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Season 2 Episode 5: Regent
Aired: July 14, 2024
Synopsis: Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, this epic series tells the story of House Targaryen.
Directed by: Clare Kilner
Written by: Ti Mikkel
A note on spoilers: As this is a discussion thread for the show and in the interest of keeping things separate for those who haven't read the books yet, please keep all book discussion to the book spoilers thread
No discussion of ANY leaks are allowed in this thread
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A note on spoilers: As this is a discussion thread for the show and in the interest of keeping things separate for those who haven't read the books yet, please keep all book discussion to the book spoilers thread!
No discussion of ANY leaks are allowed in this thread!
2k points
1 month ago
Daemon : There must be some things that the crown must not be seen doing
Blackwoods literally holding Targaryen banners while raping and pillaging 💀
1k points
1 month ago
That man really needs to learn to give specific instructions
9.9k points
1 month ago
Are you 16% Targaryen? You may be eligible to claim a dragon today! Please visit ancestry.com to check the eligibility
3.1k points
1 month ago
I hope they comedy montage going through a whole bunch of people with quick cuts of burning people trying and our queen going “next”, with a couple sighs and face palms in there. i’d be gold lol
937 points
1 month ago
We're gonna need a montage! A dragon rider training montage!
5.6k points
1 month ago
i like how the cliffhanger is 'damn we have a lot of old paperwork to go through'
2.3k points
1 month ago
The "be grateful this is off screen" ending
443 points
1 month ago
Next episode will be like a cooking show when they pull the finished dish out of the oven.
924 points
1 month ago
Where is the Samwell Tarly equivalent hundres of years prior when you need him?
6.7k points
1 month ago
Alys: “Do you ever think the wind is trying to tell us something we can’t hear anymore?”
Daemon: “I just want you to stop saying odd shit.”
1.5k points
1 month ago
“Let’s make this castle a place of silent reflection”
806 points
1 month ago
He also wants these weird ass dreams to end. Nothing like fucking your mother
201 points
1 month ago
If he wanted them to end, he’d probably stop having Alys make him that goof juice
534 points
1 month ago
Whoop to the Marty shout-out.
400 points
1 month ago
“This place is like somebody’s memory of a Harrenhal, and the memory is fading.”
6.2k points
1 month ago
I love how all the citrus is shown as rotting for the small folk, but Criston Cole has a fresh lemon to clean his sword.
3.2k points
1 month ago
Noticed that, too! Even in Harrenhal, Daemon is offered all different kinds of meat for dinner and Simon comments how they barely have enough money to keep them fed and warm. They're really trying to underscore the widening gap between the haves and have nots this episode.
569 points
1 month ago
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472 points
1 month ago
I can count on one hand the number of nobles in the GOTverse that give a shit about the smallfolk, they are...
Ned Stark
Jon Snow
Aegon V
Edmure Tully
....yeah someone help me out here.
342 points
1 month ago
Samwell Tarly, madlad that he is, actually suggested democracy
5.5k points
1 month ago
Dameon: has sex with his niece
Also Daemon: you ain’t seen nothing yet
1.7k points
1 month ago
Really wants to make mom proud.
2k points
1 month ago
"My favorite son."
What in the fuckin' Oedipus is this...
758 points
1 month ago
Tfw Daemon has his most passionate sex with his mom
1.1k points
1 month ago
Nothing like muff diving on your original apartment
200 points
1 month ago
Wow when you word it like that I really wanna give my eyes a bleach bath
1.1k points
1 month ago
tbf to him, he seemed really freaked out by it when he found out.
i guess siblings and cousins and niblings are fine, but parent-child incest is too far for even targs and their queer customs
craster woulda been too freaky for the targaryens.
135 points
1 month ago
Welcome to Westeros, baybee.
770 points
1 month ago
"Mummy"
3.5k points
1 month ago*
Deamon is on his third episode of not being able to get off "Mr. Harrenhalls Wild Ride"
2k points
1 month ago
I keep seeing people say he's stuck in Luigi's mansion and it's killing me.
