If your here because of house of the dragon and are upset about spoilers all i will say is this video is over a year and a half old and came out well before house of the dragon based on a book that has been out years, it was made to tell the story of fire and blood in the style of the animated history and lore videos on the DVD. Thus the audience for this video has mostly been book readers and people who don't want to read the book but want to knows what happens. While i understand the algorithm is pushing these videos in ways i did not expect when i made these videos yes some of the titles could be seen as spoilers. Needless to say i am going back thorough all 220 of my videos and trying to minimise the impact of these videos being shown to people who only watch the show and thus spoiling them. I'm adjusting titles and thumbnails but its taking a while due to the amount of videos, i'm also being careful not to kill the video performance so i'm being carful with the changes i've made.
Ultimately Lucerys' murder is what gave way for the bloody, cruel, and bloodthirsty legacy that The Dance of Dragons would be known for as family members started targeting each other for payback starting with Blood and Cheese.
But it didn't start with B&C it started with Aemond thinking he can control Vhagar and tries to bully Lucerys. They both thought they could control their dragons as Arrax blasted Vhagar with a fireball after that Vhagar stalked Arrax and in one bite he ripped right through Arrax. Obviously killing Lucerys and Arrax and that is the start of The Dance of Dragons.
@@davidmancini8286 it’s not that they are talking about the books but Blood and Cheese was a Revenge play. Aemond killing Luke was the start of kinslaying, it wasn’t the start of revenge murder
I really hope we see jacerys reaction to his brothers death in house of the dragon. I can see it being way more emotional then rhaynera finding out because of how close Luke and Jace are
In the show, Aemond wasn't intent on killing Lucerys..he just wanted to bully him but Arrax and Vhager decided to disobey their riders and what ensued was a tragedy..it was so sad watching the boy and his baby dragon 🐉 die.
It’s a bloody cold murder. He’s so young. He even refused to fight and went there as only a messenger and made that clear. Aemond acted more like a stupid kid. His action was the catalyst of the dance. Luke and Arrax was so helpless, it was unfair and no honor at all.
I think aemond was just messing around taunting luke. He never wanted luke dead that quickly. He lost control in his dragon when arrax spit fire on her. Vhagar got pissed.
I feel sorry for the boy. He is tasked for an errand by his mom and gets killed by his relative lol. I can imagine his fright being chased by the largest living dragon at the time.
I feel sorry for Luce but no remorse for Rhynera mourning him. Luce was a kid but Rhynera did not even apologize to Aemond for the lost eye. Infact she used her father's blind love to get away without any consequences. If my kid was maimed and the abuser got away without justice I'd be mad too (ofcourse I wouldn't kill him for it but there has to be justice).
@@rohanshende4338 this is possibly the dumbest thing i have ever read , all of them where literally children (and the adults had nothing to do with the fight so an apology for either side is stupid because non of them had anything to do with it it was just children fighting that accolated badly because no adults were present ) , like what exactly the justice you want ? the fuck! like you want the other child to have his eyes cut too ? (which would be fucking insane ) or justice by offering money which wouldn't mean anything since they both are mega fucking rich .
@@rohanshende4338 If not for the one eye,aemond would have killed one of Rhaenrya sons. So try again. Or are u telling that Aemond at that night was not a bully but a victim lol
@@anandaraman6604 nah i’m sure he would’ve still been a major asshole, maybe not killed luke for revenge but an ass nonetheless. and he wouldn’t have lost an eye if he didn’t advance towards jace with the intent of killing him with a rock, that’s when all bets where off the table and luke had to do anything to defend his brother.
i can't see a situation where he gets out alive, maybe if he ran when he first landed as saw Vhagar. I do like the theory that he survived and washed up on the shore days later with no memory and simple, kinda like moonboy. I like it but there is nowhere near enough proof in the text for it.
@@WorldOfWesteros I’m of the belief that he was either eaten (it’s not impossible but Vhagar might be more occupied fighting for his life). Or he died at sea and was so decayed that no one could recognize him. Kinda like how Catelyn is after she’s thrown into a river. And that was for like a week or 2. I’m not quite sure how long she was in but gotta be less than a month.
the boys were chosen to go because she was losing her claim to the throne sending her brown haired boys on dragonback would send the message that even if they were bastard they a still Targaryen enough to ride dragons
@@enriquevanleeuwen7719 yeah buy Rhaenys had a personal connection to the stormlands and a larger dragon, Luke could have just as easily gone to riverrun via harrenhal where a dragon in the courtyard could bring the tullys in and Rhaenys brings in the stormlanders, her mother was a baratheon she could probably have led them herself
I am juuuust beginning to get into all of GRRM's stories, and your videos have all been incredibly helpful. Thank you for all the hard work you so obviously put into all of this!
The Hightower house ruined everything. If it wasn't for them targaryen blood would be in every house and everyone would have dragons for when the white walkers came.
The Targaryens would never allow everyone to have dragons, the Velaryons were an exception because of their close kinship but I have serious doubts that they would give dragons to every great house. To quote the words of King Daeron II "Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few." But I admit that you were right about the Hightowers ruining everything with the Dance and their schiming.
@@Dragonhearth1461 there would be a bunch of dragons on dragonstone and a ridiculous amount of dragon blood to claim them. Like a conscription for war. We could have had air battles.
Im not as down on Hightower as everyone else is. They did what any other house wouldve done if they had the chance. Look at how everyone was trying to wed Rhaenyra.
@@peepinR The Hightowers were too ambitious to be ruling over the Seven Kingdoms. Politicians MUST care about the good of the realm, not their own selfish desires. Never. Their selfishness at the scale they pushed for, negatively impacted the realm immensely. Yes, that's what people would have done, that's why they are not the rulers. Aegon became ruler because he saw a large threat that loomed and saw the need to unite the realm. The Hightowers just... wanted... to be at the top. Disgusting.
