They had become estranged, but Daemon helped his brother Viserys up those stairs and crowned him. "Otto Hightower is a more Honorable than you could ever be."
And with Otto Hightower plonked on the throne, everything is set to go their way. The greens want Vaemond at the head of the Driftmark fleet, ready to back their cause. It remembers names” – Vaemond loves to emphasize on the bloodline. Unlike Lord Corlys, who cares not that Rhaenyra’s children were clearly fathered by Ser Harwin Strong – “History does not remember blood. Though Lucerys was long decided to be the heir to Driftmark, the Sea Snake’s brother, Vaemond, has much to say. Even though Lord Corlys is not dead, he is, by all accounts, reported to be gravely wounded.
Perhaps the most impactful sequence of the episode took place in the throne room, where a “farce” of a hearing was set up by the greens to decide who gets to inherit the Driftwood Throne. It signified, once again, how the central and tumultuous theme of the show is family. It’s a very somber and emotional moment as Rhaenyra presents her two young, very blond sons, Aegon III and Viserys II, to her father, who, essentially, is in hospice. He seems too dazed to hear their cause to support Lucerys’ claim to the Driftmark against the greens. The sprawling King’s Landing model he’s obsessed over for decades is now crawling with cobwebs. Then, of course, came the jumpscare as Rhaenyra and Daemon made their way into the King’s chambers to find Viserys gravely ill. Clearly, while Viserys has been bedridden and delirious off of milk of the poppy, Alicent was having a bit of a mid-life crisis and took refuge in the Faith of the Seven – further cementing her divide from the traditions of House Targaryen. Director Geeta Patel makes this clear as husband and wife descend into the empty, cavernous halls, which we can view through a fragment of a massive seven-pointed star.Įvidently, that’s not the only ostentatious religious decor around, as Alicent flaunts a gargantuan necklace of her newfound faith. The Red Keep that Rhaenyra and Daemon return to is scarcely recognizable compared to the lively mural-painted court that we see in the pilot.
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