Imagine blood and cheese walk out of there without getting caught and they interrogate the dog

you clever

You’re cooking

Only other thing I can think of is Alicent takes the blame to protect Haleana

A legend tbh

This is a good way of looking at it

But have book and series lore always been connected? I thought they were separate and there’s been multiple changes

So for the original Song of Ice and Fire it is written like a regular novel. From characters points of views.

But House of the Dragon is based off of "Fire and Blood" and Fire and Blood is written like a history book from the perspective of the Maesters. So things might not happen 100% the same in the show is it does in Fire and Blood because Maesters aren't all knowing and Maesters might also have their own motives.

Yeah I I was like wasn't this his whole thing

Does the b****** child come into play again? Maybe he’ll end up the second son in the book that the show hasn’t mentioned yet

I forgot that they took a whole kid out of the show, that is a weird change.

It's very possible the show is just changing s*** for the hell of it lol

If only she was team black

Ryan Condal on the Blood & Cheese changes

ew.com/blood-cheese-house-of-the-dragon-season-2-book-changes-explained-exclusive-8663564

There are a few factors as to why the series doesn't strictly adapt the scene this way. For one, the show is on a slightly differently timeline than the book, which means Maelor hasn't been born yet and the other two are even younger than Fire and Blood depicts. "Maelor does not yet exist on this timeline because 30 years is compressed into 20 years," Condal says.

The other challenges stemmed from the logistics of utilizing child actors. "We knew that we would be challenged to get performances out of children that young — as a person who has kids around these ages, I'm intimately familiar with all of that," Condal says. "Then there are things that you can and cannot expose children to on a movie set. If you were to try to perform a faithful rendering of that story, you'd be challenged from all angles in terms of getting a performance out of a child. A lot of times it seems like the kid is going through that, but you're using clever cutaways and insert shots."

When Blood covers Jaehaerys' mouth in the episode, for example, it's actually the kid's father wearing the glove, not Wilson. The death itself then happens off camera; blood splatter and sawing sound effects accompany Helaena as she flees the room with her daughter. "We stood around a cot with a doll," Stobbart says. "Watching it is far more shocking than you could ever imagine, but in the grand scheme of filming it, it was like any other job."

“I want Aemond Targaryen.”

He’s killing it as Aegon. Can’t believe critics were saying that the show doesn’t have many standout characters

I also like how nuanced Aegon is as a character

We know he has for sure done f***ed up s*** to women, but we also see in the season 2 premiere that he is genuinely trying to be a good hearted ruler. Even if he is a f***in idiot most of the time

genuine question could they have worked around the child actor stuff by using doubles? or cutting it in a certain way? these are reasonable reasons but I'm sure there are other ways to do this lol

now that yall said it, i dont think theyll be able to show or describe them raping a 6 yo girl in TV...thats way too extreme

Already watched this episode twice, but might even run it back again

I’m just obsessed with the feeling of being back in Westeros

Need Larys to relax on his freakboul tendencies for this season

If she like brothas

I feel like these statistics aren’t nearly as troubling as it seems at first

Every year more people are ending their cable subscriptions and just doing streaming instead. So a drop in HBO viewership seems unsurprising, especially because Max had it’s biggest streaming day ever

He’s nice to commoners cause they’re the only ones that show him love and adoration. I don’t think he truly cares about any of them.

But yeah it’s nice he’s not just a psycho Joffrey rehash.