The Reel Rejects - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2x8 Finale Breakdown & Review!!!

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

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HBO i'm really grateful we get good television i have grateful that's a great place to start yeah i feel like this this episode was a solid solid um way to conclude this specific season you know i imagine that with the way last season ended unless you're a book reader maybe you were more aired for this. The way last season ended, I was under the impression going in, this was going to just be like, pedal to the metal, you know? And it wasn't that.

We had, like, a couple of really great dragging moments, but it wasn't, it wasn't what the... It wasn't all out war is on. It's still like... Yeah, it's more like, are we going to war? We're going to war. Yeah. We're definitely in war, right? This is boiling into physical conflicts that seem to be hearkening toward a war. Yeah, yeah.

And, and it's about forming armies and alliances primarily and the setup for the next season is really strong especially when you have to like introduce some new characters along the way who are going to be very integral to the plot I feel like this because the story is obviously not done that it's appropriate for a show because there's like several ways you can do a show you know a lot of times like a season ends and it feels like okay it can end here a lot of times when season's end of shows it can feel that way or it feels like this very specific chapter of this tale has been told

uh this does feel like a part one and to where season three will probably feel like a part two like season one felt like a complete season to me oh that's a good point and this feels like intentional i would say at the same time it does feel like a part one for what is to be an epic part two and i liked it a lot i thought there were some just really great scene work i mean the acting is just phenomenal i think it's really cool to end off an episode or a season of house of the dragon where a lot of times people are like clamming for the bits and we know more dragon shit and all that to make it just primarily really damn good acting some amazing scene work I think Emma Darcy is just phenomenal anytime I rewatch an episode of House of the Dragon 2 of season 2

as I think every episode I've rewatched like I've just had to and every time I do I just constantly think to myself like man they are phenomenal they really do hold this show down and watching what they just did in this episode as well they're easily my favorite performer on the show and it's cool to see like the lead character is is my personal favorite yeah because of their just commanding performance and the amount of the shades of variety

i love how much they take their time to with their dialogue and their responses so good so yeah i feel like this is really emma darcy season sure and well it's it is cool too that like it's it's like a lightning in a bottle in a lot of ways because you need somebody who really can carry the weight of like every other character in some way shape or form focusing on you and and yeah like i don't know there's something lovely i think when you know there are a lot of big characters and stuff and this season certainly has had episodes that have focused much more heavily on other characters but emma darcy's presence is always so looming and so potent and like yeah the amount of nuance but restraint that they show in so

many different moments like the little you know the little expressions of the face and and body language and performance are really wonderful and I love love love the way that that scene concluded between her and Alice and at the end and Olivia Cook I think is a really strong performer too and the way that that conversation ended almost wordlessly like they both kind of choked the word out uh but yeah it ultimately culminates in something that's beyond words and that scene i kept sitting there thinking to myself like how did they shoot this like did they set up a couple cameras in a few strategic places and just let this breathe and get it from all angles at once so that you don't have to worry about you know piecing it together the same way so the

performances can really shine opposite one another like there's so many moments just felt like they were taking time even in editing to like use that breath and space in the room and i think like you know it's it kind of reminds me of that thing they say about music about where you you know where you don't put notes is just as important as where you do put notes and sometimes it's just as important to focus in on those little moments where people's wheels are turning even though they're not necessarily doing or saying the thing right away um but yeah and especially just because yeah like Rainira is the whole

fulcrum of everything you need a performer who can really like bear that weight and be present even when not present and seem like they can somehow like are worth all of this fuss and I think Evan Darcy I really embodies all the things that make that really

work amid a sea of great performers that they've compiled here like Damon Damon And I, like, this is a season I'm going to be interested to kind of digest over the coming days and see how I feel about the totality of it. But I do appreciate as much as that has been like the kind of dog point of the season is like, ah, you know, damage is wandering around Heron Hall, losing his mind a little bit and, you know, withering poor Simon Strong away.

