HBO's House of the Dragon

[jye4ever]

 

[Victοr]

He looks like a cosplay background Elf in a deleted scene four rows behind Legolas.

He just doesn't come off as menacing. He looks like he has a 95 pound bench press.

I think the show is great, I just don't see anything all that interesting from Aemond.

He's Medieval Sephiroth. A Y2K Trenchcoat Mafia Edgelord Knight. That's the charm.

Also, more than anyone else in the show, or pastiches like the Witcher, he gives me Elric vibes, so there's that too.

White Haired edgelords just work. Vergil, Nuada, Magneto, Quicksilver; there's something about it.

Also, we're living in a world where Namor is now a pudgy manlet. Aemond looks like an UltraGigaChad next to him.

 

[chrisstbh]

 

[Wor-Gar]

I'll watch, but that teaser doesn't really give me too much to look forward to.

 

[generalszabo]

I can't say I remember much from the first season so will rewatch before it comes out. I remember Matt Smith was great so hope he gets more screen time

 

[MeatHookGekko]

 

[chrisstbh]

 

[greygoose]

Looking forward to this.

 

[ZaCHw117]

Looking forward to this.

Are we the only people on the board who watched it?

 

[Wor-Gar]

I watched. I was a little bored. Lots of stuff shown that didn't need to be shown.

With shows like this, the first episode and the 2nd to last should really be riveting -- the finale I always forgive because it often has to wrap things up and also set-up the next season. Slow-burns are fine, but move that into the middle of the season. Hook me with the first episode.

I'm in for the season, but I wasn't hooked.

 

[ZaCHw117]

I watched. I was a little bored. Lots of stuff shown that didn't need to be shown.

With shows like this, the first episode and the 2nd to last should really be riveting -- the finale I always forgive because it often has to wrap things up and also set-up the next season. Slow-burns are fine, but move that into the middle of the season. Hook me with the first episode.

I'm in for the season, but I wasn't hooked.

I thought it was a decent episode, though the ending was brutal it fell flat as we didn’t spend much time with the twins

 

[SwedishHeat]

Sitting down to watch this, I realized I didn't remember anything that happened last season. The show did a decent job at reminding you, but the big problem was that I didn't really gravitate to any of the characters.

I'm realizing there is just way too much content out there to keep up with. Usually I had time to rewatch seasons in the run-up to premieres, but there's just not enough hours in the day anymore.

 

[greygoose]

I thought it was a decent episode, though the ending was brutal it fell flat as we didn’t spend much time with the twins

Pretty grim.

This episode felt like it could sit between both seasons. I'm sure the season will kick on now.

 

[ZE_501]

I've been watching because the show isn't ... bad ... but I have yet to see greatness.

What they've done well is develop a couple of characters and give the world of HotD a different, more primitive and brutal flavour relative to the GoT era, and that's not easy to do given how brutal that show was.

But developed or not, I don't find any of the characters charismatic like the GoT lineup. I know this because I can't remember anyone's name. Maybe this will change.

The show is also challenged by the content glut. Who has the bandwidth for work, activities, social life and tracking the plots and characters of everything out there?

It takes a major standout show to grab attention that way.

 

[ZE_501]

The other place this suffers IMO is ... too many dragons LOL. It's the prequel disease where backstory loses some of its mystique and power when you see it rather than imagine it.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Another snooze episode. Where is the real conflict? Where is the humor... the gory deaths... the surprises?

There is no Tyrion character to carry any sense of the absurd.

 

[goatchumby]

Last episode may have been a snooze (though a split-second brothel shot did make me say WTH?!), but I think that partly has to do with the cast’s dependency on the royal’s plotline in this series.

A major diff from GoT is that HotD is so dependent on its main conflict. Due to some great source material, GoT had a slew of interesting tertiary characters and subplots that had little to do with the central conflict (until the source ran dry towards the end and the new writers came in).

Additionally, perhaps the budget can be better spent on something other than lengthy shots of Daemon arriving on his dragon.

 

[ZE_501]

I didn't mind this episode although not a lot happened; it somehow felt like a good build up, maybe it was just the atmosphere I liked. However, there are some issues the last couple of episodes:

Spoiler

Why hang all the rat-catchers because "they didn't know which one" when Helaena saw the assassins' faces clearly?

And I find it very hard to believe Alicent would just let Rhaenyra walk out of the Sept, given she is now insisting there was 'no mistake' and it's already 'too late'.

 

[greygoose]

Additionally, perhaps the budget can be better spent on something other than lengthy shots of Daemon arriving on his dragon.

This was my favourite thing this season; Daemon, Caraxes, the castle and lots of rain!

 

[ZaCHw117]

This was my favourite thing this season; Daemon, Caraxes, the castle and lots of rain!

Awesome sequence to be honest.

Next week is gonna be a banger.