Vulcanheph:
It's obvious that episode 10 will Mark the beginning of the "Dance of the Dragons".
This will be exactly when Rhaenyra finally figures out about her father's death and her brother's coronation...
But somehow I feel as if everything was Viserys Targaryen's fault.
He allowed his emotions cloud his judgement (something a person in power should never do).
He knew fully well that Rheanyra's claim to the throne will be contested for 3 obvious reasons...
1. She was a woman.
2. She had brother's who were true born.
3. The paternity of her 3 first kids (who were her heirs) was questionable.

What Viserys should have done is supposed to be the same thing King Jaeherys did by making the people choose between Rhaenyra and Aegon who they wanted.
This would have saved him any feeling of guilt and favoritism.
He obviously wasn't as wise as his grandfather King Jaeherys , who is still remembered as one of the greatest Targaryen Kings.

Jaeherys was wise but not with that decision, that decision gave rise to the belief that the lords of the realm should have a say in which targaryean should become king or queen, that is the foundation for the meddlesome interference by Otto hightower and houses hightower and lannister, he should have simply declared Viserys his heir and have the lords swear their fealty to him like Viserys did for rhaenyra

Luckygurl:
If Rhaenys had opened fire on the greens then it’d have been an easy way out and the action we all crave won’t be given to us.
I preferred she made her point clear the way she did. I only pity the innocent onlookers that were affected by her grand entrance

all of you saying Rhaenys shoulda nuked em greens really don't understand party politics do you? especially the concept of a nonpartisan observer or an undecided voter?

drmuchin:



Rhaenys Bleep up I swear
God delivered your enemies into your hands
You chicken out like Mumu

they were not officially her enemies at that point in time, they were her captors but not her enemies

drmuchin:
Why would Princess Rhaneys have an opportunity to wipe out her enemies with her dragon, and just fly away. I would have loved to see Otto and that bastardly cripple Strong burn to ashes

cc Kamwulia

she and her house weren't contenders for the throne, and she can't declare for or choose a side on behalf of her house, corlys velaryon not her was the head of her house so in other words, the sentence or judgement wasn't hers to pass

pu7pl3:


Who owns the dragon Daemon was singing to?
Abduleez1

no one for now, that's vermithor, second largest living dragon after Vhaegar and his last rider was the late king Jaeherys

dubylhover:


Exactly,he just set rhanerya up for war,left to me,he's the cause of the *dance of dragons*

an oath is binding, he was a honourable man who thought an oath of fealty was a binding pact that even his family dare not challenge, but we know how human nature works in succession struggles world over even within families, if her family didn't dispute her succession no one else would have dared! So no, she was set up not by her father but by her father's hand Otto high tower and house hightower

Adek15:
yes but a bastard can still be made a trueborn. For Rhenya case, she married her husband legally and the the husband acknowledged the kids.

point is, none of the kids was born out of wedlock

Vulcanheph:
I love your perspective and you have helped throw more light on why he didn't change Rhaenyra as heir... Viserys was a honourable man but what was a fact in westeros was that a woman sitting on the iron throne will face a lot of challenges unlike a man... This is what Jaeherys knew that's why he didn't give Rhaenys the throne and manipulated it to be given to Viserys instead without really doing it himself.( just like you said).
When you're in a position of power you gotta learn to make hard decisions no matter what or who is involved.
If Viserys had called a council and made the people to choose who they want (which I'm sure , they would choose Aegon) ... Then the "Dance of the Dragons" would have never happened.

at that point in time dorne was the number one enemy of the iron throne and at different points in time dorne was led even in war time by a woman, in fact the death of one of Aegon the first's sister wives and her dragon in sunspear was during the leadership of of a female Martell, so tell me, what does that say about the challenges a so-called woman leader is expected to face in that world?

sod09:

It's an infection
I had same some months ago, funny thing is it will transfer to the second eyes too
See optician asap to check and prescribe eye drops

optician ke? there are optometrists and ophthalmologists any other variation na O.Y.O for you

JoshTim:


The same thing is happening to me. I don use glass tire....use anti blue light whenever am using my system, but the thing no dey improve. I bought a herbal tea, let's see if it will work.

when you don waste your money on herbal tea finish carry your two left leg go hospital, agbo/Jedi Jedi generation

BloomingDale:


Na lie. Na Blacky like white toto.

