#The dragon prince season 1 ign review series#

Now it's too late for them to choose otherwise, right? At some point they'll realize they're aunt and nephew and have to deal. You spice it up by now adding to it the fact that Jon's a legit heir and not a 'Sand' (oh, how I wish Gilly had been in the room with Sam and Bran to be the one to actually connect those dots) while also fully giving us a Jon/Dany sex scene. Again, the whole 'R+L=J' thing has been a theory since before the show even aired and there were only the books to go by so at this point it really just becomes about 'how do you tell everyone without it feeling, basically, like 'too little, too late?'' In fact, that's sort of what made the revelation feel more vital and interesting. Not only have fans been waiting for years, but Jon and Dany are more or less actively courting each other right now. There was no way we were headed into Season 8 STILL not knowing this. Right before that though, in the first half of the one-two punch capper, Bran told Sam all about Jon's true identity. It was pretty awesome spectacle, no matter the tool, that chunk of Wall coming down and the undead army flowing into the North. Back at the top of the season, I wondered if the 'Horn of Winter' might finally get introduced (a book element that never made it to the screen), but Weiss and Benioff found their own way around it with the debut of a death-breathing wight dragon. The Wall coming down was the image I had in my head for how Season 7 would end, but the answer as to how it would happen didn't present itself until the very end of last week's adventure 'Beyond the Wall' (which, in its own right, unfortunately wasn't spread out over two episodes). That is unless the two of them (and I went back to watch the last moment we saw them in a few times) made it to the side of the wall that was still standing afterward. It was a really impressive way to end the season and one that, seemingly, killed off Tormund and Beric. Just when you may have thought the episode would end without some sort of scene of sweeping violence, the Night King rode his new pet into battle and destroyed the chunk off the Wall by the sea at Eastwatch. This massive parley took up the bulk of the episode.but let's jump to the end and work backwards, shall we? Some of it involved mighty characters seeing each other for the first time (like Daenerys and Cersei) while most involved reunions big and small - from Tyrion and Pod to Tyrion and Bronn to.well, Tyrion and Cersei. It was true especially here, in this finale, as two huge factions gathered together in King's Landing for an epic meeting. What was once a vast world has now contracted. It used to be that you could flip back and fourth from anywhere to five to eight separate stories in a single chapter.Д®verything's streamlined now. Right now we've got, at most at a time, four places to hop around to per episode.

Here's the thing: We've reached the end of the seventh season and when you combine all the characters killed off and storylines ended thus far, there's not much going on all over the place compared to the way it used to be.

#The dragon prince season 1 ign review series#

It's definitely the longest episode of the series to date and, unsurprisingly, it was heavily dialogue-driven. 'The Dragon and the Wolf' was almost feature-length, shaving it close to 80 minutes.