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House of the Dragon Recap: Brothers In Arms


Have you seen anyone fail upward as spectacularly as Ser Criston Cole?

Don’t simply tell people that the Black Queen is a baby killer; shower them with the tears of Alicent and Helaena, who are to be pulled in a wagon behind the young scion against both their wishes. We can’t know for certain whether Blood and Cheese acted with his explicit approval in killing Jaehaerys or only a wink and a nudge, but Daemon doesn’t apologize to his wife and queen for damaging her reputation or threatening her ability to win new allies. But given the tenuous state of her royal claim, I can’t help feeling Rhaenyra’s spending too much time smoothing things over with her estranged husband’s ex-lover, though, of course, she quickly comes to benefit from her own mercy.

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