![]() ![]() (Finally!) But word has now reached Driftmark that Corlys is suffering a fever from a nasty battle wound, and is headed home to receive care. ![]() His father, the Sea Snake Corlys Velaryon, has dealt with his grief by taking to the sea and successfully conquering the Stepstones. ![]() It's been six years since Laenor Velaryon faked his death and sailed away to Fantasy P-Town. Open on: The Driftwood Throne, on the island of Driftmark, seat of House Velaryon. Baela (Bethany Antonia) and Rhaenys (Eve Best) know it. HBO The Driftwood Throne doesn't get termites, it gets barnacles. That's why this episode depicts one last doomed, smiling-though-gritted-teeth attempt to smooth things over - or at least, to be publicly seen as trying to do so. That's when you uncork the evening's ninth bottle of wine - and the year's worth of bottled-up resentments with which it pairs no nicely. You grin, you bear it, you wait until Gramma and Grampa excuse themselves to bed. A family.Īnd "family ," as everyone knows, means: "Guys can we please pretend that we can stand each other long enough to get through one lousy meal?"Īsk anyone who's spent an interminable Thanksgiving dinner pretending not to hear the stream of racist invective burbling out of drunk Uncle Darryl, grinning too fiercely at Aunt Sherri as she sanctimoniously interrogates any life choice that does not match the precise ones she has made, and ignoring cousin Steve-O's earnest entreaties to fund his bold multilevel initiative to market a line of bodybuilding supplements that the FDA is "too soyboy cuck" to make legal in the United States and its territories. But House of the Dragon is about a single clan. You'd be forgiven for assuming that last week's climactic confrontation between Alicent and Rhaenyra was the last straw, the triggering point, the singular event from which there was no coming back, the moment that finally touched off the ruinous dragon-on-dragon war that's been so long in coming.Īfter all, accusations were made! Knives (well, a dagger, anyway) came out! Blood was drawn! Both sides returned to their respective corners to nurse their wounds and their grudges until they festered and suppurated.īack on Game of Thrones, a show about disparate, scattered clans battling for supremacy, that might be the case. ![]()
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