House of the Dragon episode 9

Social media users can not keep calm and have been reacting to this 'epic' scene on Twitter. Several users were left spellbound by the Rhaenys Targaryen and ...

i bend the knee to you rhaenys targaryen 😩— ruby (@fortargaryen) i bend the knee to you rhaenys targaryen.” “This woman making every scene her own. Meanwhile, Alicent and Otto Hightower's abuse of power at King's Landing makes the future look darker.

In last week's nearly-perfect episode we said goodbye to King Viserys. This week the capital and the Greens there have to do the same. Not only do they have to ...

I also like the internal conflict between Aegon not wanting to be king and Aemond wanting it but not getting it. He seems to drink in the cheers of the crowd. As the crowd flees, Rhaenys and her dragon face down Aegon and the Greens. Otto forces the lords and ladies there to swear to Aegon. In the confusion, Rhaenys snuck down to her dragon. In the end, the White Worm has stashed the king away, and she sells him to Otto and the Cargylls, but Cole and Aemond intercept them and grab Aegon. Otto sends the Cargyll twins (both of the Kingsguard) to find him. House of The Dragon Episode 9 shifts to a tight and tense internal struggle between the Greens. This week the capital and the Greens there have to do the same. House of The Dragon Episode 9 starts off with the Red Keep finding out that King Viserys has died. The majority of the council is totally down with this. The council isn’t all for it.

Episode 9 of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel lets Queen Alicent shine. We also learn some unsavory things about Larys Strong.

It's easy to see Alicent's attempts at civility to be spat back at her by Rhaenyra and Daemon who, rightfully, will feel burned by the whole "Aegon is the new king" thing. She pushes Aegon for king, as she believes Viserys to have wanted, but her resolve to safeguard the princess in the process is admirable. She managed to sneak off during the ceremony, head to the dragon pit and retrieve Meleys, her dragon. Aegon is introduced, and led through a procession of knights onto the stage. Alicent pleads with Aegon to reject her father, that Rhaenyra is Aegon's sister and needs to be treated with civility. The queen shouts that reluctance to murder is not a weakness. To stop the espionage, they need to take out the Queen Bee, something he's capable of if the queen wishes it. He reprimands her for treating the succession like a game, and says they need to stay unified. You desire not to be free, but to make a window in the wall of your prison. "The former heir cannot of course be allowed to remain free and draw support to her claim … While Rhaenyra and Daemon sailed back to Dragonstone after the events of last episode, Princess Rhaenys is still in King's Landing. The Green Council is the penultimate episode of House of the Dragon's first season.

But it's only the calm before a storm that will last for entire years. King Viserys I is well and truly dead, as a servant boy informs Talya (Alexis Raben) in ...

“You desire not to be free,” she tells the queen, “but to make a window in the wall of your prison,” a prison that represents her life in service to men – father, husband, son. Ser Erryk has ferried Rhaenys out of the Keep – “I cannot let this treachery stand!” – but there’s no opportunity to catch a boat to Driftmark. “There is no power but what the people allow you to take,” the White Worm warns the Hand, and Aegon is scrabbled from his hidey hole by the Kingsguard twins as they’re set upon by Aemond and Criston. Alicent wishes to show the princess mercy, but is still keen to anoint her firstborn son as king ASAP. He offers to deal with the spymaster, Mysaria the White Worm, which Alicent agrees to Back at the castle, the servants are herded into cells, Princess Rhaenys is locked in her chambers, and Otto addresses a gathering of lords to explain how Viserys “amended his wishes,” and that they must now pledge their banners to Aegon. On their own search, Aemond tells Criston that his brother is “a waestral who’s never taken half an interest in his birthright,” which the prince contrasts with his own book study and swordsmanship. It turns out this horrible place is one of Aegon’s favorite haunts – and in the widening scope of his depravity, he’s even fathered some of the children forced to fight there. The king’s body is being cleaned and dressed under the watchful eye of a contemplative and tearful Alicent. And the race is on to secure power in the vacuum left by King V’s departure. The queen’s at a loss in the moment, however, challenged for an alternate course by Otto and Lannister. King Viserys I is well and truly dead, as a servant boy informs Talya (Alexis Raben) in the scullery, and the queen’s handmaiden reports the news to her sovereign.

The Queen Who Never Was had the perfect moment to obliterate the chess board and end the Hightowers. But she took the higher road.

