Well unlike Rings House of doesn’t wheel out offensive Irish stereotypes, so that’s a big point for GOT

House of the Dragons: Rhaenyra leads criston cole on a wonderfully shot horse chase through the kingswood

Agreed, this reviewer really has a very pedestrian understanding of the show, misreads a lot of plot points (like that the final battle of this episode featured “two dragons” sent by Viserys, when the episode clearly shows that’s not what’s happening), and makes groundless speculation (last week’s “stray observation”…

I think you got it. These weekly reviews read like recaps of actual reviews written by someone who only half-watched the episode.  

Welcome back to House Of The Dragon, the show designed especially for George R.R. Martin fans who wished that Game Of Thrones featured 80-percent more slow-moving court intrigue.

Still really enjoying it!

This review is what happens when you check your phone for an hour while the show is on in the background and then you write a review about it.

Terrible recaps *and* a slideshow?  SOLD

It’s a challenge, you know: one doesn’t want to respond to a review with “you just don’t get it man” because the whole purpose of a program like this is to invite discussion: the ambiguities and uncertainties are explicitly designed to position different audiences differently. Its not overly prescriptive about where…

Yeah came here to post this. Daemon and the others won the war on their own before Viserys’ aid could show up. I’m sure that will be important later.

Maybe it’s just me but the ‘glacial’ court scenes were far more interesting than a rote battle for battle’s sake - we don’t even get to see the actual highlight of it, Daemon versus the Crab Feeder, which happens off screen.

Also the dragons the arrive are not the forces that Viserys was sending (which did not…

I mean, that's basically the one thing in this recap that's correct. 

Plenty of people have already said this, but it is kind of amazing how much the recapper managed to miss about this episode. The episode very clearly laid out that Daemon (followed by the Velaryon forces on foot) was drawing out the Crabfeeder’s army so that Laenor Velaryon and his dragon (who were a part of Daemon…

Jason Lannister or Ser Hugh of the Vale?

You were correct, it was the dragon they already had. This recapper is awful.

I don’t have high standards for quality in reviews but as low they are, this review fell way below it. Not sure why the editors have her on this show as she’s unable to to keep basic facts straight nor refrain from complaining about perfectly normal things like royalty being betrothed at a young age.

I’d have to agree. I think this has been Paddy’s strongest performance yet with Viserys. After listening to the Ringer-Verse podcast of the second episode, the theories they discuss on the hesitance and indecisiveness of this king made it easier to sympathize with him this episode. He knows his family is so much more…

How has someone who paid so little attention to this show, ended up reviewing it? Honestly, there are so many things wrong with this review, that you could only get wrong by literally not paying the tiniest bit of attention to the show and maybe just reading the synopsis somehwere on the internet and then reviewing…

How has someone who paid so little attention to this show, ended up reviewing it? Honestly, there are so many things wrong with this review, that you could only get wrong by literally not paying the tiniest bit of attention to the show and maybe just reading the synopsis somehwere on the internet and then reviewing…

Tthese reviews are so bad you have to question if she has a vendetta against house of the dragon, or is she just incompetent. I am leaning towards both since she somehow thinks she hulk is a better show, in act part of it maybe a sustained head injury

Definitely not Daemon’s, which is bigger, & red. Laenor’s dragon is named Seasmoke (silvery grey): https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Seasmoke#Known_dragonriders_of_Seasmoke