likely see the flip side of these events   with the Greens. I imagine we're going to get some  Luigi's Mansion [ __ ] with Aean and then possibly   see Agon going to Sunfire and then Kristen the  gang at Harren Hall. Damon then mentions her  

[21:33] being a maester of sorts and naturally Orwell  wouldn't know her as women cannot be maesters.   Alice in many ways is a lot like Rene and she was  denied a castle because of her gender. Regardless,   Reero wants Aean and Sheep Steeler found, and they  might even think they're team green and be less  

[21:49] likely to strike as they could think there's  another dragon out there. If you love Sheep   Steeler as well, then uh cuz I know you love to  mess stuff up. I know what you're like. You love   rushing in places, causing trouble, you cheeky,  you cheeky booger. But if you love doing that,  

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[22:16] be replenished at the heavy spoilers shop. We then  hear Ba has been tasked with finding them as a   scout and a bounty's being offered. In the book,  she sent out hunting parties to find Egon II,   his children, and the two knights sent to  protect him. So, I think the show is just  

[22:30] changing things up a bit here and that she or  Damon might come across Raina. Interestingly,   Rene also offers of Harrenhal to the slayer  of Aean one eye. We know that Alice Rivers is   desperate for Harren Hall as well, and she has the  boy with mother's issues at her mercy. She could  

[22:44] kill him and take it, but book readers will know  that's wildly different from the source material,   so I don't think they'll do it. But yeah, worth  discussing anyway. We then hear that the rats have   eaten all the candles and these basically provide  all the light at night. You know, back in the day,  

[22:59] kids, they didn't have light bulbs and phone  torches to guide the way. And I know this isn't   back in the day, but yeah, no lights at night.  Also, don't think it's a coincidence that we   end with a big bonfire of green tapestry as them  needing to burn. This could also be fallout of  

[23:13] the butterfly effect of Egon and Rene's actions.  Beyond that, rats are something that have appeared   throughout the series. They constantly pop up in  this episode and hound the queen throughout. We're   told that Egon killed all the rat hatchers and  we saw them hanging in season 2. This is because  

[23:27] they were unable to find cheese, so they killed  them all off to basically cover all their bases.   It angered Otto at the time and having the bodies  displayed outside for the small folk to see would   have caused them to ride as the widows would  weep in Kurson's name. The rats also appeared a  

[23:42] lot during season 1 and they were behind the walls  and hiding within the castle suddenly showing the   rot that was festering behind closed doors. They  occasionally popped up during a major event to   show the rot coming to the surface. Rats of course  spread disease and plague and are scavengers that  

[23:57] pick up the crumbs of what's left behind. They're  also symbolic of treachery and basically show that   the rats are closing in. Have you seen the end  of the departed? The the last shot is like a rat   running across a thing. They're symbolic. The  fact that they're now out in the open here as  

[24:13] well links them with the idea that they're coming  to the surface. The decay in what they brings   link with the institutional failures and they're  here because of the greens and Reneer's actions.   They bring in a slow poison that chips away at  the Red Keep and breaks down what the families  

[24:28] are trying to achieve. Helena even said in season  2 that she was scared of the rats, which directly   foreshadowed the rat catcher coming to kill her  son. Laris Strong was also nicknamed the rat king,   and him moving the coin has caused a lot of  these issues as well. Visually and thematically,  

[24:42] the rats work as a way to show the decay that's  rising to the surface. WK nofm.org Borg said   that though the dragons are creatures that run the  skies, the rats run things behind the castle walls  

[24:54] and now in the halls themselves, these creatures  come more and more to the surface as things fall   apart and they're the harbingers of doom and fire  and blood. Beyond that, I do wonder if the rats   also represent the lords and small folk, which  is something that I'll touch more upon later.  

[25:08] In general though, I do feel like the show hasn't  really done enough to show the plight of the small   folk with Reneer not caring about them being a  big big deal. There is the worry that they could   end up bringing down the royals and they could  overrun the castle just like the rats. If we go  

[25:23] back to the tapestry at the start, the rat at the  end was linked with the people. So, that could be   something they're trying to hammer home. The queen  is then told she needs to appoint a queen's god,   which is a job she hands over to her husband. This  is funny as well as that was the job her father  

[25:37] had her do, and this ended up with her choosing  Kristen Cole. I love the way this scene is edited   as well with everyone basically picking away at  her and asking her questions. We then learn that   the high tower bannermen rule the Auba which is  where most of the wine in Westeros comes from.  

