House of the Dragon Big Error List Goes Further Than Game of Thrones Starbucks Cup

House of the Dragon may have no time for laughter as it prepares its fans for a full-scale war approaching in the next episodes, but it’s still not safe from minor yet smile-provoking errors that somehow got overlooked during the post-production process.

While there were another two years of wait until the show’s second season arrived, House of the Dragon lovers saved some time to rewatch the first installment and catch weird inconsistencies, with some of them being even more audacious than that famous Starbucks coffee cup starring in Game of Thrones ’ last season.

King Viserys I Was Lying About His Wounds All Along

House of the Dragon season 1 finds Westeros at the time of approaching crisis as King Viserys I’s health keeps declining and by the end of the season he’s not even able to walk himself and eventually dies.

The show repeatedly made it clear that the Iron Throne Viserys had to sit on was far from being a comfortable chair, and the King was constantly getting cuts from all the swords stuck into the throne, which somehow later on led to him losing some of his fingers.

However, this tragic event was seemingly forgotten in one of the scenes that features Viserys’ actor Paddy Considine with fingers covered in green paint that later on was supposed to be useful for the CGI that would remove it out of the frame. Instead, viewers got a weird image of the King that surely impeded them to feel sorry for his fingers’ loss.

Rhaenyra Isn’t as Powerful as She Pretends to Be

Despite her biggest enemy sitting on the Iron Throne at the moment, Rhaenyra, portrayed by Emma D’Arcy, is still considered the only rightful Queen among her supporters. Whenever she makes an entrance to her castle’s council room, the heiress is proclaimed “Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men,” though not everything in this phrase is actually correct.

While the Andals inhabited central Westeros and the First Men had their lands in the North, the Targaryens surely had some control over them, but not over the Rhoynar. By the time House of the Dragon picks its main storyline up, the Rhoynar are a people whose settlement was located in Dorne, a place not yet conquered by the Targaryens.

Rhaenyra’s representation as one and only ruler of all the folks mentioned may have become a result of the Targaryens’ affirmations for the future, yet in reality Dorne remained independent from the powerful dynasty during Rhaenyra’s lifetime.

Rhaenyra and Daemon’s Weird Relationships Are Just Too Romanticized

Though it was pretty normal for the Targaryens to end up in brother-sister marriages to keep their bloodline pure, House of the Dragon’s incest case reaches a whole new level of cringey depth as the first season follows Rhaenyra and her uncle Daemon’s developing romance.

Having started back when Rhaenyra was a young girl, their relationship reaches a climax in season 1 episode 7, Driftmark, where their intimate moments are performed with such a subtlety that any romantic drama could get jealous of.

It’s still pretty obvious that the show had no way of avoiding this storyline as it goes through the whole plot, the creators seemingly put too much effort into Rhaenyra and Daemon’s love story making it look like something natural and adorable. Given that Daemon was constantly trying to seduce Rhaenyra when she was a child, this appears to be especially icky.

Alicent’s Dagger Doesn’t Appear to Injure Rhaenyra (Though It Does)

The upcoming war teased for the brand new season 2 had minor preconditions that not so many took seriously back then. House of the Dragon season 1 episode 7 features the first major confrontation between Alicent and Rhaenyra, but mostly among their kids.

Provoked by Prince Aemond (who seems to have been a villain since a very young age), the children start up a fight which leads to Aemond losing his eye. Outraged by her son’s defeat, Alicent demands some kind of revenge and threatens to hurt one of Rhaenyra’s kids with a knife.

Eventually she has a change of heart and instead turns to Rhaenyra herself, cutting the latter’s arm up making Rhaenyra lose a significant amount of blood, though she eventually survives the wound. The following scene captures Alicent getting conscious about what she’s just done and dropping her dagger with absolutely no blood on it.