House of the Dragon Season Finale Trailer HD - Episode 8 season 2
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00:00The final episode is such a great build for everywhere we've been in season 2 and promising what's to come.
00:15Rhaenyra has choked King's Landing with the blockade and people are starting to get hungry and they're going to revolt against the King or the Prince Regent.
00:23Break the blockade and it will benefit you.
00:26It seems you need us more than we need you.
00:30There is a Lannister navy, there is a Hightower navy, but they're on the other side of the blockade.
00:35And so they end up going to bargain with the Triarchy, which Tyland is very not on board with but ends up having to do.
00:42But it's a sign of how extreme their position is.
00:46This is where the seat of power sits and this is a very rich cartel of three different nations that are in the shipping and piracy business.
00:53And they hate Westeros and they want to seek a profit off of them.
00:57He gets sent to Pirate Land to treat with the pirates, to see if he can get the Triarchy to ally with the Greens.
01:05Admiral Loha.
01:07He needs to impress me before he can get what he wants.
01:10I put him through absolute hell.
01:14Singing was the worst. I can handle mud wrestling but singing is miserable.
01:18But it worked because Tyland can't sing.
01:21She's a bonkers character that feels like one of these very colorful characters ripped right out of the pages of George's books.
01:28The people there take her entirely seriously and we're sort of looking at her the way that Tyland does, which is, what's going on and is this real?
01:34One of our season highlights was bringing in Shirako Lohar and it can be a rough show.
01:40It's grim, it's a war, a lot of people die.
01:43So having that moment of levity and just sort of off-kilterness was really important to us and a really welcome little bit of fun.
01:57How goes the sea snake?
01:59I've given her a new name.
02:01The Queen Who Never Was.
02:03We really wanted to find a way for him to honor and keep alive the memory of Rhaenys.
02:07Because it shows the arc that he's been on across the season where much of his life was about him and his own glory.
02:13I mean, he named his ship after himself.
02:15Corlys always went out to sea, so Rhaenys never felt like his priority.
02:20And when she died, it finally came to Corlys that he always thought about himself.
02:27And so he did the one thing he could do, take his namesake, his ship, and make it hers.
02:33He's lost all the people he loves.
02:36He's sort of come to this place of acceptance and understanding that his great exploits are less important than just having his family around him.
02:47Do you know what hunger does to a boy?
02:50What grief does.
02:52Rhaenys always had the conversation with Corlys about his heir.
02:56And none of them really feel like they're the right person.
03:00For the first time, Corlys considers Adam and Alan.
03:04Yes, they are bastards, but they are more qualified.
03:07One of the things that we talked about, myself, Abu, and Geeta, was that nobody speaks to Corlys that way.
03:14Not if they've got any sense.
03:15The only person who does is Rhaenys.
03:17When it came to the tirade, this emotional speech, it came down to the words.
03:22And playing off Steve and his reactions, Alan doesn't expect it coming out of him.
03:27I wasn't expecting it coming out of me either.
03:29Like, it was one of those moments where I genuinely felt like I could really let go.
03:33I am trying to help you.
03:35Now you remember I live.
03:39He watched me with my other son picking up wonderful gifts and walking into the castle.
03:43And he, who knew I was his father, had to grow up in poverty.
03:47For me then to come into his life and sort of go, I'm trying to help you.
03:50Well, of course he's going to be resentful.
03:52You understand the hurt and everything that he's carried for all of these years.
03:55You see the way it lands on the sea snake.
03:57And I think he knows that he hasn't been the patriarchal figure that he needed to be to these guys.
04:02But I don't think he realizes until this moment the cost that it had on this human being.
04:07If it is all the same, I will decline any offers of help.
04:20Eamon lashes out.
04:22It's also a strategic act because Sharpoint is the seat of House Massey, who serves on Rhaenyra's council.
04:27It's a punishment to them for siding with the Pretender.
04:30Aemond is showing that he's not running.
04:32He's burning cities filled with innocent people instead.
04:36Aemond is now, for the first time this season I think, scared.
04:39From the time in season one when he got Vhagar as a boy, that's changed his entire outlook.
04:45And now that he's been challenged by these new dragons, it's the first time that like,
04:49oh no, I don't have the upper hand in any situation I go into.
04:53The stakes are so high that if he doesn't get another rider, he will have no chance against the Blacks.
05:00And they will lose the throne if Aegon continues to be king.
05:05In his mind, he's doing what's right for his house.
05:08Why must I run?
05:10Because the Prince Regent is going to kill you.
05:12I think in Larysa's experience, those who look through you, they never see you coming.
05:17That's what he's trying to say to Aegon is, as long as Aegon is not a threat,
05:22he's relatively safe.
05:24Larysa sees the light at the end of the tunnel, or at least he's made Aegon think he knows what that could be.
05:30After his encounter with Aemond in episode six, Aegon knows that Larysa's correct.
05:35In that moment, Aemond gets desperate with a newfound potential threat.
05:39He overextends and gets forceful with Helene.
05:42I think it's desperation that reeks off him in that scene when Alison and Helene are both like,
05:48bro, calm down.
05:50This is not how somebody who feels really sure about what they're doing behaves.
05:56Helene admits, she saw how I burned Aegon.
05:59And it's hard-hitting for Aemond to hear that he's going to go down.
06:03He kind of envisioned after the war had finished, he'd be seen as this war hero.
06:08But Helene's prophecy puts a stop to that.
06:10Helene has probably put herself in more danger with Aemond than she ever has been before.
06:15Would you not have us prevail?
06:16Not like this.
06:18Aemond is going to be an interesting loose cannon in season three,
06:21because when Aemond is scared, laughed at, or feels small, he lashes out.
06:26You're either with him or you're against him.
