The Red Sowing

If you were on the fence about watching this show, I think this episode is worth each moment of buildup. While many have suggested this season is too slow, I have throughly enjoyed the thoughtful writing and in-depth character study season 2 has offered through 7 episodes. Ryan Condal has proven his love of the source material through incredibly thoughtful show running and overall attention to detail. At its best, Game of thrones at still had some rough moments and forced jokes. The humor from Hot D is consistently derived from unique or spectacular situations, and the way characters face them, rather than crude jokes. Glad to see HBO using my $$$ better than me.

This episode is indeed CINEMA ! An absolutely fantastic hour of television.

Rhaenyra at her best for this one, she had shown what's meant to be the blood of the dragon.

The dragonseeds plot was well developed and now it came to a very satisfying conclusion, Hugh's character is really growing on me, the depth the showrunners have given to him makes him more intriguing than his F&B portrayal.

What else can be said you'll discover great cinematography, CGI at its best, Alicent has a really beautiful scene and of course the whole dragons claiming moments.

The final scene was absolute badass, FOR HERE COMES THE DRAGON QUEEN !

Hyped for the finale.

If you've been following GoT since 2011, you'll recognize the slow storytelling and progression of the story. I still don't understand the people who see a lot of filler episodes in Season 2 of HotD. Yes, it may be told slowly. But that's what the GoT universe has always been about. I have the feeling that the loud critics here only know Seasons 7-8 and S1 of HotD. Don't get me wrong: I also see a few weak points in this season. Nevertheless, HotD is still one of the best that the series world has to offer and I especially don't understand the people who constantly give it 0-4 stars. What do you expect??? A dragon fight every week? That gets boring quickly. You need the slow storytelling so that there can be special episodes like E4 or the last minutes of E7. I understood that a long time ago. But apparently there are enough people who don't understand that.

Such a good episode. Again, this one is "slow" like the others that so many so called "fans" are claiming are slow, but this one has DRAGONS so that makes it worthy of a high rating apparently.

This episode has as much drama and intrigue as the others, but it just revolves heavily around the dragons. This is good obviously but it doesn't = good episode, it still has fantastic writing, brilliant performances and incredible music. The return of the motif from "The Winds of Winter" was a great touch and one that was super welcome, as well as the piece taking its own form and changing it up, to make it sound super eerie and haunting.

The dragons look incredible and there are some beautiful shots in this ep that take your breath away.

Overall, really good stuff that hints at big things for the season finale.

Remember how terrifying JAWS was without even seeing the monster much at all? This penultimate episode said "screw that method, we're showing the monsters in all their glory." And boy were the dragons epic. Bravo to the FX and sound design crew, this should win them the Emmy. The scene in the ale house, setting up Ulf as a potential dragon rider, was a bit cheesy, but otherwise the episode packed in a lot of tension and action. My only complaint is that they've kept Daemon in limbo for the entire season, almost as if they weren't sure what to do with him. The ending shot was pure chills.

My fear, as in most seasons of these epic tales, is that we've peaked at the penultimate episode and the finale will let us down a bit.