Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon
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Yeh, I will finish this first season at least just to see what happens. Feel like i have invested too much time into it to not to.
For me, it's not just time invested, i'm genuinely finding it engrossing entertainment and considering i'd prematurely written it off before it aired, shocked how much I like it.
Maybe the bar was just too low.
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For someone located in Limbo is the bar ever too low???.....I'll go now.
I'm enjoying it but as has been said a few times the characters just dont illicit any feeling from me, I guess I should feel sorry for the king, maybe I should be taking Daemons side, I just kind of dont care for any of them really.
I was routing for young Rhaenera but since the actress change I have little care for any of them.
Daemon has already become a caricature of himself sadly, can't take him seriously at all - first few episodes he seemed formidable and someone to watch out for, now he barely registers.
Best episode so far for me, the acting was spot on.
The children's fight scene and the reaction to the boy losing the eye afterwards was superb, you can fully understand the motivation of each character in each scene. How I've missed competent writing on TV, it's a rare thing these days.
The children's fight scene and the reaction to the boy losing the eye afterwards was superb, you can fully understand the motivation of each character in each scene. How I've missed competent writing on TV, it's a rare thing these days.
Not as boring but the incest is just disturbing tbh.... and what's with the deaths of pregnant women? That's 2 they've bumped off in the middle of child birth.
A few snake like characters that need to buy it as well. Club foot is one.
A few snake like characters that need to buy it as well. Club foot is one.
It's pre-industrial childbirth, so... not exactly safe.
Also almost the entirety of the previous show was predicated on the incest of two Lannisters?
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Yeah and those bits were cringey as well.
Paddy Considine shines every time he is on the screen in this, I would say overall this was the weakest episode, apart from his part which and the fight which were real highlights. I'll be glad when the time skips are done as they're a bit too much, but appreciate that this is a difficulty with covering a book such as F&B.
A whole lot of nothing fake dark nothing, until the kids had a fight then that 1,2 ending scenes was finally juicey and interesting. Everything else utterly predictable as usual.
Least we got our civilwar all lined up now I guess.
Least we got our civilwar all lined up now I guess.
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If you'd have said to me a few months ago that I'd be enjoying TRoP more then this, I'd have called you a fool.
I like it for the most part. I'll always love the mythos of that world and would watch/read anything to do with it, but it's so poorly written in places. They had a really great opportunity to pull the focus in a little tighter and keep it a little more personable compared to GoT, instead we're getting amateurish high fantasy which is fine, but it really does feel like Targ soap opera at times.
I like it for the most part. I'll always love the mythos of that world and would watch/read anything to do with it, but it's so poorly written in places. They had a really great opportunity to pull the focus in a little tighter and keep it a little more personable compared to GoT, instead we're getting amateurish high fantasy which is fine, but it really does feel like Targ soap opera at times.
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So this is "poorly written" but you think RoP is better?
I never said it was better, just that I was enjoying it more
Whilst TRoP isn't perhaps the most smartly written of shows it at least has relatively good rythm and structure.
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I never said it was better, just that I was enjoying it more
Whilst TRoP isn't perhaps the most smartly written of shows it at least has relatively good rythm and structure.
A relatively good rthymn and structure?
Nothing happened for 5 1/2 hours then they had a pretty awful battle that as usual made no sense, and that's a good rythmn in your opinion? as for structure, a few very boring threads cobbled together without any reference to a timeline that makes sense within the Lore, or in terms of local time and time elapsed between events...
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A relatively good rthymn and structure?
Nothing happened for 5 1/2 hours then they had a pretty awful battle that as usual made no sense, and that's a good rythmn in your opinion? as for structure, a few very boring threads cobbled together without any reference to a timeline that makes sense within the Lore, or in terms of local time and time elapsed between events...
All relative but yes, I do think that. I'm glad it's taking it's time and I have no real investment in the preestablished lore, so it's all gravey for me.
To be clear I am enjoying HoD, just that if I had to pick between the two it would be the latter.
You can always do deals with them. I got 4k ultra plus netfix for £3 per month from Sky. Well worth it.
why it was normal amongst royals in the real world too, that's why they all look a bit odd.
Check out the spanish guy, most inbred person in the world ever
Charles II of Spain - Wikipedia
I bet its safe to say childbirth was one of the most dangerous things for a woman to go through
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why it was normal amongst royals in the real world too, that's why they all look a bit odd.
Check out the spanish guy, most inbred person in the world ever
Charles II of Spain - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I bet its safe to say childbirth was one of the most dangerous things for a woman to go through
Normal or not, I'm not a fan of it.
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