{"id":486726,"date":"2022-08-22T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-fiery-return-to-westeros\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T02:10:11","slug":"a-fiery-return-to-westeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-fiery-return-to-westeros\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Fiery Return to Westeros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2de20816726\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2de20816726\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-fiery-return-to-westeros\/#%E2%80%9CA_Fiery_Return_to_Westeros%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Fiery Return to Westeros&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Fiery_Return_to_Westeros%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Fiery Return to Westeros&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div> <strong>[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for <em>House of the Dragon<\/em> Season 1 Episode 1.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dracarys<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><em>House of the Dragon<\/em>, perhaps HBO\u2019s most-anticipated show of the year, has arrived to pose the question: After the polarizing finale that aired in 2019, did we really need more <em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/em> in our lives? Well, if the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> premiere is any indication, the answer is a resounding \u2018yes.\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1057071\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1057071\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1057071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"House of the Dragon Eve Best\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best-434x289.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-eve-best.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1057071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: HBO)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In many ways, comparing it to <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> seems unjust because <em>House of the Dragon<\/em> doesn\u2019t feel like a spinoff. The show\u2019s events are set almost two full centuries before Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) was born, and while there are plenty of Targs here (and, of course, dragons), the characters and stories diverge sharply enough that nothing feels derivative. Aside from a few familiar musical cues and house names, <em>Dragon<\/em> is doing its own thing in a familiar world\u2014and like the creatures referenced in its title, it soars.<\/p>\n<p>To open the story, there is, as always, a crisis of succession. And not only one. <em>House of the Dragon\u2019s<\/em> premiere starts and ends with such a problem, solving both in ways that mirror each other. The first occurs in a scene narrated by an older Rhaenyra Targaryen, as Jaehaerys Targaryen names Viserys (Paddy Considine), his eldest male descendent, rather than Rhaneys (Eve Best), his eldest child, heir. After a brief time-jump, we get the second\u2026 but there\u2019s a bit more story to discuss first.<\/p>\n<p>As with any first episode, <em>House of the Dragon<\/em>\u2019s premiere must take the time to introduce us to its major players. And as with any <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> property, there are <em>plenty<\/em> of them. We first meet young Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock), Viserys\u2019 daughter, as she soars above King\u2019s Landing on a dragon and undoubtedly gives the audience Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) flashbacks. Rhaenyra, thankfully, does not burn the city, although she has a good deal of Dany\u2019s rebellious spirit and heart. With Rhaenyra we also meet Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey), her close friend and daughter of the hand of the king, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans). Alicent doesn\u2019t do a ton in this episode, but what she does do\u2014without giving source material spoilers\u2014seems significant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1057070\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1057070\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1057070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"House of the Dragon Matt Smith\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith-434x289.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-hte-dragon-matt-smith.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1057070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: HBO)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We also meet Rhaenyra\u2019s mother and Viserys\u2019 wife, Aemma Arryn (Sian Brooke), who is pregnant (with a boy, she\u2019s convinced). That\u2019s very important, because a boy would secure the matter of Targaryen succession. After a string of infant deaths and stillbirths, Rhaenyra is Viserys\u2019 only child, and unfortunately, the realm has little faith in a woman\u2019s ability to sit the Iron Throne. But even though she has no interest in being queen, she\u2019d certainly be a better ruler than the impulsive, arrogant Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), Viserys\u2019 brother and commander of the city watch. He has a penchant for both excess and violence, and he uses both when he parades through the city with his army and butchers criminals on the eve of the king\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament, you say? Yep. A good portion of <em>Dragon<\/em>\u2019s premiere deals with a King\u2019s Landing tournament Viserys is hosting in honor of his wife\u2019s pregnancy, and his soon-to-be-born heir. Cue the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> Season 1 flashbacks! And as in that competition, blood is spilled and familiar names are thrown about\u2014Baratheon, to name one. But as Rhaenyra and Alicent watch Daemon lose to young knight Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) of Dorne, the king is drawn from the celebration and given grave (but predictable, if you\u2019ve seen these types of shows) <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>. His wife is unlikely to survive childbirth, and he must decide whether it\u2019s worth cutting open her womb in hopes of saving the child, or, as he\u2019s told, \u201cleaving it to the gods.\u201d In the end, Viserys tells the physicians to go through with the procedure\u2026 and both his wife and his just-born son die, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a horrible tragedy for the realm, for Viserys, and for young Rhaenyra, who was close with her mother. As she tells Daemon at the queen\u2019s funeral, even if her father needs her to console him, she\u2019ll \u201cnever be a son.\u201d Daemon, on the other hand, is significantly less heartbroken by the news; in celebration, he rents out one of the brothels for himself and his gold cloaks, and he laughs about the king\u2019s \u201cheir for a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1054901\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054901\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1054901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"House of the Dragon Season 1 Paddy Considine\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4-433x289.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/house-of-the-dragon-4.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1054901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: HBO)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Word of this reaches the grieving Viserys, and enraged, he summons his brother before him as he sits the Iron Throne. He orders Daemon to leave King\u2019s Landing and return to his wife, Rhea (for whom Daemon makes no secret of his dislike), making it clear he is no longer heir to the throne. If he isn\u2019t, then who is?<\/p>\n<p>Rhaenyra, that\u2019s who! After his argument with Daemon, Viserys meets with Rhaenyra and asks her what she sees when she looks at the Targaryen dragons. \u201cI suppose I see us,\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone says Targaryens are closer to gods than to men, but they say that because of our dragons. Without them, we\u2019re just like everyone else.\u201d After stressing to her that the Targaryens do not control their dragons (\u201cThey\u2019re a power men should not have trifled with\u201d), he tells her he is naming her his heir\u2026 and lets her in on a secret that\u2019ll become relevant in 100-ish years about the brewing darkness beyond the wall. He also gives her a dagger, which some fans might recognize as the same that Arya (Maisie Williams) used to kill the Night King.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the matter of succession is settled. Dressed in resplendent royal finery, Rhaenyra stands before representatives from the great houses as they pledge their loyalty to House Targaryen, and to her. But if Alicent\u2019s expression is any indication, she\u2019s not necessarily pleased to find her best friend coming into power\u2014and her father\u2019s insistence that she go \u201cto comfort\u201d the king while wearing one of her late mother\u2019s dresses feels less friendly and more like moving a chess piece in a game of power. And of course, there\u2019s still Daemon to consider, who soars away from King\u2019s Landing atop his dragon with one of the women from the brothel. The succession might be settled, but trouble\u2019s undoubtedly brewing for House Targaryen\u2026 and, as Rhaenyra said in the episode\u2019s initial voice-over, \u201cthe only thing that can tear apart the house of the dragon is itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>House of the Dragon<\/em>, Sundays, 9\/8c, HBO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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