House Of The Dragon Season 2 Episode 8 Finale FULL Breakdown and Game Of Thrones Easter Eggs

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00:00Welcome back everyone it's Charlie.

00:09This will be my full house the dragon season 2 episode 8 video.

00:12There were a ton of Easter eggs and book references and connections to the original game of thrones

00:17show some more little than others.

00:19There even some scenes meant to set of characters will see on other upcoming TV shows like night

00:23of the seven kingdoms with the blood raven I'll be doing videos for that show to just

00:27like I do for house the dragon like I did for the original show game of thrones will

00:31start seeing trailers for it later this year.

00:34Alright everybody grab your swords time to storm King's landing just have a couple things

00:38to take care before we do that there are also a lot of book changes.

00:41So will break it all down.

00:43I'm also working on some of my house the dragon season 3 videos right now to so be sure to

00:47subscribe to get everything careful for spoilers.

00:50If you have not seen the finale yet will be talking about everything starting with the

00:53episode title the queen whoever was.

00:57This is a reference to both rainier and rainies corliss's flagship which he renamed from the

01:01sea snake to the queen who never was to honor rainies, but ever was as in always was is

01:07rainier reference is meant to be a parallel for the title of the season one finale which

01:12was the black queen as well to the idea that the queen whoever was is the show saying that

01:16she was always the queen the rightful queen like you always were the queen.

01:22Even though we have all these problems with the greens right now Damon kind of says the

01:26same thing to her later in the episode when he bends the knee again swearing his fealty

01:30again like you are the queen you are the one to unite us all against the long night tying

01:35things back to all Damon's weirwood visions and seeing her sitting on the iron throne

01:39with her crown and also setting up season three which they imply she will take King's

01:44landing and actually sit on that iron throne for real bringing it full circle from season

01:48one when she was named the heir in the realm swore fealty to her at the end of episode

01:52one like the circle is now complete will see if he tells her about beheading the young

01:57version of her in that one vision of his like whether was this one vision I did have where

02:01we did kind of come to blows and I might have cutting your head off.

02:04But don't worry.

02:05I'm totally past it.

02:06Now they added to the intro tapestry again they did a scene depicting the events of the

02:10end of episode seven with Vhagar and Aemon coming for Dragonstone in Rhaenyra scaring

02:14him off with all of her new dragons the bloody lines between Vhagar and Syrax around them

02:19here are reference to the bloodlines of old Valyria the dragon seeds themselves having

02:24Valyrian blood in their veins.

02:25Then we see all the dragons that she has available to her here on dragon.

02:29So that's why Caraxes isn't here because he's over at Harrenhal, but these are all the current

02:33dragons that she has available to her besides that the opening scene starts with Tywin Lannister

02:38meeting with the triarchy to negotiate for their fleet and financial support in Tyrosh

02:43this area right here on the map their initial demand for their fleet is a hundred dragons

02:48which of course he cannot deliver their final price is the stepstones which they've been

02:53fighting Corlys Valerion throughout season one for both in the flashbacks and then closer

02:58to present day to like it's been an ongoing battle with the triarchy.

03:01This is probably a lie on their part like they claim that they'll clean up their pirate

03:05ways in the stepstones and just impose a tax on passing vessels it'll probably way worse

03:10than that.

03:11There was also a bit where they slide in the fact that he doesn't have to worry about Aemon

03:15being pissed at him because he'll have enough forces to take the iron throne himself that

03:18could prove problematic in the future will see about that they introduce Chiraco Lohar

03:23who is a character from the books and just the admiral of the triarchy during this period

03:27in the dance the dragons they turned her into a bigger character on the show though there's

03:31not a whole lot of book material about her they turn her into a much bigger character

03:34just having her mess with him left and right like you have to mud wrestle me to get my

03:38fleet also to on the side note you can have to screw all my wives love all the scenes

03:43of the mud wrestling when he like finally starts punching her like okay fine I will

03:46hit a woman you can kind of tell that he was letting himself be thrown around there because

03:50he was afraid to actually fight with her decorum will only last so far with him in a love the

03:55way during their dinner where he actually starts doing the mental math after she says

03:59that he has to screw all of her wives like how many times I can have to do this.

04:03Not if he'll do it.

04:04But how many times is it going to be then we see is revenge for what happened at the

04:08end of episode seven Rhaenyra gaining the new dragon sees the writers for vermith or

04:12silverwing and see smoke Eamon promptly craps his pants probably for the first time in his

04:17adult life and took Vhagar and burned sharp point RIP to all those people in the city.

04:23We actually heard about sharp point early this season corliss Valerian said that bar

04:27Amon was spending one of his boys to work on his flagship during the dance the dragons.

04:31Now we know why he named drop sharp point because RIP most that city just got burned

04:36this is meant to show you how Eamon is reacting more and more unhinged to threats on this

04:41level what Rhaenyra just threw at him he's been spending his entire life thinking that

04:44he had the most powerful dragon and he was invincible now not so much Allison calls him

04:50on this later like he basically burns sharp point to reassert himself make himself feel

04:54powerful again.

04:55Like yes, I do have the most powerful dragon, but a big part in this episode is him coming

05:00slowly unhinged in that facade that he's been holding up since he claimed Vhagar since he

05:05started acting like he was invincible is crumbling around him.

05:09It almost seems like he starts to cry later in the episode he doesn't openly start crying

05:12but he seems like he's about to weep suddenly Mr. Invincible is acting like that scared

05:16little boy all over again that was kind of the vibe of his therapy sessions they was

05:21having with Sylvie in the brothel like him slowly regressing back into that boy like

05:25state confessing all these things that he wouldn't do in the light of day when he was

05:28walking around acting like he was invincible.

