House of the Dragon

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i'd be careful watching a recap based on the book since the show changed practically everything to make it faker and gayer (and blacker). If you only want the faggot version just watch the "previously on" recap which i'm certain the first episode will feature to catch people back up on this train wreck. They know nobody gives a shit enough to follow this story especially with the writers strike delays that hit all series.
 
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first episode drops in 2 hours, only 1 episode a week for 8 weeks. i can't even remember who the fuck team green and team black are and no way am I gonna rewatch s1 right now so I just rewatched screen crush's recap




HBO going wild on social media with their big shows pledging black or green lol

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They dropped the standard GoT season from 10 episodes to 8? Wow what a bummer
 
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That 56 minutes went very quickly, was moderately surprised it ended when it did. Decent first episode

Although this show is gonna need a canon explanation as to how all the blacks of kings landing got killed off along with the dragons before the start of GOT.
 
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That 56 minutes went very quickly, was moderately surprised it ended when it did. Decent first episode

Although this show is gonna need a canon explanation as to how all the blacks of kings landing got killed off along with the dragons before the start of GOT.
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Tell me you haven’t read the books without telling me you haven’t read the books ya moron.
 
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Tell me you haven’t read the books without telling me you haven’t read the books ya moron.
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I said Kings landing, the black targaryens are on dragon stone whom you're presumably referring to

I was referring to the black maester and the black friend of the King drinking with him in the throne room.

If the books, which I haven't read (big deal), somehow refer to the mass killing off these diversity hires then I stand corrected, said the man in the orthopedic shoes

You try to hard to fit in with the big brains, arguably that makes you dumber than them, kudos
 
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its interesting having 3 episodes of The Boys drop and then 1 episode of House of the Dragon a few days later, and i guess the acolyte too same week. 2 years ago it was HotD and Rings of Power (lol) at the same time.

honestly they are all very mid so far, which is a bummer. This episode was fine, writing was good but it was basically "emotional loss trauma: the episode" and I didn't really feel that sad at any moment. They were all well done but just didn't really care. Haelena's stuff was saddest because she is one of the only innocents but we barely know her or her kids.

Have to agree with nerdist, they really botched blood and cheese


Ending with Cole/Queen was just dumb and unnecessary. Healena walking down 3 flights without a single guard around is silly. Cole is Commander of the Kings Guard and responsible for their safety, will it come up at all why he was derelict in his duty or what he was personally doing at the time? Probably not. So why show that final scene that way... just for more shock value without much thought about what it means for the story, which is a sad problem for a lot of writing nowadays.

For me the best scene of the episode was all the Winterfell stuff, that shit was really, really great. I honestly thought it was Jon Snow narrating (lol) but I guess its the actor playing the Stark boy we saw.
 
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Downloaded the first season of this whenever it premiered and still haven't gotten around to watching it. Guess I'll start downloading season 2 for no good reason.
 
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Gravel said:
Downloaded the first season of this whenever it premiered and still haven't gotten around to watching it. Guess I'll start downloading season 2 for no good reason.
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be thankful that dei has unintentionally made it easier to follow along w/ whom vs whom
 
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spronk said:
its interesting having 3 episodes of The Boys drop and then 1 episode of House of the Dragon a few days later, and i guess the acolyte too same week. 2 years ago it was HotD and Rings of Power (lol) at the same time.

honestly they are all very mid so far, which is a bummer. This episode was fine, writing was good but it was basically "emotional loss trauma: the episode" and I didn't really feel that sad at any moment. They were all well done but just didn't really care. Haelena's stuff was saddest because she is one of the only innocents but we barely know her or her kids.

Have to agree with nerdist, they really botched blood and cheese


Ending with Cole/Queen was just dumb and unnecessary. Healena walking down 3 flights without a single guard around is silly. Cole is Commander of the Kings Guard and responsible for their safety, will it come up at all why he was derelict in his duty or what he was personally doing at the time? Probably not. So why show that final scene that way... just for more shock value without much thought about what it means for the story, which is a sad problem for a lot of writing nowadays.

