House of the Dragon | Season 2 Episode 1 

lol my pleasure 🧡

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Yes! One of many reasons Jaime is my favorite in the main series

@@LienesLibrary Same. One of the best written characters in the series, without a doubt

They really have mastered cramming every second with valuable scenes

This cringe obsession with dogs

I was pissed. I hope the worst for him.

hope he made it out

I liked it. Aemond or Aegon being the primary target was speculated in fire and blood anyways. The change people are upset with was not having Helaena choose between her kids.

I tend to agree - it’s not like the show is lacking in violence and horrifying imagery

Odd way to react to that ending but I’m not judging 😛

Puns are the highest form of comedy 😌

I will indeed 🙃

You poor girl. 😂 Tysm though. Can’t wait.

The book scenes we're retold by unreliable narrators. It is likely the Greens exaggerated the horror

I think the show has overall been good at being measured and considered in its use of horrific imagery, I appreciate that they don’t do it just to do it, they do it when they feel the story really calls for it or it is necessary or will have the greatest impact, I think the way they did it was horrifying enough, any more might have cheapened it

I think it's time jumps. The story needs it but it detaches us from the characters. At the same time, there is not much plot to interest audiences in between the big moments of the dance, so they have to rush to retain attention. Being live action makes the jumps even worse with the weird casting changes. I just don't think it's a very adaptable story, at least not in this format.

Well the Velaryons at least know the sea is always right

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Sadism was the point, here they wanted to whitewash Daemon and didn't go through with it. Putting the whole premise of the choice aside (which was dead from concept) they weakened the scene by having the whole walking around bit, fumbled it with the comical "which one has a penis" and then completely ruined by ending with Alicent riding her pony, all that carried by an actress doing extremely little. It's unfortunate since silent shock can be great but this ended up being a prime limp dick scene - I blame the directing here, not the actress. Audio visual media audiences have such low standards it becomes a bit baffling at times.

I'm a book reader, are you talking about Helaena?

@@manvirshergill1739 Book Readers all over the internet are mad Helena and Alicent weren't tortured.

@@StanleyMabonga what?? 🤣 Why would Alicent and Helaena be tortured? Are you talking about the specific blood and cheese scene from the book where Alicent was involved?

I don't think they really wanted to see any torture, I think it's more about the Sophie's choice that Helaena has to do in the book that they removed from the show. Being asked which of your kid to have killed in front of you would really have upped the ante dramatically. That being said, I'm personnally fine with how they dealt with it in the show, it was already dramatic enough I feel.

⁠@@husskies9700 I mean there was a Sophie’s choice. She could have lied about who was the boy. It’s just a toned down choice. But that choice in itself is torture

The story related in House of the Dragon has all the reference material already published for it. There's another book we're waiting for that goes into more Targaryen history in the later years but that has no impact on the part of Targaryen history the show is about, which is strictly the Dance of the Dragons.