YouTuber Preston Jacobs immediately House of the Dragon After-party livestream: “Honestly, this is my breaking point at this point. I don’t think the show can be saved,” he says. Sunday’s season finale “really ruined everything,” he says. Plots contradicted each other and some storylines just didn’t go anywhere, he said. It was a mess. And while Preston had mixed opinions, game of thrones There have been opinions in the past, but on this point many fans agreed with him in the livestream comments and across the internet.
here House of the Dragon Spoilers for the Season 2 finale await for yourself, but the bottom line is that this episode ended abruptly just as it was starting to get interesting. Despite weeks of building to a big battle between the Targaryen houses, House Green and House Black, no such battle materialized. As The Hollywood Reporter puts it, “The reason HBO’s Black Cut frustrated so many TV fans is because… The Sopranos Ended.”
of soprano This comparison is an exaggeration and not very accurate. House of the Dragon Far from a critic’s darling soprano But now it is undergoing the same scrutiny that its predecessor once underwent. game of thrones‘Womp-womp 2019 series finale some fans were hoping for House While some believe it could recapture the glory of its predecessor, others worry it will repeat the same mistakes, and Sunday’s episode seemed to suggest to many that it might be all dragons and no fire.
“We all used this season to build up and now we have to wait 2 whole years for the next one,” @Tata_Onika wrote on X, referring to rumors that the next season won’t arrive until at least 2026. “This really pisses me off,” wrote another X user. “Did you just see the 70 minute trailer for season 3?” another user asked, a sentiment echoed by others. On Reddit, fans were “a little pissed” and lamented that they “didn’t see any significant bits of action.”
Another personal favorite: “Did we have to deal with Freud’s dreams for this?”
The Season 2 finale may be a sign of the times: HBO, Max and its affiliated programming have been through a lot of turmoil since parent company Warner Bros. merged with Discovery. Dragon and The Last of Us While it hasn’t been hit as hard as some of its peers, this season only had eight episodes instead of 10, and it was filmed during the Hollywood strike, as many of the cast members were part of different unions that were not part of the strike. Deadline reported last year that the “big fight” had been moved from season two to season three, which may have contributed to the show’s mediocre finale.
Intention House of the Dragon Will it bounce back? Well, maybe. Season 2 has already fallen short of the viewership numbers the show’s first season recorded. But as the streaming wars continue and people consider canceling their services or, as in Max’s case, switching to ad-based tiers that are also rising in price, it seems foolish to compare the numbers of one season to those of another. HBO has greenlit a third season, and co-creator Ryan Condal revealed on Monday that the series will end with season four. It’s entirely possible that it will begin with the showdown fans have been hoping for. Until then, everyone will just have to wait and see while this drags on.
