ASOIAF/GOT House of the Dragon

Husky_Khan

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I knew that HBO was developing new Game of Thrones properties but I had no idea that they were actually releasing one of the five or whatever series this coming August. It's apparently called House of the Dragon.

Does anyone care at this juncture?

Game of Thrones, IMHO, might've been the franchise that had the biggest wipe out in Popularity IMHO. As soon as that Final Season was finished, so was the entire series wiped from Pop Culture Consciousness IMHO. It was like on everything from baby names to tee shirts to lore videos and water cooler discussion and internet memes and then like... within weeks... it all just disappeared.

But I am talking about it now... why?

It literally showed up in my YouTube Recommendations. Apparently there was a trailer released a month ago... and another one just over a week ago. Haven't seen either. Can't be arsed.

Anyways... here's the links. :p



Somehow one of the trailers has twelve million views... so clearly some people care actually.

Like... how can a story about a Civil War eclipse a War of the Five Kings, the Return of Dragons, a Ten Thousand Year Coming Apocalypse and Crazy Dragon Lady Burning Down Kings Landing and Killing a Few Hundred Thousand Peeps? But who knows... maybe it'll be a good story. Little maybe...

And tbf I might watch it if it does turn out to be good, then I can get suckered in for a decade as it screws me over all over again. But that would require investing in HBO or going to someone who bothers to get HBO... or like... actually getting interested in a prequel.
 
LTR

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I watched a Lore Video on Valyrian Steel on YouTube just for something to watch. I think it ruined the entire plot of this prequel television show for me in about two minutes.

So that's convenient.
 
TheRomanSlayer

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You would have thought that Sothoryos (the continent where Grey Worm and Missandei came from) would have been expanded to the point where we would see cultures that are prevalent there, instead of going woke on the Velaryons suddenly becoming black. It's basically like making Hermoine black in the theater play of Cursed Child all over again, despite Rowling actually stating in the Prisoner of Azkaban that Hermoine is white.
 
Husky_Khan

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House of the Dragon pilot confirmed as the greatest single episode of television ever in what will be the greatest television series ever.
 
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Emperor Tippy

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ParadiseLost said:
Not quite true. The pilot episode had a 10 million person viewer count, easily capable of justifying a season 2 by itself.
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To be fair, they really should have waited for at least episode 2.

GoT is an established enough property that you could expect a first episode of a new series in the 'verse to get substantial viewership as people see if it is worth watching going forward.

What the drop off (or increase) to episode 2 is tells you far more about the series viability going forward.
 
Skallagrim

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Emperor Tippy said:
To be fair, they really should have waited for at least episode 2.

GoT is an established enough property that you could expect a first episode of a new series in the 'verse to get substantial viewership as people see if it is worth watching going forward.

What the drop off (or increase) to episode 2 is tells you far more about the series viability going forward.
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Granted, they seem to have waited out the (audience) reactions to the first episode -- and those appear to be overwhelmingly positive. So the numbers for the second episode are probably going to be solid, too.



I'm personally waiting to see how this shakes out before spending much time on it, but from what I hear, there isn't much to really criticise about this series, as of yet. The only weird thing is that they made the Velaryons black, which is only really an issue because those guys were canonically inter-married with the Targaryens for generations. So why are the Targaryens so obviously 100% white, then? Woke is always dumb like that. But it doesn't seem like it's going to hinder the actual narrative, at least.
 
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Buba

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I hope the negro Velaryons (and doubtlessly other woke shit) make the series flop.

Husky_Khan said:
House of the Dragon was already approved for a second season in a rare early renewal of a series before the first season has even been released.
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Skallagrim said:
they seem to have waited out the (audience) reactions to the first episode -- and those appear to be overwhelmingly positive.
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For some reason this made me think of the legend that Stalin got 105% of votes in his precint for the Supreme Soviet, the reason being that people love him so much they could not resist the urge to vote for him twice.
 
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Val the Moofia Boss

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How much medieval naval warfare is there in the show? You don't usually see much of that in pop culture. Or is it just one episode? I tuned out of the story of GoT early on but thought that the spectacle was pretty cool. Is there just as much spectacle here? Or more?
 
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