i hope you understand that the picture you posted is racist, for racists and appeals to racist sentiments

naptu2:
Peterside Ottong - Where Are The Prophets? (1989)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQrD6nbkl-Q


Original video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWCDQP79qs

i downloaded this recently

INDOMIE9090:
bro he don do
Stay off my mention pls
You lost 3millions innocent people last war but it seems you aren’t satisfied right?
Keep looking for who to fight up an down .

mumu! Were you the ones that fought said war alone? If it were between both regions una no know say una for collect wotorwotor? Leave this matter abeg, you cowards be sounding like you were conquerors or something

realestate99:

You idiots keep re writing history!!! Your people were no match for the O.p.c guys, your elders were running around summoning peace meeting after 3 days, your natural chestbeating trait would always be your downfall. You can't even fight ordinary touts, how can you fight OPC in their hey days? I can't just post some sensitive pics here because amplifying violence is not cool. Your people were no match for the OPC guys that time. Do not ask for a repeat of that scenario, respect your host and lock your leaking mouth you use to abuse anyone not on same wavelength with you.

lols, keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep , being neither Igbo nor Yoruba and having no bone in the fight apart from sanity, rule of law, justice and public safety puts me in a position where my testimony is more reliable than your bias testimony, it boils down to this, without government support, if those traders were to mean to deal with those agberos they'd be dead within a week, but keep shouting your lily livered pussy-minded voice hoarse that it would be different from my postulations

realestate99:

Yes, but any thing that can be able to cure some people's stupidity, especially those throwing unwarranted attacks ( verbally) on the great Yoruba race is not out of line, do not let me assume that you are a liberal Yoruba because they are even more dangerous than the outside enemies with their sympathetic approach to issues that can wreck our great tribe.

nobody is attacking the Yoruba race you m0ron! they are attacking touts which can be of any tribe same as traders in alaba are of any tribe, the mindset that condemning the touts is a condemnation against your tribe only goes to show that you are either a tout for real or a tout at heart because no one should defend illegality irrespective of tribe, it is like me a Niger deltan defending oil bunkerers or Italian Americans making excuses for cossanostra Mafia bosses! It's all fun and games until they target you and those close to you then you recognise their criminality for what it is!

realestate99:

Another flat headed hairy chestbeater, in the early 2000s when your elders where begging for peace when O.P.C nearly wiped out a section of that market, where were you? you better stay in your lane, if you do not want worse fate to befall you, and to make matters worse, you have no allies in the country, you have virtually insulted every other ethnic group.

i was there then, your OPC were soundly beaten and many killed from ajangbadi to Alaba to ojo, many running to hide inside places of worship and into the iyana-iba back market close to the lagoon! Don't come bearing false witness here for an event you didn't experience firsthand! I saw what igbo traders did to those useless, worthless urchins and that is why I am surprised that 21 years later they are able to enter into the market to cause mayhem and still leave alive, the traders I knew of back then would have killed them, dismembered their corpses and distribute what is left to strategic location for their father tinubu to come pick up

JoshTheStoic:
How will he take the news if he learned that his brother was killed by Daemon, oh I forgot he himself so much believe his grandsons aren't bastards. If seasnake isn't dead, the story just got interesting

in his strides, the show already shows that he put his family name ahead of blood! His brother was plotting to succeed him against his will even before confirming his death, not cool at all from his perspective

dubylhover:


I still opine that viceroys wasn't a wise king,the fact that he purposely kept a blind eye and was obviously biased towards rhanerya,did he think he would love forever to keep covering for her? Remember that scene where he queried Aegon about who told him about rhaenera bastards,his reply was "look at them,everyone knows".he knew. Did he think that not acknowledging the problem would make it disappear? Why did he think the jaeharys council choose him over princess rhaenys? It was because he was male,he now has full targaryen sons and you'd expect the realm to accept his daughters? One full worth controversy?

