The second season of the epic fantasy is all about the preparations for a war that seems as inevitable as winter.
For most of the first episode of the second season of theprequel, Emma D’Arcy is nowhere to be seen. And that’s an enormous shame because every time the actor is onscreenAs Rhaenyra Targaryen, the daughter of late king Viserys I who died a long and agonising death towards the end of season one, D’Arcy radiates an air of queenly expectancy.
If, like me, you have a sketchy memory for this sort of detail you might be well advised to go back and rewatch the last episode of season one before starting on season two, or at least have the Wikipedia page open as you go. Things in Westeros sure get confusing at times. Only the first half of this eight-episode season has been made available for preview. On that basis, I’d observe thatis dense, talky and occasionally slow. But it’s also enthralling, shocking and incredibly cinematic in its scope and scale. If you’re not totally hooked by that fourth episode you might want to check you have a pulse.
Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenerys Targaryen, grieving the death of her son and contemplating going to war to claim the throne she believes is rightfully hersStill, the season opened with a clunk as Rhaenyra’s son Jacaerys paid a visit to The Wall, where he had words with the young Stark lord who had been sent north by his family as part of their obligation to the Knights of the Watch.
As they mumbled on about the cold, the wall that’s been built to keep out death, and the obligatory onset of winter – it’s coming, don’t you know – it felt like fan service of the worst and most wooden kind. But by the end of the episode, with perhaps the most vile act in all of GoTs’ long and rich history of vile acts, we were thankfully on more stable footing.These episodes are, though, largely preamble.
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