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House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood
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BobbyBobberson
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George RR Martin has kinda disowned this series.
He's not even promoting it on his blog.
He's not even promoting it on his blog.
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Quite the opposite. They split S2 into two seasons. More episodes in total to cover the given source material. Unfortunately this left S2 with a lot of time to fill and not a lot of narrative to fill it with because the big changes, big fights, and big payoffs got bumped to S3.
In theory, S3 should be awesome. In. Theory.
Even if it sucks, you still have Matt Smith chewing scenery. There's worse things on TV than that.
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Watched season 1 but fast forwarded through a lot. Didn't even give 2 a shot. Can't wait for the next season of Duncan and Egg though.
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I'm not trying to yuck other people like but I'm done with the series. I'm tired of shows filled with unlikable characters who do shitty things.
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The good news is you don't need to wait through multiple seasons to be disappointed by this one.
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He's just been too busy working on "The Winds of Winter"
(too soon!? anything but...)
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Good decision - the structural leadership and core creative voices remain identical to Season 2, the expanded staff was largely brought in to help map out the massive pacing acceleration needed for Season 3's major battles...
Life is too short and precious to waste when the trust is gone and yet to be re-earned.
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jm_leviathan
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Season 1 was solid enough but Season 2, despite some notable high points, was mostly a slog. This owed to the "worst of all worlds" combination of first stretching the material out over too many episodes and then having HBO cut two episodes from the season quota late in the process. If the showrunners and writers had known they only had eight episodes to play with rather than ten, they undoubtedly would've paced and structured the season at least somewhat differently, ending with the Battle of the Gullet. As it stands, Season 3 now risks having the opposite problem.
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I gave House of the Dragon a shot, but I gave up towards the end of season 1. There isn't a single likeable character in the whole series, just an endless series of flat, dour one note assholes. Dunk and Egg was such a breath of fresh air, I liked the main duo well enough, but even more I loved the side character like the Laughing Storm, Baelor, and Raymun. Plenty of likeable, funny and three dimensional characters in that one.
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I gave up somewhere near the end of S1 for similar reasons. I realized about partway through the last episode I watched that I don't care about any of these characters, because I don't find any of them particularly likeable except the king, but I know he's basically a lame duck and at that point had basically become a background piece anyway. The only other character besides the king that I liked was the teen Rhaenyra from the first few episodes, but that didn't last long.
I guess having almost every single character on screen be a scheming, conniving asshole all the time just isn't my thing.
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Albino_Boo
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Its losely based on the period English of history called the Anarchy. The Empress Maud throne was usurped by Stephen leading to civil war. This is the point where Maud took back the throne but pissed everyone off allowing Stephen to make a comeback.
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Albino_Boo
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The ending will be Aegon II is allowed to rule for the rest of his life but is succeeded by one of Rhaenyra's children.
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I experienced that in a much more enjoyable story than this series, in the form of the historical fiction novel When Chris and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman. There were actually compelling, multi-dimensional, likeable characters in it and it was told in an entertaining fashion that kept me wanting more. It was also the first in a set of 5 historical fiction books of hers centered around the Plantagenet dynasty. Very enjoyable reads, highly recommend!
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It's almost like it's a bad idea to make a 4 season TV show from one or two chapters in a fictional history that depicts probably the worst of people in an already pretty bad dynastic reign.
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Ain't it great! We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union or China.
Freedom is rapidly going away. Thanks MAGA. Americans I'm sure don't like freedom anyway.
Freedom is rapidly going away. Thanks MAGA. Americans I'm sure don't like freedom anyway.
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