Season 2, Episode 4 of “House of the Dragon” ended in bloodshed, with Rhaenys (Eve Best) and Meleys being killed by Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Vhagar – a huge blow to Team Black.Season 2, Episode 4 of “House of the Dragon” ended in bloodshed, with Rhaenys (Eve Best) and Meleys being killed by Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Vhagar – a huge blow to Team Black. Despite losing a great dragon and a rider with more battle experience than any other Targaryen aside from Daemon (Matt Smith), Best said it was the best outcome. Rhaenys volunteers for the Rook’s Rest mission because she senses that Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) was about to go herself. “Rhaenys chooses to step in, when she’s been saying all season long, ‘We can’t use dragons. We can’t use anything but dragons.’ If this is going to happen, if this action is going to be taken, it’s better if she does it than anyone else,” she said on “Inside the Episode” after Sunday’s episode. “At the end of the day, she’s expendable, whereas Rhaenyra is not.” Rhaenys and her dragon Meleys – known throughout Westeros as The Red Queen – were both killed during The Battle of Rook’s Rest after facing off against both Aemond and Vhagar, as well as Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Sunfyre. If it had been just one of them, it seems likely that Rhaenys would have emerged victorious. While the ultimate fates of Aegon and Sunfyre seem to be up in the air, the battle was in reality a much bigger loss for Team Black than it was for Team Green. Best went into this in depth during the official “House of the Dragon” podcast following the episode 4 reveal. “Objectively, they simply lose their best man, their best chess piece,” Best said. She added that Rhaenys – who was the one true voice supporting Rhaenyra in her own council – has big shoes to fill, not only because she was an experienced dragon rider, but also because of her character. “I mean, she’s an enlightened badass,” Best said. “That’s what I love about her, is that despite the fact that she, you know, rises above everything with such incredible grace and style, she’s also just unconditionally cool as f–k.” New episodes of “House of the Dragon” air every Sunday on HBO and stream on Max.
Season 2, Episode 4 of “House of the Dragon” ended in bloodshed, with Rhaenys (Eve Best) and Meleys being killed by Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Vhagar – a huge blow to Team Black.
Despite losing a great dragon and a rider with more battle experience than any other Targaryen aside from Daemon (Matt Smith), Best said it was the best outcome. Rhaenys volunteers for the Rook’s Rest mission because she senses that Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) was about to go herself.
“Rhaenys chooses to step in, when she’s been saying all season long, ‘We can’t use dragons. We can’t use anything but dragons.’ If this is going to happen, if this action is going to be taken, it’s better if she does it than anyone else,” she said on “Inside the Episode” after Sunday’s episode. “At the end of the day, she’s expendable, whereas Rhaenyra is not.”
Rhaenys and her dragon Meleys – known throughout Westeros as The Red Queen – were both killed during The Battle of Rook’s Rest after facing off against both Aemond and Vhagar, as well as Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Sunfyre. If it had been just one of them, it seems likely that Rhaenys would have emerged victorious. While the ultimate fates of Aegon and Sunfyre seem to be up in the air, the battle was in reality a much bigger loss for Team Black than it was for Team Green. Best went into this in depth during the official “House of the Dragon” podcast following the episode 4 reveal.
“Objectively, they simply lose their best man, their best chess piece,” Best said.
She added that Rhaenys – who was the one true voice supporting Rhaenyra in her own council – has big shoes to fill, not only because she was an experienced dragon rider, but also because of her character.
“I mean, she’s an enlightened badass,” Best said. “That’s what I love about her, is that despite the fact that she, you know, rises above everything with such incredible grace and style, she’s also just unconditionally cool as f–k.”
New episodes of “House of the Dragon” air every Sunday on HBO and stream on Max.
