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zoux posted:Per Variety ratings were actually slightly up from the premiere, which very unusual Cause it's good bro.
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Aug 29, 2022 21:54
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Tender Bender posted:I mean it's not hypocritical or inconsistent at all. The reasons she's upset about Alicent marrying her dad don't exist in the little girl. She's okay with one situation and upset about another, different situation.
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Aug 29, 2022 22:02
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stev posted:I can't remember what Viserys' deal is but some Targs before him decided against incest because they realise it's really weird and offputting to most people and makes the church actively hate them. The last king married his sister, and his parents were siblings as well. It took some time before they really decided to diversify that gene pool
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Aug 29, 2022 22:02
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PostNouveau posted:They're all absolute monarchists. Cool Good Guy king had a conversation where he was like "I don't want to marry a child," and Otto was like "Hey man, you literally own everything. You can do whatever you want." And Otto was correct in that assessment. This is good succinct explanation of why the first couple of episodes have felt pretty dry. It'd be like GoT episodes with only Tywin, Vaerys, Littlefinger, Roose Bolton, and the Tarly patriarch. GoT benefited from having characters on the outside who wanted in, on the inside who wanted out, and a variety of people forced in one direction or the other. So far, HoD has mostly been royal family drama. I don't expect it to stay that way, but the writers know they can take a slow build with this series instead of needing a big hook like small child walking in on the queen loving her brother and the kid subsequently being pushed out of a very high window.
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Aug 29, 2022 22:05
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Should’ve stuck with the Westeros map open, I want to see little clockwork castles for house Hightower, Westerling, Velaryon, and Cole.
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Aug 29, 2022 22:11
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bobjr posted:The last king married his sister, and his parents were siblings as well. It took some time before they really decided to diversify that gene pool Aemma was even his first cousin, so, yeah. There are occasional attempts to go outside the family, but down to the Daenerys we know, the tree is more of a wreath.
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Pretty good so far! Hopefully they will ditch everything related to The Wall and the white walkers, and just focus on the stuff in the rest of the kingdom.
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Aug 29, 2022 22:40
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I hope we get some wall stuff, just because the night watch is such a hosed up organization and I'd love to see how its doing rn. But no white walker stuff. Just some grubby men at the rear end end of nowhere freezing their balls off and grumbling.
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Aug 29, 2022 22:43
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fullroundaction posted:Yeah they really did go out of their way to go “everyone feels bad about this”. They even dedicated multiple scenes of dialog to exactly that. Does Corlys feel bad about it?
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Aug 29, 2022 23:11
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They should have done a cool series of CG mosaics depicting the height of Valyria, the Doom and the conquest leading up to "present day". Super cool artwork to show the Targaryen dynasty history and preview what the coming war will look like. The CG blood running down a weird model of maybe the city I don't know looks terrible and is not interesting at all visually or thematically. We are all aware that will be blood, that's why we're watching the show. Couple it with the exact same game of thrones theme and it was by far the most disappointing part of the show. I mean at least use some different instruments or something. Maybe some big wardrums and dulcimers or some other cool poo poo.
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Aug 29, 2022 23:24
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But hey people loved the Daredevil opening credits
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Platystemon posted:Does Corlys feel bad about it? He smiled for a moment while watching Laena and Viserys walk together, but that could just be him going "my daughter won't let me down" swiftly followed by "oh right I'm a monster".
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Still do not like any character on this show. Opening credits are OK, I liked them.
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Mameluke posted:But hey people loved the Daredevil opening credits No they sucked too
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Jaxyon posted:Still do not like any character on this show. How can you speak like this about the crabomancer
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I just watched the first one and thought it was all right. stray thoughts: - way more gruesome with violence than i was expecting. maybe it's just been a while but i don't think GOT was even that full on showing off chopped dicks, body parts and the tournament stuff. or maybe it's just that it had all of that IMMEDIATELY. i wasn't really enjoying it - the connection with the white walkers and beyond the wall - hopefully that is just a little hook for GOT fans who still give a poo poo about that, because it's a total wet fart since we know it's actually just one night of fighting that was relatively easy. - the writing was decent but there was nothing that really stood out. same with the cast so far. - kind of felt like i was watching a bunch of stuff i'd seen before in a lot of scenes, which is really the biggest problem. again, might just be a hook in and the story will take interesting turns but a lot of this felt very 'remember GOT? well here it is again with different people shuffled into different roles'. there's a lot of fantasy now and a lot of it has moved on from grimdark violence and betryals. it's gonna have to be really good to overcome that sense of repetition.
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Snowy posted:No they sucked too i really liked liked how they reminded the viewer "hey, watch Hannibal, the show that did blood-flowing-into-a-shape credits first"
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Aug 30, 2022 01:44
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Who was the person at the end of the episode? With the mask?
