Episode 7 was worth waiting for, and actually building up the characters. I like how all the dragons have a different character in a way they didn't in GOT.

Vermithor really reminded me of the T Rex in the first couple of Jurassic Park films, and I liked how he actually ate people. I think that is the first time they have had a dragon eat someone rather than burn them to a crisp, but I might be forgetting something obvious.

Laurens

Belgium4555 Posts

July 31 2024 16:39 GMT

#83

It was a great episode, but I have no clue how they will manage season 3 now. There are so many great battles to cover unless they depart massively from the source material. Surely they should’ve at least done a few this season to divide the budget.

Very interested to see how they will tackle this issue.

TentativePanda

United States800 Posts

August 03 2024 20:13 GMT

#84

On August 01 2024 01:39 Laurens wrote:
It was a great episode, but I have no clue how they will manage season 3 now. There are so many great battles to cover unless they depart massively from the source material. Surely they should’ve at least done a few this season to divide the budget.

Very interested to see how they will tackle this issue.

Came here to ask if this show is worth watching. I loved Game of Thrones seasons 1-5, did not like the rest. We saw what happened with that show once they departed from source material...

Laurens

Belgium4555 Posts

August 04 2024 07:43 GMT

#85

Well season 2 as a whole has been slightly disappointing imo. I think they initially planned to air 10 episodes but due to the long writer's strike it was reduced to 8 and this has created some issues.
It's still better than seasons 6-8 of GoT, so definitely worth a watch I would say.
You might have to wait 2 years between seasons, so it'll be some years before the story is finished.
In fact someone on Reddit claimed that on some HOTD podcast they mentioned going up to 5 seasons now. If true, it would fix some of the issues from my previous post (and introduce some new issues like filler episodes to space out battles), but I couldn't find a source on this.

As for deviating from the books: The books are essentially just some grandmaester writing down history. So in the span of 20 pages we get descriptions of 5 big battles involving lots of characters. It's quite challenging to adapt this faithfully. Some characters have been merged or omitted. Some filler has been introduced to set up the battles. All in all I think it is still close enough to the source material.
Also, the source material has all been published, so the writers won't take liberties like in GoT seasons 6 onwards.

Jubinell

333 Posts

August 05 2024 06:18 GMT

#86

Well the finale was a bit of a letdown....no major character developments, no big battles, and no big dragon fire

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Hopefully this finale paves way for a great Season 3

Laurens

Belgium4555 Posts

August 05 2024 10:53 GMT

#87

Yeah that wasn't a great ending. The fandom isn't happy. Would be funny if Rings of Power is the better series now and people flip their opinion of the 2 shows compared to 2 years ago :D.

My concern for S3 remains. Their 'epic ending' of all armies marching is all well and good, but how will you now show all 5-6 major battles/events that are imminent in just one season? I have very low expectations

Zaros

United Kingdom3692 Posts

August 06 2024 21:46 GMT

#88

The series was very good, just it didn't have a massive payoff at the end of the season which means the final episode is disappointing but not bad. Feels like season 3 is going to be massive payoff for everything happening in this season.

Feels like first few episodes are going to have Kings Landing change hands, a new dragon taming, and some battles in the river lands. Which might be a bit overwhelming, but hopefully they do it justice with 10 episodes next season.

StasisField

United States1086 Posts

August 06 2024 22:41 GMT

#89

If this season had 10 episodes, I think that episode would have been great. The episode after it would be the battle for Harrenhal and the episode after that would be the aftermath and some setup for season 3. Instead, it just ends and we're left with all this build up and no pay-off. Considering the showrunners originally planned for another 10-episode season and were later told they'd only be getting 8, I think episodes 9 and 10 were simply moved to season 3 and season 2 was setup to be a let down.

lestye

United States4186 Posts

August 07 2024 06:20 GMT

#90

I liked the episode but its a bad finale.... especially with how seasons are per 2 years now instead of annual things.

There are a few story beats that I feel are just being milked for time and it just feels like it.

Like the Sheepstealer of it all and the Luigi's mansion subplot.

Laurens

Belgium4555 Posts

August 07 2024 06:30 GMT

#91

On August 07 2024 15:20 lestye wrote:

There are a few story beats that I feel are just being milked for time and it just feels like it.

Like the Sheepstealer of it all and the Luigi's mansion subplot.

Yeah this is what annoyed me as well.
Every single episode we had:
- Daemon has spooky visions in Harrenhal
- Rhaenyra not getting respect from her war council
- KL war council disagrees with the king (whether it be Aegon or Aemond)
- Sea Snake visits the docks (always the exact same set lmao)
- Rhaena chases dragon

Cut some of the filler and give us a real pay-off.

lestye

United States4186 Posts

August 08 2024 03:35 GMT

#92

The Rhaena chasing the dragon is especially really annoying because I don't think I'd give a shit because I was already wow'd by the bastards taking the dragons.

There was some really good critique I read that like....the politics of this show are "men bad women good" and it makes the main female leads sooo fucking boring because they're not allowed to get their hands dirty and have a nuanced story like in the source material. I agree with that sentiment. Especially the whole marketing of this show is the Black vs. Green of it all but its sooooo biased as the Black faction being the good guys so whatever.

Now that you mention it, yeah the Sea Snake dude going to the docks got repetitive but I don't think my brain proccessed it at the time. At least that got kinda a payoff with that bastard son dude calling his father out in the last episode.