House of the Dragon Trailer Breakdown! Season 2 Details You Missed!

welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric Boss and this is a breakdown of the latest trailer for House of the Dragon season 2 this series is returning June 16th and we will be back with our in-depth analyses of every episode but this season and in this breakdown of all the details you missed in this trailer we're going to kind of sort our analysis so that first we'll just break down the trailer for General thematic elements the Aesthetics the influences and the returning characters from season 1 and where they were left off and then in a separate section later in the video the spoiler dungeon we'll talk about the events from Fire and Blood that this season will get to and once we get there we'll assume everyone in that section with us in the dungeon will have red fire and blood or knows what happens or just doesn't care so we just want to try to cater to the people who don't know what's coming in Fire and Blood so they can just kind of like look ahead to the show see what might be coming but also cater to the people who know what's coming and want to see what Clues are in this trailer that point to what they know will happen got it okay we're going to do our best with it let's get started the trailer opens with Damon and targaryan Matt Smith walking toward the iron throne in the empty throne room of the red keeping Kings Landing remember towards the end of season one Damon had left Kings Landing along with rira to set up headquarters of the team black inside the walls of dragon Stone so really without spoiling much of what happens at this point in the story Damon would not be anywhere near the red keep at this point in history at least not left alone to approach the Iron Throne by himself so I kind of feel like this shot might be a dream the reason I bring up dreams is that really this show arguably is all about dreams in visions of the future that might lead people astray remember the introduction of aegon's dream which of course became bis's dream dream and then R's dream was just one of the more interesting elements of this series when it came to adapting Fire and Blood because it's really the single secret that gives rera her certainty and something Allison and really Damon could never truly understand but we see that Damon has his own dream and maybe that dream will come true or be taken away from him in the last second in this season and internally at Team black we might actually see a conflict between these dueling dreamers who are both certain that their dream gives them the right to the iron throne and actually I may wrong but in the halls of this red keep there is this new statue that looks like it's been added and this might be his brother vieras we hear reira saying the targarian who sits on the Iron Throne is not just a king or a queen they are protector of the realm and she adds or a queen even though historically women have been passed over in favor of men for the Iron Throne she makes sure to add or a queen to let them know that she fully intends on taking this Throne as the first sitting queen of this dynasty this kind of seems like it's part of the ongoing conversation between these two characters where reneir is demanding his loyalty will Damon ever truly Embrace rira as his queen or will his own ego his own thirst and his own dreams for the future get in the way as he personally seeks the Iron Throne okay then the shot of KGAN Stark and Justus Rene's son walking up the stairs of the wall in the north you could see the great house Stark sword of ice made of Valyrian steel strapped to crean's back there we know this was where Jace was headed at the end of season 1 he was there to try to woo house Stark to the Loy loyalty of the blacks and it seems like part of this trip will go beyond Winterfell all the way to the wall but a question I have for this scene is how much of the Song of Ice and Fire Dream Vision does jeris have in this scene is this something that he might share with crean Stark we will see there's a quick shot of aeris's crown that's now sitting on Rene's head clattering on the ground that might be part of Damon's dream if that is a dream then there's another cryptic shot of three dragon eggs and a fire and if they look a lot like daenerys's eggs from Game of Thrones it's okay to feel that way cuz I kind of feel like they want us to think that now these in particular based off of where we are in history should not be daenerys's eggs but they do match the color pattern of the three eggs that she carries with her when she got them as a wedding gift from pentos and I have more thoughts on what these actually are in the spoiler dungeon okay so after seeing a bunch of characters from behind in the opening sections of this trailer the first character we see from the front is rira and she has been the character who's been talking to us but it might be a way of showing that of all the characters we met she's the one who's not afraid to face her challenges personally head on and doesn't want to send someone else to do her dirty work and the moment she does send someone else on her behalf is where things really go wrong for her this season some shots of King's Landing and then some shots of some hands outstretch that may be the poor of King's Landing because you got to remember the city is being blockaded by The valyrians Who are loyal to the blacks so the people would be starving right now we see rira in Dragon Stone it looks