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My favorite finale scene was definitely the Aegon/Aemond interaction at Harrenhal. Tom Glynn Carney adds so much to his character, I loved his performance this season. His line delivery is *chef’s kiss , and the undead half burnt dragon is cool too lol

Daeron, Gwayne, and Ormond were major highlights for the season as a whole. Ormond was a compelling cool villainous character that had depth enough to make me want to see more of him. Sweet Gwayne and Daeron ugh I love them both. Gwayne’s “my boy, please” MY HEART!

Also in the finale, loved Alys having her moment. Another great performance by Gayle Rankin.

Now for the season overall:

I have such a love/hate relationship with this show. On the one hand, it's very character driven and for the most part focuses on that, the actors' performances are wonderful.

The downfall is the actual PLOT. A lot of times the logistics and choices being made just literally do not make sense? SEVERAL times I’m questioning if something was cut. There's so many "what the fucks?", like they establish something and then an episode or two later just kinda say "fuck it" to that logic they established?

Some examples: Hugh got into tumbleton (we established heavily monitored comings and goings) but how they fuck did he get out? How did Jeyne Arryn get a message to Daemon without Rhaenyra knowing or seeing it? How did Jeyne capture Rhaena to threaten her but then couldn’t catch her later? How did Alicent get to Harrenhal with her one guard, he’s then killed, but at the end now it seems she had a whole new set of guards? Why did Rhaenyra seemingly tell literally everyone that she let the enemy queen GO to assassinate her own son? Shouldn’t that have been kept on the DL? We keep establishing that the crown is missing money, why not FLY your dragon to casterly rock to get it? Are we ever going to address the murder mystery of the gold cloaks? That’s just what I can think of off the top of my head, there’s probably more.

ITS SO FRUSTRATING it's whiplash. I want to rant.

It's like, the highs are high and the lows are low. I have issues with these random logistical questions but I also enjoy when we get focused time on these characters.

Overall, I think it was a pretty good season. Not the best, but not the worst.

Season 2 AKOTSK apparently just wrapped filming. I cannot wait to see The Sworn Sword brought to life. The people are not ready for Lady Rohanne Webber and Ser Duncan’s little romance (GRRM not beating the romantic allegations), but I AM. Tiny spitfire woman x Giant sweet himbo undefeated.

But also, currently going through the horrific experience of HOTD (it’s a love/hate relationship) I can’t wait to get back to some really good writing and story telling.

Also interested to see if they’ll try to squeeze in any Targaryens, knowing that they love to push those blondes on us and everyone fell in love with the characters from season 1, but The Sworn Sword has no Targaryens involved.

I can’t wait to see what themes from the story are brought to the forefront. Nostalgia? Duty v. Love? The aftermath of war and how it affects the common people? Grief? Women’s independence in this world? Honor? Fighting on the side that lost?

Either way, I miss my pookie Dunk and cannot wait to see him and Egg (also Dunk with book accurate long hair? Save me.)