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Eldy
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Sep 25 2022, 8:30pm
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...I also recently watched the first episode of House of the Dragon. Sadly, the DirecTV login I used to watch the final season of GoT stopped working since I last used it to watch football, and I'm no longer on speaking terms with the relative it belongs to. :P I was able to watch the first episode since HBO Max offers it as a free preview, and it was good enough that I'd like to continue. I have a possible lead with a friend who can hopefully let me keep watching more or less legally, so we'll see how that goes. But as for the episode itself, it definitely surpassed my expectations, which were low due to my feelings about the entire back half of GoT (not just the final season).
I'm familiar with the source material for HotD--Martin's Fire & Blood, known before publication under the facetious working title The GRRMarillion--but I honestly don't care for it that much. I feel weird saying that, because in a vacuum I'd expect to enjoy a work that leans so heavily into the very Tolkienesque conceit of being written by an in-universe historian. Unfortunately, the in-universe historian in question, Archmaester Gyldayn, is prissy, prejudiced, and not very good as a historian or a storyteller. Which is weird, because Martin is very good at both those things when he wants to be, but much of Fire & Blood came across to me as a joke that fell flat. The TV adaptation, on the other hand, depicts events with the immediacy characteristic to its medium, which allows us to get to know the characters better, without being filtered through another character's biases. Fortunately, the cast was a delight in the premiere, with Matt Smith as the surprising but undisputed standout in my opinion. I didn't really buy him as Daemon Targaryen from the promotional photos, but seeing him in action, he's fantastic. Every bit the tremendous, and tremendously entertaining, asshole Daemon should be. lol I don't know if the show will be able to keep up that level of quality, but I look forward to finding out.
(This post was edited by Eldy on Sep 25 2022, 8:31pm)
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