TV: House of the Dragon (HBO) - Season 2 - Summer 2024, please use spoil tags where it makes sense

[britdevil]

What's really missing is a celebrity cameo, along the lines of Ed Sheeran. Can we get Mummy TayTay in here?

Jokes aside, this is really good tv. A simple story about a family torn apart by lust and power. I don't need to see what's going on with the Starks etc. Let them harp on about the evils north of the wall, we all know that turns out to be a damp squib. I groaned when they showed the wall in the first episode, what a waste....

I'll toss another vote into the "Cristan Cole is the biggest bitch ever" gang. What a piece of shit.

 

[Neutrinos]

I thought episode 2 was a bit of a snoozefest...

Just about every scene was just 2 characters talking about stuff I didn't particularly care about

Of course, there were some highlights - Otto's scene with the King, for example - but I was kinda bored through most of it... or at least not as engaged as I'd hoped to be

 

[BrindamoursNose]

I thought episode 2 was a bit of a snoozefest...

Just about every scene was just 2 characters talking about stuff I didn't particularly care about

Of course, there were some highlights - Otto's scene with the King, for example - but I was kinda bored through most of it... or at least not as engaged as I'd hoped to be

Lemme guess - Season 8 was your favorite season of Game of Thrones.

 

[Hasbro]

 

[trojansoilers]

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Aren't some of those pictures of the guy from SNL who recently played Beavis & Butthead?

 

[Hasbro]

Aren't some of those pictures of the guy from SNL who recently played Beavis & Butthead?

Mikey Day

 

[DaaaaB's]

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I take it you're enamoured by his looks.

 

[Hasbro]

I take it you're enamoured by his looks.

Just wondering if Larys Strong might be getting an order if vanilla nut taps.

 

[GKJ]

It wouldn't surprise me if Cole makes an awful Hand and gets replaced by Larys, who may even play a hand (no pun) in undermining him, if only out of jealousy over Alicent (and her feet).

He clearly does not seem to be up to the task, the question is just how you remove him. Alicent isn’t gonna dump him. I’d imagine at some point she’ll have to make a decision between him and her father.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

That occurred to me while watching the latest episode, as well. GoT was also largely humorless, but did have characters (especially Tyrion and Varys) making witty, wry cracks now and then. This show takes it even further and barely ever has a character even grin, much less smile. Everyone in the show seems miserable, and I think that that's the point, since they take it out on others and escalate conflict. Also, in GoT, there was some affection between family members (ex. among the Starks and between Cersei and Jaime--no jokes, please--and Tyrion). Here, it feels like no one likes one another--Alicent doesn't seem to love even her own children--and there's a bit more friction, resentment and jealousy. Finally, in GoT, there was a feeling that one of the factions was going to win or that all of them would band together to defeat a common foe, but, here, it feels like no one's going to be a winner when this is over. It's a more serious and depressing show by design, I think, and I don't mind. Lightening the mood with humor would just undermine some of what makes the show stand out, IMO.

If you remove Tyrion from GoT the show looses 70% of it's humor, which was just dick jokes anyways.

But there was a reason for Tyrion's humour, he used it as a tool to get people to pay attention to him.

In HOTD, there are no jokesters. Everyone is quite serious about what is going on because they are all invested in their own sides claim to the throne. Oh, and also there are WMD's in the form of Dragon's. The fear of flying nukes neuters a lot of humor that may be had.

 

[Hasbro]

If you remove Tyrion from GoT the show looses 70% of it's humor, which was just dick jokes anyways.

But there was a reason for Tyrion's humour, he used it as a tool to get people to pay attention to him.

In HOTD, there are no jokesters. Everyone is quite serious about what is going on because they are all invested in their own sides claim to the throne. Oh, and also there are WMD's in the form of Dragon's. The fear of flying nukes neuters a lot of humor that may be had.

Please. Jamie was a hell of an insult comic.

Inspired me and some friends to come up with Westros specific Yo Mamma jokes. "Yo Mamma so fat, before he was seen with her Lord Baelish was called Bigfinger."

 

[JetsFan815]

If you remove Tyrion from GoT the show looses 70% of it's humor, which was just dick jokes anyways.

But there was a reason for Tyrion's humour, he used it as a tool to get people to pay attention to him.

In HOTD, there are no jokesters. Everyone is quite serious about what is going on because they are all invested in their own sides claim to the throne. Oh, and also there are WMD's in the form of Dragon's. The fear of flying nukes neuters a lot of humor that may be had.

The book had Mushroom the jester who provided comic relief. The show cut him, though I can understand why as that character would be tricky to do on tv without coming across as offensive.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

The book had Mushroom the jester who provided comic relief. The show cut him, though I can understand why as that character would be tricky to do on tv without coming across as offensive.

The point of Mushrooms inclusion in the book wasn't to provide comic relief though. His narrative was included to sow doubt on the many various claims made by the other narrators, so in the end you had no idea who the hell was telling the truth.

 

[Tw1ster]

Thoroughly enjoying season 2 so far. So far HOTD as a whole has scratched the (quality) Game of Thrones itch.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

The first 2 episodes have delivered for me.

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

Harrenhal looks so grim and foreboding.As it should be.

Larys is one conniving guy. I love it. Though I can't get that one weird scene from S1 out of my head everytime that I see him now.

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

Yes! Next ep should be fire . Setting up the first major battle of the Dance.

Very good interaction there at the end.

 

[Sad People]

It’s about to go down next episode lol

Daemon is kinda pissing me off.

 

[GKJ]

We gettin’ after it next week

Mysaria must be protected at all costs

 

[MadDevil]

This whole thing could have been avoided if the Targaryens didn't name every other son Aegon.

 

[PALE PWNR]

This whole thing could have been avoided if the Targaryens didn't name every other son Aegon.

While hilarious I'm not sure that's quite true. That alicent heard what she wanted to hear from the king seems to be just a convenient way to legitimize herself and her thoughts. The hightowers overall seemed to always have it in their mind that they would ascend the throne one way or another.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

That ending was so, so, so f***ing good. Gave me goosebumps honestly.


And now, the dance truly begins.

 

[HanSolo]

Strong episode. I knew Rhaenyra going to see Alicent wasn't going to change anything, but it was still a bit of a gut punch to see Alicent realize she made a mistake and decide to do nothing about it anyway.

But realistically, she was right. There's no changing anything anymore. What is she supposed to do? Call in the small council and just tell them "oopsy, my late husband meant Aegon the conqueror and was talking about a prophecy...my son is a usurper, we should step aside." Aegon would never abdicate and everyone in power would just dismiss her as making a desperate attempt, through fabrication, to avoid war. Still a great scene to have in there though.

The scenes shown from next week look tremendous.

I will say though:

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Way more dong than I was expecting to see today. And the actual simulated bl**j** like...that was completely unexpected. I don't know if I've ever seen that in such explicit form in a tv show.

 

[Osprey]

Good episode, as usual. I liked the revelation at the end. Also, I wasn't expecting the episode to deliver on the show's acronym.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Rhaenyra has a lot of her father in her, and I'm not sure that is a good thing.

She seems poised to make a lot of the mistakes old Vizzy T did