05:31Then we see Aegon getting his daily care from the Grand Maester he asked for some rum he's

05:35broken, but he still love himself a little bit of rum normally they be giving a milk

05:39of the poppy, but you remember that was a big thing for Laris strong do not take this

05:43it will dull your wits this whole arc here like the Aegon and Laris stuff is a big book

05:48change from fire and blood the maesters recorded that Aegon spent an entire year nearly comatose

05:54hopped up on milk of the poppy 24 seven, but in this scene here when Laris comes to see

05:58him another big book change Laris tries to sell him on the idea to escape to Essos until

06:04the dance the dragons blows over Laris expecting that Rhaenyra the blacks Aemon and the greens

06:09was mutually destroy each other.

06:11You can swoop in and fix everything there was actually a version of this plot during

06:15the boys season four episodes this year I did videos for that like completely separate

06:19show completely separate mythology, but same basic idea with this is giant war in somebody

06:24swooping in to be the savior Laris strong trying to get Aegon to just come chill out

06:29on a beach with him for the next couple years till the dance the dragons blows over.

06:33He also tells him that Aemon in his anger and fear over the dragon season of the dragons

06:37would be much more likely to kill him which probably is not wrong Aemon is probably just

06:41looking for an excuse to get rid of Aegon for good.

06:44He also tells him that if Rhaenyra prevails and takes King's landing which she probably

06:48will not if but when she does the first thing she's going to do is kill him and she's not

06:54wrong because Allison to Rhaenyra talk about this at the end of the episode and Rhaenyra

06:58basically says that she's going to chop Aegon's head off.

07:01So it is time for Aegon to get out of Dodge and I don't think this meant to be some kind

07:05of long con from Laris strong like he genuinely wants to help Aegon even though he does want

07:11to stay close to power.

07:12It's kind of the same thing for mysteria mysteria seems like she believes in Rhaenyra, but she

07:16also does want to stay close to power.

07:19So it's not like Laris strong or mysteria on both sides of this are both being selfless

07:23beings they still want power.

07:26But now you see why Laris made such a big deal about getting Aegon walking again so

07:30fast after the battle at Rook's rest so that Aegon would be physically capable of making

07:34the journey east with him if they paste out his recovery like it goes in the books timeline

07:40he still be unconscious at this point hopped up on milk of the poppy Aegon starts asserting

07:44himself more claiming he does want the iron throne again, but eventually agrees with Laris's

07:48plan will see how that storyline bears out in season three.

07:52It could either turn into an aria in Braavos kind of storyline where they were just looking

07:56somewhere to stash her for a couple seasons until she developed all these skills to bring

08:00her back to Westeros, but I don't think he's completely gone from the plot for like a lot

08:04of season three.

08:05I think will just check in with him and Laris in the east for a while unless something really

08:08big happens to them on their way to the east speaking of which there are a lot of theories

08:13that Sunfire his dragon is still alive in the woods near Rook's rest recovering just

08:17like Aegon and unable to fly currently, but even with the speedrun version of the books

08:22that the show is doing with his recovery.

08:24I don't think that Aegon or Sunfire if Sunfire is still alive would be able to fly or fight

08:29again or do much of anything until the end of season three.

08:33Maybe like beginning of season four, but everything that Helena tells to Aemon during the episode

08:37basically confirms that Aegon will be back and he will retake the iron throne eventually

08:43couple of interesting bits of information that Laris strong reveals her to we find out

08:46what he did with all the money from Harrenhal that he inherited when he killed his father

08:50and brother instead of moving it to King's landing like Simon strong thought that he

08:54did Laris actually moved it to the iron bank in Braavos, which is actually a pretty solid

08:59plan as we know the iron bank of Braavos is still going strong hundreds of years later

09:03in the timeline during the events of the main show, whereas in King's landing the greens

09:07have emptied the crown's gold essentially the crown is bankrupt, which is going to cause

09:11a huge problem for Rhaenyra when she tries to take the iron throne back at the beginning

09:16of season three gotta feed all those hungry people in King's landing somehow and she seems

09:21like she spent a lot of her gold on operation snack time earlier this season when she fed

09:25all the small folk I hope she's bringing a whole lot of boats full of food with her

09:30couple of funny things going on around the room here to like obviously is a very serious

09:33scene.

09:34But if you look around the room with some of the sect decoration.

09:36This has been here for a while, but they don't pan around the room that often on the walls

09:40of all these designs of people just humping their brains out the even funnier thing about

09:45this is that when Viserys lived in these chambers during season one when he was still alive

09:49is that they were all adorned with decorations of dragons humping each other and as you can

09:54imagine Alicent not a huge fan of seeing dragons humping each other everywhere she

09:59looked inside his room Corlys and Rhaenyra talk on drift market is shipyard about Helene

10:04and dreamfire.

10:05She doesn't even consider her a threat correctly.

10:07So because there's no way that she fight like Rhaenyra is 100% here.

10:11There's no way the Helene would do something like that when Corlys says Aemon will continue

10:15to burn cities not stopping with sharp point that's actually a book reference to things

10:19that will eventually happen later.

10:21Even if they change a little bit for the TV show.

10:22I think we'll see versions of that go down, but I want to get too far ahead of the story

10:27because the show does change so much.

10:29So there's no way of knowing how they're going to adapt that specifically, but Corlys is

10:33not wrong.

10:34Aemon will continue to burn as much as he possibly can.

