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House of the Dragon - S2E08 Post Episode Discussion (self.asoiaf)

submitted 3 months ago by dornad to c/asoiaf

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The season finale! Did you see it ? Post your thoughts here and as usual, lets try to avoid mentions of future events in the timeline.

And as an aside, it's been an honor discussing HotD S2 with everyone. See y'all in 2025 with Dunk and Egg!

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[–] dornad 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

(For the last time in 2024) Things I liked / Random Observations

This was a bizarre finale.
- Game of Thrones used this clever formula of having a great/impactful/explosive penultimate episode and then the finale episode as a palette cleanser and next season setup. This felt more like the latter without the former, and it hurt it.
- I wouldn't call it a letdown, but I can see how the rumors about this being changed from a 10 episode season hurt.
- Season 3 has the potential to be the best ASOIAF television event - this is a great setup for it.
- On a more darker take - I can totally criticize this as a 70 minute trailer for season 3
- I feel like the story was just split between S2 and S3... so did we just get A-Feast-For-Crows/A-Dance-With-Dragons'ed ?
I didn't expect Otto to be imprisoned.
- I think there's something wrong about Otto being imprisoned - specially with what happens to Otto in F&B.
This episode had GoT S8 teleporting going on:
- Rhaenyra: Fly to Harrenhal and back.
- Alicent: From the Kingswood to King's Landing and then Dragonstone.
Alys is now intimately tied to the (future) lore of the series... lets count the easter eggs in that vision
- Brinden Rivers (could this be an cameo from the actor playing him in D&E?)
- The Others/Whitewalkers (just the whitewalkers or the GoT Night's King?)
- A possible vision of the extinction of the dragons?
- I'm shocked we got a Daenerys cameo.
- Kinda related... what the hell was that thing in the godswood ?!?!?!?
  - I re-watched with subtitles on: antlered human 😱
A dragon with striking cobalt blue coloring leading a Hightower host. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Prince Daeron Targaryen & Tessarion!
I am pretty sure that the ending montage had all the leitmofifs of the great houses. Somehow it didn't stick with me?
The Rhaenyra/Alicent meeting felt like the Sept scene didn't occur ? Is it just me, or did it felt like they were meeting for the first time in the season ?
- I'm sorry, but having Alicent being OK with "a son for a son" as a setup for the fall of King's Landing is fine? did Prince Jaehaerys didn't count?

Going back to the antlered human in the godswood... I would have preferred an antlered being as a vision from a certain event in ASOIAF:

In a vast river stood a monstrous figure, antlers crowning its massive, muscled form. Shadows deepened as it loomed over a horse-sized black dragon, whose obsidian scales glistened in the dying light. The antlered being roared, eyes aflame with defiance, but the dragon matched it in relentlessness. With a bone-shaking bellow, the giant struck, its immense strength driving into the dragon’s chest. Blood mingled with the river’s waters as the dragon’s life ebbed away, sinking into the depths

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