They served some blood and cheese.
Spoilers for the first episode of “House of the Dragon” Season 2 below.
The season premiere of “House of the Dragon,” the second season of the “Game of Thrones” spin-off, featured an infamous and controversial murder known to fans of the books as “Blood and Cheese.”
As Season 2 begins, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, however her half-brother, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) and his supporters have usurped her, and now the two sides are in conflict. over whether Rhaenyra or Aegon should be king.
Season 1 ended with the murder of Rhaenyra’s son by Aegon’s angry brother, Aemond (Evan Mitchell). In the season 2 premiere, Rhaenyra’s husband, Daemon (Matt Smith), hires rat catchers (called “Blood and Cheese”) at the castle to take revenge by killing Aemond.
Because as the name of the episode says, “Son for Son” is Damon’s deliberate revenge.
On the other hand, the plot is going haywire and heading towards tragedy. The assassins end up killing not Aemond, but his nephew, a child: Aegon’s son with his sister Helena (Fia Saban).
The horrific office is not shown on screen, although the sound of the stabbing as well as the child’s suffering can be heard.
Helena grabs her very large baby, cowering in fear, and runs into her mother’s bedroom, where Alicent (Olivia Cooke) is having sex with Kristen Cole (Fabian Frankel) – a scandalous affair. , because Kristen is a member of the Kingsguard and is meant to be celibate.
Introducing a sex scene into the show this time around is an absurd writing choice – really, right now?!
However, there they went.
Even though Alisette is embarrassed that her daughter has framed her, Helena is so shocked that she participates in the drama playing out in front of her and stammers, “They killed the boy” as the episode ends. It happens .
“House of the Dragon” is a response to George R.R. Martin’s storied “Fire and Blood.” Unlike the novels on which “Game of Thrones” was based, this one is written like a fictional history textbook – so, it’s more like Wikipedia Access than a brochure with individual characters. It is additionally written by fictional students who have conflicting accounts of “what happened”.
This leaves exhibition room to make adjustments, and there are some hefty curveballs to “Blood and Cheese.” As terrifying as it once was onscreen, it is now much softer than the way it was on the web page.
Inside the shop, it’s not in any sunlight that Damon didn’t intentionally target a child. The exposition leaves some room for ambiguity – Blood and Cheese ask Daemon what they should do in the event they are not able to find and detonate Aemond. The scene ends here, with Damon’s answer intentionally unknown.
However, onscreen, Damon’s number one order is to blow up Amond – a dangerous young boy who killed his stepson – no longer is he an innocent child. This makes him seem far less of a monster for this atrocity than the shop.
The entire series may be more of a trial in the store, in which Blood and Cheese take Alicent and the maids hostage, and lie in wait for Helena. In the show, the assassins accidentally stumble upon Helaena and force their way into the nefarious deed, furthering the show’s trend of “accidental atrocities”, (following Aemond’s murder of Rhaenyra’s son since Season 1). Accidentally softened, where Store did not create that sunlight. Season 1 shows Alisante’s support of her son’s coup as a result of her husband’s “misunderstanding” of the needs rather than a planned power-grab. softened as).
Blood and Cheese aren’t quite so subtle – one of them grabs Helena onscreen and holds a knife to her throat, the other one explains that Damon instructed them, “A son for a son.” Frustrated, he says to his colleague, “Does she seem like your son to you?”
So, the murder in the show is driven by their incompetence, rather than by them planning it and lying in wait to destroy their evil plan, as is the case on the web.
Within the shop, they also give Helena an awesome collection of which kids she wants more. In the showdown, they still keep their word for a child, but they ask him to show them who is Aegon’s heir. So, it’s clear that those men are very good at disagreeing, but their nefarious intentions are not clearly communicated to Helena.
Even at the store, she was not allowed to flee the scene, only to see her mother making out with Kristen. That wild part of the series was once solely producing the show.
“House of the Dragon” season 2 airs Sunday nights on HBO (9 p.m.) and streams on Max.
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