HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Episode 7 BREAKDOWN! Game of Thrones Easter Eggs You Missed!

welcome back to New rockstars I'm Eric. Voss and this is a breakdown of House of. the Dragon episode 7 where Miguel. saposhnik says you thought the battle. Winterfell was hard to see hold my. coffee cup don't worry maybe the hour of. the owl but I got the eyes of one and. neither have been sliced out yet by my. nephew so I'm gonna break down this. episode frame by frame for all the. details you might have missed the. opening credits were updated again this. time showing Lane as dial filling with. blood which is what happens when a. character has died also now we know that. her braid sigil is a rope pattern that. border sarcophagus the fact that this.

was her sigil in the last episode's. credits before she even died suggests a. pretty dark view for all of these. characters Fates their fortune and Peril. is all destined set in stone before life. even flows into them a similar Fate has. befall in the dial for sir Harwin strong. once visible to the right of Rainier's. bloodline flowing into hers for their. sons now flooded to mark his death last. episode we open on the funeral of Elena. valarian on driftmark driftmark is the. title of this episode we actually start. with a close-up of rope threaded through. an eyelet Lana's rope will actually. prove critical this episode for it is.

her rope that forms the Reigns aemond. grabs to take control of Lena's Dragon. bagar and also take the symbolic Reigns. of power as the battle looms over which. faction of the family will ultimately. Reign the mourners are spread out across. the Rocks including three women whose. faces are shrouded in Black these might. be other mourners like rhaenys who also. has her face stranded like this but. their positioning the fact that there's. three of them there makes me wonder if. they are silent sisters in order of. women from the faith of the seven Who. oversee funeral services their.

association with the stranger who. represents death and there being three. of them reminds me of the fates of Greek. mythology who share one eye among the. three of them or even maybe the three. prophetic witches of Macbeth in either. case fitting harbingers for this episode. of Fate doom and one-eyed Vision. vehman's High Valyrian words reference. the Merlin King this is a mythological. figure from whom coralese's Legend has. it he was granted the Driftwood Throne. Otto Hightower has returned reclaiming. handed a king that Lionel strong has.

been taken off the board the amend uses. some strong words here. [Music]. [Music]. [Music]. the Valyrian speakers all React to what. they meant to saying viserys Rainier and. Damon with his laugh because women is. implying that Elena's daughters are of. trueborn Valyrian blood unlike Vernier.

and lenor's Sons it's a charge that. demon irreverently laughs at I don't. think out of disrespect for his late. wife because there was a deleted scene. from last episode that showed that he. loves his family deeply really I think. he's just laughing at the insanity that. someone would use this occasion to make. legitimacy accusations but also yeah. Damon is totally a troll now thanks to. vesi for sponsoring this video House of. the Dragon makes it perfectly clear that. being a Targaryen ain't all it's cracked. up to be yeah there's dragons but. there's also a lot of betrayal and. Intrigue and pretty intense battles and.

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lane or its Dragon I don't think it's. bagar because there's no holes in the. wings and also later when Eamon sees. vegar that dragon is even larger despite. being above the cloud layer so yeah I. think it's either melees or sea smoke. then directly over the castle it's. caraxis that's Damon's Dragon the golden. one that flies over us is Cyrax it's. Rainier's Dragon the golden one that's. sitting on the cliffs is Sunfire that's. aegon's dragon and then the blue one. sitting above him is dreamfire that's. Helena's Dragon that's a dragon that's. scared amen the last episode The Dragon. whose egg Damon stole in episode 2 and.

found back the same Dragon who will. produce the three eggs that Daenerys. Targaryen will receive now after having. her hair down last episode upon the. birth of her son Joffrey raniera's hair. is now back up in a braid matching the. interlocking Circles of the sigil the. Valyrian steel necklace that Damon gave. her her hair was also braided in episode. 3 and in episode 4 when she was at that. impressionable age and had some major. hots for her uncle the necklace she now. wears I could be wrong but I think it's. a modified version of that necklace it. uses the Valerian steel rings as a base. changes Out The Chain but has added more.

