You can tell Mike cared deeply for Jimmy but knew that he changed for the worst. Also I think Jimmy and Gus would respect each other with both losing a loved one to the cartel and it changing them into a soulless money maker.
Not watching this video but I’m just gonna say. First half is good, second half is mid, final episode mostly missed. Biggest issue is setting up a whole lot and paying off very little.
This season is mostly about characters. If we don't spend time with the characters, the things that happen to them won't hit the way the should. Also If you are not interested in seeing the main characters (Alicent Rhaenyra and Deamon) then there is no reason for you to watch. Their journey are the prime focus.
One of the victims are dream fyre she's just locked up while still being claimed by a rider who literally doesn't ride her or interact with her she's just left "abandoned"
you hit on what i think is the biggest issue, yet strangely one that i feel is not brought up in most complaints: the lack of characterization. I LOVED the first season, way more than it seems most people did. One large reason for that was I felt like i understood the characters and their motivations. Now in s2 the conflict is more straightforward yet i can’t understand characters that i thought i knew. the largest for me being Aemond and Corlys. I have no idea who they are anymore, how their minds operate. And that’s not to say they’ve changed, characters changing is a good thing. They’ve just become amorphous. It drives me nuts when someone’s first complaint is “it doesn’t make sense how x character traveled to x so quickly.” Like that is annoying but i don’t understand how that is what shapes your views of a show. to me, the bones will always be the characters and that’s where i’m feeling let down
The problem is the script. It doesn't matter how much time the characters are on the screen if they are not doing anything relevant and coherent. And that what happened this season.
Do you guys not understand how quick the dance of dragons was? You guys want a battle each episode but every battle is fatal if you had a battle every episode the series would be over
I really really want them to divulge just how much a dragon costs to have on the screen. This keeps being used as a reason we don't get more of them, yet we have movies being made entirely out of pretty believable CGI all the time. I guess I just don't buy it, really. Has there ever been a break down of how much per second this apparent pinnacle of CG technology costs?
I don't feel that's slow, it's more like pointless scenes, the pace would be perfect if there was more purpose to the scenes other than repeating what was already established
Good review, I can see where you´re coming from. Personally I was on board with the show up until Episode 6, but yeah, we have to be honest and say that momentum is a huge factor of what makes a series like this great. I think a lot of people would have been displeased with GOT Season 2 without blackwater for example. Blackwater was the culmination of Tyrion´s arc. And personally I would have needed something like that for this season as well. And as you rightly point out, too many scenes of Alicent and Rhaenyra.
Season 1 had plot set ups that were paid off almost always in the same episode. Season 2s episodes were almost all set up with no payoff. Like you said each episode in s1 had its own small conflict that added to the overall conflict. Only the dragonseed pay off actually happened in the same episode it was set up in. Even though it was a big topic in the prior episodes before it.
The showrunner and writers believe this is a story between Rhaenyra and Alicent, where it is actually a civil war between two sides. They have critically misunderstood the plot
Stop using women writers 😂 They dont have kids how the hell are gonna write Alicent and Rhaenyra like that They didnt even remember HER ONLY GRANDSON, HER SON EAT BY A DRAGON OR HER UNBORN DAUGHTER OE MAYBE HER HUSBAND exile by her own hand All interesting dialogue could be made with thouse characters in mind but nahhh better talk about Patriarchy for the 50 time or about flying to Essos why no Yass queens
Blame HBO for not giving them the budget money for episodes 9-10 this season would’ve been fine if we got the big battle that would’ve been episode 9 and the aftermath in episode 10
@@Morfe02 yes it was because of the writers strike and the budget. Those dragon fights and epic battles cost millions to make, I think HBO should bet the bank and pay whatever the cost to get the epic battles and 10 episode seasons and make HOTD the best show on tv like GOT was before
@@tonymontez2358 of course but now is worst They have like 10 battles Next season dragón and soldiers They need like 6 seasons if is the budget but in 4 seasons means a lot of time Skip my god
@@Morfe02 idk if we’re getting 10 battles I think we might get 3 or 4 tho I’ve heard it cost around $50 million just to do one big battle. I get the feeling they really are trying to stretch the show for more seasons I’m sure they probably want more than 4 seasons plus HBO doesn’t have any other big shows so they might as well try to get get 6 or 7 seasons and flesh out all the characters
@@tonymontez2358 i really Hope at least 5 6 would be exagerated unless they have GOOD characters something very difficult if they spend time making fan-trailers about Game of THRONES instead of introducing the Riverlords or maybe Jeyne or the Winter wolves with Rodin
After seeing the scene between Rhaenyra and Alicent, I was wondering in what world does this kind of a meeting happen? And not just once but twice?! These 2 people are the leaders of 2 factions at war. How are they not even captured before being able to meet the other leader. The idea of something like this happening during any war time is unbelievable. The ony time something like this can happen is to negotiate peace terms or something like that (if I'm not mistaken). And the worst thing is both of these scenes did nothing good. In the 1st one I was so surprised that each of them brush off the death of their child and grandchild. And in the second one is just a character assassination of Alicent. All her motives and actions of all this time thrown down the drain. Why does Hollywood keep on hiring writers to push agendas instead of telling good stories?
