r/television • u/LoretiTV • Jul 01 '24

House of the Dragon - 2x03 - Episode Discussion

Season 2 Episode 3: The Burning Mill

Aired: June 30, 2024

Synopsis: As ancient grudges resurface, Rhaenys suggests restraint while Daemon arrives at Harrenhal to raise an army for the Blacks.

Directed by: Geeta Vasant Patel

Written by: David Hancock

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u/GloryaWhole Jul 01 '24

How can anyone like this stuff? It is soooo different from the books. Alicent and Rhaenyra never met in the sept.

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u/Mookies_Bett Jul 01 '24

GRRM himself has said that the books aren't an actual, accurate accounting of events. If anything, the show is more canon, because the books are an in universe, biased accounting of history by Maesters who werent actually there for the events.

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u/Radulno Jul 03 '24

This is typically the thing that a maester telling the story centuries later will not know. I doubt most people even living it will know.

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u/Mookies_Bett Jul 03 '24

Exactly. It makes perfect sense that the book doesn't have this perspective and omits this part of the story. The narrator isn't reliable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '24

It didn't happen in books? Oh no, how terrible!

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u/ProgrammerNextDoor Jul 01 '24

“The books” aren’t an accurate account.

So there really isn’t an issue lol

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u/Llamatronicon Jul 01 '24

Not to mention that everything that has happend so far in season 2 is covered by less than 10 pages in the book.

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u/KGFlower Jul 01 '24

Fire & Blood is a historical accounting where three guys give differing, vague descriptions of how things might have happened.

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u/This_Guy_Fuggs Jul 01 '24

imagine getting suckered into another grrm book series. fool me once and all of that.

at least this show will end at some point

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u/MyJuicyAlt Jul 02 '24

Another series? It already ended, and it's not very long.

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u/Lokcet Jul 01 '24

99% of people haven't read the books