Vaemond's death - House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 8

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[Jay-qmcx]

Despite being weak and frail, Viserys stood up knife in hand to defend his daughters honour. What a man

[vymancross]

"Her children are bastards"- said Vaemond Velaryon calmly.

[JimmySteller]

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I love that moment. Vaemond obviously realises that Daemon is goading him, just for the excuse to kill him. But he also realises that he's not going to win, no matter if he holds his tongue or not, and so if he's going to die, he'll die on his terms.

[Gutssssss]

“her children are BASTARDS!” This guys acting and the way he shouted that was gold lmao

[majs]

I love the way you can almost pinpoint the moment Vaemond understood he had nothing more to lose so he just decided to say it out loud.

[Stellarionas]

Whatever you say about this scene, one fact remains; Daemon has a great knowledge of Anatomy.

[manuelvillarmay]

Love how Aemond is just casually smiling in joy at the whole situation

[georgeealien]

Everyone in the room apparently watched Daemon walking towards the guy, who just committed treason, with his sword out and thought "huh, I wonder what he's gonna do"

[spearshake]

The way Vaemond yelled out the word "Bastards" man that was some powerful shit

[nategraham]

I do believe that Aemond had an envygasm watching Daemon do that. Acting so cool, cutting off half a mans head, and snarkilly telling off the Kingsguard and the Hand of the King.

[jabthejedi]

'Those children were bastards' - Vaemond's headstone

[d.v.]

Rhaenyra’s little smirk and shrug as Luc looks over his shoulder at Rhaena and then back at his mother like “Yeah, that’s right, I did that” and Baela and Rhaena’s casual, confident, yet subtle grins. I didn’t notice that the first watch through and it’s adorable seeing these little nuances

Also Olivia Cooke makes some of the _greatest_ faces of all time as Alicent. The little side-eye of “come on, here?” when Vaemond was calling Rhaenyra a whore was great

[MadGodMaxwell]

Even if you don't like Vaemond you gotta respect the balls to yell it out in court. Incredibly well acted imo.

[endlessnoodle]

So 180-ish years later, when Tyrion did the "I did not kill Joffrey, but I wish that I had" speech on that exact spot, he definitely channeled some of that Vaemond spirit there

[ismaelismael]

I love Vaemond's self satisfied face just moments before Daemon kills him. Like "hehe i said the thing"

[nigelkhan]

Daemon is absolutely ruthless and fearless. You can see Aemond how much he admires his uncle Daemon and will model himself like Daemon.

[wolfgirl]

I love that after he insults Rhaenyra and her boys even Alicent and Otto are like oh he fucked up....

[sangmarco]

Lmao the way daemon says “no need” after otto tells the kingsguard to disarm him 😂

[Ivbo]

I love how out of everyone, Aegon seemed the most unbothered by the sudden beheading lmao. He casually watched the body hit the ground with a look of *”emm, okay…anyways”* while you’ve got Aemond of all people in the back jumping.

I genuinely think Aegon’s got that dawg in him buried beneath all the drinking, bro was even smiling at Rhaenyra during the entire presentation. If he didn’t drink all the time and actually cared about life, he’d be a bigger menace than Aemond.

[Nightmarigny]

The dude who played Vaemond should have won every acting award that exists. This scene is a masterclass.