War, death and funeral of twins defined

spoiler ALERT:This story contains major spoilers for Season 2, Episode 2 of HBO’s Season 2.dragon house,

The fallout from “Blood and Cheese” continues in “House of the Dragon”.

Episode 2 begins with sadness in King’s Touchdown as King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) learns of the horrific murder of his young son Jaehaerys. He blames Ser Kristen Cole (Fabian Frankel) for not protecting the prince — and as we saw at the end of the premiere, Kristen is in deep sleep with Alison Hightower (Olivia Cooke) instead of protecting the castle’s gardens. Was busy sleeping. Everyone at King’s Touchdown gathers for a mournful funeral procession to pay tribute to Jaehaerys, whose head had been reburied for an hour.

“I remember them saying, ‘Do you want to see the dummy?’ Oh my God, it was really beautifully done,” Fiona Saban, who plays Queen Helena Targaryen, told Selection. “They had woven gold thread and you could see how the head was sewn back onto the body. He had all the flowers and everything.”

“It was a wonderful prosthesis,” Cook said. “It was really intense. Then you become a little numb to the fact that we’re just singing in the back of the car between takes.

Jaehaerys’ murderer Blood has been captured, and to take responsibility for his partner-in-crime Thing, Aegon has ordered the execution of every rat catcher in the city. As Kristen replaces Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) as Aegon’s Hand, they begin strategizing for the conflict and frame Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) for infanticide.

In Dragonstone, the scoop takes Rhaenyra by surprise, as she was only seeking Aemond Targaryen (Evan Mitchell) for the murder of her son Lucreez. She denies having any connection with Jaehaerys’ death, then realizes that her husband Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) must have ordered it. The two have an anxious argument and Damon flees on his dragon.

Once again, the time for revenge has come. Kristen plots a “parent trap” style double switcheroo using identical knights Elric and Eric Cargill (Luke and Elliot Tittensor) to destroy Rhaenyra. Eric joined the Blacks of Rhaenyra at the moment he pledged his career to the vegetables of Alisant. Eric disguises himself as his brother and sneaks into Dragonstone to assassinate Rhaenyra, without revealing his true identity to anyone. In reality, however, things go wrong when she meets the one person she recognizes: Eric. Both brothers remain loyal to their queens and compete tearfully to the death. There’s no telling who gets the upper hand in this brother-sister feud, but Elric manages to seriously injure his brother, then apologizes to Rhaenyra and kills himself out of remorse for what he did. .

with selectionShowrunner Ryan Condal discussed the funeral scene, the Kargil conflict, some absent safe characters, and what the event will look like moving forward.

Should I have been afraid that Jaehaerys’ head was going to fall off during the funeral wagon journey? Because I used to be!

Disagree, that wasn’t anything specific we were looking for. Just the risk of moving a frame through a family square like that. This is a highly variable line. Sarah Hayes said that in the room, a funeral procession was created as a family display and Jaehaerys’s body was marched out – and the fact that they had decapitated him and then placed it back on his body was displayed. Was sewn – in the middle of the family crossroads. Attempting to grow a monster out of her, as a way of undermining Rhaenyra and her claim. An improved Otto Hightower plot that apparently has some influence on Vegeta’s side to win the issues.

“Fire and Blood” contains more than one account of the Kargil conflict and the manner in which the twins died. How did you choose to flatten it specifically for display?

We obviously spent a lot of time debating how that conflict would play out. This is just a different way in which all the disagreeing narrators keep that exact historical match in the vault. So we’re just looking for someone who feels true to both of these characters. They are two people who have made a pact and an oath on their lives to provide protection to the royal people. And as Eric says to Damon in the first episode of the season, “We don’t know what to do with this oath, because we swore to protect the royal family, and now they’ve turned against each other. “And what were we to do?” It’s a devastating story of two brothers finding themselves on the other side of war, in a way, a better ideal going back to the American Civil Conflict and Western and Arthurian stories. To try to see their agreement, Eric heads to Dragonstone to try to disguise himself as his brother and infiltrate the fortress and become the Queen’s equal, though fortunately, Eric intervenes. We needed a truly emotional war between two brothers who love each other deeply, but have found themselves mortal enemies as a result of the character of the political system to which they have dedicated themselves. . It was shot over multiple days, brilliantly choreographed, and Luke and Elliot Tittensor executed it and were in every shot of that line. They came to know the struggle which they generally met with hell.

Are you able to compartmentalize what remains between the violent conflict between Daemon and Rhaenyra at the end of Season 1 and what prompted her to let him go?

I believe the ending of Season 1 is a far more surprising and intense outburst of emotions, while that excellent scene in Episode 2 is a thorough exploration of the core nature of their relationship. It is a proven fact that their relationships have been built on deception and distrust throughout history and time. It’s just the character of who Damon is. Rhaenyra desperately desires this intimate relationship where she can be his equal and trust him. However further she repeatedly reveals that he does not hide enough for himself or make enough of it for himself to be trusted. She really struggles with that. It’s the same frustration that Viserys always had about Daemon, that you can only let him be around for so long and then we’re sick of the impulsiveness of his decision-making. The huge questions looming from that scene are where does Damon go? Where do his loyalties lie and what is going to happen to this marriage? There’s a lot more to be learned about Daemon and Rhaenyra’s marriage over the course of the season’s remainder.

Daeron, the alternate son of Alicent and Viserys, is first discussed in this episode. What choices did you make in regards to casting her and “Fire and Blood’s” alternate lead characters who haven’t appeared or been discussed yet, like Nettles?

Deron has not been cast yet. I’ve said he’s a character in the show, but at this point in the story, he’s in Oldtown where he was abandoned as a tender baby. So on that global level we have no point-of-view personality and no dramatic explanation of why we have to go there. This occurred throughout the medieval period, particularly within the princely aristocracy. You can pull your little ones and take them to alternative parks so they can learn about growing up issues away from the court and create their own playground and station in the world. For all we know he is no longer a dragon rider, although he was born a dragon. So he’ll come into the story and take on the role of playing the game, just like he does in Safe – We’re not there yet but in the storytelling.

And nettle?

With that personality, I haven’t been able to comment on anything else that hasn’t been established on screen yet.

Will the season feature the Rooks Extra and The Gullet battles?

Clearly, he deserves attention. We are not there yet. We are following the story of Safe. I believe there are going to be huge thrilling action sequences involving dragons and fire and blood in the times to come.