For me the book cannon is book canon the show is the show, but what i like is especially with Aemond/Luke at storms end is in reality in the book we have no idea what really happened when they left Storms Ends except Aemond kills Luke. It's one of the few times i belive the show had handle it how they see fit without impacting the storyline or canon. I just hope the kinslyaing it leads to (b&c) is not watered down.
@@WorldOfWesteros Yeah, IMO the only 'weak' episode of HOTD is 9 and it is not even considered bad, at least for me. What made me confuse is, didn't Rhaenyra lose her 3rd child with Daemon after she learned about the death of Prince Lucerys, or was it after the news of the death of her Father like the show portrayed?
@@jeeeeev If not for the ending of episode nine I would have been ok with it. Otherwise I'd still say it's the weakest episode but that's because I don't like any of the greens except Haelena and Aemond.
I can't wait to see this acted out. Aemond is a jerk and I can see him poking, and provoking Luke. This is gonna be a fire scene with the dragons, and emotional when Rhenyara finds out what happened to her son, and Deamon pledges revenge. Ohhh boy!! Great video
it isn’t aemonds fault and it isnt luces fault. The blame is on Rheanyra. she killed her bastard boys the day she decided to abandon her honor and pursued her whorish acts. if she had true born sons none of this would have happened.
@@WatchAdam Exactly she just couldn't keep her legs crossed and betrayed those who supported her. Her bastard ain't saints either and should have known their place. Honestly, her death would be more satisfying to watch. Burned and eaten.🙂
@@buzzkill36 it doesnt matter. Rheanyra should have married Strong if she wanted to have kids with him. Shes the reason why the targaryes fell off. the fault of an egotistical woman who only thinks of her self. they make her look half decent in the show but book rheanyra is even worse
I think he's getting eaten. I don't think he falls into the sea. Out of nowhere, Vhagar swoops down with blinding speed and an open mouth and it is over. She bites down encompassing the rider which would snap off the dragon's neck and head falling to the sea. Like jaws of the sky. You can't see Vhagar in the storm but you know she's there and when you see her, it's too late. (edit: if they play with the suspense like Jaws I will freak out and be actually scared lol)
@@porkmaster4312 th-cam.com/video/dtbgJQtfksQ/w-d-xo.html Pretty much exactly what happens. She tears him in half with a single bite. But I'm glad they had a long cat-and-mouse chase before that. Made it way more intense. I love how we got small hints of Vhagar slowly catching up to them, with every lightning bolt revealing her silhouette. Really felt like a horror movie.
All of Rhanera's children could have survived. If she had gathered allies when her father was still alive maybe someone from pentos or dorne would have been willing to hide them. Instead, she stupidly did not gather any allies and so her sons died in a stupid grueling war that killed most of her house.
A combination of reasons played into this the madness Otto planted in alicents head that she in turn placed in her sons heads played the biggest part in it all but she was definitely dumb
Pentos did agree to hide and foster her younger sons but on the way to Pentos the ship was attacked by the triarchy. Aegon III somehow survived with his dragon but couldn't save Viserys II. Dorne on the other hand has always remained neutral in Westerosi wars.
@@connoisseur1595 Dont know if you know this but Viserys does survive and he is reunited with his brother, Aegon. Two of then survived. Three did not. Im saying all of them could have survived. If she had not let tensions brew without gathering allies to her side before Viserys died. Allicent was gathering allies tho. Ser Criston cole, Larys, Otto and Dragons. And many others flocked to her side because they believed Rhaneras soms were Illegitimate.
@@lemonadelemon1960 yes I know he survived but it was unknown to them before the war ended. While I do agree with what you said but I also noticed Harrenhal would've been in Rhaenyra's side if Harwin and Lyonel didn't die. Jace did bring almost all powerful northern houses to their side, thanks to his diplomatic skills which I'm really looking forward to in the show. Jace's pact with Cregan Stark is what brought an end for the greens but it was too late for Rhaenyra. The most tragic betrayal was the dragonseeds for me during the war.
The "fact" the girl Baratheon choose by Aemond made fun of him, his manhood and all that started the War is crazy The Baratheons start and end wars with Targaryens
This is what I’ve been thinking too. It’ll be the finale and it will end with Rhaenyra walking out onto the walls of dragon stone and declaring war ( the shot we see in the trailer)
It’s not about whether Jacaerys would break his vow for some random northern bastard girl. The issue is if Cregan Stark would have let his sister be deflowered arbitrarily like that. In my opinion, using what we know of Cregan Stark he would’ve make the Prince pay the price no matter who or what or when
Of the Greens my favourite is Aemon one eye and of the blacks Daemon Targaryen and honestly the way they went out was absolutely awesome. Also, who was Cregan’s brother I’ve never heard of him before.
Daemon and Aemon's conflict is one of the highlights of the war for me. Nothing is know of Cregan's brother other than he was younger and died in 119ac. We don't even have a name. it think it's mentioned in a single line in fire and blood. its very random honestly.
I wonder if they will even have the storyline of them being strongs.. considering laenor is black, i mean it would be pretty damn obvious who’s children they are. Guess they didn’t take that part of the story into account
@@jimchop8235 Laenor is only half black (his mother is white). Laenor is also married to a white woman, so it is completely possible for their offspring to inherit solid Targaryen features. The black hair should be the give away, not their skin tone.
Turns out the part that matters about being a royal heir isn’t whether or not you’re a bastard. It’s which Targaryen knows how to actually fight with their dragons.