like it's the early hours of the day or maybe sun set we're not really sure based off of where the sun is in in the sky if it's Sunset she would be looking Westward basically from Dragon Stone she'd be looking directly toward King's Landing or toward Storm's end because I believe the season is going to pick up just 10 days after the events of season 1 when her son lucerys was killed by aon's Dragon vagar we catch up with aegon the second marching into the Great Hall all held King Egon but you'll notice in this trailer he's not exactly that smug or happy we'll get to in the spoiler dungeon what exactly happens to him to make him so unhappy there's this really interesting shot of rero holding these swords which is interesting because one thing that she doesn't do to get her hands dirty is like pick up a sword and get in a fight but I wonder if these swords might actually be the swords of the houses who have sworn fty to her and that's why she just has one sword representing each of the houses and that maybe she will melt these down to add to the Iron Throne one day if she could ever take it okay so we see aegon thei with his small counsil going clockwise around in the table we have Thailand Lannister as the current master of coin then Grand maester orwh then uto high tower as hand of the King right now and then his brother aund Targaryen as his adviser and then we have the dower Queen Allison as another adviser and then on aegon's right is Sir Kristen Cole who is currently at the moment of the scene Lord commander of the King's Guard but aegon is pissed again for reasons we won't get into here but he is holding the Valyrian steel dagger and they just love working this dagger into every scene in particular Aman's got to be sitting across from the table being like okay you know the last time mom held that dagger and what it was over an eye for an eye but I think that's also the reason why aegon is carrying it here but ironically he does not know the prophecy that that dagger represents now there's this really cool shot of red keep looking over King's Landing and if you look closely at the parapets on the corners those appear to be Scorpions so even the greens are patrolling the skies worried that dragons are going to come in at any moment there's this moment where Otto says to his daughter Allison we must play the board before us which is an ironic line obviously tying in with the board game Motif that we saw throughout the Game of Thrones series but also because Westeros map is literally behind them whereas rira and Damon and the rest of the blacks were able to benefit from aegon's Conquest map as their Central table in Dragon Stone and literally they can look at it from above giving them perhaps a strategic Advantage there's this moment where Allison begs to proceed cautiously and egon's like dignity I want revenge so we're going to get an eye for an eye and something else for something else okay there's this castle with two figures on the balcony and then two Stone Gate statues I'm wondering if it was heren Hall but I actually think it might be rook's rest we'll get to more about what happens there later we see soldiers marching toward it and then later some soldiers marching out from it now there's some really interesting trailer editing here there's a shot of a raven flapping through the trees just as Otto says news spreads through the realm and then we hear the sound of dragon screeching because we match cut from this bird to bala's Dragon moondancer so it's kind of like saying bad news can be as deadly as dragons and that news just coming too late or birds being intercepted as they're trying to deliver news can be as deadly to families as just breathing fire on each other that's really the big flaw of these two sides of the family is that they constantly miscommunicate with each other okay then we see part of a battle here with a couple different family heraldry represented here there's a banner for house stokeworth that's the lamb on a Green Field Lord stokeworth initially declared for rira there's a shield with white shields on red and black and gold diamonds this is house darkland and there's also a shield for house roseby that's the white one with the three red lines I assume this is also part of the Rooks rest battle Damon says I do not think they would be so eager to die and there's a bald Knight behind him this is Sir Lauren marbrand member of the Queen's guard he and stepan darkland end up swearing allegiance to rira that looks like that's J sarus in the foreground and in the background to the right of the Queen's guarden Knight that looks like the youngest son Joffrey you'll know by his dark hair he's a strong they in thir okay we see some of the valaran fleet that's corus's Fleet considered the best in the world now the greens are thought to be able to outmatch the blacks on the battlefield but the sea belongs to the valaran as long as this Fleet is there and we are seeing these valaran ships cutting off some supplies to Kings L and via the blockade I think that's what this ship is that they're cutting off at the supply ship then we see caraxes aka the bloodworm Demon's dragon as he's riding him taking off from Dragon Stone there's going to be a lot happening at the dragon Mon and all the dragons that live there and then we get this interesting moment where rira asks her uncle do you accept me as your ruler and queen and he does not answer now it looks like there is some writing or symbols on the banners the left of rira