Television House of the Dragon (GoT Prequel) - No book spoilers allowed
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Completely missed Viserys said ‘I’m going to bed Aemma’ to Alicent 
Completely missed Viserys said ‘I’m going to bed Aemma’ to Alicent
I was waiting for him to collapse again during that entire scene...he's trying his hardest to keep his family somewhat together and maintain peace in the realm, but not looking good.
So majority of people really enjoyed last night's episode and then there's the usual one or two strays.
Also....
Also....
there looks to be another large time jump coming up as soon as next week, in addition to new actors playing the kids
It should be "kill" since neither of those two died. It was a ruse.
Alicent losing it was awesome. I really like her.
She was being kind to her husband to help fake his death and allow him to disappear
Sansa
You're welcome.Not what I was expecting but I am not mad. I am not mad at all
Not Joffrey?
The most annoying GoT character was definitely Orson Lannister.
Anyone clock what the little blonde sister said last episode while playing with the bugs? It was deffo something about an eye. She's got some soothsaying going on for sure, need to pay more attention .
That was great TV, though I echo everyone else in barely being able to see any of it.
That was great TV, though I echo everyone else in barely being able to see any of it.
Ah yes, good shout. Forgot what she said now but will pay attention next time.
I think the producer went smart arse about the night started to fall on the HOD and crap like that
Samwell Tarly?
Joffrey was a great character
Viserys has to be the most cowardly character in GOT/HOD so far. He seems to be paralysed by his decision to have his wife cut open to have his possible male heir and now can not make any hard decision at all.
This isn't GoT though and that's where your complaints seem to be coming from.
This is its own show set in the same universe.
Not really though right?
Samwell was one of the few characters I still actually liked by the end of it all
I am simply complaining about the narrative structure by using an example of something better written.
But to be honest it's kind of funny to defend this show by saying "it's not GoT it's its own thing" when they didn't even bother to change the theme song. It is very self-consciously bringing back the recognizable things about GoT. HBO even cancelled the production of a "not so GoT" spinoff so they could do something much more obviously recognizable.
Very different situation though. Young Rhaenyra could be playful, petulant, angry, defiant, and full of the mischief of youth. Grown up Rhaenyra is struggling and desperate - and it shows. Weirdly she's operating from a weaker position from where her younger self was even though she's closer to power considering the king's state. Perfectly fine with her - I think the actress is playing the role brilliantly myself
That felt like strategy rather than pleasure though. She needs some blonde haired children stat, and I suppose she had to give Daemon incentive to marry her
Tablet as was travelling. Will watch on tv again tonight and will likely be able to see what the feck happened!
I think you're sort of meant to hate Joffrey and Ramsey anyway so I think the actors did a good job with that. Alicent and Sansa are also meant to have character flaws, but you could argue that the version of Sansa in the later seasons of GoT lacked the sass that Alayne had in the books. On the whole, Dany and Jon had more annoying traits than the others mentioned in my view (probably because they were not really meant to be that way and are more prominent characters than the others listed).
Who was his lover over the last 2 episodes.
He's too emo for me. Like a character out of that vampire movie with the glitter( I looked it up. It was Twilight).
What pisses Me off regarding the show is that the show producers have clearly picked a side. That goes against what the dance is all about.
How? it's clearly Rhaeydra v Alicent and I can't say there's a favourite right now. They're both making moves.
So they've backed the losers? Cheers book reader.
Adult Rhaenyra isn't as good an actress as the earlier one.
Adult Alicent is decent though.
Adult Alicent is decent though.
Can't agree with this. There is no pure protagonist. It's way more ambiguous than Game of Thrones, particularly in TV form.
They have a clear bias towards Rhaenyra who is being portrayed as this progressive saint as opposed to Alicent the social climber. The reality is that there neither greens nor blacks are bad people. This TRAGEDY is created by an idiotic king whose clear bias towards his first born daughter as opposed to his sons forced him to create an alternative rule book to the one created by the wise king and which was voted in by all Lords in Westeros. That created a mess as whoever sits on the IT will always have to watch his back against 'the alternative' option, making effective ruling near impossible. King Viserys kept messing up again and again by having Rhaenyra marry Laenor who was clearly gay, by him marrying Alicent thus creating an alternative branch and by forcing Rhaenyra to marry Laenor when the best viable option would have been Aegon.
I call it a tragedy because neither Rhaenyra nor Alicent are bad people and would have been fantastic queens in normal circumstances.
This is what makes it good TV.
That's why I love the dance more then I love the main story. However in my opinion, the show producers are showing clear bias towards Rhaenyra. Which is quite the opposite of what this tragedy is all about. The moral of this story is that bad decisions taken by ignorant top brass (ie the king) can easily turn decent people against one another up to a point that they end up...lets say not decent people anymore
In what way have they shown her bias? She literally just had some poor random bloke killed so she can shag her uncle.
You're an alicent Stan. She litro went at a kid with a blade last episode
She was in the king's chambers what, the same night his wife died? I could make a list of all the shit she's pulled from episode 1, she's not a good person at all.