House of the Dragon 2x05 Inside Regent (2024) HBO Game of Thrones Prequel

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00:00This episode is very much everybody vying for power but also it's very much about that

00:08happening through grief.

00:13Much of episode 5 revolves around how Rhaenys' death is resonating across all of the different

00:18characters and no one as much as it lands with her husband Corlys.

00:24This poor guy over the course of these two seasons has slowly had every human connection

00:28stripped away from him one by one.

00:31He is sitting in the Hall of Nine but it means nothing to him anymore because she's gone

00:35and all of this stuff, who cares?

00:37Steve is an incredible actor.

00:39He has such deep soul to all of his performances.

00:44I had no clue that he was going to have this tear, like this silent tear roll down his

00:49face.

00:50It was incredibly moving to see it.

00:55Our largest dragon has been killed.

00:58Duskendale and Rook's rest are gone.

01:00I think everybody's reeling, I mean Rhaenyra not the least of which and you hear a lot

01:04of this backbiting and bickering going on at the table because everybody is under tremendous

01:09amount of stress.

01:10They don't know how to react but Rhaenyra finds herself at sea.

01:13I mean that was her last great female advisor.

01:18And that's also when Rhaenyra sees this huge power vacuum and knows she's got to do something.

01:24Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand.

01:27Even the death of my wife does not content her.

01:30She's playing the role of the great politician here.

01:32The next best thing next to having Daemon back is one of the most respected men in Westeros

01:36and that's the Sea Snake.

01:38And she doesn't exploit Rhaenys' death to do it.

01:41She knows that the man is there looking for purpose, probably looking for a bit of vengeance

01:44and she probably takes advantage of that in the moment to try to get him back on side.

01:48The path I walk has never been trod.

01:52What you cannot do, let others do for you.

01:56There is more than one way to fight a war.

02:00I think Mysaria's power increases in Rhaenys' absence because I think Rhaenyra is desperate

02:04in looking for that sympathetic female voice in her life.

02:07Mysaria is offering another way which is I understand the will of the people and we can

02:12manipulate that and play that to your advantage.

02:15An element of what we're watching is propaganda war.

02:18How to win the hearts of the people.

02:20And that's all learning that she receives from Mysaria.

02:22I don't think this is something that Rhaenyra had thought of or considered until Mysaria

02:27brought it to the fore.

02:28And it's a bit of a modern concept, this idea of the quote-unquote power of the people.

02:33I have an errand for the Lady Mysaria.

02:35In real history, smart and sometimes cunning and ruthless, medieval sovereigns did use

02:40people and their will to their advantage.

02:43Behold!

02:44The traitor dragon Maelys!

02:46It is.

02:47Look, they've killed a dragon.

02:50Mark my words, this is a black omen.

02:52I think this is very, this is very cool.

02:55His expectations are so high, his expectations are for people to honor him and push him up

03:00on a pedestal.

03:01If you look like you've won and you carry yourselves like you've won and the public

03:05don't know what's really happened, then that's what everyone's going to believe.

03:08But what happens is so different.

03:10Don't they realize we won the battle?

03:13Strange victory, if it was won.

03:15The calculation that he doesn't make is how it will land on the small folk.

03:19I mean, Maelys is a beloved dragon that probably flew over that city hundreds of times and

03:23is seen as one of these symbols of the unshakeableness, of the invincibility of the Targaryens.

03:28I thought the dragons was gods.

03:30You know, as soon as people can see you can kill dragons, well then anybody can do it.

03:34And does that mean that these people that we've always thought of as being gods, because

03:38of their ability to ride dragons, is actually all a bit of a mirage?

03:44This is, at best, a terrible omen, and at worst, a harbinger of the things to come.

03:53The king.

03:54Ser Criston, what befell him?

03:56His grace fought valiantly.

03:57And Aemond?

03:58What was his part in this?

04:01I could not say.

04:03The dramatic tension that looms over the episode is what is the state of Aegon and did he survive

04:09the end of episode four, and will he survive through the end of this episode?

04:14And I think that's what's kind of looming over all these characters, that big question,

04:18to show the cost of letting your sovereign get on his dragon and ride into battle.

04:23Someone will have to rule in his stead.

04:24It's everything he ever wanted.

04:26With great power comes great responsibility, and he's got to be seen as someone who knows

04:30how to wield it.

04:31I agree, your grace.

04:32It must be Prince Aemond.

04:33I mean, this is a massive power shift all of a sudden at the Green Council.

04:37It's as well as dramatized by the meeting where Aemond takes power in this very kind

04:41of banal way where he just stands up from the foot of the table, takes his ball, moves

04:45over to the king's seat, and puts it down, and sits, and then starts doling out orders

04:48while everybody, including Alicent, especially Alicent, are reeling from the decision.

04:53And you feel the shift in that way, and how different the Red Keep is going to be with

04:57Aemond in charge versus the way it was with Aegon.

05:00Someone cut down the fucking rat catchers.

05:03A term too simple, Lord Bracken.

05:05Renounce the false King Aegon as a usurper, and bend the knee to me, or your house burns.

05:14Daemon approaches life always trying to hammer that square peg into the round hole, and he's

05:19just trying to force his will upon this place.

05:23I love the image of him in his full, like, dragon battle armor sitting on the rock and

05:27not understanding what's happened, and saying...

05:30I did not think they would be so eager to die.

05:33And the Riverlands is just this unwranglable place to him.

05:36He's brought his values, and sort of Targaryen dragon lord values, into a place that is rich

05:41with the old gods and these old ways.

05:43These people just don't respect the dragon lords the way Daemon is hoping or used to.

05:48See, I must begin here with a lesson in etiquette.

05:51On the page, I thought, yeah, this is the right territory.

05:54This is where we should be.

05:55This is where his head's at.

05:57It's how mental his kind of state is.

05:59Is Daemon trying to usurp Rhaenyra?

06:01It's, like, unfair that he wasn't given the crown, that he isn't listened to, that he

06:08doesn't have that power.

06:09We just don't know what he's going to do or ultimately how he's going to turn.

06:14And while I don't think that anybody could ever be asked to believe that he would turn

06:17against Rhaenyra and, like, go to war against her, I think we could all believe that maybe

06:22Daemon would just go and claim the throne for himself and then see what happens.

06:26What would you call the husband of the queen?

06:28Well, the king.

06:29There it is, then.

06:30Consul.

06:32That last bit seems unnecessary, don't you think?

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