C'mon. Lucerys an TEENAGER, with an small dragon NEVER had any chances against Vhagar. If Lucerys was the one with Vhagar and the fight was a 13yo Aemond with Arrax vs an adult Lucerys with Vhagar. Aemond would've been easily killed. It's easy to know how to fight when you're riding a big animal, who had been fighting for YEARS, DECADES, mainly against an young, small animal ridden by a teenager boy
@@mischahouston8044 he was 13 when he died, he was a toddler basically when they bullied aemond. how exactly did he bully him? coughing up blood on him and not getting hit in the head with a rock? Not to mention the lovely "You're going to die screaming in flames just as your father did."
Something tells me Septon Eustace had a bias against the old gods. Considering he kept claiming Jace tried to sway Cregan Stark from the old gods to the seven.
I don't like how the show handled it. Another mistake. Just like the whispers of a dying man. They should have just allowed aemond to kill lucerys. Enough of the "whoops" moments.
In the book it is not from there perspective, the thing is this might have actually happened the way they took it was the correct way, you where like me at the beginning hoping they would just straight murder murder battle death etc
The show send the message "Targaryens dont control the dragons" There IS a long text about It but basically they transform dragons, intelligent creatures, into horses which IS a problem when you have 18 dragons around Also makes no sense of Aemond to kill Lucerys when BOTH sides are making threats, the point is how Aemond starts the War as an idi0t because they gave this Monsters to kids
I absolutely love it, making aemond much more multi layered other than the pyschopath he was in the books. He may be cruel and a bit of a cunt but I love what their doing with him in hotd giving him much more nuance.
I didn’t mind it. It goes to show that history can sometimes be super black and white. We don’t really know what happened or have people reacted unless we were there or hear their first hand account of events.
I wish Aemond wasn’t so hot headed. Just because some dumb chick you wasn’t going to marry anyway goaded you, you thought it made sense to kill a kid, starting the war that basically destroyed the Targaryens. Smh
I'd say that Luke should've been captured by Aemond. Killing him was a bit much, though he WAS trying to help his mother prepare for war so, maybe Aemond was just going after an easy kill of a powerful asset. Still, I'd have captured him there and held for a ransom.
@@lgt_jne Tbh, at that point the war was gonna pop off anyways. That's why Lucerys was there in the first place, trying to recruit houses. So at the end of the day, SOMEONE was gonna have to begin the conflict. Aemond saw this as an easy kill of a Dragon rider, bastard in line for the Throne, and leader of any kind of army he would've lead in the war to come. I argue he'd have been better captured but, I wouldn't say Aemond was stupid.
@@thalmoragent9344 I mean When the news gets back to Otto and Alicent they weren't happy and Otto even said something about you only lost an eye how could you be so blind
i just watched the last episode of house of dragon Ep10 His death was so tragic it tooks one bite from velar to kill the young son of riniera targaryen velar was rided by One eyed
& to think, none of this happens if Viserys simple names his first born male heir to the iron throne. Nice guy but as far as kings, he ranks right up there with the mad king.
@@tanoshiofm3852 There was no official law against women inhering the throne. The Great Council dismissed Rhaenys's claim because she's a woman, yes, but they considered it. The Council believed that choosing Viserys over Rhaenys and Laenor established a precedent that women claims came after men, but I don't think it was actually made into a law until after the Dance of the Dragons.
The targaryens by Tradition followed the law of Valeria which was that of primogeniture which means the hier can be a male or female as long as they are the first born child but they stopped this Tradition in order to intergrate into westeros society which did not practice primogeniture
@@WorldOfWesteros Any political figure who justifies graves acts of war because of personal vendettas would be seen as terrible people who MUST be ousted from power. It SHOULD be overlooked.
The way I see it is show is the show, the book is the book. In the book my view is the events at storms end are relatively accurate until the points the dragons lift off, there were maesters and multiple witnesses there to verify it, but when it comes to what happened in the sky the only people who know what happens are Aemond and Luke, the maesters just guess what happened up there from the outcome. To be fair I like how both the book and the show choose to handle this
Okay so you said "thunder" and thunder literally went on for about 1 minute straight, at first I thought you added a sound effect, then I realized that was literally just thunder outside.
First of all, why send your boy for that kind of mission? It was stupid. Not the time for some practice since you literally have to persuade Lords to side with you. If they were just envoy, then a raven was much safer! And why is there a third rider leaving Dragon stone when they left for the mission?
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 i know. Jace pointed that out. But their lives are in danger. Is being faster than a raven worth that now? Know what, they could be even held hostage by the greens. Why not? They are forcing Lords to bend the knee or die so why they cant do it to their opponent?
There is no "why did she" it's more of "why did HE". Aemond never should've attempted this. Period. This is what threw them headfirst into the war. Aemond was the dummy who started it. He speaks of being so well read yet wasn't smart enough to know the hell this would unleash on them all.
@@jbr6371 Aemond had just stolen their recently deceased aunts dragon, and not one of them was even 7, Aemond on the other hand had already been a squire for years, was a trained warrior, was twice Jaces size, and was beating the shit out of 3 little kids.
They still exist, they just aren't mentioned in the show because they aren't important to the overall plot. In the books Lord Leyton Hightower rules Oldtown, and hasn't come down from the hightower in a decade I believe.
@@oda1332 I mean not really. They're still very much powerful by the time of GoT, just not relevant to the affairs of the iron throne, and thus not relevant to the overall plot. And we know "who", we have the books.
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If your here because of house of the dragon and are upset about spoilers all i will say is this video is over a year and a half old and came out well before house of the dragon based on a book that has been out years, it was made to tell the story of fire and blood in the style of the animated history and lore videos on the DVD. Thus the audience for this video has mostly been book readers and people who don't want to read the book but want to knows what happens. While i understand the algorithm is pushing these videos in ways i did not expect when i made these videos yes some of the titles could be seen as spoilers. Needless to say i am going back thorough all 220 of my videos and trying to minimise the impact of these videos being shown to people who only watch the show and thus spoiling them. I'm adjusting titles and thumbnails but its taking a while due to the amount of videos, i'm also being careful not to kill the video performance so i'm being carful with the changes i've made.
