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g0ldie
08/19/22 7:00:28 AM
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currently at 68 on Metacritic

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/house-of-the-dragon/season-1

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g0ldie
08/19/22 7:04:23 AM
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might not be great, but 68 still means that it has mostly good reviews.

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-BrokenSpiral-
08/19/22 7:11:34 AM
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68 should be considered good. But it actually translates to mediocre for most people.
Have to look at it through the latter, unless you're egotistical and think the world revolves around your views.
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voldothegr8
08/19/22 7:20:02 AM
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GranolaPanic posted...
I can guarantee you that any low ratings are just from angry people still upset over the final season of GoT.

I can guarantee you that any high ratings are just from desperate people who don't want the GoT train to end

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Gobstoppers12
08/19/22 7:20:18 AM
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I feel like it's weird to judge something like this by its first episode anyway.

"I don't know who these people are, and nothing happened, 0/5"

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hockeybub89
08/19/22 7:40:57 AM
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I just can't give a fuck about anything Game of Thrones ever again. They destroyed the entire universe with Season 8.

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FunkyCat
08/19/22 7:46:39 AM
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Yeah, not going to trust initial reviews just like I didn't with Wheel of Time. Far too many bigots just screaming like toddlers.

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hockeybub89
08/19/22 7:51:35 AM
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The irrational hatred of season 8 is ridiculous. It was fine. The only real flaw was Dany forgetting about the Iron Fleet.
It was one of the worst seasons of all time, especially the later half/last episode. What a fucking insult. You can't even rewatch the show or any new content because you know it's all worthless in the end.

I was very happy D&D got screwed out of their Star Wars deal.

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Dark-Summoner
08/19/22 8:01:17 AM
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I liked it and it was a fitting conclusion. Many viewers didnt understand the entire series was building to Dany doing what she did.

Naked Dragon lady burns everyone who doesn't kneel to her, or questions her.

*burns town full of people who don't kneel to her and treat her like the invader she is*

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TetsuoS2
08/19/22 8:04:48 AM
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if s8 was actually fine got wouldn't have basically evaporated from internet discussions.

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BalanceLost
08/19/22 8:06:59 AM
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GranolaPanic posted...
The irrational hatred of season 8 is ridiculous. It was fine. The only real flaw was Dany forgetting about the Iron Fleet.
It sadly isnt. I rewatched all 8 seasons this Spring. Seasons 1-7 range from amazing to at least okay. But season 8 is ghastly.

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TetsuoS2
08/19/22 8:10:19 AM
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personally think the bigger gaff was bran not getting enough build up for that ending.

arya killing nk was foreshadowed but not well done.

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COVxy
08/19/22 8:13:22 AM
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I think the biggest issue is that they tried to do too much too fast in the last two seasons. Which led to terrible writing choices because they realized they needed to get certain characters to certain places, but didn't have the time to build it up in the traditional slow burn story telling form that GoT was known for.

Charcters were instantly transporting large distances, random asspulls needed to happen left and right, etc.

Like, I don't think too many people had too many complaints about the actual plot points (except bran the broken which we should all acknowlege was stupid af) but how they were executed.

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Ratchetrockon
08/19/22 8:14:50 AM
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Would 68 tv show be like a game scoring around 80? Not too bad then

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Funkydog
08/19/22 8:51:26 AM
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GranolaPanic posted...
I liked it and it was a fitting conclusion. Many viewers didnt understand the entire series was building to Dany doing what she did.
The issue wasn't that she snapped like she was prophesised to, but the way in which they showed it in the last season. It was a giant leap from what she'd done previously, and couple with the numerous other atrocious decisions from this season many simply weren't prepared to give the benefit of the doubt. Dany was just one of many, many, many issues and not even the worst by a long shot.

They were offered time to properly pad it out and present it satisfyingly, but they chose not to.

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voldothegr8
08/19/22 8:51:38 AM
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hockeybub89 posted...
I just can't give a fuck about anything Game of Thrones ever again. They destroyed the entire universe with Season 8.

Yeah pretty much. It left such a sour taste in my mouth I will never watch this or anything else GoT.

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TomClark
08/19/22 8:55:58 AM
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GranolaPanic posted...
I liked it and it was a fitting conclusion. Many viewers didnt understand the entire series was building to Dany doing what she did.

I definitely think the conclusion itself was fitting. If circa seasons 4-5 we'd have been told how Dany, Jon, Arya, Cersei, Jaime, Sam, Davos and Brienne's respective arcs ended, I think everyone would have not only been happy to hear it, but would have essentially reacted with a "Well, yeah, of course that's where it's going..."

It was definitely the right ending for most of the show, and I'm absolutely convinced that it's an ending that Martin told them years ago, and is more or less the closest the TV show - with it's smaller cast - could come to the ending that Martin has planned for the last books that will never come out. Furthermore, I'm actually pretty convinced that the scripts for the last few episodes were written years ago, around the time they still had more input from GRRM - even the dialogue in those episodes sounds more like it did in the early seasons (references to "Bran The Broken" etc.)

The big problem I have is that season 6-8 (save for the last couple of episodes), where they didn't have books to go off of, veered the plot in a different direction, the White Walkers kinda took over as the biggest plot thread rather than the Iron Throne even though that had no impact at all on the ending, character arcs went in different directions leading motivations away from where they needed to be for that ending, they clearly had no idea how to get Bran from where he was arc-wise to where he needed to be, and suddenly the finale that they had planned - while perfect for the first 5 seasons, and definitely the conclusion they had been building toward from the start - didn't really fit organically with what they'd changed the storyline to. They obviously knew how to end the show well, they just had no idea how to get from where the books left them to where they needed to be for that ending.

