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

Any chance of getting a John ,Barry or Simon

The names are ridicules for non book readers, Just makes people confused & miss out on plot parts because your trying to work out the stupid names,

"He can keep his tongue" is one of the most bad-ass lines I have ever heard

Isn't it a millenial/gen z thing, to watch everything with subtitles. 🤣

It's even worse for you I'm afraid. Your age puts you in the "geriatric millennial" category.

I watch stuff in 5.1, so if I find the dialogue hard to hear, I turn up the vocal/centre channel. But I also rewind HOTD sometimes to listen to things a second time.

I'm guessing we'll have far fewer or more minor time jumps for the next while, as it all seems to have been for the purposes of setting up this battle for the thrones between Rhaenyra's side and Alicent's side. So it should become easier to start keeping track of who each kid at least. Then it should become easier to remember whose each dragon is (whereas in GoT, black dragon was Drogon, and then it didn't really matter which of the other dragons were which because they were pretty much always together anyway).

Given that Viserys backed Rhaenyra's son's claim to Driftmark (as well as Rhaenys agreeing to marry her grandaughters to Rhaenyra's sons) which is a huge naval army and that Viserys said Rhaenyra is his heir (and Alicent has no evidence of Viserys saying anything different, accidentally or not), I'd say it's pretty even.

There will definitely be those who disagreed with Viserys naming Rhaenyra as his heir rather than his first born son who will back Alicent/Aegon, and they're already implanted in King's Landing with Otto no doubt having plans/alliances in place, but it definitely seems aimed towards there being a fairly even match between both factions.

Like the mutual respect between Daemon and Aemond. Very interested to see what that culminates in.

Ep8 was a great one. Paddy Considine just went from strength to strength in his portrayal of Viserys.

Daemon/Aemond was definitely interesting. I'm not too sure the respect is mutual yet. Aemond seems to respect Daemon and recognise that he's a threat. I'm not too sure Daemon sees the same in Aemond yet, he merely stood in defence of Rhaenyra's sons knowing Aemond probably wouldn't challenge him. Daemon probably has little reason to know what kind of man Aemond is, especially as they haven't been in King's Landing or seen them in 6 years, though I'm sure Daemon would be careful enough to recognise his confidence and temperament.

Definitely a possible rivalry to keep an eye on though.

The age difference is only 16 years for the characters. And about 10 in real life, so it's probably close enough.

That must be a properly massive cathedral doorway😲

great show.... is it finished? the season?

needs more of Matt being a bollox...

Well that is how you end an episode

Good episode overall, but:

Couple of Cain v Abel or Hound v Mountain sibling rivalry potentials in that episode.

I’m guessing we’ll see the two twin Knightsguards (Erryk and Arryk) on opposite sides in the civil war and having to come face to face in battle some day.

Will Aemond be another contender for the throne? He definitely wants it and sees himself as more worthy than his brother although I don’t think he’s right in his thinking that he’d be next in line as Aegon has a son.

Lastly, what the hell was the scene between Alicent and Larys about - didn’t seem necessary to the story at all? Just odd.

That scene was creepy AF

He has some fantasy obsession with feet. There are people I believe out there that have this weird obsession.

😂

Dodgy foot has a foot fetish.

I loved the music in tonight’s episode.

Quentin Tarantino for one. He always includes close-ups of feet.

Guardian recap ponders this question

Rhaenys’s decision not to burn the entire clan alive is slightly questionable – did she think back to a little chat she’d had with Alicent, about both of them getting shoved aside in favour of less deserving men? Is she unsure yet which side she’s on – after all, Alicent’s opponents did, as far as she knows, murder her son, Laenor. Or is she simply aware that, if she kills half the characters, there’ll be no show left?

The burning building at the end. People are assuming it was hers.

Ah ya. That building made no sense to me but it was clear that it was supposed to be some important moment going by the way it's shot.

Hopefully that's the end of her cause I can't be listening to that terrible all over the place accent. Its worse than Lifflefingers.

I thought english wasn't the actor's first language, but I was wrong!