#watching hotd

[hauntingblue]

AEMOND FIRED HIS MOTHER????!!!

[hangsawoman]

HE JUST CUT HIS HEAD OFF CLEANDLFJ??????

[sweetscarlettangel]

HotD Season 2 Episode 8 Live Thoughts

I liked the montage at the beginning after the recap

Essos (Tyrosh?)

Honestly, they're smart for wanting the Stepstones — they should have fortified them and used them post the Velaryon war

Tyland just wants to go home

Go girl!

Something will happen between them

King’s Landing

And the beginnings of Aegon's and Orwyle's bond

Honestly, Aegon seems to have more of a political mind than Aemond

So Larys' plan wasn’t Dragonstone originally?

If Sunfyre's dead then will Aegon claim another dragon? Is he actually alive but they don’t know it? Or will they simply change Rhaenyra's fate?

The Vale

And there goes Rhaena

Not a very good babysitter

Dragonstone

So they have Hugh be more reasonable than Ulf

Jace is so done with them and things are barely starting 

Driftmark

"The third brother" say your brother's name!

Helaena is no warrior, but Dreamfyre was an angry and vicious dragon

Corlys naming his ship for Rhaenys!

Harrenhal

Daemon finally seems happy and not in the middle of a nightmare

At a minimum, Daemon should’ve imprisoned Ser Alfred. It's treason what he’s suggesting and they both know it

And Ser Simon will tell the others

King’s Landing

Yeah, the riots will start because of Aemond

Helaena!

She's so innocent

Alicent planning to escape?

What happened to Aemond? Honestly, the inconsistency of the characterizations is one of the show's biggest weaknesses 

Crownlands

Gwayne & Cristin coming to a head

And now they’re having deep conversations?

Essos

Tyland isn’t having a good time

Why are they fighting in the mud?

Dragonstone

Baela being Jace's voice of reason

I like how she’s been given a bigger role this season

The Vale

Rhaena better find the dragon fast

Essos

Ok why is he singing?

Will they ever get his name right?

The Gullet is coming (probably in S3's premiere)

She got his name right!

Did not expect that…thought she'd want an affair or something

Dragonstone

Awkward dinner

Already showing the differences between Addam and Hugh & Ulf

The stills from this scene!

Hugh should try to get them to smuggle his wife away

Gerardys! Love him, an un-utilized king

Harrenhal

I’m disliking Alys more and more

Don’t understand why Helaena was in the visions

Thought the Dany in the visions would be with the 3 dragons grown

Saw another comment this and I totally agree: Daemon should’ve seen Jon while he was being named King and thought it was an older Jace

King's Landing

Oh no… foreshadowing Helaena's death

Harrenhal

Caraxes welcoming Syrax? Or angry Caraxes?

Syrax: I’m not meant for this Rhaenyra! Take me back to our island where I can be pampered!

Daemyra meeting after 6 weeks apart

And now Daemon believes in dreams and prophecies

I love Ser Simon (will probably use him in one of my stories)

No one can deny Daemon is a leader

Driftmark

Will Corlys and Alyn ever have a cordial relationship? Who knows!

And there's a bit of the Alyn from F&B

The Vale

We should’ve had a scene where the caretakers and guards of the kids realize Rhaena is gone

Dragonstone

Mysaria is laying it on a bit thick… the manipulation is becoming clearer 

Gosh this feels like lovers reuniting

So Alicent had an existential crisis in the woods and ended up with Rhaenyra 

The parallels to the Sept

Why didn’t she tell Helaena do they could pack gold and valuables, grab Jaehaera and go

The situation makes no sense… why would Alicent try to make peace after years believing Rhaenyra as queen would mean her children dead? After Daemon ordered her grandson's murder? And why would she even accept having Aegon killed, confirming her fears?

Again, the parallels - young Rhaenyra wanted to go away with Alicent and now older Alicent wants it

[spideyhexx]

it’s quiet tonight😔

[eggsilogs]

sketch i did a while back

[crouteann]

happy pride month to rhaenicent and every rhaenicent enjoyer... i finished this

prints on my kofi ✨

[morgana-pendragon]

i love being unhinged bc i actually did just watch the actual legitimate canonisation of rhaenyra targaryen and alicent hightower’s romantic relationship and literally no one can tell me otherwise

[prideprejudce]

the scenes of rhaenyra and alicent going to each other this season, desperately trying to halt fate even though they have always known deep down they are stuck with seeing this to the end. the future visions of the game of thrones universe and how everyone is stuck in their own destined deaths for a story hundreds of years beyond their own lives. alicent and rhaenyra being just two girls wearing blue who might have been soulmates in another life but are now too clouded by their own paths to save each other anymore

[abigaillazaar]

I'd be the last shred of truth In the lost myth of true love I'd be the sweet feeling of release Mankind now dreams of

[serqphites]

all stark men have breeding kinks and that’s something i’ll hold close to me forever.

