When he learns Rhaenyra is retreating to Dragonstone following her own more recent defeat, he bides his time and waits for her… welcoming her with a host of men and a blind, and pitifully hungry, Sunfyre. Still, he is able to raise his broken body up enough to travel in secret to Dragonstone and regroup his forces alongside his grounded and mutilated dragon, the once magnificent Sunfyre. Like his dragon, Aegon is disfigured and broken after incurring brutal war wounds. While we don’t know what the medium told the Princess of Dragonstone, the editors are right on the mark: Years and years after last night’s midnight liaisons, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, First of Her Name, will be consumed both by dragonfire and then a dragon itself when her younger half-brother, the self-styled King Aegon II, orders his mutilated mount to feast on Rhaenyra’s flesh. However, if you know what horrifying death awaits this young woman… it is a macabre promise of the wars to come. If you are passively watching this scene, or simply unaware of what occurs in Fire & Blood, the repetition of the proverbial dragonfire is just a neat editing trick to suggest the taste of excitement, laced with a touch of danger, that Rhaenyra is feeling. The scene then smash cuts to the fourth shot of an ornamental dragon “breathing” flames into the street.
In what seems like a charmingly cheap carnival act, a medium asks the young and happy Rhaenyra, “Would you wish to know your death, child?”
It is there that uncle and niece partake of wine, theater… and magic. Take the first moments of reverie Rhaenyra and Daemon have along the Street of Silk. And like those texts, dark fates can be heavily foreshadowed with a bitter sense of fate. And the way the show lingers, reveling in the ramifications of a night of passion and the entirely misogynistic palace intrigue it brews, has a touch of the great tragedies of historical fiction: Shakespeare’s plays about the Roman generals-cum-dictators, or Robert Graves’ I, Claudius. An entire hour is devoted to the rumors and whispers about Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) and her uncle Prince Daemon (Matt Smith).
#ONE NIGHT STAND GAME SPOILERS SERIES#
What made the fourth episode of House of the Dragon so significant is how it slows down, both by the standards of this new young series and Game of Thrones in general.
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