10:37She notices his flagship the sea snake, which is also Corlys is nicknamed he's called the

10:41sea snake in the books.

10:43He tells her though that he since renamed the ship the queen who never was naming her

10:47in honor of Rhaenys RIP writing now to her greater glory saying that the sea snake had

10:53been a testament to his own selfish desire for glory.

10:56The renaming is also a bit of a callback to the title of the episode the queen who ever

11:00was which is more of a reference to Rhaenyra though at Harrenhal Damon tells the men to

11:04feed Caraxes more pigs just because they started to run out of other livestock in good news

11:09Caraxes prefers pigs.

11:11They say the river men will be ready to march in two days and he plans to march them to

11:15King's Landing and take King's Landing before the Lannister army shows up to Harrenhal and

11:20at the end of the episode we see them showing up at the Riverland so that they're almost

11:23at Harrenhal, but the not quite at Harrenhal yet love the little chuckle that escapes him

11:27when Alfred Broom walks in because he knows that she's from Rhaenyra like Rhaenyra is

11:31checking up on him like I see she's trying to see what I'm up to here, but the big twist

11:35here is that Alfred Broom really tries to throw Rhaenyra under the bus and I love the

11:38way the Damon takes him to the gods would to talk to him just so many scenes of Damon

11:42in the gods would hear probably because of all his visions later in the episode that

11:46they just really want you to focus on this area, but he essentially tries to get Damon

11:50to usurp Rhaenyra and take command of the army for himself, which they thought that

11:54he might do previously love Simon strong also kind of peeping on them in the distance to

11:58like wait what is he doing is going to take this army for himself, but because Damon is

12:01got a full 180 character arc now he is fully team Rhaenyra so of course he's not going

12:06to try and usurp her, but I do love the way the plays with Alfred Broom here just a little

12:10bit and the way that Alfred Broom kind of pauses for a second like what is that on

12:14the wind.

12:15Just another reference to Alice rivers which Damon also talks about when he says barking

12:19at the moon basically a callback to all of his visions and more Alice river stuff essentially

12:23him saying that weird stuff happens here just be prepared for that the Damon search to piss

12:28off the small folk even more by totally blocking the entrance from King's landings harbor.

12:33So even the fishermen boats can get in and out.

12:35So that means people are beginning to starve even faster in the way the shoner explain

12:39Damon versus the small folk is that he's not even thinking about them as if there an

12:44actual entity that he needs to worry about like the not even a blip on his radar normally

12:49that would bite him in the ass.

12:51But if Rhaenyra takes King's landing at the beginning of season three is really going

12:54to be her problem not Damon's problem.

12:57We will see how she resolves that situation or does not resolve it.

13:01Then we get a small conversation between Helena and Allison where she's not in dragon dream

13:05of what she's actually present for their conversation as opposed to often outer space having another

13:09dragon dream and she basically tells Allison she doesn't want to be quick.

13:13Like I hate being Queen I was much happier before this and notice the reaction on Allison's

13:17face as if she wants to say me to I was happy before I became Queen.

13:22I didn't want any of this, but that would also mean telling her that she didn't want

13:26to have all these children to including Helena who she does love like she does love her children.

13:31But to be fair, she never wanted to be a teenage bride or be a teenage mother which she was

13:36like she had her first baby when she was 16 years old.

13:38That's part of the reason why she was so pissed off at Rhaenyra when they were younger which

13:42she apologizes for at the end of the episode because she had to be pregnant when she was

13:4616.

13:47While Rhaenyra was just walking around humping Harwin strong all over the red keep.

13:50The interesting thing here though is that Allison tries to get Helena to leave King's

13:54landing with her like Lyra strong is trying to get Aegon to sneak out, but unsuccessfully

14:00because as Helena says what would I do where would I go.

14:03Also I think part of the reason why she's not rushing to try and escape King's landing

14:06because she seen everything in her dragon dreams.

14:09She knows how it's going to play out.

14:11She knows how she's going to die as well to it sounds like she's made her peace with what

14:15her fate will eventually be because as she talks to Eamon later when he threatens to

14:19kill like I could have you killed for telling me how I'm going to die.

14:22She says it won't change anything.

14:24Even if you kill me, then you will still die the same way.

14:28So it seems like Helena is just seen how everybody's going to die and she's been processing it

14:32like now I'm cool.

14:33I'll stay here in King's landing the not going to kill me.

14:35I'll be fine.

14:36Let's take it some other way.

14:37We get our next big dreamfire mention when Eamon basically orders her to fly into battle

14:42with Vhagar and the greens.

14:44The other current dragon go to Harrenhal with them.

14:46Daeron and Tessarion is their other current dragon.

14:49Remember they think that Sunfire is dead right now.

14:51So that really considering Sunfire an asset.

14:53We haven't really talked about dreamfire that much this season outside of the whole controversy

14:57surrounding Daenerys's dragon eggs, but dreamfire is one of the oldest and thus biggest most

15:02powerful dragons that exist right now and she's the mother of a lot of the dragons that

15:07are alive grandmother of some of the dragons to most the dragons you see on the show are

15:11either children or grandchildren of silverwing or dreamfire, but for Eamon she's more like

15:17an asset.

15:18He's thinking more like an actual chessboard.

15:19So I've got this nuclear weapon sitting in the storeroom.

15:22Why don't we pull that out.

15:23Let's not leave that on the ground, but as a lot of people predicted they talked about

15:26this during the trailer is that Helena is it really a fighter like she would never want

15:31to burn anyone.

