House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 6

One character was really ready to end his time on House of the Dragon week. He looked around. Saw all the bad things that had happened. He realized he was the one still fighting for something. So he decided to use all his energy to fight against what was going to happen to him.

Ser Criston Cole told his friend Gwayne Hightower "I have been a servant my life. I have done what I was supposed to do and been very good at it. The important people have liked me when it was good for them.. I will not let them make me feel bad now. I am the warrior in the land and I will die that way."

I do not blame him. Even though the scenes on the ground with the war in the sky were very good they were also very different from the rest of the show. The old King Aegon II and Larys Strong were funny when they were traveling together. It was like the parts of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms from a few months ago. It was also like when Game of Thrones followed Arya and the Hound around the country not in castles. The same thing is true for Cole. When the main story of House of the Dragon stopped being interesting after episode 3 the scenes with Cole trying to deal with his role, in the war were very good. They could have been used to tell an emotional story. That is how it all comes to an end in episode 6. It does not take long about eight minutes or so and Ser Criston Cole is killed by arrows. He tries to fight. It is a battle he cannot win. This scene is exactly like it is written in the book Fire & Blood, by George R. R. Martin.

Ser Criston Cole gets to a field. Sees a lot of dead soldiers.. It is all a trick. The men are not really dead they are just pretending. Then they attack Ser Criston Cole and his army. Ser Criston Cole tries to give up and make a deal to save his men.. It does not work. Oscar Tully, who is played by Archie Barnes and Roderick Dustin, who is played by Tommy Flanagan are the ones who kill them. This is called The Butchers Ball.