We are glad you came to MVP House of the DragonOur series that highlights the Most Valuable Player of each episode. The game before Game of Thrones.
There are two types. House of the DragonPlayers and pieces There are two categories in the players category. The king, great lords and dominant individual power like RhaenyraCorlys, Daemon, & Daemon. The pieces category includes most of the women and the smallfolk.
It is crucial to distinguish the players from the pieces in the game of thrones. Mistaking one player for another can lead to serious consequences. This is the mistake Queen Alicent makes in “The Green Council” — why, after all she did “right” to ensure her son Aegon usurped the throne from Rhaenyra, her best laid plans ended with episode 9 MVP Princess Rhaenys erupting from the floor of the dragonpit on her dragon Meleys and going full Godzilla on Aegon’s coronation.
In the episode’s earlier episodes, Queen Alicent asks Rhaenys to support her in betraying Rhaenyra. She assumes they have something in common. From the outside, it appears they have something in common: They both have been manipulated by powerful men. However, that’s the end of their similarities. Alicent sees the path to power as one that is invariably marred by the sacrifices made to those who are powerful. To fulfill her father’s ambition, she sacrificed her youth and her body to Viserys, and now she is sacrificing her morals in order to place her son, a well-known rapist, on the throne. She is unable to see Rhaenys in the chaos of usurpation and believes that she has been abandoned and powerless.
Alicent is made to realize that Rhaenys doesn’t believe in such things. Rhaenys reminds Alicent who she is talking to and the queen barely speaks a word. Rhaenys states, “I will be doing you the significant courtesy to assume there is some reason for the outrage I have treated here this morning.” She deserves better, and she knows it!
“We [women]Alicent asserts that they are not meant for rule, and Rhaenys responds with a brutal smackdown worthy both of the old gods as well as the new. She informs the queen that she continues to work for men. “You want to not be free, but to make a window through the wall of your prison.” Damn.
The difference between Alicent and Rhaenys is that Rhaenys has something familiar to Targaryen women — an iron will and boundless self-worth. Rhaenys believed that the Great Council had denied her the throne. It was not the fact that she was more suited to lead. Viserys did not insult her when he chose Laena to marry her, as she valued her daughter far more than anything a husband could. In her grief for her (as far she knows) dead children, she quarrels and fights with Corlys, her ambitious husband. He is the one who leaves Driftmark to Rhaenys to run the island in his place. She is Princess Rhaenys, House Targaryen. NeverBe powerless
Rhaenys is carried through the episode by Alicent’s ignorant “We aren’t meant to rule” comment. Her only priority when Ser Erryk Cargile forces her from her room is to get to her dragon. She presumably mutters “Who is?” We?” She said, “Y’all are gonna learn today!” They do. The Dragons can do whatever they want when they want. Rhaenys then wanted to remind Greens who they are playing against.
And that is how Princess Rhaenys wasted decades of House Hightower’s time, effort, and money by busting out the basement like a fire-breathing Kool-Aid man, resplendent in battle armor and astride her dragon — who, by the way, has an amazingly apt nickname. Rhaenys’ dragon Meleys is also known as…the Red Queen.
