Remember that once the flames have died down, the sailors stop slipping around in each other’s entrails and you come to terms with the sheer scale of horrific, hideous death wrought by a single clash between two Targaryen factions.
When the first two seasons came and went without showing us this level of explosive, gruesome violence, viewers rebelled. We wondered, often loudly, why we kept showing up if Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), Daemon (Matt Smith), Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and the rest of the dragonriders kept holding back on the “dracarys” of it all. Now that it’s here, surely action seekers will be pleased.
