Whether his brazen blasphemy was meant to glimpse his innate recklessness, or whether it was the product of his intense frustration with what he perceived as grave injustice, or whether it was the last from a disgusting moment. I don’t know if it was meant to be a brazen kiss-off for my son, or what. Whatever it was, it set up one of the most memorable executions in the history of “The Throne”.
Earlier in the season, I complained that part of the appeal of ‘Game of Thrones’ was that it often showed me things I hadn’t seen before on TV, but ‘House of・The Dragon” is overly reminiscent of its predecessor and other melodramas. Naturally, I’ve never seen a head so cleverly halved on TV or anywhere else.
As a result, Vaemond had to keep his tongue and Sea Snake to keep succession plans wherever they were. And with Rhaenyra’s latest ploy to strategically marry off her sons to relatives (this time her Laena daughters, Baela and Rhaena, the boy’s cousins and stepsisters), everything went according to plan. If so, it means that Driftmark remains biologically her Velaryon. (Yes, it’s a big if.) As likely as you’re likely to see, the results involving the bisected head are happier.
All that was left was to have one last family meal with Grandpa.
Viserys explained that he was going around the royal drain after having a nosebleed and passing out at Rhaenrya’s wedding. Somehow, he lived on for over 16 years after that, losing the big chunk of his head, spending his days, floating in a fog like poppy seeds.
After his heroic final appearance on The Iron Throne, who never loved him, he was pretty much last night, even as his family pursued their plans and insane desires individually. They proved it by pulling together long enough to send him off with a warm toast and a lovely final vision of his bastard grandson dancing with his spooky daughter.
Last week, Considine talked about the elegance and solemnity that has underpinned House of the Dragons from the beginning, so I won’t go into detail here. I wrote an article with him before the season, when he referred to the season-ending monologue as a source of pride: his acting hero, Anthony Hopkins.