Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon

[calsnowskier]

The show has been renewed for Season 2.

How stooped. Nobody is going to watch it.

 

[Duffman]

Just starting episode 2, and I don’t know how I feel about this intro. I was hoping for more of a remix and not just the exact same theme as GoT and the visuals were weird. Maybe it’ll make sense as the season goes on but the original it took you through all the locations that the show was set in, here it was just a bunch of gears and blood flowing.

 

[DarthVedder]

Pimping out a 12yo kid to a grown-ass man... medieval times were tough.

Very good episode... I love this slow pace allowing events to properly unfold.

 

[calsnowskier]

Just starting episode 2, and I don’t know how I feel about this intro. I was hoping for more of a remix and not just the exact same theme as GoT and the visuals were weird. Maybe it’ll make sense as the season goes on but the original it took you through all the locations that the show was set in, here it was just a bunch of gears and blood flowing.

I made almost this exact post on the “other” site.

 

[wildturkey]

Just starting episode 2, and I don’t know how I feel about this intro. I was hoping for more of a remix and not just the exact same theme as GoT and the visuals were weird. Maybe it’ll make sense as the season goes on but the original it took you through all the locations that the show was set in, here it was just a bunch of gears and blood flowing.

That song just get the people going though. Even if the visuals seemed a bit wonky, the theme gets people pumped up.

 

[cheerupcharlie]

Another good episode. 2 for 2.

 

[Duffman]

That song just get the people going though. Even if the visuals seemed a bit wonky, the theme gets people pumped up.

I agree, it’s a great theme, I guess I thinking the remix one they played at the end of the first episode to be the new theme.

 

[Duffman]

I think we all saw who the king was going to pick coming from a mile away, it was predictable but I’m glad they didn’t go with the 12 year old girl option because that was just too skeevy.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

2nd episode waaaaaaaaay better than the first.

 

[Sparhawk]

Pimping out a 12yo kid to a grown-ass man... medieval times were tough.

Yeah, the 14 yo kid was a much better choice.....

 

[DarthVedder]

Yeah, the 14 yo kid was a much better choice.....

Wasn't Lady Hightower 15? That makes it completely different.


But seriously, the big difference are the actors involved, since the girl playing young Lady Hightower is 19 and looks the part of a young woman, not a kid. Still creppy af, but it's something that we still see irl.

 

[Sparhawk]

Wasn't Lady Hightower 15? That makes it completely different.


But seriously, the big difference are the actors involved, since the girl playing young Lady Hightower is 19. Still creppy af, but it's something that we still watch irl.

I was just being a wisenheimer.

I think she's 14 in the books, but seems older in the show.

 

[calsnowskier]

Wasn't Lady Hightower 15? That makes it completely different.


But seriously, the big difference are the actors involved, since the girl playing young Lady Hightower is 19 and looks the part of a young woman, not a kid. Still creppy af, but it's something that we still see irl.

I think there was a throw away comment pretty early in E2 that the princess was 15 after the time jump. I think we are suppose to assume the two girls are essentially the same age.

 

[Bridgeburner]

I still hate GRRM and HBO for GOT. But I couldn't help myself. Really like this show. Which sucks because now I'll be crushed when they fuck it up.

 

[DarthVedder]

I still hate GRRM and HBO for GOT. But I couldn't help myself. Really like this show. Which sucks because now I'll be crushed when they fuck it up.

TBF, GRRM didn't fuck GOT up. He wasn't involved in the final seasons when the show took a quality nosedive.

He gave them the general story, but GOT's overall story is not bad, but it was terrible in execution, with everything rushing to the end.

 

[Duffman]

 

[calsnowskier]

That fits for the Velaryons as well…

 

[Bridgeburner]

TBF, GRRM didn't fuck GOT up. He wasn't involved in the final seasons when the show took a quality nosedive.

He gave them the general story, but GOT's overall story is not bad, but it was terrible in execution, with everything rushing to the end.

If his general story included Daenerys jumping character massively... then he shares some blame. His books haven't even fleshed out that character arch and that's something that would need to have started by now unless he has 2-3 more books planned.

But my general hate for GRRM has more to do with starting this series in 1997 and the near-decade between books wait. He's a lazy piece of shit. Fuck him. I hope his next shit is square.

 

[TKOSpikes]

Love GRRM and this world he built…is building. People can complain about the Winds of Winter not blowing yet, but they haven’t built a masterpiece like this.
The screen comes calling, he’d be crazy to turn it down before he finished writing.
Fire and Blood became priority when the show passed his books.

If D&D didn’t bail on the show to reach for Star Wars, the last three and a half seasons (more so season 8) wouldn’t have been so uncharacteristically off of their arcs.

I just started the books. He broke the no-no of too many characters. Masterclass, IMO

 

[DarthVedder]

If his general story included Daenerys jumping character massively... then he shares some blame. His books haven't even fleshed out that character arch and that's something that would need to have started by now unless he has 2-3 more books planned.

I see no problem with an overall story ending with Daenerys becoming a mad Queen. She's a Targaryen, daughter of a mad King, and even on earlier seasons she showed an inclination for tyranny. What was terrible was the execution in the show, it didn't make any sense how she became basically literal Hitler overnight.

Same with the white walkers and the battle of Winterfell, the destruction of several characters like Jamie, Tyrion and Varys; and many other terrible decisions made during the last couple of seasons of the show.