Regent

I can't understand why people are being so critical. Is all you care for blood & gore?

The last episode was amazing yes, a thrilling experience that left me at the edge of my seat. Though everyone condemning this episode as a "filler" aren't paying attention.

There are so many plots being put together, where things are starting to make sense and add up to something greater.

Had we not had these episode prior, The Red Dragon and the Gold would not have been so successful. We saw the build up of conflicts, power tripping and ignorance, lead to a devastating battle that changed the whole direction of this show.

Patience is a virtue. I am eager & waiting to see the chaos that's about to unfold.

I think people should always be considerate when rating these episodes. If you give this episode anything higher than 8, it insults episodes like episode 4. By no means is this episode terrible. But my god, some of these storylines are dull and add nothing to the characters. Instead of having Daemon have sleep apnea, move on already. It feels like forever since we are doing the same thing with him. The ever-lasting battles between the Blackwood and the Brackens need to be fleshed out more because I can't force myself even to care. There are some excellent elements in the episode. But for an hour-long episode, I could summarize it in 2 sentences. I love the show and believe the next episodes will be more enjoyable. I hope we have more character development and better pacing because episodes 3 and 5 felt like a waste.

GOT would narrate a lot about the habits and life of the key characters. Their personalities were made obvious to the viewer - some were evil, others were dumb, some were enjoyable, there were the thugs, the thieves, the whores, the spies even the executioners... if you've seen GOT you know what I mean... most of the most important characters were gradually proven to be unique. Interactions were also very very complex and there was always a sense of the need they had to survive... which was absolutely brutal... HOD is drifting away of what made GOT great and is sliding to a kind of shallower style... Still, GOT did not show its quality until season 2 but even so, the expectations for HOD are very high.

In my opinion, this is the weakest episode of the season so far. After all the crazy events of the last episode, the stakes felt so high and the tension at its maximum. The dance had begun. But this episode is very chill which does not really make sense to me. And I feel like there are so many aspects they could've explored in the aftermath of the insane battle last episode that they didn't. I would especially love to have seem them explore Aemond's character more, now that he literally attempted kingslaying AND kinslaying and is now on the iron throne: what kind of person has he become, what his motivations were, etc. As for the scenes we did get in this episode, most of them are okay-good, but nothing was.particularly captivating or engaging to me. Some scenes felt repetitive or like they didn't accomplish much, like Rhaenyra's arguing with Ser Alfred and the council yet again. Daemon's visions were cool in ep3 and ep4 but they're getting tiring now. Moments I did really like were the common folk trying to escape King's Landing and Baela and Corlys' conversation. The Brackens denouncing Daemon as a tyrant was also a good scene, but I honestly wasn't invested enough in the Brackens/Blackwoods conflict to care too much. Overall, this was just a good episode, rather than a great or outstanding one like the first 4. Ep2, for example, was a much better example of an episode that was focused on the aftermath of a huge event and was nearly entirely dialogue-based with little action, while still being excellent in quality. But I'm hoping that most of the less interesting bits in this episode are setup for the final 3, so I may look on this episode more favorably in the future.

After the events and the battle of Rooks Rest,an episode like this was needed..We might be at an all out war but the political spectrum of the two sides is also very important for the story..And again i hope every filler would be as good as this episode was..I really like the expansion of character debt from characters that didnt have much screen time(Like Baela and Jace)..The cinematography is out of this world,we saw so many places in this episode(Twins were majestic)

Is it an episode that will amaze you? Definitely not..But we cant have all out dragon fights and army fight every single episode..So a 8,5 for me for this episode is good and im awaiting the next episode..Im pretty sure we will have at least one more great battle in this season.