But I like I like what that ultimately led to. And I like, I feel like there are a lot of distinct beats and moments and sequences they have laced through. the season with that it's maybe not the most uh rollicking plot line or the most like fans satisfying in terms of the things we got to see damon do and represent in the first season but i thought that his presence and that arc is one of the clearest things the season did in a lot of ways uh once you get to the end there but i don't know were you satisfied by it or did you think it was stretched out or the entire story of damon yeah yeah definitely think it was stretched out i don't think it needed to be as prolonged as it was i love the scene i think the scene i think it's a great

scene and and it is cathartic and watching him you know uproariously side with her was an excellent moment i thought i thought was really strong but the journey getting there was wonky it was really up and down. Even this idea of like rallying Harrenhal to the growth that it has with rebuilding and the army. I don't really feel like we get to witness that or

feel it. You know, when you look at every part of Renera's journey of forming alliances, every one of those feels so earned and cool. No matter who it is, even if it's small scale. You know, it's really cool. And Heronle are like, oh, it's just

freaking big now. You know, suddenly there's so many more extras here the blackwoods and them and fought and it's all that yeah or bracket yeah i was like all right cool a few other houses who have shown up yeah and then for what seemed like an obvious arc that it was going to that he would eventually just land on i mean the show had me only question it for a split second when he didn't like bend the knee right away but i was like i feel like it's just gonna land where he is in full support of her and it did i guess we needed a season for it I do think that it's a little, like I've said before, I think what's great is separating them for so long has allowed Emma Darcy to really shine because if remember the journey of season one, everyone just only talked about Matt Smith primarily.

It was like Matt Smith, Matt Smith, you know, Damon, Damon, Damon. Those memes of like, I'm here for the plot of the show, plot, picture of Matt Smith, you know. It was like his journey. And then I feel like they've, that's the one part of that. It's the one part of the show that. i feel like kind of diminished it was the enthusiasm around damon specifically it's just nowhere near as intriguing or as exciting to watch like almost every other character was way more interesting to watch even like a lannister random sidequest your journey yeah so i do think in totality like the scene

itself is great uh that we got here uh however i do think the journey was a bit wonky cool you got to learn about it the song of ice and fire yeah and you got to see all that and i i'm not as an audience member particularly moved by characters who are suddenly moved by winter is coming because we've we've witnessed that and then upon witnessing that it was it wasn't that epic you know i kept thinking during that montage like unless you're also going to work in a promise that we're going to somehow like redo that but better like yeah that this all is yeah i couldn't help think of that too. Yeah, and so I'm not particularly swayed until like, oh, wow, you know, and that's another reason why I feel like the arc of him is not as profound, even though he's

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Once again, that's rocket money.com slash rejects. Help up your game and being financially responsible and reap the dang benefits, people. I like where they took it with him, but I do think that across the season they could have and probably should have made it richer. Like you can still feel, I like that it felt lonely. I like the witchcraft element and we're getting a little bit surreal. and there's some kind of, you know, symbolism on top of, you know, dream logic, blah, blah. All that stuff's great. I agree.

But, yeah, like, seeing him there often amounts to, like, we're just sitting at the table, and he's grouching at these four people who are here to help him. And, like, I feel like it starts to pick up momentum, especially when you get that whole Sir Oscar or whatever his name is, the kid in the previous episode. And you get the other house is actually there. Like, you have the thing with the Brackens and the Blackwoods. but even that kind of feels a bit to tat like i feel like there are many more things you could have done in that area to you know that could be just as lonely but could still feel like damon is here doing physically a lot and not just killing a bunch of time and hallucinating whenever we happen

to check back in with him at times it felt like a stage plan i don't mean that in a complimentary way sure i can see that yeah it actually made the whole thing feel like less consequential and smaller and i think if they had done more yeah i mean i felt like if they had maybe gone even more cinematic with some of it and just involved more of the elements that he's there to work with somehow like could have also enhanced the will he won't he

sort of allegiance question to because I feel like if we isolate him for too long and we have him going through all these formative things and kind of just zeros in on the whole like well it'll just come down to the point where he goes yes or no but if there are other aspects of his mission here that can teach him also

so that could have been more rich and more interesting i love the tense dynamics with jace ulf and hugh yes that is really interesting stuff to me and adam watching oh yeah and adam too it's just he's not really he doesn't really speak up he's to he's to the side he yeah he got to do this before jace found out so he's fine and it wasn't part of like the competition for like the best or dragons it's just like showed up one day yeah he just he gets the right to show up and be like I had nothing to do with this. Don't blame me. Yeah, yeah.