[25:50] House red wine support Egon the second during the  dance and as such the price of wine is tripled.   We then see as Rene confronts Allison. This story  is vastly different from the book where Allison's   kept in chains and some even said that the mother  and daughter were sold off to the brothel. Allison  

[26:05] did get some mercy though as Reira said for the  sake of our father who loved you once. Allison   also put forth the idea that the realm be divided  between Eggon the second and Reneira. The show   has decided to go with a childhood friendship plan  though, but I do expect Allison to drop the line,  

[26:20] bastard blood shed at war, which I know she  doesn't sound like. I'm sorry. She's obviously   just seen her dad beheaded in the throne room and  Allison claims that she has no idea where the gold   is and that the council basically resented her  from the start. This is something that we saw in  

[26:36] season 2 as she was frozen at the small council  once Aean took up the role of Prince Regent. It   also matches what the Iron Rod said last week with  him implying that Allison slept her way to the   top. Yep, you can be a mother to the king or queen  yourself, but misogyny still bleeds through the  

[26:51] cracks of society. Elena then asks Rene directly  if it made her feel better about losing Jace. Both   she and the queen are in a similar predicament as  both lost their child in this pointless war. She's   quite sassy as well, whereas in the book, Helena's  inconsolable and confined to her bed chamber,  

[27:08] and post invasion, Rene locks her up. What really  sends her over the edge, though, is the death of   her son, Malor, who infamously is not in the show.  Rene then claps back by saying she was supposed to   kill Egon instead. I like how Helenus and Faze as  those two had a loveless marriage, but she does  

[27:24] kind of glance at Allison and might possibly even  think why she was willing to give up her own child   willingly when both she and Reneer have had theirs  taken from them. She also says that it was Aegon   who did that to himself with regard to fleeing,  but we know it's Lis Strong who masterminded  

[27:38] it. Allison then asks if Renewa will blame her for  what the men have done. To be fair to Allison, she   has kept her word as well. It's mainly the others  that been quite duplicitous. Allison then says   that no one knows what Egan looks like now and if  Laryus tries to raise him up, Rene can claim it's  

[27:54] an imposter. This is kind of foreshadowing the  twist as well. Um, and it also sort of plays into   a plot that might be popping up down the line. In  the book, a man who looked like a corpse appeared   and claimed that the dragons were a natural and  a blight from Valaria. He cursed Reneer and was  

[28:10] faithful to the faith of the seven and part of me  wonders if the show will change his moment to be   Egon instead of him. It might be true of the book  though as we did see someone having their hand cut   off in season 2 which yeah could be that in this  time that Rene has been gone though religion has  

[28:23] really taken a hold of the kingdom and Septanistus  even warns the queen against falling foul of the   faith of the seven. So I wonder if this will be  house of the dragon's faith militant moment and   it could destroy her like it almost destroyed  Cersei. The faith was here before egg on the  

[28:36] conqueror and I even suspect the rich will use the  faith skepticism of her to position the small folk   against the queen. Rene then seems to have a panic  attack and says that when the challenge to her and   Aean is dead, the mother and daughter will be let  go. I do wonder if she's actually going to keep  

[28:50] her word though or if it's going to be something  like what she plans for Darren. Like I said,   Allison and Helena are sent straight to the  brothel. So, they could do that in the same   way she planned to send Darren to the wall. Elena  also says she does not wish to be in this room  

[29:03] either. I don't want to stay in this room. Now,  this could foreshadow something in the future. It   looks like this is the place that Tomman left out  of and Helena could be seeing this moment echoed   throughout history. I will talk about this more  in the spoiler section, but this room is very,  

[29:18] very important potentially. Rene then says that  she wants it to be declared they found Egon dead.   It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it  pays off from. She was the ones Joffrey returned   from the veil. This is something that could then  reveal Raina wasn't on the boat sent east. And  

[29:34] I do think eventually this will set her and Damon  to butttheads over how to deal with the child. We   then see her meet Myaria and a lot of this episode  features the old walk-in talk that was made famous   by the West Wing within Myaria has never actually  been inside the palace and even though she was  

[29:49] sleeping with Damon, she was kept separate from  his actual life. Miseria was then brushed away   and basically forced out by Viseris and this is  quite a big moment for the character. They talk   about where the gold could be at and Reneira says  in a very on the then nose way, but would I not be  

[30:03] simple to think that in a house as big as this  one, there were only one rat. We also see that   Rene is again hesitant about executing Darren.  While he could be a claimant to the throne, she   could also be classed as a kinslayer if she killed  him. That's said to come with a curse and a lot  

[30:18] of people look down on Aean for killing Luceris.  He's also committed no crimes unlike his brothers.   She then sees someone who looks like Jace, which  makes her start to spin out. The guy is just looks   maxing, walking around the catwalk like Cavicula,  and it makes her wonder why she shouldn't kill  

[30:34] Daron when her children are dead. You can clearly  see them sewing the seeds of madness in her, but   it's a lot more justified than what happened with  Dany. She also calls for Alinda Massie to return   to her service. She appeared throughout season  1 and two and helped to gather the dragon seeds.  

