Review: House of the Dragon, "The Burning Mill" | Season 2, Episode 3
Spoiled or not, it's clear nothing can stop the march of a bloody history over Westeros
“The answer to that is lost in time.”
After a premiere where House of the Dragon delivered a cliffhanger that promised significant advancement in our narrative, the tragic end of Erryk and Arryk didn’t exactly hit the same note. It was less a deepening of the conflict and more a symbol of the collateral damage that this will generate across Westeros. And just to reiterate that point, the third episode begins with young Blackwood and Bracken knights playing out a proxy war on their border. At first it seems like it will be a small tragedy, a shedding of blood between boys playing at being men, but then the camera cuts abruptly to the gruesome battleground that followed. The once verdant lands have turned red, both families decimated by a war that has nothing to do with them.
We learn later that this has already been christened “The Battle at Burning Mill,” and no one seems all that surprised that this was the first skirmish to break out: the Blackwoods and Brackens have hated e…