[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I gotta say that was a great episode.

Spoiler!

The dialogue on the war/no war thing was excellent. They did a great job of identifying the gray area/fog of war kind of stuff. Normally in this type of shit there is one narrative they want to push and the other ****ers in the room spew nonsense to push the narrative. In this case it doesn't appear that anybody was right or wrong. Really good points on both sides. Great writing. Surprisingly good.

And then shit goes off the rails. I knew one of the Strong kids was going to eat shit when they left. And they played it really well. And I gotta give them a ton of credit, I wasn't the biggest Lucerys fan. He seemed kind of ****y, but he put his big boy shorts and went into Storms End knowing Aemond was in there. Then handled himself well. Then he put up a really good evasive strategy until his punk ass dragon wrote a check his ass couldn't cash. Really nice character work there. It mattered when he ate it. Definitely landed.

I thought him dying was really good. Really fit Aemond's character. Right up until "vheagar NO". I guess they're paying off what Viserys tells Rheanyra about them not REALLY controlling dragons. But that was a really good scene.

Like I said before, the little things are what makes the thing go and they goddamned got it.

I think my favorite part of the show is that they DIDN'T age up the characters like they did in GOT.

Some of the odd/reckless decisions the Stark children make in the television series lose a little weight because it's grown ass people making them. And some of the impressive things they do are less impressive because again - adults.

But in HOTD they've kept them looking as young as they were. Luke looked like a terrified kid in that meeting with Baratheon. And if he's in his mid-20s, he has a better response then "Okay, lemme go tell my mom..."

That was an excellent decision and while it made some of the earlier scenes with Daemon and Rhaneara a little creepy, it really helped with the rest of the show.