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House of the Dragon Scorecard: Ride or Die
You can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs, and you can’t fight a dragon war without charring a few commoners.
Six feels like entirely too many points to give Alicent in an episode where all she does is mutter about how nothing matters and everything is terrible and then run off into the woods to ride a horse and float in a lake while staring up at a bird gliding through the sky with a freedom she dreams of but will never attain. Could you, if you wanted to, make an argument that having Hugh spend six episodes kind of bumbling around town on the hunt for food for his angry wife and sick child and then suddenly slipping in “btw I’m a secret Targaryen and bastard cousin of the last king and now I’m gonna go try to ride a dragon a little bit” is a little rushed and awkward from a storytelling perspective? Watching this little man summon up all the courage in his tiny body and push Daemon around like a toy wheelbarrow would have been my favorite part of almost any episode of this show that didn’t also feature Hugh claiming a dragon known as Bronze Fury.
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