The season finale! Did you see it ? Post your thoughts here and as usual, lets try to avoid mentions of future events in the timeline.
And as an aside, it’s been an honor discussing HotD S2 with everyone. See y’all in 2025 with Dunk and Egg!
S2E8 analysis/reaction videos:
- Emergency Awesome - full breakdown and easter eggs
- Sean TankTop - bar scene reactions
- I’m not seeing an explanation video from Alt-Shift-X yet, so I’ll just leave a link to their HotD playlist instead, which includes their S2E8 live Q&A discussion (4 hours) and will include their analysis video if and when they post one
For a season that was primarily about characters wavering and not making decisions, this season sure wavered and didn’t make a lot of decisions. Really riveting TV.
I have no problem with Daemon exploring his personality through visions. I think it gave some compelling scenes, but I do think the season overall was left dangling. It needed to go a little further into the story, like another 2 episode worth.
I think there’s a number of book readers going “get to the good bits”, but it also sometimes sounds like “hurry up and die” to certain characters. If they are good characters, I’ve got no problem spending some time with them first. That will mean material will be added from what’s in the books.
On the whole I thought Daemon at harenhall was good, maybe a bit too long, but good.
It was an odd episode. I was enjoying it much as I’d enjoyed all season but it needed an event, a climax.
I think the shot of Aemond atop Vhagar outside of Shark Point was a complete underselling of what he had done. In the moment I wasn’t sure if that was what he had done, or one of the new dragon riders. Was it somewhere important? I didn’t know until Jace told Ulf. Should have been a sequence, and I’d have replaced last week’s joyride if money was the issue.
Seems like they felt the sowing last week was their “Episode 9” moment, and this was the “positioning for next season” episode, but with only 8 episodes I don’t think it worked. At least let Rhena…
plot twist
…get immolated by Sheepstealer, with Nettles saying “Hands-off my dragon - Dracarys!”.
My thoughts on the finale
Episode looked more mid season filler, before the action starts.