Love your videos... Anyone who doesn't know the plot already should stop using social media, as its everywhere.
Thanks
You dont have to go through all of this effort, if people dont want spoilers dont warch the video or read the books
Thanks for the update. Or people can choose not to watch the videos until the show catches up or read the book
The Title of the video is self explanatory. People should know better. Great job with the video!
Ultimately Lucerys' murder is what gave way for the bloody, cruel, and bloodthirsty legacy that The Dance of Dragons would be known for as family members started targeting each other for payback starting with Blood and Cheese.
But it didn't start with B&C it started with Aemond thinking he can control Vhagar and tries to bully Lucerys. They both thought they could control their dragons as Arrax blasted Vhagar with a fireball after that Vhagar stalked Arrax and in one bite he ripped right through Arrax. Obviously killing Lucerys and Arrax and that is the start of The Dance of Dragons.
@@davidmancini8286 you're going by the show, WE are going by the book narrative
@@VinceTheCreatorr Lol ok
@@davidmancini8286 it’s not that they are talking about the books but Blood and Cheese was a Revenge play. Aemond killing Luke was the start of kinslaying, it wasn’t the start of revenge murder
@@davidmancini8286 it’s different in the show
I really hope we see jacerys reaction to his brothers death in house of the dragon. I can see it being way more emotional then rhaynera finding out because of how close Luke and Jace are
Ish. I mean a mother pain I think she kinda favor him more then her other children. But def Jace is gonna be emotional
@@oliviamcnally6650
Well, why would she love Luke more than his brothers?.
In the show, Aemond wasn't intent on killing Lucerys..he just wanted to bully him but Arrax and Vhager decided to disobey their riders and what ensued was a tragedy..it was so sad watching the boy and his baby dragon 🐉 die.
Incorrect he instigated the duel dealing with a power he thought he controlled just plain bully
@@mariusmassy8644 IMO Aemond was just chasing him a bit but Vhagar seemed pissed at Arrax's little fireball and wanted to get his hit back.
Vhagar was a battle harden dragon from the time of conquest. You don’t use a power like that for such childish bullshit.
Correct that's what happened in the show.
@@joeAnon796 that's the way I saw it also.
It’s a bloody cold murder. He’s so young. He even refused to fight and went there as only a messenger and made that clear. Aemond acted more like a stupid kid. His action was the catalyst of the dance. Luke and Arrax was so helpless, it was unfair and no honor at all.
I think aemond was just messing around taunting luke. He never wanted luke dead that quickly. He lost control in his dragon when arrax spit fire on her. Vhagar got pissed.
@@krakenwindzstorm961 you're just saying that bc you already saw the leaked episode 10 video of hotd roflmao. "i think" my ass
@@edwardnewgate9834 no his prediction is spot on, i admire his thinking abilities
writer changing this scene 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 in book he kill not accidentally ... look's stupidity killing in war would be better but season 8 still running lol
@@mr.mrs.sammiejohnson9083 The story is a recounting of history via an unreliable narrator. The showrunners have plenty liberty to write it this way.
The death that ended the diplomacy and began the war
I feel sorry for the boy. He is tasked for an errand by his mom and gets killed by his relative lol.
I can imagine his fright being chased by the largest living dragon at the time.
I feel sorry for Luce but no remorse for Rhynera mourning him. Luce was a kid but Rhynera did not even apologize to Aemond for the lost eye. Infact she used her father's blind love to get away without any consequences.
If my kid was maimed and the abuser got away without justice I'd be mad too (ofcourse I wouldn't kill him for it but there has to be justice).
@@rohanshende4338 this is possibly the dumbest thing i have ever read , all of them where literally children (and the adults had nothing to do with the fight so an apology for either side is stupid because non of them had anything to do with it it was just children fighting that accolated badly because no adults were present ) , like what exactly the justice you want ? the fuck! like you want the other child to have his eyes cut too ? (which would be fucking insane ) or justice by offering money which wouldn't mean anything since they both are mega fucking rich .
@@rohanshende4338 If not for the one eye,aemond would have killed one of Rhaenrya sons.
So try again.
Or are u telling that Aemond at that night was not a bully but a victim lol
@@NotMeI77 if he had that eye,
Aemond would not be like this
@@anandaraman6604 nah i’m sure he would’ve still been a major asshole, maybe not killed luke for revenge but an ass nonetheless. and he wouldn’t have lost an eye if he didn’t advance towards jace with the intent of killing him with a rock, that’s when all bets where off the table and luke had to do anything to defend his brother.
The Greens struck the 1st deadly blow and everything went to hell from there.
Poor poor Lucarys. Didn’t even stand a chance.
i can't see a situation where he gets out alive, maybe if he ran when he first landed as saw Vhagar. I do like the theory that he survived and washed up on the shore days later with no memory and simple, kinda like moonboy. I like it but there is nowhere near enough proof in the text for it.
