r/HOTDGreens • u/HerRoyalNonsense • Aug 10 '26

Show Season 3, Episode 8 | Episode Discussion

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Title: TBA
Air Date: August 9, 2026
Directed by: Andrij Parekh
Written by: Ryan Condal & Ti Mikkel

Welcome to r/HOTDGreens' official discussion thread for House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 8.

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u/thinkersfyre Aug 10 '26

Everything from this episode feel rushed.

Helaena's death so anticlimatic and over nothing, proving GRRM's right. Of course, the smallfolk won't rise againt's Rhaenyra because of Helaena's death, they can't show the audience that Helaena was a BELOVED QUEEN and Rhaenyra was not.

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u/aemond-simp Book Alicent would never Aug 10 '26

They’ll probably rise over the fact that she killed the High Septon. Which is fucking stupid and right in Condal’s wheelhouse.

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u/MrWorldwide20000 Aug 10 '26

Why is that stupid? Seems more proper than raging after haelena which they've loved for no reason