15:32Even if she didn't say that during this episode which she does like I'm not gonna hurt anybody

15:35that's not me they almost make it seem like Eamon intended to grab Helena and literally

15:40drag her to the dragon pit and throw her on dreamfires back like what is his plan after

15:45this like where was he gonna take her was gonna throw her in the black cells until she

15:48agreed to mount dreamfire.

15:51That's how unhinged he is right now how crazy afraid he is Allison calls him out for being

15:56total crazy town banana pants.

15:58This is also meant to be a continuation of their conversation when he fired her from

16:01the small council and she was implying the reason why he was being such a butthole is

16:05because of all the childhood trauma that he never got past this whole conversation gives

16:10Allison the idea to pull a Rhaenyra of her own steal a trick from Rhaenyra and sneak

16:14in a Dragonstone to try and do the same thing the Rhaenyra did earlier this season.

16:18The only way to avoid all this bloodshed is to get Rhaenyra to sack King's landing without

16:23actually having to sack it or any bloodshed.

16:25So essentially a man is crazy enough that Allison feels like she needs to throw him

16:29under the bus then we get Kristen Cole seeming like he still suffering from PTSD from rooks

16:34rest while he fondles Allison's favor that she was forced to give him earlier this season.

16:39She didn't want to do that it is he's pretty clear at this point that their little tryst

16:43is over like she's done with him.

16:44But he still kind of obsessed with her Gawain Hightower finally challenges him it sword

16:49point calling him on his affair with Allison.

16:51I think he figured out what was going on between them.

16:54The first time that he rolled up in the red keep he probably just waited to this point

16:58to finally call him on it who then claims that if Gawain does send him to the wall forcing

17:02to take the black than that would mean everybody finding out what he done with Allison in staying

17:07the Hightower's good name for a good long while he reveals how Allison saved his life

17:12twice when he was younger when he tried to kill himself in the King's landing gods would

17:16but she stopped him the other time saving him from the head man's axe was when he admitted

17:20to the affair with Rhaenyra he would have been executed if Allison had told Viserys

17:24the truth which she did not.

17:26This is meant to be a very bleak very serious conversation, but there a couple funny bits

17:30that he slips in here he apologizes for being so horny on main he tries to claim that no

17:35men have true honor.

17:36We know that's not true because Brienne of Tarth is probably the best example of what

17:40a truly honorable person is he says he used to believe in more traditional values and

17:45virtues but that all went out the window at Rook's rest after he saw what destruction

17:49the dragons brought in that is essentially what their future is his whole poem about

17:54the dragons dancing is a callback to the name of the conflict in the books the Targaryen

17:58civil war.

17:59The dance of the dragons in that there nothing compared to the power of the dragons what

18:04they're doing now does not matter.

18:06He also sounds like he's 100% sure that they're all going to die soon and nothing matters

18:11like he's got complete nihilism now even Gwaine Hightower yells at him a little for being

18:15too dark like that's messed up dude Rhaenyra hosts a feast for the new dragon sees Hugh

18:20Hammer, Ulf White, Adam Hull.

18:22You can tell she and especially Jace start to bristle a little at Ulf White's lack of

18:26composure formality because he was raised in Flea Bottom where manners of a royal household

18:31are not a thing at all.

18:33He goes like full Florida man at the Queen's table it will be like watching national lampoons

18:38Christmas vacation of Queen Elizabeth had eaten dinner with the griswolds like the most

18:41ridiculous thing you ever see he even kind of interrupts her to when she's giving her

18:45toast demanding more wine more little birds basically like their version of little chicken

18:49creatures.

18:50The other dragon sees also don't seem too hot on Ulf White either.

18:53I think this is mostly setting up trouble on team black showing how Ulf White might

18:57potentially become a bigger problem for Rhaenyra later on.

19:01I think they want to show that he cares more about the trappings of wealth and power and

19:04status given to him by being a dragon rider rather than supporting Rhaenyra the way that

19:09she wants them to support her paying off more of Jace's misgivings and with the dragon keepers

19:14said to her when they quit the whole endeavor here with the dragon sees was pure hubris

19:19on her part.

19:20The dragons are sacred and what she was doing will ultimately become a terrible idea.

19:25So I think the idea here and we see it more with Jace's scene when he admonishes Ulf White

19:29later in the episode threatening to take his head that not all dragon seeds might be on

19:34the same page and because they all control nuclear weapons.

19:37That's a huge problem for Rhaenyra brewing in the background going into season three.

19:41If not everybody on her team with nuclear weapons agrees on the same plan.

19:46It would not be a game of thrones show if there was not some betrayal inside both camps

19:50like Allison betrays the greens this episode.

19:52The same thing could wind up happening to Rhaenyra during season three.

19:56Then Rhaenyra gets word from Simon strong and Harrenhal who's worried the daemon built

19:59this army of rivermen for himself and won't support Rhaenyra's claim in favor of putting

20:04himself on the iron throne which he implied he would do earlier this season.

20:08Part of the idea here too is that she's so juiced up on dragon energy since the successful

20:12sowing of the seeds.

20:14She feels way more powerful just in general.

20:16She flies straight to Harrenhal herself to see what's what with daemon love the scene

20:20of Alice rivers just showing up in daemon's room Batman style when he calls her a witch

20:25that's a reference to her being called the witch of Harrenhal in the books daemon sees

20:29one of the children of the forest at the weirwood tree.

20:31He thinks that he's just seeing a vision like you starting to see things like he's been

20:34seeing visions this whole time there when he doubles back and doesn't see them again.