@@WorldOfWesteros I’m of the belief that he was either eaten (it’s not impossible but Vhagar might be more occupied fighting for his life). Or he died at sea and was so decayed that no one could recognize him. Kinda like how Catelyn is after she’s thrown into a river. And that was for like a week or 2. I’m not quite sure how long she was in but gotta be less than a month.
others say his body was retrieved and aemond took his eyes out
@@jankanggat5122 pretty sure he crashed into the ocean not far from storms end, no way for Aemond to get that eye imo
@@ryanelliott71698 I thought Arya’s direwolf dragged her body out after only 3 days?
they should have sent Rhaenys and Meleys to storms end, Lord Borros was her nephew
I’ve always wondered why they didn’t honestly
That’s a good point. Rhaenys probably would have had that all go differently.
the boys were chosen to go because she was losing her claim to the throne sending her brown haired boys on dragonback would send the message that even if they were bastard they a still Targaryen enough to ride dragons
@@enriquevanleeuwen7719 yeah buy Rhaenys had a personal connection to the stormlands and a larger dragon, Luke could have just as easily gone to riverrun via harrenhal where a dragon in the courtyard could bring the tullys in and Rhaenys brings in the stormlanders, her mother was a baratheon she could probably have led them herself
Meleys would’ve easily out paced vhagar
I am juuuust beginning to get into all of GRRM's stories, and your videos have all been incredibly helpful. Thank you for all the hard work you so obviously put into all of this!
No worries, this is exactly why I made them. As a easy first step into the expanded lore
That's whats missing from this episode, I needed to see Maris taunt Aemond into acting.
i did find it odd. I get they have limited in an episode but i'd have loved another 5 mins at Storms Ends.
I thought it might be due to paying speaking actors more than non-speaking. I don't know if that is true, but I thought that was something.
"Cregan Stark was 21" (looks at least 40 due to hardness of the North) 😅
The Hightower house ruined everything. If it wasn't for them targaryen blood would be in every house and everyone would have dragons for when the white walkers came.
The Targaryens would never allow everyone to have dragons, the Velaryons were an exception because of their close kinship but I have serious doubts that they would give dragons to every great house. To quote the words of King Daeron II "Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few." But I admit that you were right about the Hightowers ruining everything with the Dance and their schiming.
@@Dragonhearth1461 there would be a bunch of dragons on dragonstone and a ridiculous amount of dragon blood to claim them. Like a conscription for war. We could have had air battles.
Im not as down on Hightower as everyone else is. They did what any other house wouldve done if they had the chance. Look at how everyone was trying to wed Rhaenyra.
If the targaryens still had their dragons the mad king would have won against robert baratheon
@@peepinR The Hightowers were too ambitious to be ruling over the Seven Kingdoms. Politicians MUST care about the good of the realm, not their own selfish desires. Never. Their selfishness at the scale they pushed for, negatively impacted the realm immensely.
Yes, that's what people would have done, that's why they are not the rulers. Aegon became ruler because he saw a large threat that loomed and saw the need to unite the realm. The Hightowers just... wanted... to be at the top. Disgusting.
It happened. Vhagar did bite Arrax into bits. Together with poor Lucerys.
It was a shocking moment.
Actually lucerys body fell
I think George didn't write any story lines for strong boys as he already had daemon as rival to aemond.
Whether or not the HOTD lore is canon, one thing is for sure, Prince Lucerys's death triggered the bloody kinslaying that is to follow.
For me the book cannon is book canon the show is the show, but what i like is especially with Aemond/Luke at storms end is in reality in the book we have no idea what really happened when they left Storms Ends except Aemond kills Luke. It's one of the few times i belive the show had handle it how they see fit without impacting the storyline or canon. I just hope the kinslyaing it leads to (b&c) is not watered down.
@@WorldOfWesteros Yeah, IMO the only 'weak' episode of HOTD is 9 and it is not even considered bad, at least for me.
What made me confuse is, didn't Rhaenyra lose her 3rd child with Daemon after she learned about the death of Prince Lucerys, or was it after the news of the death of her Father like the show portrayed?
@@jeeeeev If not for the ending of episode nine I would have been ok with it. Otherwise I'd still say it's the weakest episode but that's because I don't like any of the greens except Haelena and Aemond.
I thought it was what actually happened? HOTD was written by Martin
@@WorldOfWesteros the author said the show is a true representation of characters intentions and the book is written from a perspective of bias
I can't wait to see this acted out. Aemond is a jerk and I can see him poking, and provoking Luke. This is gonna be a fire scene with the dragons, and emotional when Rhenyara finds out what happened to her son, and Deamon pledges revenge. Ohhh boy!! Great video
it isn’t aemonds fault and it isnt luces fault. The blame is on Rheanyra. she killed her bastard boys the day she decided to abandon her honor and pursued her whorish acts. if she had true born sons none of this would have happened.
@@WatchAdam Exactly she just couldn't keep her legs crossed and betrayed those who supported her. Her bastard ain't saints either and should have known their place. Honestly, her death would be more satisfying to watch. Burned and eaten.🙂
@@WatchAdam you Wildin right now. Also they are true born due to her being the heir to the throne
@@WatchAdam Their mother is a Targaryen...They are half Targaryens just like Aemond
@@buzzkill36 it doesnt matter. Rheanyra should have married Strong if she wanted to have kids with him. Shes the reason why the targaryes fell off. the fault of an egotistical woman who only thinks of her self. they make her look half decent in the show but book rheanyra is even worse
Damn Aemond was really savage with all the insults he threw at Luke
Can’t wait to see him in the show
Aemon is going to be brutal.
And quite ironic since Aemond (a trueborn) was being enraged and insultive while Lucerys (a bastard born) was acting decent and stoic!
@@PedroLucas-mg5je well not decent if you take someones eye out
@@rohanshende4338 Yeah, something like that!
This can be one of the best scenes of all time of done right. Just imagining the gigantic vhagar appearing from the clouds with the score 🔥🔥🔥
And in the middle of a thunderstorm, yep should be amazing
I think he's getting eaten. I don't think he falls into the sea.
Out of nowhere, Vhagar swoops down with blinding speed and an open mouth and it is over. She bites down encompassing the rider which would snap off the dragon's neck and head falling to the sea.
Like jaws of the sky. You can't see Vhagar in the storm but you know she's there and when you see her, it's too late.
