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*Warning: This article contains spoilers.*
House of the Dragon season three came to an epic end with the finale on Sunday night.
The HBO show closed with a dramatic battle, a grand bloodbath and ‘the greatest scene in the history of House of the Dragon’, according to one user on X.
After a mixed reaction to season three of the Game of Thrones (GoT) spin-off, the final episode has drawn comparisons with the legendary series.
@ASOIAFQuotesGOT said it ‘successfully captures that Game of Thrones magic of old’, while Tarun Raju said, like the iconic show, it had ‘a lot of expectation-subversion for book-readers’.
Predictably, we lost important characters in the season close.
Another large clash ensued with the second Battle of Tumbleton after Daemon met with Riverlanders and Northmen to attack the market town.
During the big fight, casualties were aplenty as viewers bade farewell to James Norton as Lord Ormund Hightower.
Another huge loss occurred with the death of Helaena Targaryen, played by Phia Saban.
She killed herself after falling into a deep depression over being kept apart from her remaining child, Jaehaera, in King’s Landing.
The moment that Rhaenyra and Alicent realise that she’s dead is the scene that Zaid on X claimed was ‘the greatest’ in the history of the show.
George Holdcroft disagreed – he claimed: ‘The scene right before this with Roderick Dustin and Ormund Hightower in battle was even better.’
Others felt that the final episode didn’t deliver as it should have.
Mdrgm on Reddit called it ‘a terrible finale for an already weak season’.