[30:50] Massie must be at Reneer's side moving forward  as well because book readers, you know, you know   already why. The queen is also very paranoid as  she asks for the staff to be questioned and for   anyone loyal to the high towers to be replaced.  She then goes to meet with Septin Eustace in the  

[31:05] throne room. We get a great shot where the statue  of Vereris hangs over them and it gives the idea   that he's looking down and judging her. Now,  while her coronation is being delayed, she asks   simply to be anointed in full view of the public.  Just one problem, though. He's already proclaimed  

[31:20] Agon II as the rightful ruler. He then absolutely  mugs her off and says, "And I now sit the throne. So you now say." He also doesn't believe her  at all and says that they've not seen Egggan's  

[31:36] remains, nor have the silent sisters being called  to tend to his body. It also seems to me that the   Septan's trying to save face as he understands  how things will look to the public. If he's saying   there's a new monarch again after just having a  new one come in, they'll be like, "You're joking,  

[31:52] not another one." Bizaras also anointed Rene is  there in front of the realm, but Septanistus went   along with the Greens in their plot to usurp  the throne, so people will cast out on him,   too. As we know, Agon is still alive, and I think  there's a lot of doubt in general around Reneer's  

[32:07] claims that he's perished. I think she knows it as  well, uh, that the character probably isn't dead,   but just wants herself appointed quickly. She  then says that the gods willed her to rise up   and cast out the usurper. He rejects the idea of  seeing Adam and his dragon as a sign though and  

[32:22] that she has the divine right to rule. My gods  do not deal in dragons. He basically rattles off   about them being unnatural. And in saying this,  he's also saying about the Targaryenss. It's a   sentiment that Raymond Fosway shared in Night of  the Seven Kingdoms when he hilariously called them  

[32:38] incestuous aliens who used blood magic. We also  must remember that the Targaryenss converted the   faith of the seven when Agon the Conqueror took  over Westeros. This is something that he only did   to appease the public. Before this, they actually  worshiped the old gods of Valyria. However, by  

[32:54] converting to the seven, he was able to stop any  resistance from the faith militant, but they're   a group that they must keep sweet. Aegon easily  could have burned them, but it's vital to have   peace amongst the small folk. This is something  that Renero will need to keep a hold of as well in  

[33:08] King's Landing, especially after stealing supplies  from the rich. I even wonder if we're going to get   a sort of a sort of Henry VII thing. Now, in case  you don't know, uh cuz you haven't heard about it   or you might be American. I I will let you off.  They don't teach us a lot of your history in our  

[33:22] school. Weirdly, the uh the independence thing,  we completely skip over that. Uh so, in case you   don't know, the church basically said that they  wouldn't grant his divorce. Back in the day, Rome   held power over all like the faith of the seven  does here. But Henry just loved getting divorced  

[33:38] and uh doing lots of things to his ex-wife. So  he basically went to war with the church and then   established the church of England as a way to do  what he wanted. This gave him religious power and   meant that his church could override the decisions  of the pope. Now that is a very very very tople  

[33:54] view of stuff. But I did wonder if they were doing  something similar, especially with him saying,   "With respect, I advise you, do not make an enemy  of the faith." We of course saw how strong the   faith militant were during the main series, but  they were disbanded during the rule of Jiharis.  

[34:10] Septanis does represent that religious push back  though, and he's one of the first people to stand   up to Rene. It's just a reminder to the viewers  that the religious year don't take things lying   down. And who else doesn't take things lying down  is who Reira comes across in the next scene. That  

[34:25] is coreless. And this scene is actually way bigger  than it is in the book. And they give Steve Tusant   a hell of a lot to do. Now, I know last week I was  like, "Oh, I don't know if I like the line read   on the um if this is victory. I pray I never win  another bit from the book." Didn't think it was  

[34:39] a good line reading. However, have to say the guy  is excellent in the scenes here. And him shouting   about the bastards later, I think is probably  the best moment that Corus has ever had. But   they weren't bastards. They were very, very strong  boys. It all builds out from this moment though  

[34:55] where Corus reveals Alan and Adam are his sons.  Rene mentions that she did not guess and this   is probably because Adam has black hair and Alan  cuts his off. She then says they're stout of heart   and that she owes them a great debt for their  support. Coris and asks to make Alan his heir  

[35:10] and legitimize them. It's a sore subject for Anira  though. Coris then says that without that his line   would end and his name would be erased without  them. Now, if you cast your mind back to season 1,   you might even remember that Corus said the  following. History does not remember blood.

