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House of the Dragon
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10-24-2022, 08:20 PM | #511 |
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I think the differences in portrayals of the characters are a purposeful choice …to show that history books are shaped by the writers’ biases and perspectives.
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10-24-2022, 08:31 PM | #512 |
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10-24-2022, 08:52 PM | #513 | |
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****ing terrifyingly awesome also vhagar's groan after the chomp was epic...never heard a dragon say "**** yeah!" but i think that was it...in valyrian |
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10-24-2022, 08:57 PM | #514 |
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It will be interesting to see if Sapochnik leaving as co-show runner will make the series worse. I hope not.
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10-24-2022, 09:13 PM | #515 |
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Badass.
They took a spinoff that came in with whale-shit low expectations thanks to the end of GOT and made it really good. That big dragon is terrifying. The atmosphere set up in the storm was fantastic. We also see why the dragons all die out. They don't have control. |
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10-24-2022, 09:17 PM | #516 |
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I can not believe they didn't **** this up and improved things for the story/characters.
Well done, HBO and George. Expected this to be a catastrophe and its ****ing great. |
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10-24-2022, 09:19 PM | #517 |
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10-24-2022, 09:21 PM | #518 |
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10-24-2022, 09:23 PM | #519 | |
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That's Aemond. And it's just another interesting thing they can do on this show given the 3rd party perspective of the source material. It's a fascinating effort you don't see very often. They're taking the reliability of the source material and calling it into question. They're retroactively creating an unreliable narrator dilemma (which is ALWAYS fascinating reading, IMO). I'm sure Aemond will come back talking big shit and making it sound like he absolutely did it on purpose. And frankly, he'll probably spend a fair amount of time convincing himself he DID. |
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10-24-2022, 09:25 PM | #520 | |
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10-24-2022, 09:28 PM | #521 | |
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Some of the odd/reckless decisions the Stark children make in the television series lose a little weight because it's grown ass people making them. And some of the impressive things they do are less impressive because again - adults. But in HOTD they've kept them looking as young as they were. Luke looked like a terrified kid in that meeting with Baratheon. And if he's in his mid-20s, he has a better response then "Okay, lemme go tell my mom..." That was an excellent decision and while it made some of the earlier scenes with Daemon and Rhaneara a little creepy, it really helped with the rest of the show. |
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Daenarys is Rhaegar's sister. Rhaegar is Jon Snow's father. So that means Jon was balls deep in his aunt. Last edited by rydogg58; 10-24-2022 at 09:33 PM.. Reason: great, great, great, great, great grandparents, not grandparents. |
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10-24-2022, 09:53 PM | #524 |
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10-24-2022, 10:06 PM | #525 | |
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I gotta say, I was skeptical coming into this season due to Condal's background, and the time jumps they had to make in order to finish this season (Reminder: Aemond wasn't BORN yet by Episode 5, halfway through this season). But hot damn did they still make this compelling. Not only that, they made this season off of... 70 pages of source material? Another concern I had was a problem The Hobbit movies ran into, a lot of characters, but not a lot to actually adapt from. But did the actors (shoutout especially to Paddy Considine) ever rise to the occasion to bring life to their counterparts in Fire and Blood - and the writers, under the guidance of GRRM, really brought what was originally written as a history textbook to life. And the thing is... this was all exposition to the good stuff. Last edited by Chiefspants; 10-24-2022 at 10:14 PM.. |
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