The Burning Mill

Being scene Game of thrones twice, I can surely assert that house of dragon does not have the emotional quotient which it has the potential of having! Episode 3 could have been one but it wasted on highest level! Two queens, best friends, family members meet at the climax of the episode to have a mature conversation like to abandon the war and the entire sequence is wasted like it's written by a 8 year old child! "I started of to badly" one of lines from the queen which I thought is true for entire episode! The war was cut short to just see bodies, alicent behavior change is just getting creepy! I hope the next episode is the one which they wanted to spend time on.

The last scene of Rhaenyra and Alicent meeting is like De Niro and Pacino meeting in Heat, brilliant acting and brilliant scene.

I have a theory, the people who are calling it slow or rating it bad are binge watchers, who probably binge watched Game of thrones too. They have this perception in their mind that something big happened in Game of Thrones every episode (btw which did happen in this episode).

I think the show has been very detail oriented but it lacks at creating hype among non-book readers or non-nerds of Game of thrones unvierse maybe because they don't get all the nuances of the show. Probably thats why they release a video after the episode where creators explain the episode.

I think the first season of the show was amazing... The changes from the book, the actors, the characters and the pacing was totally Okay... But this 2nd season is a big waste of potentials. They cut out almost the whole north storyline and CREGAN STARK for s3x scenes between Alicent and Criston! Why?!

They don't want to give Jace the heir to the throne enough screentime... Why?!

They are totally messing up so many characters for shock value like Alicent that I couldn't even tell who she is now. And my greatest pain is the many horribly written dialogue... Episode 2 had some of the best of the show and Ep3 doesn't even have 1 I could enjoy without thinking about plotholes and everything else.

Third episode into the second season and it's still not as gripping as GOT. The characters are just don't have the same level of chemistry somehow and this isn't without the writers trying I feel.

Alicent lacks the same sheer baseless of Cersei, although some similarities we're still trying to figure her out, apart from her being a nymphomaniac she doesn't seem to have any driving force. Rhaenar is the trying hard to be the heir to the throne but it's a man's world and she's not tough enough. The world is littered by creepy, ne'rer do wells but they're lacking in the side shows of GOTs. I know it's early days but I'm still not feeling it.

Direction and production is great, let's hope it gets better.

Obviously for budget expenses they couldn't put a battle like the one of the burning mill in full. But now the war has begun and you can feel it from all the characters who have started to play their role well.

The brothel scene is a bit avoidable but not bad as a basic episode for the battles that will take place in the fourth. I would have preferred it to end with the fall of Rosby or Stokeworth. Or with the arrival of Cole's troops in Duskendale. But I'm still happy with how, even if very calmly in the series, they want to represent the war in every millimeter with episodes that will slowly become darker! I can't wait.