{"id":102392,"date":"2022-10-20T04:11:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-confused-viewers-call-out-bizarre-episode-9-ending\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T04:11:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T04:11:53","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-confused-viewers-call-out-bizarre-episode-9-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-confused-viewers-call-out-bizarre-episode-9-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"House of the Dragon: Confused viewers call out ‘bizarre’ episode 9 ending"},"content":{"rendered":"
House of the Dragon<\/em>‘s big ninth episode ended on a moment that has left many viewers feeling confused.<\/p>\n The HBO show’s predecessor,game of Thrones<\/em>,<\/em> traditionally reserved some of each season’s biggest moments for the penultimate episode.<\/p>\n Appearing to follow suit, the prequel’s latest installation dealt with the fallout of the death of King Viserys (Paddy Considine) from the previous episode. <\/p>\n *Spoilers follow \u2013 you have been warned*<\/strong><\/p>\n Alicent (Olivia Cooke), incorrectly believing Visery’s dying wish was for their son Aegon to succeed him as ruler, 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 of 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 fast-tracking 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 Dameon (Matt Smith) about everything that’s happened.<\/p>\n Despite the fact that Rhaenys clearly wasn’t going to kill the Hightower family, because that would have essentially put an end to the series, many viewers were left feeling underwhelmed by the climactic scene. <\/p>\n