The Queen Who Ever Was

House of the Dragon (HOTD) season 2 has been one that has left me very ambivalent about the whole show. After what was a very fine restart for Game of Thrones with season 1 of HOTD, this season has had so many ups and downs, and I'll avoid any clear spoilers.

We have very fine acting in general, but I feel that the jumping around characters gave often little room for proper detail. Matt Smith's character in particular seemed to be trapped somewhere with little challenge, and really was a wasted chance. Alyse Rivers was an excellent character and intriguing but we got to see little development.

I don't want to be over negative but really there were too many moments where I just cringed, the final episode was dreadfully written, and I groaned quite a number of times. Sharako Lohar in particular was possibly the worst & most ridiculous character I have yet seen in the entire Game of Thrones world. I just am not confident for the next season.

There's some modern world nonsense slapped into the show too, which I won't go into as I'll avoid spoilers but it's so sign-posted, and one-sided, I gave up. Whatever happened to the Tyrion Lannister type witticisms, the games of the whisperers, the mediaeval gamesmanship and the fantasy warfare? If anything this show seemed to be like a corporate meeting that was about organising corporate meetings (that's a real thing), as in this was the starting block of the beginning of a war to come which I'm losing interest to follow.

I thought the season 2 started fine, but really have lost a lot of interest. I'll likely keep up with season 3, but really this has lost its way. Can't even empathise with the characters. Each to their own, but I hope the writers can turn this all around.

This season has been overall disappointing with an exception of a few episodes. I didn't expect the season finale to be like a filler episode. I don't wish to write anything else. Considering how the last episode ended, I was expecting things to take speed and perhaps more of dracarys. What I got was boring and meaningless dialogues. You just keep waiting for the episode to pick up pace but to no avail. I can't believe they made us wait 2 years for absolutely NOTHING. 8 episodes of just setting up what's to come next!?

I rated the episode 6 because despite the bad writing, the acting was top-notch especially when it came to the "choice" in the climax.

Extremely disappointed.

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.

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...

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.