Alicent explains she came to Rhaenys to ask for her support. She might have believed Alicent would do her best in guiding her son on the right path. We see her busting out, and being the one that's going to take the news to Dragonstone of the coup and of Rhaenyra's throne being stolen. She informs Rhaenys of King Viserys' passing, and Rhaenys quickly ascertains that Alicent is usurping the throne from Princess Rhaenyra. And it's a complex choice and one that people might dispute or have a problem with, but that's the choice Rhaenys makes in that moment. Seeing Alicent at the coronation ceremony, standing in front of her son, Rhaenys might have decided to have faith in Alicent. Facing down the Hightower clan -- including Queen Alicent, her father Otto and her son Aegon -- Rhaenys has the opportunity to end the Hightowers' reign for good. "And yet you toil still in service to men. All she has to do is say "Dracarys," the High Valyrian (language of the old Valyrian Freehold) word for "Dragonfire" and order Meleys to breath fire. The latest episode -- [episode 9](/culture/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-episode-9-recap-the-hand-the-queen-and-her-feet/) -- saw Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, aka The Queen Who Never Was, take her turn in the spotlight. She and Meleys then burst through the floorboards, sending the ceremony into chaos. After escaping her room with the help of defected knight Erryk Cargyll, Rhaenys finds herself swept up in Prince Aegon's coronation ceremony.

Normally, the penultimate 'Game of Thrones' episodes are packed with drama, but last night's 'Dragon' was mostly just packed with confusion.

She's suffered so much loss, and for her own sake and on behalf of so many others, the urge to destroy is so strong. So, we arrive to the point where Rhaenys is riding Meleys, facing Alicent and her family, with all the power in the world to burn them to a crisp and stop this war before it even begins. Aegon has been a (for lack of a better word) tool for the entirety of his existence on screen, and in this episode we learn even more information about the Prince that solidifies his awful character. Over the season, Alicent has turned from a naive girl to a cunning Queen, and if she is in on the lie, that move would fit into her new, Machiavellian persona. The episode came and went without so much of a shot of Rhaenyra and Daemon who, throughout the season, have become the Internet’s favorites, despite their odd incestual relationship. In the beginning of the episode, Alicent seems like a true believer in the fact that Viserys named their son, Aegon, his heir on his deathbed. Is this Otto upholding the end of his deal with Mysaria and burning down the child fighting ring? The latter seems more likely, but then, is that Larys leaving the scene of the crime? A cold open of the Prince drunkenly stumbling through King’s Landing before getting nabbed by one of the Worm’s “little spiders” would have helped, but instead, we’re just supposed to accept that she got him and, for some reason, placed him in the Sept where seemingly anyone going for a nice midday worship could have heard him screaming, right? In the book, this likely wasn’t a problem, as they are spelled differently, but in the show, they are seemingly both pronounced “Eric.” This means there is pretty much no way to tell these two apart. One of the steps they take is locking Rhaenys into her chamber. According to IMDB, the two of them have been in a total of five episodes this season (including next week’s finale), but I must have glanced over these duplicates, because as soon as I saw them in “The Green Council,” I got stressed out.

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[read a full recap here](https://tvline.com/2022/10/16/house-of-the-dragon-recap-season-1-episode-9-the-green-council/)). making it easy for a cloaked wannabe-commoner like herself to slip out a side door unnoticed by the gathered throng. If you need to get something done, ask a mother.

Much masonry was smashed and many smallfolk flattened, but it was a horribly predictable penultimate episode … aside from the foot fetish.

A marble in the brain, a rope round the neck, a spot of swordplay between two mismatched members of the Kingsguard and a gang of pox-ridden kids going at one another in a scene that even the director, Clare Kilner, clearly felt was too horrible to depict in any great detail. The visual parallels between this public crowning and a certain notorious beheading two centuries later are impossible to ignore, with Rhaenys in place of the terrified Arya Stark, being propelled through the streets and up the steps of the Sept. Turns out she’s a secret activist, using her woke mob of sex workers and palace informants to improve the lot of the little people by banning the practice of kid-fighting that we only just found out about. Still, the moral tug-of-war between the twins is nicely handled, Aemond’s potentially regicidal loathing of his unfit brother gets thrown into sharp relief, and it’s good to finally get a sense of what Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno), AKA the White Worm, is up to. As the ancient rituals are carried out, up to the throne ascends the monarch’s first-born son, an heir whose fitness for the role many hold in doubt, and who must win the respect of his people if he is to ensure the survival of his line. Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) was last seen bunking off into King’s Landing to indulge his filthy whims, so it’s up to the man-bun twins Ser Erryk (Elliott Tittensor) and Ser Arryk (Luke Tittensor) to track him down and drag him back to face Ser Otto, who wants to force the boy to issue the order for Rhaenyra’s head.