(edit: if they play with the suspense like Jaws I will freak out and be actually scared lol)
@@porkmaster4312 th-cam.com/video/dtbgJQtfksQ/w-d-xo.html Pretty much exactly what happens. She tears him in half with a single bite. But I'm glad they had a long cat-and-mouse chase before that. Made it way more intense. I love how we got small hints of Vhagar slowly catching up to them, with every lightning bolt revealing her silhouette. Really felt like a horror movie.
Nice
Its done right..👍
All of Rhanera's children could have survived. If she had gathered allies when her father was still alive maybe someone from pentos or dorne would have been willing to hide them. Instead, she stupidly did not gather any allies and so her sons died in a stupid grueling war that killed most of her house.
A combination of reasons played into this the madness Otto planted in alicents head that she in turn placed in her sons heads played the biggest part in it all but she was definitely dumb
Pentos did agree to hide and foster her younger sons but on the way to Pentos the ship was attacked by the triarchy. Aegon III somehow survived with his dragon but couldn't save Viserys II. Dorne on the other hand has always remained neutral in Westerosi wars.
@@connoisseur1595 Dont know if you know this but Viserys does survive and he is reunited with his brother, Aegon. Two of then survived. Three did not. Im saying all of them could have survived. If she had not let tensions brew without gathering allies to her side before Viserys died. Allicent was gathering allies tho. Ser Criston cole, Larys, Otto and Dragons. And many others flocked to her side because they believed Rhaneras soms were Illegitimate.
@@lemonadelemon1960 yes I know he survived but it was unknown to them before the war ended. While I do agree with what you said but I also noticed Harrenhal would've been in Rhaenyra's side if Harwin and Lyonel didn't die. Jace did bring almost all powerful northern houses to their side, thanks to his diplomatic skills which I'm really looking forward to in the show. Jace's pact with Cregan Stark is what brought an end for the greens but it was too late for Rhaenyra. The most tragic betrayal was the dragonseeds for me during the war.
tru she did fail to prepare
A part of me hopes that Luke survived and was either too afraid to return back to Dragonstone, or lost him memory.
If you can survive a fall into the ocean from a dragon lmk
@@kurtissilva8951 not sure what a dragon has to do with it but people HAVE survived high falls into the water before I’m just saying
nobody could survive falling into shipbreaker bay, especially not a child. Stannis and Robert's parents die in a storm there too
Oh he didn’t
@@sethcarlson25 yeah………at least he was probably tasty😅
The "fact" the girl Baratheon choose by Aemond made fun of him, his manhood and all that started the War is crazy
The Baratheons start and end wars with Targaryens
This is the finale of season 1 with the final scene of Rhaenyra finding out his death.
Makes sense timeline wise to do that honestly
You think? The title of ep 10 is "The Black Council"
I thought so too... And second season episode 1 will be blood and cheese
@@peepinR it’s called that because the black council will get together to seek revenge.
This is what I’ve been thinking too. It’ll be the finale and it will end with Rhaenyra walking out onto the walls of dragon stone and declaring war ( the shot we see in the trailer)
It’s not about whether Jacaerys would break his vow for some random northern bastard girl. The issue is if Cregan Stark would have let his sister be deflowered arbitrarily like that. In my opinion, using what we know of Cregan Stark he would’ve make the Prince pay the price no matter who or what or when
Oh I definitely agree with your take given what we know about Cregan later in the story
Of the Greens my favourite is Aemon one eye and of the blacks Daemon Targaryen and honestly the way they went out was absolutely awesome. Also, who was Cregan’s brother I’ve never heard of him before.
Daemon and Aemon's conflict is one of the highlights of the war for me. Nothing is know of Cregan's brother other than he was younger and died in 119ac. We don't even have a name. it think it's mentioned in a single line in fire and blood. its very random honestly.
Aemond one eye not Aemon one eye
@@rickrage524 you’ll get the D later
I wonder if the Velaryon-Strong boys will be aged up in the show. Like they did some of the children in Game of Thrones
It's possible and in a way makes sense in terms of TV, however part of what makes some of the deaths so shocking is the ages of the people involved.
@@WorldOfWesteros what are you opinions of the show ageing characters? As you've said the most tragic deaths were the younger ones
I wonder if they will even have the storyline of them being strongs.. considering laenor is black, i mean it would be pretty damn obvious who’s children they are. Guess they didn’t take that part of the story into account
@@jimchop8235 Laenor is only half black (his mother is white). Laenor is also married to a white woman, so it is completely possible for their offspring to inherit solid Targaryen features. The black hair should be the give away, not their skin tone.
@@thegreatpage5912 I don’t think racial features are breeded out that quickly.
there is a really good art work of vhagar pursuing arax
truly terrifying
Can't wait to see this unfold next Sunday
The episode comes to life now.. sadly
I just subscribed and I’m sorry it took so long 😅 great content super informative
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Turns out the part that matters about being a royal heir isn’t whether or not you’re a bastard. It’s which Targaryen knows how to actually fight with their dragons.
C'mon. Lucerys an TEENAGER, with an small dragon NEVER had any chances against Vhagar. If Lucerys was the one with Vhagar and the fight was a 13yo Aemond with Arrax vs an adult Lucerys with Vhagar. Aemond would've been easily killed. It's easy to know how to fight when you're riding a big animal, who had been fighting for YEARS, DECADES, mainly against an young, small animal ridden by a teenager boy
I kind of want to see if House of the dragon introduces Sara Snow.
i've not actually thought about this, good point
Aemond I'm such a badass, has the biggest dragon in the world and kills a baby dragon and a 13 year old... 🙄🙄
A 13 year old who bullied him as a child, who cut his eye out, who laughed in his face and never apologized for any of it.
