House of the Dragon's lesson on dealing with critics

King Targaryen, Cicero and Marcus Aurelius on ignoring smack talk

“You could have his tongue for that” suggests whispers Otto Hightower (played by Rhys Ifans) into the ear of King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine). A knight had just approached his spectator’s box and made a crass remark from the arena floor about the matter of royal succession and who *should have* been made ruler of Westeros and Kings Landing.

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