House of the Dragon - GoT Prequel Series (non book reader)

The child actors carried a good bit of the episode and are pretty decent overall. As soon as the body was shown head in the fire it was pretty obvious what they planned.

The randomer killed on the stairs - a servant I presume.

Not a book reader (thread title). But what I heard is his story was told in flashback from unreliable source? Never mentioned again.

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Enjoying the show but the over abundance of dragons and resultant poor CGI takes away from the immersion.

Can definitely see why people were complaining about the darkness of the episode. From the last few shots of the funeral, to Rhaenyra and Daemon, to Aemond getting the dragon, it was far too dull/dark. Only for the fact there were so few people in the scenes and mostly just talking it didn't hamper things too much, but they really need to address it in future. I get there's no natural lighting for those scenes, but have a character bring a flaming torch or something, or stop setting important scenes where there is no form of light.

Other than that though, a strong episode. Starts setting everything up well for the last few episodes and the scene in the Great Hall with Alicent vs Rhaenyra was great. The Clubfoot guy though is very OTT. Littlefinger was charming, but also so good at blending in that it made it impossible for other characters to ever truly know what he was up to. Clubfoot may as well be called SinisterMan. It doesn't feel like anyone would or should trust him.

I thought my eyesight was deteriorating watching that episode. Or my internet connection was causing the problem. I had to turn off the lights in my living room to make the tv screen visible.

I’ll have to watch the entire episode again as the lighting was distracting me!

Hah. I was wondering who the person was too. Saw yer man being killed of course but never put 2 and 2 together. I mean, you knew it wasn't him in the fire instantly. Can't imagine there are too many black true-bloods with their white hair floating around that wouldn't be missed though: "Oh, prince whats-his-name is in the fireplace, burnt beyond recognition..... Oh and ser somebody-else who is same height, color and also white the white hair is missing too!"

Good episode. Certainly better than last week. Good to see Rhys Efans back. I think the white dreads on the black characters just look like really bad wigs.. I find this passable fun. It is pretty predictable and there is certainly an air of style-over-substance that befell the last couple of seasons of Thrones (But not to the same degree). Instead of mud and dirt you get fancy trailer-friendly shots of dragons flying in front oft the moon and cool dragon formations surrounding ships. And they still look silly. I think there was only really one scene of Dany on dragonback that looked a bit silly. Her first time as she was escaping the fighting arena. And I think that was mainly because it was very obvious that she was just sitting on a gymnastics horse or similar in front of a green screen. The rest of the time it looked really good. Every time I see a little dot of a person on the back of a dragon here I expect them to get thrown off and skip across the water like some flat stone.

I get it, this is not (yet) in-the-trenches-warfare like Season 2-4 of Thrones and.... and the show IS called "House of The Dragon" but... I don't know, it's not gripping me the way Thrones did. I don't care for most of the characters. I had assumed that Paddy Constantine died a couple of episodes ago (TBH, surprised he lasted beyond episode two).

I will certainly continue to watch it (Fake night scenes and all) but it's a bit "Meh"

Probably was. He left on the both at the end.

He doesn't. I'd imagine that was Rhaenyra's doing.

Good episode. I didn't find it too dark - it was definitely dark, but completely watchable and I had no difficulty making out what was happening. I felt the same about Battle of Winterfell at the time, I would think it's to do with the versions people are watching, as well as obvious stuff like time of day/other lighting/quality of TV or whatever.

I think the Battle of Winterfell issue fell to the way it was being compressed on certain services. I think it was Now TV or similar a friend had and said that episode was unwatchable as he couldn't tell what was going on at all half the episode.

Yeah I figured she was going to be more than just a freaky bug lady. Looks like she has some kind of foresight to have seen Aemond would have to close an eye to get a dragon.

"Slightly serial killer looking son".... You may have to narrow that down a bit.

Laenor leaves a dragon behind too, right?