Speaking of this, are we to surmise that natural born Targaryans have the supernatural trait of heat & fire resistance?
Some do and some don’t? Those worthy of the name (Danaerys) inherit the trait and those unworthy (Viserys the younger) do not?
Would they all have been crispified if Rhaenys had uttered the word? I could envision Aegon II being BBQ’d and Aemond not so.
I don’t know if there has been anything said on GoT or HotD about that. My weak explanation for Viserys is that he wasn’t technically killed by fire, just kinda cooked alive 
Daemon appears to have “the gift” as he flew through Vhagar’s fire a couple episodes ago.
A lot of plot building for a finale. I think I’m most interested in knowing what dragon Daemon was singing to. I have my thoughts, but they’re based on the book so I’ll keep them to myself.
It sure seemed like a big dragon, which they look to need
So, they specifically had dialog on ep 10 about counting the dragons, the dragon riders, and the potential riders with no dragons, and dragons with no riders. The episode also made quite clear, moreso than previous episodes IMHO, that Vhagar is way bigger than many of the others.
I don’t consider this a spoiler because it was aired last night, but I will hide the detail anyway.
The closed captions on the screen was precise in calling that up-until-now-unseen dragon
Vermithor
Again, that name was not spoken out loud in the episode, but the closed captioning did name him.
I don’t remember the closed captioning having the name of the dragon so that’s interesting and kind of unfortunate that the show spoiled itself, imo.
Who else is super excited to wait ~2 years for the next season!?!?
The fan reaction to the ending of GoT must have really scared them in to not committing to multiple seasons from the start for HotD.
It’s got me sorta hooked.
At least it’s going somewhere.
I stopped watching Rings of Power a few weeks ago. May go back and finish
It did, but anyone not knowing anything about the dragons from the book would be clueless about this dragon. He didn’t even mention it in the list of dragons during the strategy sessions. Heck, it’s not even in the index of the book, though it is mentioned several times.
Also, I’ve been watching a lot of Youtube videos with post-season analysis.
I’ve watched and rewatched the dragon flight/fight scene several times. Lucerys’s body does not fall from the sky. Only bits of Arrax fall from the sky. Vhagar swallowed Lucerys.
I wish they had included scenes that show how Jace was received in Winterfell and The Vale. Hopefully, better than his brother was received in the Stormlands. Oh well, I only have to wait 2 years to find out.
It still doesn’t make sense to me that Daemon wasn’t pissed & didn’t interfere when Aemond “stole” Vhagar away from his daughter. Daemon is hotheaded enough to have gotten into Aemond’s face and prescient enough to know that Vhagar is overwhelmingly important to keep close.
I think he understands dragons. Which is why he is “seducing” that dragon in the cave. The dragon chooses the rider.
Wouldn’t an emerald be a better choice for Aemond’s eye socket?
Team Meh.
Each has a silver-haired psychopath. Need everyone to die, which, eventually, they all do. The “how” is the interesting part, except old-age. That’s kind of boring, unless you mix up your wife with your daughter, use an ambiguous name, and tell a very vague tale that results in an unCivil War with dragons.
Also, I just noticed that I do not have “Fire and Blood.” I have “The World of Ice and Fire,” which contains a much shorter version of the history.
The “Viserys I” chapter is only seven pages.
Might have to get the 736-page First Volume (nothing is ever finished) and read the whole thing.
HBO was marathoning season 1 this past weekend. I re-watched lots (not all) of it.
Looking forward to season 2. It’s the best show on TV.
No love for this GoT spinoff?
Anyone watching?
I gotta say, decades ago, I had a list of reasons that made an episode of Star Trek TNG a very good episode and a list that made an episode a bad one.
One of my “bad list” items was when the story involved a main Star Fleet character that was experiencing mental instability and internal conflict with self doubts about sanity. I must say, Daemon is showing these characteristics for the middle part of this season, and that’s dragging things down for me a bit. I liked the young Rhanera cameo, but this rest is getting old.
Still, the show is great. I’d like to see more of the story focused around Jace.
Yes, we are watching. Not sure if I care enough to comment, though.
Caused by the Ghosts of Harrenhall or poison.
Do they need this many side stories? Now in the Eyrie. At the Twins. And, like, a minute at each site. Surprised we haven’t gone to Highgarden or Pentos.
Aemond (honestly, there are more letters in the alphabet, folks! Anagram for Daemon and, of course, “A demon”) is experiencing mental instability though has no internal conflict. Gonna get away with what he did, I suspect.
The real issue with dragons is that they eat a shit-ton of food meant for humans. Oh, and humans. Can solve that hunger problem quite almost-Swiftly.