{"id":85262,"date":"2022-10-03T03:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T03:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/secret-wedding-deaths-and-dragon-claiming-explained\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T03:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T03:22:03","slug":"secret-wedding-deaths-and-dragon-claiming-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/secret-wedding-deaths-and-dragon-claiming-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret wedding, deaths and dragon claiming explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>This week&#8217;s episode of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d spinoff series \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d features child violence, a fake out death plot twist that&#8217;s a major change from the book, a secret wedding, and sex on the beach. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoilers ahead for episode 7 of \u201cHouse of the Dragon<\/strong>, <strong>which aired Sunday, Oct 2<\/strong> <strong>ten HBOs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone is gathered at Driftmark (Corlys&#8217; castle) for the funeral of his daughter \u2014 Daemon&#8217;s wife who died last episode.  Princess Rhaenyra (now played by Emma D&#8217;Arcy instead of Milly Alcock) reconnects with her uncle Daemon for the first time since the 10-year time jump.  Apparently, he&#8217;s not much of a grieving widower, since he has sex on the beach with his niece immediately after his wife&#8217;s funeral. <\/p>\n<p>Prince Aemond (the second son of King Viserys and Queen Alicent) is also on the beach.  No, he&#8217;s not peeping on his relatives getting it on.  He&#8217;s claiming Vhagar, the oldest and largest dragon who used to belong to Daemon&#8217;s late wife.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Corlys (Steve Toussaint), his wife Rhaenys (Eve Best) and their granddaughters (center): Daemon&#8217;s daughters Baela (Shani Smethurst) and Rhaena (Eva Ossei-Gerning).<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ollie Upton \/ HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show hasn&#8217;t explained it clearly, but dragons and their riders have special bonds in this world, and they only ever bond to one living person at a time.  So, now that Laena is dead, the dragon will be Aemond&#8217;s from now on.  This is a big deal, because Aemond seems like a little twerp \u2014 he later tries to brain one of Rhaenyras&#8217; sons with a rock, punches Daemon&#8217;s daughters, and taunts Rhaenyra&#8217;s sons about their dad dying in a fire.  This isn&#8217;t a nice kid, and he now has what amounts to the most powerful weapon in Westeros.  So, this dragon development is bad news! <\/p>\n<p>Daemon&#8217;s daughters are furious that Aemond \u201cstole\u201d their late mom&#8217;s dragon.  The kids all get into a violent fight, and it ends with Rhaenyra&#8217;s son stabbing Aemond in the eye, in self-defense. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this causes chaos.  The adults convene in the hall and accusations fly about whose fault it is that one of the princes is now a cyclops. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-4.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Alicent (Olivia Cooke) with her older son, Aegon (Ty Tennant), looking worried by a fire. \" class=\"wp-image-24071404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Alicent (Olivia Cooke) with her older son, Aegon (Ty Tennant), who has both eyes. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ollie Upton \/ HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alicent wants to solve this issue by literally taking an eye for an eye from Rhaenyra&#8217;s son.  Because nothing says \u201cThe audience should root for this character\u201d like willingness to harm a child!  Later, Alicent&#8217;s dad Otto Hightower (who has returned to his position as the Hand of the King), praises his daughter for her viciousness.  He also comments that Aemond getting the dragon Vhagar for \u201cour side\u201d is worth the price he paid for it, in losing an eye. <\/p>\n<p>Even with all the dragon developments and child violence, the drama in this episode isn&#8217;t over yet.  Rhaenyra sees how hardcore Alicent is, and she knows that many people in the kingdom think that Alicent&#8217;s son should get the throne after the king dies, instead of Rhaenyra.  You know who would be a good ally to have on her side?  Her unhinged uncle who has no qualms about murder.  So, Rhaenyra and Daemon get married in a secret wedding involving smearing blood on each other&#8217;s faces, as one does (it&#8217;s an ancient Valyrian tradition that their ancestors did).<\/p>\n<p>These two don&#8217;t care that it&#8217;s incest.  In fact, that&#8217;s part of the appeal, since there are rumors that Rhaenyra&#8217;s kids are illegitimate.  Marrying a relative in a classic Targaryen move will make Rhaenyra&#8217;s claim to the throne seem stronger, she thinks. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and his brother King Viserys (Paddy Considine) talk on a patio. \" class=\"wp-image-24071408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/house-of-dragons-ep7-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and his brother King Viserys (Paddy Considine) meet again after 10 years. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ollie Upton \/ HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But one wrench in this wedding plan is that Rhaenyra is already married.  Sure, her husband Laenor is gay and they have an open relationship, but he&#8217;s still her husband. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert <\/strong>for George RR Martin&#8217;s, \u201cFire &#038; Blood,\u201d the book on which the show is based.  In the source material, Laenor simply dies, and it&#8217;s assumed that Daemon got him out of the way so that he could marry Rhaenyra.  In a big change, the show makes it seem like Daemon and Rhaenyra arrange for Laenor to be killed.  But in a twist, it&#8217;s revealed that they faked his death and he&#8217;s going off to live a new life abroad in blissful obscurity with his boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, it&#8217;s a cruel development that both Laenor and his sister Laena both die, in order to get out of the way so that Daemon and Rhaenyra can finally be together.  It&#8217;s also notable that Westeros is especially brutal to LGBTQ+ characters, slaying Laenor&#8217;s boyfriend Joffrey in the fifth episode (and don&#8217;t forget the fates of Loras, Renley, or Oberyn on \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d).  So, Laenor is one <em>seemingly seemingly<\/em> dead gay character who&#8217;s given a better fate onscreen. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe this means that the show might spare other characters who are marked for death in this bloody tale.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d airs Sundays at 9 pm on HBO. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s episode of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d spinoff series \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d features child violence, a fake out death plot twist that&#8217;s a major change from the book, a secret wedding, and sex on the beach. Spoilers ahead for episode 7 of \u201cHouse of the Dragon, which aired Sunday, Oct 2 ten HBOs. 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