understand this, he is the king, kings by nature are autocratic, when he makes a decree and says white is black, white automatically becomes black in the eyes of the realm not because everybody is blind, it is because nobody is powerful enough or foolish enough to go against the king a live to keep their head, him knowing the kids are strongs and declaring them velaryons is him exercising his autocratic powers and daring anybody to contradict him, the only people who ever dared contradict him were his family because they knew he won't kill them, the first non-targayrean to put the accusations to voice lost his head courtesy daemon so I disagree, he was not biased to rhaenyra, he was biased to house targaryean in general including his cousin Rhaenys. The difference in this succession is that his grandfather Jaeherys' could have simply allowed the elder line to succeed him through Rhaenys, he wanted a male to succeed him hence he threw the decision to the lords of the realm, almost all of them male and the decision was a forgone conclusion! He only wanted to absolve himself of guilt and responsibility in the cheating of Rhaenys. Viserys by contrast declared his daughter rhaenyra heir and made the lords of the realm swear fealty to her and take oaths to support and defend her succession as his then only child, yet you expect him to show fickle indecisiveness and change his mind because a prince was later born? You can't make all the entire lords of the realm take an oath and be the first to discard the oath and still expect same fealty and reverence from them for your house. And yet you people think Viserys was a weak and foolish king. He might be very merciful but even when connected to Otto by marriage he was able to see and call Otto's service for what it was, self serving and he recognised lord strong as the real small council member who always put the realm first

JoshTheStoic:
don't let the emotions get the best of us, I understand we like Dragons but even Sea Snake might be dead now with the Dragons they own. Let open our mind, episode 3 was made for us to understand that during old days that Dragon is just another weapon, not a game changer. We should move on from GOT that made us believe Dragons are gods

fact! The seasnake definitely isn't dead, he still has a major role in the actual dance of dragons to play I.e blockading kingslanding and the naval war with the triachy fleet the green enlisted to lift the blockade

favouritecandy:
More facts from Reno Omokri. Obi is way behind

and where was the buhari you campaigned for and elected in 2015 & 2019 comparatively?
Abeg just rest mbok

Well done OP
Bravo!

chukwugoziegi:


Really? That thing literally turned him into a white walker.

whitewalkers were whole bodied, just icy, Viserys was .......

olabolaji:


Ok I understand, Jon snow

he truly knows nothing

Reex12:
even Daemon knows Aegon standing but his quest for power makes him loyal to his wife,
her kids are bastards for crying outloud, reason Daemon couldnt wife misaeryia the LovePeddler for she will beget bastards and not trueborns,

In GOT isn't this what caused stannis and his gay brother to lay claim the throne after rumors the fatman's kids weren't his

claim to ascension by blood derives from the previous monarch! Rhaenyras children are hers by blood whereas Robert's children are not his by blood so where does your confusion come from? In this terms, only the targaryean and baratheon blood counts, velaryon, strong and lannister blood doesn't count, understood?

Reex12:
otto highhtower's advise was good at the time for not declaring daemon hier bcus he would have been a tryant, they all knew it, they avoided that situation by naming the princess. But the king would still remarry and a male child would be born who would take his place, the lady rhaena made this clear to the princess when she presented little laena as a match to the king, that Remarrying was inevitable and no woman has ever ascended the ironthrone right from Aegon the conqueror, that menwage wars an women birth hiers, Even used herself as an example, the queen who never was

Otto aside if lady Leana had been offage at the time, she would have been made queen bcus everyone knew marrying the seasnake was the best choice for the kingdom, But blinded by love and circumstance he chose Alicent ,now a son Aegon is born and the iron throne is his birthright and not rhaenyra, or the Kingdom will tear itself apart,every common man in the street of Westeros knows this, as rhaenyra saw when she went adventuring into a carnival dressed as a boy

Even the king vicerys was chosen to be king over Rhaenys-the oldest female relative(the queen who never was) yet he decides to choose Rhaenyra over Aegon as Hier, which is against thier gods and men

how can you make such a statement as the bolded and still absolve Otto hightower saying he gave the best impartial advice? His advice was never impartial, he guided the king against naming daemon as his heir for reasons that were not impersonal, otherwise daemon could have been named heir and married of to rhaenyra to avoid all these! After helping make rhaenyra heir, he had his daughter entice Viserys in the guise of consoling him and didn't do his job as hand to counsel the king to marry little laena velaryon for duty so the king ended marrying his daughter who had no political significance to the kingdom! According to whom was daemon a tyrant? Abeg make una dey talk truth

Reex12:
The looming war is needless, thousands will die and dragons will become extinct (until deanyrs).
Aegon is the rightful heir and rhaenyra was only chosen bcus of lack of options, vicerys knows this, its he killed her mother in desperation for a son. Now 2sons are borns to the king aegon and aemond how TF does she think she would surpass them for the throne?bcus she is older? She's a woman and children are bastards for bleeps sake evryone knows this even deanrys conquered cities for the throne but once she found out Jon is her brother's son she became insecure and begged Jon not to reveal his heritage, you know why? Yes he's the rightful king than she,

If Jon was wanted the throne men and kingdoms would kneel before him

in dorne the throne of sunspear goes to the eldest child male or female

Gr8lex:

Still no excuse bro. The fact is those kids were not sired by her legally married husband which is adultery.

