re: House of the Dragon: S2 Episode 8 “The Queen Who Ever Was.” (SPOILERS)

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Damn Helaena spoiler alert for non book readers

This episode has fricking sucked. Feels like it would have been placed 2 or 3 before the finale

Yup. Now the queens talk AGAIN

i cant believe this is what they came up with for the finale.....whoever wrote this season needs to be fired. outside of rooks rest, basically nothing happened.

2 years wait for this crap...smh

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@JP_Gunner_345 Spent 8 weeks watching a preview of season 3 ???????? #HouseOfThedragon WTF

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Really a perfect summation

No one is going to give a shite about season three in two years. That was awful

I’m at a loss for words. That was simultaneously a great episode and a dogshit finale. Like.. if it had been the penultimate episode to set up the battle in the finale it would have been fantastic. That ending sequence would be epic if we knew there was one more episode.

But to leave every single plot line on a cliffhanger, basically, and then end the season? I mean come on.

Den of Geek shredded it. Den of Geek website

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Save for Tyland Lannister’s (Jefferson Hall) hilarious sojourn with the Triarchy in Essos, very little happens in this finale that could be dubbed finale-worthy or even be treated as a surprise…and that’s not only because significant portions of the episode leaked beforehand. The final five minutes or so of the installment serve as a sort of sizzle reel of what the finale should have been with all the realm’s various armies and navies gathering for a war we’ll have to wait many months to see. In hindsight, it’s particularly wild that one the episode trailer’s biggest money shots – the Hightower host marching while the dragon Tessarion flies overhead – actually appears among the episode’s final (anti)climactic moments.

Rightly or wrongly, this finale carries with it the taint of executive interference. The pre-season announcement that season 2 would feature eight episodes rather than the traditional 10 didn’t seem highly significant at the time. But now it feels as though the writers received the altered episode order 55 pages into penning this installment. HBO’s pockets are vast, but perhaps they are not “two Rook’s Rests” deep. Complaints about the finale’s lack of finality aside though, this is still an episode of House of the Dragon, which is to say it’s a good episode of television, all things considered.

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