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

Yeah, peasants, but also potential dragon riders. Sending them one by one would make more sense than a battle royale. Does the big dragon like this guy? No, what about this guy? And so on. They'd have reserve guys that dragons might like in the future as backups. But anyway. I can't believe I'm arguing about dragons and the order in which people should be put before them:-)

It doesn't work like that for a dragon clearly. It's not about sending in people one at a time, for the dragon to let everyone test them. Two dragons in the last two episodes chased people and picked them at random. I don't think its a plothole, moreso that within the universe, they know how dragons operate and choose people more than you and me

I'll be glad when we're done with the drawn out "dream sequence" carry on with Daemon. It obviously happened in the books but this "psychedelic" stuff is tedious. Rewatching Sopranoes you'd always skip the dream sequences at the start of season 6. Even Mad Men were at it for a while. Never an interesting watch.

Season 2 started strong, but it feels like the Daemon stuff really dragged out, then the Corlys Velaryon stuff on the docks dragged out with nothing happening, and it feels like nothing much has happened with Rhaenyra in Dragonstone for a while. Found myself bored with much of what happened in the last few episodes. This Riverland stuff is boring, unless they properly introduce us to the feuding families, but they don't.

I don't know how much of this "history" by the Maesters was covered in the books, but I've been starting to think are they dragging something out that should be thinner, to make 4 seasons? Like the Hobbit stretched over 3 films was ridiculous, and got very boring in parts.

Also with the time jumps since season 1, some of the relationships are now ridiculous. We're supposed to believe Alicent is a grandmother?. And Aegons kids seemed about 5 or 6? Come off it. How are we supposed to believe she's their grandmother? The hottest grandmother I've ever seen in that case ha.

What was impressive was the final scene in this episode, that shows of strenght with the Dragons to the Greens. Vhagar not fancying it, with Vermithor there. That was cool. Vermithor probably would of ripped him apart by himself.

I read on where this is going, and that's all fine, my worry is, how it will be "dragged out" over 4 seasons. Compared to even the Rings of Power, the second age of Middle Earth has so much in dept history in the appendices alone in Lord of the Rings. House of the Dragon doesn't have that in dept scope and world building of Tolkien.

I liked season 1 of HotD more than Rings of Power, but I'm now looking forward to the second season of the latter more, which will kick their story up a few gears! Can't beat going back to Middle Earth when all is said and done. The scope and even the intricacies of the Dragons' history in Middle Earth is far more fascinating!

I'd nearly be inclined to put this 3rd between the "big 3" medieval fantasies, I'd nearly move the Wheel of Time into second, it's slowly improving all the time

I went back to the book, and yeah, they didn't send everyone into a kill room at the same time. According to mushroom, anyway:-)

Corlys needs to get over himself and legitimise his two bastards fast. Addams could be offered Driftmark by the Greens and he does seem a very ambitious man.

I hadn’t thought of that. The older bastard has gotten all of Corlys attention until now. Brother v brother or bastard v bastard would be quite GRRM alright.

Definitely set up for Alyn to take Driftmark.

While Vermithor versus Vhagar seems obvious, it’s surely going to boil down to Caraxes having some involvement because an Aemond versus Daemon fight has to happen at some stage.

Thought it was interesting early in the season when Daemon wanted to quickly attack Vhagar in kings landing with Caraxes and Rhaenys/Meleys. Think the logic was that two more experienced riders on mid sized & experienced dragons would have a good chance against Aemond who’s still learning.

If all this Haarenhal stuff is to be worth anything in the end surely it was to teach Daemon that he doesn't want the crown.

GoT started off well. You didn't have small folk characters but they were an important part of the politics. The turning point was when the very popular High Sparrow was blown up, a queen regent elected queen and nobody seemed to give a fuk.

They're just the ones who didn't spend their entire childhoods learning to maim each other instead of how to speak.