20:38He thinks that it's just a figment of his imagination because he's been seeing so many

20:42visions since he's been here.

20:44But I think that was meant to be one of the members of the children of the forest standing

20:47at the weirwood like they were actually there briefly for just a hot second and then took

20:50off.

20:51I'd actually been wondering all season if we see the children of the forest during this

20:54series at some point Alice rivers then tells daemon that he's ready to get the full weirwood

20:59network info dump like download all the information from the weirwood Internet.

21:04He prepares to watch all the game of thrones DVDs the black fire rebellion.

21:09Some stuff we might see during night of the seven kingdoms TV show like literally everything

21:12that happens later in the timeline notice when he touches the face of the weirwood tree

21:16is bleeding red sap all the weirwoods do that love the way they dial this up for dramatic

21:21effect to the face is actually meant to be modeled after George R. R. Martin's face they

21:26made a big deal about it when they brought in the set to like look we put your face in

21:29the weirwood here was almost like George R. R. Martin here is giving daemon all the

21:33spoilers for everything is can happen later in the timeline maybe he kept his hand on

21:37the tree longer.

21:38He would told him out winds of winter and dream of spring are going to end.

21:41But Alice rivers is basically telling daemon here what she's been telling him all season

21:45long he spent his whole life seeking his own path doing his own thing.

21:49That's why he's called the rogue prince in the books by the maesters because he goes

21:52alone does whatever he wants all the time until now because he's just a chess piece

21:57on the board in the grand game of thrones in the grand sense of things against the white

22:01walkers the night King in the next long night, which is basically the whole point of these

22:05visions.

22:06So just starting at the first vision that he has here he's is a bunch of different things.

22:10The first is of the weirwood roots traveling up the roots like his perspective follows

22:14the roots themselves.

22:15It's meant to be a reference to the weirwood network of roots just in general all weirwoods

22:19around Westeros are connected through their root system underground is a big part of how

22:24the green seers like the three-eyed raven in brand maybe Alice rivers to because there's

22:29rumors that she's also a green seer can use the weirwoods to see through time particularly

22:33back in time the rules for how this power works is a little bit different in the books

22:38are kind of mixing and matching things on the show the dragon dreams can seem like the

22:41same thing, but they're not in the books normally a green seer has to be touching a weirwood

22:46to use the ability and you can only see things in the past that are in proximity to the weirwood

22:51tree you can't literally see every single thing that happens.

22:54You can only see things that the weirwoods themselves can see, but then Damon sees the

22:59blood raven AKA Brendan rivers the three-eyed raven when he was younger, but after he had

23:04become the three-eyed raven hard to tell how old he is here, but he's not that old really

23:09important for the timeline though as Damon is getting this vision Brendan rivers has

23:14not been born yet.

23:15He's not born till much later in the timeline after Damon passes away, but Brendan rivers

23:20is very active during the events of night of the seven kingdoms which were getting episodes

23:24for next year.

23:25So think part of the reason why we're seeing Brendan rivers now is because were about to

23:29see him in actual present day when we see that night of the seven kingdoms show, but

23:33when we eventually see him on that show it'll be many years before he becomes the three-eyed

23:38raven and gains these abilities and starts seeing through time the place where Damon

23:43is seeing him is under his weirwood north of the wall where Bran visited him and got

23:47trained by him and I think was actually going on here like the way were meant to take these

23:51visions is it is the three-eyed raven in the future looking into the past seeing Damon

23:56giving Damon all these visions Damon himself is not a green seer he wouldn't be able to

24:01have weirwood visions unless somebody else was giving him visions.

24:04So I think that person is giving them to him is the three-eyed raven notice when they zoom

24:08in on his face you see the birthmark that is from the books the raven with the three

24:11eyes is the three-eyed raven thus like Bran saw a version of this when he was first injured

24:16notice the way the visions transition into the raven's third eye.

24:20That's why I think this is the three-eyed raven showing Damon things from both the past

24:24in the future Damon's future, but for the three-eyed raven.

24:28It's his past when the camera transitions to the ground.

24:30I think this is meant to look like Damon is seeing the night King and his white army from

24:34the perspective of a direwolf.

24:36That's why the camera seems like it's loping towards the night King notice it is a different

24:40actor playing the night King than the person who play the night King during the game of

24:44thrones.

24:45I'm not sure why they change the actor.

24:46Maybe he was just unavailable for this scene.

24:48But here's the other big part of this to I think this is it meant to be a vision of the

24:51future of the second long night during the game of thrones series that we saw during

24:55season 8.

24:56This is meant to be a vision of the past because green seers like the three-eyed raven can

25:00only see stuff in the past and he isn't alive during the events of the second long night

25:03like he dies right before that happens.

25:06So I think he showing Damon with the first long night looked like 8000 years ago in the

25:10books like a thousand years ago on the show is meant to be similar to something that Aegon

25:14the conqueror saw in his dragon dream, but because dragon dreams are meant to be of things

25:18in the future Aegon would've been seeing the second long night not the first long night

25:23the show doesn't really differentiate between the past and the present during these visions.

25:27So if you're little confused don't worry about it.

25:29Then this next vision of the dead dragons is meant to be the death of all the dragons.

25:33I think it's meant to be the doom of Valyria based on the flames in the background like

25:37this is after the 14 flames had erupted destroying everything RIP maybe will see a bigger version

25:43of that during an animated ancient Valyria TV show George RR Martin has been hyping up

25:46that they're doing that in animation at some point.

25:49This scene of him falling down and drowning amongst all the dead bodies.

