5 burning questions for House Of The Dragon episode 7

We've cruised through 10-plus years now on House Of The Dragon, so where do the characters go from here?

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5 burning questions for House Of The Dragon episode 7
Matt Smith Image: Ollie Upton / HBO

House Of The Dragon has sure been keeping the audience on our toes. Just when you feel like you have a handle on these characters and their situations, everything changes. Everything except the deadly collision course the characters have been on since the premiere. If episodes one through five were prologue, and episode six launched us head first into the real meat of the story, where will episode seven take us? In order to move forward, it might be best to look back, catch our breath, and take a look at how the previous episode opened up some interesting possibilities for the future.

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5. Are we in for another time jump in the next episode?
Olivia Cooke, Paddy Considine, Evie Allen, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Shani Smethurst Image Ollie Upton / HBO

The show has been moving so quickly through time it’s a little disorienting. Every time we find ourselves in the future we have to learn where the characters are in their lives all over again, and there’s a lot we’ve missed. It would be nice to stop for a bit and take a look around. Based on cast changes and some promotional images from future episodes, it sure looks like we haven’t seen the last of the time jumps, though maybe not in episode seven. In the trailer, it appears that everyone will be making the journey to Pentos for Laena’s funeral. So enough time for a sea voyage, but probably not any longer than that. At some point before the end of the season, we’ll be getting older actors portraying the next-generation kids we just met. So let’s appreciate this brief stopover while we can, and brace ourselves before the story flings us forward a few more years.

5 Comments

  • deb03449a1-av says:

    Imagine if this was a single page list instead of a slideshow

  • teageegeepea-av says:

    Lord Varys

    Larys.

  • iambrett-av says:

    Daemon’s going to marry Rhaenyra. Even aside from knowing that already, it makes sense as a power move – she’s vulnerable again with Harwin Strong dead along with his father, and Daemon is a powerful potential ally. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got the “Strong Toast” next episode. Look it up in Fire and Blood if  you have it. 

  • frenchtoast24-av says:

    Still gotta hit that slideshow quota 

  • mc3isworse-av says:

    Alicent doesn’t like Rhaenyra because she manipulated her into getting her own father removed as HoK and because she believes that Rhaenyra will eventually put her children to the sword to strengthen her claim to the throne.

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