Editor’s Be aware: This story discusses plot factors from “Home of the Dragon” Season 2, Episode 1.
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“Home of the Dragon” returned on Sunday for its long-awaited second season and the lesson within the premiere episode is that in case you want to perform successful on a one-eyed grownup prince, perhaps don’t rent the rat exterminator as a result of he would possibly kill a toddler as an alternative.
However let’s again up first. Last season, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) was topped king, Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) topped herself Queen, Aemond Targaryen’s dragon ate Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) for lunch, and, mainly, battle is on the precipice.
Once we meet Rhaenyra within the Season 2 premiere episode, she’s overcome with grief concerning the demise of Lucerys. After she finds some closure and Lucerys’ stays, she returns to Dragonstone to carry a Staff Black council assembly, clearly nonetheless grief-stricken and mad. Like, mad-mad.
“I would like Aemond Targaryen,” Rhaenyra says on the council assembly.
If “a watch for a watch” gave the impression to be the strategy to justice in Season 1, this season it’s “a son for a son.”
Rhaenyra’s uncle/husband – welcome again to incest-laden Westeros – Daemon (Matt Smith) is completely happy to assist and hires a rat exterminator and an confederate, who could also be higher recognized to e-book readers as “Blood and Cheese,” to kill Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), on the recommendation of the White Worm (Sonoya Mizuno).
Daemon explains to the rat man that Prince Aemond has “silver hair and one eye” and “shouldn’t be arduous to seek out.” However he was.
Whereas rat man does efficiently sneak into the Pink Preserve, he doesn’t discover and slay one-eyed Aemond. He as an alternative finds Queen Helaena (Phia Saban) in her bed room together with her two younger youngsters and proceeds to slay younger Prince Jaehaerys, King Aegon’s inheritor.
The unintended demise of King Aegon’s inheritor would possibly complicate Rhaenyra’s Realm-wide quest for loyalty as a result of murdering an harmless little one isn’t an excellent look. Strong cliffhanger, although!
- Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) roll round in mattress collectively twice all through the episode. Helaena walked in on them proper after Jaehaerys was murdered, so she is aware of why Criston wasn’t guarding her like he was purported to.
- Alicent additionally seems to nonetheless have some sympathy for her ex-bestie Rhaenyra when she lights a candle in reminiscence of Lucerys. It does, nonetheless, really feel protected to say that sympathy was erased after she came upon concerning the homicide of her grandchild on the finish of the episode.
- Larys (Matthew Needham) tells Alicent that he vetted the home workers for traitors and employed her a brand new set of supposedly loyal staffers. Should’ve not vetted the rat man nicely sufficient, until…
- Staff Black’s Velaryon navy are getting a blockade within the Gullet positioned, in accordance with Rhaenys (Eve Finest), which she says will quickly block off “all sea-born journey and commerce” in King’s Touchdown. Not good for Staff Inexperienced.
- Jacaerys (Harry Collett) goes to the Wall within the North to ask Lord Stark to be on Staff Black. He additionally asks for the assistance of their military in order that his mother, Rhaenyra, can defend her declare to the throne that the Hightowers are attempting to usurp. It’s a profitable mission, and he will get 2,000 Stark fighters.
- The writers appear to be keenly conscious that everybody loves an excellent “Recreation of Thrones” nod. What else might clarify the scene at Winterfell displaying the genesis of the Evening’s Watch? We miss you, Jon Snow (Package Harington).
- At King’s Touchdown, King Aegon holds a council assembly to go over Staff Inexperienced’s plan of assault. He’s all hearth and brimstone about it however his Hand, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), stresses endurance and restraint, at the least earlier than the entire Jaehaerys killing. King Aegon hates this. Larys then manipulates King Aegon into pondering he ought to discover a new Hand, so we’ve got that to look ahead to.
Evidently, the late King Viserys (Paddy Considine) wouldn’t approve of any of this nonsense!