re: House of the Dragon S1E6: “The Princess and the Queen”--Official Thread

I enjoyed the episode and am pretty happy with the new actors, especially Alicent.

The Targaryen kids are creepy and the Valeryon kids a lot more likeable/normal -- more reason for Alicent to resent Rhaenyra. I do want to see more of the daughter and her prophecies.

Rhaenyra continues to be a badass, insisting on dragging her postpartum self to see Alicent because "frick you that's why".

I was sorry to see Laena go, though she chose a hell of a way to bow out. The interplay between her and Vhagar was great. She and Daemon seemed pretty good together despite their disagreements.


Hate Alicent and Criston. He should die a hideous death. I do appreciate the writing and acting that allow a character to go from loved to hated so fully and quickly.

Horrified by the creepy evil of Larys. He is worse than Varys or Littlefinger by a good bit, imo.

Viserys told Strong that he’d served the realm for many years. 10 as hand.

That’s the other one I remember

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The Targaryen kids are creepy and the Valeryon kids a lot more likeable/normal

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for those wondering, there is one more final time skip left to go which ages up these kids (i believe starting in episode 8) and sets the stage for the 'main event' which is what these first few episodes have been building towards.

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Rhaenyra has children with Laenor

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This isn’t always the case, look at the Baratheon’s for instance. That whole house started as a bastard that was legitimized. In this world, power determines who sits on the throne, and an allegiance of Rhaenyra’s and Allicent’s families would be the most powerful in the realm. Allicent isn’t being motivated by righteousness, she’s being motivated by power.

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Exactly, the Blackfyre Rebellion occurred not because they were bastards, but because the king ended up legitimizing them on his deathbed.

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the closet pedos on here who are bummed about underaged looking milly leaving must be real happy about Alicent's daughter Helaena stepping in.

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That was some serious, hardcore pedo psychological projection right there.

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Rewatching now.

Leanor complains that he’s been playing his role for 10 years since they got married.

The queen says it has been 10 years since Daemon left the step stones undefended.

The king tells his hand he’s been a faithful hand for 10 years.

Hopefully that was enough for the viewers to grasp how long the time jump was!

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Yeah, much better than having the viewers try to interpret the ambiguous ages of a bunch of children.

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Oh so you're pivoting from "they didn't mention it and I had to think for once"

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In my first message I literally said, "Maybe I missed it"

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To ignoring that they mentioned it several times, but still bitching about being expected to notice large time jumps

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Clearly other people missed it too if they had to do a rewatch to point out all the times it was mentioned.

I thought changing the changing actresses also made it pretty clear. Along with all the dialogue and the kids of course. I'm not sure how this is a discussion point

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I thought changing the changing actresses also made it pretty clear. Along with all the dialogue and the kids of course. I'm not sure how this is a discussion point

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The discussion wasn't whether people would realize there was a time jump without specific dialogue, it was how would viewers know how long the time jump was.

But as other posters have mentioned, there was specific dialogue that I missed that clarified how much time had passed between episodes.