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

How could Aegon survive…… from that fall, no way.

i presume the fire doesn't affect him, isn't that a targaryen thing?

It's so obvious from the camera work he is alive. This show wouldn't skip a chance to show a charred corpse unless it was for a same bat time, same bat channel moment.

Also the dragon definitely survived so he must have initiated some sort of crash landing.

"The dragon spun out, there were survivors"

I think they just overdid the impact to up the suspense. Like Sunfyre came hurtling down and would have to be pillow like to absorb it as shown.

I initially thought it was a bit of a trade with Rhaenys/Meleys for Aegon/Sunfyre but it’s interesting that the later two are still alive. Usually the characters in GOT that had near death experiences came back to have some impact.

I presume he's dead and that will be shown in the next episode.

I think I like it more than GoT now. I prefer the grimmer tone. GoT was more fun but also sometimes corny. The characters are less likeable, and none like Arya/Tyrion/Jon/Dany, but there are a lot of layered and interesting villains. The actors are less physically attractive, but all very good at acting, while they were a more of a mixed bunch in GoT in that regard.

Dany was always shown to have a high tolerance for heat but the "immunity to fire" thing was only really introduced when she walked into Drogo's funeral pyre. GRRM has been clear on it in interviews though: it was something unique to Danaerys, not an inherited Targaryen trait.

I think he is being poisoned slowly ? Hallucinations, funny lady doing the food .

Maybe he actually has a guilty conscience .

First the dead boy and young Rhaenyra , then Laenor .

I love it . Slow start but better every episode.

Binged watch the first four this week and now am impatient for the next one .

Ah yeah, i think he feels guilty alright.

Game of Thrones trivia… in the BBC series World on Fire set in WWII, he plays Sean Bean's son.

Yes forgot that !

Start of The Evil👁️

Bit of a filler episode with a few unnecessary scenes but there was progress in some of the storylines and dealt with some of the consequences of the episode 4.

I think the focus on Alicent’s rejection during the council scene was a bit lost on me. She’s witnessed enough to know how it works at this stage, particularly how the usurping of the thrown was already planned even before she mistook Visery’s death wish.

I didn't mind that we got a much slower episode this week after last week's episode, but man it felt like an incredibly long episode.

Regarding Alicent, I don't think it was as much disappointment at being rejected as a potential ruler in Aegon's absence, but more fear for what will happen with Aemond in charge. She knows she can't control him, knows he was likely responsible in some way for what happened to Aegon, and knows he'll burn the place down to get what he wants.

Also having meetings at a table in the middle of the Twins Crossing is just completely impractical. Whoever wins out of the Greens and Blacks need to order the Freys to stop that immediately.

Thank you. The Last Kingdom. I knew I recognised him from some other series but couldn't place him. And it was bugging the hell out of me

No need blood wipes off easy. Just give it a little samurai flick.

I think they actually answered this rather cleverly in what seemed like a throwaway line about some of the halls being almost impassable due to the amount of bat guano which is a well known hallucinogen.

Daemon is, quite literally, going bat **** crazy in Harrenhal!

Middle ground literally

The twins are as weird as their descendants .

I've never seen someone able to convery such emotion with just their eyes, the way Olivia Cooke can with Alicent

Every couple of months I have to email a team in work that the import daemon for a particular application is stuck and needs to be restarted. That's pretty much Matt Smith and his staging role at this point. I suppose the flash backs will get residuals for some of the actors.

They seem to have some sort of telepathy going on. I'm pretty sure it's said that they are kept locked up but do seem to be let out for some sort of a run from time to time.

I don’t think this season is struggling rather than just lacking much action in the last couple of episodes. When there’s a week gap between episodes, it seems like an age since something beside talking happened. While I agree that certain story arcs are drawn out, the story is being developed in a more satisfactory way that say the later season of Game of Thrones in my opinion.

Your mentions of Lfans and Season 1 got me thinking though and I feel like there’s definitely a hole left with Paddy Considine gone (Harrenhal visions aside). Maybe some of the characters aren’t being maximised at the moment but I just remember a few iconic scenes he sold.

I think the season will be judged on how strong it can finish. Expecting a couple of eventful episodes now to round out the season, purely based on how season 1 and many GOT seasons tended to finish up.

Some parts of episode 7 were sooo slow, i had to whizz through those bits..

we get another whiny kid… this series is full of sh!tty kids

Enjoyed the scene with Hugh claiming Vermithor. It unlocked Mines of Moria/Lord of the Rings memories with the balrog but a lot deadlier.

Can’t help but feel there has to be a betrayal at some stage with one of the new dragon riders.

I'd put money on the second guy who got the smaller dragon; seems like a prick who'd be easily talked into switching sides.

Not enough Rhys Ifans this season.

Felt very sorry for Vhagar at the end.

Poor guy thought he was off to see his old buddies.