House Of The Dragon S3 Ep: 01 | FULL REACTION

Rhaenyra's quote about having "the body of a woman but the heart of a King" is from Queen Elizabeth I's historical speech to her troops at Tilbury, where they were stationed to face the Spanish Armada. I skipped over the part where Jace's dragon dies. No matter how dangerous they are, the dragons always feel a bit like giant dogs to me. Though Sheep Stealer bringing Rhaena the dead sheep to eat felt more like cat behavior lol. The showrunner stated that Aemond kissing Alicent is rooted in his trauma as a victim of child sexual assault. He said it was meant to show that being traumatized by Aegon as a child, when he brought him to a brothel madam who raped him, has resulted in him being unable to separate maternal affection from sexual or romantic feelings.

I really dont like how they did my boy Jace. Book version took control of the council, acted as king, named Corlys hand, invited the dragon seeds, sent away his siblings, secured the pact with the Vale and North, then flew to fight when the pirates captured them. Rheanyra was bed ridden from from Lukes death in 1x10 until now. The 3 biggest people who held down Team Black were Jace, Corlys, and Daemon point blank. I understand in the show why he locked her up. He needs to prove himself especially now that his claim is even weaker due to the dragonseeds. The queen shouldnt go into battle until absolutely necessary. She has studied history but not prepared for war. Jace being a male has studied and prepared for it. He also just wants to keep his family alive. He knows he could die but dying making sure his mom gets to the throne doesnt matter to him. There is a goal and Rheanrya needs to live for it to happen. From team black view Alicent and her family are the creators of this conflict and have already set 1 trap to lure out and kill a dragon rider. Everybody would think this and taking kings landing would be traps. Cant let the queen go into a trap. Rheana is also largely at fault here. Jace and Baela were trying to fight her because she jumped in on a dragon who doesnt know enough and has no rider xp. They took time away for fighting the enemy because they thought she was the enemy. They couldve burned dozens of ship with that time, maybe even all the dragon weapons.

Rhaenyra has lost 2 of her sons, not 3. She still has 3 more sons: Joffrey (from Harwin Strong), and her 2 youngest sons by Daemon, Aegon the Younger and Viserys.

The Lord Hightower that received the message from "Aemond" was Ormund Hightower, current Lord of the Hightower after his father Hobert Hightower. Hobert was Otto's older brother, so that makes Ormund and Alicent (and Gwayne) first cousins.

34:06 I agree! It kept throwing me off the whole episode :( I hated it.