So far Targaryen bickering has dominated HouseOfTheDragon, but how does the show see the smallfolk of Westeros?
“George R. R. Martin doesn’t care about the little people” would be funny to say, but categorically untrue based on how sharp a focusHouse of the Dragon’ themes included defining “just rule” and the pursuit of just rulers, which focused on how a ruling class’s selfishness spells disaster for the ruled-over. Despite an eventual decline in the HBO series, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss mostly got that theme right in Season 8.
Across from them stands Ser Criston Cole, common-born but knighted for valor in combat. Pressed into service like any commoner called by his lord, his luck and skill in open battle—plus besting Daemon at a tourney in the honor of the King’s late baby boy—equals employment in the most prestigious position a knight could take. After fighting the Prince in the tourney and dueling with verbal barbs, it seems increasingly likely they will meet on the battlefield.
The implications of that tenuous power tied to martial duty for an elevated swordsmen are called out when Daemon claims not to remember Cole’s first name. The fragile place of women in the violent patriarchal structure of Westeros is made explicit for Mysaria as an armed retinue and a dragon show up at her front door after an insult by Daemon to his brother and king.
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