Three Issues Home of the Dragon’s Finale Tells Us About What’s Coming Subsequent

Additionally value noting is the bigger context of the Dance of the Dragons within the grand arc of time. Some of the important moments within the finale is Daemon’s grand imaginative and prescient of the longer term. That revelation is totally a present invention however one which helps to lastly push him over the sting and to Rhaenyra’s aspect. Among the visions are extra obvious than others — the White Walkers, a younger Daenerys reborn amongst her dragons in fireplace — whereas others, just like the reappearance of Bloodraven, aka Brynden Rivers (the character performed by Max Von Sydow in Thrones, who helps Bran Stark) are much less so. Both means, as Daemon tells Rhaenyra, “This conflict is just the start,” and issues will proceed to worsen earlier than they get higher.

Tensions Between Dragon Riders

That is fairly obvious in how Ulf (Tom Bennett) is conducting himself round Dragonstone, however as vocalized by Jace (Harry Collett) all through the episode, the tensions between the newly topped Dragonriders and the remainder of Rhaenyra’s allies are solely going to get extra fraught as issues go alongside. The idea of energy, who will get to wield it, and what it does to them within the course of is one among storytelling’s oldest and richest tropes, and we’ll see it play out right here in numerous kinds and fashions.

We’re going to subject a spoiler alert for future seasons right here, so skip down in case you’d relatively not know what’s coming.

Each Ulf and Hugh (Kieran Bew) will finally betray Rhaenyra and defect to the Greens. Ulf will need extra standing than beforehand promised to him by Rhaenyra and Daemon and takes a cope with the Hightowers accordingly. Hugh will develop enchanted with a prophecy that states a brand new king will come up when a hammer falls upon a dragon. Because the wielder of a hammer, he believes this to be the case — however the prophecy is absolutely concerning the rise of Robert Baratheon and the way he’d finally kill Value Rhaegar Targaryen on the Battle of the Trident with (you guessed it) a hammer.

As such, the 2 start to see that as Tagaryens themselves (bastards or in any other case), their futures and claims to energy are simply as reliable to think about as Rhaenrya’s, fulfilling Jace’s issues concerning the pair. Nevertheless, at this level, Hugh’s motivations to show are fairly far-off from his extra virtuous persona. As we stated, energy is a hell of a drug.

Alicent’s Function in What’s to Come

The largest present creation, outdoors of Daemon’s imaginative and prescient, is the second assembly this 12 months of Alicent and Rhaenyra. In Fireplace & Blood, the pair meet when Rhaenyra takes King’s Touchdown, however author Sara Hess and the remainder of the Home of the Dragon writing staff resolve to hurry that assembly up. It’s a savvy name, given Alicent’s headspace within the wake of all the things that’s transpired within the weeks for the reason that two met within the Sept.

In Fireplace & Blood, Rhaenyra takes King’s Touchdown and retains Alicent captive. However in Home of the Dragon, Alicent negotiates for her freedom at the price of her son, which director Geeta Vasant Patel literalizes by framing Rhaenyra as if trapped behind the rows of scrolls earlier than reducing to Alicent staring out into the ocean alongside the luscious greenery.

What complicates this plan is that Lord Larys (Matthew Needham) and Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) are already out of King’s Touchdown. Within the guide, their escape corresponds with Rhaenyra’s arrival on the metropolis, and the proctored deal between the 2 girls by no means happens. With this little wrinkle, Rhaenyra will seemingly consider Alicent has backed out of her deal and punish her accordingly.

It’s one other case of the present having its cake and consuming it too, discovering pockets to dart out and in of between moments of established canon. What’s notably juicy—and probably tragic—is what’s going to occur to those two girls when Rhaenyra does take King’s Touchdown. Is their newfound understanding shattered? No matter what occurs, this glorious sophomore ends by evoking what it’s at all times executed the very best: highlighting the depths of the connection between these two girls and the way the world and its video games have formed and altered that bond accordingly.