The Game Of Thrones prequel brings us back to King’s Landing in “The Heirs Of The Dragon”
Then everything goes fine and Aemma has a healthy baby boy, and the rest of the show is just the royal fam being happy-go-lucky sweethearts.Viserys sits down with his Small Council, led by Otto Hightower , the Hand of the King. The subject of the day is planning a jousting tournament in honor of the maybe-prince’s maybe-birth, and ityou need to know hereLord Corlys “The Sea Snake” Velaryon , the husband of the throne-jilted Rhaenys, and the guy who’s pointedlyAnd boy, is he ever.
Rhaenyra—and the viewers—get a moment of respite when she goes to relax in the garden with her BFF Alicent Hightower , who also happens to be Otto’s daughter. Alicent asks if all this heir business bothers her friend, but the princess says she’s happy to have someone else rule; she’d rather keep having adventures on her dragon thaThe king goes to check in on her while she’s in the bath. The baby is due any day, and the pregnancy has been a rough one.
Meanwhile, we find out that in addition to being a drama queen, Daemon is also a sadist. He takes up his long-neglected duties as commander of the City Watch by spurring his men into “cleaning up” the city. And in case you were worriedwasn’t going to have as much gore porn as its forbear, buckle up: The Gold Cloaks go full thin blue line on the small folk of King’s Landing, slaughtering petty criminals with abandon and carting away piles of dismembered bodies.
Director Miguel Sapochnik uses this brutality to devastating effect by interspersing the knights’ skirmishes with Aemma’s harrowing labor. The grand maester tells Viserys it’s a breach birth, meaning the king must decide whether to save either the life of his child or his wife, but not both. After weighing his options, he holds Aemma’s hand in his, offering comforting words as the maesters and midwives carry out the choice he’s made without asking her.
They build a funeral pyre for the bodies of Aemma and her child by the sea. An uncharacteristically grave Daemon tells Rhaenyra that her father needs her. She replies that she’ll never be the son he wanted. Still, the princess steps forward and utters the first “Dracarys!” of the series, and the king’s dragon sets the bodies aflame.The Small Council is sharply divided over who will be Viserys’ new heir.
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