The problem wasn't the ending itself, it was the couple of seasons leading up to it.

And that's not even getting into all the "you've unlocked fast travel" nonsense, haha.


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Doom_Art
08/19/22 9:05:35 AM
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Flipped through the "mediocre" reviews tab and the most common criticism of the seems to be that it's too similar to GoT

which... isn't a bad thing?

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g0ldie
08/19/22 10:49:04 AM
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76 on Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/house_of_the_dragon

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masterpug53
08/19/22 11:08:25 AM
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Hey, you know what's more fun than explaining why GoT from S5 onward failed - as both an adaptation and as a series in its own right - for the umpteenth time? Everything.

I'm not in a hurry to see the new series, but I'm not opposed to it either. Tbh the Targaryen house and its history is the one I've always been the least interested in compared to the other great houses, but if the show's good, I'll watch it.

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wackyteen
08/19/22 11:16:47 AM
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hockeybub89 posted...
I just can't give a f*** about anything Game of Thrones ever again.

This.

The only way I'd watch HotD is if I got it on good faith and authority, after all is said and done for the show, that it was actually good and worth the time.

I'm not investing a moments care until then

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KiwiTerraRizing
08/19/22 11:17:14 AM
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GranolaPanic posted...
I can guarantee you that any low ratings are just from angry people still upset over the final season of GoT.

How can you guarantee that?

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Smashingpmkns
08/19/22 11:21:18 AM
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The trailers look a really bad/boring. I decided long ago that I wasn't going to watch this though so maybe I'm biased.

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alphagamble
08/19/22 11:22:27 AM
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I'll give it a chance

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IronWolf87
08/19/22 11:45:44 AM
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For the longest time I thought this show was going to be about the targs original conquest of Westeros, just recently did I learn that it's actually about events that happen just a little before GoT and Im not as interested.

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Freddie_Mercury
08/19/22 12:44:39 PM
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GranolaPanic posted...
I had the chance to watch it early and I loved it.

GranolaPanic posted...
The irrational hatred of season 8 is ridiculous. It was fine. The only real flaw was Dany forgetting about the Iron Fleet.




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lilORANG
08/19/22 12:47:03 PM
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Matt Smith in a really bad wig isn't doing it for people? Shocker.

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TomClark
08/19/22 1:04:19 PM
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IronWolf87 posted...
just recently did I learn that it's actually about events that happen just a little before GoT

Huh. I thought it was deeper in the past, too.

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TomClark
08/19/22 1:56:27 PM
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That'll be what I'm thinking of, yeah.

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UnholyMudcrab
08/19/22 2:00:22 PM
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GranolaPanic posted...
The irrational hatred of season 8 is ridiculous. It was fine. The only real flaw was Dany forgetting about the Iron Fleet.
Ain't nothing irrational about it

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hockeybub89
08/19/22 2:04:29 PM
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DoesntMatter
08/19/22 2:15:05 PM
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IronWolf87 posted...
For the longest time I thought this show was going to be about the targs original conquest of Westeros, just recently did I learn that it's actually about events that happen just a little before GoT and Im not as interested.

I think the world of ASoIaF has tons of potential for interesting stories/shows but I'm pretty much over anything related to the war of the 5 kings/GoT.
it's about events that take place almost 200 years before GoT, not "a little bit before". it has nothing to do with the war of the 5 kings. it's about the Targaryen civil war.
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PesticideDream
08/19/22 2:48:53 PM
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I didn't think seasons 7 and 8 were that abhorrently terrible, they had some great episodes and not so great ones, but everything did feel incredibly rushed. Like, all this build-up with all these events taking place at once, and then it felt like "ok, we're bored, let's wrap this shit up".
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IronWolf87
08/19/22 3:13:24 PM
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DoesntMatter posted...
it's about events that take place almost 200 years before GoT, not "a little bit before". it has nothing to do with the war of the 5 kings. it's about the Targaryen civil war.

Oh interesting. The trailers made it seem like it wasn't that long before GoT. A little more interested now. Still want a show about the original Targ conquest though.
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untrustful
08/19/22 3:14:56 PM
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Not even 70? In certain areas schools set 68 to a D grade.

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g0ldie
08/19/22 3:15:32 PM
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it's up to 70 now

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untrustful
08/19/22 3:17:08 PM
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flat C is okay

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Gobstoppers12
08/19/22 3:21:49 PM
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I hope this series shows us the Doom of Valyria, or at least addresses it in some fashion. I'm fuzzy on the exact timeline but that's an event that always fascinated me.

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HovaRex
08/19/22 3:25:59 PM
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
I hope this series shows us the Doom of Valyria, or at least addresses it in some fashion. I'm fuzzy on the exact timeline but that's an event that always fascinated me.

I can almost guarantee it won't. GRRM has gone into almost detail about it. It's like his Blue Wizards.

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Spiritlittle
08/19/22 9:59:30 PM
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The issue with season 8 is not Dany's madness. That was foreshadowed a million times. It's the WAY it happens that's stupid. She had already won King's Landing and then burns it because of BELLS OMGZ!!!!

And then the extremely rushed conclusion with Bran irrationally ending up on the throne and contradicting everything The Three-Eyed Raven has said up to that point.

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Darkprince21
08/19/22 10:03:16 PM
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92 on RT. Pretty good
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