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The hunt for the wayward King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) at an underground child fight ring (eek) was thrilling on its surface. How exciting not to be mired in ...

Why is one loyal to the Greens and one to the Blacks? [renewed for a second season](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-renewed-1235345810/). So far, what we know of Mysaria is that she has spies in the castle and slept with Daemon for a bit. (Why he is allowed to leave while poor Beesbury is murdered for trying to do the same remains unclear.) Is it out of loyalty to Rhaenyra, a character we’ve seen him spend virtually no time with? [House of the Undying](https://time.com/5592603/game-of-thrones-daenerys-vision-iron-throne/) at the end of Season 2 and is confronted with a tempting image of her husband and child, alive and well, we understand how she has the strength to turn away and instead embrace her future as the Mother of Dragons. That led to not only bizarre plot oversights, like Daenerys notoriously forgetting about the Iron Fleet she was supposed to defeat, but also [Danaerys’ wild character swing from hero to mad queen](https://time.com/5590729/game-of-thrones-finale-daenerys/) in just a few episodes. Rhaenys delivered a withering critique of Alicent, whom she accuses of being a slave to the patriarchy. Weiss](https://time.com/4791793/game-of-thrones-season-7-david-benioff-d-b-weiss/), who served as showrunners on Game of Thrones for all eight seasons, had spent as much time exploring Daenerys’ psychology after she arrived in Westeros as they did in the early seasons. But in taking its time, the Prime Video show may have lost viewers’ interest in the middle of the season before they were ever able to reach the Helm’s Deep-esque battle in Episode 6 or [major character reveals in Episode 8](https://time.com/6222116/sauron-halbrand-the-rings-of-power/). It’s a faux history of the [Targaryen dynasty](https://time.com/6208973/targaryen-family-tree-house-of-the-dragon/), written by various maesters from a supposedly objective perspective, inspired by conflicting historical accounts of the War of the Roses. [the Game of Thrones prequel](https://time.com/6206772/house-of-the-dragon-connects-game-of-thrones/) has been moving at a frenetic pace, and it can be maddening to try to keep up. If you spent the most recent episode of House of the Dragon trying to figure out the identities of those twin bearded guys in whose hands the fate of the kingdom briefly rested—and why on earth we had not spent time with them earlier in the season—you weren’t alone.

Every Friday, Ringer staffers who haven't read any of the 'Game of Thrones' books gather to answer one key question ahead of Sunday's 'House of the Dragon' ...

[Khal Davenport](https://www.theringer.com/authors/khal-davenport): My prediction for the House of the Dragon Season 1 finale mirrors my expectation for the entirety of Season 1: dragons and death. House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones prequel; all bets can be off when it is season finale time. If HBO (and the HBO Max servers) could promise one thing, I hope it’s that the feed won’t die Sunday night, and that I will actually be able to see everything going on. Yeah yeah, this is a pretty generic one, but it’s also one that I think has to happen for the sake of the first season. HBO and House of the Dragon have teased us all season with the coming war—we need to see a little bit of it to really get us all excited for Season 2. Clearly, Season 2 will be all-out war, but House of the Dragon is going to give us a little teaser, a little taste of what is to come. After all, House of the Dragon is practically screaming at us to expect this outcome: Aemond would radiate pure evil even if he didn’t wear a badass eye patch. I want to see Rhaenyra look Alicent in the eye as she unleashes fire on all of the greens. The truth is I can’t read the clues and I have no idea, but I’m hopeful for an out-of-nowhere, gasp-inducing demise that sets in motion a serious cliffhanger for when we return to HotD for Season 2. I want to see Criston and Daemon come to blows on the battlefield. But since some of The Ringer’s staff have yet to read any of Martin’s novels, we decided to create this weekly precap for those of you who remain blissfully unaware of what’s about to happen next. Unlike the original series, which ran out of material to adapt by the end of its fifth season, key details from the Targaryen dynasty already have been published in Martin’s fictional history.

There's only one episode left in the first season of House Of The Dragon, and by now we know the characters and the world well enough to have some idea of ...

They were the first to find out he’d died, and Hand of the King Otto Hightower already had a plan in place to ensure Aegon’s ascension. All that setup finally paid off in “The Green Council,” so we expect the next one will keep that momentum going. [House Of The Dragon](https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/house-of-the-dragon-2022), and by now we know the characters and the world well enough to have some idea of what we want from the finale.

Smith explains how he overcame the 'ick factor' to turn Daemon Targaryen, the 'Game of Thrones' prequel's rogue prince, into an unlikely fan favorite.

And I thought [“House of the Dragon”] was its own beast. Over the course of the season, because we’ve worked so closely together and developed a relationship with one another, we were able to be spontaneous in certain moments. I think the body of work that all the actors and filmmakers produced is undeniably fantastic. “Where are we in the past?” “Oh, I’ve got a new haircut? He is constantly in the middle of the rope. [“House of the Dragon”] is a huge global franchise, or so they tell me, but I just go to work in a studio in Watford and try to get the lines in the right order. He feels alive when he’s in the middle of the rope. I wanted it to sound conversational, like it was a proper language and felt lived in. What are we doing?” You try and cut through the really weird tension of the room and make jokes. One of my favorite books is “The Master and Margarita.” It’s magical realism — I like that. And it reminds me a bit of that. But the pressure that came with “Doctor Who” is extraordinary.

Oh God, it's everywhere,” Federal Judge Courtney Mayer said. “House of Dragons has made every Uncle Diddler out there think he's Matt motherfucking Smith.

“You’re an enemy of the state. As a result of the federal government declaring George R. “I just don’t see how HBO hasn’t shut it down solely based on that,” Mayer said. But the recent spikes in incest among certain communities has forced the federal government to step in. “Do you know how painful it is to admit that? One man actually said he was inspired by the chemistry between Daemon and Rhaenrya.”

Game of Thrones leaks seem to be a breach in HBO's hull that the American television producer has no intention of mending anytime soon. Now, mere days before ...

Walk the endless walls of social media platforms carefully for the next two days. Well, we may not be able to watch the episode in full for a couple of days yet, but folks who have want you to know that it was one of the show’s best outings to date, if not the best. [House of the Dragon](https://wegotthiscovered.com/tag/house-of-the-dragon) episode in season one was supposed to air on Sunday night at 9 pm ET, but it seems that someone has leaked the finale on torrent networks, and now Twitter is slowly but surely turning into a spoiler-y cesspit.