Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon
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Great episode.
I was wrong about Matt Smith in this, he didn't look right early on, changed my mind this episode, thought he was really good here. Ok, the battle was a bit plot armoury BUT he does convince as a warrior of great prowess, something Morfydd Clark in the other show just does not, or convince as anything else for that matter.
The cast is just so superior in this with Paddy Considine, and the woman playing Rhaenerys is again better than anyone is ROP, and everyone else really.
I'm going to go back and watch ROP 1 and 2, and if the comments I have seen are anything to go by then the main people reason people are praising is on look only, but I get the suspicion that the CGI is better in this, the costumes are better in this, the sets are better in this and they have done a better job of achieving their aesthetic than amazon have, obviously those aesthetics are different, with HOD much darker and gritty.
I'm invested now, can't wait for the next episode, maybe they have rescued Westeros for us from the ashes of S8?....we definitely need some quality fantasy escapism these days.
I was wrong about Matt Smith in this, he didn't look right early on, changed my mind this episode, thought he was really good here. Ok, the battle was a bit plot armoury BUT he does convince as a warrior of great prowess, something Morfydd Clark in the other show just does not, or convince as anything else for that matter.
The cast is just so superior in this with Paddy Considine, and the woman playing Rhaenerys is again better than anyone is ROP, and everyone else really.
I'm going to go back and watch ROP 1 and 2, and if the comments I have seen are anything to go by then the main people reason people are praising is on look only, but I get the suspicion that the CGI is better in this, the costumes are better in this, the sets are better in this and they have done a better job of achieving their aesthetic than amazon have, obviously those aesthetics are different, with HOD much darker and gritty.
I'm invested now, can't wait for the next episode, maybe they have rescued Westeros for us from the ashes of S8?....we definitely need some quality fantasy escapism these days.
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This is better than expected so far I have to say. Building nicely.
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House of the Dragon fans spot continuity glitch involving King Viserys
The deterioration of the character's digits were shown halfway through Sunday's episode, depicting how they had rotted (with the use of greenscreen technology).
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Very good episode i thought. The battle wasnt as epic as some of the massive set pieces in the original show but still pretty good.
Was it just me or did the CG towards the end with the dragon seem a bit ropey?
It was a bit disappointing that they didnt show the fight and subsequent cutting in half of the crab man.
Was it just me or did the CG towards the end with the dragon seem a bit ropey?
Why they were having such a struggle with the crab feeder? He was supposed to be clever and used the caves to his advantage. As soon as a dragon came out he hid. His archers hid. Suddenly they all came out to kill a single guy, managed to completely miss the dragon despite, I assume, being petrified of them and then met them in open battle.
Made 0 sense and I really hope this isn't how they are going to continue. Honestly, I like all the politicking and intrigue. That was what made GoT so special. There were moments of gruesome action and amazing set pieces but most of it was setting them up. Explaining why they were going to happen or simply used as part of the storytelling.
Last whinge. Promise. Who the hell cast the awful actor who plays Laenor Velaryon.
Made 0 sense and I really hope this isn't how they are going to continue. Honestly, I like all the politicking and intrigue. That was what made GoT so special. There were moments of gruesome action and amazing set pieces but most of it was setting them up. Explaining why they were going to happen or simply used as part of the storytelling.
Last whinge. Promise. Who the hell cast the awful actor who plays Laenor Velaryon.
There was a time skip between episodes, Daemon's sell swords were quitting and had enough after years of a never ending battle, up to the point at the end of the episode the Crab Feeder was winning the war. Daemon surrendering wasn't too far fetched of a idea.
Him being killed in the cave by Daemon is how it was in the book, they didn't take liberties with it.
Oh I got that but it didn't seem to make any sense based on what they had said about the crab feeder and how he had behaved until now.
It wasn't even framed well. The whole time I was expecting something else to happen because they kept hinting at it. Kept showing the crab feeder looking about, waiting, I assume for dragons. Then they come and he sends in his men and goes and cowers in a cave waiting to die. Just bizarre.
The Crab feeder was able to hold out and was winning because he was getting support from the Triarchy (who are on Essos), whereas Damon and his buddies aren't getting supported by the Iron Throne. Kill Damon and the Crab feeder believes he has won; it's a big enough prize (offering of flesh, I think they put it) that worth taking risks for. And, with Damon on the ground they know he can't be up there riding his dragon. But it's a trap: there's a second dragon that the Crab feeder hasn't factored into their plans.
One thing I've been wondering about from this episode: the Crab feeder had greyscale, right? That was the thing messing up his skin. But greyscale spreads by touch, is Damon going to pick it up from all that contact with the Crab feeder as he was dragging half his corpse around.
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Wasn’t just the writting, but also think the cinematography and cgi isn’t on par at all with similar things in game of thrones. All seemed quite “janky” and low budget compared to say the attack on the Lannister army on the gold road (if I’ve remembered the name correctly)!
That was epic in how it game together / camera movements linked into music etc, this seemed a bit more like an episode of the Flash. Sure that was the scene that used pretty much every stunt person in Europe and has the record for “most people on fire”. Practical vs cgi effects in Mondays case.
Also as side note, just think his dragon looks a bit silly!
That was epic in how it game together / camera movements linked into music etc, this seemed a bit more like an episode of the Flash. Sure that was the scene that used pretty much every stunt person in Europe and has the record for “most people on fire”. Practical vs cgi effects in Mondays case.
Also as side note, just think his dragon looks a bit silly!
Yeah, some of the dragons look like flying noodles and his has those silly spurs on the back legs which aren't great. I see what they were trying to do but not convinced. I think that because they are going to show so many dragons they want them to all be recognisable.
He had a dormant kind of Greyscale why in the time jump it hadn't progressed, similar to Stannis daughter in GOT, before they burnt her
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That because, as I've said all along, they aren't dragons. They're wyverns.
