It's always goofy seeing them try to make Emilia Clarke on those big mechanical rigs look natural once the CGI is thrown over it, and this very much looked like old school video game FMV where the computer graphics are clearly existing on top of the photography.


But narratively, it just didn't register that this was a big deal to either of them. It was the equivalent of Dany offering Jon a pickled cucumber, Jon saying, "but I've never had regular cucumber" and Dany convincing him to eat the pickle first.


One of The Ringer's articles today made the point that this scene would've had a little more impact and a lot more emotional weight / consequence if it had closed the episode AFTER Sam told Jon of his heritage. Then you get the confirming he's not who people think he is for the audience, but you also have Jon having to fight with accepting that and you can also pivot away from the goofy, Marvel-like flirtation scene once they land and instead move into a cliffhanger of, "hey, I didn't really expect you to be so good at that since you need Valyrian blood to ride a dragon at all, but you were exceptionally natural at that, even compared to me when I first rode a dragon...sup with that, huh?"

Oh well, still a good episode!


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