Aemond Got Meleys Dragon Head - Corlys Velaryon Mourns Rhaenys Death | House of the Dragon Season 2

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King Aegon and Aemond paraded Rhaenys dragon's head to the Kingslanding, Corlys found out that Rhaenys is dead.
#houseofthedragon #aemondtargaryen #daemon

[@leaderunith4l324]

The comment by that smallfolk “I thought the dragons was gods” shows just how much of a catastrophic mistake parading Meleys through the streets was. Dragons are the cornerstone of Targaryen power, for so long the common folk thought they were invincible, that nothing could oppose them; it doesn’t matter if it took another dragon to kill her. Now the smallfolk know that dragons are like any other animal, mortal and vulnerable.

[@sullymd1]

Isn't that a good thing ? You do realize most of the ones who suffer the most are the common people

[@baron6588]

⁠​⁠@@sullymd1 Oh my sweet summer child, you will realize how terrible a mistake this was soon enough.

[@leaderunith4l324]

@@sullymd1It’s a catastrophic mistake from the perspective of the Targaryens

[@sosthenes_stone]

Well said...!!!

[@weirdboi28yearsago]

​@@sullymd1this scene is a base for something very important

[@samalvey8168]

Intention: witness the fate of Rhaenyra's cause. Result: the dragons......can be killed.

[@arikemeiziii5549]

the shepard is coming

[@sthelensson]

It ended up hurting Rhaenyra's cause more than the greens, so, that's some incredible foresight right there

[@HappyHog11]

People already knew Dragons could be killed. Meraxes probably being the most famous example.

[@filiphavojic8045]

​@@HappyHog11 They didn't see it with own eyes. And how many would even know if it? Also it's obvious they thought dragons as something divine, sacred. You cannot kill a god.

[@KingkuntaGG]

@@HappyHog11 Why are acting like Westeros has an eduction system or newspaper. Most people would have no idea or simply wouldn’t believe it.

[@Killgore-ip2yq]

Thus begins the fall of the Dragons. Another thing Ameond is responsible for starting. 😂

[@JJDK485]

Only if Aemond's father didn't have that lust for Alicent.

[@vicentecastillo8352]

Explain me plz

[@generalgrievous3423]

​@vicentecastillo8352 which part? The lust for Alicent or the end of the dragons?

[@julianmcbride9209]

@@vicentecastillo8352 Most smallfolk always assumed dragons were invincible hence why the never rose up against Targaryen power. This will come into play either Season 3 or 4.

[@t-rexcellentreviews1663]

@@JJDK485if only Alicent father hadn’t been an ambitious scumbag.

[@NixonRules963]

The reaction by the smallfolk is fascinating. They aren't cheering or celebrating, they seem concerned and apalled. It shows that they really believed the dragons were somewhat sacred, and the sight of the head being paraded around is almost sacrilegeous, with one smallfolk even shouting "This is an abomination!" at 1:58. Secondly, it seems as if they realize that retribution from Rhaenyra is coming. They know the slaying of a dragon has escalated this conflict, and they all seem to fear Rhaenyra's retribution for this act.

[@Liztastaney7]

But they also understand killing a prince has consequences.

[@Anonymous8830]

that, and the smallfolk don't care much for the war. they're starving

[@Naonical]

@@Liztastaney7 Would never have been an issue if Alicent didn't make a power grab to begin with. This whole war falls on the Hightowers power grabbing.

[@diegopinales86]

​@@Naonicalthat's the same dragon that killed hundreds of small folk at Aegon's coronation but I guess they kind of forgot about that

[@Keram-io8hv]

​@@diegopinales86"They are upset because Meleys was beloved dragon by people" -Ryan Condal, WRITER of this show

[@Takhar7]

A horrible mistake by Cole - by parading Meleys through King's Landing, he's doomed House Targaryen to ruin.

[@sabgogo7393]

people already know Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot in the eye and the other one was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again

[@RandomVidsforthought]

​@@sabgogo7393Doubt many of them had the information as it was more or less a century before their time

[@sabgogo7393]

@@RandomVidsforthought bro .they are dragons the most famous power in the realm . Do you really think that a dragon dying will be forgotten ?

[@RandomVidsforthought]

@@sabgogo7393 To see is to believe for them. It happened in dorne not outside their backyards, word of mouth and songs can't sustain something for so long.

[@lxdead5585]

@@RandomVidsforthought Yeah, cuz nobody believed Dorne did that, not even after decades after Targaryens were able to take over rest of Westeros xD

[@takotako808]

Imagine parading a dragon head and showing how vulnerable the dragons really are.........

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

And thus the Targaryens. No wonder the riots are about to break out next episode. The people are getting tired of the bs, and with them showing the dragons head, it gave the people the confidence needed to rebel.