And related to the hand of the queen. So we're okay there. I am anticipating some type of weird flipperoo of things. Yes. Because it seems like they're setting up Ulf to be this real disdainful thing in their quest, in this growth trajectory and then maybe wanting to compete for something else. But I feel like it'll flip to Hugh. down the road

Hugh definitely seems like the one who I would count on to be noble and I could easily see Ulf being swayed or pulled in some direction. But that's why I think they're going to flip it. Oh, I get it. Yeah, I think that you set them up to be like, he was the more noble one

and stuff. I don't know, I like Hugh a lot. I think he was great. Oolphe was so off-putting this episode. This is the first. The most off-putting he's been. It's the first. I'm like, damn, you're way more obnoxious than ever. Like, you've never found you this. obnoxious yeah and you've known well enough i like i can understand the character having a chip on his

shoulder because obviously there's a lot in here about like you know when you watch the nobles who sired you to stroll it about you know while you suffer yeah yeah i get why he would want a kind of mouth off in that position but he's shown himself to be tactful enough i guess it is just the element of power because he seems to be able to read a room better than that typically or at least in the scenes we've seen him in yeah he seemed kind of a buffoon this time yeah he seemed like forcibly and and they do one of those like comedy things where he's like i feel like he made some crack there about like oh you can have a laugh or whatever and i'm like i feel like it's a bit beyond that you've got to know that you're being a bit of an oaf yeah but i'm curious

to see what becomes of them and i like that we address the idea of like oh yeah we were so focused on just finding them at all and now you've got to understand that now these are personalities to be wrangled these are allegiances to maintain and like yeah you have a lot of leverage with the dragon but so do they depending on what the relationship with the dragon becomes and so like there is that variable element and then you know across the pond everybody is trying to get uh helena to take up her dragon and all that and i really like that sequence between her and amen where she completely tells him yeah her vision of the future and how insignificant he is to it um and it does make me wonder i guess what the if she is actually gonna get flipped at some point i guess that's a pretty low hanging fruit in terms of like things you could predict but because she shows up in damon's vision and is like the capper on that where you know obviously she i feel like has kind of a mental connection to whatever he's experiencing there anyway just through clairvoyance and witchcraft but it also seems like that is a dragon to be flipped and she seems like a character who is just so much more poised to thrive and maybe just be less generally put upon, you know, at Dragonstone or, you know, under Reneira's banner instead. Yeah, I thought she'd have a great performance this episode. She's usually kind of sheepish.

Yeah, yeah. And this is, and sometimes kind of, I don't know, space headed, you know, in a way. Yeah, like off in her own little world almost. Yeah, and this was the first time I felt like she was incredibly present, even like when her sons were being her son was killed yeah you know it's like you could tell her her mind is sort of elsewhere and it's like one foot in one foot out with her mind and this she seemed incredibly attuned to the interaction she was having with amen yeah so i thought that was a really strong moment and amen did the scene with him and alicent when he's going off on her like the there's

a lot of turmoil within and amen yeah he's he's awful he is awful he's awful he's awful and there's a lot in this too about i guess some of that you might benefit how did she produce such terrible children the worst children they seem like the cliche inbred children of of like evil things that you worry about in the game with throes or we're like but you're not you're i mean it's some of that blood's in there but yeah yeah yeah they're a high tower and they're carrying like why are you guys all freaks yeah except for helena yeah well yeah i don't know but she's freaky in her own way yeah yeah yeah and then that third brother they keep building and they haven't cast yet so they haven't oh sure sure sure imagine that's why we haven't seen him or they're they're really building they've been

building them up so much yeah we got a few characters looming on the horizon whatever that what is the name i keep day written or something like that uh and we got uh i don't know if it'll be next season but i keep hearing craig and stark will be a thing uh so maybe you know i keep hearing too at some point on the horizon um i like i liked your little sign-off there with Kristen Cole and Allison's brother. I thought that was kind of a... It's been a fun ride with Cole because, like, from here and now, you know, I don't really... I don't...

