It's a little hypocritical for fans who hated the final season of game of thrones to be praising this episode. It commits all of the same crimes. Character development is rushed and unconvincing. It doesn't make sense for Ser Cole to act so sassy expecting Rhaenyra to give up her crown and her whole life to fly away with him. He is legitimately acting as if this is a fair expectation after they had sex once.
We never really feel him develop this level of an obsession with Rhaenyra that's enough to convince him to smash some guy's face on impulse. One episode their relationship is in one place and a lot of time passes between episodes and we are supposed to accept that their relationship is in a new place now but we never really feel that. It's the same thing with Daenerys's arc but somehow people overanalysed that and were emotional about it while here they are forgiving when there's no expectation from the show.
That whole scene final made no sense, first with how the guy just accuses Ser Cole on a hunch, and then Cole losing his mind, smashing his face, completely out of character. 'The prince that was promised' played in the background and they tried to pass it off as a poetic scene but it was just nonsensical.
This show wants to give you several reasons to like and dislike each character so people can pick sides but none of them are really strong reasons. They could have had us spend time with Daemon's wife throughout the series so killing her off would be much more impactful. As such, what Daemon did feels inconsequential because we don't have any connection with his wife. If we knew her it would have impacted us much more and it would have made a big impact on our judgement of Daemon.
We never really feel him develop this level of an obsession with Rhaenyra that's enough to convince him to smash some guy's face on impulse. One episode their relationship is in one place and a lot of time passes between episodes and we are supposed to accept that their relationship is in a new place now but we never really feel that. It's the same thing with Daenerys's arc but somehow people overanalysed that and were emotional about it while here they are forgiving when there's no expectation from the show.
That whole scene final made no sense, first with how the guy just accuses Ser Cole on a hunch, and then Cole losing his mind, smashing his face, completely out of character. 'The prince that was promised' played in the background and they tried to pass it off as a poetic scene but it was just nonsensical.
This show wants to give you several reasons to like and dislike each character so people can pick sides but none of them are really strong reasons. They could have had us spend time with Daemon's wife throughout the series so killing her off would be much more impactful. As such, what Daemon did feels inconsequential because we don't have any connection with his wife. If we knew her it would have impacted us much more and it would have made a big impact on our judgement of Daemon.