House of the Dragon episode 8

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The second moment is when she gives a speech in honor of Baela and Rhaena’s respective engagments to Jace and Luke. And I personally was so happy when Jace did the gallant thing and asked her to dance. She says in front of the whole family, “I would like to toast Baela and Rhaena. (I’m still trying to parse what she might have meant when she muttered, “Beware the beast beneath the boards,” in this episode!) [House of the Dragon](https://decider.com/show/house-of-the-dragon/) Episode 8 “The Lord of the Tides” marks a huge turning point in the [Game of Thrones](https://decider.com/show/game-of-thrones/) saga. One of the more heartwarming parts of last night’s episode was seeing how nicely Rhaenyra and Daemon have managed to blend their two families. Last night we met two new knights of the Kingsguard with an awful lot in common: Ser Arryk Cargyll (Elliot Tittensor) and Ser Erryk Cargyll (Luke Tittensor). Older Jace and Luke see this fight and are, at first, impressed with the mystery fighter in green. Not to spoil too much, but they will have a legendary role to play in the civil war to come. Aemond One-Eye is such a great warrior now, he is able to best Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) in a melée. Unlike Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon takes place in a time where dragons are commonplace and Valyrian knowledge of the magical beasts endures. Steam issues forth and he’s able to pull an ooze-covered egg out of the sac.

Those who thought this was going to be Game of Thrones, but just with a new cast of characters have likely been a bit annoyed at how little action takes place.

There are characters that are going to be worth watching because they're evil and the best thing about the show, and what the series has set up, is that it's not clear who is going to come out on top. [this episode of The House of the Dragon](https://gamerant.com/house-of-the-dragon-episode-6-review/) is one that does things no other episode has done, while doubling down on some of the things that have worked all season. Paddy Considine does a rather incredible job of portraying a man that is quite older than the actor really is in the real world. He also does a phenomenal job of playing someone who knows that his days are growing short and who just wants to take in his family. Right at the top of the list is that Viserys, who at this point in the timeline is both quite old and quite infirmed continues to be an oddity in these stories. That has been one of the most interesting things about this season of House of the Dragon, because the people around him are not particularly good people. To some degree, that means that everything will be settled both in his kingdom and his family. And, as an old man who is coming towards the end, he wants to make sure that everything is settled before he goes. It's also a testament to the writers that while things might be a bit confused at the beginning, there is enough done on screen to mostly fill in the blanks, even if there are a few parts that still leave some questions unanswered. [House of the ](https://gamerant.com/house-of-the-dragon-episode-7-review/) [Dragon](https://gamerant.com/house-of-the-dragon-episode-7-review/) audience had to struggle to keep up with names of various characters and move those characters around on the chess board in their minds. For most of House of the Dragon, it wouldn't be totally unfair of a vast majority of the audience to end just about every episode by screaming "come on, get on with it!" It doesn't seem like it would have been too hard to actually show some of these scenes so that people could know who exactly was where and why.

From Vaemond (Wil Johnson) being killed by Daemon (Matt Smith) to Viserys (Paddy Considine) finally dying at the end of the episode, the moment where we see ...

Martin, that Mysaria plays a role in the subterfuge between the Blacks and the Greens. In the earlier scene, we see her deliver moon tea to Alicent when she is questioning the serving girl who was sexually assaulted by Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney). When Alicent asks what has happened, she tearfully says, "I was fetching the prince his wine, and I put it on his table, and when I turned... The woman in the hood is Alicent's (Olivia Cooke) servant, Talya (Alexis Raben), who we saw earlier in the episode. She told him then that she had left the life of sex work and is revealed to now trade in secrets instead. We last saw Mysaria in Episode 4, when she found Daemon in one of the brothels sleeping on the ground after he nearly seduced Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock).

A lot happened in this episode — including multiple deaths. Let's take a look at the interesting details and moments...

8.The lack of official greeting for Rhaenyra is an insult, deliberately perpetrated by Otto Hightower — we hear Ser Harrold Westerling tell him they were greeted according to his orders. He plans to appeal to his Grace the King on matters of succession, rights, and the sanctity of blood. He wishes for the Driftwood Throne to pass to him, that is his by rights and that he is the only unattainted choice." 13.Luke laughs when the pig is placed in front of Aemond because of the prank the boys played on him when they were younger, giving him a pig instead of a dragon. What was your fave moment of Episode 8 of House of the Dragon? 11.The setup of the family dinner was influenced by depictions of the Last Supper.

Rhaenyra introduces him to her children – one of whom is called Aegon – and asks him about the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy that he told her about all those ...

In a nutshell, it means that the temporary peace between Alicent and Rhaenyra is broken. As the king lay dying, he and his wife were essentially having two different conversations. Clearly, at this point, he thinks he's talking to Rhaenyra again, and even though Alicent doesn't understand his talk of the Song of Ice and Fire, she latches on to the name Aegon when Visersy' murmurs it. The first couple of times we see Viserys in episode 8 he's lying in bed, struggling to tell the difference between his daughter Rhaenyra and his wife Alicent. The king is talking about Aegon the Conqueror, who first dreamed of the prophecy, but Alicent thinks he means their firstborn son. The problem?

