Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon

i would like to be excited for it, but after the steaming pile of rancid **** that the other show became, i can't. once bitten, etc, not going to waste hours of my life on something that will probably do a repeat performance.
 
I'll watch some reviews before I risk wasting my time on another GoT again. I really like HBO and I just hope that the stinging criticism over the ending of GoT and S7's terrible writing has spurred them onto getting competent writers onboard but, as most "hollywood" writers mainly seem to be bloody awful nowadays, I'm not holding out much hope I'm afraid.
 
Looking forward to it. Not having quite so stringent a narrative to base itself on but still enough solid lore to take from will have been a real gift for the writers I imagine. I have no more love for the last few seasons of GoTs then anyone else, but I adore the source material and will always look forward to seeing what someone else can do with it.
 
chroniclard said:
I just cant care about a prequel.
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That's fair and most of the time I'd agree. I suppose it depends on how invested you are in the material as a whole. The books have been with me for nearly 20 years at this point and even with the release of 'Fire and Blood' there's a lot of narrative grey areas that I'd like to see fleshed out.
 
Having watched game of thrones in its entirety, I too found the final season just lacking in a decent conclusion. I can't really put my finger on it or remember exactly what but it just felt like it faded away and the big build up never really reached a climax. I left feeling a little bit dissatisfied. I think they left too much to be concluded in the final series and it felt rushed. The beauty of GOT was that it built slowly with various interlinking stories. Perhaps they should have been allowed to play out more slowly with one additional series. May have become tedious though to be fair.

Remember this classic episode coupled with the amazing score:

 
DrToffnar said:
That's fair and most of the time I'd agree. I suppose it depends on how invested you are in the material as a whole. The books have been with me for nearly 20 years at this point and even with the release of 'Fire and Blood' there's a lot of narrative grey areas that I'd like to see fleshed out.
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I loved the books, read those before the show. Sadly they will most likely never be finished and, much like LOTR, the TV show has kind of ruined those anyway. :)

When you know what is coming in the future with a particular character there is no real peril, until certain things happen at least. I feel this is just going to be a weak cash in.
 
jaybee said:
The beauty of GOT was that it built slowly with various interlinking stories. Perhaps they should have been allowed to play out more slowly with one additional series.
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IIRC the "plan" was another 2, possibly 3 series but D&D, plus a large number of the cast TBF, wanted to move onto other things. For D&D it was a job at Lucasfilm writing the next Star Wars trilogy, for the cast it was various film/TV roles but instead pretty much everyone got burned by just how poor the last "rushed" season was, and lots of the plans that the cast/D&D had for post-GoT work has fallen through in the aftermath (D&D "lost" the SW job kind-of etc).
 
Looks like we aren't even watching any of the prequels before it even aired. Reportedly HBO spent $30 mill on episode 1 before cancelling the whole project. Lannister would struggle with that coin Indeed.
 
Kyo said:
Looks like we aren't even watching any of the prequels before it even aired. Reportedly HBO spent $30 mill on episode 1 before cancelling the whole project. Lannister would struggle with that coin Indeed.
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I said I had doubts but 30m is a lot of money for the studio to spend just to come to the same conclusion.
 
Sounds like it was a dud idea for a series anyway, and had zero source material to work off; "This prequel would have been set thousands of years before Game of Thrones, and would have involved the distant ancestors of noble families like the Starks and Lannisters".

Expensive experiment, mind you.
 
Kyo said:
Looks like we aren't even watching any of the prequels before it even aired. Reportedly HBO spent $30 mill on episode 1 before cancelling the whole project. Lannister would struggle with that coin Indeed.
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A lot of money but it could have been way more wasted had they proceeded with a spin off nobody really has a desire to watch
 
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