House Of The Dragon 2x08♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡

The fact is the show is whitewashing the greens. In the book Aegon threw a party in celebrations of Luke death. And that is only one example of how the whitewashed Aegon.

Aegon Targaryen they could never make me like you no matter how badly cripple and broken he is and making him seem now as this young man who was just trying to be a good king, who cares about the smallfolk and loved his son when just weeks ago he was raping servant girls and watching his bastard children fight in those disgusting fighting pits and be treated like animals and also calling himself “the realm’s delight” eww no 🤢

I think Alicent had already let go of Aemond, especielly after suspecting he might have something to do with what happened to Aegon and then preassuring Helaena. She thinks he will go down fighting no matter what and she can't see a way out for him now that Rhaenyra has so many dragons. She did probably hope that she could convince Rhaenyra to spare Aegon, I think she feels bad for him since he was practically forced to take the Throne. But he also did some bad choices for himself that put him where he is now. And Rhaenyra is right, if she is gonna hold any respect as a ruler she can't let Aegon live after declaring himself king. That would undermine her authority and open up for endless attempts to overthrow her. But Daeron and Helaena could probably be spared since they haven't really participated in the war. So Aegon is really the big sacrifice for Alicent. If she believes she can spare the "innocent" kids it makes a little bit more sense that she would agree to give him up.

Apparently writers wrote a 10 episode script for this season but suddenly HBO dropped a bomb on them that they can't give them all the budget they needed and this happened before the writer's strike so they couldn't make another script for 8 episode as it would have delayed the show for another year so they decided to cut down the last two episode without changing the other 8 episode which are supposed to have two of the most important battle's in dance of the dragon but the good news is that we might get a battle in the first episode of season 3

when Rhaenyra says the history will paint you villain she was right every one started to hate Alicent after this episode and i thinks it is the writers intentions Alicent has never been a good mother because she really doesn't how to be one, she was forced to play the queen by Otto and she forced her son upon the throne even though he was not ready for it or even trained him for this, and now she think she already lost her sons, Aemond and Aegon can't be controlled by her so they are gonna go to battle probably lose and die She also has not been a mother to Dareon and she already said it was her lack of mothering that created Aegon and Aemond so she wants to distant herself from him so Dareon wouldn't become someone like Aegon and Aemond So the only thing that she has not already lost is her daughter and she is the only one that she can save at this point it does not mean you should like what she is doing but i thought this might make you understand her character

You are not crazy she probably jumped into Damon's dream to talk to him the three eyed raved that you saw was Brandon Rivers in his early days, he is known as one of the important people who have shaped the direction of Targaryen bloodline so that prince that was promised would be born, he was hand of the king to Aegon the fifth and when banished to the Wall, one day he goes beyond the Wall and disappears until 50 years later when Bran Stark will meet him as the Three Eyed Raven which we saw him in game of thrones in his old days Dreams in world of song of ice and fire designed to be ambiguous and open to interpolations so in the dream that Damon saw when we see a girl with three dragons, we see Danni but it might not be necessarily what Damon see, Damon might think that she is his daughter with Rhaenyra or Rhaenyra herself even and she is going to be the prince that was promised. Truth is every Targaryen king that hears about this Aegons dream they always think they are the promised prince or the threat from the north might come in their life time and it could be the same with Damon thats why he is in a rush to be at Rhaenyra's side, who knows what he would do if he knew the threat actually comes in 150 years, in here this dream manipulates Damon into thinking that threat comes in his life time so that he would do what the dream tell him to do

I think this show's characters and relationships lack in emotional depth when compared to game of thrones, more so in this season than in season one. I still enjoy it a lot but the characters don't feel as real or fleshed out to me.

Great watching your reactions to this season alongside us Sofie! Hopefully the wait for season 3 won’t be too bad since next year we get the next GoT spinoff show: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”. They already put out a first look teaser of that :-)

Cant blame Alicent for giving up Aegon. If Aegon is left alive there will always be a challenge to Rhaenyra's throne, the war will never end. Even if she lets him live, many of the lords would still want Aegon as king hence why she said she needs to take his head for everyone to see.