House of the Dragon

[crash_davis 23113]

Surprised I didn't see a topic for this. But I am reminded of what a shitshow GOT became and the BULLSHIT ending and then think, "Surprised I am not."

Anyway, guess I'll be the asshole to start it. New Trailer dropped.

Who's going to invest the energy into this? 

I may ignore every episode for however long this runs until after the series finale. I'll then read if it was worth it. If reviews are positive, then I'll prob watch it. But I aint investing time unless I get confirmation that the whole series isn't a shitshow cause fuck David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and fuck Martin for still not finishing the fucking books.

 

Edited October 5, 2021 by crash_davis

[Patrick Bateman 3914]

Benioff & Weiss aren't associated with this particular series.  Miguel Sapochnik, who directed many of the viewers fave episodes from GoT, is an EP but basically this was created by the guy who created the short-lived series, Colony.  

No idea what to think about this series, it's based on Fire & Blood by GRRRRRM about the Targaryen civil war.  Supposedly, Martin was happy with how much CGI Dragons there were with this budget.  It's Matt Smith of Doctor Who fame.  Rhys Ifans, Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel) and British actor Patrick Considine co-star.

We'll see....

 

[Scary Stranger 1714]

Edited October 5, 2021 by Scary Stranger

[PRONG HORN 3146]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

I am reminded of what a shitshow GOT became and the BULLSHIT ending 

 

It wasn't a bullshit ending.  It was a bullshit taper that went from 6-8.  

[futureman 22462]

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• 1 hr crash_davis changed the title to House of the Dragons

changed the title and yet it’s still wrong. dumbass. 

[Augustus 3061]

3 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Benioff & Weiss aren't associated with this particular series.  Miguel Sapochnik, who directed many of the viewers fave episodes from GoT, is an EP but basically this was created by the guy who created the short-lived series, Colony.  

No idea what to think about this series, it's based on Fire & Blood by GRRRRRM about the Targaryen civil war.  Supposedly, Martin was happy with how much CGI Dragons there were with this budget.  It's Matt Smith of Doctor Who fame.  Rhys Ifans, Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel) and British actor Patrick Considine co-star.

We'll see....

 

Patrick?

Seriously?

[Chewbacca 7779]

Fuck GRRM and fuck this series. I'm not watching anything that comes from that fat fuck.

[Patrick Bateman 3914]

10 minutes ago, Augustus said:

Patrick?

Seriously?

Paddy.  Fucking auto-correct.

 

[Scary Stranger 1714]

Patrick?
Seriously?

https://images.app.goo.gl/38CrVJxdJ8gw3Tzp6

[atomheartbevo 89668]

12 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Fuck GRRM and fuck this series. I'm not watching anything that comes from that fat fuck.

I'll watch the Wild Cards show, but he didn't write the majority of that.

[henrygandorf 29191]

i like that they took my least favorite part of game of thrones and made it a series.

[kingkoopa6 8350]

Noice!  Im in 

[futureman 22462]

12 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

i like that they took my least favorite part of game of thrones and made it a series.

you enjoyed the high sparrow and the faith militant more than the targaryens?

[WBT 20572]

With no Benioff and Weiss it at least has a shot

[huge 3793]

It’s only because of the highs that we were alone to also be subjected to and experience the lows.

Something might be better than nothing.





Shame shame

[Gene Parmesan 4007]

I guess the pandemic derailed things, but talk about striking when the iron is ice cold.  I am completely indifferent to GOT content right now.

[kevwun 15788]

The final season of GoT did a much better job derailing any future series than the pandemic could ever hope to.

[Hozz 1017]

It will be appointment viewing for me, to start at least, but I have zero expectations.  GoT was so good before it got so bad.  Yes there was a slow drop off from S5 to the end but S8 was just so bad.  Like I still have no idea how it got approved.  Who approved it?  Literally you could have asked reddit morons to come up with a plot for the season and rough draft scripts and they'd have done a better job in a week, for free.  GoT went from my favorite show of all time to something I don't even like thinking about because it enrages me.

[crash_davis 23113]

i'd like to meet the one dude who willingly re-watched the entire 8 seasons of GOT but i'm sure he killed himself because he realized that his life was so bad that he had nothing better to do than to watch that shit again.

[Kel Varnsen 8460]

I'd have rather had a Bronn series. Tons of drinking, hoors, and bad pussy.