[35:31] It remembers names. He was even willing to  accept Leris as the edit drift mark even though   he clearly wasn't Lenor's. To him, Lenor is also  dead as well. So, getting denied this is a grim  

[35:43] reminder of everything he's lost and how he won't  even be remembered. He then says that a word from   the throne is but a simple thing. She has self  received her from the king so she was protected   when he passed on but now she cannot possibly do  it and it's all just to save face. She knites him  

[35:59] as Adam of Hull instead of Adam Valyrian. This is  something that enrages Corless. And though they   don't explain why he gets a name Hull in the book,  I just love the way the shows fleshed it out here   and shows a genuine human reaction. Corus has done  so much for the character as he's lost his wife,  

[36:16] castle, and most of his fleet, but now he's  being denied this very simple favor. Now,   I can see things from both sides as well. I can  see things from both sides. Both sides are great,   but the legitimacy of her children has plagued  her ever since they were born, and it's led to  

[36:31] this whole mess and is something that she doesn't  want to repeat. If she raises up two bastards,   it will bring the legitimacy of her kids up again,  especially with Joffrey now being her hair. Sorry.   He call rightly takes this as an insult though,  as he defended her when her own children were  

[36:48] called bastards. He says she's doing this purely  because she's ashamed. And yeah, it's all just   again done to save face when callus that's the  guy you should be writing for. This builds to   the point that he even calls Joffrey a bastard,  which is a massive thing to say. It's something  

[37:02] that actually got his brother beheaded. And in  the book, his kids actually sought restitution.   I'd love it if they brought that back around and  showed the consequences that kind of spun out from   that moment with Corus being loyal to the throne  instead of loyal to his family. In the book,  

[37:17] they even have a point where it's decreed that  anyone who calls her kids bastards will have   their tongues cut off, but it shows how much  he doesn't give a [ __ ] His legacy is all he   really cares about, and the fact she's denying  it shows she's not worth writing for. Now,  

[37:31] we did mention earlier that Allison kind of gets  this line in the book, but I much prefer it being   given to CIS. It's setting something that's coming  up down the line, and this causes a major riff   between the queen and her hand, which is something  I'll need to say for the spoiler section. Outside,  

[37:45] she also runs into Ba, which again is a reminder  of the loss of Jaceras, and it's quite a cold   interaction as the pair don't even talk. She too  is almost like a ghost and much like the vision   of Jace that she's just passed in the halls.  She then heads to Viseris's bedroom, but she's  

[38:00] unable to sleep there. This metaphorically shows  she doesn't feel like she lives up to her father   and is unworthy to take his place. So, she slings  off to Damon and then nettles into him. Sorry,   nestles into him. This is the only safe place  for her, and he's probably one of the only  

[38:16] other people on Earth who knows what her life's  like. And even then, he's not really in the same   position that she is. The next morning, she's  then dressed in her royal attire by Massie.   This was of course made to give a nod to Danny in  the main show and it makes her seem like a regal  

[38:30] dragon rider. Being crowned, we learn she plans to  go before the small folk and then listen to their   petitions. Massie talks to her and advises against  taking a sword as it would go against what she   wants to project. Jules would also be tonedeaf as  well to the poor, so she's instead given a chain.  

[38:46] One problem though, her period started. Now in  the book, when she stepped down from the Iron   Throne after demanding that people bend the knee,  it was noticed that she had been cut. And as her   lord husband, Prince Damon, escorted her from  the hall, cuts were seen upon her grace's legs,  

[39:00] and the palm of her left hand wrote Eustace.  Drops of blood fell to the floor as she went past,   and wise men looked at one another. Though none  dead speak the truth about the Iron Throne had   spurned her, and her days upon it would be few.  I did think we were going to get that scene when  

[39:14] she was gripping the armrests, but they did end  up avoiding it. However, when this happened, it   was taken as a bad omen that she wasn't intended  to rule. It followed hell long after she died and   was even a moment that Bobby B remembered Bobby  B. Legend has it that as she left the hall later,  

[39:32] blood trickled down her legs and hands, proving  the Iron Throne had spurned her. Nonsense. It's   a chair made of steel blades. Reineer had wanted  it all her life and had sacrificed two sons for  

[39:47] it. She likely gripped the damn thing too tight.  Woo! And the restraint I am showing now not to   do an impression is something to behold. But it  highlights that history remembers her as someone  

[39:59] desperate for power. Whereas this show makes it  seem like she's already burdened by it. I do think   the writers have decided to use her period as  something that could be used to show this blood.   And maybe next episode she'll bleed when she's on  the throne. People could even see this as being a  

[40:14] reason why women can't rule. Calls back to her  line about having the weak and feeble body of   a woman but the heart of a king. This got a lot  of backlash online, but it was said in real life   by Elizabeth the First to her army before fighting  against the Spanish Armor. But I was angry girl as  

[40:29] even historical dramas set in fantasy worlds, they  better have the values that I hold today in 2026.   She's clearly not having her best day though, but  pushes on to listen to the small folks petitions.  