25:52I think is meant to be mud mixed with blood it might be reference to the black fire rebellion

25:56which was a major event in Brendan Rivers earlier life before he became the three-eyed

26:00raven we might get another TV show where they cover black fire rebellion it overlaps with

26:05the events of night of the seven kingdoms TV show, but if we see black fire rebellion

26:09stuff during that show it have to be flashbacks when he falls through the bodies into the

26:14water and begins to float to the bottom drowning that's reference to what Alice rivers was

26:18telling him about his own future at the God's eye earlier this season.

26:22We can't talk too much about that without getting into spoilers, but the very deep water

26:26is a reference to the lake around the God's eye here right next to where he's standing

26:30getting these visions.

26:32This is meant to be the red comet that we saw at the beginning of the main game of thrones

26:35show in this is Daenerys's dragon eggs in the fire being hatched while Khal Drogo is

26:40burning then Daemon sees Daenerys with her three hatched dragons essentially the end

26:46of game of thrones season one episode 10.

26:48Then Daemon's last vision is of Rhaenyra on the iron throne with her crown in its present

26:53day adult Rhaenyra.

26:54I think this is meant to be a scene from season three episode one and they'll end on that

26:59shot like the very end of episode one though and with her sitting on the iron throne with

27:03her crown that it gets really trippy because Helena shows up saying that it's all a story

27:08you're but one part in it.

27:10You know your part Helena's line at the end there at King's landing makes it seem like

27:14she's actually speaking directly to Daemon in real time through the King's landing weirwood

27:18network is is a weirwood tree in the King's landing gods would, but because she's not

27:22near the gods would the getting really trippy with the way that her dragon dream powers

27:27actually work which aren't totally like they are in the books that they're basically expanding

27:30her powers.

27:31I talked about this before, but I think this is the show sort of conflating different ideas

27:35where they're saying the dragon dreams are similar to weirwood visions when they're not

27:40in the books like in the books are completely separate ideas, but on the show at least the

27:44new canon is that Helena's ability allows her to also communicate with other people

27:48inside these visions, but he's taking this to heart about his own role in the prophecy

27:53of the prince who was promised in the coming long night.

27:56I did a whole separate video about Helena's dragon dreams and the things that she seen

27:59essentially she's also seen everything that happens in the future as well to completely

28:03separate from this Jon Snow Daenerys the white walkers I'll put a link for that video in

28:07the description below what the show is doing though is using Daemon meeting the three-eyed

28:11raven here seeing the long night the night King all these things to solidify the fact

28:15that he's fully team Rhaenyra now and is on board with all the prophecy stuff that he

28:19was ignored before during his entire life.

28:22That's why later in the episode Rhaenyra says you sound an awful lot like my father Viserys

28:25talking about all this prophecy stuff.

28:28So now Daemon is committed to support Rhaenyra in her bid to unite the realm because at the

28:32moment they think the long night could come at any moment.

28:35It could be next week.

28:36It could be next year in their eyes, even though technically we've seen the original

28:40show.

28:41So we know that is not can happen for almost 200 years.

28:44We get another scene of Aemond with Helena trying to convince her to fly on dreamfire

28:47to Harrenhal.

28:48So we know that Aemond is headed to Harrenhal shortly.

28:51It almost looks like he's getting ready to cry here to like there's a tear in his eye.

28:55That's how worried he is about the actual war itself is probably shouldn't be a surprise

28:59like she's just confirming what most of us believed earlier this season is that Helena

29:03saw him burning Aegon in her dragon dreams, even though he tries to deny it when she suggests

29:09that he might try to kill her the same way like you gonna burn me to she even says later

29:13if you were to kill me it's not going to change your fate.

29:16So a lot of people are asking if this means that Aemond will ultimately be the one to

29:19kill Helena making it a big change from the books without getting into spoilers.

29:24She winds up dying in a completely separate way like obviously all the characters will

29:28eventually die at some point.

29:29They're not immortal.

29:30It's always possible that they change the way the Helena dies they change so much about

29:33her storyline.

29:34She's barely a character in the books.

29:37I expect her to be around to the final season on the show just in general.

29:40So however she goes out.

29:41She will probably be around during season four early theory.

29:45So at least for right now she safe.

29:47That's also why she's not super worried about running out of the red keep like I don't need

29:50to escape.

29:51I'm not gonna die like Rhaenyra is gonna try and kill me.

29:53And no big surprise Helena drop some new dragon dream information here.

29:57She says the Aegon will be king again.

29:59That's not an opinion.

30:00She's seen it in her visions.

30:01It's an assured fact.

30:03So we know at some point he will return to King's landing with Larys strong just like

30:07Larys told him that they would do and he will reclaim the iron throne from whoever sitting

30:11on it at the time which sounds like it's going to be Rhaenyra when she says he sits on a

30:15wooden throne that's probably a reference to him sitting on a wheelchair kind of like

30:18Bran did even though he can walk slightly better than Bran like Bran could not walk

30:23at all and Aegon can still kind of hobble along then Helena full-on tells Aemond how

30:27he's going to die and that he will die by the time the Aegon becomes king again like

30:32based on the timeline of what she's talking about here.

30:34It sounds like he's going to die by the time the Aegon sits the iron throne again definitely

30:39puts a ticking clock on his life span like start the countdown now this is actually meant

30:43to tie back to Daemon storyline some of his visions of Aemond and what Alice rivers told

30:48him at the beginning of the season when she said you're gonna die here and his vision

30:52of drowning in the lake at the gods I in this episode Helena tells Aemond he'll also

30:56die basically the same way to and they'll never find his body.