 

 

Edited October 6, 2021 by Kel Varnsen

[Go Pokes 979]

16 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

i like that they took my least favorite part of game of thrones and made it a series.

Oddly, I like that they took my most favorite part of GOT and made it a series.  The book it's based on is great.  I remember when they announced the first GOT spinoff that was going to go all the way back to the age of heroes and thought, "wtf?  They got the Targs and their fucking dragons over the past 300 years and they're going to go back 10,000 years for this shit?"  So I'm happy.  

[henrygandorf 29191]

17 hours ago, futureman said:

you enjoyed the high sparrow and the faith militant more than the targaryens?

i didn't say my least favorite plot line - yes that was a beating.  but anything supernatural is typically a red flag for me.  the genius of the early seasons was that it was largely based in reality, even if it took place in a fantasy world.  it was a story about relationships, family rivalries, power, and politics.  the dragons didn't do much the first few seasons but get in the way.  then when they started becoming more of a factor, the show started...um...what's another word for sucking?

[futureman 22462]

4 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

it was a story about relationships, family rivalries, power, and politics. 

do you not think it will still be about those things? I doubt that this series will just be a bunch of dudes flying around on dragons. but then again you’d know better than I. 

[henrygandorf 29191]

19 minutes ago, futureman said:

do you not think it will still be about those things? I doubt that this series will just be a bunch of dudes flying around on dragons. but then again you’d know better than I. 

i think a show called "house of the dragons" will involve more dragons than seasons 1-3 of got.  i'm happy to be proven wrong though.

[WBT 20572]

Enter the Dragon didn't have any

[CooterBrown 18012]

i didn't say my least favorite plot line - yes that was a beating.  but anything supernatural is typically a red flag for me.  the genius of the early seasons was that it was largely based in reality, even if it took place in a fantasy world. 

I haven’t read the books in forever but my impression was that a subtext of the series was that the world was magical but man pushed it out into to the north and built a wall to keep it at bay. The dragons were the last bit of magic left in the world and then they died off. As magic started to regain its place in the world starting with the birth of Dani’s dragons, there was more and more of it as the series expanded.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

you enjoyed the high sparrow and the faith militant more than the targaryens?

Anytime you the high sparrow scenes came on was a good bathroom or snack/drink refill


I’ll give this a shot. Ain’t nothing else going on on Sunday nights in May-June

[sccane92 16]

13 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

i didn't say my least favorite plot line - yes that was a beating.  but anything supernatural is typically a red flag for me.  the genius of the early seasons was that it was largely based in reality, even if it took place in a fantasy world.  it was a story about relationships, family rivalries, power, and politics.  the dragons didn't do much the first few seasons but get in the way.  then when they started becoming more of a factor, the show started...um...what's another word for sucking?

Not to be a bookfag but if they do follow the book. It's going to be what you liked about GOT on steroids.

[Bookman 4639]

They need to make a spinoff based on the life of Hot Pie. Or at least a cookbook. They could call it "No Gravy, No Pie."

[Go Pokes 979]

12 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

i think a show called "house of the dragons" will involve more dragons than seasons 1-3 of got.  i'm happy to be proven wrong though.

You will not be proven wrong.  HOD is going to center on the big family fight over the throne between half-siblings.  It's called The Dance of Dragons, so expect a lot of dragons.  This fight was the beginning of the end of the Targs and their dragons, so if it goes 8 seasons like GOT, I'd expect less dragons at the end of this series.   

[Go Pokes 979]

4 hours ago, sccane92 said:

Not to be a bookfag but if they do follow the book. It's going to be what you liked about GOT on steroids.

This is also true.  Lot's of family and political drama like GOT, but interspersed with what is going to have to be some crazy ass battles scenes where multiple people are riding around on dragons.  Damn, typing that out makes it sound like a real challenge to keep this from getting cheesy.  I kind of wish they'd have just gone all the way back to the beginning of the Targ rule and Aegon I landing his big ass dragon in what will become King's Landing.  Maybe they'll skip around in the time line if it lasts enough seasons.  

[aggie08 21504]

I realize as I'm writing this that this is weird nit to pick, but I'm bored by a show that's set 200+ years in the past that will, in all likelihood, look nearly identical with regards to architecture and technology.

[rage-a-holic 4398]

On 10/5/2021 at 8:46 PM, atomheartbevo said:

I'll watch the Wild Cards show, but he didn't write the majority of that.

