It’s implied Viserys has either drawn his final breath, or is about to. The bedridden, broken-bodied king is barely breathing in the last scene of the episode, grasping skyward and speaking at ghosts we can’t see. The surprise is that through eight episodes and two decades worth of story, the increasingly ill Viserys is still alive-barely standing, sure, but still standing all the same.Īt least, that’s the case until the final moments of “The Lord of the Tides,” House of the Dragon’s eighth episode, directed by Geeta V. The surprise is not that Viserys will someday die, leaving his daughter Rhaenyra ( Emma D’Arcy) and wife Alicent ( Olivia Cooke) to duke it out over who gets to sit on the Iron Throne. Given the show’s built-in premise about succession, and given the franchise’s violent history toward its own protagonists, the death of King Viserys Targaryen has felt like a guaranteed outcome since the very first trailer, let alone the very first frame of the series. From the death of Sean Bean’s top-billed character Ned Stark onward, Thrones viewers knew to expect the unexpected at every turn, with no character too safe to die.įor its part, House of the Dragon has taken a different tact with the actor at the top of the call sheet, Paddy Considine.
One episode removed from the end of its first season, Game of Thrones loudly announced its cruel intentions for the audience, by chopping off the apparent main character’s head.
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