TV: House of the Dragon on HBO (please use spoiler tags when necessary)

[Tuggy]

I know there was a thread about a prequel pilot being ordered but I thought we would start fresh...

Premiere date is revealed! August 21st!

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[Frankie Blueberries]

10 days before Amazon’s LoTR series premieres. Excited for both of these!

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Hell f***ing yea!!! Soo f***ing pumped for this.

 

[ecemleafs]

really excited for this. was hoping for a spring release, but since its spring and we didnt hear anything that was obv not happening. august aint too far away!

 

[Peasy]

Gunna love seeing all the people that said they wouldn't watch another game of thrones show after the GoT finale come back and watch this.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Matt Smith as a rogue could be interesting. He was good in Last night in Soho and in the unedited version of In the Bruges

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Releasing it ten days before the LOTR prequel haha. HBO's got balls.

 

[Osprey]

10 days before Amazon’s LoTR series premieres. Excited for both of these!

This irks me a little. I try to watch only one series at a time. It's easier to stay involved and remember the plot details. It's going to be particularly challenging to switch back and forth between two fantasy series. Of course, I could watch only one live and then binge the other, but these are fun to watch and discuss along with everyone else. Maybe one'll be a lot better than the other and make that easier to do. Still, I would've preferred that HBO moved it either up or back 8 weeks.

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

 

[Hammettf2b]

will @Siamese Dream be watching this?

 

[Siamese Dream]

will @Siamese Dream be watching this?

Yes mate it looks good

 

[HanSolo]

Looks good. Good that D&D aren't attached. Just wondering how well the new showrunners are able to capture that essence of Thrones that made Seasons 1-4 so great or if they can at least catch a new spirit for this show that will set it apart from other options on television. I'm hoping they do. I tried to stay as positive about the last season as I could for as long as I could. But I can't get over how disappointing the rush job was.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Looks f***ing amazing. Less than 3 months!!

 

[JimmyApples]

ade Seasons 1-4 so great or if they can at least catch a new spirit for this show that will set it apart from other options

I think this show can be charming but I'm not sure it'll catch the magic of Game of Thrones. I haven't read the book, but I don't think the story is quite as interesting as the GOT story.

It should be well written, though. Unlike the end of GOT, this show will have source material to pull from.

Interesting idea that they're making this series about the second half of the novel. I wonder how many seasons they can milk out of that story.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Gunna love seeing all the people that said they wouldn't watch another game of thrones show after the GoT finale come back and watch this.

I very much want this show to be amazing and will find some time to watch it, but c'mon... you have to admit, hesitation is fully justified. This feels a lot like Star Wars circa 2013 when they started releasing teasers for the new trilogy. As much as I want this to feel like the first few installments, the possibility that it could feel like the last installment is enough to make me cautious about investing actual excitement in it.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Yes,I'm in.

 

[TonySoprano]

Releasing it ten days before the LOTR prequel haha. HBO's got balls.

They watched Wheel of Time. They know LOTR will be done after 2 eps

Kinda wish they did Robert's rebellion instead, but this should still be solid

 

[RandV]

I very much want this show to be amazing and will find some time to watch it, but c'mon... you have to admit, hesitation is fully justified. This feels a lot like Star Wars circa 2013 when they started releasing teasers for the new trilogy. As much as I want this to feel like the first few installments, the possibility that it could feel like the last installment is enough to make me cautious about investing actual excitement in it.

I don't think there's much reason to be hesitant, or at least that while it may not live up to early GoT it won't be like the last few seasons. The show became massively popular when it was 'The Sopranos in Middle Earth'. The masses loved the feudal intrigue, plotting, and backstabbing all loosely grounded in reality that made up the first half of the season. Even the two writers were able to add good filler scenes in season 1 when it was short on time.

Transitioning from that to a more fantasy white walkers vs dragons finish on the other hand was always going to be more of a challenge, especially when you no longer had GRRM's material and a couple of hack writers in the drivers seat.

Basically what I'm getting at is just going with political intrigue, civil war, and they all have dragons from the start (fantasy aside they were always popular) is about an easy layup as you can get. If they were doing something like the 8000 years ago mythology series like I believe I may have been rumoured then you could be skeptical, but this should be pretty setting to give people what they liked.

 

[MadDevil]

They also have actually completed GRRM material to go off of for this so they shouldn't have to improvise once they get beyond the source material (or at least into whatever barebones structure Martin had laid out) like GOT proper had.

Personally, I've always been more of a Stark/Nights Watch/The North person and have never really been a Targaryen fan, so I am interested to see if these characters can draw me in the way those others did. I know reading Fire & Blood nobody really stood out to me as "Wow, I can't wait to see that character on screen!"

 

[JimmyApples]

They watched Wheel of Time. They know LOTR will be done after 2 eps

Kinda wish they did Robert's rebellion instead, but this should still be solid

Would have also rather the Long Night but who knows what the future holds.

 

[Tuggy]

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Looks absolutely AMAZING. I can’t f***ing wait for this!

 

[TheBeastCoast]

It is wild just how much better the quality of this looks compared to any other fantasy series that has come out in the last couple years. It is a standard nobody has been able to reach. I will absolutely be watching, giving it a clean slate away from my thoughts on the original.

 

[RandV]

It is wild just how much better the quality of this looks compared to any other fantasy series that has come out in the last couple years. It is a standard nobody has been able to reach. I will absolutely be watching, giving it a clean slate away from my thoughts on the original.

I don't know how much is related to the original show but don't discount an experienced crew has. GoT world has a big advantaged in that it's based of feudal Europe, so it can have the same look and feel and extremely limited need for CGI. For the CGI they got to start small with baby dragons then work their way up, a lot of time to master the craft so they look great for House of the Dragon.

Basically not to discredit them, but there's a lot of reasons why Netflix/Amazon with say The Witcher/Wheel of Time/Lord of the Rings aren't going to look as good.

 

[JohnC]

I think this’ll be good by virtue of the fact that GRRM actually gave them a complete story to tell, unlike the incomplete one that led to the mess that was GOT’s ending.