The Hollywood Reporter has compared it to the fade to black at the end of The Sopranos and a user from X/Twitter has described it as a one-hour trailer for the third season. What is clear is that the last episode of the second season of House of the Dragon has been as remarkable and exciting as it has been anticlimactic.

With scenes as memorable as Daemon's visions of the future when he comes into contact with a weirwood tree or the pact that Alicent proposes to Rhaenyra, The queen who never was could easily enter a list of the best episodes in the entire franchise, but it's understandable that it left viewers unsatisfied.

Especially when they know they'll have to wait two years to see how the story continues.

The Dance of the Dragons, that bloody civil war that leads to the extinction of dragons and the decline of the Targaryen Dynasty, is the most famous event in Fire and Blood, the book on which it is based. Also the most anticipated.

After a first installment that served as a prologue and introduction to the two generations that would play a leading role in this confrontation, fans were ready to see the dragons "dance", and that final montage, although exciting, once again left them on the brink of war in a sequence that evokes and replicates the end of the first season.

Overall, this second installment has provided great moments and episodes of high narrative, interpretive, and technical quality, as it has managed to correct the lighting and photography errors made in both Game of Thrones and the first installment of the sequel, but, perhaps for this reason, the ending feels lacking.

Fans' reactions on social media

"I have mixed feelings about the finale of House of the Dragon," wrote a fan of the series on X/Twitter. "On one hand, this has been one of my favorite episodes of the series so far. On the other hand, so much tension has been building throughout the season that holding off on any release for more than two years doesn't sit well with me."

Meanwhile, other fans of the series echoed the feeling that the last episode of the season felt like a "trailer for season 3".

And other users focused on the fact that the series only consists of eight episodes per season. "It was a great episode, but it didn't belong as a season finale. What this finale proved was that #HOTD needs 10 episodes."

HBO confirmed yesterday that filming for the third season of House of the Dragon would begin in early 2025 and that the series would conclude with the fourth installment.

The new episodes are expected to premiere in 2026. 

*This article has been translated automatically using artificial intelligence