[@arbynChief617]

Which they already knew about because of Meraxes and Quicksilver but the writers kinda forgot

[@takotako808]

@@arbynChief617 over time it would become less known ... Cole reminded them. People knew they werent invincible... Hence the scorpions

[@servantoftwilight2951]

@@arbynChief617 I think it has been implied that the common folk really don't know the stories. That was why Tywin Lanister was surprised when Arya, pretending to be lowborn, knew the story about Nymeria. If most of the lowborn thought dragons were invincible this was a wakeup call.

[@thebonfireofgains]

"It's just meat" is such a, pun intended, raw line. Sets up the uprising in King's Landing where we see why neither armies nor dragons are the absolute power of this world

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

Makes you appreciate why those in power go to such lengths to suppress folks by any means. A riotous mob is truly more terrifying than anything else.

[@americancaesar6065]

"I thought Dragons was Gods..." "Just meat." Planting the seeds.

[@nont18411]

“If it bleeds, we can kill it.” - Arnold, Predator 1987

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@kaangunhan2572 False equivalnce. That's not what they meant by it anyway... He means that dragons are not invincible, just like the rest of us. Also children ARE innocent.

[@Regenmacher175]

@@kaangunhan2572 Stop trying to justify Dany's horrendous actions. The smallfolk are being ruled over by feudal monarchs. They don't have much (if any) of a say about what's going on. Also, children are innocent so...

[@arbynChief617]

The small folk kinda forgot about Meraxes and Quicksilver

[@LotsofLisa]

Those people are starving, he probably want to start a barbecue.

[@loganpriest115]

Meleys deserved so much better, she deserved to be honored for her sacrifice not dragged through the street like a dead dog

[@nont18411]

Like Robb Stark and Grey Wind

[@jjosifovic]

After what Rhaenys n her dragon did in episode 9 it deserves no honor

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

Lmao that dragon hurt alot of people.

[@CoWzBeCuTe]

@@malekiththeeternityking5433 it's a fictional show those people aren't real 💀

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

@@nont18411 you gotta be pretty dumb of you think those two are at all alike

[@esnoob2282]

this why you keep the power in your family, now the small folks know that dragons are vulnerable and this will lead into *SPOILER*

[@ivanlorenzovisande2492]

Getting seige on dragon pit foreshadow

[@codyrawiri-pettit5526]

Better than a woman on the Throne.

[@JJDK485]

Games of throne

[@vicentecastillo8352]

Explain me plz

[@esnoob2282]

@@vicentecastillo8352 full spoiler of the dance kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHjNoYBpZqySmrssi=_L9mMvjUW1CXqGSh and this much better ngl

[@GTGBRB]

“This is a bad omen” this is my first time catching that in the background, that’s a smart man. Bad omen indeed because it caused SPOILER-

[@opulentzinger]

This proves that Mealys' skull is the one down in the dungeons during Game of Thrones

[@crb8124]

The Targs kept all the dragon skulls of the ones they could recover; they had hundreds of them in The Red Keep and Robert actually kept the biggest ones as a personal trophy. So it's one of them, but not the only one.

[@Lord-Tywin-Lannister]

House Targaryen didn't have hundreds of dragons

[@FrostSpirit617]

@@Lord-Tywin-Lannisterat a point in time i believe they actually did.

[@Lord-Tywin-Lannister]

@@FrostSpirit617 House Targaryen was one of the lower dragonlords in Old Valyria. Before the doom, they left Valyria with 5 dragons, including a young Balerion. They couldn't have hundreds of dragons at the same time but could've had them over the generations.

[@FrostSpirit617]

@@Lord-Tywin-Lannister Oh my bad It was the Valyrian empire.

[@LesPaul2006]

Corlys Velaryon and Rhaenys Targaryen were some of the rarest find in Westeros: A married couple who actually loved each other.

[@Keram-io8hv]

So much that Corlys had bastards

[@LesPaul2006]

@@Keram-io8hv And she accepted them.

[@petrovaparov1550]

Exactyl ​@@Keram-io8hv

[@Keram-io8hv]

@@LesPaul2006 Because Sara Hess wrote so... Hope you will accept your partner´s too once they bring them home

[@moonpie7982]

The way Alicent looks at Aemond - that this is no longer someone she can predict the monster he’s become

[@CoWzBeCuTe]

Damn i know not even maegor the cruel would disrespect a dragon like that there literally the pride of house targeryan its so gross how they felt the need to do that tho😢

[@adry3211]

The Targaryens literally used the skuls of fallen dragons as decorations

[@CoWzBeCuTe]

@@adry3211 nah I don't think they did because in season one there is literally balerions skull and viserys and the rest of the family I feel like kinda honored him in some way the same with meraxes skull in season two

[@zinkheroofyoutube8004]

@@adry3211Only Aerys used them as decoration

[@Mourtzouphlos240]

It’s because they are Hightowers.

[@CoWzBeCuTe]

@@Mourtzouphlos240 true

[@Janary08]

Criston unaware how scary dragons are to other people... Even the dead ones

[@sabgogo7393]

but people should already be aware of that . men already killed a dragon before . and they witnessed saw Belarion killing Quicksilver in the sky .

