An analysis of what’s coming in season 3.
Warning: This article contains spoilers from theHouse of the Dragonseason 2 finale.
Season 2 was… similar.
Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) addresses her court of dragonriders on ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Ollie Upton/HBO
Note: The following analysis will only acknowledge the book,George R.R.
Martin’sFire & Blood, to give added context to scenes in the season 2 finale.
All other book spoilers will be left out.
Steve Toussaint’s Lord Corlys Velaryon on ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Ollie Upton/HBO
Still, the Blacks definitely have the advantage.
So the Greens need a new strategy fast and they have one.
This is assumingHouse of the Dragonmaintains the timeline ofFire & Blood, but all signs point to that happening.
Lady Rhaena Targaryen (Phoebe Campbell) on ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.HBO
Ser Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Hall) travels to Essos to secure a pact with the Triarchy’s forces.
They need the Triarchy to do so.
She eventually sees a dragon soaring in the sky and tracks it down to its resting place.
Emma D’Arcy’s Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen on ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.MAX
The show seems to suggest that she will have better luck this time.
Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) quietly flees King’s Landing undercover with the now-maimed Aegon.
The Gods Eye is the famous lake located in the Riverlands.
Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) approaches Queen Helaena (Phia Saban) on ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Ollie Upton/HBO
Aemond and Daemon’s arcs have long run parallel to each other.
“They’re both the second son,” Mitchell previously explained toEntertainment Weekly.
“They’re both princes who stand to inherit nothing.
Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower on ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Ollie Upton/HBO
The question is, when will this inevitable collision happen?
(Again, no book spoilers.)
And thirdly, amid Helaena’s prophetic declarations to Aemond, she says something about her other brother.
Daeron rides Tessarion in the ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2 finale.MAX
Aegon, she says, will be king again, but that he sits a wooden throne.
Given how irreparably injured he is, a wooden wheelchair seems like a good bet.
Helaena was involved in that prophesy, as well.
So which one is right?
All we’ll say is, Helaena always seems to be spot on with her visions.
These apparently conflicting predictions don’t feel like an error.
What’s going on with Otto?
Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) is not having a great year.
(More on that in a bit.)
He looks up, disoriented.
Someone holding a candle light approaches his cell off screen.
Aside from Aegon, Aemond, and Helaena, there’s alsoDaeron Targaryen.
He’s mentioned for the first time directly in episode 2, “Rhaenyra the Cruel.”