I'm interested to see what happens with him. He seems to have completed some kind of arc of nihilism where he's come out the other side and has been humbled by how atrocious everything is and is now just sort of walking in the direction he's been pointed in without any real haste or worry. but I do like the arc of his performance and after being so easily hateable and despicable for so long you know it's been cool to watch

this flavor emerge from the performance at the very least yeah he's feeling a lot of despair he's just empty an empty human being at this moment and it's nice scene that he had it coming but you know what it puts me at ease it puts me at peace

even when he's threading with a blade from the brother of the woman he's banging yeah he's not even reacting to it no he's so far beyond that now he's yeah he's seen so much too much uh beb lena is it is it lena or bala i don't remember i don't know she's gotten the dragon at the end that's fun no no that season three opens up and the dragon just spalser yes she's gonna be burned up to a chris and then the lady aaron who's been up the hill this whole time she's gonna come down claim the dragon for the worst how is possible uh And then I like that other scene with her sister telling off Jace and bringing him back around and being like, hey, you know, you really want to get your your bastard chip taken care of.

Just like go above and beyond to be as good as you can be at all your duty and responsibility. So. Lattister was a fun watch. Yeah, man. Pirate lady is awesome. Mud fight. Who is the pirate lady in Game of Thrones? Wasn't there like a super? There's a pirate lady even though I don't remember games.

Yeah, yeah. I barely remember this show. Oh, well, yeah. There's a pirate lady who, uh, sure. shows up later on in the show who's kind of a badass or whatever she kind of reminded me of her but uh but yeah i think i got a vague image in my head yeah she's wearing a lot of gray i think she runs into fion or somebody at the point yeah she maybe or at least she's heavily involved with them because they're always at sea uh but yeah i like that a whole interlude

was that esos or pentos i get those mixed up too uh but yeah like being in the tropics for a minute there well he was the master of ships yeah so he wasn't the general right like the master of ships is the one who's actually counsel he's yeah but the oh because they're brothers right yeah yeah we're twins yeah yes yeah to go back and look at some of the geography of that because there was like a the general leading the lanisters before who we saw and that's the one who is the one in the field yeah And the master of ships. Who goes to the one guy and he's all arrogant. And he's like, yeah, we're going to march whenever Agon shows up.

Or Amon shows up. We didn't see him there at King's Landing. So I imagine. I could be, I don't know, we usually. No, I think you are. Every episode, we get one thing wrong. Sure, at least. Yeah.

No, that would make the most sense because, yeah, I'm remembering now. He meets up with the guy who's in the, they have like the bluer robes. And yeah, he's like, we're going to just hang out and drink all your drink. I got an army of 500. We have a thousand. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. And then, yeah, the stuff at sea, though, was, or, yeah, in the tropics there on the beach. It was just so bright and so different.

And I was like, oh, yeah, this must exist out here, mustn't it? And their whole mud fight slash cannibalism fake out was fun. It's interesting to get you endeared to them because out of all the battles that they were teasing to come. That was the one where I'm like, oh, I don't want any of them. I know. The pirate lady and Lannister guy. I like Thailand, Lannister. And then you cut to Alan and Coralus.

I'm like, oh, I mean, I have to choose the side. I'm going to choose Alan Corlis, but yeah. Get a medium moment. I actually like these two. But I did catch myself partway into the episode, part way into that first chunk going, oh, yeah, these are technically the people I've been rooting against this whole time. But, like, this guy is so fish out of water here, and he's like so, it just, yeah, he seems so, like, freaked out by everything that's happening, even while he's holding his own.

And it's like, you can't help but be endeared to his, like, like underdog nature and the fact that you know outside the council even though as far as lanisters go and from association with the lanisters of game of thrones these ones seem a bit more subdued like even still like i was like oh wow we are so out of your element here by comparison and yeah i think that was a fun endearing choice i feel like helena's prophesizing is all going to come true i feel like if we just want to know what's going to happen we just listen to what she say yeah that agon will sit on the throne again i can see it And he's out with Laris. They're out here.

