HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Explained: What's REALLY Going On With Helaena Targaryen

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Explained: What's REALLY Going On With Helaena Targaryen. We break down the second episode of the Game Of Thrones prequel HOTD, covering the characters and families involved, The Fire and Blood book and the Targaryen lineage, Blood and Cheese, Daemon, Rhaenyra, Alicent, The Greens, The Black, Aegon, Aemond, the Iron Throne, the differences, The Heir to the Throne and so much more, lets jump right into it!

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Welcome to the heavy spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down House Of the Dragon.

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The latest episode reveals even more about Helaena and we now have a pretty fair idea of what she actually is. Throughout this video we're gonna break it all down and discuss what the characters characteristics are.

So come with me, bring your sister and your wife and make sure theyre the same person cos you've only got a plus one.

Obviously heavy spoilers ahead so if you aren't up to speed with the show then make sure you check out now.

Smash the thumbs up like its Viserys playset and make sure you stick around cos we've got pulls that will have heads rolling and then left in stitches.

Theyre that bad.

Anyway with that out the way, thank you for clicking this, now let's get into House Of The Dragon.

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Now in order to talk about what Helaena is we first have to look at her prophecies in the show have been. I want to first explain what these turned out to be and how shes basically batting at 100.

The first one came during episode 6 when alicent went to her. Holding a millipede slash centipede...not a bug expert mate...she examined it and said:

‘It has eyes, though I don’t believe it can see.’

Now there are theories that this relates to the notion that the family are blinded by whats currently going on in the house. The people possesses eyes but are yet unwilling to see the division theyre causing.

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[bleedingcrystal]

She somehow manages to look like no one’s home up there while at the same time looking likes she’s on a plane of thought far above everyone. Her acting without saying a word is truly amazing.

[ThatLadyBird]

The actor that plays Helena did such an amazing job by not overdoing it. The absolute terror in her eyes, the way she clutched her daughter's head as she calmly walked out of the room...genuinely broke my heart.

[Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

At first I just thought Helaena was a bit of a slowpoke but she's easily one of the most sympathetic characters in the show now. Poor girl. Great acting btw.

[jom]

I think when Helena said to Alicent "i forgive you" what she meant was forgiving Alicent for throwing her out of the window in the future (and while saying this she was standing in front of one). Maybe she told Alicent all of her visions and the song of ice and fire. She looked to be ok with her death probably looking forward to it. It would be cool, if Helena falling down would see two bright figures in the window not only Alicent . The fall would end her visions just the way the fall started Bran's. Maybe she would pass her "curse" to Bran.

[jlupien]

“The last ring has no legs”
I believe that has to do with Bran Stark being in a wheelchair. Each ring represents a ruler, and the last we know of is Bran

[mattcliburn]

Helaena the dreamer, she will never recover. I really thought that little kids head would roll off

[MllyJns]

The original rider of Dreamfyre was Rhaena Targaryen. As a child, Rhaena was shy, preferring the presence of animals instead of people. She bonded instantly with Dreamfyre as a hatchling and named her as such because others referred to her as a dreamer. Once she began to ride Dreamfyre she became less timid and created bonds with her cousins and other children of the High Lords who lived in the castle. This might explain why during the last feast with Viserys Helaena so boldly claimed bedding her brother "wasn't so bad. Just lay there and wait unless he's drunk" or something similar. Then she didn't hesitate and was welcoming of Jacaerys's touch when he asked her to dance. The change in both riders' personalities once bonded and finally riding Dreamfyre can't be a coincidence. I also read that when Rhaena was separated from Dreamfyre for long periods her personality would revert to being timid, shy, sullen, and refused to partake in any festivities where crowds were gathered. There's definitely a connection between Rhaena's personality, behaviors, and "dreams" and Heleana's whose were eerily similar. I think Dreamfyre only ever bonded with the "Dreamers" because they were one themselves. It is often theorized that Dragons and their Riders bond mentally/emotionally and not just because of their bloodline. Who knows? I just think it's too on the nose not to make the connection.

[OmegaPaladin]

"She even predicted how bad season 8 was." I love your humor!

[brokentvuniverse]

she was also symbolically sewing his head back to his body, could be why she was in such distress while sewing, she couldve been "seeing" the stitches around Jahaerys's neck at the

[awhartig]

There seems to be a sliding scale for the strength of Targaryen Dreamers, some of the family have occasional prophetic visions, others like Helena seem to have them so pervasively it's like wandering around in a dissociative state. Imagine living your life never knowing if what you perceive is actually happening now, or is a vision of the future-and not even knowing when that future will come to pass? Add to it the visions are not crystal clear, they have to be interpreted b/c many of them are apparently metaphors, (we saw that in HOTD S1 E3 when Viserys spoke to Alicent about his Dream of a son being king after him..what he interpreted as a tourney celebration a coronation was probably an accurate vision of the civil war that's about to happen). If that's not a recipe for insanity, I don't know what is. So is that the root cause of the Targ "madness"?

[Mictecacihuatl-]

I think Helaena, whether intentional or not by the writers, was written to be neurodivergent or autistic, I’m autistic and notices she possesses a lot of the signs including special interests (her bugs), poor social skills and too much honesty (she says things like her comments at the last dinner about Aegon that were out of pocket and didn’t seem to notice), muted or held-back expressions (she clearly has expressions but they’re usually soft and restrained), repetitive habits (she enjoys sewing because it’s repetitive and that’s comforting to her) sensory overloads (the funeral of her son that felt like the beginning of a meltdown to me, also she doesn’t like being touched too much when Alicent tried to comfort her in the first season) and a very clearly different way of perceiving the world and people, the last one could be because of her dragon dreams which she clearly has, but it also could be a symptom mixed in with it. I don’t think the writers intended her to be autistic, they were just trying to make her different. But who knows, maybe they’ll say something in the future. 😊

[h-dawg]

Definition!

I didn't realise Helena was a Dragon rider. I can't image her being mounted on Dragon back sending it high across the bay. That's wicked. I wonder if we will see her getting involved with any flying at all.

Also. What do you think is the likeliness of Vaeghar either hesitating or disobeying Aemond if he command her to kill either Bealla or Rheana? Remember that Vaeghar was previously their mother's mount & pet, and clearly hesitated when tasked to commit a fiery suicide on her behalf. 
I dunno how previous loyalties and/or the memories work with Dragons. That could be cool though if we see her refuse Aemonds request to Dracarys either of Daemon's offspring, and we have already seen epic stuff come due to Caeghar ignoring or going over the top with commands.

[alexanderdumas-]

The subtlety of Rhaena’s arrow bolt barely missing Jace is foreshadowing. Also the symbol of the seven gods on Aemonds coin above his eye symbols his fate above the gods eye

[LalaScott-ldmu]

She made a comment that she was scared of the rats.
The rat catchers came for her son.

[asantepauwels]

"🎵You may say, I'm a dreamer🎵"

[McCrapweasel]

I love how everyone's angrily correcting Paul.

[mediocremaiden]

She's based on Cassandra from the Odyssey and one of the Trojan Wars characters. The Gods gifted her with Foresight but then Cursed her that no one would believe her. GRRM, imo, got his inspiration for Dragondreamers like Daenys The Dreamer and Helena from Cassandra

[TrueLifeXavier]

“Bring your sister and wife! Make sure they are the same person because it’s a +1” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[bryanmatthews]

I love the theory that the Lannister had the kid killed for messing with his ball during the meeting