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<blockquote data-quote="Groundhog" data-source="post: 1194124" data-attributes="member: 50079">While HOTD is pretty good, parts of it do drive me crazy. Alicent and Rhaenyra are both very well acted, but Jesus Christ let the women be a bit evil. I get it they want to add depth to the characters and make them more sympathetic, but that point has been driven beyond home. I think the showrunners way overestimate how interesting people find the Rhaenyra and Alicent dynamic that they entirely made up. Maybe they get there eventually, but the whole point of the book is that this pointless war twists nearly everyone into a vengeful monster.This season just built and built into precisely nothing, there was no climax and its as a result of HBO being cheap and cutting this to an 8 episode season where in a normal GOT season Ep 9 would be a huge battle and Ep 10 building the next season. Left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth as we got 20 minutes of slapstick Lannister mud wrestling. With that said though I think they easily could have made a better season in 8 episodes.Certainly not S8 bad, but a really forgettable season with way too much fluff. Praying that Dunk and Egg is a bit better as those stories are in my opinion the single best thing GRRM has written. I would highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Harry Lloyd (Played Viserys in S1), he is fantastic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Groundhog, post: 1194124, member: 50079"] While HOTD is pretty good, parts of it do drive me crazy. Alicent and Rhaenyra are both very well acted, but Jesus Christ let the women be a bit evil. I get it they want to add depth to the characters and make them more sympathetic, but that point has been driven beyond home. I think the showrunners way overestimate how interesting people find the Rhaenyra and Alicent dynamic that they entirely made up. Maybe they get there eventually, but the whole point of the book is that this pointless war twists nearly everyone into a vengeful monster. This season just built and built into precisely nothing, there was no climax and its as a result of HBO being cheap and cutting this to an 8 episode season where in a normal GOT season Ep 9 would be a huge battle and Ep 10 building the next season. Left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth as we got 20 minutes of slapstick Lannister mud wrestling. With that said though I think they easily could have made a better season in 8 episodes. Certainly not S8 bad, but a really forgettable season with way too much fluff. Praying that Dunk and Egg is a bit better as those stories are in my opinion the single best thing GRRM has written. I would highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Harry Lloyd (Played Viserys in S1), he is fantastic. [/QUOTE]

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