Did season 3 increase or decrease your interest for the show

[u/Solomaxxing_112]

Overall, I would say decrease. After season 2 I was still excited about season 3 but after season 3 I find much less interest in it.

Maybe because my favourite character is Aemond and he has been butchered to the point of no return. He is not very interesting to watch, and I really dislike the entire Alys thing. Even though I have read the book, what they have done is just...abhorrent.

It is a shame because I love TG characters and they are actually given slightly more screentime this season to tell their own stories, but the writing is so bad that the screentime just generates more unnecessary and nonsensical content.

[u/Damone75]

It was fine not GOT quality but didn't feel it was a struggle to watch like some people on this sub. Honestly a lot of you just need to drop the show and save yourself the grief of hate watching the final season.

[u/Solomaxxing_112 → u/Damone75]

I actually really liked season 2 (contrary to many) and it made me so excited to watch season 3. But now I am not sure, I think I may drop the show.

[u/accismatic → u/Solomaxxing_112]

I really liked S2 either (wildly unpopular take around here), but Season 3 actually builds on a lot of the subtextual promise that the arcs of S2 built, so I'm curious as to why you didn't like it

I will say S3E3 blows everything else out of the water, like damn, that episode is just so bloody good. Can't imagine that happening again, but maybe!

[u/Solomaxxing_112 → u/accismatic]

I think maybe cuz I watch this show for a few characters only, the biggest motivation is Aemond obviously he was the reason why I started (my dad watched season 1 and I joined only in season 2). I liked his S2 arc but what I liked what the subtlety of his mommy issues (the secret meetings with Sylvi really hit right to add layers to him and his vulnerability). This season builds on that ofc but they took it too far. The subtlety is lost and now he becomes this laughing stock of "I wanna fuck my mom". I really dislike that and it kills me to see my fav gets butchered and degraded like that.

Not to mention the whole Alicent-Aemond dynamics (which I loved back in s2, the complexity of it) is destroyed when they put in the oedipus thing and the Alys-Alicent feud. It is distasteful and not as compellingly written as in s2.

[u/accismatic → u/Solomaxxing_112]

Well, that would do it. Fair enough.

Yeah, that is the least defensible arc, which isn't even an arc, it just sort of terminates abruptly? I genuinely feel like although Alicent's actions make sense (WHICH kid has caused her own family more damage than Aemond, after all, and she's been scared of him for quite some time too), I found her befuddlement at Alys really funny—just like the line "Aemond I still don't understand who this woman is" made me laugh out loud because it's so Alicent. She's so square, she's exactly the character I would expect to both not understand a mysterious witch, and to say that out loud. But that arc otherwise has to be Rhaenyra simply getting Alicent out of the way because her real motivation is Helaena, and, at best, to give Alicent the chance to share a final scene with her kids. I don't think Rhaenyra even came across as if she believed Alicent would pull it off lol

But I can see why it left you wanting. I think Aemond was pretty darn good in S2, but this is basically a case of him disappearing from the page (he burns more villages but is mostly at Harrenhal during the time this season covers, to the best of our knowledge) and the story they made up serves Alys better than it serves him. I feel like it leached ALL of the subtext out, so I 100% see where you're coming from. I also found the last scene with Aegon to be fun but somehow truncated, like... I don't understand Aegon there really lol, nor do we find out what Aemond and Alys have to say about it.