Wild Cards could and should be ginormously successful, but Peacock doesn't have a great track record with original series and it's still sitting in dev hell anyway.

[henrygandorf 29191]

1 hour ago, Go Pokes said:

I'd expect less dragons at the end of this series.   

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

2 hours ago, Go Pokes said:

This is also true.  Lot's of family and political drama like GOT, but interspersed with what is going to have to be some crazy ass battles scenes where multiple people are riding around on dragons.  Damn, typing that out makes it sound like a real challenge to keep this from getting cheesy.  I kind of wish they'd have just gone all the way back to the beginning of the Targ rule and Aegon I landing his big ass dragon in what will become King's Landing.  Maybe they'll skip around in the time line if it lasts enough seasons.  

That's what I thought would have been cool. As an angry bookfag, I enjoyed the world he created and the history. This has the makings of basically GOT II replacing the civil war with an intra-family war. It would tickle my whisker if they did some flashbacks and gave some backstory on the First Men, the Andals, the COTF and especially the Night King and the Doom of Valyria - would love to see Aegon fleeing and showing up on the beach met by a couple of knights from Storm's End. I think his taking of Westeros would be much more fun than Targ's fighting Targ's ... but they fuck and get nekkid so there is that.

Agree with the general sentiment that the shitshow of the last few seasons and fat ass' lack of ability to do shit really extinguishes any strong desire to see it.

[DDD Dad 14339]

7 hours ago, sccane92 said:

Not to be a bookfag but if they do follow the book. It's going to be what you liked about GOT on steroids.

Hopefully there will be an episode devoted to boiled leather.

[Michael Knight 12977]

2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

I realize as I'm writing this that this is weird nit to pick, but I'm bored by a show that's set 200+ years in the past that will, in all likelihood, look nearly identical with regards to architecture and technology.

Can you tell the difference between architecture from 1100's England vs 1300?

[utxmike05 1828]

Lot of ugly people in the trailer...there better at least be a brothel with flames.

Also here to chime in that I also still hate the ending to GOT.  Pisses me off I can't rewatch it all for fun because of that ending... Is this a safe place?

[CooterBrown 18012]

1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

Hopefully there will be an episode devoted to boiled leather.

There will also be cooking segments on lemon cakes.

[52-80 19158]

my body is ready

[BHMCruiser 1813]

Awesome dragons melting shit. I'm in. Don't overthink this, people. 

[Buzzrock 14920]

You will not be proven wrong.  HOD is going to center on the big family fight over the throne between half-siblings.  It's called The Dance of Dragons, so expect a lot of dragons.  This fight was the beginning of the end of the Targs and their dragons, so if it goes 8 seasons like GOT, I'd expect less dragons at the end of this series.   

They’ve said there will be 17 dragons in this show. That sounds dumb.

[Go Pokes 979]

They’ve said there will be 17 dragons in this show. That sounds dumb.

Not surprising. Even the kids had their own dragon back then.

[BHMCruiser 1813]

22 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

They’ve said there will be 17 dragons in this show. That sounds dumb.

Agree. It's totally implausible. Before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World, there were never more than four dragons in Europe at a time. Everybody knows this.

[kevwun 15788]

22 hours ago, Go Pokes said:

Not surprising. Even the kids had their own dragon back then.

Yes and the people who had dragons knew how to fight with them.  It won't be amateur hour like with Dany.  The story for this was good.  If GRRM can be bothered to help with dialogue and fleshing out details, it will most likely be very good.

[gsoda3 3261]

matt smith, i'm in.  but will probably wait til i can binge the season.

[Ten Bears 2481]

49 minutes ago, BHMCruiser said:

Agree. It's totally implausible. Before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World, there were never more than four dragons in Europe at a time. Everybody knows this. It is known.

 

[OB3 3624]

 

[Augustus 3061]

On 10/7/2021 at 10:48 AM, Michael Knight said:

Can you tell the difference between architecture from 1100's England vs 1300?

Most people probably wouldn't, but there's quite a transition there from Romanesque to Gothic.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:06 AM, kevwun said:

Yes and the people who had dragons knew how to fight with them.  It won't be amateur hour like with Dany.  The story for this was good.  If GRRM can be bothered to help with dialogue and fleshing out details, it will most likely be very good left unfinished.