Smallfolk

With Rhaenyra's endless laments about her inaction, Daemon's frustrating Harrenhal sequences, and endless stares of a downtrodden Alicent, the story has grown stagnant.

The Dance of the Dragons is a story of epic tragedy. Let us see it and feel it with these characters. Show us the manoeuvring rather than always verbalising it in the same settings. Show us the familial bonds between these characters so they feel like an actual family. Let the characters make choices (and not via 'accidents'). Let the Velaryons have dimension rather than existing as mere tools to say 'yes' to Rhaenyra. Let us scream with rage at these characters and cry when they cry. Just make us feel something worthwhile, because with each episode, it's becoming harder and harder to care.

Warning, not for people with a 2-minute attention span who can only find stimuli for themselves, should the production they are watching throw bloody and hard-hitting action in front of them. What we are offered here is an incredibly well-staged character development that will reach its next climax soon enough. By whining about there being too little action, the poor undemanding Marvel fans are causing negative reviews and can therefore possibly be held responsible for the ratings falling. You might regret it, because what follows will overshadow everything that has come before and make up for the botched 8th season - if it continues to be written as well as it has been so far.

I happens rarely, but this is the second time in the entire series, that I used the fast forward function in some scenes.

It wasn´t bad but it also wasn´t good either. I don´t care about action as long as there is either real character development, a clever or catchy story development, the introduction of something you feel that really matters or anything with a bit of special wit, charm other something that would be genuinly simply exciting.

Many things felt kind of random, the dialogues are ok, but without verve and certainly not to the point. Some story elements that were introduced in the episode, will drag on a bit but as viewer you expect they will be kind of pointless and basically will just provide the "action cannon fodder" for the final episodes.

All in all it´s still solid but authors shouldn´t complain too much if they get replaced by an AI soon.

Just like the last episodes this one was lacking what makes the series great that is, strong situations and strong characters

instead, most of what happens is a bit naive and uninspired, to say the least... they sent a few ships with food and this was enough to start a riot ? One could claim that this is not realistic and even if it was it should be set-up correctly... it should have been developed more...

the episode did not go any deeper into the lives of the protagonists... it did not follow anyone a bit closer or dug a little deeper... remember Tyrion Lanister, how he was always drunk, looked down on, always in brothels and taverns, meeting new people and getting into situations or adventures which he resolved his own way? Well, this character was phenomenal... the characters in S02 are shallow and uninspiring, taking up space than giving flavor to the outcome...

given the above one has to consider that GOT hadn't revealed its quality before the end of S01. But the expectations are high for House of the Dragon.

Come on you guys, this episode is not bad. This is the exact same slow build up that made the first 4 seasons of GOT so great. We inevitably more towards a big clash of the parties, slowly but surely.

I see everyone just saying that nothing happened this episode, but that is just wrong. There were a lot of amazing scenes and moments, some intricate schemes and revelations.

The only thing I can understand though is Daemon. He is chilling in Harrenhal not doing anything for a bit too long now. It's time for him to come back.

Other than that, I really liked this episode. Get your head out the gutter guys, this is just what Westeros has always been.