House of the Dragon episode 2!

2022 - 8 - 28

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'House of the Dragon,' Season 1, Episode 2 Recap (The New York Times)

Rhaenyra receives some surprising news, and Viserys likely sets into motion the thing he's been trying to avoid.

I don’t know that there was a way to frame this for Rhaenyra that would have made it more palatable, but I do know that springing it on her in front of the gods and Small Council and everybody, leaving her feeling shocked, deceived and betrayed by the two people closest to her, was the worst way to let her know. The only thing more shameless than his tweaking of the king’s grief, when he learned of the Lady Laena betrothal plan, was his “checkmate, Sea Snake” grin later after Viserys announced that he would marry Alicent instead. Setting aside the ick factor that apparently wasn’t a big deal back then, another possible consideration in Viserys’s choice of Alicent is that he may not have enough time left to wait for a child bride to grow up. The broad, sweeping shots in particular — aerial views of King’s Landing, the backdrops at Dragonstone — have a two-dimensional C.G.I. “This is an absurdity!” the Sea Snake said in response to Viserys’s big reveal, and at first he seemed to have a point. Fortunately, they were able to shoot much of the show on When Otto stared at Rhaenyra with a new respect for her formidableness as she soared off, I’m guessing he was pondering future clashes as much as the present one. Both are more introspective and sensitive than others in the royal court, and they enjoy the escapism of stories and myth. par for the course for “Game of Thrones” nuptials. But “he’s got a strange moral compass of his own,” the actor said. It endangered Viserys’s relationship with the Sea Snake, his most important ally — who wanted the king to choose his preadolescent daughter, Laena (Nova Fouellis-Mose) — and shattered Rhaenyra just when she was starting to feel OK about things. A different princess, her own dreams dashed by men long ago, might coolly describe all this as “the order of things.” But that doesn’t make it any less painful.

'House of the Dragon' Episode 2 Recap: 'The Rogue Prince' (CNET)

Episode 2 of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel is about King Viserys' awkward duty to remarry.

"And so your first duty is to the realm. "You are the king," she says. "I will speak of my brother as I wish," he says while villainously staring over the fire. Because that is the order of things." In order to save his finger, which the maesters have presumably been treating with cauterization (fire), the King's medical help submerge his hand in a bowl full of maggots. "My father named me Princess of Dragonstone," she says as she confronts her uncle, "that is my castle you're living in." "Is that what your father told you to say?" (Valyria is a region in Westeros, for those struggling to keep up with the lore.) In episode 1, we were introduced not only to King Viserys, Prince Daemon and Princess Rhaenyra, but also Hand of the King Otto Hightower, his daughter Alicent, and the "Sea Snake" Lord Corlys Velaryon. "The King's own brother has been allowed to seize Dragonstone and fortify it with an army of his Gold Cloaks. "Sea Snake" Lord Corlys Velaryon has been complaining loudly to the Small Council about "the Triarchy," an alliance between the Free Cities of Myrs, Lys and Tyrosh. [House of the Dragon's premiere episode](/culture/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-recap-the-heirs-of-the-dragon/), King Viserys declared his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra, the heir to the throne.

In 'House of the Dragon' episode 2, two royal heirs stand off, and ... (NPR)

In the second episode of HBO's 'Game of Thrones' prequel, Daemon makes a play, Rhaenyra wins the day, and Viserys gets the final say.

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House of the Dragon Episode 2 – What Did You Think?! (Superherohype.com)

Prince Daemon stirs up trouble at Dragonstone as King Viserys faces intense pressure to take a new wife while Princess Rhaenyra asserts herself.

As the first step, he wants them to join forces to eliminate the Crab Feeder and reclaim the shipping lanes. And when Rhaenyra raises her voice to suggest a strategy, her father dismisses her from the room. However, only Corlys chooses to run to Daemon and propose their own alliance. Rhaenyra arrives on top of her own dragon, and she challenges her uncle to strike her down. Meanwhile, Rhaenyra is relegated to cup bearer at the Small Council despite being named heir to the throne. Now that the second episode has debuted, we want to know what the Superhero Hype community thinks about it!

Still Watching House of the Dragon Episode 2: “The Rogue Prince” (Vanity Fair)

Richard Lawson and Josh Wigler break down the show's second episode, from crab-eating to dragon egg-tossing and some non-animal related matters, too.

And while the people being eaten alive by crabs in the episode’s opening scene aren't exactly a direct result of that decision, they’re the first of many signals that not all is well in Westeros. [Subtext](https://joinsubtext.com/stillwatching)— send us your questions, theories, or anything else you’d like Josh and Richard to discuss on the show. Take a listen below

House of the Dragon, episode 2, “The Rogue Prince” review ... (Vox)

The story of the troubled Targaryen dynasty so far has focused primarily on the issue of succession and who will be the next heir to King Viserys (Paddy ...

If Viserys could have conceptualized Rhaenyra and Alicent as people rather than pawns, perhaps he’d also have grasped how unscrupulous it is of Otto Hightower to offer his teenage daughter to the king on a platter, and avoided mistaking Otto’s solicitousness for goodness. After getting Rhaenyra’s blessing to hunt for a wife, Viserys is baffled when he announces plans to marry Alicent only to see a shocked and devastated Rhaenyra storm out of the room. No wonder Rhaenyra — young, bold, fiery, and eager to learn how to lead — feels to all these men like a swing too far in the other direction from the pliable Viserys. Emily Carey plays Alicent with such tactful aplomb that it’s not entirely clear whether Rhaenyra’s clear feelings of loyalty and love are mutual, or whether Alicent has just learned to be the consummate diplomat Rhaenyra will likely never be — able to be quietly pleasing and affirmative to everyone around her while giving very little of herself away. It’s quite possible that the Iron Throne itself is losing metaphorical respect for Viserys, by way of trying to kill him: In the first episode, we saw Viserys with a wound on his back; now he has a rotting finger. But in the context of pimping out her own daughter, it comes across to Rhaenyra as a condescending power play. Could the throne be trying to hasten the end of this weak-willed king’s reign? The special parenting style that sees Otto dressing his daughter in her dead mother’s clothes in order to pimp her out to the king has apparently driven Alicent to bite her nails to the quick, leaving them bloody. Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) and his wife Rhaenys (Eve Best) offer Viserys a marriage to their 12-year-old daughter Laena, coaching her into trying to entice the king during a painfully awkward conversation. Still, despite serving us this intriguing cornucopia of stuff, the writers never take their eye off the question of successorship and how that issue is impacting the women of the royal court. Since that gamble didn’t pay off, his episode finds him considering — albeit not without a degree of horror — marrying a 12-year-old girl at the behest of his political allies. Still, although the titular “rogue prince” in question, Daemon (Matt Smith), does a lot of saber-rattling