{"id":100484,"date":"2022-10-18T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-writer-explains-controversial-episode-9-rhaenys-ending-its-not-her-war\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:13:12","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-writer-explains-controversial-episode-9-rhaenys-ending-its-not-her-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-writer-explains-controversial-episode-9-rhaenys-ending-its-not-her-war\/","title":{"rendered":"House of the Dragon writer explains controversial episode 9 Rhaenys ending: ‘It’s not her war’"},"content":{"rendered":"
the team behind House of the Dragon <\/em>have explained the final scene in episode nine, amid viewer frustration that it was something of an anti-climax.<\/p>\n On Sunday (16 October), the HBO show broadcast its first season’s penultimate episode, which explored the fallout from the death of King Viserys (Paddy Considine) in the previous episode. <\/p>\n *Spoilers follow \u2013 you have been warned*<\/strong><\/p>\n Incorrectly believing Viserys’s dying wish was for their son Aegon to succeed him as ruler, Alicent (Olivia Cooke) informs her father Otto (Rhys Ifans), who jumps to action in order to prevent Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) from taking her rightful place on the Iron Throne.<\/p>\n Throughout the episode, the Hightowers attempt to convince the people on King’s Landing, including Viserys’s sister Rhaenys (Eve Best), that, in the final moments of his life, he went against his steadfast wish to have Rhaenyra succeed him.<\/p>\n Rhaenys attempts to escape King’s Landing when she realises the Hightowers are fasttracking the coronation before Rhaenyra has a chance to prevent it. Disguised in a shawl, Rhaenys slinks away as Aegon is being crowned \u2013 only to return on dragonback, dressed in silver and red armor. <\/p>\n She rides Meleys from the Dragonpit, landing directly in front of the Hightowers, with Alicent shielding her son, believing death to be imminent. <\/p>\n However, instead of ordering Meleys to breathe fire on the usurpers, which would have put at end to any civil war about to begin, she flies off, presumably to Dragonstone to inform a clueless Rhaenyra and Daemon (Matt Smith) about everything that’s happened.<\/p>\n This act left viewers feeling underwhelmed and frustrated. however. Best has explained Rhaenys’s motivations behind her decision in a post-episode interview, telling Entertainment Weekly<\/em>: \u201cIt’s the moment when she shows herself to be the greatest possible ruler.\u201d<\/p>\n Best said the moment was \u201cthe most merciful and most graceful act\u201d, adding: \u201cIt’s because she’s so intelligent and in the end chooses to do the right thing, which is not to destroy. It’s a truly forgiving moment and sort of a loving moment, in a weird way.\u201d<\/p>\n