![]() Viserys eventually opts to keep his promise, later swearing to Rhaenyra that he won’t replace her. The wine didn’t help - “the gods have punished me for my indulgences,” he told Alicent later, kingspeak for “I’m so hung over even my wig is throbbing.”īut the real problem is a conundrum of his own making: whether to keep his promise to his daughter or do what practically everyone else wants and name his young son as heir. Viserys continues to fade physically he can’t even get on and off his horse without a step stool, or kill a stag on the first try. (Conquests are always easier to propose than pull off, a fact generally ignored by every hawkish leader who decides to blunder off into one.) How Daemon and the Velaryons are losing to an army with such lousy archers is anyone’s guess.īut the bulk of the action unfolded around the hunting party to fete Aegon and his father. Out in the Stepstones, the clash the Sea Snake was so hyped for last week is going the way of most foreign misadventures. Rhaenyra is declining to play happy-family with her father and young stepmother. Little Aegon, the boy Viserys always wanted, named for the Targaryen who initially conquered Westeros, is turning two and Alicent is pregnant again. The show’s latest time warp took us several years past last week’s bombshell marriage announcement. But “he’s got a strange moral compass of his own,” Matt Smith, who portrays him, said. A Rogue Prince: Daemon Targaryen is an agent of chaos.The actor Paddy Considine discussed the character’s transformation and its meaning. A Man’s Decline: By the eighth episode of the season, Viserys no longer looks like a proud Targaryen king.The Princess and the Queen: Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, who portray the grown-up versions of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower, talked about the forces that drive their characters apart - and pull them together.He is still not sure how he landed the role. Playing Kingmaker: Fabien Frankel plays Ser Criston Cole, who got to place the crown on the new King of Westeros’s head.Return to Westeros in ‘House of the Dragon’ HBO’s long-awaited “Game of Thrones” prequel series is here. ![]()
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