House of the Dragon 2x04 Inside 'A Dance of Dragons' (2024) HBO Game of Thrones Prequel

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00:00♪♪

00:09Cole is now a real problem

00:11that's going to have to be dealt with in the Crownlands.

00:13He's taken down Duskendale and Rosby and Darklyn

00:16and should be marching on Harrenhal

00:18with the force that he's assembled.

00:19Cole's victories have only emboldened him.

00:21He marches on Rook's Rest.

00:23Rook's Rest, it's a tiny coastal keep right across the bay.

00:26Rhaenyra seizes upon that.

00:28There are those who have mistaken my caution for weakness.

00:32Let that be their undoing.

00:34And plays right into Cole's hand.

00:35♪♪

00:43George always said about Daemon,

00:45he's heroic and villainous in equal parts,

00:47and that's what makes him fascinating as a character.

00:49Part of Daemon's story to Harrenhal this season

00:51is having to face and atone for the sins of his past.

00:56Laena.

01:01Aemond, who he probably had a hand a bit in his creation.

01:08And very much young Rhaenyra.

01:11-♪♪

01:13Speak plainly.

01:15It's a journey of discovery and unraveling,

01:17and it's all beginning to make him become really unstuck.

01:21Daemon is experiencing one of his core injuries.

01:24This is the room that has caused him so much pain.

01:26It's the seat that he's coveted for so long and was denied.

01:30And then the little girl who stole it from him

01:33before he knows it.

01:34♪♪

01:37He exacts vengeance.

01:39It's the blood of the dragon.

01:40They're connected in such a deep way.

01:43And the idea that he could harm her is, you know, really alien.

01:48He's still very closed to these intrusive visions,

01:52but they start to break down the very carefully constructed

01:55walls that he's put up around himself.

01:58-♪♪

02:00Touched late to be stalking about a strange castle.

02:03Alice Rivers is written about quite a bit in the book.

02:06She's described as a kind of woods witch

02:08that lives at Harrenhal,

02:09has possibly been there for hundreds of years.

02:11You don't really know immediately

02:13whether she is what she says she is.

02:17You are a strange kind of woman.

02:19I'm no woman at all.

02:20I'm a barn owl, cursed to live in human form.

02:24She's not afraid of him, and I think that he recognizes that,

02:27and that's unusual for him.

02:29You experienced anything of note?

02:31She instills a sort of curiosity in Damon.

02:36What is she? Why is she here?

02:37Is she influencing me?

02:39Am I beholden to her?

02:41She understands things about him,

02:43whether because she's just a good greeter of people

02:45or there's something else going on.

02:47And she penetrates him in a way

02:49that I think fascinates him,

02:50but also makes him very uncomfortable.

02:52I think it's really up for debate

02:53whether Alice is shaping Damon's journey

02:56in terms of his kind of spiritual awakening

02:59or if he's doing that himself.

03:06Sir Criston is marching on Rook's Rest.

03:11The two of you have been plotting

03:14without my authority.

03:17I love scenes that involve Valyrian.

03:19It's a real language for us.

03:21The fact that people who speak it at different levels

03:23becomes part of their character.

03:25Aemond in this scene is still furious

03:27at his humiliation at the brothel.

03:30Aemond and Aegon both, of course,

03:32learned High Valyrian as children.

03:34It's just that Aemond paid a little more attention to it.

03:41That scene is a public execution, in a way.

03:44Only him and Aegon can understand.

03:46It's a public shaming.

03:52He's aware that everyone else is feeling

03:54certain resentment towards him,

03:56but then when Aemond does it,

03:58that really breaks a bit of his heart off.

04:10If there's one rule to take away

04:13from The Dragon, don't laugh at Aemond.

04:15Bad things happen to you.

04:17They don't care what I think.

04:21Alicent's just come off of this

04:23near-assassination attempt

04:25with her head spinning,

04:27wondering whether she misinterpreted

04:29what Viserys's final words were.

04:31And then she comes back home

04:33and sees Aegon just stomping around

04:35and ranting like a petulant teenager.