31:00He'll just disappear at the gods I does not seem like Aemond is too happy to hear that

31:06also does he believe in prophecy and dragon dreams previously I would have said yes, but

31:11here it sounds like he's looking for a way out to deny like no no no you're wrong.

31:15I can't believe this even though under normal conditions you think that he would buy into

31:19the idea of dragon dreams is because he's so studied in Valyrian history like I said

31:24he's really acting more like the scared little boy that he was when he was younger, but probably

31:29one of the biggest takeaways here is that we have our Daemon versus Aemond fight on

31:32the board at the gods I will see when they finally pay that off.

31:36My guess is either season three finale or sometime during season four.

31:40My guess right now is they want to keep Matt Smith around on the show as much as possible

31:44to try to delay that big fight till season four, but by the end of season three.

31:48I think will start to see some of the big main characters die.

31:51I think they'll save a lot of that for season four, but least like one or two big deaths

31:54during season three notice when Rhaenyra and Adam fly to Harrenhal they fly over the gods

31:59I they keep wanting you to remember the gods I just because it's reference so many times

32:04in this episode and earlier this season love the way Caraxes greets the other dragons to

32:09like yay my friends are here I've been so lonely since Daemon has been doing nothing

32:12but having weirwood visions this whole time we get a really cool aerial shot of Harrenhal

32:16to Daemon's flyby was during a storm at night.

32:20We also get a good look at Daemon's army of rivermen when she goes to find out what's

32:24what Daemon surprises her by bending the knee and sounding just like her father Viserys

32:29and if this is gonna be a controversial choice all these weirwood visions all the three-eyed

32:32Raven stuff causing him to buy into all this prophecy stuff so much this episode does change

32:37a lot of things from the books, but this is just meant to confirm that this entire season

32:42for Daemon has been him getting his groove back via weirwood visions.

32:46Now he's way more focused on the real threat the white walkers and he's way more team Rhaenyra

32:51the couple funny moments to when Rhaenyra calls him out in front of everyone really

32:54loudly like who are you loyal to like who do you swear fealty to any kind of rolls his

32:58eyes and looks around at everybody.

33:01I think is mostly laughing at himself like yeah you kind of expecting me to say that

33:05I'm doing this all for me.

33:06We get another cool scene of them talking to each other and High Valyrian when he says

33:09the war is just beginning.

33:11It's him saying that he thinks the long night is about to happen any moment now and it'll

33:15make their war against the green seem like a common slap fight.

33:18He also says winter is coming the motto of House Stark like everybody doing the meme

33:22pointing at the screen.

33:23He said the thing he also tells her about his visions he's actually seen the long night

33:28and she believes him notice he says till the end of our story more reference to this grand

33:34story that Helena talks about your part of this story the story of a song of ice and

33:38fire which is written by George RR Martin.

33:41So part of the idea is that they're coming to the same page here they're on a united

33:45front heading into season three and it seems like based on Rhaenyra's actions later in

33:49the episode that they'll sack King's landing and take the iron throne with a little help

33:53from Allison.

33:54Thank you for the assist letting us know the Aemond is going to be conveniently absent

33:58when Misaria says the gods favor Rhaenyra this sort of feeds into the idea that Rhaenyra

34:02started to drink her own Kool-Aid that she's also been pouring to all the dragon sees she

34:06started to feel more like a cult leader believing that she is the princess who was promised

34:11the chosen one spoken of in Aegon's prophecy like she believes that she is the fulfillment

34:15of the prophecy which we know is wrong.

34:18She starting to act a little more unhinged and I think ultimately that will start to

34:21so her downfall to make another reference back to the red sewing thinking that she is

34:26the princess who was promised and how that drives her decision making through season

34:29three Corliss meets with Alan about to set sail who takes the opportunity to clear the

34:33air with them about his entire terrible terrible childhood all this talk of him being too silent

34:38needing to act more like a leader is Corliss slowly warming up to the idea of naming Alan

34:43his heir and eventually legitimizing him.

34:46But then surprisingly maybe not surprisingly Alan calls him on it basically implying the

34:50Corliss only cares about him now because all of his previous heirs like his natural born

34:55children have died and he needs an heir.

34:57So you only care about us because you need an heir not because you actually care about

35:00us.

35:01He also implies that if he survives the war the dance the dragons here that he wants nothing

35:05from him and he will just go back to his old life before this like he doesn't want

35:09to be his heir essentially my assumption here is that he'll eventually come around on that

35:14and he will become Corliss's heir speaking of which then we get our big scene of Allison

35:18to Rhaenyra together again a parallel to earlier this season when Rhaenyra did the same thing

35:22sneaking into King's landing to try and see Allison does a lot you can say about this

35:27conversation I'm sure tumblers gonna have a field day with this Allison is basically

35:31confessing all her past misdeeds to Rhaenyra going back to when they were teenagers and

35:35when you started acting really pissed off and mean to her all the terrible things that

35:39she's ever done to her essentially all the way through eventually usurping the crown

35:43from like yeah sorry about all that weird stuff that I did to you and it feels that

35:46their dynamic is flip since earlier this season when they did the similar thing because now

35:50Rhaenyra is acting more like Allison did back then saying that it's too late for that.

35:55But essentially Allison betrays the greens asking Rhaenyra to sack King's landing bloodlessly

36:00and she'll just help turn over the iron throne to him because Aemon will be gone with Vhagar

36:04at Harrenhal leaving the city undefended and Helena won't have any trouble handing

36:08over the iron throne because he doesn't even want it to begin with that she's gone full

36:11Jon Snow.

