re: Game of Thrones: 'House of the Dragon' Official Trailer | HBO

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"I, Rickard Stark..."
Isn't that Ned's dad?

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Correct.

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serious question, for those that hated the ending of GoT, what ending did you want?

Disclaimer.. I didn't care for the ending either. I was hoping for John and Daenerys to rule together.

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I'll try and do a shortened version.

"The prince/princess that was promised." Kind of a crucial prophecy to the entire story. I mean this was built up for the entire series and then was casually just forgotten. To me, that's the most unforgiveable offense. It not only makes Jon's lineage and the fact that he was brought back to life not matter, or prophecy that Daenerys might be the princess not matter.

Melisandre's character became useless. Her prophecies in regards to Stannis, Jon and Dany all ended up meaning nothing. So seasons worth of building her character eventually led to her biggest moment being her lighting the fires for the Dothraki (which was immediately extinguished with their dumb attack) and then she just walks off and drifts away like that was her purpose in life.

Jamie. Not much needs to be said. he spends 2-3 seasons changing the person he was and drifting away from Cersei, has this incredible story arc, only to just last minute completely change and run to Cersei. Made no sense for his character. This is becoming a trend...

Arya was my favorite character in the books and the show. But you cant have her kill the Night King. If you do have her kill him, you have to have him and Jon go head to head at least a little. You cannot have that much build up, have an incredible episode like Hardhome, and then just leave it alone. Again, seasons worth of build up for nothing.

Dany, o Dany. I was a big Daenerys fan. But in the span of TWO EPISODES, she goes from a person that once locked up her dragons because Drogon killed a shepherd kid to someone that burned up a million people for pretty much no reason. Just fly to the tower and burn up Cersei. Why is she killing millions of people? I mean it makes no sense. So lets just completely change yet another character that was for 7 2/3 seasons someone completely different.

Drogon understands the symbolism that it wasnt Jon that killed Dany, it was her pursuit of the king. Got it. Makes sense.

Let me get this straight, because I still find it hard to believe. You have Bran, who for the entire show, was built up to be the three eyed raven. Became a zombie that didn't even want to be known as Bran anymore, just the three eyed raven, we're supposed to believe it was all to make him rule? Give me a freaking break. None of his journey was meant for him to be king. "Why do you think I came all this way?" Because someone carried your stupid arse that's why. Yet another character that's storyline was completely flipped on it's head in a way that doesn't stay true to what he was the entire series.

Tyrion tells Jon to kill Dany, but he is the one that get's to decide Jon's punishment and decide pretty much everything. He comes from his jail cell, isn't even supposed to be able to speak, yet he gives a rousing 3 minute speech that convinces everybody that Bra should be king with no debate. Also he decides what should happen to Jon, just to make Grey Worm happy! Yes, let's send the main character off just because that's what Grey Worm wants. Who gives a shite what he wants. Then he immediately leaves! Sansa has an army outside that could defeat the them but she's just like, yea, banish him, that's cool.

Gotta love Jon being cool with being sent off to a place that literally nobody wanted to live and built an army to get on the other side of, they now want to go back. Beyond the wall, a wall that is no longer needed. Very good writing. It's really cool knowing that after 8 seasons, Jon goes to live behind a broken wall, Dany is dead, and a dumb zombie kid is king.

Those are just some small reasons I hated it.

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"I, Rickard Stark..."
Isn't that Ned's dad?

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For whatever reason, they changed Rickon Stark to Rickard. Rickon was the father of Cregan aka Wolf of the North.

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They didn't stick the landing, I get it

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That's being very kind.

I suppose if we're talking about a commercial pilot not sticking the landing, missing the runway entirely, and crashing into a pre-school while the kids are playing with puppies; it's an accurate statement.

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BluegrassBelle

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Another GOT season 8 defending tard. Of course y'all would be in this.

Yeah, I'll probably end up watching, but the leash will be short this time.

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mid-evil Europe

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

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So it’s about dumb, medieval men who don’t want to have a girl as heir because all men are bad and too stupid to do anything but fight each other.

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GRRM is a self described feminist.

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But this is supposed to be like 200 years before GOT.

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It is, but there's a few Stark names that were reused over different generations of the family tree....Rickon, Rickard, Brandon, Benjen

Same for the Targaryens

So there's probably going to be a few names in this show that sound familiar from GOT, despite the 200 year difference in timelines.

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Would you date the same girl who dumped you earlier but she came back with sleeve tats and 2 bastard kids?

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How good was she in bed? Asking for a friend.