Regent

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.

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I'm so sorry jeyne arryn. And sabitha frey, my queen of killing men and kissing men. You will be missed.

That is NOT alyssa. Ryan and sara think targaryen = silver wig and it's embarrassing. Not even GRRM crossed the line into parent/child incest. For a REASON. Harrenhal subplot is tiring now. Also what's the reason for all this noncanon tuff about the riverlands? They were one of the first people to rise up for rhaenyra, for viserys little girl. Aemond was the one who torched the riverlands everytime he got mad. Trying to alienate daemon from the audience all bc the show runners hate him is just weird. Simon strong you are an icon.

The only saving graces are jace and baela. He's serving face and getting more noble houses to his mothers cause at the same time! And baela is being queeny as usual. In another life, they would've been amazing rulers.

I don't expect action, I expect dialogues that are worth listening to over and over again and I don't think I've seen anyone, except Rhaenys, leave a mark on my memory (at least in this season) like Viserys in season 1, or a Tywin, a Cersei, a Littlefinger, a Varys, a Tyrion and I could go on. Since when did Rhaenyra stop being intelligent, stop being a queen, stop being the one Viserys believed in, to become a swordswoman? The episode gains thanks to Alicent, Alys and the doggo but I can't feel the other characters, their soul, as I would like. I loved Daemon at Harrenal in previous episodes but not anymore. Baela has so much potential, i liked her but still, I can't feel her. I needed more Helaena too.

This episode meandered throughout. Did you know it's HARD being a woman in a man's world? It was difficult following the plot when it seemed to go nowhere. BTW, did you it's HARD being a woman in a man's world? It seems the writers blew there load on episode 4, which was far superior and they didn't know what do except keep beating the audience over the head with it being HARD woman in a etc etc. Get back to plot driven episodes. Btw, did you know it's HARDbeing a woman in a man's world? As evil as he is Aemond is a much more interesting character than all the queens combined, partly because he truly has a dark side while the queens are a little too insufferably good and have little depth beyond the feminist yammerings. Please writers, enough of that.