It's crazy plotting. It makes me very excited for what season three could be, and it makes me one, like, one, I've really been enjoying House of the Dragon thus far, and it has a lot of the great earmarks of Game of Thrones. There's some great dramatic writing and performing and all that stuff, and there's some great scopic battles. I do kind of look forward to maybe the map feeling bigger and more alive

and more fleshed out, because, you know, there's still, this show does, carry over a bit of that like how long does it take to get places and like what is the actual passage of time uh whereas like the original game of thrones had that for me very well calcified for much of it yeah yeah you really felt distance you really felt kind of how broad and how different each of these places could be and uh i would be cool to have some more of that especially because the end montage is so much like man we're gonna be in all kinds of places following all kinds of the different plot lines are about to collides.

Yeah. And then I think like the last thing would be Adam's monologue. Oh yeah. All that pent-up hurt and pain finally comes out of him. Yeah. It's like, I like Corliss's performance when he's interacting with them, whoever the actor is, because

he's got that thing where it's obvious he kind of wants to connect. Yeah. He wants to reach out and he just, but he keeps going being the way of the commander. Nah, I can't. He just who won't allow himself to go all the way. Yeah, yeah, to go, to do the marathon here, you know.

And then to have that trigger moment for Alan where it's like, hey, you've already pretty much made it clear, you're obviously my dad. Yeah. And to lay it all out on the table, all that pain and that monologue was a really, really well done one. It did make me wonder if they kind of told him about this monologue and they wanted him to build that up throughout that. because he's been kind of so internal and so subtle this entire season and then to be called on for hey you're kind of got like a shit attitude the crew members don't really like the way you act you don't inspire and a big part of being able to inspire would be having to get in tune with the way you actually think and feel and be able to communicate that and that is like a first step to be a real leader is like to that fucking conversation that was great that was a really strong moment it was that actor did a terrific

job who plays uh alan there is like the little you could really yeah i would absolutely not be surprised if what you're speculating is the case because there's just so much in every little facial tick and line delivery like i love that and i'm looking forward to

maybe hopefully more i don't know expounding on whatever relationship there is to be had from here with them but yeah I thought that was a very strong scene. Like, bastard children in this world are so disposable, you know. Yeah, and there's so many, and they're, like, it's only a few lines of circumstance that could separate you from always being looked down upon,

but, like, with some luxuries in your life versus always being looked down upon in a gutter. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I think they make that pretty dang compelling. Absolutely. Oh, there's one more thing that came to mind before we close this out. uh what it's alluding me now darn corlis valarian boy well gang what did you think of the episodes oh no it was good gee hold on hold on what was it i don't know anyway guys thanks for joining us alice rivers uh alice i liked her a lot no it wasn't

her oh that's the thing that alison sneaks in that that's one thing about this season that was a bit funky to me And I do love both those scenes, but there is a certain thing of, like, Allison and Rainira can kind of sneak in wherever they want. And because they did it off screen, it's fine. But I'm like, and I don't doubt that there's a way to do it. Well, they better explain it. Rinera, when she puts on the outfit to look like the nun or whatever. Yeah, but I think we could have spent a little time at least showing that, like,

that's not all it takes. You know, like, there's still going to be an intense, like, sneaking. you know like oh you could be made at any moment kind of experience and I think the the punch of Allison showing up was really cool yeah because it was such a whoa not what I was expecting at all kind of moment but I couldn't help but wonder and I know she says like we laid down her sword at the gate so it must have just been let right in and maybe Masaria or something oh that's another just for the threat of the season I thought she's been great missaria but it's one of those things where I'm just like how did you get it who let you

in like who or who how did it be that you could just sneak up on your own is just one of those little nitty pickies but uh but yeah other than that it's been terrific uh it's been a joy at least like you said at the top of this review to have quality tv even if episodes have their ups their downs if storylines could be better or worse eh this is top notch the costumes the cinematography the locations the armors the acting all of it Superb. Leave us your thoughts down below, gang, and we'll catch you who knows when for part two of season two of House of the Dragon. Dracarus.