House of the Dragon (Game of Thrones Prequel - HBO) TV Show • Page 41

Damn next weeks ep is 68 min

 

Mah gawd those episode titles

 

i mean the preview more or less confirms the parentage within the preview. so many glances from the homie and then alicent more or less says it lol

 

Apparently HBO MAx viewers don't always get that content after the credits roll? So might be some people didn't see it/didn't seek it out after haha

 

THE BLACK QUEEN

 

Yeah last week the preview wasn't included for me. I had to go back and look for it on youtube.

 

Somewhere out there you know someone is pre-emptively freaking out about how Westeros doesn't have black queens and that HBO is about to #gowokegobroke

 

Last ep was the best one so far.

 

I just saw a TikTok about that. GoT hit 44m in S8. Euphoria hit 15m. Succession averages 5m. Really wild in that perspective how quickly we all came running back to Westeros.

 

Insane fucking numbers.

I wonder what the book sales and other media sales have been. I would suspect anyone who wanted the books bought them during GoT’s run but maybe Fire & Blood has seen an uptick if people skipped that earlier. But could see all the books being up in sales.

 

I imagine the success this is having is going the grease a lot of wheels on the other possible shows in development too. GOT Extended Universe is definitely gonna happen now.

What's frustrating is this ALWAYS made the most sense to be the first spin off out of any other idea except for maybe Robert's Rebellion. The fact that they didn't just do this first and instead tried the Bloodmoon one first only to let it languish after an uninspiring pilot sucks, because I would have liked to seen that concept borne out into a show too. Probably woulda had a better chance to get developed AFTER they saw the success this one was having.

 

I wonder what Alicent was gonna ask him / say to him - if he saw her with Daemon? Ask him to go track her and let her know? And like, talk about a shitty position to be in. Can’t say no to the Queen really but also don’t want to cause an issue for the person you’re sworn to protect.

 

judging by that episode title hyped as hell for episode 9

 

From watching the show and reading the book again i'm realizing subtexts to characters I didn't really think about the first time. Like with Ser Criston Cole : The main thing about his character, his motivations, and how his arc ends is that he seems to think he's in a different kind of story. He has these almost childlike like delusions about what being an honorable knight in Westeros is supposed to be, and the horrible brutal reality what love/politics/war really like is just constantly checking him. The way his story ends is just absolutely perfect, and i can't wait for that to be depicted in the show. < obviously book and probably show spoilers

 

i liked the way the actor/condal described it that he’s basically been a thug his whole life until the last few years when he’s been trying to hide it and that was his mask off moment

 

Frankel is killing it. During that boat scene the way he said "It's the only thing I have to my fucking name!" Goddamn goosebumps.

 

Viserys is looking rough next episode.

also it’s definitely gonna be confirmed that daemon starts the fire in harrenhal

 

oh i’ve always thought larys does

 

I just started reading Fire and Blood two days ago. I think it would have been cool if they did a couple minute intro at the beginning of ep one that showed a flashback of sorts of Aegon the Conqueror bringing all the 7 kingdoms under one rule.

 

It would have been cool to set everything up that way, the same way Fellowship does to give us a brief history.....but I assume they didn't because HBO probably said leave that untouched incase we want to make a whole show out of it.

 

yeah. The Fellowship type way was exactly what i was thinking of as i was reading. I think that would have been a nice jump off point to the show.

 

that would be a good one. Quite a few possibilities and motives laid out in the book. daemon is the most obvious I think, and the king being the most intriguing

 

Re-reading F&B I was thinking they could definitely do an entire show on the reign of Jaehaerys I, there is definitely enough material in the book for it. if they do it would have to be different than any other GoT-verse show though. It would be a straight up family political drama akin to The Crown, more court intrigue and romance than dragons and violence.

I don't want them to do anything that's going to be in F&B volume 2 until GRRM eventually finishes that, which might take awhile. Do Aegon's Conquest, the conflicts during Maegor's reign, and the long reign of Jaehaehyrs first.