[40:42] It's a clear reflection of the scene that Agon had  in season 2 where it was like the first time that   he actually seemed likable. He's also joined  by the hand, much like how Otto joined him,   and even the conversation topics about sheeps and  dragons are pretty much the same. The woman asks  

[40:57] why they couldn't take the fleece before they were  caught off. However, this does not fix things as   it means there will be no meat for the butchers  and subsequently the people. The unconventional   ruler then suggests something wild as she allows  people to hunt in the king's wood. However, she  

[41:11] says they can't hunt boar or elk. This is actually  a line from the book and it's said by Tristan   Trufire after Reneer's rule. Book Reneer, as we  mentioned, tax the people more than the UK likes   to tax us. But in the show, she's going after the  rich. So giving her a line like this makes a lot  

[41:26] of sense as True Fire was trying to undo the pain  her taxes caused. We then have Sylvie coming to   petition. She's the madame of the brothel mothers  and was the woman to whom Aeand kept giving repeat   business. He's got a new mummy figure now, though,  in the form of Alice Rivers. Now, in the book,  

[41:41] a woman named Sannah Sand was the mother to  another pretender to the throne. That was   game and pale hair who also made more decrees. She  said he was the four-year-old bastard of Egan II,   but for the show they could be making them ament.  Gaiman came out with some demands that were seemed  

[41:57] crazy, such as making it illegal to be women, and  therefore he wasn't that popular. I am getting so   tired of this woke world. But you should hold the  values I hold today in 2026. The fact they keep  

[42:09] bringing Selby back though makes me think she's  going to be important and that a lot of this   stuff's being repurposed. Sylvie then says that  the lords brought everything they could for her   storehouses and hoarded it all and that she wants  Reneer to do something about it. I love the way  

[42:22] this is shot as well with us getting a blur around  the edge of the frame and the music showing Reneer   is uncomfortable. She's clearly struggling with  her period and the throne is really difficult to   sit on in general so it's making things worse. We  then get a great moment where we switch from the  

[42:36] throne to the chair of the small council. Both  are the hot seat and it just highlights Rene's   under pressure wherever she goes. mustn't be  night singing this all day when you got cramps   as well. And we see as Massie brings her a drink.  Reira also served as cup bearer for her father on  

[42:50] the council as well. And this kind of gives her  an insight into his thinking. Either way, Damon   is having none of this socialism and he says that  it's war and thus people suffer. However, Myaria   reminds him that some suffer more than others.  Rene then asks about Baylor and Sheepstealer,  

[43:05] but she says she saw only Sunfire dead and  decaying. Now, I do wonder if she is mistaken   as Eegon's dragon is actually alive in the book.  And if Egon gets to Sunfire, it might rise up once   more, or I could be reaching, but in the book, he  killed people trying to take Rook's rest, which  

[43:20] is the same place that Agon's heading towards. As  for Anira, she just wants justice. But my Zarya   is urging her to focus on the small folk, and she  then holds a banquet that turns out to be a trap.   down around them. As we know, both claimments,  Agon and Reneer, created their own banners,  

[43:39] and like Dunk, Ulf doesn't know how to style  himself after the Targaryen names rejected.   Damon is sick of his [ __ ] though, and general  demeanor. He then styles himself of the white,   and in the book, he got this due to his white  hair. Hugh then chooses the name Hammer due to his  

[43:53] trade as a blacksmith, and Adam is named Adam of  Hull, and he can barely hide his disappointment.   Also love how struggles to kneel with the cloak  getting in the way. Damon, the knights, the three   reciting the oath. It's a world away from Raymond  Fossaway's epic nighting during Night of the Seven  

[44:08] Kingdoms and Damon basically looks bored by the  whole thing. He sees Nighting the Dragon Seeds   as beneath him and it's a kind of snobbery that  will come back around to bite him. Ulf is quite   unimpressed though and asks, "Is that it?" Hugh  then chases after the queen and asks where he'll  

