To be fair thats based on real life as Iceland was discovered by Floki.
Television House of the Dragon (GoT Prequel) - No book spoilers allowed
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To be fair thats based on real life as Iceland was discovered by Floki.
Good to know. Just hated that whole thing. Wanted Floki to do more Vikings stuff before leaving.
Ha! Just realised it actually does!
Yeah, it makes sense, I just don’t think that’s a good argument for making your protagonist rather dull. You could make that same character development while keeping your character captivating.
Another slowish episode for me. They could do with introducing more characters fighting for the factions. For example they introduced the Lannister guy at the beginning and nothing else. We've seen nothing regarding the Starks as well from episode 1. Hopefully things pick up for the final 2 episodes.
anyone have any links to watch this online?
Aemond looks like the actor said: what if I was Sephiroth but also a pirate and instead of a ship I rode a dragon?
I don't really blame the actress, I just don't really like the character anymore. I get that she is supposed to be frustrated and boxed in, it's just, meh.
Really finding lezzer lady's accent and accentuation grating. I know she's supposed to be exotic. But it's shit.
She's a bad actress, but she was worse in Devs. At least she's doing something here. I can live with it.
She’s shite, yeah, best thing she’s done is Ex Machina, put it all on the line amirite?
It was a very slow episode, trying to figure out who’s who and which dragon is where and does what is quite tedious as well. Daemon has turned into such a nothing character.
Do you watch Alt Shift X? Good videos about the episodes, non-spoilery (for book stuff). A bit slow, but hey, that fits.
They even toned it down significantly from season 1.
I wish they would show a few more of the battles that are happening with the various houses. It's too focused on the 3 primary locations with the rest of the plot progressing off-screen and only being mentioned in conversation. I also think they've not got any character that has the screen presence Viserys & Otto had in season 1.
Indeed , I found it quite less irritating.
I didn't know where to post this but it's funny as hell 
Yep the battles situation is one of my gripes as well. You wouldn’t think there was a war going on.
I actually liked how they just jumped right to the end of the Battle at the mill; it was effective and the battle didn’t involve anyone we care about anyway.
What it’s missing, as opposed to another season of a show which often had battles largely off-screen (GoT S2), is enough characters with charming wit as well as the occasional humor.
What it’s missing, as opposed to another season of a show which often had battles largely off-screen (GoT S2), is enough characters with charming wit as well as the occasional humor.
Yep - can also highly recommend In Deep Geek. Though it largely deals with book stuff.
No that guy is Corlys' baseborn son Addam. The brother of Alyn, the one he named as his first mate. The dragon was Seasmoke not Dreamfyre.
Another thing I've noticed. Is it me or is the music incredibly bland in this show? The music in GoT was such an important part of the show, each house with a distinct theme. Yet I'm struggling to think what the music is in this show. Shame.
Lazy bastards reused the old theme which was shameless
Ramin Djavadi is the composer of both of the shows so naturally the music is the same..
Make a new theme then? Why re-use the old one?
I can forgive using the same main theme because it's so iconic but the in-episode stuff is bland outside of the reuse of GoT motifs for specific houses.
We need more of this:
And less of this:
We need more of this:
And less of this:
I'm finding this season to be a lot more boring than the previous and I'm struggling to put my finger on why that is. Perhaps Viserys carried the show more than I thought. It does feel like there is a lack of interesting characters, but I never remember thinking that during season 1.
He was a bit of a centrepiece for everything to flow around and did rise to the role to put in an excellent performance. I wouldn't be too critical of the other characters but they're not putting in performances that good
I'm not sure comparisons with GoT will do this favours as it just seems much more focused and limited in scope. Which is fine but probably wont have as much appeal as a show that has a bit of everything. Its Kings Landing politics with a bit of extra Danaery's and her dragon stuff.
Viserys basically had some idea what was going on and how to behave. Feels like this season it's just a bunch of angsty teens trying to pretend they're something they're not.
It's been a very average season at best so far.
It's been a very average season at best so far.
Agree there aren’t any particularly captivating characters. Daemon was fun but he’s been really drab this season, I quite liked Aegon as well so it’s a shame they’ve bumped him off for now. The rest are decent, but there’s no real standouts leading it.
This is the problem for me too, but in comparison to how they introduced the leaders of the houses from GOTD they are not leaving a mark on my memory enough. The houses, Brackens, Blackwoods and whoever in the Riverrun etc Daemon’s trying to unite and the lords that sit on both of Aemond and Rhaenerys council are either just boring or forgetful enough on screen you wonder who they are talking about at times.
Christ it’s getting boring
You're not enjoying the queen not being respected in the small councils for 8 hours???
im quite enjoying it actually, found a good streaming site and it works well. of course you can never have enough battle scenes / dragon fights.
your all a bunch of miserable gits hating on it, but still watching each ep as soon as its out.
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your all a bunch of miserable gits hating on it, but still watching each ep as soon as its out.
flixflare dot to keeps appearing on by brave app, scoundrels with their naughty streams.
Rhaenyra and Alicent aren't interesting enough to be the core of the story that the writers want them to be.
Meant to bea banger of an episode tonight, just about stayed up to watch it..
Very good episode.
Thought it was a bit meh. Enjoyed last season and the early episodes of this season, but it's dragging now. We get it, all the dragons will be claimed (likely leading to a dragon battle royal in next week's finale). The exclusivity of dragons/dragon riders in GoT made it feel special. There's just too many dragons now. Holding dragon rider tryouts where any chubby blond could be a potential dragon rider is just taking the piss. Daemon being verbally outdueled by the young Tully was the highlight of this week.
The show is called "House of Dragons"
Agree that it’s been dragging on a bit; they must be confident of multiple future seasons. I was hoping they’d revive the tradition of the penultimate episode of GoT being the climax, but at least we can be confident the finale will be a banger.
Did anyone else notice the use of clouds? Not sure if that’s ’fog of war’ or meant to be a premonition of smoke. Or if I’m just making things up…
Did anyone else notice the use of clouds? Not sure if that’s ’fog of war’ or meant to be a premonition of smoke. Or if I’m just making things up…
Are these Dragons experiencing a housing crisis?