House of Dragon Season 2 Episode 3: Episode 3 of HOD starts on a riverside by an old mill where the borders of the two states meet – House Blackwood and House Bracken. One side of it has committed to Rhaenyra’s victory (House Blackwood) whereas the other one is on Aegon’s side (House Bracken).
Two young knights get into a dispute belonging to each side which results in to corpse lying here and there on the same field. Then, in the next scene, Arryk and Erryk are buried side by side on the Dragon Stone. Rhaenys senses the bloodbath coming with the dragon-to-dragon fight. She shows that she is trying her best to avoid the war but all she did was, make claims that Alicent was wrong and had made mistakes.
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She also insisted that she is the rightful heir and the efforts which is shown by the Green Team reflects that there is no one sensible and knowledgeable like Otto Hightower to advise the King. She even urges Rhaenyra to discuss with Alicent for one more time in order to avoid this dragon combat.
House of Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 Recap
In the next scene, when Criston Cole is walking towards the Small Council, he hears about the replacement of Cole’s members of the King’s guard by Aegon with the king’s drinking fellow men. Then he refused to wear the badge of the ‘Hand of the King’ and placed it in his chair in the Small Council Table.
Daemon Targaryen then manages to go inside Harrenhal. The grace, Sir Simon Strong, Castellan of Harrenhal welcomes him on his knees and takes his side. He offers him food but Daemon is suspicious about food poisoning. Then he asks about Larys Clubfoot, Sir Simon replies that Larys is not a part of his family anymore and they have nothing to do with him now.
Then, Simon asks Daemon about his purpose for arriving at Riverland. Daemon says that Harrenhal is the largest castle in the Seven Kingdoms and hence it can be used as an accommodation place for the 40,000 soldiers to which Simon replies that already in earlier days, Harrenhal was partially destroyed by Targaryen’s Dragon and they will require a good amount of coins to repair it.
Upon getting an unsatisfactory response from Simon, Daemon asks him to let him talk to his superior, Lord Grover Tully but that too gets refused claiming that he is not the right person to discuss this matter as he is not responsible enough. As we are aware, Harrenhal has a history that was even shown in “Games of Thrones” as a cursed place. But one thing is for sure, we all waited a season and a half for it and now finally the war is happening.
Cole knows the importance of capturing Harrenhal and is well aware that to do so, he will require a large number of soldiers so he takes a different approach and plans to march on Harrenhal castle all at once but meanwhile, he gets spotted by Baela everyone aware about his movement.
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Honestly, this episode didn’t feel as shocking as the Cheese and Blood Incident in episode 1 or as the fight between Erryk and Arryk in the second one. Episode three was mainly focused on the war build-up which is likely to happen in the coming episodes. What are your thoughts regarding this episode and are you enjoying the entire story so far?
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