gold around that Central Ruby this is. important because when she walks outside. she starts out of focus but then becomes. clear suddenly and in the reaction shot. that it cuts away too proves that the. point of view of that shot was Damon so. Rainier was walking out into this. cocktail hour presenting herself. directly to Damon but then after some. steak eye from Allison renera turns away. and beelines for her son Jace just like. in last episode when Nera is desperate. to keep her sons in her arms whenever. she senses Allison's presence Chase. wishes they were at harrenhal morning. his true father but when air tells him. to comfort Reyna and Bayla and then she.

catches Allison's still stink eye in her. and Emma Darcy does this fantastic. self-conscious adjustment as if she's. worried she might be leaking milk again. bug girl Helena plays with a spider. full of Green dragons. flesh weaving dragons of thread oh bug. girl bug girl sees the future from far. but girl knows just who you are that's a. reference to the Disney show bug juice. they'll get it there will be one viewer.

who gets that last week I speculated. that Helena could be a green Seer a work. or a dreamer and this episode confirms. it especially with what happens to. Eamonn he will have a dragon one day. he'll have to close an eye I may have. lost an eye. now Helena is repeating this phrase. about a spool of green and a spool of. black referring to the greens team. Allison and the blacks team renera the. threads referring both to the Wardrobe. they used to define themselves but also. spiders weaving webs the idea of weaving.

from a loom these are classic symbols of. fate and destiny Helena smashes the. spider in a seashell as if trying to. stop this faded Dance of the Dragons. here at driftmark but we cut immediately. from this shot of the spider to Laris. strong as he closes his hand around his. firefly-headed Cane now I know it's more. likely that Helena is a Targaryen. dreamer than a westerosi green sear I. get it but I really do think that there. is a connection between Helena's. prophetic bugs and larisa's association. with bugs and Horticulture like Glarus. really could be a wargar green sear.

using things like rats to spy on others. around the castle whereas Helena could. be a dreamer and both these people in. Allison's orbits could produce. contrasting Visions as Jace awkwardly. stands behind Bayless she takes his hand. this is the same thing their mother Lena. did to lanor when she was scared at the. turning in episode one this little. moment fortifies these two as protective. siblings Lord Corliss tells Luke that. Ellen Herrick drift mark one day sorry. I don't want it oh like a little Jon. Snow over here I don't want it I never. have amen nearly comes over to comfort.

Bayla and Reina but he stops short of. Chase and at the fire and then they all. hear a dragon roar. [Music]. this is of course of agar and in this. episode it is eamonn's call to action. Corliss angrily tells sir Carl to. retrieve Leonor from trying to join his. sister in the sea and this becomes. another point of contention between. Rainier and Allison because every. suggestion that Lenor has Partners. besides raniera is further evidence to. Elephant that raniera is living a lie.

meanwhile viserys tells Damon your girls. the very image of their mother. comfort and an anguish as I well. remember yeah telling us that Emma. remains on his mind as we saw when he. kissed her ring last episode in raniera. haunted by looking so much like Emma. Emma so consumes his thoughts that he. takes a big old dump on his current wife. I'm going to bed am I. shall I see after Queen Alice in your. place Jesus Harold you had to rub it in. Damon tells Otto.

Village grows it always wants for. another meal yeah pretty sharp dig at. Otto in his sus connection with the. archmaester Melos of Old Town whose. stubborn use of leeches to treat viserys. nearly killed the king especially. noticeable now that mellos is out of the. picture and viserys is shockingly able. to hang in there Otto finds aegon drunk. on the stairs. brother yeah aegon thinks his. grandfather is his younger brother Eamon. just said in about aegon will eventually. see his brother as a far more assertive. taller of these brothers rhaenys tells.

