We had not noticed the pupil of the dragon. And there it was, giving us the biggest clue to doom in the series. If, of course, someone was not expecting it. However it is a nice wink hidden in plain sight now that all the viewers have all the information.
Look, right now there are two types of viewers of The House of the Dragon. Some, those who know perfectly well how Daemon Tagaryen (Matt Smith) is going to get his revenge now that the greens have taken the first step (although Aemond says it was an accident), and others, those who do not have the remotest idea of which three characters of those who are alive at the end of season 1 of the HBO Max series are going to be alive when the civil war ends and sense reigns, which will end up reigning when everything ends like the Rosario de la Aurora in the Dragon Dance. Come on, they don’t know how the story ends and, therefore, the series. And the good thing is that for both the former and the latter, the fact that in the promotional poster for the series in which Olivia Cooke and Emma D’Arcy, Queen Alicent and Princess Rhaenyra as adults, share the limelight with the extreme close-up of a dragon showing us its inquisitive pupil, an important element of the plot was contained, it has surprised them. The dragon’s pupil is shaped like the dagger that Viserys hands to Rhaenyra. Aegon’s dagger. We knew from the first episode 1 that Viserys’s dagger was the same dagger from ‘Game of thrones’, episode 4 reconfirmed it, but we didn’t know how important it was before it reached the hands of Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) in Game of Thrones to kill the Night King.
Of course there were some fans of the series who noticed it along the way, but it wasn’t until the end of season 1 that viewers as a whole noticed the wink hidden in the promotional poster for The House. of the Dragon that HBO Max released before episode 5 aired, in which Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke took over from Milly Alcock and Emily Carey as Rhaenyra and Alicent. As is the dagger on which the prophecy of Ice and Fire is written in High Valyrian (“from my blood comes the prince/princess that was promised/and hers shall be the song of ice and fire”), which can only be read when the blade is heated, it is not just any iconographic element of the series… and of the saga.
The dagger is no longer only important for how it physically represents in The House of the Dragon the split of the Targaryen family at the death of Viserys (Paddy Considine), separating the queen dowager Alicent (Olivia Cooke) from the heir to the throne Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), but rather is the physical representation of Alicent’s misinterpretation of Viserys’s vision, which is at the core of the entire series. If Alicent had not listened to her husband’s last words and she had not understood that the contracting party of the first part is the contracting party of the second part, perhaps the coup would not have taken place. Although well thought out… Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) was already conspiring with the rest of the council to raise Aegon II to the throne… The most important thing is that the dagger will survive these two characters and that it is an element that represents the passing prophecy The House of the Dragon and all seasons Game of Thrones. If, in addition, the fan theory that ensures that Arya is a descendant of the Targaryens via Jacaerys and changes the ending of Game of Thronesthe dagger, the wink, become even more important.
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