Spoilers for <\/strong>Home of the Dragon<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s season 3 premiere comply with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\n Home of the Dragon season 3, episode 2 ending defined
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Episode 2 opens instantly after the season premiere ended with Prince Jacaerys \u201cJace\u201d Targaryen\u2019s lifeless physique floating within the Gullet. Because the dragonseeds assist destroy any remaining Triarchy ships, Jace\u2019s physique is returned to Dragonstone the place Rhaenyra\u2019s grief is explosive. She turns into bedridden having misplaced one more son \u2014 however as soon as Daemon brings information that Aemond Targaryen has left King\u2019s Touchdown and fled to Harrenhal, her settlement with Alicent is ready in movement.<\/p>\n
Alicent Hightower and her daughter, Queen Helaena Targaryen, spend a lot of the episode working to persuade the troops of King\u2019s Touchdown to face down when Rhaenyra involves take King\u2019s Touchdown, they usually\u2019re largely profitable. Rhaenyra flies on to King\u2019s Touchdown alongside Daemon, Ulf White, and Hugh Hammer to take the throne. As she and Daemon infiltrate the Purple Preserve, they\u2019re met with some resistance from White Cloaks who Daemon swiftly cuts down.<\/p>\n
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$\"tom-cullen\"$ \n <\/picture>Tom Cullen performs\u00a0Ser Luthor Largent, a captain of the Gold Cloaks, in Home of the Dragon<\/em>.<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n
Within the Throne Room, they\u2019re pinned between loyal kingsguard and members of the town watch (Gold Cloaks). Besides metropolis watch captain Ser Luthor Largent stays loyal to Daemon and Rhaenyra since Daemon commanded the Gold Cloaks years prior (Ser Luthor even recollects that it was Daemon who gave him his gold cloak). The kingsguard are then pressured to give up. Rhaenyra refuses to take the throne till Aegon II is lifeless \u2014 besides the king has already fled King\u2019s Touchdown with Larys Robust. As Daemon factors out, heads nonetheless must roll.<\/p>\n
Daemon makes his method to the cells the place Lord Jasper Wylde, the Grasp of Legal guidelines, is already imprisoned. However the jailor has a shock: \u201cWhen you would, my Prince,\u201d he says to Daemon. \u201cA present for you, if you happen to ever returned, from Lord Larys Robust.\u201d We don\u2019t see who it’s till Daemon brings him to the throne room, however the reward Otto Hightower, Alicent\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
Although Rhaenyra hesitates to kill him, Daemon pressures her to point out power on this second. He fingers her his Valyrean metal sword, Darkish Sister. She beheads Otto herself with a clear reduce \u2014 however not earlier than lacking and hacking into his again as soon as first. Then, Daemon rapidly executes Jasper Wyld. Solely after each are lifeless does Rhaenyra take a couple of blood-soaked steps to take the throne. That\u2019s when Alicent and Helaena are introduced ahead after failing to flee the town. The episode ends on Alicent and Rhaenyra sharing a strained look at each other.<\/p>\n
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\n When did we final see Otto Hightower?
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$\"house$ \n <\/picture>Picture: HBO<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n
Otto has been largely absent because the early episodes of season 2, so it is likely to be straightforward to overlook precisely what occurred to him.<\/p>\n
Following Aegon II’s coronation, Otto continued serving as Hand of the King to his grandson, hoping to information him by the opening phases of the conflict. The 2 rapidly butted heads. Otto repeatedly argued for endurance and diplomacy, whereas Aegon demanded swift vengeance in opposition to the Blacks for the loss of life of his baby.<\/p>\n
Their relationship ultimately collapsed. Aegon publicly humiliated Otto, stripped him of his workplace, and made Criston Cole the Hand of the King, saying he will probably be a \u201cmetal fist.\u201d Otto then tossed the badge at Cole\u2019s ft. Otto had just one scene after this, which was a dialog with Alicent wherein he mentioned he\u2019d return to Oldtown, however she asks him to go to Highgarden to barter the allegiance of Home Tyrell. So far as any of us viewers knew, he left for one or each of those locations. But within the season 2 finale, we noticed a short scene of him imprisoned in a cell with none context as to how he acquired there and even precisely the place he was.<\/p>\n
Home of the Dragon<\/em>\u2019s newest episode confirms it was Larys Robust who orchestrated his seize. (Because the Grasp of Spies, that definitely makes it believable.) Robust, in some methods, is enjoying either side of the conflict. He secretly stored Otto alive as a political prisoner as one closing “reward” after serving to Aegon flee King’s Touchdown.<\/p>\n
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\n Why does Rhaenyra kill Otto Hightower herself?
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Otto’s execution is not so simple as revenge. It is a obligatory assertion about energy.<\/p>\n
For years, Otto manipulated Home Targaryen to put his personal bloodline on the Iron Throne. Whereas he\u2019s talked lots about holding peace within the realm, it\u2019s clear he\u2019s at all times had ulterior motives. After Queen Aemma’s loss of life, he basically orchestrated that Alicent would develop near the widowed Viserys, establishing a political marriage that ultimately produced Aegon II, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron. Later, Otto spent years undermining Rhaenyra’s declare earlier than personally orchestrating Aegon’s coronation instantly after Viserys died \u2014 even supposing Viserys publicly proclaimed Rhaenyra as his successor.<\/p>\n
In some ways, no single individual bears extra accountability for the Dance of the Dragons than Otto Hightower. But, within the second, Rhaenyra nonetheless hesitates to kill him.<\/p>\n
She spends most of episode 2 grieving Jace’s loss of life moderately than lusting after vengeance. She\u2019s additionally already needed to endure by Luke\u2019s loss of life. With Daemon and your complete royal court docket watching, exhibiting mercy would simply seem like weak point. So she does it herself earlier than lastly claiming the Iron Throne.<\/p>\n
For Alicent to come upon the scene within the episode\u2019s closing moments feels a bit heartbreaking. Perhaps Otto acquired what he deserved, however simply as Alicent and Rhaenyra appeared to have reached a form of political settlement and rekindled the spark of their as soon as vibrant friendship, abruptly there\u2019s Alicent\u2019s father mendacity lifeless on the ground with Rhaenyra looming over all of them. How is that this second going to impression the remainder of season 3, and the remainder of this conflict?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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