The Dragonpit S2E1: "I want Aemond Targaryen"🩸🧀

We’re back with Episode 1 of Season 2 and kick off with the melancholy tones of the Stark theme song — that can only mean one thing: winter and war are coming. Jace does his best to reinforce their alliance but Cregan doesn’t need reminding because the North remembers their oaths. 

This was a good way of reminding the rest of us that this isn’t just a story about the Greens v. Blacks, but a bigger threat is looming and at least the Starks and Team Black know the costs. We leave the North as Jace is told of the death of his little brother, Luc. 

Back on Dragonstone, Rhenys is doing everything she can to blockade the Greens main shipping channel while Daemon is stuck on Dragonstone trying to blame her for not killing Aegon when she had a chance. It doesn’t work because she reminds him that he’s not in charge and she’s still a badass. Her husband is also doing his best to prepare for war and confers with a character we will see a lot this season, Alyn of Hull.

Back in King’s Landing, Aegon is feeling fatherly when he comes to train his son to be a king (a training he never received) and his wife, Helena can’t find Jaherys, but prophetically tells us she is afraid of the rats. After a little afternoon delight between Criston Cole and Alicent Hightower, we’re taken to the small council meeting where the Greens prepare for war. Politicking ensues with no one quite sure how this new king will lead and who is really in charge. 

Across the Gullet on Dragonstone, Rhaenyra brings home evidence of her son’s murder and speaks four words all episode: I want Aemond Targaryen. Daemon reunites with the White Worm, Mysaria who gives him key intel to infiltrate the Red Keep with the help of a Gold Cloak named Blood and a ratcatcher named Cheese. The unlikely duo sneak into Queen Helena’s room and cut off the head of her son, Jaehaerys. Technically, it was “a son for a son” but at what cost?