First two episodes of this have been more entertaining than the first two episodes of GoT.

If you ever talk this way about Sean Bean again........ I'm leaving you

Dragons. Cool CGI. Crab people and shit. GoT season 1 took awhile to pick up steam.

my only problem with this show is that Rhaenyra is just dany lite at this point, and it's becoming annoying

You should just be happy that she isn't black.

Was the existence of Dragons and how the Targs became their "keepers" ever explained in the mythos?

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Just further proof that there's more to the character than meets the eye.

Just like him telling Corlys that only he's allowed to talk shit about his brother. He's actually a loyal dude, just feels like he's been shit on.

There are parallels to Jaime, except he's not simping for his sister 24/7.

Still easily the best and most interesting character so far :shrug:

And we'll just put this happy little post in this happy little thread where it was meant to be from the start. Lol

you can stream it on hbo max

i am, that would be immersion breaking

the black guy with the dreads kind of ruins my vibe. There shouldn't be blacks on the show unless they are building a statue dedicated to white people.

But what if, and hang with me here, I don't actually HAVE HBO Max?

Troll fail…

Pretty easy actually. All you have to do is go HERE and enter a little info and you'll be good to go each week.

hopefully you find one. Annoying when you watch one show and it is on a pay channel

Honestly,

GoT with House of the Dragon is showing how you CAN take creative liberties effectively with Black people without HAM FISTING it in there.

Thanks.

I was trying to be a cheap ass, but my GoT addiction wouldn't allow me to be that patient, lol.

It's worth it.

Along with HOTD, HBO is also releasing The Last of Us this year.

If you want to shoot me your credit card info, I'll get you signed up right away and you won't have to do anything.

There is no one remotely on the level of the Crabfeeder, dude. He wouldn't slink away when confronted by a little girl on a dragon.

He didn't slink away. He plans on ****ing her later for the crown! It's all part of the master plan, ya see.

He's definitely a badass looking character that I'm looking forward to, but I doubt he'll be around very long based on the previews for next week ;)

One thing Daemon is 100% correct about is that his brother is way too weak. I'm not sure if there are any heroes in this whole story by the time the civil war is done. But Daemon won't be viewed as a completely bad guy at the end of it.

Daemon is loyal to the pure Targaryen bloodline, whereas we have the Hightower family trying to weasel their way onto the Throne...basically hijacking it from a Targaryen dynasty into a Hightower dynasty.

Absolutely.

His death is merely a matter of where, how and whom.

about 15 years or so after he has a son

LOL

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That is bad news. That dude gets shit right. On the screen anyway, the overall story telling I can't speak to but the best visuals and most of the best moments he was responsible for.

Hopefully it doesn't impact the show too much, but definitely not the best news.

I have full faith in HBO though, even after GOT (I blame that on D&D).

That’s pretty fair. As evidenced by the fact that those dudes can’t find work.

Good they literally froze out the guy who wrote the source material.

Nah. HBO deserves a metric pile of shit for allowing it to devolve that far. Tell them to shape up or get the **** out when you can see it's devolved to that point.

Come on, they made billions for HBO. No corporation are going to fire their moneymaker for a decade in their last year.

This was totally all on D&D. Its been decided by the business, Hollywood and fans. It sucks that they wont even address it, apologize to the fans.

2nd episode of this was better. I'll hang around until I don't anymore, I suppose.

Good ol' Martha Jones - probably my favorite companion (y'know, back before Clara took the show over then eventually it became the Lesbian fun time hour and I gave up on it). Haven't watched it in years...

This aged well...


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Great episode

It's getting better. The third episode was the best so far.

This is getting quite good.

LOL staylor getting validation by his favorite fictional TV character who couldn't even win a war after 2 years with a dragon...

I'm getting in it. The flaws are softening, particularly Viserys. (Although his decaying fingers are gross as all ****. Jesus).

I'm ready for more.

Who are D&D?

David Benioff and Dan Weiss

Show is really ****ing good. Look forward to more more more!