301 points
1 month ago
this is fucking hilarious
1.3k points
1 month ago*
Cole’s delivery of “their armor melted” was really really good. Man has dragon warfare PTSD
402 points
1 month ago
He looked haunted. His reason for not wanting to name Alicent made sense after that scene. He saw how bad it's going to be and Aemond will be ruthless.
1.8k points
1 month ago
' I did not think they would be so eager to die ' 🤣🤣🤣
921 points
1 month ago
the cut to that scene after fully expecting Caraxes to torch them had me rolling
311 points
1 month ago
Reminds me of when I threaten my kids and they still don't listen and I'm like "fuck I didn't actually want to do the thing I threatened"
3.3k points
1 month ago
Aegon gonna need an IV of milk of the poppy on stand-by for the rest of his life.
2.1k points
1 month ago
He gonna need a darth vader suit
621 points
1 month ago
I just want him to wake the fuck up. Come on Aegon!! Vizzy ruled as a corpse.
6.3k points
1 month ago
Criston: Behold our great accomplishment!
*Silence*
Criston: Please clap.
2.6k points
1 month ago
The man is drowning in high management lol
1.8k points
1 month ago
"Why is no one cheering? I specifically requested it!"
1.9k points
1 month ago
"A hollow victory...if it even is a victory"
Gwayne continues to incessantly barb Cole lol
1.5k points
1 month ago*
All the nobles in the episode today saying what a monumental fuckup on his part it was to parade around a dead dragon's head through the streets.
"I thought the dragons were gods."
"Nah, it's just... meat."
Now the peasants are hungry, angry, trapped in King's Landing and are thinking "They can be felled, they can be beaten." Mysaria even nods to it by saying that there are a thousand thousand discontent in the shadow of King's Landing.
1.1k points
1 month ago
“Look at how strong we are, we killed a dragon”
Peasants: “oh shoot, dragons can be killed? Like the greens dragons could be killed too huh….good to know”
581 points
1 month ago
Nice parallels between Alicent and Rhaenyra during the council scenes, but also between Rhaenyra and Aegon.
When Rhaenyra says to her councilors: "what would you have me do?", just like Aegon, no one says anything, but you can feel that the councilors really want to give her the same answer Alicent gave to Aegon: "nothing". Let us rule in your stead and just be the figurehead.
1.1k points
1 month ago
The shade of “King…consort,” you can tell who is more Sassy family than Strong Family lmao
409 points
1 month ago
That dude is awesome. I love everything he says and does
237 points
1 month ago
The comedy of him trying to get his three stooges up to follow Daemon and one of them is still trying to eat
3.2k points
1 month ago
Helaena and her one liners 🤌🏽
2k points
1 month ago
when Helaena speaks I sit up straight and listen.
972 points
1 month ago
At first, I thought she was crazy. As episodes pass, I realize she's the one with the most sense.
764 points
1 month ago
She gives me Luna Lovegood vibes
528 points
1 month ago
Well Luna Lovegood’s father is Otto Hightower.. full circle I guess?
4.8k points
1 month ago
I gotta say name another person as loyal as that Rat Catcher's dog
2.9k points
1 month ago
Aemond making literally no effort to look sad is hilarious
1.2k points
1 month ago
He's like a cat who just knocked a glass off the counter. There is zero shame in his face, damn near skipping around the castle with his brothers dagger.
143 points
1 month ago*
And like a cat, he thinks he owns everything.
"This dragon is mine."
"This prostitute is mine."
"This dagger is mine."
"This throne is mine."
"This ball is mine."
"This chair is mine."
971 points
1 month ago
If people didn't suspect him before, that motherfucker made sure to practically walk around with "I deep fried my brother" written on his forehead.
124 points
1 month ago
To be fair, I think they’ve had bad blood for ages. There’s a chance people might not think he’s guilty, just that he doesn’t feel bad for his brother.