The last few scenes of House of Dragons have left many questions behind themselves. For a few scenes, King Viserys's dream of a united family appeared to ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). For a few scenes, King [Viserys](/topic/viserys)'s dream of a united family appeared to come true. Alicent gets interrupted by a knight who informs her of a crying girl in Prince Aegon's room, later finding out that Aegon raped the girl. [House of Dragons](/topic/house-of-dragons)have left many questions behind themselves. You must do this." In the later part of the episode, we also find Rhaenyra and

A new time jump also means new actors: The six Targaryen kids -- Aegon, Aemond, Jacaerys, Lucerys, Baela and Rhaena -- all have new faces in Sunday's episode. A ...

"A final tribute to the health of my nephews," he says. "The prince to unite the realm against the cold and the dark. "You wanted to know if I believe it to be true," he says. "I will sit the throne today." Set by the queen and the Hand, I'd wager, to proclaim my son illegitimate," Rhaenyra says. Set aside your grievances, if not for the sake of the crown then for the sake of this old man, who loves you all so dearly." "When it does, will you want a child at the command of the greatest fleet in Westeros?" Rhaenyra meets Rhaenys in the Godswood to do some petitioning of her own. Vaemond heads straight to the queen, and gets an audience with both the queen and her father the Hand. Most of his hair is gone, his skin discolored, and a bandage is wrapped around the left side of his head when Rhaenyra and Daemon (who sailed from Dragonstone) go to see him. "Ah, the maesters. A full recap of House of the Dragon episode 8 is below.

Including the miscommunication between Alicent, Viserys, and Rhaeynyra and the prophecy of the Prince that was Promised.

It's an unfortunate miscommunication that followed Rhaenyra and Alicent's brief reconciliation with each other, as well as Alicent's acknowledgement of Rhaenyra's entitlement to the crown. Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men. She asks her father if he believes in the Song of Ice and Fire, a prophecy that originated from a divine dream from Aegon the Conqueror and which Viserys had confided in Rhaenyra in Episode 1. Aegon called his dream the Song of Ice and Fire. The Prince that was Promised." The next day, Alicent and Otto prepare to hear appeals from Rhaenys, Rhaenyra, and Vaemond on who is to become the next Lord of the Tides. Every Targaryen ruler since Aegon has been notified of the prophecy by the previous ruler. Delirious, Viserys mistakes Alicent for Rhaenyra from the previous night, telling her that he does believe in the Prince that was Promised from Aegon's dream. Significantly, the prophecy claims that this prince must descend from the Targaryen line. [House of the Dragon](https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a40910816/funniest-twitter-reactions-house-of-the-dragon-game-of-thrones/), which aired last night, has sealed the fate of King Viserys Targaryen and opened hell's floodgates for his surviving family members. After Vaemond, the younger brother of Corlys, bids for himself, Viserys emerges in the hall, taking back his royal duties from Otto and Alicent for the day. Six years after the funeral of Laena Velaryon, the line of succession for Driftmark has been challenged after Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) suffers a potentially fatal injury during a battle in the Stepstones.

In the eighth episode, the heir to the throne looks strong, and Viserys shares a premonition that may shake Westeros. Contains spoilers.

After eliminating the rest of his family as a “favour” to Alicent two episodes previously, he appeared set for a long and glorious reign as House of the Dragon’s resident villain. In Thrones, Joffrey was a “bad seed” born of the forbidden love of his sibling parents (his grandfather Tywin Lannister was no charmer either). Nobody has played the game of thrones more skilfully than the one-time heir to the crown. Instead of the dragon motif, the capital is now draped in the iconography of the Seven, a Westeros religion alien to the pale lords from across the sea. And in his delirium he let the royal cat out of the bag, revealing to Alicent the Seven Kingdom’s equivalent of the Third Secret of Fatima. “We have more in common than we sometimes allow.” Their kids are a horrific rabble of bruisers, taunters and sex offenders (see below) – but might Alicent and Rhaenyra have rekindled the connection they held so dear as children?

Episode 8 of 'House of the Dragon' sets up a future with much confusion and certain bloodshed after Viserys finally dies.

