If there’s one character in House of the Dragon Season 3 that gets the lion’s share of the best lines, it’s Sharako Lohar.
Played to perfection by Abigail Thorn, the rugged Triarchy admiral drops one-liner after one-liner in the heart of episode 1’s colossal Battle of the Gullet. Each commanding moment seems made for an action trailer, as Lohar finds vengeance in her grasp.
“She’s got all the best lines!” Thorn told Mashable, when we asked her about jaw-dropping dialogue moments like: “Hold the course and f***ing row!”
On her ship, the Bitchfist (seriously, bring me a better name for a boat), Lohar is a tenacious commander who spends her life obsessively seeking one elusive target across the seas. And if that sounds familiar, Thorn said her Lohar draws from the iconic Captain Ahab from Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick.
Abigail Thorn as Sharako Lohar in “House of the Dragon.”
Credit: Ollie Upton / HBO
“Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, he inspires his men. Everyone loves Captain Ahab until they realise he’s going to drag us all down on this mission, isn’t he? And it’s the same with Lohar,” said Thorn, who did a vast amount of research into the classic character.
“I read the novel, and I watched every adaptation I could get my hands on, like the Gregory Peck Moby Dick,” she said. “And also Ricardo Montalbán’s performance in Star Trek II, which is very inspired by Moby Dick — Khan is Ahab in that movie, and there’s a fair bit of that in Lohar too.”
There’s even a moment in the epic fight between Lohar and Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) that Thorn and House of the Dragon director Loni Peristere referred to quite literally as “the Captain Ahab moment.”
“She’s up on the rails, she hits Steve and gets him away, and she lunges towards him with the axe,” says Thorn. “There’s no way that move is going to succeed, and it’s really, if this doesn’t hit his head and kill him, she’s dead. She knows it, because she’s overextended. In that moment, she knows that she’s risking it all, and so we have that Captain Ahab moment. It’s that ‘from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath,’ and she really, she really goes for it.”
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Here’s our favourite Lohar lines from House of the Dragon Season 3, episode 1, ranked.
7. “Did you think I sailed across the Narrow Sea to win your king’s war for him?”
Uh, yeah. That’s exactly what Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Hall) thought Lohar was doing. Right up until you chuckled like that…
6. “You’ll ruin all this kit if you wind up in the drink.”
Foreshadowing. We love it.
5. “What do you weigh in that armor?”
Watching Tyland Lannister getting suddenly tossed overboard made me spit out my drink.
4. “Here she comes, lads, our jewel in the rough!”
I’m about to use this line every time I spot the perfect free table in a beer garden, a Lime bike with pedals and full charge, or stranger’s dog that’s making it perfectly clear I have been chosen.
3. “Tonight, we will walk in the ashes of High Tide. You’ll all join me as I sit on the Driftwood throne and dine on the Sea Snake’s ears!”
Ears? Ears!
2. “Call me Lohar, Dragonslayer.”
Did someone just bring a ballista to a dragon fight? The Triarchy came prepared for aerial warfare, as Lohar unveils the giant weapon, equipped with grapnel, on board her flagship. We hate to see precious dragons attacked, but this line is pure history.
“The moment where they set the grapnel up, there’s no line in the script for this, but I just look at Steve, and in my head you could see me thinking, ‘Check this shit out, playboy,’ because he doesn’t know what the big dragon-killing gun is,” says Thorn. “I love that they kept it in, just me being like, ‘Hehehehehehe.'”
We hate to see precious dragons attacked, but this line is pure history.
Credit: Ollie Upton / HBO
1. “Hold the course and f***ing row!”
How could this not be the ultimate Lohar line? Having dodged Dragonstone Pass and chased the Sea Snake into open water, the Triarchy close in on their target. With Lohar’s aim true, she gives the final command to her crew and gets set to ram. It’s pure cinema.
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