Radio Westeros, House of the Dragon, season one, Episode 9, The Green Council. Hello and welcome to Radio Estros, I'm Yoke Boy and it's great to be here to talk about the ninth episode of House of the Dragon called The Green Council. Today we'll be reacting to and evaluating this episode as well as making plenty of book

comparisons because we are fans of the books. We will avoid spoiling the future plot of House of the Dragon though and we'll have a spoiler section at the end

and give you a giant heads up for that so whatever you're a song of ice and fire game

of thrones background we have a lot to offer tonight following on from last game of just a few hours transpiring before the king's body is discovered by a young

page. With Reneera and family having left King's landing for Dragonstone the

night before, the focus this time was about the reaction of the Green faction to Visser's death.

With allicent misunderstanding Visser's final wishes and believing that he had changed the

order of succession to favour her son Aegon with his last breath,

she felt justified in calling upon her fellow Greens to support Aegon's claim and organize themselves as quickly as possible. However, other Greens, including

her father Otto, were already on a front footing and seemed less inclined to be merciful to Reneer and the children than Allison wants to be.

The episode examines how even within a political faction with common goals there are differences of an opinion and conflict.

While others scramble to find Aagon and prop him up as a figurehead king,

he seems wholly reluctant to take on that role after a lifetime of feeling rejected

by his father. It's clear he's not going to make a great leader, but does anyone really care? In placing a son on the throne without

sending word to Dragonstone, Allison has laid the final foundations for Civil War. It's been a long and wonderful setup this season, but we know with

Aegons crowning there will be no turning back. So we have so much to say today and I can't wait to go into more depth.

So without further ado, I'm going to say hello to my radio Westeros co-host Lady Gwen.

Hi, hi everyone. Thank you for being here. Happy to see you all, have you all here listening or watching. This episode, like you said, we have a lot to talk about, featured a couple of big major departures from

the source material probably I would think maybe some of the most significant

departures I'm going to get into that very shortly. Welcome back, Emily.

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