The season finale of House of the Dragon is in full swing, and the episode started with yet another traumatic birth. The show’s first episode featured King Viserys’s first wife, Aemma Arryn, dying in childbirth in an extremely gruesome scene. A few episodes later, after the time jump, adult Rhaenyra Targaryen is seen giving birth to her third child, which turns especially distressing when she’s immediately forced to bring her new baby to see Queen Alicent. Later in the episode, Lady Laena was going to die during childbirth but chose to be burned by her dragon instead. Just when fans thought the show couldn’t include any more disturbing births, Rhaenyra went into early childbirth immediately after learning her crown had been usurped by her younger brother, Aegon. Rhaenyra was forced to pull out her own, dead child without accepting help from anyone else. Needless to say, it was pretty horrible, and fans aren’t happy they had to watch the fourth scene of its kind.