That is enough ground for her to lose the throne if it becomes public knowledge.

lols you are using modern day morality to judge the issue, in those times the word of the king was law and targaryeans viewed themselves as above the laws of men and gods, so as a targaryean she can Bleep whoever she likes and declare her strong boys as velaryons and say to hell with whoever wants to argue with her claims, only problem in this case being, her opponents are also targaryeans

Gr8lex:

He did rule well except for the part where he stuck with Rhaenyra as his heir despite knowing that her kids are bastards, knowing that those kids will sit the iron throne after their mother.

He basically chose bastards to sit the iron throne over his own blood. I don't think that's wise.

I also think Viserys died in this episode.

you guys are missing the entire point, you are relating this to game of thrones without understanding the difference! The plot here is not whether or not the kids are legal heirs, they are in the eye of the law by the way, or whether they have the blood, their line of descent only counts from their mother, they have their mother's blood and that is all that counts, it is about whether they can destroy the reputation of the mother in the eyes of the lords of the realm and make them see her as unworthy of succession in order to supplant her with her brother aegon as the direct male successor to Viserys

oyetpel:


Ep 8 was Viserys moment.

But was it the queen that chopped off his eyes because of Aemond's eye?

Viserys deserves an emmy for his portrayal of the dying king! Kudos to the actor Paddy Considine who played him, he brought to life the embodiment of willpower against the assault of a dying body to impose his will in favour of his daughter and grandchildren one last time, the only blood that matters is the blood of the dragon

Adek15:
Daemon's wife that died was a dragon rider. How come she died from dragon fire

khaleesi was unique among dragon riders, she is one of the few in the entire history of targaryean dragonriders, valyrian dragonriders before them, and the empire encompassing modern day ashai by the sea before them of the emperors descended from the lion of the night who was genuinely resistant to fire, every other dragon rider had high tolerance for heat but they weren't fireproof

Zee0007:


Lolz. From the narrator's opening remark in Episode 1. It was clearly stated that the only thing that can bring the house of dragon down it's itself.

King Visery onced told the young Reheanrya that what make them powerful is not what Reheanrya taught. The dragon is an illusion of their power. The little gossips and alliance are what change the course of the throne.

I still maintain. I will rather choose a creepy Lary than a dragon.

dragons win battles and wars! Unless the opponent has dragons too making it a checkmate! Underplaying the significance of dragons in the war to come is just laughable, the show is about the first and most important targaryean civil war, it's notoriety is because in this era dragons were weapons of war! It is the only of their civil wars that almost rendered their family line extinct

JoshTheStoic:
We should look at it this way... Rhaenyra and Daemon+ all children are one piece, House Hightower (Alicient, Otto and children) are another. What makes the difference is alliances with other houses, like House Strong now is with Alicient who is more like the intelligence, House Velaryon, other houses might come up as show proceed, like House Baratheon who I think are the Lord of the Sea too like Velaryon, House Stark (Rikon Stark), this houses might serve as the Knights and army to the war coming.

Dragons don't win wars, we can't judge with how many Dragons Daemon and Rhaenyra has or how many Alicient has, the way we saw the battle with the Crab Feeder, Episode 3 was made purposely to make fan understand that having Dragons is not really a game changer these time period as you can see
Daemon dragon was a bad news which put them on disadvantage and they had to come with another strategy, unlike during Game of Thrones that owning a Dragon was a big deal. Remember Cersie telling his comrade back then that in old times people don't fear dragon much because they can be killed.

not every army has winding stone caves to retreat into when a dragon attacks, the lords of the realm asides the lannisters in casterly rock almost all exclusively live in stone, wood and mortar castles which are proud family heirlooms they won't risk destruction to and are totally undefended and indefensible against dragons, they all have to chose a side in the war to come and many will burn down to dragon fire so you're wrong, in this war dragons will decide battles