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

Great episode. Disappointed about Rhaenys as she was a terrific character/actor, but assuming now that this will really spur on Team Black to start bringing their own Fire & Blood.

I presumed Aegon survived. His dragon would have taken the brunt of the fire and fall. Would have been interesting what would have happened if Cole hadn't interrupted Aemond finding him.

The Daemon stuff feels odd and a little bit like padding until he's needed, but it's interesting nonetheless, and great to have Milly Alcock back even just for dream visions.

The thing that doesn't help about Viserys only dying a few weeks ago is Rhaenyra's son. Alicent's sons don't look that different from last season, whereas Jace and Daemon's daughters all look a few years older (the war obviously taking its toll on Team Black).

The series has been way below GOT for me so far. Way too fast and confusing. No time to get invested in many of the characters before they are killed off. No likeable characters. Humourless. Too earnest. I can barely remember any of the characters' names. Maybe I'm getting old.

And dragons should be like the shark in Jaws. Less is more.

Maybe it is because I don't usually like fantasy books / series. I did read the GOT books and really enjoyed them though because the writing was terrific. When GOT TV series became too fantastical and Marvellish it lost me.

I’m enjoying it, but it is no Game of Thrones IMO.

Maybe they could have had Vhagar do something else to kill Melys, we all knew what was coming, understandable in the Air as in the first season, how she could hide that close to the ground, considering she usually sounds like giant oil tanker coming into port.
But she is wise and battle hardened I suppose.

The CGI for Rhaenys’s fall from the sky was pathetic also.
Great character/actress she was, powerful in a respectful kind of way.

hopefully Cole gets eaten by a dragon , badly needed that is.

Plus, Cole has the good sense to attack in daylight so we'd be able to actually make out what was happening in a battle for once.

I've put it in a spoiler tag because its technically a GoT spoiler. Likely overkill.

Disagree with this. This show is quite similar to the earlier seasons of GoT in a lot of ways. I think it is much better than the last couple of seasons of GoT when they lost their way.

Agree that is can be confusing to keep a handle on the names/timeline if you don't focus.

They are also handling the dragon aspect really well. This isn't GoT where dragons have disappeared. This is the pomp of their time and how they are being used or not up until now is what adds to the dynamics of the war.

But Dany is shown to be immune to fire before the blood magic intervention - she tends the dragon eggs beside the fire with no ill effects before that, but when Irri takes them off her, she gets burned.

Thats a high tolerance for heat not immunity to fire. Her bath water in one of the earlier scenes is too hot for others.

I could be wrong on Danny of course but at no other point in GoT is immunity to fire a thing for Targaryens (to the best of my knowledge).

I agree, I think the smaller scope lends itself better to tv than the huge world and multiple subplots in got

Good episode and you feel the season will really kick into gear now, the Daemon Harrenhall arc is quite boring, hopefully it will come to some sort of fruition sooner rather then later.

Rhaenys and Meleys glance to each other before they both fall from the sky, what a brilliant shot!

He willingly drank something from the strange lady. She said it would help with his dreams (or something to that effect). Not help him sleep.

I don't think he is being poisoned. I think he's just drinking strange concoctions/magic potions willingly.

I think he leaves Harenhall soon. His plan of bringing the lord's to him didn't work and he will have to go castle to castle to build an army.

It's crazy that the streaming services haven't figured out how good the week wait is.

Aemond is more of a psychopath .

I used to like Evan Mitchell when he was Osferth in The Last Kingdom .

His complete makeover from likeable young warrior to clever killer on HOTD is remarkable .

That's no spoiler 😄