06:29You get in his way, you're in for a shock.
06:35All your life, you've sought to command your own fate.
06:40But today you are ready.
06:42There are different magics and worlds in play here in George's universe.
06:47And Alice has been a bit of a guide for Daemon,
06:49and has made him ready for this thing that Alice is going to show him
06:53that he was not ready for in episode three when he showed up at the castle.
06:57He's evolved in some way, and he's ready to see the future.
07:04We wanted Daemon to have this final experience that was undeniable to him.
07:07He's somebody that has rejected the supernatural his entire life.
07:10We definitely wanted to tie what Daemon sees to Game of Thrones,
07:14because where it picks up, it's Daenerys Targaryen finding those eggs.
07:18She is a descendant of Daemon and Rhaenyra,
07:21and so what he ends up seeing is that he's just this tiny piece of this massive story.
07:26And once you start to see that, you gain an entirely different perspective.
07:31This vision brings Daemon into the story of Fire and Ice,
07:36and takes him to his death.
07:38And after his death, it shows him that if he continues to only think of himself,
07:43great loss will be had.
07:46And then he sees a hope.
07:48We know it's Daenerys, but he doesn't know who it is.
07:51I mean, he sees a White Walker, which is cool.
07:53I was like, come on, that's cool.
07:55Even though Rhaenyra and Daemon are not going to save the realm from the White Walkers,
07:59their actions do have an impact on how that future is going to play out.
08:05You know your part.
08:08To evolve from the character that stormed out of Dragonstone in episode two,
08:11we had to see Daemon go through all of his trials and tribulations,
08:15and Rhaenyra not knowing what Daemon is going to do.
08:18And I do believe he has changed, and he sees that he is not the player,
08:22but a piece on the board, as Alys tells him.
08:24He sees Rhaenyra on the throne,
08:26and I think it gives him the confidence in himself to go,
08:30I serve you, and I'm yours.
08:32And it's not that everything's been resolved,
08:34but Daemon realizes that his job is to facilitate Rhaenyra getting to the throne,
08:39and that he understands now that Viserys wasn't trying to punish him,
08:45and so he's able to let go of his anger at Rhaenyra,
08:48just sort of let everything go, and let's go do this together.
08:51I'm on your team.
08:52She wasn't sure throughout the entire season if he was going to try to set himself up as king,
08:56and it's this moment of validation that she gets from him that I think is incredibly meaningful.
09:01We fight for our queen!
09:09Will you see it through, and make your sacrifice?
09:13A son for a son.
09:17You've seen the massive way that things have changed between meeting number one and meeting number two,
09:21and I think both of them have been through further trauma,
09:24and it's brought them back around to a place where they're wondering what the cost of all this is for.
09:29It's massive that Alicent travels to Rhaenyra.
09:32It's treason if Daemon found out, head on his bike.
09:36But it's also to look Rhaenyra in the eye as my rawest self.
09:40This is me shedding whatever power or queenly status I had.
09:44I was wrong. Take it. I don't want anything to do with it. I'm done.
09:48She's had this journey of self-naturalization, and she's got a lot of power within her,
09:52and I think she feels much more capable.
09:56It's funny to be offered a huge gift at the point where you think you already have what you need.
10:02The climax of that scene is Rhaenyra, I'm going to have to kill your son,
10:06and Alicent acceding to it, which is huge for Rhaenyra,
10:10because that is not something that Alicent would ever have done before.
10:13So I think that causes her to really believe what Alicent is saying.
10:17Rhaenyra has these new dragon riders. She's just gotten Daemon back.
10:21She has this big army. If she wanted to, she could probably win this war herself,
10:26but at the cost of thousands and thousands of lives.
10:30And then she's sort of given this backdoor by Alicent.
10:33And so I think we leave Season 2 with Rhaenyra in this place of, what am I going to do?
10:40It's such a beautiful scene, so wonderfully written by Sarah,
10:43wonderfully performed by Emma and Olivia, and Geeta beautifully directed it.
10:47And the way it launches us into the third season and the unknown of what's to come,
10:51it's a tour de force.
10:53There's so much in play. There are armies, there are dragons,
10:57there's castle strongholds and political maneuvering,
11:00but at the end of the day, it comes down to these two women trying to figure it out.
11:05The Lannisters are arriving in the Riverlands.
11:07The Hightowers are marching through the Reach.
11:09The Winterwolves are coming in from the north.
11:11The Triarchy's sailing. We see the Sea Snake going back out to sea.
11:15Daemon has his army in the Riverlands.
11:17Alicent's fourth son and his dragon.
11:19The Blue Queen is now flying in support of this massive Hightower army.
11:23We find Otto in this cell somewhere,
11:25and we don't know quite where he is or what happened to him.
11:27Rhaena discovers a dragon, and we see a forest outside of King's Landing,
11:32and there is Aegon.
11:34Larys and Aegon basically escaped King's Landing,
11:36because shit's about to hit the fan.
11:38It's just a reminder of things have been put in motion which they can't pull back.
11:42And similar to Daemon's vision, where you're seeing the things,
11:45While this season was very much about the fits and starts of an early medieval war,
11:49season three is clearly going to be about total war.
11:52I think Team Black are in ascendancy.
11:54A desperate aimment is a dangerous aimment.
11:56I will never, ever concede.
11:58The whole thing is just so volatile.
12:00Baelor's going to do whatever it takes.
12:02Whatever it comes down to, she's prepared to do.
12:04She has the better hand.
12:06And an inevitable battle.
12:08It's going to be a big battle.
12:10It's going to be a big battle.
12:12She has the better hand.
12:14And an inevitably positive shot at the throne.
12:17The pendulum could swing the other way very quickly.
12:19We shall see who the last man standing is.