THAT WAS IT?! Reaction to House of the Dragon Season 2 Finale!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- THIS is my reaction to the House of the Dragon Season 2 Finale, as a die-hard fantasy fan who has read Fire and Blood once and doesn't remember much lol
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I would like breakdowns next season along with reactions
I was just as let down as you, Kritter.
They very clearly wrote ten episodes, got told it had to be 8 instead, and then did not have time before they anticipated the strikes starting to actually condense and rewrite from scratch so that it had an appropriate pace for an 8 episode season.
@@maxsilva11 this is definitely what it feels like
Yeah, the announcement that it was only 8 episodes came this March I believe?? Way too close to release to make sense
Tristin has a very Jamie like arc
I liked it. People complained so much about S7 and S8 of GoT lacking the political positioning, slow burn, and quieter character moments of the earlier seasons. HotD S2 had that in spades and I loved it (yes, even Daemon tripping in Harrenhal. In the book, there’s like a single paragraph of text about what he does. They can’t just sideline their second top billed actor the entire season, and it did come with a resolution that settles him well into place for his later arc).
That finale scene of armies marching to war, that feeling of all the pieces set up over the season being in place for the chaos to follow, AND AN ENORMOUS THREE DRAGON FIGHT this season? Same feels as Dany marching out of Astapor in S3 of GoT.
Let them cook.
HBO execs cut the finale two episodes, there were definitely supposed to be a total of ten episodes but the decision was made in during the time of the writers strike and the execs cut the episodes to lessen the cost on production.
They didn't need 10 episodes they needed not to have wasted the ones they had. Episode 5&6 was a complete waste of time and space where nothing much was established or happened. These episodes may have had titbits of info but it got lost in the meandering plot where Daemon was left in an acting coma for a lot of seasons only to smile at Sir Alfred and tell them this place will make you bark at the moon something audiences have been doing for weeks now with this show.
I don’t understand why though. You mean to tell me
HBO/Warner couldn’t afford their most highly rated show??? Doesn’t make any sense. That’s where most of their money should go.
Game of Thrones normally does an over the top penultimate episode. However, the only way they get a pass is if Season 3 airs within 15 months
@@Wayne-cq5wg no way that happens but we can hope
@@Wayne-cq5wg yeah but the penultimate episode was also meh at best. This felt more like an episode 6 than a 7 or 8.
Totally agree about the ending. Thought, there must be 10 episodes this season, right?
@@dennisueland8146 you would think, but nope. We’ll be waiting for S3 now…for the old gods know how long
I honestly feel so let down by this season and now we gotta wait a year?
@@cmcmillan22 probably two…adding insult to injury
So many of us felt this way. Not a bad episode. Some great scenes but the whole of season two, not much happened.
Two great scenes with Rhaenyra and Alicent this season. So good.
The season on the whole as okay. I didn’t expect a lot of battles because they are so expensive but Daemon’s whole plot line was a waste of time and lots of talking about loyalties but nothing has changed since season one other than Rhaenyra net +1 dragon (possibly +2 depending on what the girl in the Vale does with hers), Aegon net -1 dragon.
A couple of good scenes and some nice battles but little disappointing season for the most part.
Season one had some much tension between the family members. It was amazing. Season two with the families divided the interaction was between the family members and the councilors. But those characters weren’t really setup and we don’t see them doing anything outside of council so tension and dramatic dialogue was down this season. We got some great battles and great scenes between the queens. So for me it was good season but not great like season one. I am enjoying this show and looking forward to season three 🙂
@@GentleGiantJason I’m definitely still looking forward to Season 3! As a WoT fan, I understand wanting your big name actors (Matt Smith-or Rosamund Pike if we’re talking WoT) to have something to do even if-to be perfectly book accurate-they might’ve been pushed to the background in this particular season. I realllllyy think 10 episodes could’ve turned this season into something INCREDIBLE, if we got a payoff after all the buildup, but instead this season was basically just all build up haha. I love the drama tho so I still enjoyed it overall.
Super bummed.
Ten episodes would have been perfect BUT they didn't even need that. This season was stuffed to the gills with way too much filler, like the never-ending Daymon Weirwood hallucinations. So much that could have been trimmed to give us most of this battle (maybe upto a critical turning point to leave a clifhanger).
I'm soo sick of modern TV shrinkflation, giving us less and less content, more and more infrequently, and charging more and more. It's just greed and laziness on the part of the studios and the "creatives". The 90's era producers that knocked out 22-26 episoides every single year worked for their pay, and their content (the writing especially) was often superior.
I stopped watching HOTD midway through season 1-there was more gore, gratuitous nudity, and scenes for shock value than I liked. But I like your content and wanted to hear your thoughts. I know the first episode with that birthing scene was as hard for you as it was for me. Anyway, I am here commenting to feed the algorithm and say... I just love the Wheel of Time; it's so different, in a good way, to HOTD even though they are in the "same genre." The main thing they have in common now, I guess, is, wouldn't it all be better if we had more episodes?
@@arosa_mg it really would all be better with more episodes. I will say, I think HOTD has blessedly (largely) strayed away from the obscene/shock value stuff (there are still exceptions ofc). Anyway, thanks for the engagement, and can’t wait for WoT to come back!!!
this was a dire episode; the directions they have decided to go with Alicent and Helaena is mind-bending. Not as excited for S3 as I was before finale
I was completely disappointed. No action whatsoever, they just left us all with blue balls for the next two years. Bastards.