The Crabfeeder appears to be suffering from the disease of greyscale.
Over two years pass between episodes 2 and 3, whereas six months passed between episodes 1 and 2.
Jefferson Hall, the actor playing twins Jason and Tyland Lannister, also appears as "Hugh of the Vale" in the first season of Game of Thrones (2011), in Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things (2011) and The Wolf and the Lion (2011).
Otto Hightower suggests Viserys should betroth 17-year-old Rhaenyra to her 2-year-old half-brother Aegon. This is the first reference of the series to the practice of sibling marriage, which the Targaryens have engaged in for centuries by this point in time in order to keep their bloodline pure. Viserys's own parents, Baelon and Alyssa, were brother and sister, as were his grandparents, Jahaerys I and Alysanne. Viserys, having no sisters of his own, married his first cousin, Aemma Arryn, daughter of Rodrik Arryn and Viserys's aunt, Daella Targaryen.
Author George R.R. Martin was very happy with the depiction of Viserys' hunting party, which was in line with how he had envisioned such an event. He called Robert's hunting party in You Win or You Die (2011) 11 years before his least favorite moment of the entire series, since it was much less lavish due to budget restrictions: "There would have been a hundred guys. There would have been pavilions. There would have been huntsmen. There would have been dogs. There would have been horns blowing - that's how a king goes hunting! [..] He wouldn't have just been walking through the woods with three of his friends holding spears hoping to meet a boar."