36:12I don't want it, but Rhaenyra's it's too late comment is mostly reference to it being too

36:17late for them to spare Aegon's life.

36:20She says the only way that was that she thinks to secure her rule is to cut off his head

36:24for all to see in the way they leave things Allison seems like she's accepted this sad

36:29reality like this is going to end badly, but we know that Aegon sneaks away with Lara strong

36:34in according to Helena will eventually reclaim the iron throne from Rhaenyra.

36:38So this whole endeavor is definitely not ending the way that Rhaenyra thinks is going to end,

36:43but I absolutely cannot wait to see if Helena drops any dragon dreams in front of Rhaenyra

36:47because now we're can have Allison and Rhaenyra and Helena all in proximity to each other

36:51for at least part of season three Rhaenyra how do you feel about bugs when you can play

36:56with Helena for a little while.

36:57Maybe she'll tell you some of the future couple of important bits of information that Allison

37:01drops during their talk to things that I think we knew his fans, but she just confirms

37:05them Viserys was fond of Allison, but he never got over the death of his first wife Emma

37:10and was essentially obsessed with her for the rest of his life.

37:13So Allison was more like a distraction to him than like a very close loved one notice

37:18she also starts biting her fingers that was the nervous tick that she had when she was

37:21a teenager is wire fingers were so messed up in episode one.

37:25Then as she goes back to King's landing slowly we get that ending montage of all the different

37:29groups and characters all the dragon seeds suiting up in armor Hugh Hammer Adam hole

37:34notice the look on old white space to does that not seem problematic like he is definitely

37:38gonna cause some problems in season three.

37:40Then we see Rhaena finally finding the sheep stealer who yells at her, but we don't actually

37:45see her claiming him or writing him.

37:47They stop short of that.

37:48I guess they're just leaving that for like season three episode one I was really hoping

37:52we'd actually see her flying around on him.

37:54We see the Hightower army with Daeron and Tessarion flying next to them finally have

37:58Daeron on the show and Tessarion to boot please don't kill them off shortly in season

38:03three like want to see them around on the show for a little while then we see Craig

38:06and Starks graybeards marching through the twins basically the Winterfell army thanks

38:10to Jace help earlier this season speeding up their arrival.

38:13I don't see Craig and Stark in the crowd here, but he will be back in season three.

38:17He's a much bigger part of the dance the dragon story in the later part of the actual dance

38:22that was why they only just teased him at the beginning of the season like he doesn't

38:25really active in the actual story this early in the story.

38:28This is Jason Lannister's army marching into the Riverlands like they just arrived at the

38:33Riverlands here Daemon then clocking his Riverman this is Tylan Lannister Jason's twin sailing

38:39back to Westeros with the triarchy fleet that he was sent to procure.

38:43They're gonna be a big problem for Corlys Velaryon's fleet.

38:46Then we see Allan Hull and Corlys in their armor heading to their flagship preparing

38:50to fight the triarchy in the narrow sea, but they probably do not expect the triarchy to

38:54show up in real big surprise.

38:56We finally find out what's been going on with Otto Hightower this whole season.

39:00It seems like he got captured at some point when he was heading back to Highgarden by

39:03the Beesbury army and maybe it's Daeron and the Hightower army coming to rescue him here,

39:09but he does continue to be a part of the story during the events of season three.

39:12So like he will be back on the show.

39:13That's why they're showing you this tease of them here.

39:16This is also meant to pay off Allison in Gwaine Hightower's conversation earlier this season

39:20when neither one of them had had any Ravens back from Otto like they've been sending him

39:24messages but they hadn't got any replies because he been in prison this whole time.

39:28The ironic thing about this though the fact that Otto Hightower was thrown in prison probably

39:32by the Beesbury's is revenge for the death of Lord Beesbury is because he didn't have

39:36anything to do with his death that was all Kristen Cole who killed him Otto Hightower

39:40probably would have been happy to let him live.

39:42That was one of the jokes earlier this season when Aegon fired him because Aegon was like

39:46guess what Kristen Cole did and he just turns his head around slowly like tell me tell me

39:50what brilliant thing Kristen Cole just did.

39:53That's part of the reason why Eamon actually wanted him back at the small castle like find

39:57my grandfather bring him back because he's not an idiot like you guys.

40:01Then we see Aegon and Lara Strong sneaking out of King's Landing.

40:04So nobody will know that he's gone till their safely in Essos where Rhaenyra cannot behead

40:08him and they end on the shot of Rhaenyra thinking about Allison and Allison staring out at the

40:13sunset.

40:14There's so much they're trying to wrap up this season heading into season three generally

40:18seems like Rhaenyra is going to try and sack King's Landing and take the iron throne in

40:22episode one.

40:23But there were so many Easter eggs and references if you spotted any in the episode that I didn't

40:27mention the video just write them below in the comments.

40:29I'm working on my season three video that'll post next I'll start doing night of the seven

40:34kingdoms video soon to those episodes will start next year so we don't have to wait too

40:38long to get episodes for that.

40:40I believe house the dragon season three will not start till 2026 though, so will be couple

40:45years for house the dragon season three episodes everybody post all your reactions to season

40:49two in the comments below just in general like how did you feel about season two compared

40:53to season one HBO also dropped a teaser trailer for night of the seven kingdoms all do a video

40:58for that after I get done with my season three video next click here for my season three

41:03video update the link as soon as I post that and click here for all my other house the

41:07dragon episodes.

41:08Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one!

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