The ending of the second season finale has some fans in a fire-breathing uproar: “Great episode, but it had no business being a ‘HOTD’ finale.”
The ending of the second season finale has some fans in a fire-breathing uproar: “Great episode, but it had no business being a ‘HOTD’ finale.”
This whole season could’ve been boiled down to Rooks Rest and the Dragonseeds, and that’s it. Daemon’s Harenhal Acid Trip was B story filler.
85% of this entire second season was filler. Rooks Rest was the dragon fight we’ve been waiting for, but everything else was taking advantage of a captive audience, fluffing out 8 episodes, while teasing a season 3, which I wouldn’t bet isn’t also going to be filler teasing out a season 4.
This is all so cynical and upsetting. They ruined Daemon and turned Ryhaneara into a pussycat.
This season sucked overall, and the finale, with a 5 minute montage of more action and movement than the entire rest of the season, was a thumb in the eye.
I remember during the dark ages when most shows were 40 minutes long (+20m commercials), and of that 40 minutes 2-3 would be the series A plot line, and the other 37 minutes would be the B filler plot.
Amongst other things, it allowed TV show runners to have a 30 second what you missed montage at the beginning of an episode, because they didn’t have to recap that much A plot.
I’d hoped that style of story telling died with cable tv.
Maybe this change in tone is due to the change in show runner?