re: GoT: House of the Dragon Season 3 Official Thread [BOOK SPOILERS]

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The biggest thing for me is the characters in the show. I hate all these frickers, don't like a single one and wish the dragons would roast them all

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A lot of what he's done is obviously shady or evil, but I cant help but pull for Daemon, despite knowing what happens in the book.

Rhaenera and Aliciant don't move the needle for the show.

2 of the 3 dragon seeds are sort of interesting right now. They're interesting as no one has ever went from non royalty to a dragon rider and formidable fighters in such a short time. They don't really owe anyone true loyalty IMO because they weren't wanted until they were needed. Their next moves will matter.

Problem is your lead actress and character is awful and irritating. Her closest confidant is the same. The group around her most of the time, the same. On the other hand Daemon, Cole, Otto, Aemon, Aegon and Larys are all great characters. Even Alicent, who is only stupid in her connections to Rhaenyra and her storyline is a good character played by a good actress.

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The biggest thing for me is the characters in the show. I hate all these frickers, don't like a single one and wish the dragons would roast them all.

Plus the actors can't act for shite. I have zero emotional buy-in to care about the battle scenes or big character deaths.

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I've watched GOT and it's variations from the get go, so I'm "emotionally invested". However, this series, and the season opener, just didn't do it for me. It's primarily the characters and their acting. But the Battle of the Gullet did deliver overall in terms of imagery and carnage. Great battle scenes.

Dumbass Jace defies his mother and goes out and gets himself and Vermax killed with his false bravado.

I did enjoy seeing Lohar getting shanked by Alyn of Hull at the end. God what a grating character she was.

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All is not well. With her navy decimated, Rhaenyra need all the help she can get to take King’s Landing and begin to rule Westeros.

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And now without an heir her legitimacy is deeper in the shitter. No one counts those whelps she sent away to Essos that Lil' Wayne abandoned in the Vale

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She still has one more bastard son

And those whelps weren’t shown, but they were tangentially involved in last night’s episode

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Dumbass Jace defies his mother and goes out and gets himself and Vermax killed with his false bravado.

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This is the main issue with this show. They keep trying to make everyone out to be noble, good people by making the bad things they do more of a happenstance or misunderstanding. The issue with that is it makes all the characteers stupid. I'd rather have a situation where Rhaenyra makes the call to send in moondancer and Vermax for a strategy reason than it be the queen being held hostage while her dumbass son pretends to be a hero.

Overall, this show is more story/action driven than character driven. Lucky for them, Dragon warfare is entertaining enough to deal with the nonsenscial decisions everyone makes time and time again.

Hopefully after Jace dies they will have Rhaenyra go fully off the rails like the books. This story needs a true villain and she is it.

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Those scorpions were a lot smaller than the scorpions in GOT. I didn’t like that they killed Vermax with one shot. I know they needed them for the on screen drama, it worked but they should’ve killed him the way he died in the books. I don’t like the dragons being diminished, it throws the strategy around them for warfare out of whack.

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He got shot at least 3 times :D

It was an excellent first episode. Should have been the season finale of Season 2. It is hilarious to me how HBO greenlit a show based on a war then refuses to put forth the budget to show said war. We will see in the coming weeks if the show can maintain this level of quality of if episode 1 was where the majority of the budget went.

So are we going to discuss the gigantic underbite on Sheepslayer? Maybe this indicates he’s a little drago-autistic or drago-retarded? No wonder he doesn’t hang with the other dragons. They make laugh at him. Call him names. Won’t let him play in their dragon games. Wait…I’ve heard this somewhere before…

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Biggest issue with this show is gross misuse of talent. Daemon is the best character by a lot and we hardly see him. Sad

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In season two, for sure. We'll see if that continues but he got some decent screen time last night that was mainly focusing on a battle that he wasn't involved in. He wasn't at the Battle of the Gullet and that was the big event of EP1, no need to take away from an epic battle to give him screen time. Going forward is a different story, we'll see, but I'm not mad about last nights episode for sure. Was a great start to the season imo.

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Who gives a frick about the little half black blonde haired girl with some of the worst acting I’ve seen in a while? There were times when they would replace actors if they were bad. How do you watch a playback of her scenes and think that is ok?

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Not really sure why the replaced a book favorite in Nettles and gave Sheepstealer to Rhaena. but it was one of the bigger mistakes they made. But not a deal breaker, just personal preference. I thought the girl did a good job once she was on the dragon and holding on for dear life, but yea, once off the dragon and acting is actually required, she's pretty bad

So are we going to discuss the gigantic underbite on Sheepslayer? Maybe this indicates he’s a little drago-autistic or drago-retarded? No wonder he doesn’t hang with the other dragons. They make laugh at him. Call him names. Won’t let him play in their dragon games. Wait…I’ve heard this somewhere before…

Sheepstealer is either a jerk or really dumb.