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S1E5
We Light the Way
House of the Dragon · 2022-09-18 · 60 min
FLICKFEEL
74
from 25 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Daemon visits his wife in the Vale. Viserys and Rhaenyra broker agreements with the Valeryons. Alicent seeks the truth about the princess.
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
80
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
20
how much it moved you
Read from 25 comments — 7 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 7 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
“What a depressing final shot”
FPG_Matthew▲ 5,901about 90–100% inread it ↗
“Daemon and Rhaenyra dirty talking in the middle of the wedding was unbelievably tense”
thequeensucorgi▲ 4,913about 50–75% inread it ↗
“Her entrance wearing the dress could not possibly have done better, probably my favourite scene of the show.”
AfricanRain▲ 1,911about 33–66% inread it ↗
“Just a heartbreaking episode all around, duty before love is such a huge sacrifice.”
jsun31▲ 1,819about 75–100% in
who made it
- directed
- Clare Kilner
- written
- Charmaine DeGraté
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Matthew Needham as Lord Larys 'Clubfoot' Strong
Graham McTavish as Ser Harrold Westerling
David Horovitch as Grand Maester Mellos
Bill Paterson as Lord Lyman Beesbury
Gavin Spokes as Lord Lyonel Strong
Steffan Rhodri as Lord Hobert Hightower
Gary Raymond as High Septon