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House of the Dragon - S02E01 Post-Episode Discussion! (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

            
              Things I liked
The new intro - IMHO it is much better than 3D Valyria model, but not as good as OG Planetos' map.
Seeing the north, Winterfell and the Wall again
Cregan Stark was better than I expected.
Meeting new characters, a lot of time spent with this Alyn fella in the docks with Corlyn 😉
Rhaenyra and Jacaerys mourning scene was the standout scene for me.
Looks like they're using humor to humanize Aegon II.
Seeing everyone over at r/asoiaf loose their mind over Blood and Cheese ROFL

Things that puzzled me.
Torren knelled at the wall ?
Cole x Alicent - IMHO it came out of nowhere.
The pacing of Blood & Cheese and the fact that the final minutes of the episode was split into 3 scenes:  Blood & Cheese, Helaena's random walking and finally her entering Alicent's chamber.

Random Thoughts
So... is Maelor chillin' with Daeron (The Daring) over at Oldtown ?
Change the intro as much as you like, every season if you will.  As long as OG GoT theme song plays, it will never be skipped.
I love that they are still leaving us with the idea that, just like F&B, some events are still not completely understood/shown.  We never see Daemon give the explicit order to target  - same as we never see Daemon explicitly say "Heir for a Day" back in S1.
I really think that Rhaenyra will be furious at Daemon - not only because he single-handedly plunged everyone further into a MAD scenario, but Rhaenyra's side (probably) just lost the moral high ground.


            
          

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

@dornad I believe the jury is still out on Daeron, but Ryan Condal confirmed Maelor doesn't exist (or at least hasn't been born yet) in the show's continuity due to the timeline being compressed (https://ew.com/blood-cheese-house-of-the-dragon-season-2-book-changes-explained-exclusive-8663564)