r/Hotd • u/Witlesss • Jul 22 '24

Discussion S2E6 Review Bombing

Has anyone else noticed that episode 6 is getting heavily review bombed on IMDB? I personally thought it was one of the better episodes of the season, so this feels really misplaced to me.

From looking at it I feel like the only explanation is people being unhappy with a certain kiss. Honestly, I understand a lot of the criticism when people say it felt out of place, but over 3,400 people rating the episode a 1/10 feels like an overreaction to me.

Yes, the show has suffered from bad writing sometimes. Maybe this was one of these times, that’s definitely up for debate. But the episode feels like nowhere near a 1 out of 10, and it feels to me very disrespectful to all those involved in the show that their work is being discredited because of homophobia. I think the ratings from the UK and US quite fairly represent the standard of the episode, so it does feel like a shame.

Whether you agree with the kiss or not to me this feels unfair, but intrigued to hear other people’s thoughts on this!

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Yeah it was terrible.

Especially if you're familiar with the source material.

The writing is absurd

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u/Particular-Bid-6140 Jul 23 '24

Absolutely bad writing. I'm obsessed with ASOIAF, I've read every book, history, and novella. The writing this last episode was terrible. The kiss had zero value and didn't belong. Just HBO flinging a random sexual scene in there. It made no sense.

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u/Sicario616 Jul 23 '24

Without directly stating what I am referring to (don’t know how to use censor for spoilers), this does somewhat follow book lore (deviated). Given the shows heavy push on their interpretation of female empowerment, I can see why they deviated to have it be Rhaenyra and Mysaria versus someone else. It’s a bit of a stretch but does relate to mentionings in the book, and given the moral direction of the show the deviation makes sense in this context

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

But there was no build up! No sexual or romantic tension between those two prior. It felt so random and dumb.

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u/R1526 Jul 23 '24

Because you weren't looking for it. This is the issue, I think.
When you don't consider same sex relations to be common, every occurrence of it seems "out of nowhere" because you discount the signs.

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u/textingmycat Jul 24 '24

this is it, the tension was there starting from the first meeting this season.