House Of The Dragon

Likely watch it tonight, but does look like the reception hasn't been great for the final episode. Only 6.4 when I glanced at IMDb (slightly above The Small Folk) and The Guardian moaning in the headline for the recap and another article with a headline moaning that there haven't been enough dragon battles.

It hasn't been the speediest season, but still felt like there was plenty going on for me (and plenty of dragon action). As I mentioned before, episode runtime could have been trimmed for every episode, but don't think there were any that I haven't enjoyed.

It is a very pretty series. I just wish it effing went somewhere.

More so than this, I know Brienne is a big strapping woman, but if you get repeatedly punched in the head and then head butted whilst prone by The Hound you aren’t winning the fight and walking off. She’d have been absolutely knocked out.

Loved both characters though, and artistic licence, plot armour etc etc.

We never complained that LOTR or Star Wars lacked realism.

Yes I now remember all the Sand Snakes rubbish. Great 😂

They should have all died during the long night.

Also as great as the gold train scene is, Jamie falling into the water is an instant death in earlier seasons and no way is someone of Bronn dragging him to safety.


Also for those that have read the book

Lowest rated episode and close to Thrones Finale score.
People are really upset about the lack of battle.

It was perfectly fine IMO but needed one big scene. Maybe show Aemond burning the town in anger cause it seems many are mostly annoyed at the lack of dragons.

Lots of pieces moving on the board this season which means in two years we’re gonna see some epic stuff.

I’ve really enjoyed it and it made Monday a really enjoyable day.

Dunk and Egg will be a nice filler whilst we wait for S3.

I think season 8 shows what happens when you rush things; whilst I would’ve liked a big season finale, I think we got plenty of epic stuff through the whole season and I’m sure when we get Season 3 and 4 it’s all going to pay off.

The showrunners have already shown instances of laying down storylines that have pay off, I've faith it will come good in the end. Just doesn't make the wait any easier unfortunately! Feels like the ones complaining that it is moving too slow are the type of audience that S8 was trying to reach.

It’s the internet age isn’t it. If we were watching this in the early 90s everybody would just go ‘well that was a bit alright wasn’t it’ and have to actually buy a stamp and ink to write to Points of View if they weren’t happy.

God knows how these people would have reacted to the ending and wait of Empire Strikes Back.

It’s part of a long arc ffs!

I've seen complaints about Helaena suddenly having gifts/abilities so you can tell that lot haven't been following since S1.

At this time, I've given up hope GRRM has any chance or initiative to finish Winds of Winter, let alone the series as a whole; best fans can hope for is him leaving around enough notes for a successor to do that postmortem.

He made a blog just before the show complaining about others thinking they can do better than the source material(in general not talking about this show. He never named any work in particular but it was assumed he was talking about this).
But yeah the late cut to 8 episodes didn't help.




At most he gets WoW out but unless he's going to shock everyone and announce A Dream of Spring is also finished and coming within a year or so later I doubt the series will get finished considering he's 75.

He's also said he doesn't want anyone else finishing it.

Page not found when I click on the link. Sounds like he's not a fan of the current showrunner.