Near the end of the episode, Daemon descends into Dragonmont singing a song in what’s presumably High Valyrian, summoning a wild dragon from the dark that’s so big that it looks like it could be a match for Vhagar.

shoujo ai (not yuri - thats more lewd)

So Mysaria’s dead, right?

That said, while I admire her restraint, Rhaenys’ mercy is going to cost a lot of lives.

Respectfully, he was cruel far, far, far before that. You don’t get to be “Lord of Werewolves” by being a good dude.

Unfortunately the past two episodes destroyed much of the goodwill I had for the show before. We’re just getting too far from the path of the source material that I could understand how we’re supposed to get back on it. And it’s frustrating because the showrunners clearly know their Tolkien lore, but for some reason…

Sadly agreed. The way they made rushing a plot point, I wonder if the writers were under executive pressure to feature the creation of the Rings in the first season even though it didn’t make any sense to do so.

The Cenobites in the new film are dressed in their own, mutilated flesh, and are mostly done with practical effects. I don’t know how you take that as less “gooey” than the original.

The armor, I was more so curious how different it has to be to not get sued by Warner Bros if the design isn’t from the books.

Aragorn is not in this show, he’ll be born around 3,000 years later.

That, I believe, is supposed to be the point, that even well-intentioned ambition to extend things beyond their allotted time is bound to end up poorly. It’s a true Tolkienian theme at work, but somewhat clumsily handled. I’m getting the impression of executive meddling at work, assuming that the general audiences…

The showrunners have already told that the billion dollars didn’t accurately represent the money that went to the first season. It includes the marketing budget as well as the infrastructure built for the whole series, not just one season. 

I just don’t see any reason for it to be more complex than the face value. And thus far the show seems to have been fairly on the nose about most subjects, even ones that I’d prefer to be rather more complex, like the mithril or the Balrog. 

No, she said she lost her husband. Which is weasely enough to cover anything.

Celeborn and Galadriel separated in the past for long amounts of time. So they could just have had a falling out (maybe over Galadriel’s quest?).

My other weird little niggle is changing Isildur’s brother to a sister, which wouldn’t be a big deal if the brother weren’t the other statue in the Argornath

So while there was a rebellion, nobody we meet was involved on one side or the other, and Miriel is a Queen without spouse or heir, or any ministers or emissaries she could send to reestablish ties with Gil-Galad.

Right, which means she’s Queen as far as is consistent with the King’s wishes

Dany had a special, magical circumstance in her favour. Unlike GoT implied, the Targaryens aren’t fundamentally fireproof. 

Yeah... but the article also includes the caveat “if there wasn’t a way for the resulting steam to exit.” Having a big hole bored into the side of the mountain sure seems like it’d let the steam out rather than letting it build up enough to burst through the top of the mountain.