In this sophomore edition of Hands on HotD, Merry and Clint cover Season 1 Episode 2 of HBO's niche arthouse property HOUSE OF THE DRAGON - The Rogue Prince
This episode includes:
- It's wedding season, y'all! Matchmaker, matchmaker, make Viserys a match, find him a find, and catch him a catch that - and we cannot stress this enough - is age appropriate. For the love of god.
- Leave Leana Velaryon alone (and bring her her dragon!)
- Criston Cole gets a promotion and remains tragically unpunchable.
- Viserys remains the most mid king of all time.
- Clint analyzes Rhaenyra's NFL draft prospects, incredible fashion sense, and outrageous BDE.
- Merry has... complicated feelings about Rhaenyra's relationship with her shitbag uncle.
- Everyone is struggling with the patriarchy, even when they are working to vindicate it.
- We break down the realpolitik and Machiavellian strengths and weaknesses of Corlys Velayron and Otto Hightower, the realm's most powerful "second sons".
- Spoilery speculation about births, deaths, weddings, and dragonriders.
- Important reminder that Prince has no gender in high valyrian.
Supplemental Reading:
- Thread on the Grand Maesters Conspiracy
- Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn's review of Episode 2
- Diego's ESSENTIAL twitter thread on the opening credits
Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.
Dragon Sound effect by Daniel Simon.
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