[@ArtTheBrain]

I think this has the opposite effect of fear. The small folk have always revered and feared them and that's why they follow the Targaryens. But in this scene, the small folk are realizing they may have the power to kill dragons and with their current living conditions they just might try. Crispy Cole has started a chain reaction that will most likely lead the small folk to revolt.

[@victorpradha9946]

Criston is an arrogant snot who is both hypocritical and shortsighted. There was a time when both sides of a conflict would cease fire to allow for the burial of the dead!

[@Silentpixel2024]

​​​​@@ArtTheBrainthey already did that with the power of the Faith Militant against Maegor. Maegor the Cruel proved that he was the choosen one with or without his dragon by challenging them using Trial of the Seven. He also already killed his Nephew in a dragon battle so everyone knew about dragons getting killed. They only managed to exterminate all the dragons because Rhaenyra was so weak as a leader she never use her dragons and never fight in battles during the dance, she just ran leaving her dragon behind to be slaughtered. If it's Aegon even if he was wounded was there the outcome will be different. This cripple Aegon still fought another fresh from battle rider, Baela in the sky and still beat her. Crippled Sunfyre ate Moondancer. Imagine if Rhaenyra and her fresh from battle dragon Syrax did this? Everyone will glorified her even more lol but in reality she didn't do shit, her dragon was wasted. They will definitely change this in the show haha

[@Shiningami_Jem]

The one who said, "this is a bad omen" 😅😅😅

[@DarkSoul1992]

Foreshadowing at it's very finest. :D

[@arbynChief617]

The dragon literally pancaked hundreds of people. Why the fuck they feeling bad over it?

[@DarkSoul1992]

@@arbynChief617 They don't feel "bad" about it in a way you might guess. The persons you see in this scene are presenting the common folks in a metaphorical way: The commoners basically for the first time understand that dragons are no allmighty gods but merely huge animals that in fact, as showed, can be killed. Huge spoiler from here on if you haven't read the books. The scene with Meleys' cut off head is extremely important.

[@bebelc2l]

@@arbynChief617They are not feeling bad, they are terrified and astonished. First, because it is likely the first time they are ever shown a dragon body up close; second, because up to this moment, dragons were a sacred symbol in Westeros. Peasant might not be educated, but surely they know the repercussions of defiling a sacred symbol in such a way could only be catastrophic. That’s why everybody immediately tries to evacuate the city afterwards. They know shit’s about to take an awful turn.

[@arbynChief617]

@@DarkSoul1992well then the smallfolk kinda forgot about Meraxes, Quicksilver and Arrax. Give me a break, they always knew they could be killed. Tryna tell me you wouldn’t rejoice at seeing the corpse of the thing that killed your brother?

[@louthegiantcookie]

How can the poor Dragon be a 'traitor'? It's just an animal. Not really a good way to endear yourself to the commoners by pulling that stunt.

[@vincegalila7211]

They intended to endear themselves with the friends and relations of those the beast killed, and the witnesses to that event.

[@Crazy-Description]

I know right. Are they gonna parade dead carcasses of war horses from the enemy and call them "traitors?" Come on.

[@Regenmacher175]

It fought for Rhaenyra. The Greens use this as a PR stunt. Problem is, the smallfolk might now fear retaliation and they also now can see that dragons are killable when most of them might have thought otherwise previously.

[@arbynChief617]

Cause A.) Dragons have been clearly shown to have wills of their own B.) It literally killed hundreds of people but of course the small folk kinda forgot about that because the writers wanted to shit on Cole again

[@jacobmiller2663]

@@arbynChief617so you’re saying that even without Rhaenys, Meleys would have sided with the blacks of her own volition? When it’s been shown that Dragons have no allegiance to anyone if they have no owner.

[@ohnoa2]

Wouldnt be surprising if this is what lead to the storming of dragonpit as it shattered the illusion that Dragons were invincible and thus the power of House Targaryen

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

It's not ''surprising'' because this is precisely what this scene plants seeds for...

[@Keram-io8hv]

Great, another Rhaenyra's failure rewritten to make everyone else look bad

[@Korijenkins1414]

I know there's loads of inaccuracies with the casting, but the actor for Corlys just rocks that look. Dude looks badass in every scene.

[@abigailgarcia3090]

Every scene

[@kathyblain8922]

Oh man I 10000% agree!!!

[@Amy4000]

Yes! Him and Rhaenys where always so Regal looking together!

[@matthewy2j]

I do like how the Smallfolk are wearing colorful clothing unlike in GOT. History shows that even in hard conditions such as the "long-winter" period, peasants still found time to dye their clothes. They didn't wear rags and burlap sacks unless they took some for of vow or penance.

[@radioactivedetective6876]

Where did u read about this history? Genuinely asking. Coz I don't remember such detail

[@witchingbrew3]

Parading the dragon is like having a large brown bear do tricks on a tricycle for circuses or an orca whale to do tricks in captivity. It reduces the worth of the creature.

