Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon. Returns 16th June. Green v Black trailers.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Fantastic episode, lovely stuff. Cannot wait for next week after watching the trailer.

One question I had from weeks ago and forgot to ask, why did Viserys and Alicent decide one of their sons (Aegon) should marry their daughter (Helaena)? Marriages seemed to always be about bringing houses together for political gain and power, yet they just suddenly decided to marry them to each other when they were younger for no reason.

Yeah, didn't understand this. No sure if it's ever properly mentioned just have to work it out yourself.

I enjoyed it. Seems like an easier show to finish rather than crash and burn.

I really enjoyed that season. The casting and acting was top notch and I’m glad they didn’t decide to lowball the budget on a ‘wait and see if anyone bites’ basis. The politicking and general characterisation was weaker than the first season of GoT, everything was a lot more just out on the table but I guess that’s down to the general dry-ness of the source material, and I get their reluctance to stray from it.

It’s interesting how viewers have largely picked one ‘side’ over the other when it really has very heavy parallels to the sides in GoT season 1 but people have gravitated towards opposite camps. Overall a solid season and I’m looking forward to S2.

I was way behind in watching this but finished S1 last night.

I thought it was good, but with flaws.

The time jumps were probably necessary for the plot, but they threw me every time.

Matt Smith was good, but Paddy Considine was phenomenal. Incredible performances from him.

I couldn't take the dark haired princes in the last couple of episodes seriously as they just reminded me of LoTR Hobbits. I think it was because they were quite short and wearing cloaks. :lol:

Interesting to see where this goes, I'm not at all familiar with the book(s) it's based on. Although where we are for the GoT story suggests it won't be a dark haired bastard kid on the throne at the end!.

I was surprised at how good it was, although it's much more of a family drama soap than GoT ever was and at it never reached the heights of the original show in this first season.

Shows there's still life and intrigue in the stories set in A Song of Ice and Fire if you have producers who actually give a gooseberry fool.

It’s hard to explain but while I really enjoyed S1 on a weekly basis, the longer since it aired the less I think I enjoyed it. Maybe I got caught up in the weekly fandom and memes but I probably won’t rewatch it. Whereas with something like The White Lotus S2, it really lingered in my mind and still does.

EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming second season of HBO’s House of the Dragon will consist of eight episodes, two fewer than Season 1 of the Critics Choice Award-winning Game of Thrones prequel. It is part of a long-term plan for the show, which includes HBO mulling a green light for a third season, I have learned.

The news comes as production is about to begin on Season 2 in the UK for a likely summer 2024 premiere.

In what is a relatively common practice, HBO did not reveal the episode order in the Season 2 renewal announcement last summer. I hear the initial plan was for another 10-episode arc, which eventually changed, leading to some script rewrites. Given the leadership change at HBO’s parent company, some pointed at Warner Bros. Discovery leadership’s focus on cost-cutting. An HBO spokesperson, who confirmed to Deadline that Season 2 will contain 8 episodes, stressed that the episode count trim was story-driven.

It has been reported that House of the Dragon’s creative team had envisioned the series running for three or four seasons. I hear executive producer-showrunner Ryan Condal, working with author/executive producer George R.R. Martin, took a step back as Season 2 was being put together to take a big-picture view of the series, which follows Martin’s Fire & Blood, and figure out the overall narrative flow, including how to break up the stories season-to-season and what battles to include and when.

As part of that, I hear Season 3 has been mapped out and might be greenlighted, with HBO seriously considering committing to moving ahead with scripts, casting and a production plan as the network too is trying to think long-term instead of season-to-season.

With a portion of the plot originally intended for Season 2, including a major battle, moving to Season 3, I hear it is now more likely that the series would run for four seasons, but that has not been determined as Condal and Martin continue to go back-and-forth on the number of seasons (three or four) that would be optimal to tell the full story, sources said.

https://deadline.com/2023/03/house-of-t ... 235312044/

Amazing, wasn't expecting that. Can't wait for S2.

Looks good!

Despite GOT S8 completely killing my enthusiasm for the world, HOTD managed to win me back over, and was really quite good. Looking forward to S2.

Still haven't finished season 1.

Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon. Returns 16th June. Green v Black trailers.

Who is online

Affiliates