[arcielee]

Rhaenyra: Choose. Will you shrink from what you set out to do? Or will you see it through and make your sacrifice? A son for a son.

Meanwhile, Jaehaerys:

[hauntingblue]

AGEON DOESN'T SPEAK VALYRIAN L!!! L!!! MASSIVE L!!! NOT THE KING!!!

[comradekarin]

jacaela trying to hide that they crazy as hell……

[sweetscarlettangel]

HotD Season 2 Episode 7 Live Thoughts

Recap

Wait was that lady I said I liked Sabitha Vypren?

Driftmark

And the stills we thought might be bc Laenor came back and would pose as Addam

And there's the Addam from F&B

Addam: should I say Corlys is my father? Hmm maybe not

And Rhaenyra now will push for the dragonseeds

King's Landing

Alicent: in the middle of an existential crisis

Alicent and Rhaenyra now have matching scars

So the Kingsguards who tried to protect Alicent & Helaena are sentenced to the Wall? Yeah that won’t go down well

Shouldn’t Larys & Wylde think of a Velaryon? The families intermarried a lot so there's Targ blood there

Dragonstone

Jace & Baela's looks to one another

Rhaenyra talking about bastards not having honor after birthing 3 🙄

Think Rhaenyra! This will make things harder for Jace and Joffrey

A Corlys-Addam interaction!

Addam just wanted to be recognized by his dad

Harrenhal

"My king"?

Oscar's so done with Daemon's BS

I wish we could've had the Riverlands from the book where they mustered an army without the Tullys simply for fighting in the side of Viserys' little girl

He's got guts

Why are they meeting in the godswood? Why not a council room?

More of the Blackwood-Bracken feud?

I’m not sure I like this weird tension between Daemon & Willem Blackwood

What did he do against the Brackens?

Don’t remember reading about his execution 

More Viserys hallucinations! Yay (not)

But no one can deny Paddy's skill on this role

King's Landing

Poor Aegon

Isn’t it too soon for him to be up?

I take back my words about the burns 

My guess is Larys wants to make himself indispensable to Aegon, more so now that he's injured

Ok no. So now the Grand Maester is taking Larys' orders? 

Driftmark

The closest we’ll get to Corlys saying he knows they're his sons

"I am salt and sea" —> foreshadowing for him being the Lord of the Tides

The Vale

Little Aegon and Viserys

Did Joffrey stay in the Vale?

And there goes Rhaena abandoning her brothers

This will come back to haunt her

Kingswood

Oh so that's Rickard Thorne

Gosh I’m in love with Alicent's hair

Dragonstone

Ok so Jace is worried about Mysaria's influence 

Jace predicting the future

Poor guy is having an existential crisis rn

The parallels — Rhaenyra asking Viserys to protect her claim and now Jace asking the same of Rhaenyra

Honestly, Jace is right and when I read F&B I never thought of the dragonseeds weakening his claim

King’s Landing 

Elinda!

She shouldn’t be wearing red. That doesn’t help her blend in

Ulf doesn’t seem sure of the idea

We finally have a name for Hugh's wife

So he's Saera's

She's smart

Kingswood

Once again, the stills

Love the imagery

Dragonstone

With all the closeups, I wish we had the purple and lilac contacts 

Ok so the Dragonkeepers are out

Not the most inspirational pep talk

Hope we’ll finally get close ups to Vermithor and Silverwing

Let's see who dies trying to claim him before Hugh

Will Mysaria try?

Wait so she's leaving them?

Ok ok, she's watching from a balcony

And we have our first victims

Once again, Rhaenyra's horror-stricken face

I guess Silverwing will claim Ulf also

After all that, Hugh will still try? Well, it might be his best bet

That girl looks a bit like Helaena

Vermithor: you smell like Saera. I guess you're alright

Ulf: I just want to get out of the caves

Oops he just disturbed the eggs

Ok I expected Silverwing to be a lot paler

She's playing with him 🤣 

King's Landing

Aemond couldn’t be more bored with the council

Silverwing's just happy to be in Alysanne's city again

And Aemond will go after them on Vhagar

Honestly now that we're seeing the other dragons, it's clear that Vhagar was made to be ugly in the show

Dragonstone

Why does Vermithor look red?

Well, at least Rhaenyra looks like a dragon queen 

[tessarionbestgirl]

Just now re-watching I noticed that Viserys was the one that send tea to Rhaenyra room, basically that imply he didn't believe her, yet, send Otto away.

Like imaging being Alicent, she not only found out that Rhaenyra lied to her and slept with the guy she had a crush on, but as well she couldn't trust her husband because even knowing the true he cover up and send her father away. So that is why the dress scene was such a powerful scene for me.

She was complete isolated and cornered, so instead of hiding she show up at the wedding wearing a dress with the color of her house. A declaration of war, a little girl against all these powerful men with dragons.

[morgana-pendragon]

“let’s run away together with our daughter like you asked when we were kids” ARE. YOU JOKING