House Of The Dragon Season 2's Final Shots Explained By Director: "Rhaenyra Is Caught In A Web & Alicent Is Free"

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WARNING! Spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon season 2 finale, "The Queen Who Ever Was."

Summary Director Geeta Vasant Patel explains the intentional contrast in endings for Rhaenyra and Alicent in House of the Dragon season 2.

Visuals of Rhaenyra trapped and Alicent free highlight the burden shift in the finale.

The director spent months planning the montage's ending to depict the emotional state of the characters.

House of the Dragon director Geeta Vasant Patel addresses how the season 2 finale, "The Queen Who Ever Was," ends for Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). The finale sees Alicent unexpectedly coming to Dragonstone to speak with Rhaenyra.

In an interview with The Wrap, Patel discusses the intentional juxtaposition in the respective season 2 endings for Rhaenyra and Alicent and how this is visually communicated in the episode. Check out Patel's comments below:

The end of the montage, I spent months thinking about the visuals of how to end this episode and end this season. That came to me just in terms of how they both were feeling in the end. One of them was trapped — and as Ryan says is now carrying the burden — and that would be Rhaenyra. The other one has lifted the burden off of her own shoulders and is now free having given it to Rhaenyra. Visually my thought was: Rhaenyra is caught in a web and Alicent is free.

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Source: The Wrap