[@fernandocorona5411]

Mexicans paraded the corpse of the last Mexican grizzly lol.

[@MissFurby2535]

You've notice no one is cheering

[@Ragnarra]

Which makes it even more important because what it represents. These people respected and feared dragons being like a air force but they are living creatures to disrespect that is to disrespect the Targaryen’s. I don’t think the Greens truly understood what they just did. They pissed on their own house banner. Thus the downfall of dragons did begin. All because of Otto Hightower and his stupid daughter. Irony is it that none of Alicent’s line survived to Dany’s time. A cruel but deserved fate in my opinion.

[@rafjas9850]

​@@RagnarraAlicent basically make her children just silver haired branch of Hightowers who don't understand or respect their valyrian origins and thus undermining own position in the realm. The last true dragonlords are on the Dragonstone (and Harrenhall right now), the next generations of Targaryens will be just sorry shadow of former power and eventually forget about their original culture

[@finnheisenheim8274]

​@@Ragnarra Spoiler: How Alicent's story ends is quite fitting yet tragic. She was confined to a part of the Red Keep(Maegor's Holdfast I think?) for the remainder of her days with only a septa, maids and some guards to keep her company. Her senses began to leave her and she kept calling for her dead children and now disliked the colour green. Eventually she succumbed to a disease and died alone.

[@arbynChief617]

Which is stupid given that the dragon literally killed hundreds of people. But I guess the small folk kinda forgot about that.

[@ilbb7055]

Shitty writing

[@TheRibottoStudios]

"Don't they realize we won the battle?" "A strange victory. If it was one." Brilliant exchange. Then to cut to Aemond and Alicent echoing the conversation just silently. One wondering if this was truly a victory. The other only focused on what they won. God it's good to have peak TV back.

[@AnkitSingh-cd7tw]

Otto or Daeron wouldn't have let that happen

[@Pinoyslayer8888]

Who dafuq is Daeron ?

[@AnkitSingh-cd7tw]

@@Pinoyslayer8888 he'll be introduced in season 3

[@lnu9068]

@@Pinoyslayer8888he’s the third son that you hear nothing about except his name . He’s in old town. Alicent had 3 sons

[@fortheloveofcats2462]

​@@AnkitSingh-cd7twplease. Otto paraded the body of his dead great grandson like he was a toy

[@AnkitSingh-cd7tw]

@@Pinoyslayer8888 he also got a mention in episode 2 & 3, focus on dialogues

[@louisefarrar6037]

Corlys mourning Rhaenys was just heartbreaking this episode. 💔💔💔😭😭😭

[@tiffles3890]

I don't care for Team Black but parading the dragon's head rubs the wrong way. The dragons on either side already are fighting and dying for causes not of their own making. At least leave their corpses alone.

[@MannequinStep]

It's a humiliation to their own dragons as much as it is to Rhanerya's.

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

It was also a catastrophic mistake since it shattered the illusion that the Targaryens were untouchable. Now the people realize that, however slim, they have a chance to fight back

[@szafraniec8164]

Otto wouldn't let that happen. It is irony because it was Aegon who sent him away

[@blacksun6245]

Isn't it kinda of stupid to flaunt the dragon's head across the across the city?Now everyone knows that dragons are vulnerable

[@samueljennings4809]

Yep, this is 100% going to backfire dreadfully.

[@ryanwill32]

Think that's the point, no spoilers but lets just say showing the dragons as potentially vulnerable to the smallfolk is going to backfire horribly in the long run

[@idyllsend6481]

GoT's sparrow equivalent is gonna seize an opportunity in the end.

[@arbynChief617]

The writers kinda forgot about Meraxes and Quicksilver

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

Exactly.

[@zzz000-0]

Aemond is like Cersei, they like to think theyre smart but theyre really just reckless and selfish

[@petamasku]

He many things, but also cunning, ruthless and effective. Many levels above Cersei.

[@sabgogo7393]

in the book the most Cersi-character is Rhaeneyra LOL

[@fatemejahangiri2681]

​@@petamasku Yeah but Cersei burnt the sept and orchestrated Robert's death. They are somehow similar in how they are ruthless for power. Different kinds of being cunning. Aemond misses the big picture too I love them both. They are both my favourites 😂

[@isiaharellano3789]

​@@sabgogo7393unfortunately they're not following that. At least the parts where it favors Rhae rhae 😂

[@HarleyLuna31]

While acting aloof and mysterious 😂

[@BobDylan-ho2gd]

I don't know why I feel so sad for these poor dragons. They're just fiction and yet...😢

[@radolfkalis4041]

That is the sign of a good story

[@ayngelboshemia]

Was just thinking the same, but my pets are family to me so....