When Rhaenyra was pleading with her father to restate his support for her and her children, it's clear that Viserys was listening to and wanted to, but was simply unable to do so because of his condition. His obsession with a male heir was evident throughout that first House of the Dragon episode, and even though his wife wouldn't have survived the child birth regardless, it's clear that he holds himself responsible for her demise. And at a dinner in the Red Keep that Viserys—no longer sedating his pain with Milk of the Poppy, which seems to be basically a natural, Westeros version of morphine—called, the Hightower side and the Targaryen side almost seemed to finally make peace. You saw how poor of shape he was in throughout "The Prince of Tides." "I think the last scene of this episode was always a litmus test. But what happened is that Alicent now believes—and you can even understand where she's coming from—that Viserys' dying wish was for Aegon—their Aegon—to be king. Viserys brings the conversation up, and Alicent does her best to understand. In Episode 7, Viserys called Alicent "Aemma," so it's clear that he hasn't been quite aware of who's who for a while. King Viserys I Targaryen, in the late stages of his battle, presumably, with leprosy, made his final stand, settling those disputes and desperately, hopelessly, pleading for his family to make peace ahead of his impending death. After Vaemond Velaryon dared to publicly challenge the legitimacy of Viserys' daughter, Rhaenyra's (Emma D'Arcy) children, Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) made him pay, cutting his head clean in half just above the mouth ("He can keep his tongue," Daemon remarked, after the King called for him to be silenced, in that wonderful Matt Smith quippy way). [House of the Dragon](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a40909082/house-of-the-dragon-season-1-release-schedule/) had a lot of work to do in ["The Lord of the Tides," Season 1 Episode 8](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a41533380/house-of-the-dragon-recap-episode-8/), as it continues its run toward the first season's finale and an inevitable civil war for the Iron Throne in Westeros. If you picked up on the [Chekov's Gun](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun) the show put right in front of us in Episode 1 when [King Viserys I Targaryen](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a41030815/house-of-the-dragon-viserys-grief-guilt-therapist-explains-georgia-dow/) (Paddy Considine) essentially pulled a Monty Python ["It's just a flesh wound,"](https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs) you've probably been waiting for the realm's kind and naive king to bite it for quite a while.

'Those vipers rule in my father's name'. Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and.

This has cleared the way for lanky, one-eyed younger sibling Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) to emerge as the most promising of the bunch and the most dangerous. That’s not good enough for Vaemond, who vents his righteous rage before the throne only to have his head sliced in half by Daemon in a truly startling moment of throat-grabbing gore. Judging from the decor, it also seems that Alicent has begun leaning on her religion: a politically expedient move, given that acolytes of the Seven Gods tend to be suspicious of the Targaryens and their irreverent, incestuous ways. In his absence, Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and her father, Hand of the King Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) are firmly in charge – and if they can hand control of the Westerosi navy to their ally Vaemond, their cause will be immeasurably strengthened. So it’s off to King’s Landing to put this all before the king – or at least the queen, who of course has her own agenda. If Corlys dies, the Driftwood Throne of High Tide should by rights pass to his legal heir Prince Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) – but the boy isn’t true-born and everyone knows it, especially Corlys’s younger brother Vaemond (Wil Johnson), who longs to claim it for himself.

Now that Alicent knows about the Prophecy, how does that affect her scheming going forward?

Rhaenyra reads the inscription, visible when the blade is heated in fire: "From my blood come the Prince That Was Promised and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire." "The Prince," Viserys continues. Becoming a dragonrider, Jon helps defeat the Night King in the Battle of Winterfell, the White Walkers becoming extinct for good. It plays a huge part in making Aegon's wish to prevent the end of men come true. "To unite the realm against the cold... And just as Daenys foresaw the end of Valyria, Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men." In the final season, Arya kills the [Night King](https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Night_King) using Aegon's dagger, preventing the undead from "erasing the world" as Bran explains in season 7 on the Night King's motivations. The Song of Ice and Fi -- It is true. [Aegon the Conqueror](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_I_Targaryen), the first Lord of the Seven Kingdoms in Westeros. Twenty years later (from the events of House of the Dragon, episode 1), a lot has happened. A king or queen, strong enough to unite the realm against the cold and the dark. Now, King Viserys seems to be the walking dead, Rhaenyra and Daemon are happily coupled and making babies, and Alicent and the Hightowers have made their mark on King's Landing, introducing religion in a big way.

Corlys had previously chosen his grandson Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) as heir to the throne, but his brother, Ser Vaemond (Wil Johnson), is galled by his obvious ...

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Beware the beast beneath the boards.” Here's what 'Game of Thrones' fans should know about the tragic moment that is foreshadowed by Helaena Targaryen's ...

Specifically, some fans believe Helaena’s latest ominous comment has foreshadowed the inevitable arrival of Blood and Cheese, two characters who will prove to be key players in the Dance of the Dragons. For that reason alone, it makes sense for Helaena to predict Blood and Cheese’s future introductions in the same episode where reconciliation between King Viserys’ estranged family members momentarily seems within reach. The Game of Thrones prequel’s latest installment, titled [“The Lord of the Tides,”](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-episode-8-corlys-explained) not only features [the overdue passing of King Viserys I Targaryen](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-episode-8-viserys-die) (Paddy Considine), but it also plants the final seeds for the [ultimate conflict](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-episode-8-foreshadows-season-2) between Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) that has been brewing for almost the entirety of House of the Dragon so far. Fortunately, those who’ve read Fire & Blood, the 2018 novel that inspired House of the Dragon, may already have a pretty good idea about the truth hidden beneath Helaena’s latest prophecy. If a leading fan theory is to be believed, Helaena’s latest warning may have just set up one of [Helaena Targaryen](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/mysaria-house-of-the-dragon-white-worm)?