S1E2

The Rogue Prince

House of the Dragon · 2022-08-28 · 54 min

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from 30 comments

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what happens

Princess Rhaenyra dives deep into the prophecies about House Targaryen while confronting a realm that resists the idea of a woman on the Iron Throne, and Prince Daemon, embittered over being passed over as the heir to Westeros, prepares to go to war.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 30 comments — 4 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 4 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“Seeing Daemon juggle the egg and say “welcome to Dragonstone, Otto” made me laugh”
▲ 2,103about 30–40% inread it ↗
“the slower pace”
jsun31▲ 2,038about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Glad they used the same iconic theme too for the opening credits”
Koppite93▲ 1,179about 0–15% inread it ↗
“the slow burn of characters and tensions developing”
ProudFunction▲ 926about 0–100% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Greg Yaitanes
written: Ryan J. Condal

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Graham McTavish as Ser Harrold Westerling
David Horovitch as Grand Maester Mellos
Bill Paterson as Lord Lyman Beesbury
Gavin Spokes as Lord Lyonel Strong
Andrew Bicknell as Dragonkeeper
Nova Foueillis-Mosé as Child Laena Velaryon
Anthony Flanagan as Ser Steffon Darklyn

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