The ending was later game of thrones stupid.
Daemon running out there like an idiot, and the dozens of archers firing at him miss, again, again, and again, and again, and again, and then oh now finally they hit.
All the while he's fighting against opponent, after opponent, after opponent, against multiple opponents, as the crab feeder sends out dozens of his men.
It's just stupid. And his dragon stayed back because? No reason. Could have been attacking the archers.
And it turns out Daemon didn't do this solely to try and kill the crab feeder, but to try and bait him out so he/his allies can kill him and his army?
But wait. Allies said they had around 700 men. They're in a war. So crab feeder must have hundreds or around that number. Crab feeder wouldn't be stupid enough to send out a big force just for daemon, especially because he was wounded by arrows and on the ground, and still being attacked by them. Plus, we saw him send out what two dozen of his warriors? Against Daemon. For some reason.
Then when allies show and dragon attack, Crab Feeder and his allies don't go back in the caves? Which was their usual tactic each time for literally years during the war.
Even though they're in a losing war, Daemon and his allies win at the end.
None of this makes sense.
Writing quality across the whole episode is lower than the previous two, and we have now reached later game of thrones level of stupidity.
Would Daemon have really done that stupid run? Oh and we also see more of his dishonorable nature by nearly beating a messenger to death, and then betraying the white flag of truth. Even though he at least seemed to have some honorable aspects to him in previous episodes, even though he was brutal. Was this all in the book? The stupid suicide run, the dishonorable actions. And was it in the book when Daemon charged right in the middle of battle on his dragon and got pounded by arrows and almost died? He got lucky because one went into his shoulder. This is stupid. Even on the run he could have been killed by the first volley of arrows. I'd be very surprised if any of this was in the book.
Edit: And we don't get enough info about things regarding the status of armies, and the numbers we do get don't make sense. So Valeryon's forces have 700 men left? Eh? That low? And you're waging a war? Been in a war for years? How many forces does Daemon have? Does he have any left? He had goldcloaks right? For some reason. I guess he had so much of their loyalty is what it said in previous episodes. Yeah i guess they just followed him to Dragonstone and then into war. Where are they? Are they still a part of his army? If not, then it's just him? Why did the Valeryon guy say Daemon is helping them lose the war, he has a dragon. He's consistently helping, especially so if he's contributing his goldcloak forces, and i assume that's all Daemon would have, since we don't know if he's the lord of anywhere and able to conscript people.
So many questions like that. All through the episode about things. When an episode is a mixed bag like this, you start to see and question many other things. I still enjoyed the episode overall though.
Edit 2: Since a lot of people seem to agree with me, i thought i'd go into more detail. The show hasn't completely broken down yet like later Game of Thrones, nor has the logic been twisted too much like middle Game of Thrones. The previous 2 episodes i thought were really good, but this episode you could tell had a different writer, and that's not good, because it makes you less immersed, like sometimes you feel these characters shouldn't be saying what they're saying. Contrast that to Game of Thrones season 1, and i couldn't tell who was writing what episode, as it was good across the board. So early into this season and i'm seeing a mismatch in writing is not a good sign.
I think we have a lot of interesting characters in this show and i'm looking forward to continuing. I'd rate this episode a 6.5/10, but 6 or 7 is valid to me. Most of this episode i thought was pretty good, but there were too many things for me to choose 6. The mismatch in writing, the timeskip, the brattiness of Rhaenyra, the white deer heavy handed symbolism, the end of the episode and the anticlimactic nature of the crabfeeder. The king feeling a bit too lost in his soul, when he's supposed to be king and has been king for a long time, and has a queen and children. I understand the reasoning, i just don't buy it much. But i still like the many conversations, politics and intrigue in the show, and the characters and story.
Vikings turning into a WTHITH series wasn't what I expected when I first started watching it back when season 1 just came out. What does WTHITH stand for you wonder? Why The Hell Is This Happening
Why the hell is Lageartha dying in such a weird, uninteresting way that just leaves me thinking "wait, what, why"
Why the hell is there a plot involving Ivar's dead wife that is now ressurected and SOMEHOW ended up in Ukraine and SOMEHOW she met prince Oleg and told him all about Ivar and if it's not actually Freydis then it makes no sense and is unbelievably stupid
Why the hell does the Flatnose guy that Edge plays suddenly does a complete 180 and saves Bjorn when his goal all along was to kill him
Why the hell does the guy that saves Bjorn that looks like he's 45 say that he's too young to remember Ragnar
Why the hell there isn't a single character from season 1 alive anymore (and played by the same actor)
Why the hell there hasn't been one scene involving King Alfred this season
Why
Fuck me I'm glad that this is the final season. Let it rest already.
So many unnecessary character in this show, just kill them all. This is a show about the Green Arrow not fucking garbage tier tesco superheroes. Kill them for fucks sake. Every fucking time someone gets close to death, that fucking useless idiotic Mr Terrific or who the fuck is that, pulls out a prototype tech from his ass. WHY!!!!??? We dont want garbage tier superheroes we want the real ones, not Mr garbage, not the substitute Black Canary, not that hockey masked nobody, and especially not that dumb retarded Felicity Smoak.
I started to watch a superhero television show, not a fucking bad family drama with talentless actors. This show nowdays is 99% not a superhero show, its rather a bad family drama. They CAN'T act, thats why they are in an ACTION show.
The studio had no problem to kill or write off the decent or good characters, but with these garbage ass shitbags they are so delaicate like they were some AAA characters with good writing.
I dont like this show anymore, and this is the last season I will watch. Mostly I can gather the necessary strenght to watch only because I want to see most of the characters die, like Felicity Somak and every fake superhero.
This was one of the biggest "come ON! (>ლ) episodes of the show:
• Michonne's "this family thing isn't making me whole, I have to slice-and-dice some walkers".
• The Walker creeping on Michonne. WTF? those things makes so much noise. How it manage to ninja on her.
• the random girl's "maybe she's [Maggie] waited enough".
• Rick and Daryl stupid argue.
• Their stupid fall to the stupid hole. Who the hell pushes his friends in the zombie apocalypse without looking first.
• This show showing guts and gore constantly, it showed baseball bat head bashing, hinted rape and showed kids being eaten/losing their arm to a Katana, but they've made Norman Reedus 'cencore' the word f@ck (or fek as he said it).
• Michonne's "we're not the same" talk with Negan was good, but only because of JDM's acting. When will we learn about his past, and what his thing with Lucille. I haven't read the comics but I bat he was a baseball coach.
And finally...
• Rick looking at the 2 Herds and only says "No, No, No!" instead of riding the third vacant way and say it there. It's not like he could do something there in the middle of the crossroads.
Aside of that, I really enjoyed the episode.
