Seemed Rhaneys had a death wish more than anything.

This is twice now that smaller, faster dragons somehow lost sight the dragon with the wingspan of a fucking football field.

I hate how I knew that big mf'er was gonna clip her as soon as she cleared the castle. But yes, she was suicidal. She could've gone back to Dragonstone.

Enough of the Daemon losing his fucking mind in the castle. I hate watching shows where I can't tell if what is happening is real or not. I hate that he drank the drank from the barn owl in a humans body and then poof he's sitting at a table having a conversation with a dude, but doesn't realize it for awhile. Also is Daemon going to do what he told you g Tully and kill old worthless half dead Tully to get an army?

Daemon is the god damn worst partner/husband and I can't believe Rhaenyra thought marrying him was a good idea. He clearly thinks he should be king.

so we getting a burned king? couldn't tell if eyepatch was about to finish the deed or kill the mortally wounded dragon

nice foreshadowing with the broken dragon figurine

I did not realize the difference in dragon size. Aemons dragon is a god damn 747 hunting Cesnas out here. How the fuck did the dragon and rider lose that. (I thought the same thing about Aegon losing the medium dragon first. It seems bigger dragons don't lose maneuverability like I would have suspected.


Also the guy who saved Corlys is his bastard?

Yeah you'll hear the term Dragonseeds soon more and more, they're bastards with Valyrian blood like Alyn, Addam, Ulf and Hugh. You've seen them on the show so far introducing them; like Alyn last night being told by Rhaenys that his mother must've been very beautiful, we've seen Addam a time or two, Ulf was the one last episode that was saying he was a decendant in that bar area that Aegon took the squire to, and Hugh was the guy who asked Aegon for more resources earlier in the throne room.

1. Early in the episode when we began to see Cole's battle plan be something more than "Me feelings hurt, must smash to make dumb lady regret not choosing me!" I was a little thrown off. Getting further into the episode it became clear the plan was Aemon's plan all along (or at least that's my take).

2. Re: Alyn and Addam of Hull, fun to see that coming along. It would be a cool twist to have them BOTH be shaving their heads (because their hair comes in pure Valaryon silver-white, and they're trying to hide that fact while Rhaenys is around).

3. Alys Rivers on the scene!

4. Daemon... Some strengths, a lot of weaknesses, and probably more than Rhaenyra bargained for (when she finally got her teenage crush to herself)

5. Rhaenys... the series definitely made her a favorite for me. I got sad a few episodes ago realizing that and what was coming. The size difference between Maelys and Vhagar was larger than I realized from slogging through Fire and Blood. My understanding was that Maelys and Caraxes were both old/large enough to give Aemond pause about the idea of taking them on at the same time, even with Sunfyre at his side, but yeah, no...

6. Aemond, Aemond, Aemond. What WAS he thinking when he didn't join his brother to take down Maelys and Rhaenys? Was he thinking back to Vhagar's unpredictable nature/inability to be controlled when around another dragon (like when Vhagar ate his nephew?) Was he hoping for his dopey, incompetent older brother to get taken out? What was he planning to do when Cole gets to him and the king?

The writer on this series is doing such a nice job filling in the large gaps in this story. Quite the nice change...

I can't see them deviating from the source material that strongly. Maybe some slight changes here and there, but yeah - if they continue to stay pretty close tot he book material, we're getting a Burned King. And it makes sense to do exactly that. Looks like Aemond MIGHT have finished the job, but Cole discouraged him from doing so