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Spoilers Game Of Thrones’ Spinoff ‘House Of The Dragons’ ordered to series

Yeah, I'm curious too. I kind of lost track of GoT after watching the third or fourth season on DVD, but I do like the world, and I'm curious to see a show with new story and no B&B involved.
 
I've been pretty cautious and rather lukewarm about the show with the exception of Matt Smith and Sonoyo Mizuno, but the Comic-Con panel helped me gain some interest and hope for the show. Good to know most of the early reviews are positive. Fingers crossed.
 
The lack of hype is real, it seems. I thought I'd log in and find a review thread chugging along.

Well, I don't know if anyone else watched but I thought it was a solid enough start. Matt Smith was a standout.
 
It just seemed like it's trying (and failing) to re-live GoT's "glory days" a bit too much. Personally I rolled my eyes at several thi g due to how passé and try-hard they seemed, including the swearing, the whore house orgy scenes (really?) and that silly part where the tourney seemed to involve several instances of opponents just starting to hack each other to death (if real tournaments had been like that they would have run out of knights pretty quickly). I think it was also a mistake to remind us of the Song of Ice and Fire plot, especially considering the show made the dragons, Jon and Daenerys all completely irrelevant to the resolution of that plot.

On the plus side I think the production values seem *very* nice, in some ways even better than GoT. I suppose they can afford to make Kings La ding more lavish this time around, because it will be the sole/main centre of events, especially early on.
The actors also seem well cast.
But I'm just not feeling it. The early seasons of GoT had me hyped for the next episode, this...doesnt Right now I also feel that it doesn't have the same large cast of varied and interesting characters Got had.

Also we all know how this will end (the big strokes anyway) so part of the suspension is missing. Which is, of course, the trouble with prequels.
 
There was no opening credits. I wonder if that’s going to be true for all the episodes, or they just skipped it for this episode.

I liked the rendition of the GoT theme in the end credits, but I wish they had done new music.

So at the jousting competition, I only recognized 3 flags, Stark, Baratheon and Bolton.

Though I’m not an expert on all the house flags.
 
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I think it was also a mistake to remind us of the Song of Ice and Fire plot, especially considering the show made the dragons, Jon and Daenerys all completely irrelevant to the resolution of that plot.
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No, I wasn't a fan of that either. It struck me as unnecessary.

Is it relevant to the larger narrative they have in store? No idea. But given how the episode had tracked it seemed out of left field.
 
Seeing Matt Smith made me pine for an Elric movie.

Not too much to say just yet, coming on the heels of GoT I feel I need to give it a little time to establish itself as its own thing.
 
My feeling toward this show has always been guarded optimism. I wanted it to be good but I didn't want to get my hopes up after the original show dashed them. But I thought this was a very promising beginning. You can tell there's a different creative team behind this show because it looks less afraid to play up its fantasy aspects than the original show did. The Iron Throne in this looks a lot more like the one from the books, for example.

I thought it was interesting that they decided to add in the prophecy of the coming of the White Walkers. It turned out to be a gigantic waste of time in GoT even though it was clearly meant to be the whole point of the story. I wonder if that was an idea that GRRM always had all along, or if it was made up specifically for this show.
 
I was completely turned off by the end of Game of Thrones and I've found it rather funny how completely the fandom died off afterwards. I scoffed at the idea of any continuation and wasn't optimistic.

But I thought... why not give it a shot?

Lo and behold... I really, really enjoyed it. Was it as immediately gripping as GoT episode 1? Maybe not? But I thought the cast was excellent, the production quality was stellar, and I'm curious about how this will go forward.

Daemon was more complex than I expected. And I really enjoyed both Rhaenyra and Alicent. Viserys seems like a good man, really.

Although I found it rather... squirrelly how Otto Hightower was telling his daughter to visit the King's chambers in one of her mother's dresses to "comfort" him. As if we were setting up for Otto essentially sending his daughter to sleep with the king. But then ... no indication of that.

Unless the show was actually showing restraint about that and letting the implication be enough.
 
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Watched the first 15 minutes so with one eye this morning while getting dressed for work - can't say much other than production values are high as expected and for now i liked the small callbacks to the GoT main theme in the music of the show.

I will definitely start over when i get back from work and give it my complete attention. Sad to say but this show has a big rock around its neck because ( at least for me) it has to make up for the really disappointing last season of GoT and it has to go up against character arcs such as Tyrion, Cersei and Jaime ( all of them brilliantly acted).

I really am rooting for the show to be good and interesting, you can never have too many good shows.
 
It's a fine episode and all but I think I'm a bit fatigued by this world and the gruesomeness in general. A particular scene in the middle was just horrible and showed more than it really needed too. Maybe I'm just getting old about such things but there doesn't feel to be anything all that new here other than a bunch of characters I haven't invested myself in yet. Will see how things go, it might make a better binge watch like GOT did.
 
Maybe make a Series (or Season 1) discussion thread since this thread is technically about the news it was ordered.

Or have this thread renamed.
 
I enjoyed the pilot episode. I think it has a different vibe from "Game of Thrones". I supposed that is due to the conflict being limited to one particular family. It has been claimed that the Red Wedding event in George R.R. Martin’s “A Storm of Swords” and Season Three of “Game of Thrones” was loosely based on two events in Scottish history - the Black Dinner and the Glencoe Massacre of 1692.

Is it possible that Princess Rhaenyra’s arc in “House of the Dragon” might be loosely based on a historical figure, namely Empress Matilda of England and Normandy? She became the mother of King Henry II, and the grandmother of Richard the Lion-Hearted and King John.

By the way, that episode featured one of the most traumatic childbirth sequences I have seen in movies or television.
 
Though I think I've gotten more adverse to gore as I've gotten older. There were a couple scenes where I had to look away, which really weren't that bad compared to GoT.
 
I was struggling for the longest time with whether or not I was going to watch the series, but eventually decided to wait until Season 1 has aired in its entirety before I give it a chance, because after what happened with GoT, I will never again watch anything related to Westeros as it's airing.
 
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