House of the Dragon

[ThaVirus]

Spoiler!

Everything about the encounter at Storm's End was great.

They did a good job of highlighting Luke's anxiety. That shot of Vhagar in the distance as he heads into the keep was terrifying. He would have been completely within his rights to just hop back on his dragon and head home, but he put on his brave face. Poor kid, he's one of the only decent royals on either side.

That shot of Vhagar's shadow overtaking Luke and his dragon was incredible as well.

It's interesting that they framed the murders as Vhagar ignoring Aemond's orders. It's my understanding that Aemond in the books was a bloodthirsty villain. This painted him more like a douchey 18 year old ****ing with his nephew.

Regardless, he knows what he did was a huge **** up. He kicked off the war and I think he will own it when he returns to King's Landing.

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Spoiler!

Everything about the encounter at Storm's End was great.

They did a good job of highlighting Luke's anxiety. That shot of Vhagar in the distance as he heads into the keep was terrifying. He would have been completely within his rights to just hop back on his dragon and head home, but he put on his brave face. Poor kid, he's one of the only decent royals on either side.

That shot of Vhagar's shadow overtaking Luke and his dragon was incredible as well.

It's interesting that they framed the murders as Vhagar ignoring Aemond's orders. It's my understanding that Aemond in the books was a bloodthirsty villain. This painted him more like a douchey 18 year old ****ing with his nephew.

Regardless, he knows what he did was a huge **** up. He kicked off the war and I think he will own it when he returns to King's Landing.

The "It wasn't my fault" angle won't play. He has to own it or it would be totally out of character for how they've painted him. If they try to go the other way it will be disappointing.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by raybec 4

The "It wasn't my fault" angle won't play. He has to own it or it would be totally out of character for how they've painted him. If they try to go the other way it will be disappointing.

He will.

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.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

He will.

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.

I think it will be Cole who convinces him to take credit for it.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Sorter

I think it will be Cole who convinces him to take credit for it.

****ing Cole...

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Spoiler!

Everything about the encounter at Storm's End was great.

They did a good job of highlighting Luke's anxiety. That shot of Vhagar in the distance as he heads into the keep was terrifying. He would have been completely within his rights to just hop back on his dragon and head home, but he put on his brave face. Poor kid, he's one of the only decent royals on either side.

That shot of Vhagar's shadow overtaking Luke and his dragon was incredible as well.

It's interesting that they framed the murders as Vhagar ignoring Aemond's orders. It's my understanding that Aemond in the books was a bloodthirsty villain. This painted him more like a douchey 18 year old ****ing with his nephew.

Regardless, he knows what he did was a huge **** up. He kicked off the war and I think he will own it when he returns to King's Landing.

What I love is that the books, overall, are third hand accounts.

Really, the show is setting the canon - as long as GRRM is involved like he is.

[raybec 4]

It will be interesting to see if Sapochnik leaving as co-show runner will make the series worse. I hope not.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

That shot of Vhagar in the distance as he heads into the keep was terrifying.

yeah that was like the t-rex shot from jurassic park x1,000,000

****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

[duncan_idaho]

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.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

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.

Their choices make Aemond a much more interesting character than he ever was in the books.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

Their choices make Aemond a much more interesting character than he ever was in the books.

Agreed; they've done that for most of the major players in this show.

[notorious]

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.

[Sorter]

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.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Sorter

Agreed; they've done that for most of the major players in this show.

Fully agreed.

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.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

Fully agreed.

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 hot damn, did the actors (shoutout especially to Paddy Considine) ever rise to the occasion to bring life to their counterparts in the source material - 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.

Pulling word for word from the audiobook/book, making one sided perspectives more human, etc.


They did a great job.