I dunno what’s so hard, it’s clearly Dumbledorf, who crash landed from the starship Enterprise.

Most of this first season is character development and setup. And in a case like this, where we’re about to make a significant leap ahead in time, I think we need that. The green and black division is going to be the crux of the show for the next four seasons, so these first five episodes really have to dig into the…

They definitely have more chemistry, intentional or not, than most of her other romantic prospects. 

The whole avoiding (almost) all of the arrows was what did it for me. I could (sorta) get behind the whole tearing through the enemy thing - the pirates weren’t winning the war because they’re great warriors, they had a significant tactical advantage of having an entrenched position into which they could retreat…

In the case of Galadriel, it’s not the show taking liberties to make her look cool. In all of the literature she is highly regarded as one of the most legendary elves ever born. Tolkien specifically cites her as “the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth”.

That scene was garbage. It was 100% plot armor to the extreme. He gets hit with two arrows out of the hundreds that are fired SOLELY at him. I can’t stand Matt Smith as Daemon with his bald caveman brow/skull.

Yep, in a show about dragons this was the most unbelievable scene for me. This isn’t something like The Witcher, where the swordsman is also superpowered, so you expect him to take on 50 guys alone.
Daemon’s just a regular guy that is somehow able to avoid hundreds of arrows (though a few do find the mark) while…

Especially if they went to face him one by one. *rolls eyes multiple times *

I agree. My suspension of disbelief didn’t get stretched, it snapped. I’ll still watch the show - I’m not a superfan or anything - until I don't want to anymore. Probably somewhere around season 3.

The ending battle was, by far, the worst part of the series so far. Just absurd. Turning Daemon into Rambo just makes me expect every future battle with be stupid with plot armor for fan favorites ala GoT after Season 5.

This scene was fucking horrendous. Bear with me.

It wasn’t Ceraxes that showed up (his rider was otherwise occupied). It was Seasmoke ridden by Laenor Velaryon.

The best part of this episode was towards the very beginning, when that one guy was screaming on the beach from being nailed to a post and eaten alive by crabs, when he suddenly started shouting for joy at the sight of his king Daemon finally coming to save him from his brutal and savage torture he was enduring on…

Yeah the hiding in caves thing doesnt work without some more context. Could Daemon and his forces stay supplied? If so they should have landed troops in the daytime with the dragon as overwatch, built earthworks, and simply starved the enemy out. Also his plan at the end to draw the enemy out by facing them alone is…

I suspect one or more writers have kids of this age, because some of the stuff (the constant “guess what?” prompts, the inane babbling about lego shit, the bizarre interests in things you’d never think they’d even know about) feels VERY on-point, at least per the 9-year old in my home.

If my 5-year old daughter had spilled 500 Lego bricks on the floor and I told her to “pick up your Lego,”  I would come back later to find one brick in the box and 499 Legos on the floor.

Americans* say Legos , pretty much nearly every other nation on earth says Lego (or Lego Bricks).

Dick jokes are not automatically funny, but they aren’t inherently unfunny.

Someone in the writer’s room definitely has a second-grade age kid – Colin starting every sentence with “guess what?” was PAINFULLY accurate

Found the energy vampire.