The latest episode of House of the Dragon might be the most action-packed of the entire series. It also seems that there's plenty that took place that's going to impact the rest of the HBO Max series. Because of that, this is one of the season's best episodes by far. The series has been slowly walking towards what went down in Episode 7. But that doesn't mean that everything that went down was carried out perfectly.
The episode picked up not long after the events of Episode 6 of House of the Dragon took place as all the families that are ruling Westeros have come together for a funeral. Daemon's wife has died, after it became clear that she wasn't going to survive childbirth and that the baby wasn't surviving either, she ordered her dragon to burn her alive. It appears she felt this was a better death than the agony she was feeling trying to give birth.
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Now everyone has come together to honor her life and it turns out that they've also decided to settle some grudges. One of the interesting things this episode does, especially in the first half of the show, is to show quite a bit of the scenes in the nighttime, without much light at all. it's clear that the editors and the director would be a very cool effect, but unfortunately, it loses something to the fact that it's almost too dark. There are entire scenes where it feels as though the screen has gone black and there's no way to tell what's really going on in House of the Dragon.
There were obvious reasons for this and it even makes sense. It just doesn't make great television. There is one particular «love» scene that is probably better if the audience can't see it all that clearly. Although it was far too long than it needed
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