I mean this sincerely, but I don't understand how this show, and this episode in particular, have such a high rating. It's not a bad show, per se. But it's not good.
This episode continues a theme of colourless, lifeless world building, introducing new characters that (like all the others) we aren't given a reason to care about, and adding in shock violence and gore with shaky justification.
Given what happened at the end of the episode (without spoilers), there was maybe once scene of character development that led up to it. It's lazy.
Even the CGI is looking bad in some wider shots (the boat after the "run away with me" talk, the shot of the city when they arrive back and Allicent is looking down at the courtyard).
HotD is trying way too hard to be like GoT but is coming off as an edgy, boring wannabe with weird time skips, no real plot, and literally no one to cheer for. I genuinely don't know what people are enjoying in this show.
Three stars instead of one because the actors are doing well with the poor material they have.
This episode continues a theme of colourless, lifeless world building, introducing new characters that (like all the others) we aren't given a reason to care about, and adding in shock violence and gore with shaky justification.
Given what happened at the end of the episode (without spoilers), there was maybe once scene of character development that led up to it. It's lazy.
Even the CGI is looking bad in some wider shots (the boat after the "run away with me" talk, the shot of the city when they arrive back and Allicent is looking down at the courtyard).
HotD is trying way too hard to be like GoT but is coming off as an edgy, boring wannabe with weird time skips, no real plot, and literally no one to cheer for. I genuinely don't know what people are enjoying in this show.
Three stars instead of one because the actors are doing well with the poor material they have.