[44:23] be staying in King's Landing. We learn that he  can't find his wife as she's gone to live with her   brother in Tumbleton. This builds off last week  when we saw her look up at the dragons arriving   in the city. And as we later learn, Tumbleton  has fallen to the Greens. This means that she's  

[44:36] in a lot of danger, and I do wonder if she's  going to be caught in the crossfire next week.   She then tells him to send for her, and they'll  have a house on Versenna's Hill. In the book,   he and Ol were given small holdings on Drift Mark,  which they celebrated by beating women. They were  

[44:49] also given some of the lord's daughters as  wives. Lord Rosby and Stokewith, blacks,   who had gone green to avoid the dungeons,  attempted to turn black again. But the queen   declared that faithless friends were worse than  foes and ordered their lying tongues to be removed  

[45:02] before their executions. Their deaths left her  with a nettlesome problem of succession. However,   as it happened, each of the faithless friends left  a daughter. Rosby's was a maid of 12 Stokewarts   a girl of six. Prince Damon proposed that the  former bewed to Hard Hugh, the blacksmith's son,  

[45:18] who had taken to calling himself Hugh Hammer,  the latter to ultimately Ulf White. keeping their   lands black while suitably rewarding the seeds  for their valor in battle. You definitely get that   there's a feeling of regret from the Targaryenss  here as well and that they just want them all out  

[45:32] the way now that they've got their power and it  may cost them. Allison then comes to visit her in   her room. She requests that her father's remains  be sent to Oldtown so they can be buried alongside   her mothers. Reneur then says how Allison ruled  the realm in all but name while Viseris was ill.  

[45:48] The queen then asks for advice and basically how  her former BFF would have dealt with the plight   of the small folk. Allison then explains how she  had to be pragmatic and make hard choices while   closing off the compassionate part of herself.  Nero then says that she can still be a good person  

[46:02] and rule like her father. But Allison quips back  and basically says you must lose some of yourself   to rule and that Viseris basically ruled in  a world of his own construction. Part of me   wonders if this is actually referring to his model  making and how he basically focused on that as a  

[46:17] way to escape from the pressures of the kingdom.  It could also refer to the fact that the world of   Westeros is structured for men to rule. Either  way, she welcomes the nobles of King's Landing   in what's the worst episode of Come Dine with Me  Ever. She jokes that they pledge their loyalty  

[46:31] later than she'd like, but she is a consiliator.  This is a nickname that was given to her father's   predecessor, Jiharis the First, but it also kind  of feels like a n to the Godfather cuz this is   very moblike. She says she'll fight for every  crumb. And this was played upon in the tagline  

[46:45] of the weeks ahead trailer, which shows how petty  her quest for power is. One of the attendees also   says, "You know what? I always I always thought  the high towers were snakes despite there being   no record of him doing so." The rich are then  served rat, which is intended to show them what  

[47:00] the commoners of King's Landing ate while the  rich hoarded food. And here we go. I hope you're   hungry for nothing. It builds perfectly off the  rat metaphor before and works so well, not only  

[47:13] in a symbolic way, but also like they've been  clearing out all the rats in the kingdom. Also   love the bit where she basically asks if the guy  would steal food to stop his family from starving,   and he says no. and she's like, "Leg gentiel  in your grave. Just give them the Emmy." Now,  

[47:29] it plays upon the idea that it's right to steal if  it feeds your family and shows that these people   have never really been desperate. She sees it as  a rich person's role to ensure that those in need   are helped. But like Damon, these rich people  look down on the poor and see them as rats who  

[47:43] steal every crumb. So, she sends her gods to rob  them while they dine. I feel like this will no   doubt come back to bite her, though, as the rich  will not accept this insult and threat to their   bottom line. There's a reason uh in real life why  politicians who go after the rich don't tend to do  

[47:57] well and they'll have all kinds of industry to use  against the crown. This is why I also think we see   Torren Mandelly smirking. He realizes this is the  game that he's already won and is kind of laughing   that Reneer is making an attempt to take them down  when they're the ones with the power. To him it's  

[48:13] all a game or sort of a Game of Thrones if you  will. Played by Dan Fogler. You may recognize   him from the Fantastic Beast movies or more likely  The Walking Dead. In the book, Taran was sent to   King's Landing to support the queen and there he  was described as clever andulate. They are kind  

[48:29] of changing things for the show though as he was  actually helpful towards Rene and didn't trust the   dragon seats. In the series, he does appear  to be a bit of an antagonist as he says the   small folk may even forget they went hungry due to  Reneer's blockade. During her reign in the books,  

