House of the Dragon (Game of Thrones prequel series) Spoiler thread !post evening airing! - The Bear and Badger

LivDiv

I think the Targaryens are a bit more normal in this era.
They are mega powerful dragon wielding dictators but they haven't quite gone mad yet.

Escape

White-wigged fanfic hoovers with cut-price dragons and the whiff of Krull cosplay.

But come back to me if it's half-decent!

Armitage_Shankburn

It's called Hot Dee

Armitage_Shankburn

And it'll also be shot i think, just not initially. I expect GoT political drama season 1 style will enjoy it. The Dance of the Dragons though is a fun bit of Fire and Blood. Except it goes so fast over decades, hard to see how they'll do that in a few seasons of TV

Escape

Send help — I've read the Mail review:

This time, it really is all about the dragons. Fantasy addicts who championed Game of Thrones always insisted the mythical fire-breathing monsters were the REAL stars of the show.

Armitage_Shankburn

First episode was excellent, as I expected.

The great Maester/Old town conspiracy, which is what underpins Fire and Blood, is probably on.

The Daddy

Yeah, surprisingly not shit. So far.

mk64

what channel/platform is it on?

LivDiv

Sky Atlantic or Now.

Paul the sparky

Is it a full series dump or a one a week thing?

LivDiv

Nah once a week.
The first is up on Now errrr now. Or 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Second ep is tomorrow 10pm Sky Atlantic (there is an early showing at like 1am or 2am as well, same time as U.S).
From there Im not sure but would guess it will be Mondays.

I assume they get added to Now after the early/U.S showing.

LivDiv

That's was great.
Looking forward to the rest of the season.
Pretty much everything I want from GoT.

I_R

Enjoyed that a lot, especially as they got a lot of the set up out of the way without getting too bogged down. Sets and costumes are better than that low budget shit a lot of the other fantasy stuff has been forced to use and the CGI was fine. Acting was really great, I think that saved it in a few spots.

tigersgogrrr

A very good start.

I like the princess.

LivDiv

You can see the budget on screen that's for sure.
Kings Landing looked brilliant.

It's a bit of a shame that the Iron Throne was made so small in the og show. I appreciate that they have added some blades around it for this show but I would love to have seen a ridiculous tower of a thing.

LivDiv

LivDiv wrote:

Nah once a week.
The first is up on Now errrr now. Or 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Second ep is tomorrow 10pm Sky Atlantic (there is an early showing at like 1am or 2am as well, same time as U.S).
From there Im not sure but would guess it will be Mondays.

I assume they get added to Now after the early/U.S showing.

I was wrong on ep 2.
Got to wait until next week. Wrong info when I googled it.

g.man

So ep2 isn't till next week on NowTv?

Anyhoo, I enjoyed ep1. Decent opener. Money on the screen. All the GoT tropes present and correct. Good cast, though I will say while I will go to my grave declaring Matt Smith to be the definitive Dr Who, I've never warmed to him in anything else since, so he's got the most work to do for my money. But yeah, this was decent.

So.

Winter Is Coming...Again...

LivDiv

Yeah that's right g. I fucked up on dates.
I blame the difficulty in actually finding shit, tomorrow seems to be just a repeat.

g.man

Cool. Ta.

Gremill

Really enjoyed that, it was so much better than the last season of GoT that I've almost forgotten how shit that was. Great cast and although there are obviously dragons in it, it is not 'all about the dragons'.

g.man

...yet.

monkey

I also enjoyed the dragon program.

hunk

Ep.1 Great script, great cast. Production seems solid.
The outlines of royal medieval intrige are kindof there. Omnious looming incestious relationships, sociopathic narcissism on display, brutal commonplace murder, backstabbing at the court. Good wholesome fun.

Oh, and dragons. Cgi has improved.

superflyninja

Solid first episode indeed. Found the dialogue to be tough to make out in places

g.man

Aye, I had that problem too. Sound mix was poor. I find that with a lot of stuff I watch on Nowtv though. As a premium streaming service, the quality never strikes me as anything to write home about.

mk64

I wasn't a fan of the set or cgi. I thought it looked shallow and pretty fake in places. Watch it again and the grey carriage thing looked awful.

Still enjoyed it but i wasn't impressed with the gwaffix.

Escape

If this thread remains positive over the full season I might give it a try.

Still too gutted about Thrones to risk it on the weekly. I am a big Considine fan.

poprock

I’m the only one who thought it was a bit shit, then? Okay.

A couple of good scenes, which brought back some of the grandeur of early Thrones. The Goldcloaks bit stood up well. Lots of callbacks ‘for the fans’ with recognisable family names popping up throughout.

But there’s none of the grit that early seasons of Thrones did so well. The Starks, the Barratheons, the Greyjoys, etc. I think probably just because it’s so focussed on the ruling caste and their city. That might change, but I’m not hopeful - it’s supposed to be all about their dynasty after all. I think it’s just that for me, the royal politics has always been the least exciting part of Thrones … I preferred it when it got out into the rest of the world.

monkey

iirc, the first episode of Thrones takes place completely at Winterfell.

monkey

I’ve checked and I do not recall correctly. Its mostly at Winterfell.

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