‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: Gullet Blues

Meanwhile, at Dragonstone, Rhaenyra can’t even get out the door to King’s Landing. Her bratty heir, Jacaerys, doesn’t trust Alicent; in his teenage wisdom, he decides that his mother has fallen for “a ruse, cloaked in stale friendship” and that what actually awaits her at the capital is a trap. So, with help from the guards sworn to protect and obey Rhaenyra, he locks her inside her chambers, a queen held prisoner by her own son and staff. (After his spirit quest with Alys Rivers, last season, Daemon has become enlightened enough to submit to his wife’s rule. But he’s too busy, now, smashing skulls on the battlefield to help stop the sexist madness at home.) Then Jace and his dragon, Vermax, take off on an unsanctioned mission to help Lord Corlys’ fleet, with a somewhat wary Baela and her dragon, Moondancer, in tow.