It's been abundantly clear to everyone watching Season 1 of House of the Dragon, and everyone in Westeros (outside of sweet, poor, naive King Viserys) that Otto Hightower has been scheming and scheming and scheming for the decades of action we've seen on screen this season (and probably long before that, too). But below we detail the three most significant takeaways from the penultimate episode 9, "The Green Council" in House of the Dragon's Season 1. There are a lot of moving pieces in House of the Dragon, and it's impossible to cover everything. She doesn't seem long for this world, but it's nice to see a source of power coming (even briefly) from somewhere other than the patriarchy.Īnd while this episode is stacked, we can only imagine that next week's finale will be even more. And while much of the episode is what our master schemers Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) and Larys have been waiting for, the most important moment comes from something the White Worm (Sonoya Mizuno) holds the key to. Seriously-can we give Cooke an award just for the exasperated look on her face when she hears Larys Strong's (Matthew Needham) voice coming from behind her? Her second-born son, Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) is also a standout-you can't look away from that smug, evil-looking dude when he's on screen. Without Rhaenyra, the late Viserys (Paddy Considine, whose name appearing in the opening credits probably shocked a lot of people-but it was only because his corpse briefly appears), and Daemon in the episode, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) anchors the plot in a way that she hasn't yet this season-and she does a remarkable job. In fact, two of Season 1's main and most important characters-Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) and Daemon (Matt Smith)-don't even appear, obviously an intentional artistic decision as major happenings go down in the realm, and those two relevant parties are nowhere to be seen. Episode 9 of House of the Dragon, Season 1's penultimate episode titled "The Green Council," is packed wall-to-wall with action, adventure, scheming, and intrigue-basically everything you could want from this show-but doesn't have the big moment you think of from Thrones past, like Ned Stark's beheading or the infamous "Battle of the Bastards." Throughout the years, Game of Thrones has become known use the second-to-last episode in a season as a place for the season's biggest moment the finale then becomes both an aftermath and a way to set up storylines for the next season. The following story contains spoilers for Season 1, Episode 9 of House of the Dragon, titled "The Green Council"
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