I'm enjoying it. I sort of liked the first couple of episodes, and I've been gradually drawn in now so I'm actively looking forward to each new instalment. I'll be gutted when it's finished as it's the only thing I'm really watching at the moment - is season 2 really in 2024?
I like the pacing, I like that the motivation of the main characters seems believable (maybe not sir ****, the sexy puritanical knight, but just about everyone else), I like it that there's no-one to really root for as they are all gits ... I even quite like the gloominess.
Much as I liked GoT I thought every season was weaker than the one preceding it. I prefer this to maybe the last 3 seasons of GoT.
not enough tits, bums and sword, and why has none gone bat shite crazy and burnt a city down
It’s not really aimed at ADHD 13-year-olds
I am 45 not 13.
There is a distinct lack of dragons-burning-things-down, for a show entitled "House of the Dragon". I R disappoint.
How on earth is this garnering such good reviews?
You know what series did succession better? Succession.
There is a distinct lack of dragons-burning-things-down
One did burn down a pregnant woman, TBF.
not enough tits, bums and sword
If you've not seen it then you need to watch Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Once past the first couple of episodes the politiking is better than GoT too.
There ya go 😂😂
For anyone at a loose end on a Sunday night the final episode is already on BitTorrent. Whatever that is 😉
There ya go 😂😂
Best bit of the season 😆😆😆
Well, what an absolute snorefest that was.
Loads of talking in a dark room, a gruesome childbirth scene (wtaf is it with this show and horrible childbirths?!) More talking in a dark room, a dragon aerial battle, "oh no, I've started a war..."
Angry face queen/princess. Roll credits.
YAWN.
Christ, if they'd compressed the existing episodes down to three and then made seven more of dragon fights and sword battles, it might have been worth watching.
It's all going to kick off next episode, yeah?
Oh wait...
Maybe we're just so used to Tory regicide right now that we can't understand why GoT is taking so long to dispose of any of it's main characters. The Tories would have kicked off half way through Episode 1 and they'd still be going at each other hammer and tongs by the season finale.
well, that's not going to change anyone's mind on the series now is it 😂
The whole season was essentially just a prologue to the [I]actual[/I] story I guess. Wasn't perfect, time-jumps especially were badly handled (won't be a problem from now on though as the book nerds assure me the remaining story only takes 2 years to play out and there's potentially 3 seasons in which to do it!) but on the whole did a decent job of portraying most of the characters' motivation, etc. I guess squeezing 20 years worth of seething resentment into 10 episodes was never going to be easy!
Dragon battle was cool if obviously a bit one-sided! From the moment he landed at the castle and you saw just how massive the other dragon was looming in the background things were very tense (you knew it was going to end badly!)
Yeah feel a bit robbed that it [I]still[/I] hasn't kicked off yet properly but it is what it is, at least they haven't ruined it like the last few seasons of GoT so it still has plenty of potential. Just need to forget about it for 2 years now 😂
That was it? The finale?
It's annoying that virtually every episode appears to have 40 minutes of filler leading up to a couple of decent scenes at the end, even the finale.
Again, just rewatched the finale of season 5 of GoT. Absolutely packed with action/interest from start to finish. Has the same 60 minute running time, but you came away with no idea how they crammed so much in.
it doesn't though, does it? I mean, not if you're actually watching it & not just playing on your phone waiting for the next execution 😂It’s annoying that virtually every episode appears to have 40 minutes of filler
Probably fairer to compare it with the GoT season 1 finale, obviously by season 5 all the build-up is done and they're cracking on with the action! Even so, it's clearly a very different show - there's only really one plot line, rather than the many different ones GoT had (and completely failed to wrap up many of them in a satisfactory way, don't forget!)
I'd actually probably point to S5 as when it started to go bad... morphing into a show that was all about action/adventure rather than the interesting dialogue/social interactions punctuated by violence that was more memorable/effective because it wasn't happening all the time... some people liked that, some didn't
