House of the Dragon: HBO teases thrilling season finale
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House of the Dragon has been brought to a momentous close with the Dance of the Dragons now getting underway. After the penultimate shed the spotlight on the Greens, the last episode was very much centred on the Blacks and their response to the coup in King’s Landing. The Black Queen kicked off with Rhaenys Velaryon (played by Eve Best) showing up at Dragonstone to warn Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) of her father’s death and plot to steal her throne.
WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from House of the Dragon episode 10
How did House of the Dragon episode 10 end?
Why did Vhagar kill Arrax?
Perhaps the biggest talking point was why Prince Aemond Targaryen’s (Ewan Mitchell) dragon Vhagar murdered Lucerys Velaryon (Elliot Grihault) and his dragon Arrax with it.
Aemond was taunting Luke as the young prince returned from Storm’s End to Dragonstone after publicly demanding an eye for an eye.
Luke was chased through the skies as he rode Arrax back to Dragonstone with Aemond and Vhagar in hot pursuit.
However, both the dragonriders lost control over their creatures who began to lash out and ignore their respective masters’ instructions.
Arrax breathed fire onto Vhagar in retaliation as Luke tried to rein in his dragon and was heard begging the creature to listen to him.
This enraged Vhagar – who is a much larger dragon – and sought out Arrax and Luke and killed them both in one fell swoop.
Aemond was struggling to stop Vhagar as she made her killer move and was left reeling in shock as he watched the smaller dragon and prince torn asunder, the realisation dawning upon him he’d just started a war.
Speaking about the chase scene, House of the Dragon Ryan Condal said: “It’s really a bullying sequence, a torture sequence, a chase sequence, where Luke is trying to escape. No real hope of Arrax fighting Vhagar and anything good happening at the end of that.
“But Luke relies on the speed of his dragon and maneuverability to try to escape, and just when it seems like he has, Vhagar is there waiting for him.”
Condal went on to say about Aemond’s reaction: “I think what you’re seeing in that moment there, is the last vestiges of the little boy that’s left in Aemond. And maybe he was trying to scare Luke, but I don’t think, ultimately, he intended to kill him.
“But now he’s done it, and he has to decide whether or not he’s going to own it in his travel back to King’s Landing.
“Because obviously if the usurping of the throne and them crowning Aegon in the Dragonpit wasn’t the start of the war, certainly killing one of the Queen’s sons is.”
Actor Mitchell said Aemond’s actions “ultimately starts the domino effect”, while D’Arcy said the loss of Luke “completely changes” Rhaenyra’s outlook on the world going forward.
Why did Prince Daemon try to strangle Rhaenyra?
There was a strange moment between Prince Daemon (Matt Smith) and his wife Rhaenyra when she tried to talk to him about Aegon’s Dream of Ice and Fire.
However, Daemon grabbed her by the throat and said his brother Viserys (Paddy Considine) had many fanciful ideas which he refused to do creedance to.
Daemon seemed to assault Rhaenyra because he was enraged she could be talking about the war between the dark and the light at such a key moment with a very real war looming over the Iron Throne.
He told her: “Dreams didn’t make us kings. Dragons did.” However, this was also the moment Rhaenyra realised Daemon wasn’t told about the Dream of Ice and Fire by Viserys.
Daemon’s actions could have been fury as well as jealousy at being snubbed by his brother and not being made the heir to the Throne.
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