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They couldn’t go by ship because of the sea snakes blockade
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Streaming House of the Dragon (Game of Thrones prequel)
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But Viserys’ last words didn’t change anything. Otto would have put Aegon on the throne regardless and Alicent believed Aegon had to take it because his very existence is a threat to Rhaenyra’s claim.
A wrapped up burnt white Freddo Frog?
Rook's Rest is inside The Gullett, and thus inside the blockade. There's a reasonable chance they'd be able to sail from Rook's Rest to King's Landing.
Not at all.
I think it will be a big hit, as some of everyone’s favorite episodes were simply Arya and The Hound travelling the countryside. It will have a similar vibe.
It’s also in my opinion in the best era in the game of thrones universe.
The Blackfyre rebellion characters are the best and exist in the time setting of the new series.
We already met one of them in the first series, teaching Bran how to be the three eyed raven. Bloodraven is close to the most badass interesting character in the entire universe.
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Everyone's?
Maybe a generalization.
But I feel like the general criticism of the final season of GOT was the pacing in comparison to some of the more fleshed out story lines like Arya and The Hound on the road of earlier seasons.
The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms should have a similar pacing feel to those earlier GOT seasons vs the final GOT seasons and House of the Dragon where they have to get through a lot of story in 30-40 episodes.
Anyway, Daemon's vision in the season finale confirmed that Lord Bloodraven was the 3 eyed raven in the tree beyond the wall. He exists in the era of the setting of the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is my favourite era of the books with some of the most unique and famous characters in the canon.
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I think people - or at least I - enjoyed the Arya and Hound scenes for their light heartedness in some otherwise grim, dark episodes, but I dunno if an entire show just around that sort of plot would be particularly engaging.
I'm not going to even hint at spoilers.
But it's not a mundane story, there's depth to the story even if at it's heart it's a light hearted "on the road" type feel about it.
Only my prediction, but I think it's going to be a big hit as it has the characteristics of what people enjoyed about the first 4-5 seasons of GOT.
It will be interesting if they expand on the dates of the novella's further past the story, as a lot occurs around those dates and it would make sense to wrap it into "this series" rather than create a new one.
It's one of the logical next installments.
I imagine if the 1 or 2 seasons covering the Novella's are a hit, there's a possibility that it gets expanded into 5-7 seasons and we see the decades that follow under the same series title.
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Im gonna be watching GoT spin offs for decades until Martin finally finishes the book
Yikes this place is spoiler central.
Yeah, looking back some people who claimed to have never read the books clearly did.
Sorry, took me ages to finish this season as I wanted to watch S1 again first before I did. So now I'm catching up on this thread but wanted to quote this for lols as I was definitely thinking the same thing
The only thing I find the hardest with some of these shows (Stranger Things included) is the big time gap does nothing to slow the effects of age of younger cast members. Given that the seasons do not move forward in time by much, the appearances of the younger crew throw you when the season begins again. S3 of this will be just as bad.
Maybe Milly could have stayed in the show...
Maybe Milly could have stayed in the show...
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Same thing he is doing to the next installment of Fire and Ice
You can read the contents of his deleted blog here:
https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/09/ge...n-deletes-on-everything-thats-gone-wrong.html
George's points are 100% accurate. The show using 'budgetary' reasons to cut an essential character that impacts the line of succession and therefore the logical actions of the characters, while simultaneously spending budget on their fan fiction scenes like Daemon going crazy for six episodes or Rhaneyra and Allicent wanting to run away together and abandon all of Allicent's male children, is diabolically bad.
An author and friend of GRRM's also claims this was the most tame and basic of his criticisms of the show and she had spent a weekend with him while he was in the UK and he had a lot more and a lot worse to say about this season.
You will recall I was highly supportive of this show throughout season 1 and for the first 3-5 episodes of season 2 but they really got over their skis in the second half of the season, dissolving into booktok smut-level narrative and shipping culture over story, they drastically need to correct it. I suspect Hess is at fault.
An author and friend of GRRM's also claims this was the most tame and basic of his criticisms of the show and she had spent a weekend with him while he was in the UK and he had a lot more and a lot worse to say about this season.
You will recall I was highly supportive of this show throughout season 1 and for the first 3-5 episodes of season 2 but they really got over their skis in the second half of the season, dissolving into booktok smut-level narrative and shipping culture over story, they drastically need to correct it. I suspect Hess is at fault.
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My favourite line is here
Queen Helaena, a sweet and gentle soul, is much beloved by the smallfolk of King’s Landing. Rhaenyra was not
Great post George
I had no idea of the book version but still felt the scene was disturbing
This would have been next level Red Wedding had the book version been filmed
I had no idea of the book version but still felt the scene was disturbing
This would have been next level Red Wedding had the book version been filmed