Corliss that she thinks the family is. cursed by the gods for their ambition. cordless responds what is this brief. mortal life. if not the pursuit of Legacy yeah it's a. simple hearty Quest that viserys. pondered about to Lord Lionel in episode. 5 wondering what songs would be written. about him rhaenys wants driftmark to. pass not to Luke and Chase but to Bela. and Reina since they are of True. valorian Blood but cordless says history. remember blood and remembers names in.

history we'll prove him right because of. the Song of Ice and Fire the blood of. House Lannister effectively controls the. Iron Throne despite them doing all that. in the name of house Baratheon the name. history would remember now at this point. the episode you may have noticed the. visuals were a bit hard to make out on. your home TV it's because Miguel spots. next shot the middle part of this. episode using a technique called day for. night where you shoot a nighttime scene. during the daytime and then you. underexpose the shot either in camera or. you darken in post-production and they. do this because shooting at night risks. getting no light whatsoever into the. lens and thus no visual information. recorded but the problem is if this.

isn't done without sensitivity to how. the content is going to be exhibited by. the viewer it might result in a lot of. shots just looking too dark and you. can't make out anything you may remember. a lot of viewers had this issue in the. Game of Thrones episode the long night. pictures also shot by swatchnik now some. snobs may say it's on the viewers to. adjust their settings like knowing how. to turn off motion smoothing I agree you. got to turn off motion smoothing but I. don't think it's a fair comparison there. because I am someone who has adjusted my. brightness to 50 and my contrast all the. way up my color temperature to warm my. TV is only like two years old and I.

totally turn off all the lights in my. room and watch this at night but the. imagery was still pretty hard to make. out and anytime HBO's massive white. subtitles came on the screen they. Blinded Me and everything else on screen. I mean people Jordan Peele was able to. use day for night shooting for nope and. produced something that looked great. even on home TV so I beg HBO's directors. to over adjust the contrast and the. color temperature and do at least one. test screening on the crappiest potato. TV you can find from the year 2012 just. to ensure it at least looks visible now. in your audience is assuming that most. of them cannot afford oleds now one.

counter argument I will entertain is. that maybe they wanted to keep character. motives a mystery by masking them in. darkness like when Rainier asks did you. love her. we were happy enough. well that in itself is a great. achievement yeah notice how the. Moonlight is behind demon here keeping. his face in Shadow when he answers a. question so it's kind of hard to see how. Matt Smith emoted that line but I just. think Matt Smith is a hell of an actor. and it's done a masterful job keeping. his intent ambiguous even in perfect.

lighting so can we just trust the actor. to play the ambiguity instead of masking. his performance with bad lighting renera. says should have forbidden so Owen from. returning to the Revenant. Karen's curse is said to be as strong. now as it was after the conquest it's a. ghost story yes he's referencing the. ghost story of hair in the black whose. curse is said to haunt the residents of. Herron Hall since egg on the Conqueror. burned the castle the demon says it's a. ghost story but this whole debate over. whether this ghost story is real it's at. the core thematic debate of much of. George R Martin's text is there real.

magic in this world and if so is it even. powerful or is it all really an illusion. exploited by people just trying to mask. or inflate their true power status but. in this middle section I did truly enjoy. eamon's approach to vegar I love the. shots angled downward from vegar down. upon Eamon as if they're from the top of. a tower the seagulls squawking as they. fly off the top of the Dragon. just these little details conveying the. massive scale of the creature yet when. Eamon slightly touches the Reigns vagar.

snaps awake it's so scary for something. so large to be so sensitive Amen to. commands. yeah some new Valyrian words there. johiris of course is High Valyrian for. serve but licurious new it means calm. and once he gets the dragon to purr he. now grabs the reins confidently and. climbs and then he commands. it's obviously meaning fly now eamon's. flight on vegar is fascinating to watch. because it's not the joyride that Jon.