For me the best scene of the episode was all the Winterfell stuff, that shit was really, really great. I honestly thought it was Jon Snow narrating (lol) but I guess its the actor playing the Stark boy we saw.
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wait wtf, we were supposed to get this
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and we got the pg version?
 
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Sawing off a childs head on screen was never going to happen, the fact we got a sound effect at all is a step forward.
 
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Sawing off a childs head on screen was never going to happen, the fact we got a sound effect at all is a step forward.
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the book synopsis that said the meme is basically what happened, those kids were awake and they saw the mom choose and the rat said no the other, you see that boy that i didnt kill, she was gonna offer you up

You hear that, little boy? Your Momma wants you dead.
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showrunner gives a limp wristed reason why blood & cheese is tamed down in the show



the moment when the ratcatcher turns into some sort of fucking parental psychic ("No... its true...") was weird and didn't fit that character in the slightest
 
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the book synopsis that said the meme is basically what happened, those kids were awake and they saw the mom choose and the rat said no the other, you see that boy that i didnt kill, she was gonna offer you up
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Gotcha then yea thats a weird choice. I was more surprised that there wasnt King's Guard watching over the future heir. Was the implication that Cole was supposed to be watching them but was too busy banging the Queen Reagent? I was under the impression that he was her bodyguard exclusively.
 
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Gotcha then yea thats a weird choice. I was more surprised that there wasnt King's Guard watching over the future heir. Was the implication that Cole was supposed to be watching them but was too busy banging the Queen Reagent? I was under the impression that he was her bodyguard exclusively.
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he's lord commander so he shoulda had like guards posted to every white hair instead of just looking at the king bs w/ some faggots
 
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Ending with Cole/Queen was just dumb and unnecessary. Healena walking down 3 flights without a single guard around is silly. Cole is Commander of the Kings Guard and responsible for their safety, will it come up at all why he was derelict in his duty or what he was personally doing at the time? Probably not. So why show that final scene that way... just for more shock value without much thought about what it means for the story, which is a sad problem for a lot of writing nowadays.

For me the best scene of the episode was all the Winterfell stuff, that shit was really, really great. I honestly thought it was Jon Snow narrating (lol) but I guess its the actor playing the Stark boy we saw.
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I was surprised at how empty the corridors were as well. This is the royal family, the heir to the throne, and there's not a guard at his door or anywhere in the vicinity. A couple of dudes come in through the sewers, stroll right through the throne room where the king is drinking, and manage to get to and kill the heir without anyone raising an eyebrow in their direction. Pretty wild.

I know the Kingsguard is split up, because they've chosen sides. But one of the twins is on a mission to go find the White Snake, or whatever her name is, when he's sworn to protect the lives of the royal family. Seems really odd for him to be doing that when they're already short-handed and there's so many members of the royal family that even if they were a whole 7 kingsguard, they couldn't cover everyone with a guard.

Definitely agree about Winterfell being the high point of the episode. "Do you think my ancestors built a 700 foot wall of ice to keep wildings?"
 
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Valorath said:
A couple of dudes come in through the sewers, stroll right through the throne room where the king is drinking, and manage to get to and kill the heir without anyone raising an eyebrow in their direction. Pretty wild.
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well tbf, theres a evident rat problem and ratty talked like he's been there lots of times so the guards are probably used to rat catchers moving about the castle
 
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spronk said:
Rings of Power (lol)
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I never watched any of this. Until yesterday, I never saw any clips either.

The clip I saw was an obsidian elf fighting a WWE orc. It was very, very, very bad. I chose not to watch because of woke shit but I honestly can't believe how fucking bad that scene looked. That was some 1990s scifi channel dog shit.
 
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I never watched any of this. Until yesterday, I never saw any clips either.

The clip I saw was an obsidian elf fighting a WWE orc. It was very, very, very bad. I chose not to watch because of woke shit but I honestly can't believe how fucking bad that scene looked. That was some 1990s scifi channel dog shit.
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like literally this dog is shit, wtf



(i wouldn't watch this faggot shit either)
 
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