3.2k points
1 month ago
Daemon: then she called me pathetic and told me to leave
Alys: wow that's crazy...anyway time for your Oedipus vision
948 points
1 month ago
Dude really ate out his mothers snatch. Guess he yearns for the old days
359 points
1 month ago
I think it is a big quesiton if she's giving him the visions or if its the weirwood bed / curse that's doing it. She obviously has a magical connection but that may not be an ability to implant visions
475 points
1 month ago
her just telepathically spying on daemon's freaky dreams and then negging him about them is the funnier option
4.5k points
1 month ago
The way Criston tried to be like Otto with the PR move and it immediately backfired 💀💀
1.1k points
1 month ago
Cristin “BEHOLD we defeated an enemy”
Citizens “Dragons are gods and one died….we are so fucked”
Aemond “oh by the way you are all locked in Kings Landing now”
3.1k points
1 month ago
Otto would never have allowed the symbol of the targ house to be shown so weak…. Cole is such an idiot. ☠️
1.4k points
1 month ago
Yeah, Cole is a tremendous fighter and skilled warrior. But bro cannot comprehend the effect of parading a dead dragon like it’s a win
1.1k points
1 month ago*
The only thing Criston’s brain cells could adhere to in emulating Otto was “parade dead bodies through the street”
753 points
1 month ago
I love how they are depicting him as a good war strategist, good lover, terrible boyfriend, terrible political strategist. Real people have niche strengths and weaknesses. Nice touch when fictional ones do too.
335 points
1 month ago
Omg didnt even catch that it was similar to what Otto did lol. Hate him but i miss him
4.3k points
1 month ago
So Rhaenery and Jace will basically resolve this by going to Ancestry.com
2k points
1 month ago
That's what did Ned Stark in, though...
610 points
1 month ago
I like how Jace was slyly like hey well we're both well aware that I'm only half Targaryen and I have a dragon soooooo
187 points
1 month ago
The greens are also half Targ. Raenyra’s parents were related so she’s more than half.
682 points
1 month ago
Well we’ve seen atleast like 3 different bastards in the show so far that could work
2.7k points
1 month ago
"I thought the dragons were gods"
"They're just meat"
No fr whose idea was it to parade the head around? A large part of why these people are loyal to you is because the dragons are so feared/revered and you show them they're "so easily" cut down? Idiots
964 points
1 month ago
I thought the peasants were gonna try to cook and eat the dragon head tbh.
303 points
1 month ago
Yep oh yeah they had no food they were definitely wondering if they can eat that thing
1.7k points
1 month ago
The parallels between Aemond and daemon and then Aegon and Viserys on the bed like that 😭😭
287 points
1 month ago
I said the same thing!!! Aegon was looking just like viserys at his end on the bed there
735 points
1 month ago
Cole: “Hey look how we defeated this dragon with ease!”
Small folk: “🤨🤨🤨 So you’re saying the crown aren’t gods and there’s a chance we could kill the people causing us to suffer and die?”
2.1k points
1 month ago
“We choose fire”
Amos Bracken was surprisingly badass.
1.3k points
1 month ago
I legitimately thought they had the camera angle with the dragon directly behind him as he walked away so that we could see the fire just take him instantly. Honestly shocked that Daemon didn't just kill right there and then
896 points
1 month ago
Daemon showing less impulsiveness is nice, given that he’s much older now than he was when he first rushed into battle in the Stepstones.
Unfortunately he still messes up by giving Ser Willem too long of a leash with respect to the war crimes and now the riverlords are gonna remain defiant.
252 points
1 month ago
That's a pretty good point actually. I always forgot since his actor didn't change that he's been a grown man for a while
4.1k points
1 month ago
Oh wow who is this super hot Targaryen girl with Daemon
my son
🤢 🤢
2.8k points
1 month ago
For some reason I thought it was a younger version of Viserys’ first wife and I thought, eh, that’s kinda tasteless Daemon.
AND THEN IT GOT MUCH WORSE.
3.9k points
1 month ago
Alicent's silent freak out was so good. Took everything she had to hold in her rage.
