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All Rhaenyra and Daemon had to do was throw Ulf one pizza party in the Red Keep with his drinking buddies and this all could have been prevented.

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HBO's House of the Dragon (2022, United States) Season Two, Episode Two Season Three, Episode Eight

Phia Saban as Queen Helaena Targaryen

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Roddy Dustin, Gwayne Hightower, Corlys Velaryon and Daemon Targaryen all being in the same scene was a true masterpiece of humor

Bonus points to Aegon for haunting his brother in the funniest way. His spiritual walk in the woods really brought him growth

By far a comedy finale

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Oscar Tully I am fond of you, you blood hungry child.

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Smallfolk listening Rhaenyra after she killed the fucking High Speton in holy land and declared herself God, that will save them of a threat they have never heard before so they must suffer under her and she started screaming in ancient language nobody knows

gothicdecays

I think the show did Rhaenyra right. Helaena clocked her so well, because Helaena zeroed in on a core truth about Rhaenyra— she pretended to give a fuck about the bugs, the same way she pretended to give a fuck about the people. Because she wants to be SEEN as just and peaceful. Optics matter(ed) the most to her; mind you not in a politically advantageous capacity, like Otto. But in the capacity that serves her own self mythology. More than any real ethical concern for the people around her, the only true philosophy Rhaenyra has consistently espoused is her divine right, and the entitlement she has to that right. Most of her incompetence, beyond where she is cajoled by people who have ther own agendas, is born beyond her nose; she really cannot see reality beyond herself. Reality bends to her, because she is Chosen.

truly she is her father’s daughter.

Unfortunately for her (and for the fantasy pope), her brother having a grander mythology is the true immersion breaking experience, and then well who gives a fuck about optics, time to start a holy war, dump the communist girlfriend, and embrace the Valyrian supremacist uncle-husband.

Baela ALSO clocked her. I enjoyed that talk. We really need more of Baela.

imaginarianisms

btw im never forgiving hbo for robbing helaena of her agency, the fact that she never asked but Demanded the identities of b&c because she's a QUEEN (it was a crown that she never wanted tbc, but she knows Who she is) & her most heroic moment & that was the fact that she quite literally offered her own life for her own children, her most heroic moment & arguably the most heroic moment in the entire dance of the dragons.

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“my boy, please…”

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Helaena, reading Rhaenyra to FILTH

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 Episode 8 — "The Treasons at Tumbleton"

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HELAENA TARGARYEN + foreshadowing her death

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If your world is to survive, I must light the way. Because I am the Shield of the People. I am Rhaenyra the Chosen. I am the Prince That Was Promised.

Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E08 | "The Treasons at Tumbleton"