The Red Dragon and the Gold [House of the Dragon, S2E4]

Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

English - July 09, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MB
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House of the Dragon’s mid-season finale certainly delivered the goods. But beneath all the screeching, high-flying dragon combat is a bounty of rich character work and a whole spiderweb of echoes from the long legacy of battle episodes across this franchise. This discussion examines the Battle of Rook’s Rest both within that wider context to find out who really won the conflict, what all those pointed references and inversions mean, and why Cam can’t stop thinking about Stannis Baratheon. We also work together to better understand Daemon’s increasingly surreal side quest and the emerging supernatural element within House of the Dragon!

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