[@fernandocorona5411]

Its a sign you need to change your diaper lol

[@Keram-io8hv]

Every minute thousands of children die to starvation and yet here you are crying over fictional green foam ball

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

Seppos can't stop shooting their own so why should anyone from the developed world care ​@@Keram-io8hv

[@n.jboltz599]

Corlys was mourning Rhaenys but i think there was also guilt- she literally found out about his bastards shortly before going off to battle All this did was show the people dragons could be killed by men and I think even Alicent knew parading Meyles head about was a bad idea because it doesn't just signal a weakness on the black's but on their side too. Rhaenyra and her dragons are far away on Dragonstone, but three dragons are in Kingslanding what was to stop people from wanting to kill the green dragons just as much as the blacks.

[@tabortoothtiger7580]

It also shows just how far they're willing to go to destroy their own family, the dragons. You can see the disgust on many of the common folks faces and "I'm telling you, this is a black omen." Dragons were revered and honored. To do this to a dragon, and then parade around with the head, well, it's very disrespectful and shows just how fucked your cause is. It clearly shows that the greens were willing to kill dragons, the one thing that gave the Targaryen's the power they had. How can you stay in power when you're killing off the one thing that gives your family that power? And then to parade it around so disrespectfully. The common folk don't seem very impressed by this display of disrespect. In fact, I seem more horror and shock on their faces than anything. Which, let's be real, if you don't get respect from the common folk, that's eventually gonna come back to bite you in the ass.

[@n.jboltz599]

@@tabortoothtiger7580 It could also be shock and horror at the parody of death. First it was hey look at the dead kid as we parade his little body through the streets, then it was hangings like wall ornaments that are still there- we don't know who the guilty one is so we killed the lot, now there is a parading of a dragon head? the greens don't show much respect for the dead. Also many of the people would know if Meyles is dead then Rhaenys is likely also dead there was no mention of her death. though on the show Rhaenys death is a bit confusing. in the book there was a body beside Meyles burned beyond recognision but believed to be Rhaenys. on the show there would be no reason for Rhaenys to be burned and unless Meyles fell on her back and crushed Rhaenys---Aegon survived a fall of a similar height while badly burned so why wouldn't Rhaenys?

[@phoenix_cine2368]

Alicent looking at the monster she has created

[@LotsofLisa]

Viserys should’ve never married her. Where’s Otto? He needs to see the poisoned fruit of his labor.

[@jimmykray9583]

She didn’t really have a choice she was a child when she got married

[@LotsofLisa]

@@jimmykray9583 I know she didn’t have a choice. Viserys had access to every noblewoman in Westeros. I wish he would’ve put more thought into it. I hate to say he should’ve married a person with dragon blood.

[@DarkWRLDGmz]

@@LotsofLisa that's the issue the actual show runs into narratively by aging Alicent down to Rhaenyra's age. B/c they also age Laena down for the show too. By Fire & Blood's standard Laena would've been the same age that Alicent was when Viserys chose to wed her in comparison to the show. Alicent being grown in the novel doesn't take away her agency when her and the king wed. And if Corlys proposes an older Laena to him he probably wouldn't have been so weirded out with courting her b/c he did choose Alicent at the same age.

[@level1865]

Tbh, if you really want to blame, Otto is the one who created every circumstance.

[@bluelemonade6430]

LMAO that annoying proud face of Criston always boils my blood. Especially when he looks proud making up a lie.

[@dnisse5216]

All this is Alicent fault im sorry she teach nothing to those kids,

[@AshFrey]

And Viserys is the perfect father

[@JJDK485]

Her father got his hands on everything.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

She's getting milked by Otto to seduce Viserys who was still mourning of his dead wife. Viserys also couldn't marry Laena as she was still a child when they met and Laena was more interesting to talk about dragons than getting married. Also, he could've just married another woman around his age to get married but nope, just choose his daughter's best friend instead

[@yxxng1z943]

viserys was too busy playing with his bullshit lego set and alicent was too obsessed with rhaenyra’s business to care about her own children, it’s all disaster.

[@asp5399]

Pretty good move, its just writers sucks. Its vehemently obvious that Smallfolks would hate meleys because hundres were killed during dragonpit scene,. BUt like GoT season 8, smallfolks somehow forgot about it

[@JoshSweetvale]

The Smallfolk are confused, horrified and disgusted. ...and this is after doing a very similar parade with a dead Targaryen princelet. *This is how the House of the Dragon falls!!!* Not blood, but P.R.

[@Keram-io8hv]

Smallfolk in expectation: "So the dragons are vulnerable, we must think about it and discover the truth behind this meaning" Smallfolk in reality: "Can we eat it?"

[@TheRawi]

Without Otto the greens have lost the wisdom.

[@victorpradha9946]

Otto was a chief protagonist who orchestrated the whole conflict...the ashes of the dead stain his hands as much as any!

[@derekholmes4733]

*antagonist

[@victorpradha9946]

@@derekholmes4733 I posted in a rush. I meant to say "architect" but used protagonist instead. Frankly, antagonist is the better fitting word. That being said, in this narrative NOBODY is a hero. Neither Team Black nor Team Green can claim any moral high ground. Team Black is responsible for the murder of a small child. Most recently, Rhaenyra presided over the mass slaughter of dozens of illegitimate Targaryen offspring.

