Don’t fret, HBO viewers.
We perceive that this text could also be troublesome to learn on account of how shortly your head should be spinning after the newest episode of Home of the Dragon.
We understood. We’re with you.
That is the entire level of this submit, truly.
On Sunday night time, all the following occasions happened on Home of the Dragon:
Daemon bade farewell to his spouse, Girl Laena, by way of a burial at sea.
Aemond has taken management of Laena’s dragon, Vhagar.
Aemond then misplaced a watch in a knife battle with Luke after he referred to as him and his brother a “bastard”.
Rhaenyra and Daemon made love on the seaside.
Rhaenyra and Daemon have determined to get married.
Rhaenyra and Daemon hatched a plan to have Laenor murdered by her lover.
This lover pretended to kill Laenor, just for the episode to finish with the revelation that Laenor was nonetheless alive and rowing in a ship along with her supposed killer.
Sure, this all occurred in a single tv episode.
It appears notably outstanding that Rhaenyra and Daemon’s union was by some means tackled after which executed in literal minutes onscreen, given how a lot this relationship has constructed up all through Season 1.
“I can not tackle the greens alone,” she advised Daemon at one level of an impending warfare we have barely heard of.
“Lions our blood, identical to Aegon the Conqueror did along with his sisters. With you as husband and prince consort, my request wouldn’t be so simply challenged.
“The Velaryon are of the ocean. However you and I are made of fireside. We have been all the time meant to burn collectively.
It appeared (to this viewer, a minimum of) on the time as if we had simply been launched to the opening season finale recreation; that the following one or two episodes could be about this budding couple plotting to eliminate Rhaenyra’s husband so Daemon might take his place.
However no.
We then instantly minimize to Daemon bribing Laenor’s boyfriend and a sword combat that appeared to take Laenor’s life, then to the marriage, then to the ultimate shot of Laenor nonetheless very a lot alive.
The present did not give the storyline time to breathe, which is an issue it is encountered time and time once more this season.
We barely know the characters earlier than they’re killed off.
We barely spend time with alliances or relationships earlier than they’re paid for or superior not directly.
Ought to we assist Rhaenyra and Daemon? Rooting in opposition to them? How a viewer feels about such a monumental improvement is way extra vital than the event itself merely occurring.
It is a lesson that Home of the Dragon does not appear to have discovered.
We bounce in time a lot and with so many storylines condensed into single episodes or units, viewers principally haven’t got time to cease and suppose.
Or really feel.
With all this arguing about who will sit on the Iron Throne subsequent and all this maneuvering from totally different sides – and with out exterior battle, corresponding to the upcoming arrival of the White Walkers – it is vitally troublesome to not cease and marvel :
Why ought to I care?!?
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