On October 25 2022 03:47 emperorchampion wrote: I loved how quickly Aegon changed his tune about being ruler once he saw everyone bowing to him and such. Man he's going to be such a shit ruler hahaha. Also any of the sea snakes decedents seem to be doomed so rip whoever is next in-line now.
The show overall is pretty good in season 1, but I really dislike basically all the characters except for Viserys (dead), Rhaneara and the sea snake. Leading for my dislike are alicent, the foot fetishist and the never ageing queens guard. It also took a bit more time to get into all the new characters with the time warp half way through.
Odd, I dislike Rhanyera and Larys is my favorite character. Alicent hate also blows my mind.
First half was a bit slow and a bit difficult to care about, but things really picked up in the second half and now I can’t wait for the second season.
For the first two episodes I was on Team Rings of Power. Then they both kinda went to sleep for a.few episodes, but Rings of Power stepped it up with the 6th episode being great. But episode 7 was not as good and episode 8 was a decent finale... but House of the Dragon just slowly built up the tension. The time jumps were pretty disjointed, but since they're all adults all of the episodes have been excellent, with last week's and the season finale standing out. Rhaenys' explanation on why no Drakaris is a bit meh, but at least the screenwriters realized they had a gaping plothole and came up with *something*.
The chomp was excellent. I am a bit disappointed that Aemond didn't just fully lean into his villainy. He's been taunting his nephews for episodes, considers them bastards and not worthy of the Targaryen name and chases Lucerys on his dragon. It was obvious what was going to happen. But Aemond seemed to regret it, despite courting it, and then initiating the fight. Just lean into the villainy! Conquer the land in the name of your drunken lecherous brother you despise
On October 26 2022 06:34 Acrofales wrote: For the first two episodes I was on Team Rings of Power. Then they both kinda went to sleep for a.few episodes, but Rings of Power stepped it up with the 6th episode being great. But episode 7 was not as good and episode 8 was a decent finale... but House of the Dragon just slowly built up the tension. The time jumps were pretty disjointed, but since they're all adults all of the episodes have been excellent, with last week's and the season finale standing out. Rhaenys' explanation on why no Drakaris is a bit meh, but at least the screenwriters realized they had a gaping plothole and came up with *something*.
The chomp was excellent. I am a bit disappointed that Aemond didn't just fully lean into his villainy. He's been taunting his nephews for episodes, considers them bastards and not worthy of the Targaryen name and chases Lucerys on his dragon. It was obvious what was going to happen. But Aemond seemed to regret it, despite courting it, and then initiating the fight. Just lean into the villainy! Conquer the land in the name of your drunken lecherous brother you despise
He wanted to troll him but he wasn't stupid. He didn't have the authority to start the war then and there. Rhanyera was considering terms. If not for Aemond she may have sued for peace.
I thought it was similar to how people bully others in schools. Aemond is willing to beat them up, humiliate them, and him wanting the eye is kinda understandable, partly because he seems like the guy who wants to be all badass and cocky. Who knows if he would actually do it, like if luke was chained down and no one else was watching. I feel like he's not as ruthless as he wants people to see him. He just loves to taunt and be a bully not a psycho murderer.
Like eye for an eye, hes seeing this as justice. Eye for getting chewed up by a dragon...probably not exactly fair.
Maybe under different circumstances, he could do the killing blow himself kinda like when they were fighting as kids and he was going to bash their heads in with a rock. But mostly I think hes stunned because first he lost control of his dragon that has to be terrifying and it was the first time it has happened. Then Luke dies a brutal death getting chomped into pieces along with his dragon. That has to be shocking as well. He wants to feel in control as a bully. He also knows killing them in this manner would be so damn stupid so him being dazed at the end is probably also due to feeling "oh fuck i fucked up"
But im betting hes going to totally own up to it when he gets back to kings landing and say it was intentional even if it wasnt.
I think Aemond is going to lean into the villiane, though not sure if it's in his interest to admit to the chomping, after all no one would know. Not sure how I feel about the "usage" of the still birth to highlight everyone else's haphazardness to enter into war. I guess it got the job done. Still with the number of children rhanyera has had (some off screen) i just didn't have much emotion to it, usually attached to on screen births.
On October 27 2022 02:39 NarutO wrote: Thats gonna be a long wait until S2 :C
That is sad, yea...But we already been waiting for the new seasons of GoT previously, so nothing new
At first I was skeptical towards HOTD, but in the end I was hyped, episode 9 was brilliant indeed. Apart from inconsistencies of aging/timelines there were no major flaws it seems. Feels like Ser Criston and Daemon are immortals or something, a wild difference with the how the King aged or some other key characters
Outfits are great, setting is awesome, cgi is on par. Hopefully the quality will remain the same or higher, not unlike in s7/s8 or GoT
Was initially a bit bored with it since the series focuses so much on King's Landing's citadel, very little interaction with non royalty. Steve Toussaint's Lord Corlys carried the first episodes hard, amazing screen presence.
Dragons made up for it though. They all look distinct, they all look great and the final episodes conclusion is glorious cinema.
On July 10 2024 06:13 Zaros wrote: How are people finding season 2?
Episode 4 was great, actually making me feel sorry for Aegon.
I’m digging it, ultimately I would have taken a satisfactory end to GoT but I think this is a solid show.
It feels a little tighter overall, that there’s a singular main plot arc and a bunch of sub-plots in and around it, rather than a load of interweaving plots.
I'm enjoying the show, so much so that I bought the book which I'm reading now. Soon I'll start enjoying the show less because it deviates too much from the books, same thing happened with GoT
Too much time spent foreshadowing, than actually telling the story. Overall enjoy the show, but when they don't know what to do with Daemon, maybe flesh out Helaena and give her a dragon riding scene
Bit disappointed to find out that there are only 2 episodes left to the season. It feels like not much has happened yet. The large majority of S2 so far seems to be set-up for S3. I had some ideas in mind for what could be the big battle or event that occurs in episode 8 but now it seems like the big climax is going to be + Show Spoiler +
a bunch of new dragon riders
and all the good stuff is saved for later seasons.
Hopefully they go back to 1 season/year in that case.
Yeah, that logic tracks. Theres probably only money for like 5 decent dragon scenes a season and 1 epic dragon battle, so we have to milk a lot of intrigue and spooky castle scenes.
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