@@mischahouston8044 he was 13 when he died, he was a toddler basically when they bullied aemond. how exactly did he bully him? coughing up blood on him and not getting hit in the head with a rock? Not to mention the lovely "You're going to die screaming in flames just as your father did."
@@mischahouston8044 did you actually forget his brother aegon was the real bully of his pig dragon scene?
Wasnt it stated in after episode clarification that all kids are between 17-21 when dance start? So how was 13 yo?
@@tokotadh5743you should have known in got world 13 years old can go to war that bastard lucerys was a weakling and he was 14
Something tells me Septon Eustace had a bias against the old gods. Considering he kept claiming Jace tried to sway Cregan Stark from the old gods to the seven.
Episode 10 of HOTD is going to show this and it’s going to be crazy
Well I'm here after the final episode
No wonder they rooted out the Hightower root and stem
Damn luke just had to chose the hottest girl.
Bro I’m watching every video you have mate love it!!
This might be the season 1 cliffhanger
ill never forgive them for not including Merris Baratheons line!
Or Aemonds: Are wet bastar.d? Does it rain or did you piss yourself? So awesome!
A lot of so many good lines were lost especially from the green council and storms end
Aemond the kinslayer
Just waiting for the show reactions to what happens to everyone they see as favorites
we're gonna see this on Sunday 👀👀👀
Came here after the season one finale.
I don't like how the show handled it. Another mistake. Just like the whispers of a dying man. They should have just allowed aemond to kill lucerys. Enough of the "whoops" moments.
In the book it is not from there perspective, the thing is this might have actually happened the way they took it was the correct way, you where like me at the beginning hoping they would just straight murder murder battle death etc
The show send the message
"Targaryens dont control the dragons"
There IS a long text about It but basically they transform dragons, intelligent creatures, into horses which IS a problem when you have 18 dragons around
Also makes no sense of Aemond to kill Lucerys when BOTH sides are making threats, the point is how Aemond starts the War as an idi0t because they gave this Monsters to kids
So aemond got mad cause a little girl told him he had no balls? Sounds green to me
The girl was not little. She was Aemond's age.
@@rohanshende4338 Even worst
@@tanita6234 Not worse than taking someone's eye out and not even apologizing to them.
@@rohanshende4338 Luke should've taken both of them 😂 aemond cero eyes
@@tanita6234 You just hate Aemond because he is Alicent’s son don’t you 😂
Aemond the Kin Slayer
Vaghar killed that bastard lucerys aemond didn't killed him with his hands
The show turns Lucerys' death into an accident rather than Aemond actually wanting to kill him... Aemond lost control of Vhagar.
Just like lucerys lost over arrax
I absolutely love it, making aemond much more multi layered other than the pyschopath he was in the books. He may be cruel and a bit of a cunt but I love what their doing with him in hotd giving him much more nuance.
I'm still not sure how i feel about it. But i'm gonna watch again on Sunday and have a think before i do a review.
@@narcissistic7271 it was his first kill as well. Shows that he wasn't born a monster.
I didn’t mind it. It goes to show that history can sometimes be super black and white. We don’t really know what happened or have people reacted unless we were there or hear their first hand account of events.
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Ooou I hope House of the dragon actually shows aemond kut out his eyes and present them that be a bad ass ending to an episode
Aemond is about to be the ultimate badass in House of the dragon
Definitely, he's one of the characters i'm most looking to seeing
Daemon Targaryen and Aemond
I will prove to be the better of the Targaryens
Daemon is the true badass.
Daemon owns Aemond
I wish Aemond wasn’t so hot headed. Just because some dumb chick you wasn’t going to marry anyway goaded you, you thought it made sense to kill a kid, starting the war that basically destroyed the Targaryens. Smh
the war had already started.
To Aemond, there is a debt to be paid! Just watch the leaked season finale
I'd say that Luke should've been captured by Aemond. Killing him was a bit much, though he WAS trying to help his mother prepare for war so, maybe Aemond was just going after an easy kill of a powerful asset. Still, I'd have captured him there and held for a ransom.
Aemond was being stupid
@@lgt_jne
Tbh, at that point the war was gonna pop off anyways. That's why Lucerys was there in the first place, trying to recruit houses. So at the end of the day, SOMEONE was gonna have to begin the conflict. Aemond saw this as an easy kill of a Dragon rider, bastard in line for the Throne, and leader of any kind of army he would've lead in the war to come.
I argue he'd have been better captured but, I wouldn't say Aemond was stupid.
@@thalmoragent9344 I mean When the news gets back to Otto and Alicent they weren't happy and Otto even said something about you only lost an eye how could you be so blind
@@lgt_jne
As I said, he would've been a fool to let him go unhindered but I agree he would've been best left captured alive and not dead.
There has never lived a Stark who forgot an oath and with house Stark the north will follow.
Useless 💩 house stark didn't even came to fight
@@debamlyabanerjee4067 send there banner men 🤷🏻
Winter wolves 🐺
i just watched the last episode of house of dragon Ep10
His death was so tragic it tooks one bite from velar to kill the young son of riniera targaryen velar was rided by One eyed
i didn't expect the actually death to be so swift but i thought it was done well
His death resulted in cheese and blood, I mean fire and blood
This is definitely goin to be worse than the Ned Stark ending of season 1
I hope the is the season one finale of the show
It is
@@babaylanx how do u know?
@@rehaanuwu leaks
If this is season 1 finale then is blood and cheese the season 2 premiere?
@@idawg7332 if it will be the opening it will hit HARD
just watched HOTD S01E10. And WOW.
Aemond didn't like the pig joke
Something tells me this will either be Episode 9 or 10 of HotD
According to the leaks, it will happen in episode 10.
SEASON FINALE STORMS END PEOPLE!!!
Marys fault. She stoked decades worth of tension with some stupid comments, albeit clever. Bad timing. Aemond snapped and got his get back.