[48:44] a lot of propaganda was used against her, which  was suspected to be Lara Strong's doing. However,   I do wonder if this will be Torren's role in the  show. Damon then says that they'll resent them for   it. But she just says they're merchants and minor  nobles. May not feed the city forever, but it will  

[48:58] win the hearts and minds, which is something a  lot of nobles seem to ignore. Rene at this point   does seem to be on the right track, though, and  isn't shying away from ruling or doing anything   out of spite. She also plans to send Damon to the  Veil to get Lady Jane to pay up. The men of the  

[49:12] veil haven't arrived yet and so Rene is expecting  Coin instead. This sets him up to find out who is   riding Sheepsteeler at the battle of the Gullet  and I think it's in the next episode that he'll   likely come across Raina. Though I don't think  she'll be in the castle itself, I do think she  

[49:26] might be off in the wild like how Nettles was in  the book. But Rene puts a lot of responsibility   on herself and thinks if she can't administer a  city, then how can she rule the seven kingdoms?   Damon is like, "Well, you've got six dragons and  Aegon only had three." It gives insight into his  

[49:42] psyche as while he wanted to rule, he's far from  suitable for it. He then suggests that they could   go and take Dawn, which is something even the  Conqueror couldn't do. It wouldn't join the rest   of the kingdoms until the reign of Darren II and  is something that he sees as a price. Damon then  

[49:57] wants to go and take Essos with her and also the  free cities. He specifically names Yeti, which   draws inspiration from Imperial China. Damon then  says that there's a city where men have wings,   but the source material explains that they are  in fact leather wings and not like half dragon,  

[50:12] half human hybrids, but Damon is basically a  figure like Alexander the Great who only cares   about conquering the next kingdom. He dreams of  neverending conquests and building a Roman or   Greek empire while she just wants to ensure that  people don't starve. Damon then explains that his  

[50:28] brother was a good man, but he had no vision of  greatness. Damon sees himself as being the next   Egon, whereas Rene just wants to be Viseris. It's  clear that he might have misinterpreted the vision   as well as we saw Danny out in Essos and he likely  thinks that that was them ruling. As we know,  

[50:46] wasn't the case, but yeah, these visions can be  misinterpreted and he sees that as being like,   we're going to go to Essos. In Damon's mind,  he thinks they should be gods. But Reneura   says that there's such a thing as too much power.  As we know, Valaria ended in doom and all empires  

[51:01] eventually end. Even the heavy spoilers  empire will one day be kaput. I feel like   he's got this vision in his mind, sees they've  taken King's Landing again and thinks, well,   this is the first stepping stone on the way to  taking over the world. And while leaving, he  

[51:16] also hilariously reminds her that you still have  to kill Darren, which I thought was such a funny   way to end the scene. This leads to her watching  him sleep, likely seeing him as a poor, innocent   boy. Look at him. He just just carves birds out of  woods. He's like the kids I have or had. But yeah,  

[51:35] he seems very innocent, is just a young boy, and  is a charming chap who no doubt always hits the   thumbs up. However, taking him out will cement her  rule. But she has to ask if she's willing to cause  

[51:47] the same trauma that she has to Allison. We anchor  to her in her cart, looking exhausted, heading to   the great sept of Bor. She's buried her grief  and now only knows rage. This is also the same   place that Agon was found out when he was trying  to avoid his coronation, so it's a nice place to  

[52:01] have things go down. She then anoints herself by  handing out food as opposed to the Septan doing   it. The public is pleased with her, and this stunt  seems to be working. I did expect some sort of   riot when she handed stuff out, but seemed pretty  calm. Also noticed that the fountain ornament  

[52:17] looked like a dragon egg. And that's a nice bit  of set design that after being shaken up by her   interaction with Kish, she then heads to Allison  and says that she has Darren. Renero opts to send   Darren to the wall as opposed to just killing him.  And then Allison looks at the camera directly and  

[52:30] is like, "Ah, that's just like Jon Snow." And then  she does the pointing thing. Now, this is slightly   different in the book as in that Corus was the one  who suggested sending their rivals and enemies to   the wall, but Renewer refused to, saying, "What  a vows to oath breakers." I do like that they go  

[52:44] this route for the show though as it gives Allison  a chance to say, "Do you wish me to thank you?"   Darren's then brought in and the penny tree drops  with Allison revealing that this is not her son.   In a reverse egg, he was forced to bleach his hair  and play the role of a prince. Reminds me a lot of  

[53:01] the prince in the porpa where two princes swap  lives as they look so similar. The blacks have   been played like a damn fiddle and this is all so  Orman can take Tumbleton. This is what we learn   when the dragon keeper arrives at the gate and we  discover that Tarian was taken inside and then the  

[53:15] city and its people were taken hostage much like  how Reneer took Darren hostage. Now, this might   not be the first battle of Tumbleton and it might  simply be adapted from a line in the book that   says it does appear that certain of those who  flooded into the town fleeing before Lord High  

[53:29] Tower's army were actually part of that army sent  ahead to infiltrate the ranks of the defenders.   So, I think we might see the battle itself as  there are major moments that take place that will   change the course of the war. And those are things  that we'll need to save for the spoiler section.  

