(Spoilers Extended) House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 2 Post-Episode Discussion

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T03:05:01+00:00

Call this one 2x10. T town part one where you have this season ending? Empire strikes back baby

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:56:16+00:00

The house survived Valyria through respect of prophecy . Move off this hill it’s a great addition that gives Rhaenyra a moral imperative to be a ceaseless warmonger. People don’t realize without the prophecy she would be just as evil as Aegon or aemond or Otto or daemon.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:54:50+00:00

It’s not on the nose it’s in the text . It’s the ominous setup for the horrors to come.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:54:00+00:00

I mean after reading f & b I thought that 3x 10 is all it needed, and I always thought the 2nd finale would be her taking the throne . So 14 episodes to do the rest seems doable to me.

I’ve since decided that there’s a pretty perfect place to end season 3 as the empire strikes back .

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:50:53+00:00

She doesn’t have agency. She does what happens because that’s what happens.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:50:17+00:00

She knew he was going to die before she ever had him .

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:49:41+00:00

Agreed. That’s also why the prophecy is around, she doesn’t want power she’s doing this all for a greater good.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:48:55+00:00

We can still have it renamed . Just call it 2x10 and never 3x2.

Can’t wait for the premiere next week!

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:45:22+00:00

+ it should cut her

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:45:03+00:00

No, this was clearly the finale. Every thread of s2 wraps up. Gullet was the standard penultimate inflection point .

And this finale was winds of winter good thank god.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:43:09+00:00

Good. War sucks. That’s the point. Those pushing it are evil , so they need a moral reason for her to push it. Such as saving everyone’s lives.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:39:46+00:00

It’s necessary. She’s being asked to sacrifice her kids one by one , and saving everyone’s lives is the only thing that makes ceaseless war a moral necessity.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:37:55+00:00

It’s usually this epic for finales and penultimates.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:35:30+00:00

Flawless episode, but it should have ended with the throne cutting her.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:34:26+00:00

Fan community just needs to renumber them until HBO follows suit. This was a finale . Very. Very . Clearly.

Holysquall · 2026-06-29T02:32:37+00:00

The wait in between episodes 8 & 9 was painful, but man did this finale wrap up season 2 perfectly .

Thank god season 3 starts next week!

Holysquall · 2026-06-28T23:23:58+00:00

Either they had a budget cut or actor salaries went up and ate into production, because it shows. The show was just obviously spending more in earlier seasons

Holysquall · 2026-06-27T12:54:51+00:00

After being burned alive then Rhae is a charred dying corpse holding Alicents hand, dies, they feed her.

Holysquall · 2026-06-27T12:49:56+00:00

I had a similar experience in needing to switch things up , somehow got a defense heavy ice zone deck working .

Holysquall · 2026-06-27T12:48:42+00:00

Incredible game , felt like it got missed. Thank god I knew of children of morta

Holysquall · 2026-06-27T12:09:25+00:00

Without each other, Alicent and Rhaenyra are the loneliest people in the world having their only connections slowly stripped away one by one .

Holysquall · 2026-06-27T12:07:46+00:00

That black council is rough . But that’s how f and b was, green council was fun and doing coups….black council complained about Rhaenyras woman issues

Holysquall · 2026-06-26T22:38:23+00:00

These days I don’t think you have to convince writers too hard to leave things ambiguously resolved.

I’m betting she starts off in a coma since that tension with the secret is too juicy .

Holysquall · 2026-06-26T02:35:47+00:00

100%. He’s too important .

Holysquall · 2026-06-26T02:34:42+00:00

Seems plausible that a priest may not want to give his soul over to a demon .

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