#hotd season 2 episode 7

[godofstory]

I'm in my Cregan Stark era; if I see one more of you bitches talk shit about Jacaerys and his insecurities I'll invade your hometown

[aphrmoosun]

Jacaerys Velaryon

House of the dragon Season 2 Episode 7

[bloodstained-porcelain-doll]

Love that he just sent Aegon’s friends off to the wall lmao. “The prince regent is merciful”

[rhaenyrathecruell]

Let me be honest yall the way aemond got on that horse had me creaming 😩🙏

[goosebasedcryptid]

OMGG SAERA!!!!! SAERA!!!!!!!!!

Newsflash Saera your son just claimed your misogynistic abusive full of shit dad's dragon last night!!!!!!!!!

Your family of murderous idiots is going to tear itself apart Saera!!!!!!!!! After years of fucking around they are about to find out!!!!!!!!

Go pick up Vaegon and start live tweeting the Dance Saera!!!!!!!

[bbygirl-aemond]

one of my favorite things about hotd is how we get exposed to the differences in the dragons' personalities. one great way to see this is through how each dragon forms a bond with a new rider. when aemond claimed vhagar, she bucked around like a bull and tried to throw him off to make him prove his worth by staying in the saddle. when seasmoke claimed addam, he hunted addam down and basically claimed addam himself. when hugh claimed vermithor, he stood up to him and roared in his face. and when silverwing claimed ulf, she headbutted and sniffed him before deciding to take him for a joyride. each has such a distinct personality and you can see a clear dichotomy between dragons pursuing their riders and riders pursuing their dragons.

[greenqueenhightower]

Why did I just notice that???

Do you see how Alicent is so dissatisfied in the scenes during the Green Council meeting in episode 9? How utterly surprised and somewhat disappointed?

It's not because she falls from cloud nine to discover the possibility of Aegon becoming king when she learns about the lords' "long-laid plans" from Tyland Lannister. She knew that it would make sense for Aegon to inherit the throne for both the realm and the survival of her family, and basically gave us hints she realized this as early as the hunt scene in episode 3.

More specifically, she understands that she might have to put Aegon on the throne during the scene when a heavily drunk Viserys laments his fears of making a mistake in naming Rhaenyra his heir since he now has a son, and reveals to Alicent his prophetic vision of seeing his son with the conqueror's crown. Even if at that moment, Alicent reassures Viserys he made the right choice, you can see that the doubt lingers in her mind, and in seeing Rhaenyra return from the hunt covered in blood in absolute and ruthless callousness, Alicent recognizes the danger.

It is a wake-up call: in the end, she might have to choose her son over Rhaenyra.

And of course, we know that as Aegon was growing up, Alicent spent hours musing these doubts and even confronts him with them in episode 6: "You are the challenge, simply by living and breathing. You are the king's firstborn son and what they know, what everyone in the realm knows in their blood and in their bones, is that one day you will be our king."

So what explains her dismay during the Green Council meeting??

As I see it, the cause of Alicent's distress during the Green Council among other things is not that the lords planned a whole operation to crown Aegon as king, but that they did so behind her back, as if she is not fit to be included in these discussions, let alone be consulted for her own son's future and survival.

She rightly says: "Am I to understand that members of the small council have been planning secretly, to install my son without me?" and right after that comes the condescending reply: "My queen, there was no need to sully you with darkling schemes."

No sh!t.

Remember how betrayed and distraught Alicent felt went Aemond lost an eye and everyone dismissed her concerns as that of an overreacting and overbearing mother? The Green Council scene gives flashbacks to this.

Once again, Alicent's wishes, her wills, her thoughts, and her whole person as a mother, queen, advisor, and woman, are sidelined and minimized by members of her own council.

So this is why I think it makes sense that episode 9 is called "The Green Council" which contrasts the name given to a different council meeting in episode 10, namely, "The Black Queen." Because apparently, Rhaenyra owns her council meeting, even if she has to shut down Daemon to do so. But Alicent is not yet perceived as her own council's queen.

I hope we can somehow see Alicent truly become her own Green Queen in season 2.

[daemyra-fire]

• Episode 7 • Season 1

"I've been alone."

"You abandoned me."

"I spared you."

"You were a child."

"Yes, I was a child, and look at what my life became without you—droll tragedy."

"And I wonder what you think of mine by comparison?"

“I need you, uncle, let us bind our blood,with you as my husband and prince consort,my claim would not be so easily challenged ,you and I are made of fire”

“We have always been meant to burn together”

One of my favorite episodes ❤️🔥

[beware-of-pity]

House of the Dragon suffers from the deep problem of purposely misunderstanding the world they are adapting and changing it to satisfy their own demands.

From the little things such as the lack of ladies in waiting, changing the dragon lore to fit whatever idea they came up with and had to insert in their weird made-fanfiction style story, the importance of oaths, the ignorance of the canonical past of the same dynasty the show is based on. Little things that do not seem to matter, but when gone every little piece starts to fall and before you know it everything is crumbling.

From the way the council of 101 was portrayed, to the use of the game of throne formula of simplifying the feudalist politics of Westeros, when it comes to politics, which is supposed to be the show's primary foundation and the cause of the main conflict, it comes across as completely lacking in the area.

Hell they didn't even bother to replace Lyonel Strong with a new master of laws after he was made hand, and you want me to believe they care about politics??? Do you truly want me to believe that neither Rhaenyra nor Alicent ever became friends with anyone else after their friendship fell apart? Especially Rhaenyra, the literal heir to the throne, future queen, and daughter of the king, who in the books had an entire army of ladies in waiting and lady friends,only so you could milk out the tragedy of the relationship between these two???

[prissypixie]

She got that dog in her.

[alpacaidentitycrisis]

rhaenyra telling rhaena to "guard them like a dragon guards her eggs" for episode ep 7 to then go and have rhaena go off on her own and later on with the scene of ulf and silverwing meeting (crushing her eggs) coming to the conclusion that dragons don't really guard their eggs well

[multiverseofseries]

New Stills of Rhaenyra, Alicent and Mysaria in House of the Dragon episode 7

[aphrmoosun]

Aemond & Vhagar

House of the dragon Season 2 Episode 7

[bloodstained-porcelain-doll]

Say what you will about Aemond, but he saw a dragon over his city and he hopped on his own to go scout for it

[rhaenyrathecruell]

Vhagar getting her old ass outta bed cause one eyed visenya want to go for a ego trip:

[witheredoffherwitch]

We should be calling for a petition to have Bethany Antonia and Ewan Mitchell do a promo together. Like... why are they clicking so well lmao? 😭