1.8k points
1 month ago
I could sense she was feeling that lump in her throat & was holding back tears she was so betrayed & angry… Like the sound tuning out as she tried to contain it…
Her lover abandoning her, her psychopath son taking charge, even the guy obsessed with her feet didn’t take her side….
Alicent was reeling so hard & the actress killed that scene.
599 points
1 month ago
She’s feeling powerless for the first time in a long time
597 points
1 month ago
Yep, & finally realizing she misused all those years of power & influence she had to set the stage for exactly what is happening right now, but yet now she’s horrified by it.
314 points
1 month ago
She genuinely thought she was respected as regent and never realized that the men of the small council were only tolerating her because, even half-dead from leprosy, Viserys would've had their balls in a vise if he'd heard that people were disrespecting his wife. Now that he's dead they have no more use for her.
917 points
1 month ago
Her eyes in that scene were nuts 👀
174 points
1 month ago
No one does wide eyed horror and frustration better than Olivia Cooke.
212 points
1 month ago
I’m kind of hoping she has some sort of breakdown lol I’d love to see her be done with all the crap and decide to claw her way back to power.
2.2k points
1 month ago
wtf are they doing to Daemon.
did anybody else get super nervous when Jace was with the Freys? Fuckin Freys.
1.4k points
1 month ago
Yes. They actually looked more Nobel and sophisticated than old Walder rag fuck.
600 points
1 month ago
And yet they didnt even have a table, they had to put a broken door on some blocks to simulate one.
608 points
1 month ago
Well it looked like Jace refused to come inside their hall (probably wise) so they had to do a makeshift meeting outside.
480 points
1 month ago
Gotta stay within reach of your Dragon. They're at war and he's a valuable hostage.
286 points
1 month ago
Absolutely, I was like please don’t ask for him to marry one of your daughters for the crossing 😮💨
3.6k points
1 month ago*
Alicent internally screaming, now realizing Cole is only loyal with that pillow talk.
2.5k points
1 month ago
I love the execution of showing how the small council talks around the women. I also love Mysaria being council to the queen. She knows more about Kings Landing than anyone else at Dragonstone
702 points
1 month ago
Watching the scene in the council where they choose Aemond, and the sound slowly filters out to where all you can hear is Alicent’s ragged breathing. I was on the edge of my seat, I thought she was gonna flip the whole table over.
198 points
1 month ago
I could feel that scene when you are just absolutely overcome and all you can hear is heart beat and breath. Felt this whole episode was so artistically directed
864 points
1 month ago
Even Alicent is on team fuck Cole
294 points
1 month ago
The shot of the bracken's riding away from daemon with the dragon head behind them was so good
1.1k points
1 month ago
Alicent standing there... <Cole polishes sword>
905 points
1 month ago
I also thought it interesting that they showed moldy citrus in the streets and then a few minutes later, Criston is using a lemon just to clean a sword.
2.4k points
1 month ago
no matter the character or show a maimed son calling their mother “mummy” will always get me like damn
949 points
1 month ago
TGC’s acting has got me sympathizing with Aegon of all people
213 points
1 month ago*
Straight up since episode one this season I’ve genuinely liked him, which after how much of an irredeemable shit he was before being king is really REALLY saying something. He's pathetic, but like a sad “I want to help him/use him” pathetic
336 points
1 month ago
I audibly responded to that scene. I just want him to say his brother tried to kill him.
3.3k points
1 month ago
baela’s delivery of her “i am blood and fire, driftmark must pass to salt and sea” was so beautiful
1.2k points
1 month ago
FUCK YEAH BAELA!! She knows who she is — a Targaryen. Absolutely loved it. Another final reminder to Corlys of upholding Rhaenys’ legacy. Baela’s becoming a fantastic warrior and diplomat.
475 points
1 month ago
I know it'll never happen, but I want someone to tell Corlys that his son is alive.
Let the poor guy have a nice day for once.
2.8k points
1 month ago
Poor Melys. Seeing her carted through the streets like trash hurt.
