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The ‘House of the Dragon’ Finale Was Anticlimactic — and That’s the Point: TV Review
The Season 2 finale of HBO's 'House of the Dragon' was antclimactic — but that's the point.
This quality gave “House of the Dragon” showrunner Ryan Condal the freedom to pick and choose what version of the truth the show would settle on, as well as fans the ability to frantically speculate about the impending arrival of major developments they knew were coming, if not when or in what context. But witnessing Season 2’s sole dragon-on-dragon matchup — the conflagration at Rook’s Rest in Episode 4, which took the life of Princess Rhaenys (Eve Best) and permanently crippled Rhaenyra’s usurper brother King Aegon (Tom Glynn Carney) — up close has humbled the bitter, revenge-minded knight. “House of the Dragon” is, as a whole, deeply concerned with history, partly as a nod to “Fire & Blood.” In “The Queen Who Ever Was” alone, the final shot of Rhaenyra frames her among a wall of scrolls containing millennia of past lore, while Alys Rivers (Gayle Rankin) convinces Daemon to commit by showing him a vision of the existential struggle to come in “Game of Thrones,” more than a century in the future.
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