HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2 Episode 4 Breakdown & Ending Explained - Connection to Fire & Blood

RIP to the 👸Who Never Was! House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 1 Breakdown: https://youtu.be/MJnS_jdVy4g House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 2 Breakdown: https://youtu.be/FV1JPfgbieY House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 3 Breakdown: https://youtu.be/hK5fr46Lutg House of the Dragon Season 4 Episode 4 Breakdown: youtu.be/L_vO0RXn4Rw Blood & Cheese - The Real Story HBO Left Out: https://youtu.be/BnYL4o5CRXM House of the Dragon Season 1 Ending Explained: https://youtu.be/PuPK4rJsQqo How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended: https://youtu.be/G0mncEl4nVU

Meleys looking at rhaenys just before she closed her eyes broke my heartt 😩😭😭

RiP Rhaenys the queen who never was , died and fought like a true Dragon rider

Meleys wanted Rhaenys to be the last thing she saw and Rhaenys looking back comforting Meleys that she did her proud.

Meleys really lived up to her title as the Red Queen, one of the fastest and most fearsome of the dragons in The Dance. RIP. I think the slight grin on Rhaenys’ face when she sees Aegon and Sunfyre shows her overwhelming confidence in Meleys, as if Sunfyre poses no threat at all. Indeed, Meleys makes quick work of Sunfyre. Despite the “help” from Vhagar, Meleys has already severely wounded Sunfyre (rips through the chest, damage to the wing) while only losing a single horn from her head, by the time Vhagar shows up. And when Meleys faces Vhagar, it’s worth noting that despite the size difference, when the dragons lock claws and spiral to the earth, it’s Vhagar who is thrown to the ground while Meleys simply flies away. I thinks it’s truly astounding how fearsome Meleys is and I just know Rhaenys was so proud of her.

Aemond deliberately burning Aegon changes the narrative. This episode showcases what the dance truly is.

This episode just made me feel worse for the dragons. The fact that vhagar and meleys were besties and now they are forced to fight each other is just so tragic.

When Meleys looked back at Rhaenys before she died it felt like she was telling her goodbye with her eyes. It felt like that kind of look that a scared child gives their mother when they're asking for help, and that just gutted me! 😭

The playful nudge between Aegon and Sunfyre before battle tells you that neither the dragon nor his rider were meant for military. The hubris and over ambition of his grandfather, mother, brother and Cole drove him this far, and O don’t fault him at all.

Salute to lord darklyn who stayed true to his queen even at his execution and he went out giving cold the cursed name " kingmaker".

Didn't even think of retreating. RIP to the queen who never was.

The episode was crazy but i just have a small problem that they didn't showed how fast meleys was ,in the books she was literally called meleys the red queen and was one of the fastest dragon there,she literally fought 2 dragons alone burnt and destroyed sunfyre while gave a tough competition to vhagar and then died

This felt like game of thrones coming back to life. The show is great but right when the battle began I got goosebumps because it INSTANTLY felt right up there with the OG game of thrones. The 2 year wait was worth it for that shot of the big fella flying over the battlefield before all hell broke loose. Amazing episode.

R.I.P to a true warrior and fighter To Rhaenys "The Queen that Should Have Been"

That scene of daemon dressed as aemond was unintentional hilarious.

I think the look on Rhaenys‘ face at the end us one of acceptance and happiness. She and Meleys did her best and went out together. Rhaenys didn’t die old and sick in bed, but a true dragonrider‘s death like her beloved daughter. And she went out thinking that Aegon was most likely dead.

I think that the dropping of the dragon figure that Alicent gifted Viserys is symbolic to Aegon and his dragon Sunfyre, as the book describes, "One of Sunfyre's wings is half-ripped off his body, grounding him near the castle." Alicent symbolically dropping the figurine and a singluar wing breaking off may represent how Sunfyre and Aegon II are left at the end of the episode due to Alicent's hand. It also could mean that Aegon's life has been put at risk thanks to alicent as she handles the figure and she drops it, meaning she put her own children (specifically Aegon and Helaena) in harms way and why Aegon did what he did, to try to prove to everyone that he was not useless, a thought put in his head by ALICENT. The outcome of the war and Alicent's children just shows that the fear of Rhaenrya putting her children to the sword to defend her claim makes Alicent put her own children at risk first, so as to not let this fear come true, with that she herself makes her children have the fates that they ended with at the end of the Dance of Dragons.

I haven't sobbed this much for a character since the death of Ned Stark back in GOT. Born a princess, died a queen. A formidable woman and a formidable beast. Faced death and embraced it with open arms through fire and blood. As true Targaryens were always meant to be.

Literally more sad about the dragon deaths than the human ones, brutal.

That shot of Aegon being irritated at the empty flagon in his room while his mom is poking around is interesting too when you notice she turns to look at him as he's wearing the Catspaw blade, the very thing that has the words Alicent is looking for.