[@wd3185]

Somewhere in this crowd, a Shepherd is watching.

[@datemasamune2904]

Before Targaryens ruled, the people would have been cheering and applauding.

[@revanius2213]

It was not the first time a Dragon had been killed in battle on Westeros (Meraxes) or even the first time a Targaryen killed another Dragon Rider in battle (Quicksilver) but it hit different this time. It wasn't a foreign enemy or a victorious king slaying the dragon, despite what they said no one saw Aegon riding his dragon showing his power all they saw was a dragon's head pulled by men.

[@titandragon753]

Parading Meleys head like that was an absolute disgrace 😢. Shame on the Greens for doing it. There is no such thing as a traitor dragon. All dragons are 100% loyal to their riders, despite the cost. No different than a war horse being loyal to its rider. They’re not the ones who choose sides. Vhagar was once Laena’s dragon. If she were still alive. Vhagar would have been fighting for the Blacks. The Red Queen and her true Targaryen Princess rider deserved to be remembered with dignity. All of the dragons deserve respect regardless of which side they fight for. Rhaenyra would never have done such a thing.

[@MannequinStep]

@@titandragon753 at this moment in time Vhagar is pretty much the only thing keeping the greens in power, Fear of Vhagar is the only thing keeping Rhanerya from taking King's Landing with her dragons...for now.

[@isiaharellano3789]

Lol she has done much worse in the books 😂

[@Keram-io8hv]

Vhagar loves her new Visenya, the previous one was weird and weak

[@titandragon753]

@@Keram-io8hv Laena was weird and weak? I might remind you that she was the first person to claim Vhagar after such a long time of freedom. You need to be extremely strong to claim a dragon like Vhagar. Laena just made it easier for Aemond to claim Vhagar.

[@Keram-io8hv]

@@titandragon753 Yeah totally, she bored Vhagar so much she went for Aemond Thanks Leana (also Vhagar was claimed right before Leana by Baelon Targaryen)

[@hawkstringfellow]

Viserys in heaven THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!!!!

[@sabgogo7393]

he's the reason why lol

[@JackalHavok1992]

3:19 Alicent looks at Aemond knowing Aemond injured the King while Aemond is laughing at his older brother King Aegon II in his head!

[@RoadNetworkTV]

Anyone else still crying 😢

[@CoWzBeCuTe]

I started crying as soon as I saw corly's

[@dalpaengi]

I was crying ..poor Corlys.😢

[@CoWzBeCuTe]

@@dalpaengi I know bro him and rhaenys were so cute😭

[@sabgogo7393]

womp womp womp

[@virtualsocialretreat8234]

this undermines the ultimate symbol of targaryen rule... doesn't matter if they had a targaryen king and the head being paraded was of an enemy dragon. just dumb

[@justincase7848]

Cole trying not to roll his eyes when they attrubute the death to aegon

[@TinyBlitz8]

Targaryen invincibility lost because of a few houses squabbling with each other.

[@radioactivedetective6876]

Not "a few houses", it was that very house squabbling between themselves. The others just joined teams

[@Keram-io8hv]

Targaryen invincilibity went out of window moment when Dornish killed their first dragon

[@lokensicarius9347]

Reminds me of that scene in the film dragon heart when the peasants think the dragon is vulnerable, they start chanting *MEAT MEAT MEAT!*

[@mucioagustinmartinezzarago2649]

1:49 Dont forget this The priest:is somethig very important what will help me later

[@mohamedlaminediakhaby1458]

The people have forgotten that it is this same dragon, who killed innocent people in season one

[@Keram-io8hv]

What U want from this writing?

[@andanandan6061]

Dude they were making their way out by breaching thru a fuvking concrete ceiling. Do you expect rhaenys and meleys to work together carefully chisel the concrete piece by piece ? Wth man 😂

[@cfinley81]

They have no idea what the fuck they just did here.

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

No kidding. By showing off the head of a dragon, it completely shattered the illusion that the Targaryens were invulnerable and that, with the right tools and strategy, you can defeat them and their dragons.

[@ilbb7055]

Assuring Rhaenyra's fall? Seems a W for me

[@cfinley81]

@@ilbb7055 aaaaand here's an idiot. 🤦‍♀️ No doof....read what @Timberlake Tigergirl said above. That, airhead, is what you would call an intelligent statement.

[@southtexasobserver3306]

How good of Ameond! such a good brother to look after him as he returns from battle.

[@mucioagustinmartinezzarago2649]

1:38 Youre seeing a corpse of a dragon but dont worry you will see others the next weeks😢

[@justincase7848]

Poor corlys. He lost all his nearest and dearest.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

He lost many but he still has his granddaughters.

[@justincase7848]

​@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 and yet he won't make them his heirs 😞

[@DarkWRLDGmz]

​@@justincase7848he literally said this episode that he would name Baela as his heir. But she declined and said she was a Targaryen

[@justincase7848]

​@DarkWRLDGmz ohhhhh thank you, i didnt know!! I dont have streaming, i just thought based on clips from last week that he didnt consider it.