Snow's first dragonflight was in season. 8 of Game of Thrones this by contrast is. a true struggle he gets tossed around. when vegar shakes off the sand and he. nearly falls to his death during that. vertical Ascent the kid has to painfully. heave himself up on the saddle and even. once he gains control he still nearly. dies again when Birds whiz past his head. this is such a realistic depiction of. how hard it would be to fly a dragon. like this only towards the very end of. this flight because Eamon finally gained. confidence and kind of enjoy it and I. love how composer Ramin jawadi brings.

back that House Targaryen theme but. makes a sense of electric strings at the. very end of it. [Music]. the Twins and the boys confront Eamonn. at first we sympathize with aemond for. reminding us of Jason Luke totally. pranked him with a pink dread but in the. same line he tells poor Baylor that the. pig would suit her and we lose all. sympathy for him so Jace goes on the. attack but amen notice actually uses the. tips sir Kristen gave his brother aegon. against Chase last episode and uses his. height as an advantage he kicks Chase to. the ground and then Eamonn hurls the.

worst insult he won't die screaming at. Flames stretches your father dead. and so this fight ends with the younger. brother Luke grabbing the dagger and. slicing out eamon's eye now in the book. Bayla and Reyna were not present for. this fight it was actually the youngest. brother Joffrey who was age three in the. book's timeline he's the one who. discovers Eamon trying to climb bagar. and he threatens to rat out aemond but. Eamon pushes him into a pile of dragon. poo that is one big pile of and.

that leads to the flight and then the. fight goes down after that it seems like. they left out Joffrey obviously to him. being a baby in this Show's timeline but. they included Bayla and Rayna to make. amons taking a vagar more of an insult. Bala and to ultimately draw the twins. closer to Jace into Luke viserys rages. against the kingsguard king's God has. never had to defend princes from princes. that is the balls on Sir Kristen also. I'm pretty sure he's historically wrong. like there was definitely a bloody. succession crisis between Prince maegor. the future of maegor the cruel and his. nephew and his niece prince aegon and.

princess Reina when their father King. Amy's the first that was maegor's. half-brother died when that happened. maegor crowned himself on Dragonstone. and essentially forced whatever the. King's Guard was at that point to pick. sides between the right Bel Air and. between him essentially forced in the. situation where they had to defend. princes from princes then as each of the. parents arrived viserys's position in. front of the Driftwood throne even here. he must preside over this dispute as. king though notice behind him Otto lurks. closer and closer to this Throne as if. eager to snatch any power from behind. the king's back Damon meanwhile watches.

all this bickering go down casually. leaning on the door hanging back on the. sidelines much like his mummer. equivalent did in episode four now at. first renira says Luke cunningaman was a. regrettable accident desperate to just. move on and move out of this even though. Chase just told her that amid called. them bastards though when Allison pushes. it notice the change veneer takes she. suddenly pipes up and says the fight was. over the bastard accusation my sons are. in line to inherit the Iron Throne Your. Grace this is the highest of treasons. and notice how Rainier's voice drops she. takes a more commanding tone she calls.

her father Your Grace she uses the word. treason all to reframe this trial. putting amend and by extension aegon and. Allison all of them on the defensive and. it totally rattles Allison's you tell me. boy. where did you hear this lie the insult. was training yard Blaster a lot of boys. it was nothing. I asked you a question yeah notice the. camera shifts Focus from viserys to. Alison and then back to viserys in a. single shot revealing Allison's panic. but viserys totally ignoring it because. he was there in their training yard. squabbles last episode Allison was not.

so Allison tries out a new tactic she. brings a blanor because Annie focus on. lane or she thinks will ship the focus. to his raniera's sin but viserys presses. on and Eamonn says it was it was shorts. oh I see just kidding it was eman's. brother aegon and then aegon instead of. blaming hearing it from his mom or from. Sir Kristen he just lays it all out we. know. father. everyone knows. just look at them yes this line was. directly from George R Martin's text.

that's probably why it hit so hard here. but viserys ignores this and demands. they all make peace and he passes. Allison the same exact way that he did. before when he went to bed and called. her Emma but whereas Allison was silent. there now she has to speak up that is. insufficient. there is a debt to be paid. I just love one of her sons eyes in. return Yes Allison evokes the famous. real world Code of Hammurabi and eye for. an eye but also interesting that she. doesn't initially demand Luke's eye in. particular she just says any one of the. son's eyes just a little tell that in.

this moment it's not about proper. Justice against Luke in particular it's. about hurting rhaenyra in that side of. the family in any way possible but she. steadies herself and she escalates so. Kristen. bring me the eye of lucerius valerian. stay your hand no you sworn to. me as you're protecting my queen. love the reaction shot sister Harold. Ramon we have to wonder so Harold's. totally gonna have to come to blows. against her Kristen but sir Harold being. there was likely what led sir Kristen to. back down and then the faithful moment.

