The new Game of Thrones spin-off series has begun: “House of the Dragon” has premiered on August 22 on HBO Max. The Game of Thrones that we all loved at the time is back with a first episode that has it all and promises to be one of the best series this year without a doubt.
It tells the story of the reign of House Targaryen 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. The reactions, critics and sensations are increasing the hype around the world. A pilot chapter that shows everything that made us fall in love with Game of Thrones and the truth is that it looks incredible.
The battle for power in the succession of the throne and the civil war that this will unleash will be the plot line of the season and probably the series. Fans are so excited that it hasn't taken long for the internet to burn with memes of the best moments and their first feelings after seeing the first episode. We are all still really disappointed with the end of the original series and had doubts about this prequel, but the truth is that it exceeds expectations and can be spectacular in every way since the entire series will be based on the story created by George R.R. Martin.
Warning: this article contains spoilers!
Top memes from the premiere of "The House of the Dragon". Pilot Episode.
In this first section we will show the best memes that fans have shared on Memedroid from the first chapter of "House of the Dragon". The reactions are being fantastic and HBO is rubbing its hands seeing that it may have found the perfect way to take advantage of the goose that lays the golden eggs, in this case the dragon that lays the golden eggs ? House of the Dragon has become already the most watched premiere in HBO history.
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House of the Dragon memes – Episode 2
The fans of the House of the Dragon have freaked out when they heard and saw the new intro of the series that follows the style of "Game of Thrones” that keeps the same soundtrack we all love. The “House of the Dragon" memes from the second episode have focused on the reactions to this opening as well as on the situation of King Viserys, who has had to make an important decision when choosing a wife, and who of course has not left indifferent to anyone giving rise to very funny memes. After the pilot episode, 6 months have passed in the story and we can see how the relationship between the characters has evolved.
This scene in episode 2 of the House of the Dragon brought back this moment
House of the Dragon memes – Episode 3
Two years have passed between episode 2 and episode 3 of “House of the Dragon", Rhaenyra is now 18 years old and her relationship with her father, the King Viserys, and her new stepmother, who was previously her best friend, could not be more uncomfortable, since she has had a son who could replace her as heir to the throne. Meanwhile Uncle Daemon and the Velaryion House are fighting the crab insurgents in a very epic way. The best House of the Dragon memes from episode 3 go to Daemon Targaryen who is gaining the appreciation of fans for being one of the most charismatic and aggressive characters in the series so far.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 4
House of the Dragon gets horny and murky for the fourth episode in the purest Game of Thrones style. Daemon takes Rhaenyra to a brothel and they kiss but it doesn't go any further, however when Rhaenyra arrives at the castle again she decides to finish what she started with Ser Criston Cole.
Rumors of the mess between Daemon and Rhaenyra reach Viserys and he decides not to believe them by removing Otto Hightower as Hand of the King and asking his heiress to marry the male descendant of the Velaryon house.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 5
This is the wedding celebration dinner episode between Rhaenyra and Laenor. And guess what? It’s a mess, Daemon and Rhaenyra dancing close together, while Ser Criston Cole has a fit of rage and kills Laenor's lover in the middle of the whole ceremony. The episode ends with Rhaenyra and Laenor married and King Viserys collapsing.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 6
New huge timeskip! Ten years have passed since the wedding and Rhaenyra has had 3 children, none with her husband Laenor Velaryon who prefers men. Everyone knows that the descendants are not his, but to say so in front of the king would be treason.
On the other hand, Daemon has married Lady Laena Velaryon and they live peacefully outside the kingdom, but it does not last long since Laena, faced with a problematic birth, decides to ask her dragon Vhagar to kill her. The episode ends with Lord Varys, a weird character similar to Littlefinger from Game of Thrones killing his father and brother, who are at the time Hand of the King and the biological father of Rhaenyra's children.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 7
Otto Hightower returns as Hand of the King Viserys. The children of each other are quite grown and their personality is shaped. In a conflict between Rhaenyra and Alicent’s children because Aemond has bound with Vhagar (Laena’s dragon). It is when Lucerys (Rhaenyra's youngest) slashes Aemond's eye (mid-son of Viserys and Alicent).
Alicent asks for the eye of Lucerys in revenge, which finally ends without retaliation but with great tension. At this moment Daemon is already back and he and Rhaenyra want to get married, for this they set in motion a plan in which Laenor, Rhaenyra's current husband is murdered, but it only seems so and he flees through the sea to live a free life. The episode ends with the wedding of Rhaenyra and Daemon.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 8
Episode 8 begins with Lord Corlys Velaryon, the lord of the seas seriously injured and therefore the search for the heir to his family begins. On the one hand, there is Lucerys, the son of Rhaenyra and Laenor. And on the other side, there is Corlys Velaryon's brother who is the Hightower's main candidate. Making an epic entrance, the very emaciated King Viserys interrupts the ceremony when no one expected him, surprising Alicent's team since they believed they had the issue under control.
When Vaemond, Corlys's brother is making the statement that he should be the successor, he got very upset and calls Rhaenyra a bitch and her children bastards, so Daemon cuts off his head in a pretty gory scene.
Finally, the episode ends with a dinner in which King Viserys tries to keep the peace in the family by showing his half dead face. The ending scene shows the king on his deathbed and in his delirium he confuses Alicent with Rhaenyra and tells her that her son must be the heir to the throne.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 9
Alicent and the green team declare Aegon, the first son of Alicent and Viserys, to be the rightful king, even though he is a drunken and disturbed boy who has neither the desire nor the will to be king. So, while they are crowning him before the whole town, Rhaenys Targaryen appears on his giant dragon, smashing everything and sending a message to the greens.
House of the Dragon memes: Episode 10
Rhaenyra and Daemon are at Dragonstone and are informed that Viserys has died and that Aegon has been crowned. Rhaenyra doesn't want to start a direct war because he wants to honor his father by trying for peace, so he sends his children on his dragons to find allies.
The youngest son is so unlucky that he meets Aemond Targaryen, who now rides Vhagar, the greatest dragon of all. It is then when Aemond wants to make Lucerys pay the price for the eye he took from him as a child and in a chase of dragons full of tension and due to a lack of control over them, he ends up killing him and thus laying the foundations for an open war between the two sides in future seasons.
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If you liked Game of Thrones up to season 5, you'll be excited for the new House of the Dragon series. Wanna know something good? The creator of the books George R.R. Martín will be involved in the entire process of the series and what is even better, if possible, is that all the events are already written, unlike in Game of Thrones, where in last seasons the showrunners improvised due to the lack of original content, ruining the end of the series.
The memes show the fantastic reactions that people are having when watching the series, this is a great sign for HBO and the future of the Game of Thrones universe. You will find the best memes of "The House of the Dragon" in this article, which will be updated with each new chapter.
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