For readers of the little material around this era in George R. R. Martin’s world, you would think the show runners would take it as a guide towards the more key aspects and then provide their own spin on the moments we, as a viewer and fan, don’t even know what’s lurking in Martin’s mind with this Targaryen dynasty. 

Speaking in the pompous vocabulary that the writers love to utilise to no purpose or impact, alas thy show runners art incompetent and egoistical.

The characters get progressively worse to watch, their development is just horrid to the point of annoyance painted with a hint of dull across the landscape of this season. They are sent down paths of forced inclusion to areas that are blown out of character proportion taking into account the work done in the first season, that I’m half certain even the actors were fighting constantly. The passive aggressive nature of their marketing interviews and with the fate of certain characters, it’s no surprise there was conflict.

There are some decent moments through the rubble, Tom Glynn-Carney who plays Aegon was brilliant as a fallen king who craves to rise again from the rock bottom he has arrived at. Matt Smith has always been great as Daemon even with the show runners always trying to convince us to root against him. And of course when the action gets going, in typical Westeros fashion, it is brutal and utterly satisfying.

To see the promising elements and story that this show once had fall under the ego of the few results in a bad time for anyone who has devoted much of their time and passion to this franchise.