04:37My council, Cole, Aemond,

04:39they pursue their campaign

04:42Aegon is a very sensitive individual.

04:44He wants his mum's love.

04:46He wants his mum's validation.

04:48He wants her to believe in him.

04:50Alicent can coat her words

04:52in honey a little bit more

04:54to Aegon, if she chooses.

04:56But the tension

04:58is bubbling.

05:00Do you think simply wearing the crown

05:02imbues you with wisdom?

05:04She's lost a bit of the composure

05:06that you're used to seeing in Alicent

05:08and she simply tells him,

05:10There's nothing.

05:12And it's the most devastating,

05:14most demeaning,

05:16belittling thing that she could have said

05:18to Rusanne in that moment.

05:20It's the first time we see Alicent

05:22point-blank tell him

05:24everything that he can't hear.

05:26Especially the way, how fragile

05:28he is at that time, too.

05:30And how he's just becoming more and more naked

05:32and more and more alone.

05:34And that's one of the final straws for him, I think,

05:36before he fully, fully spirals.

05:40The thing that everybody has warned Rhaenyra against

05:42is you're the queen, you're the sovereign,

05:44you cannot ride to battle.

05:46Aegon has just muscled everybody out of the way

05:48and decided to ride into the battle

05:50to prove that he was just as much a man

05:52as Cole and his brother.

05:56Cole has arrived with his forces.

05:58He's facing a tiny keep

06:00that can't hope to win.

06:02Work's Rest is really not a significant

06:04strategic advantage. Why would Cole take that risk?

06:06He never intends or cares about the keep.

06:09He's there to draw out a dragon.

06:11You must send me, Your Grace.

06:13I will meet Cole.

06:15Rhaenys chooses to step in

06:17having said for the whole

06:19season, we mustn't

06:21use dragons, anything but using dragons.

06:23If it has to be done,

06:25if this action has to be

06:27taken, then it's better that she

06:29does it than anybody else.

06:31Ultimately, she is expendable

06:33where Rhaenyra is not.

06:35What should be a small campaign

06:37to take a small keep turns into a kind of

06:39watershed moment.

06:41The first act of

06:43full-on dragon conflict.

06:48All bets are off. All order is gone.

06:50Whatever you thought was important on the battlefield doesn't matter

06:52at all. It's basically just a

06:54collateral damage site

06:56because the real battle is going on

06:58over your heads.

07:04Aegon has arrived as the fly in the ointment

07:06so to speak.

07:08It's changed the strategy. Now, Vhagar and Cole

07:10have to contend with the fact that

07:12the king is in the fray and they have to protect the king.

07:14Dracarys!

07:25Light the guns!

07:27Dracarys!

07:29The question it raises, did he seize an

07:31opportunity where he could take

07:33two players off the board or

07:35did Aegon just collateral?

07:39When he's plummeting to the earth

07:41after being hit by a ball of fire

07:43all of his fears of

07:45Aemon's betrayal

07:47come true.

07:52Your Grace!

07:54Of all the people affected by this, Cole is the one

07:56who's most slammed by it because

07:58it was his plan. Cole has been in battle

08:00before. He's seen people die. He's seen people

08:02crushed beneath horses and so Cole had to be

08:04particularly touched by the distinct

08:06and specific nature of dragon war

08:08and how insignificant

08:10it made soldiers like him on the battlefield.

08:12He's playing

08:14chess and messing with things.

08:16He can barely get his head around.

08:22It's the sort of moral loss

08:24by his own actions.

08:26Cole is responsible for the worst

08:28possible thing that could have happened.

08:34No!

08:42I think it's a pyrrhic victory for both sides.

08:44We lose Rhaenys, one of Rhaenyra's

08:46most trusted counselors.

08:48We don't really know the condition of

08:50Sunfyre or Aegon. You just have to

08:52regard it as a great emblem,

08:54an example of how horrible

08:56and awful dragon war is and the reason

08:58that it needs to be waged with

09:00great restraint.

09:04DRAGON WAR

09:06DRAGON WAR

09:08DRAGON WAR

09:10DRAGON WAR

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