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House of the Dragon 2x03 Inside 'The Burning Mill' (2024) HBO Game of Thrones Prequel
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01/07/2024
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For Rhaenyra, it's a really outlandish risk to try and go to Alicent and say we are the
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only two people left at either of these councils that have the power, influence, and desire
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to see about a peaceful end to this thing.
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Your false queen Rhaenyra is a kinslayer.
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Your uncle declared for Aegon, did he?
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Aegon Targaryen is no true king.
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The Brackens and the Blackwoods are ancient foes and rivals.
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One of the big ideas about this series was generational conflict.
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That's the standing of the Blackwoods and the Brackens when we first find them, which
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is a sort of microcosm of where House Targaryen is getting to.
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They happen to have the two largest armies in the Riverlands.
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It's 40,000 swords that they all come together under one banner.
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I will enlist the Brackens, subdue the Riverlands, and take Harrenhal.
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A bold scheme indeed.
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Well, the gods favor the bold.
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They did not favor Ser Arryk.
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One of the pivotal scenes is the first day of Cole's work as Hand.
01:14
We've always seen Cole as a strong, brooding guy, and this was a moment to peel back all
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those layers and understand what he's like alone in a room with himself.
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It's such a massively anxiety-inducing day for him because the Hand of the King is a
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diplomat's role, and he's always been sworn protector to the Queen.
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Now that duty of care has been passed on to someone else, and suddenly all eyes are on
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him.
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That's a very nerve-wracking thing.
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Cole is a terrible choice to be Hand of the King.
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Aegon's ultimate goal is to have someone who is a feared warrior but not a great politician
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because he doesn't want to be outshone.
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To war, then.
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I'll come, too, with Sunfyre.
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Aegon.
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Your Grace.
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Aegon has this insecurity that drives a great sense of confidence.
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I'm as fearsome as any of them.
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In this case, he wants to wear the king's armor.
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He wants to visually push himself forward as a leader.
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Aegon is not thinking tactically.
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He's being impulsive.
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It's the same old trends in him.
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His self-awareness is growing, and not in a good way for him because he's becoming more
02:27
aware of how much of a fraud he is.
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And it's eating him from the inside out.
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Daemon in the most base of ways has a fight with his wife, gets in his car, and runs off
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to Harrenhal to conquer it.
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Daemon has gone in his wisdom to try and make amends, I think.
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We've got to go and march on King's Landing.
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We need an army.
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And at the moment, we don't really have an army.
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Daemon is hoping to meet some resistance in there.
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He's looking for it.
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But he's frustrated in the fact that he can't find it because the castle is so poorly occupied.
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I'm claiming Harrenhal.
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Apparently so.
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Simon Strong is Lionel Strong's uncle.
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He has no loyalty to his family because he is a man of honor and believes that Larys
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burned his family.
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Daemon comes in ahead of steam, and all Sir Simon wants to do is have peace.
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The most interesting part of the Harrenhal story is what it does to Daemon.
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He starts to have these hallucinations, these dreams.
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He's not sure what's real and not real.
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We know that there is a magicality, and all of a sudden he sees young Rhaenyra, and she
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means something to him.
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She meant something at that age, and it also told him that it was a dream.
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His past is coming back to haunt him in broad daylight.
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The real idea was to bring Daemon into contact with something in the supernatural world that
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he could not deny.
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I've decided to send Joffrey to ward with my cousin, Lady Jane Arryn.
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Aegon and Viserys will accompany him.
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I want you to go with them.
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Rhaenyra's made this immediate calculation that her family is unsafe.
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They got to her and her home, and there's nothing to say that they can't again.
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I think she sends away her youngest and most vulnerable children to protect them in a place
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where they're hidden away, and hopefully where they can weather the war.
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The endless risk of losing one of your children, I think she perceives to be hideously compromising
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while she's in that grieving process.
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There's a decision to try and dislocate herself from her own motherhood.
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I cannot promise to make you happy, but I ask you, make this sacrifice willingly, for
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all of us.
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Your Grace.
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I think being in a family that has so much power and feeling so powerless, it's heartbreaking.
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When you have such a want to help, it's like confirmation to Rhaena of what she's always
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feared, that everyone just thinks she's pathetic.
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She's also the daughter of Daemon Targaryen and Laena Velaryon, and there's a fire burning
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in her as well.
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It's really lit by that resentment of being sent on this mission she regards as a bit
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demeaning.
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You do a great service, and may yet find yourself glad to be out of harm's way.
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Do not coddle me, Baelor.
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Grant me at least that dignity.
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I meant no insult.
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Rhaena's definitely got some bitterness and jealousy towards Baelor, but I think she's
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also in awe of her.
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There's always going to be such a love there.
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Very classic for sisters.
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Should all come to ruin here, you will bear our hope for the future.
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She also sends away the three eggs that Daemon discovered from Syrax's clutch in season one,
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and the egg of young Viserys Targaryen, as an insurance policy so that all of her eggs
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are not in the singular Dragonstone basket, hoping that while Lady Jeyne Arryn wants an
06:13
adult dragon to defend the Vale, the sons of House Targaryen and multiple dragon eggs
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will do the job.
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What do you know of the movements of Alicent Hightower?
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Rhaenyra sees what's coming.
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She's trying to put an end to it, and to beseech Alicent to help her see that through.
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She sees it as her job as Sovereign to risk herself before she risks the lives of possibly
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millions of the realm.
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It's quite a chaotic choice, but Rhaenyra also wants to look the person who's caused
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her such pain in the face.
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When Rhaenyra and Alicent come together, they're right back to that moment where Viserys died.
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He changed his mind.
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I've been at times unkind, but never untrue.
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She has to reckon for the first time with the idea that possibly her father changed
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his mind, that she lost the mandate.
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But when Alicent explains that his last wish was that Aegon be king, and she starts talking
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about the prince that was promised, that's when Rhaenyra realizes that Viserys was talking
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about the prophecy.
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It's a story he once told about Aegon the Conqueror.
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That story and what she's told herself has given her such strength.
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This just throws Alicent's world into complete chaos.
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There's been a mistake.
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There's been no mistake.
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Please.
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Rulers can exploit prophecy, either knowingly or unknowingly, to see through their power
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and their influence over the realm.
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A terrible war is looming, and even victory may be so bloodiest to be counted a loss.
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Do not let your pride blind you to the blood.
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There's been no mistake.
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Rhaenyra does not get what she wants.
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It's not because Alicent's unwilling to hear it, it's simply because Alicent is saying
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my power has been stripped away.
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Even if she wanted to do something, she feels like her hands are tied.
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It's too late, Rhaenyra.
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Alicent.
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That causes her to have to reckon finally with going to war.
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And suddenly she chooses her title.
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She doesn't just inherit it.
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Alicent and Rhaenyra are both affected by what they have lost and the history that they
08:33
have with each other.
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You don't forget it.
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So the rest of the season is about embracing reality.
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