Heavy on the no lingering feelings about the deaths. I expected the death of Luke to affect Rhaenyra beyond ep 1, same for Aegon, Helaena and Alicent with Jahaerys. By the end of the season the characters all act like they forgot it happened entirely.
I think the lack of perspectives is for me the biggest issue of the series. We are way too focused on the queens and the other characters seem to pop out of nowhere when they are needed and then fade back into obscurity once they are no longer needed for the immediate plot. One example are the dragon riders who are just suddenly introduced withouth a lot of preamble. The whole thing just seems so abrupt. I also dont understand how these people who get basically a medievil equivalent of a nuclear weapon for some reason swear fealty immedialty to a queen in exile. Also dont the dragons communicate between each other at all? Dont they have any sort of hierarchy of leadership?.
The showrunners deciding to make rhanyra the main character instead of going the GoT route where they have a bunch of characters whose story we follow was extremely stupid. In the books Rhaenyra didn't do much at this point in the war, and with the showrunners focusong so much on her it is highlighted and she seems way more useless than she is. She drains away screentime from the rest of team black. We at least know the people on the green council, like Larys, Otto Christon. I chalange you to name 3 non valiryan people o the black council. Rhaenyra is constantly arguing with a bunch of random nobles on her team and we have no idea who these people are and why would they be of any importance.
Yes they made a mistake by making Rhaenyra be the main character. It made it that story perspectives and screen time couldn't be allotted to multiple characters during the war. A good number of whom as pointed out by many, play a more active role in the war then Rhaenyra and Alicent.
Couldn’t agree more overall it wasn’t a terrible season my biggest criticism would be the scenes between alicent and raynera they just weren’t good and were by far the biggest change from the books they just don’t work
Episode 1,2,4,5,6 and 7 are all good episodes to me. Overhated season. We got alot of character work for alot of characters. I dislike what they did to Alicent and the meetings between her and Rhaenyra but beyond that the main issues were the pacing and lack of focus on other characters like Rhaena, Baela, and Jace.
8:48 this! Ryan condal saying that small folk mourn the beloved dragon meleys when the said dragon has killed thousands of them, reminded me of got8 'dany kinda forgot about the iron fleet.'
Commenting before watching so I hope you hit on it but if this season only takes place over a month or so then Aegon has the most miraculous recovery in the history of Westeros. Dude survived Dragonfire melting him, at least a hundred foot fall, then a days worth, up to probably 3 days worth of riding around in a carriage exposed to any infection or anything that might come his way. Then all of his injuries heal up in like a week? His leg that was almost ripped off is now walkable. This show has ripped away any semblance of realism worse than GoT did with Arya. It’s despicable.
It goes to show that a multimillion dollar budget and all the cgi in the world cant replace good writing and story telling. I rewatched season 1 of GOT and god damn, I could watch them talk all day. HOTD season 2's writing was just bad. I don't even care about the lack of action/dragon battles. It's the nonsensical plot lines, monotonous storytelling,brain dead dialogue and character assassinations.
@@ChildOfTheFlower it’s not an excuse, yeah there writing flaws that they made, but hbo made them cut two episodes without warning them or allowing them to reshoot
@@ZanderStentz That doesn't explain getting rid of Maelor, 3 minutes of the North, Nettles omission, Alicent having nothing to do all season, Rhaenrya saying the same thing every episode, or 6 full episodes of Daemon getting a mushroom trip. Yes HBO did mess up but most of their problems are writing issues.
@@ChildOfTheFlower I honestly dont care about the book, its harder for a tv show to have so many characters and they already have enough, it would just make things more confusing, I like the change to Rhaenyras character, but yes i wish that she would have been more active, and honestly for alicent, this season showed how insignificant she was, it gave her character conflict and made her do a 180 on everything, i do agree tho that her choice of going to Rhaenyra was stupid. i enjoyed Daemons arc it added more depth to his character, yes it was dragged and there was definitely scenes that should have been cut, but not most.
