House of the Dragon 2x06 Inside Smallfolk (2024) HBO Game of Thrones Prequel

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00:00Episode 206 is entitled Small Folk.

00:03The camera is constantly circling characters

00:06to give the sense that this world is turning very slowly

00:10amidst this battle between the blacks and the greens.

00:13In a way, it's a boiling over of all of these things

00:17that have been simmering for so long.

00:21He dares to summon me!

00:25With haste!

00:27I find Eamon to be one of the most interesting characters.

00:31He's driven by a very cold rationality.

00:34Aegon makes choices out of fear or anger,

00:36whereas Eamon's revenge will always be served cold.

00:41Aegon has so many people constantly trying to puppeteer him.

00:46It's Larys or it's Alison or it was Otto,

00:50whereas now we've got Eamon.

00:52He's very difficult to manipulate.

00:54In a state of war, he's going to fight, just like Daemon.

00:56My uncle is a challenge. I welcome if he dares face me.

00:59I think Eamon is obsessed with Daemon in a way.

01:02I think he grew up in Daemon's shadow

01:04and hearing about the mystique of him.

01:06Eamon has spun Daemon up into being this rival to his

01:09and also somebody that he wants to emulate

01:12and then probably kill one day.

01:14Mother, a word.

01:18I think Eamon genuinely sees Alison

01:21as no more than his mother and a woman,

01:24so why would she be on the small council?

01:27Eamon sees the world in a very black-and-white way.

01:29We've always talked about Eamon as being the ultimate pragmatist,

01:32so he is not banishing his mother from the council out of cruelty.

01:35It's very simply like, I'm sorry, what is it that you do here

01:38and what's your role?

01:40You served the realm well,

01:42but at a time of need,

01:45that need is ended.

01:47So long as he's seen as this indestructible,

01:51horror-iconesque, Terminator-like figure,

01:53he'll be forever all-powerful.

01:55The indignities of your childhood

01:57have not yet sufficiently been avenged.

01:59She tries to penetrate whatever heart he has left,

02:03but it's to no avail.

02:11So Stefan Darklyn, Your Grace.

02:13I need more dragon riders.

02:15Who could do it?

02:16You.

02:18I think it's an act out of desperation of Rhaenyra's

02:20because she realizes she's never going to have the ground army.

02:23She doesn't know how Daemon is going to break,

02:25and even if the Riverlanders do go her way,

02:27they're still weeks away by March.

02:29She takes another one of these pretty outlandish

02:31but understandable risks

02:33in trying to put Stefan Darklyn on a dragon.

02:35Perhaps the gods will favor us.

02:38The first part of this journey

02:40is kind of an act of magical thinking,

02:43and I don't think it's that pragmatic.

02:46I think it's based on faith.

02:48It's part of the sort of fanaticism

02:50that we start to see her exhibit.

02:52It's a very dangerous thing to do

02:54because you suddenly take the idea of Targaryen superiority

02:57as dragon riders,

02:59and you give it to anyone that has Targaryen blood.

03:01So you sort of democratize riding a dragon.

03:07It is a risk to life and limb,

03:09but on the other side of it,

03:11it means being written into the history books.

03:13Darklyn gets intoxicated by that idea

03:15and doesn't think about the possible consequences,

03:17which, sadly, are quickly visited upon him.

03:25Rhaenyra's last-ditch idea

03:27literally goes up in flames.

03:31There is not food enough in the city.

03:34The people are hungry, and their anger is rising.

03:36I think Larys is smart enough

03:38to try and warn Aemond

03:40that people are hungry,

03:42and when people are hungry, they become desperate.

03:44When people become desperate, things happen.

03:47I think Larys is suggesting this

03:49in an effort to become the Hand,

03:51and he wants to show Aemond

03:53that he has an understanding of what's happening.

03:55Send word to Otto Eidell.

03:57Your grace.

03:59His grace, the king,

04:01has regained consciousness this morning.

04:03What happy news?

04:07Aemond has had to accept the fact that his brother survived,

04:10and he now has to deal with that,

04:12but I don't think Aemond is looking to give up his regency

04:14anytime soon, either.

04:16And, of course, you'd want to hold on to that.

04:18Aegon is in grave danger.

04:20Now Aemond's, you know, prowling around the castle.

04:23He's always had the suspicions of Aemond,

04:25but never really taken them too seriously.

04:28He wants to be in that position

04:30more than Aegon ever did.

04:33It seems my brother has a long recovery ahead of him, Grand Maester.

04:37If Aegon was to fully recover

04:39and he was to tell people what Aemond did,

04:41that puts Aemond's newfound position in jeopardy,

04:44and so he's a major threat at this point.

04:53It's getting pretty restless in the streets of King's Landing,

04:55and I think all the sympathy that they gained after Jaehaerys' death,

04:58a lot of that has been spent.

05:00And you have people who are scared and sick and hungry,

05:03and when the masses get restless,

05:05they point at the person in the highest levels of power,

05:07and they blame them.

05:10You, where'd you get that food?

05:13She thinks of us even now!

05:15I think the people of King's Landing have learned by now

05:18the people in charge are only going to give them what they have to.

05:23I don't think they're stupid, and I think that's what happens.

05:25I think the aristocracy undermine people as a collective.

05:28Whoever's going to supply them and save them from the famine

05:31is the person they're going to choose to be in charge.

05:36Aemond's downfall is that he doesn't understand the power of the small folk.

05:40Rhaenyra, through Mysaria, comes to understand this.

05:42She knows what makes them tick.

05:44She's one of them, and not just how to win their hearts,

05:47but actually what they really need.

05:49Mysaria is giving Rhaenyra that layer

05:52that she's not getting from anybody else in their council,

05:54which is, how do I, from so far away on this little island on Dragonstone,

05:58touch and affect King's Landing?

06:00And in this war, that psychological battle is very important.

06:06Your graces, we must leave.

06:09Alicent goes through this whole experience in this episode

06:11of having all these layers of her family slowly stripped away from her.

06:15Her father is gone and missing, and her son might not survive his wounds.

06:18Cole is off on the march.

06:20Aemond is a monster, and she goes to the Sept to find comfort.

06:23And even that is not a sanctuary for her.

06:26There's the Queen of Fishes!

06:30There's a blockade. There's no food.

06:33The small folk are starving,

06:36and so there's no wonder that they see the royals come in their cart

06:39and all their finery, and it's such a slap in the face to them.

06:42It's very Marie Antoinette, let them eat cake. It's cause for revolt.

06:46The effects of Aegon and now Aemond's reign

06:49have bubbled over and nearly taken her and Helene's life.

06:58It is, as we hoped, a warning to the usurpers

07:00that you have strength beyond what they accredited.

07:03It's been such an interesting part of this series for me,

07:06understanding that relationship.

07:08You watch two people who are deeply suspicious of one another

07:12develop a form of trust.

07:15Their relationship has found a dynamic

07:18which is not dissimilar to how they first met,

07:21which was this kind of open frankness and honesty

07:24and really taking each other at face value.

07:28In many ways, she is the off-council hand of Rhaenyra.

07:32I think Mysaria's power increases in Rhaenys' absence

07:35because I think Rhaenyra is desperate in looking for that sympathetic female voice in her life.

07:39Within a patriarchal structure, they underestimate both of us, really.

07:43I believe you are meant to be queen.

07:47And to what extent is there a degree of threat

07:50in watching two women begin to guide the path to war?

07:58You're great.

07:59The dragon Seasmoke has been sighted.

08:01He has a rider.

08:04Seasmoke has been claimed and she needs to go find out who.

08:09Leaving the audience wondering what's going to happen next.

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