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Crabmaster
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dragon house show "previously on...": They call him the crab feeder.... Me, hooting and hollering: we're gonna get to see crabs eat people dragon show first scene: crabs eat people 5 stars
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Crab People Crab People Look like crabs Talk like people
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hollywood loves it when a 48 year old man fucks a 22 year old woman but alicent and viserys are meant to be unsettling lmao hard when the "medieval values" hollywood portrays just are their own values also lmao at how child alicent is 6 years younger than adult alicent can't give up too much of that youthful glow
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Aug 30, 2022 02:42
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Thank you HBO, from liberating me from the need to watch a 3 minute credits sequence every week.
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I love the crabfeeder. Can't wait to see more of him. I think the crabs should win.
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I'm pretty sure Daemon is nice/respectful/merciful to Rhaenyra because he wants to gently caress her. I got the idea that Rhaenyra knows that and that's partially why she flew to Dragonstone. I liked that Otto Hightower was willing to walk into a dragon fight with a knife if meant his daughter would have more time with the King. Bold move.
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maybe if they wrote some good lines the actors could do something other than blandly recite them at each other
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lol at Daemon chucking that dragon egg at Rhaenyra like a long snapper in the nfl.
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The prophecy says a crab must never sit the Iron Throne.
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first you feed the crab so the crab get big. then you use the crab to conquer and eat more and get more big. then you use the dragon to grill the giant crab and give your newly conquered realm a epic crabfest
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Mameluke posted:"hey, watch Hannibal" Well, can't argue with this, you've talked me into it.
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The crabs should’ve been way bigger imo, like coconut crabs, the ones that ate Amelia Earhart
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Starks posted:The crabs should’ve been way bigger imo, like coconut crabs, the ones that ate Amelia Earhart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykWPyaqbebo
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Did it make sense that the King sent Otto to possibly have to fight Daemon and his forces which everybody knows include a dragon, with no dragon? Nobody brought up this question and Rhaenyra was the only one who thought about it? I mean it was a good scene I just kept thinking how did you expect this to work without a dragonrider? Otto was 100% about to either retreat in humilation or die. Maybe the point is that they are all incredibly bad at strategy. I am more wary of it because this is the kind of thing that turned GOT bad. Rhaenyra is my favourite character at the moment, but her competition is mainly a bunch of guys debating which child bride to is the best, so she wins by default. The show is interesting for now but some of these people are going to have to start developing enjoyable personality traits. roomtone fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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I didn't quite get that either. Otto only brought twenty or so men so I assumed he was going to just negotiate with Daemon but that conversation escalated into him almost fighting against an entire army plus a dragon. Not sure what the game plan there was.
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roomtone posted:Did it make sense that the King sent Otto to possibly have to fight Daemon and his forces which everybody knows include a dragon, with no dragon? Nobody brought up this question and Rhaenyra was the only one who thought about it? I mean it was a good scene I just kept thinking how did you expect this to work without a dragonrider? Otto was 100% about to either retreat in humilation or die. Maybe the point is that they are all incredibly bad at strategy. The king knows Daemon isn't in open rebellion and likely just wants too see him. Otto just wanted to humiliate someone he hates or at worst have the king destroy daemon if Otto himself did not return.
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roomtone posted:Did it make sense that the King sent Otto to possibly have to fight Daemon and his forces which everybody knows include a dragon, with no dragon? Nobody brought up this question and Rhaenyra was the only one who thought about it? I mean it was a good scene I just kept thinking how did you expect this to work without a dragonrider? Otto was 100% about to either retreat in humilation or die. Maybe the point is that they are all incredibly bad at strategy. I get the impression that at this point in time, it's basically inconceivable to think targs would use dragons against each other. They're basically WMD's. Daemon is at odds with his brother but not openly at war, and popping that can of worms open would be disastrous for everyone. And Otto wasn't there to actually lay siege to Dragonstone, he just took enough men that Daemon wouldn't be able to hold him as a "guest" without basically going to war. If I'm wrong and we're supposed to think Otto was going to besiege Dragonstone with Twenty Good Men... Welp. Tender Bender fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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I actually wondered if Otto might have been thinking,"Well poo poo, I can't let the King go and get taken hostage or killed" (which as Rhaenyra demonstrated was unlikely to happen given she forced Daemon's hand to either make a move against her or give up the egg and eat some poo poo and he chose the latter) and actually did what is his duty as the Hand even knowing it could go very, very wrong for him. Of course once he was there he made a He's obviously manipulating the King fairly regularly but I don't get the feeling he hates him or anything, and seems quite content with having such a nice, malleable King on the throne who he can convince to do what HE wants instead... but he's also not ENTIRELY self-interested. He certainly doesn't strike me as being as bad as Littlefinger, at least not yet. He does a lot of slimy things, including sending his daughter to "seduce" the King, but sadly in that regard he's not that different to probably the majority of the noble houses in Westeros, as we saw with that poor 12-year-old, and he's not just happy to work within the rules of his society but actively wants to uphold them.
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