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House of the Dragon Recap: An Army of Bastards


Did the bastard massacre in the dragon pit remind anyone else of Jurassic Park?

This week’s free dragon giveaway will surely be season two’s apotheosis, an exhilarating pastiche of Jurassic Park and that scene in Congo where the bad gorillas jump into liquid hot magma. Mysaria employs the handmaiden Elinda to spread the word around an increasingly restless King’s Landing that the Queen is looking for Targaryen bastards, and Corlys sends a fleet of fishing boats to bring them all back to Dragonstone. Ulf’s joined at Rhaenyra’s talent search by blacksmith Hugh, whose business accounts with the Red Keep remain unfulfilled and whose ailing daughter was unceremoniously killed off in a throwaway line this week.

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