We couldn’t get a killing the Crabfeeder scene? I guess the guy couldn’t fight, just hammer nails and nod to his army…

I AM THE CRABFEEDER

From the preview of next week's episode they are really taking this in a weird direction. I guess Daemon shows back up to confront the king but ends up in a fight with Rhaenyra. Hidden to avoid spoilers:

NSFW

Agreed. Best one yet. :clap:

Was hoping we'd see a fight or atleast the crabs on him. He looked cool but whatever

There was no need to show that fight scene. We all knew how it would play out (except for maybe Twisted :D).

Seeing him walk out dragging his torso/head was badass.

Man, I really like Viserys. He needs to get his shit together, but he is a decent enough dude.

Last night was pretty much a classic GoT type episode. Bunch of personal drama through the majority of it and then bam end with an epic fight.

I watch this and after episode 3 I don't feel dramatically different from how I did watching GoT. Will it be as good? Is it as good? Probably not. But it is eminently enjoyable? Absolutely.

I'm just crestfallen that the Creebfeeder didn't ascend to the Iron Throne.

it was up to the GOT 1-6 seasons standard. They have the original GRR books completed. No D&D winging it.

It's never going to be peak GOT.

But this first season is honestly better than the first season of GOT (currently rewatching that too), and I have no doubt the ending will be better since it's already finished in the books.

That's good enough for me.

Aside from killing his wife to try and save his son...

It feels like he generally tries to do the right thing, but I still think Daemon's description of him in E1 is accurate. Too easily influenced by those around him. It was also clearly a mistake for him to wed Hightower's daughter over Velaryon's daughter, which again was a product of him being easily influenced.

At least it's evident that it's not going to suck...that was quality fantasy entertainment.

Nice character development scene of the princess walking through the crowd with blood on her....had GOT vibes in that.

This show has taken rather large steps up with each episode. Episode 3 was tremendous TV.

There aren't many unambiguously ethical people in this universe.

He's a hell of a lot better dude than Daemon, that's for sure.

I see him more as a guy who is trying to make everyone happy, which is just not possible in his position.

I'm also not sure he is so easily influenced. Obviously he was manipulated into marrying Alicent by Otto, but Otto is also always in his ear telling him how to handle Daemon and he ignores his counsel all the time. He ignored Corlys' proposal for marriage to his daughter, he ignored societal norms in naming Rhaenyra is heir, and he's in the process of ignoring his duty to enforce a political marriage for Rhaenyra.

He shows a lot of strength in making decisions all the time. I think his biggest issue is just being a people pleaser and often making the wrong decisions (or at least not the best decisions.

The whole thing with the failed hunt, Viserys struggling to land the killing blow, and the white hart presenting itself to Rhaenyra all seemed pretty on the nose.

Is there any deeper interpretation there or is what everyone guesses pretty much what that represented?

I think the white stag in the kingswood is supposed to represent the true king or something.

But honestly I think it was done well enough.

This episode felt a bit like child porn. Raehnyra looks like she’s 13 years old.

She's 22. She looks 20ish. IMO she looks older than the Hightower chick, Viserys is a LOT older than Daemon.

Uncle/Niece banging. GRRM is the ultimate perv.

As far as the episode, there is continuously more humor than I anticipated. And I won't lie, I was rooting for the 10 year old that waxed that dude. I'm here for that.

The incest bothered me more than the pedo stuff.

It was kind of weird that Rheahnyra and Alicent were magically fiends again with no explanation at all.

It is interesting that Viserys is finding strength and becoming the better leader as his body rots. He's about a million times more compelling today than he was the first couple episodes.

I'm in. All the way in. At least to the point I'll give them the rope to hang themselves.

Yeah, had to fast forward through it. It’s also why the character is being recast with an older woman in a time jump in a future episode.

Pretty clear now why he’s staylor’s favorite character.

Your pussy is stil sore after that beatdown the GOAT put on your boy the Crabfeeder I see...

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In GoT if you are a Targaryen chick you get to go cowgirl style, the rest just get doggy and missionary.

the red witch was on top when she ****ed the soul out of that dude

*made an assassin smoke demon

NERD

Book spoilers below, so beware:

That was the best episode yet.

Looks like the prologue is just about over and we get the big time jump next episode.

Annnnd the wheels fell off ROFL

Good ass episode. They really did a nice job of building the tension. And god forbid have some subtlety. Even though the dress thing was a bit bash over the head, but whatever. It was good.



I still can't get over how bad the carriages look though. Takes me out of it every time.