Based Aemond
next episode boys
Aemond: sorry kid it’s nothing personal it’s just business
Well this is why you shouldn’t take out someone eye...
the book are an perspective of the measter who wrote while the show tells what actually happened
Not exactly. The books and show are completely separate
just watched episode 10 and man, that death was brutal
Only the beginning 😂
Aemond was based for this.
I can't wait to see it on TV
6:15 why on earth condal cut that line?
Its obvious they dont want Aemond to be the plain villan
@@4Sim0n4 still could've included it
Team green
I’m gonna cry a lot next episode aren’t I? 😂
Get ready this suuuuuundayyyy
& to think, none of this happens if Viserys simple names his first born male heir to the iron throne. Nice guy but as far as kings, he ranks right up there with the mad king.
Or if Otto wasn’t such a cunt.
I agree. He should have followed the laws that gave him the throne.
@@tanoshiofm3852 There was no official law against women inhering the throne. The Great Council dismissed Rhaenys's claim because she's a woman, yes, but they considered it. The Council believed that choosing Viserys over Rhaenys and Laenor established a precedent that women claims came after men, but I don't think it was actually made into a law until after the Dance of the Dragons.
The targaryens by Tradition followed the law of Valeria which was that of primogeniture which means the hier can be a male or female as long as they are the first born child but they stopped this Tradition in order to intergrate into westeros society which did not practice primogeniture
I don't think Daemon would have just gave up on becoming king and having his line being the future's succession just like that.
Death of another "strong" boy
House of the Dragon season finale
Just watched the hotd episode..
In show they show dragon fights and their rider won't able to control them
Good riddance. Aemond showed mercy by not hitting him with a rock, and yet Lucerys used a knife to blind him.
I think a lot of people often overlook this fact. For Aemoned this was a personal vendetta just as much as it was an act of war
@@WorldOfWesteros Any political figure who justifies graves acts of war because of personal vendettas would be seen as terrible people who MUST be ousted from power. It SHOULD be overlooked.
@@Elganleap Everyone in this show is a Kinslayer. It is a family civil war.
@@rohanshende4338 well the kinslayering only started because and after this
@@phantomcobra2612 It started when Luke took Aemond's eye and Rhynera used her privilege to get away without any consequences
This is from whose POV again from the book? Guess what Maris thing really didnt happen. HOTD is what really happened
The way I see it is show is the show, the book is the book. In the book my view is the events at storms end are relatively accurate until the points the dragons lift off, there were maesters and multiple witnesses there to verify it, but when it comes to what happened in the sky the only people who know what happens are Aemond and Luke, the maesters just guess what happened up there from the outcome. To be fair I like how both the book and the show choose to handle this
Cant wait
3:14 NEXT WEEK!!!!
Bro I would have just cut my eye out if I was Luke 😭😭😭
I wonder what Aemond would have done? Like, thanking him awkwardly, throwing up or just being shocked?;
Bruh moment
Boy did you just call that woman a creature???
Okay so you said "thunder" and thunder literally went on for about 1 minute straight, at first I thought you added a sound effect, then I realized that was literally just thunder outside.
Oh shit, this should be next episode?
yep
Lucerys Waters
First of all, why send your boy for that kind of mission? It was stupid. Not the time for some practice since you literally have to persuade Lords to side with you. If they were just envoy, then a raven was much safer!
And why is there a third rider leaving Dragon stone when they left for the mission?
that was meleys and rheanys on their way to the stepstones
They literally explain it in the episode. The dragons are faster
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 i know. Jace pointed that out. But their lives are in danger. Is being faster than a raven worth that now? Know what, they could be even held hostage by the greens. Why not? They are forcing Lords to bend the knee or die so why they cant do it to their opponent?
There is no "why did she" it's more of "why did HE". Aemond never should've attempted this. Period. This is what threw them headfirst into the war.
Aemond was the dummy who started it. He speaks of being so well read yet wasn't smart enough to know the hell this would unleash on them all.
To be honest, Luke had it coming. He was the one who half blinded Aemond in the first place.
I always found it interesting how personal vendettas such as Luke and Aemond end up fuelling a war so much
@@WorldOfWesteros and end up dragging everything & everyone along with it
Luke was five at the time and his six year old brother was getting clobbered by a much larger 12 year old Aemond, Luke saved Jace's life
@@chrisrubin6445 My guy, they literally attacked him with wooden swords first, he fought back until luke pulled out a steel dagger
@@jbr6371 Aemond had just stolen their recently deceased aunts dragon, and not one of them was even 7, Aemond on the other hand had already been a squire for years, was a trained warrior, was twice Jaces size, and was beating the shit out of 3 little kids.
Lucarys had it coming. Aemond would have let him go had he done so.
Idk why i just spolied the show but fuckit
The high towers dont exist in the GOT .means they get smashed some how
Margaery’s mother is a hightower.
They still exist, they just aren't mentioned in the show because they aren't important to the overall plot. In the books Lord Leyton Hightower rules Oldtown, and hasn't come down from the hightower in a decade I believe.
@@ImPallasAthena still they had no power in the original or importance means they got stepped on by someone .we're about to find out who
@@oda1332 I mean not really. They're still very much powerful by the time of GoT, just not relevant to the affairs of the iron throne, and thus not relevant to the overall plot. And we know "who", we have the books.
@@oda1332 Both hightowers and velarions exist in GoT.
Fuck it, Borros should've been King.
Nah, it should’ve gone to Wat the Tanner.
I am with team green....long live aegon 2 taegaeryn....rhaenyra is a woman and destroyed taegaeryn family
i am also team green
WHY WOULD YOU SPOIL THIS FOR US???
A yr before
Cregan fucking stark obliterates everyone.