RE: House of the dragon- HOTD (Reviews and critics)

Yeah saw it Sunday. It was brutal but probably one of the better action and drama scenes we've gotten from the show in a while. I've been waiting for absolute fanged and fiery chaos to just break out on the show but looks like they're going for the slow boil. What struck me as almost touching was how Aemond and Lucerys couldn't fully control their dragons. When Araxas flamed Vhagar, Lucerys was actively telling it to stop. And after Vhagar got flamed, Aemond tried to calm it down due to how upset it got. I almost felt bad for Aemond -- he'd been bullied by his cousin as a kid, lost an eye, and is honestly a little creepy but didn't seem to have a true desire to murder Lucerys, just even the odds due to the eye he lost.