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Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon. If you haven’t seen the final Season 2 episode yet, turn away now.
Everything is coming up Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), or so it seems, in the House of the Dragon Season 2 finale. The true heir to the Iron Throne started the season grieving her son Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) and lost the war for the throne’s first major battle. Things were looking very bleak for Rhaenyra after Rook’s Rest, but the gods started to show her favor when it was revealed that you don’t have to be of noble birth to be a dragon rider.
The fierce dragon Sea Smoke started that revelation when he left the keep and adopted a small folk rider–Corly’s (Steve Toussaint) second bastard-son Adam of Hull (Clinton Liberty). Rhaenyra put out the call to all small folk who believed they had a claim to Targaryen blood to come to Dragonstone and try their luck with the two remaining unclaimed dragons in the keep. Two King’s Landing small folk, Ulf (Tom Bennett) and Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew), rose to the challenge and claimed the last adult dragons in Rhaenyra’s possession.
Adding three more dragons to her cause was a necessary bolster in Rhaenyra’s cause, and it put Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) on his heels in the last two episodes of the season. Team Green realized that Rhaenyra had the tactical advantage in the war, and multiple people, including Larys (Matthew Needham) and Alicent (Olivia Cooke), changed up their strategies in the final episode. Alicent went as far as traveling to Dragonstone to make a deal with Rhaenyra, allowing her into King’s Landing to take both the throne and Aegon’s head in exchange for letting Alicent and Helena (Phia Saban) escape.
The season ended with Rhaenyra contemplating Alicent’s offer. Meanwhile, everything is in motion for two major battles in Season 3. Corlys is heading to the Battle of the Gullet after Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Hall) secured ships from Essos to break Corlys’ blockade. Aemond is also planning to take Helena and her dragon with him to the River Lands to wipe out Daemon’s (Matt Smith) forces, despite Helena’s ominous warning about what would happen to Aemond if he continued down that path.
The House of the Dragon Season 2 finale was a major setup for big events to come in Season 3. The tides have turned in the war, but we still have many questions after the open-ended events of the season finale. Let’s get into it.
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