I'm pretty sure these are High Valyrian glyphs it's actually a pretty complicated language to translate cuz you can't just go letter by letter like you can with like ores and Star Wars they actually translate to completely different words but what's really cool about this shot is as Damon is considering whether he can truly swear allegiance to rira whatever that decorative plant is or the branches behind him kind of make him look like he is wearing a Golden Crown of his own in the shot we get an amazing shot of aegon the second's Dragon Sunfire over the city now this is supposed to be the beautiful beautiful golden dragon that is responsible for the Targaryen logo being changed from a black dragon to a golden one on their heraldry it's supposed to have beautiful golden scales but also these pink membranes between the wings but just because of the nature of House of the Dragon HBO they always like desaturate everything to try to make it look realistic but you know we're looking at a visual effect it's a dragon we know dragons don't exist make them colorful I don't have a problem with that he's flying this Dragon over King's Landing probably freaking out everyone there and notice that he is wearing aegon's conqueror crown on top of his armor helmet so he's wearing like two hats he is an idiot there's a quick shot of cares' feet landing on the stove crumbling some of them where there's a storm we saw Damon walking through some castle where he's completely rain soaked I assume it's part of the same sequence it could be part of the same dream sequence that it is that or maybe he's arriving at Heron Hall the second time setting up a later battle then another shot of Bala on Moon Dancer and she's chasing sir Christian Cole and some others on Horseback into the woods what's crazy about this is Bala and moondancer are not supposed to be participating in whatever this battle is or really any of the battles of this time period but they are like expediting in her history to insert her into some conflicts and I just think it's interesting again more to talk about in the spoiler dungeon this shot of reneer looking blur eyed and her hair is down looks like she was awoken in the night maybe caught in a moment of mourning this could be right after Lucas's death or maybe she's getting some other bad news of like some actions some people loyal to her took that she never would have approved as we hear the voice of Lara strong remember our favorite foot fetishist saying the enemy without may be fought with swords the Enemy Within is more Insidious we want to thank geology for sponsoring this video but also to thank them for making sure we look camera ready all day every day geology is a 29 time award-winning skin hair and body care company recognized in men's health Oprah Daily hyp Beast birdie Esquire and GQ geology's products use just a handful of powerful proven ingredients that have been trusted by dermatologists for decades if you don't know where to start geology can create a simple and effective skincare or hair care routine for you all you got to do is take a quick 30-second quiz geology can help you fight acne reduce oiless prevent wrinkles combat dark or puffy under eyes have smoother hydrated skin and Target signs of aging right now if you use code new rockstars 100 geology will give you 100% off their award-winning skincare trial set you'll also get an additional bonus offer of up to 30% off one skin hair or body product when you add it to your trial that's 100% off plus an additional 30% off that's a lot of off just click the link in the description or go to Geo log. e/ Rockstar 100 to get started and then this shot of aimen in the lap of someone this might be Alice Rivers who is a character being introduced in the season played by Gail Rankin there's another shot of her later as she's like covering her face with something she's a mysterious figure in the source material I'll get to her in the spoiler dungeon and if it seems like I'm saving all the best parts of the spoiler dungeon just know it is hard to talk about this show where like 60% of the audience knows what's going to happen and then there's just some of you who are like I don't want to know any but I still want to watch a YouTube video about it I'm just trying to protect you guys but like know that you'll probably enjoy the show more if you just read the book just read the book if not you're only going to get like half of these videos now there's this really cool shot with some fun trailer editing of someone stepping into water which seems like a rain puddle and the camera rotates following them down into the puddle that kind of reminds me of the shot of froto when he falls face first in the dead marshes and two towers I wonder if this might be Damon as part of that dream sequence that I was talking about before but what's really cool is it match Cuts with the crash scene surf on the Hall of the valaran ship and it's just really cool trailer editing that I really love here there's a new character Allan valaran aka Allan of Hall Master of drift Mark played by aukar Salem he's loyal to the blacks he's a member of corus Fleet on his way up the ranks another shot of moondancer and baa breathing fire on soldiers and if you look closely into that flame that looks like a scorpion device that would be used against dragons so it seems like they knew these dragons would be coming there's a quick shot of mazaria saying there is more than one way to fight a war and listen to her voice here