Emma D'Arcy standing in front of the small council in House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 5
The Big Picture For Targaryens, matters of family and war are often the same thing, and this week's episode of House of the Dragon uses this in the best possible way in the last scene between Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and her heir, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon . What starts looking as if Jace is about to get scolded by Rhaenyra quickly turns into a tender moment between mother and son, one among many Season 2 has given us so far.
Then, in Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold," Jacaerys makes his anger at Rhaenyra clear about her having disappeared in the previous episode, "The Burning Mill," to try and sue for peace with Alicent Hightower in King's Landing. Without getting into whether she should or shouldn't have done this, she pretty much disarms Jace when she summons him to talk after their Small Council meeting.
One of the main complaints about how House of the Dragon depicts Rhaenyra is that she isn't as ruthless as in the book. In Fire & Blood, she immediately says that she will either have her throne or Aegon II's head, for example. While that does seem like a Targaryen thing to say, it doesn't sound very prudent nor well-developed as a character . In the series, she takes it as a burden, burying most of her actual feelings for private moments, like the ones with Jacaerys.
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