[53:43] At this point though, Rea just wants to burn it  all down, but the dragon keeper warns her that   her people would die along with it. Throughout the  episode, she's been seen trying to win over the   small folk, but doing this would completely undo  it. It would make the people absolutely hate her,  

[53:58] and it's a smart play by Orand as he's kind of  neutralized the threat of her dragons. Also,   here we were going to play a clip of Seth Rollins.  Uh, but WWE keeps striking the channel in claiming  

[54:10] like two seconds of video. So, here's a picture  of him as the Night King. It really asks her what   is the cost, though, and whether innocent lives  are worth taking in order to win. In the book,   it was the Greens who burned the city, and there  was a savage sacking afterwards. Rene is probably  

[54:25] going to have to do that herself, though, and I  think this is the thing that's going to make her   massively unpopular. We then end with the green  stuff set ablaze, but it's clear they're fighting   back and causing their own fires. But yeah, that's  how we close out the episode. And that then takes  

[54:38] us to the spoiler section. As always, we will  be ruining what happens next in the book. Oh,   what? They die. Oh, no way. They die. I can't  believe it. Uh, so yeah, that could spoil what's   coming down the line. So, I bid you farewell as  the credits roll on screen right now. Anyway,  

[54:52] it's a spoiler section now. So, Ol was asked in  Jest if he'd like to be the Lord of Oldtown. As   we know, he always had ideas above his station and  isn't happy with just being a knight. In the book,   he actually swaps sides and joins the Greens  after being sent to defend Tumbleton. Both  

[55:06] Alf and Hugh turned against Trira there. And  though it's not exactly clear why they turned,   it's presumed they sought money and power.  I expect that you may run into cat though   um and realize that you know Renero wants to burn  the city and she's killing people that are close  

[55:22] to him. In the book, he was offered the lordship  of Bitterbridge but wanted High Garden instead.   However, I don't think they're going to do that.  I expect that he may arrive at the city and then   find Cat and he'll question his orders because  Rene's like, "Yeah, kill everyone, burn them  

[55:36] all to death." As for Ulf, well, he's Olf. In the  book, he was offered the lordship of Bitterbridge,   but wanted High Garden instead. Ol then proceeded  to force himself on three women knight and feed   the ones who annoyed him to his dragon. So, that  could be what they're doing with him. But this  

[55:50] is a massive turning point in the war and Reneer  burning tumbleton shows that she's not actually   interested in the people. As we mentioned, she  taxed the public as well which led to riots and   she may do this to pay for the war. She then had  to flee the city and I personally think that this  

[56:05] will be caused by Torren Manderly. Orman High  Tower looks to be scheming in the trailer as   well and I basically think they're going to turn  the public against the queen. Harrenhal will also   apparently be going to the person who slays Aean.  We mentioned that Alice River could kill him and  

[56:18] take the castle for herself. And yeah, as we  know, Aemon does die above the god's eye. He   perishes along with Damon. And I wonder if she's  engineering this. So, one, Aean dies and she keeps   the castle. And two, the baby in her belly from  Aean then strengthens her claim perhaps. Now,  

[56:34] this might also be a reach, but Helena said she  didn't want to be in that room anymore. Part of   me wonders if this is where she'll jump from and  that she's seen her future and is actively trying   to avoid it. Helena takes her own life when it all  gets too much and basically does a Tommen. Lastly,  

[56:49] we have Corus in his turning against Reneer.  In the book, after Alf and Hugh swap sides,   she tried to imprison the dragon seats. Naturally,  this caused Corus to be furious, and he went to   warn Adam. This then led him to being locked up  and beaten, and I do think that's something that's  

[57:04] going to happen to the character in the show.  Rene is refusing to allow the two bastards to be   legitimized despite doing it in the text. So, I do  think this is going to have a big fallout. They've   changed it for a reason and I expect that he'll be  put in prison after his outburst or he might try  

[57:18] and warn his kids when the bastards get turned on.  But yeah, that's how I think things are going to   go down. Thank you as always for sitting to the  end of the video. Really, really appreciate it.   And uh please drop a comment and a like if you  haven't already uh and leave all your thoughts  

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