FIRST TIME WATCHING: HOTD S2E4
Hey there!
I wanted some action, and I finally GOT SOME! (in the show, of course)
I'm so devastated by the loss at the end of this one, though. Looking forward to hearing what y'all think in the comments.
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LINK: https://youtu.be/ich4q1yA64g
Original Series: House of the Dragon
Comments (20)
I'm watching these episodes for the first time along with you. The guy who pulled the lord whatever from the water is his own bastard son as I understood the episode. Thats why she called his mother a beautiful woman.
I think that it's written into reaction lore that it never ends well for anyone that Nattie gets attached to 😭
When Vagar first shows up you can see, hear, and feel her coming from LEAGUES AWAY AND SUDDENLY SHES ABLE TO SNEAK UP ON RHAENYS COMPLETELY SILENT OKAAAAAAAAAY
RIGHT!?
I find it ironic and ridiculous how this show stresses the importance of the song of ice and fire when we know that nothing ever comes of it. Arya, a Stark, ends up being the hero and John, a Targaryen, gets nothing. The song of ice and fire lasted 2 short battles.
It never says the prince who was promised would be the one to land the blow the kills the night king. They are the prophesied leader who would unite people against the long night. Jon got everyone together. Arya was headed to King's Landing until she found out Jon (that's Jon, not John) was at Winterfell. If not for him she wouldn't have been there to defeat the night king. He brought everyone together.
Daemon and Harrenhal are the best part of this season by far. Actually Rhaenys and Aegon are pretty fantastic also.
Aegon is the sleeper hit of the season, I kinda liked how they paralleled Viserys and Daemon with Aegon and Aemond. The older brother who doest’t want the throne and Aemond the wild younger brother. Difference is regardless of how much Daemon wanted the throne he would have never did what Aemond did.
Anyone complaining about distance traveled clearly doesnt understand how flying works, or how dragonstone and kings landing are mad close. Just sayin
Well I think a lotta people just don't know how close the two are. The show doesn't do a great job of making that a point, dragonstone and kingslanding are right across the bay. Some fun lore, Aegon the conquereror lived on Dragonstone before taking the mainland, and his first fort in Westeros was built on the coast of where he arrived from dragonstone, which eventually grew into kingslanding after he untied the kingdoms and was crowned. That's why they're so close
On my first watch I was disappointed by this season but after retwatching (and now on my 2nd rewatch with Nat) I really feel like the themes/character development are strong and consistent and if not for the fact that HBO cut the last 2 episodes we would have one of the best seasons of thrones ever with a fantastic mid season peak and a crazy finale
Yeah same, I was really annoyed with the show writers until I found out HBO cut those last episodes. When you know that, you realize this was a really great season with probably complete arcs, but you just didn't see the last 2 episodes. I hate greedy corporate execs, prolly read the script once and thought "nah cut the expensive finale, people will watch no matter what"
I find the criticism about the lack of action in House pretty weird considering the best seasons of Thrones were all dialogue and world building heavy with a few action set pieces sporadically throughout a season. The worst seasons of Thrones( the last ones) went super action heavy and completely lacked a lot of that slow story and world building pace.
I think that's more the prime seasons of Thrones 3-5 that were built up by the first couple seasons of strong character development that I think House is following pretty close to. I think the next few seasons will definitely be similar based of what happens in the book. It's extremely facetious to say " we never get any of the action sequences" when there has been several major action set pieces and many minor ones across these first two seasons. That's incredibly reductive. If you want to argue it hasn't been enough than that's another story. Personally I've really liked the pace of the first two seasons, really reminds me of early Thrones building up to something bigger, but I'm someone who likes slower paced shows that rely on character building. Now if your one of the people that hasn't liked the writing or character decisions I don't really have anything to say against that other than I disagree. Completely agree with another commenters take that this season was missing the final two episodes, the finale felt more like a episode 8 of a 10 episode season.
The distance between Kings Landing and Dragon Stone is about the distance across San Francisco bay. In a later episode you'll get to see a character cross it in real time and get a better understanding of just how close they are.
The Fuck happened to X-Men 97 ??????!
Thursday my friend
This show is kinda...not good lol
@f hf word!
Only action in the show? Poor Tyler...