House of the Dragon
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Chris
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I think that they are purposefully being light on those families because of how heavily GoT featured them, I know for sure that one of those families is involved by the end, but you don't want to start off retreading too much old ground.
In GoT those families filled the Targargen power vacuum so were very active in kingdom politics, in this time period it's only 150 years since they were conquered so I think the Targargens are happy to keep them at arms length ruling their respective domains and paying taxes.
Also if you look at the marriages in the GoT appendices, the great families almost never intermarried until just before GoT when Jon Arryn started marrying everyone's daughters off. Targs were very much sticking to their loyalists.
Mormonts are just Stark bannermen living on a frozen island in the far northwest, I would be surprised to see any outside of a reference or cameo, because they are literally the furthest from King's Landing possible.
Chukzombi
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well, that doesnt wash. we got tons of targ stuff in GoT. we got tons in the books too. goddamn some of those Daeny in Meereen chapters were pure torture. lots of stuff is always happening in Westeros, not just those inbred hicks, The Targaryens.
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Him and Damon were fighting a war for 3 years and were losing. Did you miss the time jump? "Not doing anything" is probably a consequence of these campaigns not being fleshed out in the book.
Who cares? They've bent the knee to dragons and serve the realm. They aren't supposed to be "doing anything" except being obedient houses and looking after their own regions
Was a totally boring episode until the end, and even that was a stupid battle strategy. Was that Jaden Valaryon on the dragon?
jayrebb
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jayrebb
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Nirgon
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They dramatized the abortion scene and changed the story to influence the public on the stance on roe v wade
I dont think anyone here is arguing they started shooting after the roe v wade decision by SC
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those are half fingers, not half penis. Do you have penis on the brain or in your hands?
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This episode was more tolerable. They ditched any original opening score for certain now and are sticking with full GoT style opening.
At least it had a story that could be followed. I still don't quite get all the porno tapestries in the background. They trying to make certain that no main stream media can show clips of the show? Guess Entertainment Tonight must be all in a tizzy over that.
I still like seeing dragons though-- got a couple of those scenes. Even though the last scene was ridiculous. 100 archers can't hit a guy who is running. That would be like missing a target 10 feet in front of you with a shot gun.
Here's a really bad joke: Q: Why does Viserys drink wine and honor the first Targaryen king in the morning? A: Because he likes his Aegon toast!
At least it had a story that could be followed. I still don't quite get all the porno tapestries in the background. They trying to make certain that no main stream media can show clips of the show? Guess Entertainment Tonight must be all in a tizzy over that.
I still like seeing dragons though-- got a couple of those scenes. Even though the last scene was ridiculous. 100 archers can't hit a guy who is running. That would be like missing a target 10 feet in front of you with a shot gun.
Here's a really bad joke: Q: Why does Viserys drink wine and honor the first Targaryen king in the morning? A: Because he likes his Aegon toast!
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It's shown in the third episode that he lost his fingers
Also, no leaks meant I watched the 2160p Atmos version. 2160p isn't a massive improvement over a good 1080p webrip, but having my 7.1.4 speaks used was noticeable. Especially when the Princess and her guard were in the forest. You could hear the horse grunting only from my the side right speaker.
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Juvarisx
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Liked the episode, Matt Smith has plot armor but no more then Jon Snow did. Don't get me wrong I love me some Hardholme or Battle of the Bastards but he shouldn't have survived either, particularly not even getting hit by an arrow at Winterfell. Daemon got hit by at least 3 and was fucked until the army showed up and bailed him out.
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I never understood the whole strategy.
First we hear they're losing the war because the crab forces retreat into caves to avoid the dragons. (and if they're meant to be nukes, how did Targ+Valaryon nukes not win it in the earlier battles 2-3 years earlier)
Then we see them on a separate island trying to strategise when Damon receives the note of additional forces.
So how did they manage to get their forces across whilst Damon was waving the white flag?
First we hear they're losing the war because the crab forces retreat into caves to avoid the dragons. (and if they're meant to be nukes, how did Targ+Valaryon nukes not win it in the earlier battles 2-3 years earlier)
Then we see them on a separate island trying to strategise when Damon receives the note of additional forces.
So how did they manage to get their forces across whilst Damon was waving the white flag?
Juvarisx
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I mean it seems obvious to me that when the commander of the army leaves and would be seen getting on a rowboat that you go after him. I don't need to see shots of soldiers rowing over to save him, because it takes the tension out of the scene with Daemon being kinda badass but getting hurt. The Crab dude was looking for Daemon's dragon (as the viewer was also) and the archers that would normally have seen the Valaryon army coming were all focused on him. Not that this was Daemon's plan he wanted to prove he didnt need his brother at all.
I liked that they didn't have a big fight with the Crab guy and Daemon, and that in the end he was just a fucked up dude that was really good at strategy but not a real warrior himself. Hell his men didnt even make a move outside the caves until he motioned them too which tells me they trusted his judgment and tactics to the nth degree.
As for why the battle took years? There appeared to be many islands in that chain so they were having to clean them out one by one. Also if your army is so used to having dragons be the deciding factor, when they are neutralized it showed they didn't have the best tactics or soldier's. Lord Corlys own brother was telling him he was being useless as a leader, and the son was all blaming Daemon since without a dragon Daemon himself while a good fighter has been shown to be rash and vulnerable.
Oldbased
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