“Winter is coming with darkness and doom” reminds Daemon in the finale episode of House of the Dragon season 2 but it’s too late to salvage this GOT prequel. The HBO show concerns itself with the legendary civil war of the House Targaryen that is set to tear Westeros apart. But after the end of two seasons, we have precisely seen none of it.
It is no secret that House of the Dragon benefited since its inception with an already built fanbase and didn’t need to struggle to amass viewership like its mother show did. However, it has remained consistent to its slower and knottier approach, which is surely serving breadcrumbs to the impending war. Alas! The wait is too long and what lies ahead is nothing but a giant question mark.
All the players are unveiled and we know what drives them, it is betrayal for some and greed for others, all schemed sensibly in the plot but after the dragon dance of Rook’s Rest (Shown in episode 4), the expectations have grown higher, which the show is constantly failing to deliver. The climax episode of this season began with Tyland Lannister forming an alliance with the Triarchy over the promise of giving them control of the Stepstones, a region that has been disputed for ages. Also enters a new commander Sharako Lohar, who after a muddy wrestling with Lannister, orders her fleet to sail for a clash with the Sea Snake.
Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, First of her name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms.