Hooo, boy. This was bad enough to make me create an account here.
This episode was a huge waste of time. It absolutely does not justify it's extended runtime, and it probably wouldn't still even if it was the usual length. We're treated to a bunch of excessive (and frankly unnecessary) exposition, a significant amount of scenes where the point is already made, but the episode keeps hammering it on our heads for way too much time, and a bunch of shots that are all eye-candy but nothing happens.
The actors do their best with the poor and, for lack of a better word, cringy script, but they cannot fix the bad dialogue, with it's overdramatic pauses and the aforementioned exposition.
We keep seeing the same lack of logic from the previous ep. While the (very) unrealistic elements don't bother me at all, the backtracking on established character development does. It feels like nobody learned anything, including us the viewers, who end this season knowing little more about the world than the characters. It really felt like some kind of a joke.
I really liked the first season, but after watching the second one and this episode I might be done with the show.
I feel kinda bad writing this, but I wish I knew this stuff before watching this season, at least so I could temper my excitement after the first one.