just an incredible 15 seconds that I. love to support her over and over again. notice that when Allison snatches the. dagger that's what knocks over viserys. and Sir Harold immediately has to tend. to the king falling over and that's what. makes him a second behind so as he. rushes across the room to catch up with. her he has to command sir Kristen at.

least three times to stay back but sir. Kristen does not and that's what. requires Damon to step in which makes us. a little worried because the last time. Damon and Sir Kristen squared off sir. Kristen won that fight but everything. around these two women freezes as a. dagger Quivers in the foreground as the. fire rages behind now of course the. dagger is the symbol of the Divide these. two women both practically and. symbolically in so many ways it's framed. between them in the poster as vegar's. eye the dragon that now switches sides. in this episode and remember Flames. reveal the secret of aegon Song of Ice. and Fire that is encoded in the Valerian.

steel of this blade and remember that is. a secret prophecy that viserys told. renera but not to Allison and it is that. knowledge that sobered Ramirez childish. impulses and makes her feel ultimately. in the right to prevent Allison from. taking her Birthright from her Allison. says Rainier is entitled she has no. honor Ramirez says Allison has been. hiding under a cloak of her own. righteousness and she says but now they. see you. blood has been drawn and Eamon says do. not move me mother it was a fair. Exchange.

I may have lost an eye. but I gained a dragon now in the text. amen does not see this right at this. moment it's actually something he says a. lot later when he looks back on this. moment so for this kid to say it right. now so calmly it's truly a threat to. rhaenyra and her whole side of the. family and so the scene ends with the. battle lines drawn one side the blacks. Damon renira her sons and Corliss on the. other side the greens Allison aymond sir. Kristen and Otto later Allison admits. her mistakes to her father pitched in. with her fingers her habit of picking at.

her fingernails has returned but notice. as soon as Otto commends her dirty. tactics Allison stops picking at her. fingers and repositions her hands and. Leonor finally shows up I should have. been there. there should be our house words yeah. Ramirez reply really could apply to. lanor missing the birth of Joffrey. renira missing her mother's death to an. Era missing Allison moving in on her dad. really all these two have done is Miss. stuff raniera watches the massive Green. Bay guard depart with aemond on her back. and two other dragons Sunfire with aegon. and dreamfire with Helena leaving the.

greens with three dragons the blacks at. this moment have corrects these Cyrax RX. moraxes probably melees and probably see. smoke so things are pretty even Rainier. tells Damon that both of their lovers. were lost to fire fire is a prison. the sea offers an escape and so they. decide to imprison themselves in Fire. and burn together this episode began. with a funeral and it closes with a. wedding between Rainier and Demon not a. ceremony in the faith of the seven but a. secret Valerian wedding a practice until. now left pretty vague in Martin's text. all it really says is that spouses are.

bound quote by Blood and fire and can be. officiated by women here it's depicted. by them cutting their palms and their. lips marking each other's heads with. blood sipping a cup and kissing so that. their blood mixes they also wear these. culty traditional Valyrian robes it's. all very mid-summery and unsettling but. it's interesting that they keep a. maester present for this scene to. justify how this marriage would make its. way in history meanwhile they give the. Escape of the sea to lanor which is. interesting because in the text Damon. truly does bribe sir Carl true dual lane. or to death laner's dead body left.

bleeding out in spice town but the TV. series twist lenor's fate to allow him. to live with Carl and essos but more. importantly it poses an interesting. question for the fate of sea smoke who. in the text is later claimed by someone. claiming to be leonor's bastard's son. but here as la long as laner remains. alive sea smoke will remain bonded to. him which means that Lenor will live on. as a wild card option for the blacks and. the dance of the dragons to come but for. now as he and Rainier have told each. other the wise sailor flees the storm as. it gathers you can follow me on Tick. Tock Instagram and Twitter at eavos. follow new Rockstar subscribe to.

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