Within the very first shot of the most recent trailer for Home of the Dragon season 3, the digital camera pans over a subject of lifeless our bodies, ending with Daemon (Matt Smith) battering some schmuck within the mud. We’re then handled to photographs of individuals being stabbed, squished, and torched alive by dragons. Yep, it is a Recreation of Thrones present alright.
Home of the Dragon continues the HBO franchise’s central theme, one straight from the George R. R. Martin books: the struggle to rule tends to decimate those that can be dominated. However with its give attention to best-friends turned rivals Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), the present reminds us that issues aren’t so nice for the rulers both. As Alicent places it within the trailer, “The crown is a weight that crushes.”
Apparently, that crushing got here as a shock to Rhaenyra, who’s seen within the trailer lastly laying declare to King’s Touchdown and absolutely asserting herself because the ruler of Westeros. Over pictures of her forces transferring in and tearing down the inexperienced flags of the Hightowers, Rhaenyra declares that she is going to safe town “with out additional bloodshed.” And the way does she plan to do this? By threatening bloodshed for many who oppose her. Or, extra precisely, by threatening to torch the opposition with dragons.
For Rhaenyra, that opposition stems fully from her challenger to the throne, Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney), son of her father Viserys (Paddy Considine) and Alicent. Aegon has confirmed laborious to kill, having survived even near-immolation from a dragon, however Rhaenyra stays satisfied that if she will be able to simply get him out of the way in which, then the folks will unite round her. She appears unaware of the constructing resentment among the many folks, significantly as she establishes her rule in King’s Touchdown, or the machinations of Aegon’s insane brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), who nonetheless rides the Queen of All Dragons, Vhagar.