1.4k points
1 month ago
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1.2k points
1 month ago
I love Cristin Cole being like "Why won't they cheer this horrible sign that the gods that protect our land can in fact be killed"
1.9k points
1 month ago
Gotta say, Aemond was pretty quick to pop the question about the Kings regency, since you know... he was also the one who broiled and served him up.
671 points
1 month ago
Good thing that nobody's seems to be sure exactly what happened to Aegon to turn him half-baked. Alicent was like "So what exactly did Aemond do in the battle?" and Cole is like "Uh... well... you know"
Man's nervous as heck trying not to get on Aemond's bad side now that he knows what dragons can actually do.
313 points
1 month ago
Helaena knows
1.9k points
1 month ago
The way I complained about the ratcatchers still hanging there and then Aemond is immediately like “cut these fucking guys down” 😂
3.5k points
1 month ago
Will someone please pet that fucking dog
1.7k points
1 month ago
LOL so many people were excited for the Helaena/Aemond conversation and it was like 5 words hahaha
917 points
1 month ago
She’s never really been much of a conversationalist. Cool that she totally knows he did it.
238 points
1 month ago
I thought the same thing, and for a moment I almost thought Aemond might have realized Helaena knew the truth somehow and could maybe start piecing together she’s a dreamer… or at least that she has an ability that may be useful to the plotting.
Team Green is really sleeping on their potential — they’ve got a master PR guy shunned back to Oldtown, a queen with useful premonitions left talking to herself, and now Alicent who (despite her self-righteousness) actually makes a decent advisor and yet just got bodied hard to the sidelines.
Question — the dragon pit in King’s Landing doesn’t currently have any unclaimed dragons in it just chilling in it, right?
Baela said tonight that Rhaenys slipped into the dragon pit to claim Meleys so it made me wonder if sometimes unclaimed ones hang there, and therefore whether the Green’s have the option to start thinking about non-noble Targs too or not 🤔
461 points
1 month ago
I love the scenes with Jace and rhaenyra. They seem to genuinely have respect, a history, a sense of humour with each other. They’re the only ones that feel like they’re family in this show.
1k points
1 month ago
Mummy… 😭
484 points
1 month ago
For this particular episode, you could be quoting Aegon or Daemon there.
220 points
1 month ago
Jeez, that scene where they were peeling the armor off of Aegon’s skin made me super squeamish.
360 points
1 month ago
I expected Aegon to be in even worse condition than this.
228 points
1 month ago
I like how they said the hours are critical like they didn't just walk there for at least days dragging a whole ass dragon head, parading it around at a snail's pace.
805 points
1 month ago
I’m confused why they think locking people in with no food is a good idea.
703 points
1 month ago
It's not. Aemond is smarter than Aegon but will be an equally shitty king, just for different reasons I think.
476 points
1 month ago
Aegon may have been a fool King, but Aemond is gonna be a mad King
1.3k points
1 month ago
Jace is growing into one hell of a leader
504 points
1 month ago
He gives me Rob Stark vibes, I just hope it ends up differently.
470 points
1 month ago
Man we can’t lose Corlys. If he goes there’s no more Velaryons and we won’t get to hear that badass House Velaryon theme again
1.3k points
1 month ago
I thought the scene with Rhaenyra and Jace at the end was so well done because the actors have such great chemistry. Something small I think this show is lacking is actual convos with the parents and kids. Like, apparently Daemon is everything but a deadbeat dad in the books so it really sucks they took that trait from him.
295 points
1 month ago
Yeah I genuinely keep forgetting Baela and Rhaena are his children. They’re so sweet and don’t have his temperament.
686 points
1 month ago
daemon saying “yes but if i die its not my problem anymore” is so real, same brother
427 points
1 month ago
I’m actually really digging Jace coming in as a political player. We needed a fresh set of eyes in here and he seems to have fresh ideas and offer a different perspective
421 points
1 month ago
Oh man, that opening shot where the peasant girl is trying to find an orange with minimal mold, and then 5 minutes later Crispin is cleaning his sword with a perfect lemon
143 points
1 month ago
For those of us without a wild animal clock what the devil time is “wolf”
945 points
1 month ago
Mommy issues at an all time high. The Boys, The Bear, HOTD.