there is more than one way to fight a war yeah it sounds like the actress's accent has changed Sonya mauno was making some big choices with her vocal work in season one but I don't think it was her fault I think they wanted her to have a Marian accent which is why it kind of sounded like an interesting French accent you announced that we were to be wet and that I was with child but here they're just making it more simple and less distracting there is more than one way to fight a war quick shot this interesting bearded character in a torch we'll talk about him more in a second as well as a quick shot of an exchange in currency and then a shot of aegon and Helena hooking up I know that's aegon because he has white hair on top of her as well and the hand around her throat has the Ring of the king we saw vieras wearing the same ring it has a Targaryen symbol so just like about that a man with a torch an exchange of money and a gun and his sister conceiving children a quick shot of Allison and Helena fleeing a mob and King's Landing so people are riding because they're starving from the valarian black Cade but notice that they seem to be wearing black veils so they are mourning someone and this quick shot of rainy sitting on the saddle on top of mes that looks like it is above the castle of Rooks rest there's another shot of another moment with aund at top his dragon vagar as fire blazes around him and the trailer ends with riro with vermithor veror is the bronze Fury the second largest dragon after vagar she says war is coming and neither of us may win this dragon is the one that Damon was singing the lullabi 2 at the end of season 1 in the dragon Mon it's currently unclaimed it was previously written by King Jaris the first now just because reneer is standing in front of him doesn't mean that she is going to be the one who rides it but I love the design of this Dragon he looks so great with these interesting gray horns or whatever those are sticking out from his chin and from his neck they kind of look like an old man's Gray beard right because he is one of the older dragons who's alive right now so just to recap the greens have the dragons of vagar who's the largest one written by aund vagar had just eaten lucerys and his Dragon arax there's Sunfire AKA The Golden that's written by his brother aegon the current King dreamfire is Helena's Dragon Tarion is their brother Darren's Dragon we have yet to meet him we believe he's in Old Town and Ryan condle the showrunner says that we will get to him at some point we just haven't seen him in any trailer footage I feel like we'll get to him in season 3 meanwhile team black has the dragon of meles written by rainy Damon of course riding bloodworm Caris reira rides her Dragon srax Baya has moondancer now and then rainer's Sons jerus rites verx and her son Joffrey has tyes okay so now we find ourselves in the Fun Zone the spoiler dungeon so first off we're having Eight Episodes this season why eight why not 10 well they did shoot this season during the riter strike and during the SAG after strike which kind of pissed off a lot of people so maybe they're like we'll just squeeze in eight of them rather than 10 but it sounds like we're going to get the blood and cheese moment early in the season maybe even episode one we're going to get a sun ver a sun in like the first or second episode because so much of what we see in the trailer is clearly set after the blood and cheese moment I think we're going to get to the Battle of Rooks rest halfway through the season maybe even episode 4 which would set up episode seven and 8 to have the battle of the gullet and then maybe even the fall of King's Landing in episode 8 so we would end the season with a big win for the blacks but at a cost okay so let's talk about blood and cheese those of you in this section should know what happens with blood and cheese it's awful that's when Damon and mazaria conspire to deploy the assassin's blood and cheese cheeses the rat catcher to sneak through the tunnels of the red keep to murder aegon and Helena's kids Allison gets bound and gagged and they make Helena choose which of her kids to kill and Helena fearfully chooses her younger son meor and she Whispers into mayor's ear saying you hear that little boy your mama wants you dead and then it's dead they behead the other kid the older one Jaris and it makes us all wonder how the hell is HBO going to shoot this you cannot show a little kid being beheaded on TV even if it's not TV it's HBO I think even the sound or even the reaction shot of Elena as the blood hits her face just might be too graphic I think what's going to happen is we're going to cut away and then see aegon be told we're going to hear screaming from outside and then Helena is just going to flash back to this moment and short bursts as we just see her screaming with no sound I feel like that's dramatic enough okay let's talk about the three eggs in the fire I think these are the three eggs that bala's sister Raina brings to the veil where she prays nightly for their hatching and in the text one of them hatches and Raina bonds with a hatchling and names it morning and that's the dragon that stays at her side for quite a long time after this but there is another shot in the trailer showing Raina on a Hillside and this might be the moment she is claiming a different Dragon instead of waiting for morning to hatch like in the the book and it looks like she's in the veil here and there is a rumor that Raina will