Game Of Thrones: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 2

6. And Daenerys' Worst

Game of Thrones Daenerys House Of Undying
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From one of the main players to another: while Tyrion is off having his best season, Daenerys is having arguably her worst of the entire bunch. Not in terms of what happens to her, but more so in how it's all laid out across the 10 episodes.

Or, to put it another way, Qarth is one of the dullest major plotlines in the entire series.

There are brief moments of interest, especially when it sparks to life towards the end, but for the most part it feels like there's a whole lot of stalling necessary in order to save those payoffs for the finale. Instead, we get a lot of wandering around the desert, and then some wandering around Qarth itself, and most of it just feels completely meandering. Dany's storylines often struggle a little more by being so far removed from everything else, but this was the least exciting of the bunch.

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