[@DarkWRLDGmz]

@@justincase7848 At first he didn't tho when Rhaenys initially brought it up to him. You probably saw the first season, if not... SPOILERS BELOW He didn't consider giving Driftmark to his granddaughters in S1 b/c by that time Lucerys was still alive and he named him heir since Luc was the oldest living Velaryon heir from his son Laenor. (Luc is a bastard really but Rhae/Lae proclaim him as their actual son and legally he is a Velaryon)

[@TheRealHerbaSchmurba]

So essentially the Targaryens, who were seen as higher than men, are now seen as men because the dragons they conquered aren’t so divine after all. GRRM is a good ass writer for thinking this through.

[@aimeaime9210]

Aemond, you will pay for Rhaenys and Meleys 😡

[@firstclass3736]

Alicent sees that Aemond has taken Aegon's knife

[@The_Minotaur]

Buddy is one of the few to survive the dance of dragons

[@Marvolo14]

Calling Meleys a traitor is so stupid. Dragons aren't slaves or subjects to any human authority. They are companions and loyal to their rider. Meleys went with Rhaenys. She didn't give a damn about a foolish human civil war.

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

They dont care; anyone and anything that aided Rhaenyra was a traitor to them. Since they couldn't recover Rheanys body (probably vaporized in the explosion), they used Maelys's head

[@andrewchiusiwa3487]

I don't regret the fact that I start watching all the trailers before I watch the episode itself so that if it's disappointment I should mourn about it first before I watch the actual episode😂

[@deadlock7856]

This shows how much a Hightower he is. Parading the symbol of your house in the streets and weakening the Targaryen name.

[@jessedellross3245]

As cruel as he was, meagor was never so awful or stupid as to parade a dragons head through kings landing. The greens caused the downfall of the Targaryens

[@Garrus1995]

The small folk seeing dragons as immortal god-like beings does kind of raise a plot hole; what do they think happened to Balerion? He was a colossus among dragons, surely people would have wondered where he went?

[@lunariannoises4806]

I'm Farley certain the small folk know dragons die. I think it was the degradation of the dragons sacredness displayed here that changed things.

[@riskyrisky4568]

I hate how the scriptwriters works, they simply don't have the courage to make Rhaenyra what she is known for, as Rhaenyra the cruel, even the fact that the population is completely starving seems to be the fault of the greens, and the blacks together with Rhaenyra closed all the entrances where food came to supply the city, this being one of the main reasons for the population to kill all the dragons after with so much rage, but the cowardly scriptwriters are already going to blame it on the greens for parading with a dragon's head, how pathetic that is

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

The cruelty doesnt come until later dumba**. Fun fact; blockades are a normal part of war. It could be the Greens blockading Dragonstone and the results would be the same.

[@ilbb7055]

​@@TimberlakeTigerGirl insulting is such childish way to answer lol and no, Rhaenyra was a murderer,killing noble Lords before tha Dance started.

[@81suze]

They surely aren’t the Medici with an advisor like Nicolo de Machiavelli. What a mistake Aemond, what a mistake 🙈

[@ke7ejx]

The ratcatchers are still hanging there?

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

DM: Ser Gwayne is the type of sidekick every Dornish murder hobo needs.

[@sirenbratzdoll]

Lolololool

[@jinx7501]

The Targaryeans are fighting each other so much they don't realize they're entire family is dooming themselves. They rule because of dragons. One of the fiercest, fastest, and most experienced of the dragons is being paraded through the streets. They just showed the 7 kingdoms that even the strongest dragon can be killed.

[@tarn1135]

Never show the “little” people your weakness or vulnerability. Dragons were the source of the Targaryen power and was only thing (really) keeping the people and the houses in line. With One swift stroke the Greens shattered that.

[@sabgogo7393]

people already knew Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot one in the eye (Maraxes) and the other one (Quicksilver) was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again

[@YangBalanceYin]

This was such an astronomically stupid thing to do. To show to your people that you aren't the tamers of immortal firebreathing gods. A powerful reputation that your family spent generations cultivating.

[@SamA-cc3pj]

And this dispelled ths idea of dragons being unstoppable godlike beings. For the 1st time in their living memory a dragon had been killed....

[@sabgogo7393]

people already knew Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot one in the eye (Maraxes) and the other one (Quicksilver) was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again

[@oscara8454]

​@@sabgogo7393maybe historians know, but did your average peasant know?

[@shirogoeth]

This causes a massive exodus from Kings Landing, that’s only stopped after Queen Alicent orders the gates shut.

[@abelgonzalez158]

I hate Aemond and Crispy Cole so much!!!!!!!!

[@sabgogo7393]

womp womp womp

[@user-ti5cw1ug6l]

Isn't this the dragon that killed thousands of people in the dragon pit? Did the people just forgive that thinking Meleys was some immortal god?

