The evening is darkish and filled with spoilers for “Home of the Dragon” Season 3, Episode 7.
“Home of the Dragon” is quick approaching its conclusion, with Season 4 set to carry the collection to an finish. Even so, there’s nonetheless an entire lot extra story to cowl, which makes one marvel if this present will finally stick the touchdown. The seventh and newest episode of Season 3 locations a number of essential items on the board, revealing the true colours of the dragon-riding Ulf the White (Tom Bennett) and elevating questions concerning the Mistress of Whispers, Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno). On the similar time, it feels just like the episode goes in circles in terms of Alice Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and her facet quest to homicide her personal son, Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell).
However who cares about any of that, as a result of the most recent episode is all concerning the dragons! With solely 9 episodes left in the complete present, “Home of the Dragon” spends a major period of time this week reminding you concerning the collection’ actual stars, i.e. the lovable little flying nukes that can tragically go extinct due to the Dance of the Dragons. Season 3 has already given us some nice dragon motion (principally within the opening episode through the Battle of the Gullet), however Episode 7 ramps issues up by lastly revealing a much-anticipated dragon that has inexplicably been absent till now: Dreamfyre.
Dreamfyre, you see, is a 100 12 months previous, lovely blue dragon with silvery horns that’s bonded to Helaena Targaryen (Phia Saban) and is by far the prettiest dragon we have ever seen in Westeros (making her earlier absence that rather more confounding). Sadly, she solely seems for roughly 20 seconds and in a dream sequence, no much less. However nonetheless, it counts!
Dreamfyre’s absence has modified Helaena on Home of the Dragon
“Home of the Dragon” has made loads of adjustments to its supply materials (to the purpose of inflicting an enormous rift with co-creator George R. R. Martin), however its Dreamfyre drawback is likely one of the most complicated for a collection that is by no means been hesitant to function dragons on-screen. On the present, Helaena is a mild soul who’s fairly shy round people but appears to care quite a bit about animals … apart from her personal dragon, apparently! Certainly, she’s but to be depicted flying on Dreamfyre, and in Season 2, we have been even advised that Helaena has “no style for driving” — one thing that, frankly, goes towards the very essence of her character on the collection.
The truth that the primary time Dreamfyre seems in a dream sequence — one the place, relatively than her flying, she’s burning down protestors with Helaena — is telling. However will “Home of the Dragon” really fill us in on Helaena’s historical past together with her dragon? Most likely not. As such, we’re left to only marvel what the hell drove her to keep away from seeing Dreamfyre, solely to abruptly have a dream about her burning folks alive.
However regardless of not being bodily current (at the least, not till this week), Dreamfyre has already performed an enormous half on “Home of the Dragon” Season 3. Beforehand, we realized that Alys Rivers (Gayle Rankin) one way or the other got here in possession of previous dragon eggs she claims have been left behind by Dreamfyre centuries in the past. This isn’t within the present’s supply materials (Martin’s ebook “Hearth &Â Blood”), and it appears like too large a thriller to introduce this late within the story the place there’s little time left to truly discover it.
Dragons do not need a very good time on Home of the Dragon this week
Past the Dreamfyre sequence, dragons do not have a very good time on the most recent episode of “Home of the Dragon.” Most notably, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen herself (Emma D’Arcy) goes on the offensive to chase down the dragon Sheepstealer after listening to that it is acquired a rider, solely to uncover the darkish fact that her husband Daemon (Matt Smith) and his daughter Rhaena (Phoebe Campbell) have been hiding from her. This results in what’s no doubt the saddest dragon combat on the present, culminating with Sheepstealer being put down like a feral canine.
And for what crime? For by chance serving to a prince get killed? Sheepstealer is aware of nothing of the road of succession! Certain, he is a violent, uncontrollable menace, however he is mainly an outsized pet! He wasn’t harming anybody in The Vale past that, simply consuming sheep!
If this illustrates something, although, it is that “Home of the Dragon” is all concerning the ways in which Home Targaryen misused their biggest asset: their magnificent dragons. They’ve dedicated crimes towards not simply humanity however nature itself, and this assault on Sheepstealer proves as a lot. Even worse, it will merely mark the beginning of an extended stretch of violent assaults on dragons by different dragons (and their riders) on the present. Make no mistake, our favourite flying nukes aren’t going to get a cheerful ending on “Home of the Dragon.”
Talking of which, this week’s episode marks the triumphant return of one other essential dragon: Sunfyre! Sadly, the massive man — who’s bonded to the exiled Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) — is in very tough form and lacking half his face. However at the least he is alive!
