Please note that the plot of the first episode of House of the Dragon Season 2, available on the Max platform, is detailed below. If you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to know anything about its content, I suggest you stop reading this article now.
Fans were in for a few surprises for the Dragon House update. The first episode of the Game of Thrones prequel season 2 opened notably with a sequence set in Winterfell. An iconic location in the fantasy saga, the Northern Kingdom’s citadel was visited by Prince Jakeris Velarion, son of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Blacks vs. Greens
The latter competes for the Iron Throne with his brother Aegon II Targaryen, son of the late Visser I, born from his second marriage to Alycent Hightower. This rivalry between the Targaryen heirs escalated into a bloody feud after Lucer’s Velarion (Jaquerys’ younger brother) killed his uncle Emond at the end of season one.
Each camp (black represents Rhaenyra’s sympathizers, green represents Aegon II’s) therefore forms an alliance for the inevitable confrontation with the armies of the Seven Kingdoms that is coming. Therefore, on this occasion, Jakeris continued to inspect the wall guarded by the night watchmen.
Return to Winterfell
In an exclusive interview he gave us, Harry Collett (Jacaerys’ interpreter) returned to filming this scene. The 20-year-old British actor told us he was under pressure to revisit such an iconic and popular location from Game of Thrones:
It’s been very stressful, but also a lot of fun to come back to such an iconic place and work with Tom Taylor, who I’ve become really good friends with, who plays Craig on the show. fans. Obviously, Winterfell holds an important place in fans’ hearts, and it’s inevitable that the pressure is greater as this scene introduces Season 2.
House of the Dragon Season 2 marks a new beginning
One of the big new features of this new season of House of Dragons is the exploration of the different kingdoms of Westeros. The first season was essentially set at the Donjon Rouge in Port Real, both for story and health reasons (filming took place in the context of strict COVID protocol travel restrictions).
Remember that House of Dragon takes place 150 years before Game of Thrones. The series takes place when the Iron Throne is occupied by the House of Dragons, aka the Targaryen clan. This period also marks the end of the Age of Dragons, ending with the famous Dragon Dance…
House of the Dragon Season 2 episodes can be seen every week exclusively on the new Max streaming platform!
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