I mean it is modern HBO. It is overly grimdark and utterly devoid of humor at all. When you have weak writing you get stupid shock value shit instead of good story.
Very true. Visery's is playing up the Targaryen "vision" of an apocalypse from the North as some sort of state secret, I was waiting for the little kid to say "You mean that GIANT ICE WALL we have been building up north for a thousand years actually has a purpose? Ok boomer!"
It shows the king is weak and the houses are thirsty for fighting. Contrast with the tournament from early GoT.
Yeah guess that makes sense, it was just like whoa! Wtf is going on lol.
Mcu and jokey Star Wars is that way, now let us have fun with some quality content.
Except, the creator is still alive for them to go to for references.
I think there is SUBSTANTIALLY more material for HotD than for RoP, particularly with snippets of dialogue they can lift to get that Grrm feel. Daemons comment bout Vale men fucking the sheep because they are prettier is an example. We'll see how much padding they do for young Rhaenrys. They credit the kids for 10 eps so either there are flashbacks or they start hopping around in time
10 mill, huh? I wonder if any of the other services will release numbers like that. Anything Disney even get close? Google says Obi-wan as 11 million or so but that's a Nielsen extrapolation I think. No Prey numbers out there, right?
I've heard some others say this and I dunno, I thought the king came across fine?
An election decided in Viserys favor over Rhaenya/her son (who probably wasnt born yet in the show), so surely we are supposed to follow an election and not claim it was stolen...right? Viserys is pretty sure his line is safe at that point.
I thought for sure there was going to e incest there.
Yeah, his introduction scene was also great: with treason (sitting on the throne) and "seducing" his niece with some nice Valerian jewelry.
Except the dude who wrote HotD is still alive and is producing the show. Come on man, that's weak.
This is a show about Targaryens, incest is a certainty
No they are another Valerian family.
I hope you're not including Doctor Who in that. Of course, Doctor Who was his big break. His earlier TV stuff wasn't great but I did quite enjoy him in the Sally Lockhart show. He was great in The Crown and now House of Dragon is his next show.
We're one episode in lol. I'm interested to see where it goes. I want to see what Otto is up to he seems like a sleezy shady character, how Daemon responds to being removed from succession, and how the rest of Westeros reacts to Rhaenyra being heir/Queen because some of them didn't look quite happy about it. This episode was just about introductioning characters and the setting. I'd say give it time but it sounds like you've made your mind up already.
I stopped watching Doctor Who when he started, lol
So how do you know he's bad?
"So how do you know he's bad" I watched the first 5 or so
It’s a pilot which introduces three contenders for the throne each with their own adult dragons, and had great drama including a legit gut wrenching scene involving a decision to perform a medieval c-section…I dunno, I thought I was done with Westeros after how GoT ended but this managed to hook me pretty well.
The only reason I'm sticking with this show despite being pretty meh about it is that it is NOT capeshit and starwars lmao. But this show is overly grimdark and gratuitous for no reason. I fast forwarded through that entire birthing scene and lost absolutely nothing. They better hook me with some interesting characters soon or I will bail. There is really nothing that I like about this show other than it is fantasy and there isn't that much fantasy.
