The Queen Who Ever Was

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.

Quite possibly one of the most boring season finales I've seen. The characters are basically all over the place at this point. I debated skipping this episode entirely and truth be told, if I did, it would've been inconsequential.

Why the show runners felt the need to deviate from the source material so much is beyond me. What they failed to realize for this season, was that perhaps the most compelling story, was the actual story! The first season did an amazing job at wiping away the bad stain the ending of Game of Thrones left when it ended. The second season, on the other hand, with exception of maybe 2 or 3 episodes, unfortunately reminded us of what happens when you abandon the source material.

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.

Truly a disappointment of an ending. I don't understand the point of building up the entire season if it leads to nothing. Will this 70-minute teaser even pay off next season, or will they drag on half the series until one of the major events finally happens? This season could have included at least one of the 4-5 important events.

Alicent's character assassination is laughably bad. Is this the same Alicent who previously sought an eye for an eye for Aemond? Now she's simply giving up on Aegon and fast-traveling to Dragonstone, unseized by any guards, and allowed to roam the castle unquestioned.

I just don't understand the motives here. It's not surprising coming from writers who openly admit adding random scenes strictly for shock value without moving the story along. They're trying to prove George's point about writers always thinking they can make a better product but ending up with something worse or even bad.

It's such a shame. I honestly hoped the finale would have some spice, but almost every episode felt the same: Rhaenyra complaining about her powerlessness, Daemon hallucinating in Harrenhal. Unreal.

The acting is the only good thing in this episode.

I'm not quite sure how they've achieved it but the showrunners have somehow made a story about a war between dragons, extremely tedious and boring.

The last few episodes have been slow and you could have condensed everything we learnt into a couple of scenes, but I let that go because I thought it was leading up to a satisfying finale, alas that was not the case, and rather than progressing the plot we get characters teleporting to have pointless conversations, multiple scenes in Essos with characters nobody cares about, and just when it finally looks like something interesting is about to happen, the episode ends.

This show desperately needs new showrunners who will stop trying to turn it into a soap opera, I feel they completely miss the point of A song of ice and fire, in that there are no real good guys.