House of the Dragon 1x1 | Watch Along

Speaking of King Henry the 8th, have you guys already seen The Tudors? If not, I would love to see your reactions to that royal court drama.

I wished they made a show about Valyria before the doom. How great did it look!

yall gonna hate the incest of this series xD

1. Daemon is GRRM’s fav character 2. Targaryens aren’t immune to fire, that’s a show thing they made up 3. Milly Alcock is so good, glad she’s going to be Supergirl

Been waiting for you to get to HOTD. This was an excellent first season!

I figured you guys would probably enjoy it - it's an uncomfortable watch at times, but the politicking, the characters, their relationships to each other, the way the world is so familiar but also so different, it's so great. I do think it was funny when they mentioned Matt Smith mainly playing bad guys though - because that's true lately, but one of his first big roles was as The Doctor in Doctor Who and it's so wild seeing the contrast between that character and this one.

So pumped for this. Get ready for some amazing acting performances.

So the show is great, the cast is great etc etc.. The historical, PRIMARY reason women give birth on their backs is bc some royal douchelord or another had a birthing fetish and he liked to watch. Since like, the seventeenth century. Yep. Gross.

Incest aside this will be a fun ride

My fav part of either season is Viserys and Daemon. Patty and Matt kill their roles, and their scenes are incredible.

This was a stellar first episode—it did a great job setting the narrative and introducing us to the key characters. I only have a couple of complaints. First, Aegon’s dagger. I love the idea that the Conquest was driven by a prophecy and dragon dreams, but I’m not a fan of how it ties into the Game of Thrones ending. Second—and I want to be clear—I have no issue with the Velaryons being portrayed as Black or being Black in the lore. It actually makes a lot of sense. They're a powerful trading and seafaring house, and the Summer Islanders (a Black civilization in the books) are also renowned for maritime trade. It’s completely plausible that the Velaryons could have intermarried with nobles from the Summer Isles during a trade expedition—or vice versa. The casting is fantastic, especially Steve Toussaint as Corlys. He absolutely embodies the legendary adventurer I imagined—a man who sailed across the known world and had a book written about his journeys. That said, my nitpick is with the internal logic of the world-building. If the Velaryons are Black, then figures like King Jaehaerys and others in the Targaryen bloodline should appear biracial to some degree. Jaehaerys’ mother was a Velaryon (and I believe his great-grandmother was too—the families are deeply intertwined), and he married his sister. Viserys’ father also married his sister, and Viserys himself married his Targaryen/Arryn cousin (whose mother was a child of Jaehaerys and her father an Arryn). So, genetically speaking, the Targaryens should be showing some visible melanin if they descend from the same Velaryon line as Corlys and his immediate family. Racebending characters in media for me is ok as long as you write it to make sense, and sadly this show gives grifting anti woke people ammunition to spread their awful takes about progressive ideas and themes in media/the world. This kind of oversight is also something I pointed out in one of the Game of Thrones episodes comments too. When the finer details of world-building are ignored, it leads to cracks in the foundation of the story—cracks that only get worse over time and eventually break the story you're trying to tell i.e. Game of Thrones. It's part of why GRRM got frustrated with the story direction and character decisions in this shows S2 and was essentially cut out of the writers' room, he was supposed to be hands on (like Kirkman is for Invincible) and given a nice EP role to help shape the show, but from what he's said and what Condal has skirted around saying, is that he just has a title in name only along with being over road in the writers room by Condal and the other lead writer for the series when he brought up all of the problems for the later events that their decision are gonna cause. Anyway, hope you enjoyed my TED Talk on genetics and writing in HotD. 🤣

Emma didnt say "HEEE HEEE HEEE"

It's crazy how the final episode of The Last of Us and this episode came out a day apart and both had a scene involving, well you know. Also, It's funny that Maple mentioned Monty Python again, because the first time I watched this, I just kept saying, "Damn, the guy playing Daemon looks like Michael Palin!" (He was one of the Pythons, he played Ser Galahad in Holy Grail)

yeah the only thing i hate about this show is knowing how game of thrones ends. I kinda still hope they make a sequel of game of thrones and just pretend the icy guys never died and they do the story properly this time.

I guess I'll give this another shot. I didn't really get into it when it first came out.

im so excited they enjoyed it!!!!

Targaryens aren’t all resistant to fire. Only danerys was

Did the girls recognize king viserys as the evil priest in peaky blinders season 3 ? 😂 paddy consadine has amazing range

naturally maple noticed the chandeliers (they're big lamps after all) but i really can't wait until they notice the wide array of 'instructional' tapestries that adorn much of the red keep

Rhys Ifans (Otto Hightower) also played Hugh Grant's disgusting roommate in Notting Hill.

The fire resistance was a Dany thing, she was special, she was the "Mother of Dragons". For instance, remember when the White Walker showed up at Castle Black? Jon grabbed a lantern from Commander Mormont that burned his hand because even though he was a Targaryen, he wasn't fire proof.

Prince Daemon (the King's brother) was also one of the Dr. Whos.

Arianna's litImtle robot dance move she always does cracks me up! Im gonn try and rewatch this with ya'll as i was super blazed throughout my first watch and dont remember much

Sprinkle me baby🤣

Sir Otto (the King's Hand) is also Luna Lovegood's dad

One a week is more than fine since it's only 2 seasons long and the next season won't be until what... 2027.

maple screaming during the birthing scene made for a great distraction lol

Let's f go! 👌

As much as I love GOT, I think I actually like HotD more.

"It feels fresh". Arianna summed up how I felt when I watched the first episode. The pulled off the reboot well.