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    Why That <em>House of the Dragon </em>Death Matters

    Season 2 delivered the kind of spectacular episode that viewers have been waiting for.
    by Shirley Li Jul 07, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: HBO

    This story includes spoilers through Season 2, Episode 4, of HBO’s House of the Dragon.

    If only Princess Rhaenys had unleashed her dragon, Meleys, in the Season 1 finale of House of the Dragon. Back then, the Targaryen royal (played with a quiet gravitas by Eve Best) had the perfect opportunity to end a war before it began. But she left the throne’s usurpers unharmed, later explaining that such a conflict was not hers to start.

    As it turns out, it was hers to lose. In tonight’s episode of HBO’s prequel to , Rhaenys finally attacked on behalf of known as the Dance of the Dragons, it’s the kind of visual-effects-laden spectacle that many of the show’s fans have been waiting for, and it ended with Rhaenys deliberately commanding Meleys to reenter the fray despite their evident exhaustion. When Vhagar overpowers them, both dragon and rider plummet from the sky, Meleys crushing Rhaenys when they fall.

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