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House of the Dragon Deployed Its Strongest Weapon
Sorry, Vhagar, the queens are talking.
The climax of season two’s final hour is, instead, a nearly ten-minute conversation between Alicent and Rhaenyra, two women often rendered powerless within a patriarchal system that leaves little room for diplomacy but who are actually the two people with the greatest capacity to stop an allegedly inevitable war. Season one invested a lot of time in building the connection between these two characters, both as childhood confidants (then played by Milly Alcock and Emily Carey) and as adults, now Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, who become stepdaughter and stepmother and must negotiate all the shifting loyalties that come with that role change. That conflict between predestined commitment and free will lies at the heart of House of the Dragon, a show in which people continue walking down dangerous paths and, unlike Alicent, can’t fathom an exit strategy because of prophecies and traditions that dictate their actions.
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