Usually one to rest on its abundance of winged beasts, House of the Dragon has upped the quota of another loyal creature this season: Westerosi dogs.
The canine count in Season 2 isn’t sky-high (like those dragons), but there’s been enough appearances of four-legged friends to get my attention. (If there’s a dog in it, I’ll watch it, but they had better not die). Early in the season, audiences tossed aside their reactions to casual child murder to instead berate a doomed ratcatcher for randomly kicking his dog.
Daemon’s Harrenhal visions in ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, episode 4, explained
And in episode 4, “The Red Dragon and the Gold,” there’s a glorious but fleeting moment involving three dogs in the Harrenhal council room. But these dogs aren’t from any of the surreal visions in episode 3 and episode 4 plaguing Daemon (Matt Smith). According to keen-eyed viewers on X (formerly Twitter), they seem to be an Easter egg pointing to the future of the biggest, most cursed castle in the Seven Kingdoms, and the many different houses who will hold Harrenhal during the Game of Thrones years. Here’s what it all means.
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