re: House of the Dragon - Episode 2.2 - Spoilers okay

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Well thats the issue. It appears at the end that team black did win BUT the way the fight goes down by sequence:

1) Team Balck (TB) comes in and interrupts the TG twin from killing Rhaenyra.

2) TG cuts TB's leg and lunges at Rhaenyra again.

3) There is a scuffle and we can't tell who is who.

4) One twin is strangling the other, we still can't figure out who is who.

5) Then the guy getting strangled frees himself but sticking his fingers in the leg wound of the guy on top. This would indicate that TB was on top and TG was on bottom.

6) TB (presumably) falls back, gets up, and runs at TG.

7) TG runs his sword through TB and is victorious.

8) The victor (presumably TG by the way the fight plays out) apologizes and kills himself.

Now if I have the order of events wrong, someone correct me but it looked to me like TG won the fight by what little we had to go on to differentiate between the 2 fighters.

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I'm an episode behind and need to catch up, but this is the way I saw it as well. In fact, it's actually better this way, that the TG twin won and killed himself while acknowledging Rhaenyra as his queen. It makes the scene mean more, that his last act of life was to acknowledge he was wrong to follow Team Green. Look what following the Greens got him, he ended up having to kill his brother in combat and just couldn't live with that.

They would have been better off not answering any questions outside the show and instead left the scene open to the interpretation of the viewer. Makes it that much more powerful while not changing the outcome. In the end, both brothers are dead and are casualties of the conflict of others.

Howland Reed