Instead of following up on nearly every thread from the season 1 finale, 'A Son for a Son' mainly concerns itself with one: the shocking death of young Lucerys... Mostly, it's a story about everyone realizing they started a war, and kind of regretting it.
This is not a show about existential threats... about the small and often petty grievances, misunderstandings, and ambitions of a small group of people painfully aware of history's weight, or desperate to slip its bonds.
To that end, 'A Son for a Son' is about the many players in King's Landing and beyond feebly fretting over how to avert open war, or fiending for it. Young Aegon, the new king...
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