I immediately got a whiff of King Joffrey from "Game of Thrones," someone who is high on their new powers. Indeed, once Aegon hears the crowds cheering at his coronation and sees everyone bow to him, including Otto Hightower, we see his look change from one of doubt to triumph. It's a dangerous game to play with someone who is about to inherit tremendous power. As she tries to influence him to spare Rhaenyra once he is king, Aegon asks her if she loves him. "You are no son of mine," she tells him after she learns that he's forced himself on one of the serving girls. He has also fathered multiple bastards.Īlicent has slapped Aegon multiple times on the show. Because he didn’t like me.”Īegon has many deficiencies, including his drinking habit, penchant for bedding serving maids, and a twisted taste for underground children's fight clubs. When Alicent tries to convince him otherwise, he says: “He could have, but he never did. Steadfastly, he upheld Rhaenyra’s claim," he says. “He had 20 years to name me heir and never did. “Then we may proceed now with the full assurance of his blessing on our long-laid plans,” he says.īut even Aegon, as depraved as he has become, speaks the uncomfortable truth to his mother on the way to his rushed coronation. Tyland Lannister, master of ships, doesn’t even pretend to hide their plot. That doesn't stop the Green Council, the group within the small council plotting a coup d'etat behind the queen's back, from moving forward with their plan to crown Aegon II as the new king. That’s a whole generation of intrigue - enough time for children to be born, grow up or die, and for characters to forge alliances and rivalries, fall in love or lust, harbor grievances or perhaps even go mad, a trait of the Targaryen bloodline (see the Mad King, Daenerys Targaryen’s father).Īlicent and Viserys' eldest son is clearly unfit and unwilling to rule. It will plant “the seeds of what will eventually be a war,” he said, referring to the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war over who will sit on the Iron Throne. Martin, creator of the fantasy series on which the shows are based, in an interview aired on the official “Game of Thrones” podcast. The 10 episodes of the show's first season cover 28 years of Westerosi history, according to George R.R. There are also three grandchildren in the picture, as the family's poison continues to trickle down the generations. This includes Daemon and Rhaenyra's two trueborn kids - who have the silvery-white hair to prove it - as well as Joffrey Velaryon, the only child with a name that defies Valyrian tradition, and one unnamed and unmentioned child. Daemon, Rhaenyra and Alicent have 11 kids among them by the eighth episode, which is set about six years after the "Driftmark" episode.
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