The Queen Who Ever Was

The finale did a good job of wrapping a plot points, but it was all extremely predictable. I don't think they needed eight episodes to tell the story that they did because looking back on season two every single character arc was very unambitious. The only way this season could've been interesting would be if the characters had the same depth as Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones also had a slow pace in many places, but it worked because the characters were so fleshed out. None of the characters in this show have the same depth. Combine that with glacial pacing and an eagerness to bore audiences with drawn out scenes with little payoff (Damon's arc) and you have a recipe to torpedo interest in the show. Let's see if anyone will even watch S3.

It's become more apparent this season (and especially this finale) that the "writers" have no idea what to do with the source material if GRRM isn't holding their hand every step of the way. The filler is blatantly apparent now (those who've read Fire & Blood realize how much they try to add to fill in the gaps) as is the constant transporting and slow-paced dialogue "Like... mist... in... the... morning... sun." They also consistently ignore the logistics of the world to deliver us scenes between prominent characters, much like the latter seasons of GoT. Imagine if Ned Stark was just in King's Landing one episode, then ended up back in Winterfell next episode to have a quick chat with Caitlin, then magically ended up back in King's Landing and nobody seemed to notice or care he'd even left to begin with.

The reason Game of Thrones beginning seasons felt so phenomenal is because there was legitimately so much actual dialogue to reference from in the books to the point they had to cut much of it short, yet it still had GRRM's actual quality tied to it. Same with the characters and their movements, and the attention to detail Martin has in his writing. The moment D&D ran out of actual source material, they also forgot the logistics of the world and the characters immediately started having less intricate and meaningful conversations; instead stuffed with slower paced poetically metaphorical verbiage. The dialogue seemed more to serve the purpose of sounding fancy and cool but lacking actual substance.

Fire & Blood isn't meant to be stretched out in this manner. Season 1 was good, but Season 2 is them getting too cocky with Season 1's success and stretching beyond their means. Overall, this season was definitely a miss, filled with stretched filler material that really didn't need to go on as long as it did. The finale most certainly cemented that.

Combined with the penultimate episode, this was actually, a two episode trailer for season 3. Quite a disappointing outcome from this show.

GoT S1-6, one couldn't fall in love with a character because every episode someone was dying and it kept us on our toes. With HotD mostly everything is painfully slow and predictable, leaving the audience asleep.

This season put a bad taste in my mouth, especially that I gave it so much grace and patience. Came into it being super optimistic, and left like I wasted time from my life that I will never get back, just like the last two seasons of Game of Thrones.

In all was a pretty decent episode with the pacing very good but i cant help but wonder how this episode is worth a season finale.

Its so obvious the show runners want to make more money off this. This series should have been 3 seasons at max, but now we have a very boring season with few highlights and multiple fillers, unnecessary, repeated scenes that we waited two years for, and if anything the fans deserved a way better/ satisfying finale.

In all the expectations/ hype have overshadowed this show and it is very obvious this show cannot tie the laces of Game Of Thrones, At season 2 of GOT, we had Jofferey ruling and mistreating Sansa, we had Arya on the run meeting up with Jaqen H'gar, we had Theon betraying the starks, we had the battle of blackwater, we had Tyrion and Varys with multiple entertaining conversations, we had Bran and Rickon escaping Winterfell, we had Jamie captive to Brienne, Rob winning wars... Exciting times...

Now what we have is poorly written scripts, sub par acting sometimes, with better cgi.

ALL IN ALL A VERY DISAPPOINTING SEASON... If i were to rate this season, i will give it 4 if i was feeling generous.

Now we have to wait some 2-3 years for the next season. What a frustrating season...

I actually didn't think this season was that bad, and enjoyed quite a few moments and character developments. Sadly, this episode turned out to be the weakest. It's placed as a finale, but is in fact a breather. The pause before an epic battle.

If there had been two more episodes or even one after this, I would have loved the build up here. Sadly it has been wasted by poor planning :(

It truly felt like this was the midpoint of the season, and I think that it shows the writers struggled here, and it fell short from the first season. The actors delivered and there were some absolutely stunning scenes.

Overall this season was a sophomore slump, that has left me feeling a little disappointed.