[@LTDragoonIII]

Less forgiveness and more realizing they can kill dragons. Its a stupid move to parade them because people thought when dragons appeared that was it. Now they see its no longer the case

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

You clearly missed the point.

[@TheSerpent21]

Worst thing House Valyeron did was to get involved in the Civil War

[@MrMarek19]

What they did to dragon is insult to dragon..... They should be a shame ....

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

It was way more than just an insult. They just shattered the illusion that dragons are immortal. And thus have shown the people the weakness of the Targaryens.

[@herecomestheboi1285]

I have a feeling this whole show is going ot make me pissed.

[@bluewolf_jd7665]

I'm guessing it was Aemond who suggested this,just goes to show how much of a fool he really is.

[@sabgogo7393]

people already knew Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot one in the eye (Maraxes) and the other one (Quicksilver) was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again.

[@bluewolf_jd7665]

@@sabgogo7393 True but reading about in a history and actually seeing it are two different things,Quicksilver and Maraxes died almost a century prior to this,what does it say when the kingdom sees your main claim to power dead and being displayed on a cart.

[@BlackDiamond2718]

The shepherd: MY TIME HAS COME

[@cleaundrecollins4329]

Caraxes and daemon gon get vhagar and aemond

[@Happyduderawr]

For the record I never thought dragons was gods, and also Meley's blowing up the cathedral during coronation of Aegon was an inside job.

[@hawkstringfellow]

Yea that was stupid makes it fact dragons can be killed 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@dreamsleeper1568]

Only a dragon can kill another dragon, or with dragon stone deep within the area of dragonstone, it was a better death then GOT, they just dropped the dragon from the sky and made it switch sides. (Which they totally stole from the wrath of the lich king)

[@sabgogo7393]

people already knew Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot one in the eye (Maraxes) and the other one (Quicksilver) was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

Its a bit like the English displaying William Wallaces quartered body. Badly misjudged.

[@SuperUniverse]

Aemond's dumbest mistake is letting people know that Dragons can be killed. And the people killed all of them at the end.

[@nobleactual7693]

Arya: Anyone can be killed.

[@TheSerpent21]

Should have known that soon as they hitched a ride with Rhaenyra that was only gonna end one way.

[@dreamsleeper1568]

The civilians had my brains then the royalty, killing a dragon is a cardinal sin in their world, the gods just became very very angry.

[@Tempsdg]

I knew this dumb shit would happen. I called bs when velaryon pledged to rhaenyra AFTER she basically got them all killed..... smdh. This is terrible writing tbh. I literally said " his wife's gonna die so it makes a bs excuse for him to support rhaenyra." Terrible

[@joshhallidat5259]

They f***ed up bad with this one

[@user-vc2el8ry5s]

Корлису нужно было оседлать Вермитора!!! Чего ждал не понятно!

[@joshuasepeda3289]

Corlys doesn't have dragon blood. The Velaryons are from Valyria but aren't dragonlords. Laenor and Laena were only able to ride dragons because of Rhaenys. That's why the Velaryons never had dragons of their own.

[@KarenLee-bs5ms]

Why do these people insist on chopping things heads off

[@sonh788]

Crusty Cole is responsible for the fall of the dragons and house Targaryen 😂

[@pierregasly3547]

He's just mewing

[@treebeard2297]

Why didn’t alicent ask her brother the truth of what happened? Seems she already thinks Aemond had a part in this.

[@kiennguyentrong1897]

I think Alicent correctly suspects Aemond, and probably knew it after talking to Criston. But it’s not like they can do anything to Aemond.

[@fleisbester612]

The Greens aren't real Targaryens, they're not even real Valyrians, they're Hightowers, low-level animals, no Valyrian would parade their symbol of power like that.

[@-_-ligma]

Holy yapperoni

[@SMarkGee]

is e5 out...yikes. gotta go and watch it

[@breezy3392]

🤦‍♀️ Whose dumb idea was this? Cole? I bet it was Cole.

[@SeyhawksNow]

These sheep are scared now. Cole has made the Shepherd inevitable.

[@sabgogo7393]

people already knew Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot one in the eye (Maraxes) and the other one (Quicksilver) was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again

[@isiaharellano3789]

Detour from the books again! Rhaenyra sowed the discontent from the people of KL when she taxed them to hell for the war effort. I bet they gonna make it look like it's Daemon's plan again. 😂

[@sophiawilson8696]

Dorne shot down a 🐉! And Balertain the Black Dread died.

[@sabgogo7393]

the writers kinda forgot again lol

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

I doubt the public has access to that knowledge.

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

Great actor 👏👏👏

[@stephenHolloway88]

Big mistake. All they're doing is showing the smallfolk that dragons can be killed and we all know what's coming sooner rather than later. The storming of the dragonpit, I know that I'm not ready for it.

[@sabgogo7393]

people already knew Dragons can be killed LOL , they shot one in the eye (Maraxes) and the other one (Quicksilver) was killed by Belarion , the writers kinda forgot again