Most of this season's lack of action is George's fault. He wrote a book in which most of the characters do basically nothing between just major events. If the writers haven't invented a few bits -which led most to complain that they were not being faithful to the material - this would have been even MORE boring. Rhaenyra just crying in sadness in Dragonstone, Daemon just standing by in Harrenhal while the army is mustered, Alicent wandering about in KL, etc. I just think the writers need to have even more freedom to strand away from the book to make a more interesting season 3. And if George complains about the faithfulness, then he should have written a better book.
The characters are flipped from their book counterpart... rhaenyra is ruthless and I love her for it but now they make all the characters weak even aegon and I dont even like him I don't think the characters and the story is strong enough.. and fire and blood isn't a bad book 😅 I think they could have done well if they followed the story a bit more even a little bit
One of the problems is that Alicent and Rhaenyra aren't really active protagonists in the source material once the war actually starts while they mostly dominated the prologue (It's also a problem in F&B. Like I remember doing a double take when Aegon dueled Baela because I straight up forgot who she was. Why do you always make the people actively doing things the false-leads George). When you invest so much time in them in season 1, you have to either change the story to make them more active and hope it works or stick to it and audiences have to make do with characters that didn't really get that much focus. This season kind of tried to do both and failed. Aegon II proved that shifting the focus to the more active characters could have worked.
The problem i have with the show, is the character arcs, nd growth the story itself, the stuff they showed us could have worked if only they done it right all the emotions they have in season 2 couldve been during season 1 especially for daemon and jacerys they could have felt like they been pushed down the line or whatever ...Daemon could have battled the riverlands with his own army in order to have them submit to him not kill one of his own loyalists in order to have the army my boy daemon ruthless ... and with alicent and rhaenyra meeting.. alicent could have suggested splitting the realm but after rhaenyra takes kingslanding.. and rhaenyra and daemon could speak at harrenhall with rhaenyra naming him lord protector of the realm and he gives his plans to take kingslanding from aemond... jacerys could lead the dragonseeds as he did in books
Rhaenys murdered 100s of small folk in the dragon pit to NOT do anything to the greens. It got retconned in S2. All the women in the show are coddled because of the theme they are pushing men bad woman good, they lose all agency and intrique
Season 1 was good overall, with some regrettable scenes. (Probably one of the favorite shows ever tbh) Season 2 seemed like a lifetime movie. Apart from the dragons and actors, it doesn't even feel like the same show. Idk how Season 3 will be, but I can't see how it can recover from the absurdity of season 2. I'm so beyond disappointed. I don't think I've ever been more excited for a show to come out, after Season 1, and now I couldn't care less.
Everyone will forget about the pacing of S2 when S3 drops with Battle of the Gullet followed by the Fall of Kings Landing. Nobody will give a shit then.
It’s an unfortunate sign of the times we’re living in, that you can’t have two women fighting each other. The story works better as originally written (an ‘evil’ step mom vs her bratty stepdaughter.) Alternatively, if they wanted to go the tortured best friends route, they needed to give viewers an actual villain to root against (maybe the “evil maester” conspiracy theory.) This season was boring, minus the Jurassic Park Vermithor scene.
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I’m increasingly worried that the remaining seasons of the show are just going to make me fed up with it. Have to admit to being a Book Fundamentalist and, having since re-read the portions of F&B, feel they are producing a much inferior story. Starting with Blood & Cheese - the absence of Maelor and Alicent not being there but in bed with Cole instead!
Guys, absolutely agree with all you’ve said in a video. Huge disappointment, if they do not change narrative, I am afraid we will end up with the final scene of A and R dying in each other’s arms with a kiss. All dynamic between characters reminds me of fan fiction but not a professional writing.
Funny how people are surprised by Rhaenyra’s idleness … She does a lot more one screen than described in the book. They changed or invented some storyline to fulfill some blank narrative for her in the original story.
It's been 3 episodes, what is the point of bringing Mel back? What does she do in The Giggle, Legend of Ruby Sunday, or Empire of Death that has any impact?
Fede Álvarez did say that he really felt inspired by the Alien Isolation video game and there’s actually a fair amount of references to it as well (I was really happy with this as it is one of my favourite video games!) I really think it’s been one of the strongest movies to come out this year and hope it draws in a new audience that aren’t too familiar with Alien.
She wasnt even grieving her son for real they gave us a scene of rhaenyra crying and then later she isnt even grieving, she probably wont even grieve jace and he is her rock in the show... the story has changed
8:41 it reminded me SO MUCH of Alien Isolation. You bringing up how it’s structured like a game is exactly how I read it: we go from casual, set-up, tutorial mode, to a sneak-heavy survival horror, and then, once you’ve figured out your enemy and have enough firepower, an action-packed escape sequence where you’re finally given a fair fight. I LOVED it 😂❤ have to go back this weekend and see it again for sure
It’s pretty obvious the writers have a boner for nyra and Ali, trying to make them the ones who don’t want war etc. but will make alicent completely dumb and willing to sacrifice her kids because she still loves her bestie. It’s a joke and a slap to the face to not only book readers but casual audiences.
Seriously typical bunch of winging poms and book readers are the worst not being able to enjoy what is premium quality put in front of them… critical nature has taken over by those who think they could do better not realising the behind the scenes goings on at HBO. No book is adapted to screen completely and justly… I still hear the cries for lady stonehart and young griff!!?🙄
The fast growth part is just lazy. I think if they just stick with the original crash course time then there is room for quiet moment like in the original Alien and Aliens. It will also made it more tense as no one really knows when the alien will bust out from the host.
@@constantinelheman agreed, and there's ways to time skip if they really need to. Knock a character out or make them have to travel from one side of the station to the other
I liked it a lot, I didn't think it was too derivative, we've been asking for them to return to original Alien form for a long time. They did that here, with some inventive sequences, a little touch of Prometheus in a way I didn't think was too hammy. I really think this might be the 3rd best in the franchise, behind Alien and Aliens. I do wish the tension and horror had a bit more time to breathe with Xenomorphs.
Have to say I really fancy both of these guys - yummy. I enjoyed the movie - typical alien movie it delivered everything you want from it - didn’t leave the cinema thinking I had wasted money.
I did my best to avoid trailers/promos after the 2nd full-length trailer because I felt they were giving too much away. The basically showed 1/3 of the characters being offed in the trailers. Loved the movie, even the somewhat dicey 3rd act.
I was actually really mad, because the best sequence of the movie "open the door, Andy" was spoiled for me by a trailer, and it was something we'd never seen before in this franchise, and it was a real shame they couldn't save it.
I honestly think Nettles and the dragon seeds should’ve been the main characters of this show. This should’ve been a show about small folk who see a chance for greatness, but are drawn into the larger machinations of the nobility.
