The Night is (still) dark and full of terrors — running House of the Dragon thread

Sunday. One percent chance of seeing it stream before then.

Inside 'House of the Dragon': The Epic Mission to Make the Next 'Game of Thrones' — The Hollywood Reporter
Inside 'House of the Dragon' Part 2: “It's a Powerful, Dark, Shakespearean Tragedy” — The Hollywood Reporter

“(T)he first season does for childbirth what Game of Thrones did for weddings.”

 

Just bought a one-year to HBOMax today.


Gotta have my dragons. I miss Jon Snow.

 

You know nothing

 

We came to Game of Thrones late. Think we only watched the final season in real time. All-in on this one from the start. Hard to think it can live up to GOT when it was at it's best, but ya never know.

 

Surprised there are any English/Irish actors left. Can you imagine being a British actor and not having appeared in GoT, or The Crown or Downton Abbey?

 

Would like a word

 

Add Harry Potter to that list and you eliminate everyone but Sir Patrick Stewart.

 

Wants to converse, politely of course

 

Could easily defeat any dragon by himself:

 

I'm in. I thought that was a good start, and if you didn't love the million and one Easter eggs in it then you probably didn't love Game of Thrones.

 

Holy shit, is it misogynistic. Violent and bloody too, of course, but that's sort of expected. So is the misogyny, I suppose, there were plenty of articles discussing that it was coming.

My wife and I were Song of Ice and Fire readers, and we were very engaged with the series, at least until the showrunners decided to cut it short and forced the ending. She's over at a friend's, and I texted her "The new GoT is on at 9, right?"

Her reply? "Meh"

I wonder to what degree this will hurt the show. It's still a juggernaut, and GRRM wasn't at all apologetic, basically just saying that it's a very harsh world for women, but I can't help but wonder if it will affect the numbers.

 

It’s supposed to be medieval Britain and it wasn’t kind to women. I suspect they are going to establish a change to give rise to Daenerys and Cersi. Is playing up what it realistically was like. I also suspect they are establishing the world that the Princess just got thrown into as the heir.

This was a good start. Good stakes building and world establishing. It was a little weird seeing Matt Smith all muscular going to pound town but he was a standout.