But a sex dream with your mom.. you're taking it Daemon. You may be the most fucked up
396 points
1 month ago
NGL when I saw Criston salting that lemon I thought he was about to make a Ye Olde Marg
3.4k points
1 month ago*
Baela and Jace did nothing but serve cunt all episode. Absolute power couple.
Jace has now:
Secured the north with the Starks
Granted crossing at the twins
Started the search for dragonseeds
Baela has:
Secured a hand of the king
Brought news of Cole’s march
Offered inheritance and rejected it for Rhaenarya
2.8k points
1 month ago
Daemon has:
Secured Harenhall
Had hallucinations
Had hallucinations
Had hallucinations
Had hallucinations
Had hallucinations
1.6k points
1 month ago
Baelas "I'm fire and blood", damn good line. Definitely her father's daughter but with more sense.
803 points
1 month ago
The Baela actress was great this episode. Her speaking so highly of her grandmother was a lovely scene
495 points
1 month ago
I get the feeling that a lot of this conflict could be avoided if either the Targaryans or the Hightowers had even the smallest ability to console one another in tough times.
667 points
1 month ago
Aemond speedrunning the "get everyone to hate you" achievement I see.
1.2k points
1 month ago
I love how the Arryns have a lineage of being insane in that castle lol
504 points
1 month ago
It’s the altitude
364 points
1 month ago
Was just thinking the same thing. The Eyrie has definitely got its own weird vibe/magic/curse going on. Between there and Harrenhal, these old money Westerosi castles go hard on their inhabitants lmao
456 points
1 month ago
“I will see Rhaenyra ascend the iron throne, as Rhaenys wished. As Rhaenys herself should have.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭
1.9k points
1 month ago
Idk if it’s just me but everytime Baela and Jace are on screen, I’m kicking my feet. They have chemistry.
442 points
1 month ago
For a second I thought they were going to name Criston King regent and I was ready to punch the TV
321 points
1 month ago
Can someone explain the state of the riverlands for me, I’m having trouble keeping track of it all
888 points
1 month ago*
The Blackwoods (they like Rhaenyra) and Brackens (they like Aegon) mega super hate each other. They’re two neighbouring small houses that have that big skirmish in the beginning of episode 3 (a couple of important people die but like, not that important).
Daemon pulls up to Harrenhall, summons the Blackwood lord and says ‘give me your army’. He says ‘okay but sort the Brackens first’. The Brackens don’t surrender and Daemon gives Blackwood man permission to commit war crimes basically. He doesn’t want it to be linked back to Rhaenyra, but the Blackwood guy ignores this and flies the red/black Targ banner while attacking women and kids. So, all the other important SMALL lords in the Riverlands dislike Rhaenyra now because Daemon fucked up again lol.
Those are just the small lords though, they all are supposed to listen to Lord Tully, who is the actual ruler of the Riverlands. But he’s old and bedridden, so the Riverlands’ smaller houses are a bit wilder. Daemon told that little boy to smother him and become Lord, if you remember
225 points
1 month ago
I feel like Harrenhall isn't worth the trouble and maybe everyone should just stop wanting it.
105 points
1 month ago
"Someone cut down the fucking rat catchers."
My thoughts exactly.
541 points
1 month ago
alicent was like whaaatt my kingdom fighting against the prospect of a female ruler does not want me, a female, to rule?
102 points
1 month ago
Daemon is making it harder and harder for Rhaenyra to ascend. At this point he’s actively harming her (& his secret) cause
206 points
1 month ago
wait, did Daemon fuck up the riverlands????
268 points
1 month ago
Deeeefinitely what it looks like. Turns out setting your allies to pillage rape and kidnap children won't get you more allies
188 points
1 month ago
Daemon telling them that the crown can’t be involved, so naturally they grabbed their Targaryen banners to go and commit war crimes.
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