Season III

House of the Dragon; OK, Season 1 was, in my opinion brilliant and highly watchable. Season 2 not so good. Treading water at times, decent action but only later on in the episodes, twists up to a point but looking back it was more of a placeholder than anything else. So now Season 3 became available to view on Monday, so we were up for it. It's been on about a two year break. Time and memory fade away.The first episode lasted an hour and ten minutes, was said to be full of "action" but is it any good? The unreliable Guardian gave it four stars. Their reviewers are never the best. Don't get me started. I hoped I could give it four stars also but ... well there was a lot going on, maybe too much; sea battles, land battles, dragon battles, people shouting orders on wild battlefields and yet being heard (?), characters staring into space and looking grim, lots of deaths. All the fantasy drama padding boxes were ticked right there but any serious dialogue was brief, muddled and often…