Ormund Hightower

And they're not as, like, fully fleshed out as the Game of Thrones stories.

'Cause I saw someone say that Ormund's death was, was a lot different.

Yeah, so there's a lot of room to insert different things and kind of fill in some gaps.

Wait, whose death?

Ormund's.

Ormund?

I heard Ormund's death was different.

Oh, yeah, dude, well, that's the thing.

Oh

... brilliantly twatish Ormund Hightower.

Oh.

He's such-

Yeah.

Who did he kill? He killed Ormund.

Ormund.

Yeah, you said Tormund and that threw me off.

Sorry about that, yeah.

Who

kills Ormund, not Tormund.

Right.

We are getting a major casting addition this season.

James Norton is officially joining the cast to play Ormund Hightower.

who is a vital, vital player in the overarching conflict.

Right.

Did he?-

That, Hobert Hightower, they made Ormund's dad in the show, if I remember right.

Oh, yeah.

So he was th- he was Otto's older brother, who was the Lord of House Hightower in season one.

Probably.

Yeah, I mean, there are definitely questions about the Hightowers succession because Orm- uh, Gwayne talks about how he's next in line.

But, like, Ormund has a bunch of kids in the books.

So it's like, is Ormund married? Does he have kids? That, that will have to be a topic of discussion in season f-

You know, like, so I think that was a misstep.

And then we also have a thing where we see with, um, one of the Hightowers there, Ormund Hightower, who's played by James Norton-

Mm-hmm

... who, um, he's, uh, shielded himself into a, uh, town there where the citizens there that are supposed to be under the protection, um, of Rhaenyra.

I thought there in leading up to that.

And then the conclusion of that worked really well.

Um, and then it's also with that character of Ormund Hightower.

He's got this interesting quirk where he's very sensitive to, like, smells and, you know, being clean, and maybe, like, I guess it's some form of, like, OCD or something like that maybe.

I have many thoughts suddenly happening now.

so i kind of agree that it's okay for some people just to be a villain like just having a villain in the show is a good thing and i kind of know what you mean it's always it is good to have a villain do we not have a villain though is is was was ormond hightower not a villain this time

yeah but it's like they he's like he's not even team green or team black he's team ormond

But he's on the greens.

Explain what the Caltrops were, and then we can talk about if we think they're going to show up.

So the Caltrops

were a group of noble people who were sympathetic to the Greens, who were also at Tumbleton, who one Ormond Hightower was killed, wanted to assume leadership over Tumbleton.

And one of them was Unwin Peak.

On film, he starred in Greta Gerwig's Little Women and Reinaldo Marcus Green's Bob Marley: One Love.

And now he's entering the world of Westeros as Lord Ormund Hightower in season three of House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones.

The BBC's Nick Grimshaw asked James Norton about joining that universe.

The amazing thing is the, is the fans.

We've got here, "Dragons unleashed as weapons, leading to catastrophic losses on both sides.

Political manipulation intensifies, especially from Alicent, Aemond, and Ormund Hightower." Then you've got here as well, "The finale at Tumbleton..." This was an absolute cracker.

"The finale at Tumbleton delivers betrayal, shifting alliances, and massive consequences for season four.

This season is darker, more violent, and more character-driven than the two previous seasons." So going back over it, so the storyline goes, and I'm gonna be paraphrasing here a bit.