The whole scene where he was flying to Storm's End made me think of Demon's Souls. How ominous it all looked, the architecture, everything about it.This shot might go down as one of the best ever for this universe. Simple...but fucking effective:
The episode itself was great as well. Poor kid though...that dragon was shredded. Holy shit!
Yep. It's why I had such a massive problem with last episode's ending. It was the dumbest decision they made all season, and it completely destroys her character. She's essentially ruined for the remainder of the series - not only is she a mass murderer, but she's a complete moron and a walking contradiction of motivations.
She didn't say it wasn't "her war," she said it wasn't her place to start the war. She still respects the crown and the way of order no matter how much her and Corlys lost.
She could have saved a lot of trouble if she had burned them all though.
Hindsight is 20/20, such is life.
Stealing the crown, locking her up, forcing lords and nobles to bow or die to the false king, etc., was the first act of war, arguably.
Vhagar is larger (largest known living dragon), but Vermithor is probably the second largest and almost a 100 year old dragon by now.
No. It is an old and big dragon though. Vermithor was King Jaehaerys' dragon, so it's been hanging out eating sheep or whatever for the past 30-40+ years. Vermithor hatched for young King J, thus is "almost 100 years old" by the DwtD, but isn't as old as Vhagar, who is well over a hundred and was a mount of Queen Visenya herself.
Then her actions make even LESS sense as the only real option open to Aegon II is death, imprisonment, or eternal hostage status for Rhaenyra and all her kids, to likely include their bethrothed, Rhaenys only actual surviving grandkids.
That is for the Queen to decide, not her. There would have been a power vacuum for the throne left empty, since a lot of the houses were going back on their oaths as generations passed. Borros for one.
Hard disagree. I had somewhat similar thoughts at first, but thinking back about this last episode it would have been a waste to do so. The plot was already moving at mach speed this whole season and way too many people would have complained even more about things speeding up too fast just to start the war and cliffhanger mid-battle. Obviously it's not the most action-based ending, but what ended up happening in the end was a great moment to leave people in anticipation for what's coming next.
I think the problem is that the whole season now feels like a big tease. We all knew it was building up to a big explosive war, but for them to punt it to season 2 feels kinda underwhelming.
I'd agree with you if Rhaenys had just evac'd out of another door and flown around the dragonpit. But she chose the MOST DRAMATIC escape possible, and did it in FULL ARMOR, so from a Green perspective her stance seems really really clear. To then kinda step back and say "it wasn't my place to start your war" is just......I dunno, silly.
I somewhat agree; this final episode felt more like what you’d expect from an episode 9 in GoT. In GoT, episode 9 was usually when some big shocking thing happened, while episode 10 then dealt with the immediate aftermath. But HotD skipped the aftermath. It would be like if the final scene of season 1 of GoT was Ned’s execution, or the final scene of season 3 was the Red Wedding, without showing the fallout of those events in the final episode.
Did you forget the Queen was going through a troubled labor of the stillborn deformed child?
The labor BEGINS when she hears she is being deposed. If the news was "Hey, they TRIED to depose you, I fried them all, long live the QUEEN" then that outcome might have been quite different.
I don't think so. It was just all timing. The child was deformed and stillborn, was missing a leg, etc..
She never said it wasn't "her war". She said it wasn't a war she was supposed to start. That's all. Clearly she left the greens and went back to Rhaenyra. As soon she did that, she picked a side.
Wat.
The long wait for more pocket dragons and a very evil pirate begins.
Maybe she felt they deserved it for so quickly turning their backs on the rightful heir.
The smallfolk were forced into the dragon pit for the ceremony, which she knew because she got caught up in the tide herself. When they started cheering, she was already offscreen getting her dragon. Again, it was simply the showrunners wanting her to have a badass scene.
No, that's your impatience speaking lol. I know how you feel, you want more and you want it now. Unfortunately we all just have to wait.
Possibly, but the problem is the episode would have had to skip time again to do this, because this episode was mostly about finding out sides and preparation. I don't know about you but I'm worn out when it comes to time skips.
Oh, I am sure she heard the cheering, since it happened just as she was leaving. Regardless, it shows a contrast in characters. She is stone cold to them since she spends most of her time at Driftmark, Daemon is more sympathetic due to spending most of his time in the brothels and the underbelly with them.
This show is very adverse to montages but in F&B there is basically an extended one where each ruler reacts to news of the other's doings with lots of screaming and the like. I think they COULD have merged the two locations a bit more. The concept of space and time is going to be very important in the coming seasons and they will need good ways to keep the audience informed of both. I like we are gonna see a LOT of that glowing table (perhaps the intro will change from Viserys' Valyria table model to that table).
I'm fine with her not killing family, because I think we can justify her thought process there in several ways. I suppose if she is genuinely that callous of a person towards the smallfolk, a little more setup would've been nice. Because to me, it felt her character went from 0-100 in that respect.
She's had a set up the entire season. It was all boiling over and the final nail in the coffin was stealing the crown and locking her up.
She was confined to her opulent quarters, let's not be dramatic. She wasn't tossed into a dark dungeon, by the Seven!
And she knows it would have been her head, because she wasn't going to kneel.She was confined to her opulent quarters, let's not be dramatic. She wasn't tossed into a dark dungeon, by the Seven!
To be fair, she would never have even been asked to kneel. She runs nothing, is in charge of nothing. Driftmark is run by Corlys, and in his absence/death Luc was confirmed as heir. So she could have easily backed out of any commitment by batting her eyes and saying "But Sers, I'm just a weak woman and can't make a decision this hard, you've said so yourself by passing over my distant and least favorite cousin, Rhaenyra!"
To be fair, she would never have even been asked to kneel. She runs nothing, is in charge of nothing. Driftmark is run by Corlys, and in his absence/death Luc was confirmed as heir. So she could have easily backed out of any commitment by batting her eyes and saying "But Sers, I'm just a weak woman and can't make a decision this hard, you've said so yourself by passing over my distant and least favorite cousin, Rhaenyra!"
I'll rewatch the season, but I never got the impression she felt strongly about the succession of the crown the entire season. Hell, she even tells her husband to give it up because she's put it behind her. I felt like she was on the fence up until Viserys had his grand entrance in the episode prior.
There's still the issue of Rhaenyra having two living husbands in that case.
