House of the Dragon

Haters gonna hate. If this show offends you politically you're an idiot

Tried the first episode, twice, and couldn't get to the end. I'm just tired. Tired of having a female character whose character arc is proving to sexist men how much better than them she is. I'm also tired of identity politics; I watched maybe a third of the episode, and so far there were two minority characters: the first is giving good advice but is ignored by the king for no reason, and the other is a maester's disciple (I think) who does the maesters work for him while being looked down on.

Finished season 1, and am impressed. It is disproportionately focused on inter-royal family throne squabbling, even compared to Game of Thrones. But besides that if you want dark gritty political fantasy with some gory violence and dragons this more than hits the spot. Generally phenomenal production values / sets / effects, often big screen epic level stuff. Even gives actors some real complex characters and material to chew on (shout out to Paddy Considine). Could have used more boobs tho tbh.

A welcome return to the world of Westeros, although it has an unforseen problem: the pacing of the story. I wish someone would create a shorter version where the first 8 episodes are pushed together to maybe 2-3 hours. The story is good, it just really needs to progress faster. The final episode ends with a real cliffhanger which I never like with TV shows. Otherwise there are many improvements from Game of Thrones, and I am eager to see Season 2 which will hopefully be more eventful.

Couple spoilers - I thought the chemistry between Smith and Alcock was pretty good and getting better. The way they switched out the actors and jumped ahead in time was annoying. It threw off the rhythm and stifled what was becoming a more aggressive story. The Prince Valiant character makes no sense. One moment he’s humble servant of the realm. Then he bangs the princess and is willing to forgo all that. He’s entitled enough to get pissy and heartbroken when she refuses to run away with him?

The first season, while quite entertaining, didn't convince me entirely yet but I'm waiting for the second season to do the trick.

Really finds its footing in the second half of the season with a very serious upgrade in acting and writing, compared to the first half that felt mostly like fanservice and an attempt to dominate the twittertrends. Adult Alicent and especially adult Rhaenyera are the standout actors (and characters) for me and i hope they'll survive a good while.

3 episodes so far. Gave an 85 initially. Then they changed the cast. Made me stop watching after episode 4. The worst decision was replacing Allcock as Rhenyra as she was mesmerising. Below was my original review upto episode 3. (The casting is much better than GOT. Not beautiful people but more real with their flaws visible. Story is more drama than fantasy, but well made. Writing is excellent and addictive. The world is much smaller so far and some plot lines seem rather contrived (the cra

Could be good... and yet. Wimin stronk strikes yet again! I'll pass, thank you very much.

A step below the "golden age" of Game of Thrones but the last three-ish episodes get pretty close. Having spoiled myself about the story at the height of GoT mania, it sets it up so the remaining seasons might possibly be the best GRRM misery porn yet. Cast is really strong, although poor Rhys Ifans has to do one note throughout. Matt Smith (like in the first 2 seasons of The Crown) is the heavy lifter as the cruel asshole who is both the cause of and solution to many of the problems that arise.

Started a bit slow, but its growing on me. The last three episodes have amped up the tension and feels like a good stand alone show finally.

I really enjoyed this, but I did think the time jumps should have been a little more clearly labeled.

The final 3-4 episodes of Season 1 really lifted this one.

The halfway actor switch was good for absolutely nothing. Also, what is up with the night episode that was actually shot during the day? Very poor editing on that.

Guess I'm a sucker for bleached blondes.

Great first episode, the five that follow kinda dragged since there were few good characters, and the constant time skips made it hard to get invested. Things did however get pretty spicy starting at episode 7. I didn’t have much hope for a prequel focusing on just one of the houses, but I’m optimistic about the future of this show.

From the time before they destroyed all the best character arcs of your favorite show (perhaps we can eventually forgive and forget about Game of Thrones Season 8). Then again...

Interim Rating. Lol but what about the idiots rambling about "Identity Politics" etc., such bullshit. A Queen fighting for her subordinates loyalty is a classical theme, its also in the books and if that triggers people that hard maybe they should think about their small egos

Can't say you don't enjoy it

It’s learned enough lessons from its predecessor to capitalize on the best parts of the original show, and has the cast to pull it off

Ep 1 was a shadow of GoT. Plastic costumes, cheap sets, soulless knock off soundtrack, more CGI than practical effects, wooden acting, mediocre casting & green screens galore. Not to mention choppy edits, stiff & linear directing and lines that could have been written by a melodramatic high schooler with no life experience. The main char was intended to echo/foreshadow Dany, but lacks all of her pre-season 7 charisma and depth - she just is too busy “girlbossing” to be likeable or real.

So far so very good.

After an atrocious couple of first episodes, the series picks up from the third episode and ends on a high-note.

This will begin to make things right🤞

Series were just made for when you're laying sick in your bed. HoTD is definitely a step up from the cluster fucks GoT left us with. The focus on one of the houses works well and the performances are all top-notch. Sometimes the script is way too eager for showing conflict though and the CGI is often horrible.

eng; [house of the dragon -- SERIE]; eine adelsfamilie schmiedet bündnisse obwohl sie drachen befehligt - doch interne streitigkeiten sind die größte gefahr.; {Folgen: S01E01-S01E10}; (okay, aber es fehlt der Spaß aus Game of Thrones; feels like the series was forced to exist);

For me it was a sterile borefest. This is weird especially given how much gore and sex is being thrown around as if they are a background motif. I'm not excited enough to follow up further seasons and I'm rather sure if this series was the first GOT thing, it would hardly garner any interest.

Impressive throughout, well cast and thematically/stylistically an echo of the GoT early season glory days. Look forward to more.

Until episode 7 it felt like a story arc off GoT rather than a standalone TV show. We shall see where it goes, but e07 raised it up a notch for sure.

With even higher production values than Game of Thrones and comparable excellence of acting, this remains a favorite source for the consumption of intrigue with a side of brutality. It has no dearth of glaring flaws, but within a logic where everyone important is an unscrupulous, conniving and occasionally murder-prone snake, it's actually a very intelligent work of low fantasy, with only serviceably-written but spectacularly filmed world-building.

[season 1]

Maybe from nostalgia, reminiscing about the good GoT days, I like it. Matt Smith is a perfect cast, he often steals the show. The writers are not consistent in the character development. The later episodes, especially the 9th and 10th, are definitely a letdown.

It's good. It feels "Thrones-y". The characters aren't as interesting as "Thrones" and the story isn't as gripping.

As it turns out, if your writing is slightly better than complete shit, there is still a lot to mine from this universe. House of the Dragon is admittedly a slow-starter and some of the novel retcons/rewrites were gratingly bad (actually, Aegon the Conqueror was the good guy!) but this show does return to the strengths of George which are deep characters and the best Machiavellian politicking that Niccolo himself didn't write.

Had no interest or hope for this coming in, but was very pleasantly surprised. Keeps the astounding technical work from GOT, the world feels tactile and lived in, unlike most fantasy shows. The first few episodes, I was worried the sole focus on political/familial intrigue was going to get boring, but it did not. Great characters (especially Viserys) kept me invested through time jumps. The brutal intrigue never grew dull. I was always eager to piece out the new political/familial fault lines.

S1: 80

Two episodes in. Enjoying it much more than the last two seasons of GoT.