actually claim the dragon sheep stealer which would mean that the rumors are true they might be merging her character with a Dragon Seed named Nettles and that would potentially erase the character of nettles from the show and that would suck because Nettles is awesome she's a fan favorite character from Fire and Blood she's the only POC character in the book and I know in the show they're doing some more Progressive casting but that doesn't erase how cool of a character Nettles is but that might set up these three eggs to never hatch and eventually Harden into stone and become the three eggs that Daenerys receives as a wedding gift from pentos now in the book those three eggs are meant to be the eggs of dream fire Helena's Dragon the show could take a different course I'm really not that crazy about it but let me know in the comments below how you feel about that change if that ends up being the case so to quickly talk about Alice Rivers Alice Rivers is a bastard daughter of Lord Lionel strong and a servant and wet nurse at Heron Hall she's at the castle both when Damon takes over and when the greens retake the castle and the command of amund and amen Falls for her heart and soon becomes his favorite bedmate but the murky multiple accounts of Fire and Blood paint her is an almost magical figure it's often noted how young she looks for her age hinting that she might be a witch and she might be able to see visions of the future and later she claims to be carrying aon's child and I want the show to lean into the Sauer take on history I want her to be a witch I want her to be a thousand years old I want her to be the wood witch connected to Jenny of old Stones even let's get reallying crazy here so let's talk about Rooks rest rook's rest is an Epic Air Battle where sir Christen Cole becomes hand of the king and he plans a trap for the blacks at rook's rest it forc the houses that are aligned with the blacks to submit to the greens Lords rosby and stokeworth have already submitted to aegon at this point to avoid execution but Lord ston is stubborn and he closed the gates of rook's rest but sir Kristen burned his Fields laid Siege so ston asks riro for help Jace and jof want to go with Vermax and tyes but instead reer Reise with Melly and Sir Kristen comes out with the Scorpions but she burns his forces with dragon fire enter aen a top vagar and aegon with Sunfire The Three Dragons end up fighting 1 th000 ft above rook's rest and meles and rainy don't make it out alive but aan and Sir Kristen take rook's rest and aegon gets injured and Sunfire is permanently grounded and just has to kind of live outside rook's rest and eat the livestock aegon is burnt so bad he's had a commission for a year and Prince ID takes over as king Regent now I don't know how many time jumps we're going to get on this show it sounds like they're going to try to keep up in real time but they might converge some of the timeline here so that like amen isn't King region for that long and the fall of King's Landing happen shortly after this but the craziest change is the fact that Baya and moondancer appear to be at this battle as well and they were not there in the book I think they're doing this to kind of set us up for a bit of confusion who might die like is rise and melis actually going to die or is it going to be the bigger tragedy of Bala and moondancer will both of these women die I think it's also going to set up rise to do something risky to save her granddaughter and that's going to be what gets her killed but it also could set up her sister Raina was sheep stealer as they take the best parts of nettles and give it to Raina uh hope that's not the case but you see Kristen Cole as moondancer is chasing him and he is wearing the chain of the hand of the King on top of his armor so at this point in history Otto is no longer in that role so we're going to end this breakdown with Jace and crean at the wall so Mushroom in Fire and Blood claims that Vermax laid a bunch of eggs in the Crips of Winterfell but the maesters dismissed this as false and I remember back during Game of Thrones and other creators on YouTube like Al CHF Dex who let's be honest he's the true master of A Song of Ice and Fire content on YouTube all hail the king but a lot of us were discussing that theory quite a bit and I just want it to be true on this show like what's the point of adapting Fire and Blood if you aren't going to let mushrooms Wilder takes on History be the true Cannon because that's the better story and mushroom also claimed that jeras fell in love with crean Stark's half-sister Sarah snow and secretly married her and that was part of their agreement here's my crazy hot take that I'll never end up being the case but I kind of want this show to do something to declare that the events of season 7 and 8 of game of drones were really the telling of the boring archmasters of history and that there is a better version of the story told by the descendants of mushroom or mushroom's friends Somewhere Out There Wai to be told and that someday someone may adapt that alternate ending of Game of Thrones okay comment down below with your thoughts on this trailer you can follow me at eaos subscribe to all three channels in the new rockstars Network for breakdowns and news coverage of everything you love thanks for watching and I'll see you next time bye [Music]

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Length: 22min 41sec (1361 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024