Contents The second episode of House of the Dragon season 2 begins, as it should, in chaos.
As the news of Prince Jaehaerys’ murder spreads throughout the Red Keep of King’s Landing, bed maidens and castle workers are detained, all while Jaehaerys’ father, Aegon II Targaryen , rages over his son’s death, and members of his Small Council — namely, Alicent and Otto Hightower — brainstorm over how to respond to the tragic event.
There’s too much going on House of the Dragon‘s latest episode packs a lot into its 69-minute runtime, which — despite its length — proves to be too short. So much happens throughout the installment, including Jaehaerys’ morbid funeral, Otto’s removal as Hand of the King, Aegon’s executions of all of the Red Keep’s ratcatchers, Criston Cole’s confrontation with Arryk Cargyll and his subsequent demand that Arryk pose as his brother Erryk and attempt to assassinate Rhaenyra Targaryen.
The show’s real battle: plot vs. character development To say that the latter scene is an odd one for the episode to end on would be an understatement. It is, for starters, extremely jarring to jump from the brutal back-to-back deaths of Arryk and Erryk Cargyll to more increasingly callous and emotionally cold moments between Alicent, Otto, and Criston.
The series’ latest chapter jams so much violent, brutal trauma into its runtime that it’s impossible to accept even two characters as self-involved as Alicent and Criston immediately moving past Jaehaerys’ horrifying murder and jumping right back into bed together. It’s a storytelling decision that threatens to completely negate the initial weight of Jaehaerys’ death.
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