Some compared it unfavorably to the gory "Red Wedding" episode in "Game of Thrones" season three, which saw the slaughter of several main characters, including the pregnant Talisa Stark. #HouseoftheDragon — mimi (@in_boredom_hell) June 17, 2024The Blood-and-Cheese scene is even more extreme in the book — Blood kills a guard while Cheese sexually assaults the surviving sister. AdvertisementIn the book ‘Fire and Blood,’ which #HouseOfTheDragon is based on, Blood Cheese demands Haelena choose between two sons. Their second son, Maelor Targaryen, is not present in the show. So working from that place, we just wanted to try to make Blood and Cheese a visceral television sequence," Condal said.

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