HBO can just put this on a DVD without a label and it would still be better the all of season 8. You don't even need to watch all 6 episodes, this is the perfect recap of this hot garbage.
I made a new thread about HoTD because I was a bit iffy on discussing it on the GoT thread, partially because I think it's so good it doesn't deserve to be attached to GoT even on a Minecraft forum's thread 💀💀
With all due respect, the cast did their part. The writers skewed their work and butchered the whole thing all up. For me personally, I was sold at season 6. The last two seasons felt so rushed and half-way done. It was like we went from, this is REALLY good stuff to, wait am I still on the right series? 😵💫🤷♂️ It wasn’t even that I had mixed feelings about it. Simply put, it was horrible. At the very least, Tyrion managed to bring a slight smile to my face. Because well, I mean, it’s Tyrion!!! 😉 I hope HoTD makes sure to steer clear of any of those poorly dealt choices. We shall see!
I rewatched GoT last year and Season 5 was my jumping off point tbh I’ve read the books. In the book some of Season 5 and all of Season 6 is based on we are introduced to Aegon Targaryen, Rhaegar Targaryen’s son and a new claimant to the Iron Throne who was thought dead until now; Arianne Martell and her father Doran, as well as the Sand Snakes who actually reconcile with Doran. Daenerys also has her attempts at ruling with kindness utterly fail and resolves to embrace her house’s words: fire and blood. The books are very clearly setting up a plotline where Aegon Targaryen invades Westeros and wins the Iron Throne from Tommen. Because he’s just ejected Cersei Lannister from the Red Keep (after she blew up their place of religious worship), he’s loved by the people. By the time Daenerys presses her claim, people love Aegon and have fond memories of his father whereas they don’t want Daenerys and think she’ll be a tyrant like her dad. Daenerys will use her dragons to depose Aegon by force but accidentally blow up the wildfire deposits her dad put around King’s Landing, destroying the city and making her look like the tyrant she was feared to be. Her redemption will be sacrificing herself in the fight against the White Walkers. D&D cut Arianne Martell and her siblings out of the story completely, made the Sand Snakes kill Doran and gave them the political literacy of university students, they cut Aegon Targaryen out of the story completely and just made Cersei the queen for some reason even though she has no claim to it, and leaned into Daenerys being kind even though at that point in the books she was becoming more ruthless. The rot set in during Season 5 and had poisoned the entire well during Season 6. And it’s REALLY noticeable when you watch a perfect four seasons and then watch Season 5 💀 As for HoTD they have their important plot points laid out for them in Fire & Blood, they have GRRM’s involvement (something GoT didn’t have after Season 4), and the showrunners made the best episodes of GoT. In the first two episodes alone they’ve made something that feels like the early seasons of GoT when they have NO source material for dialogue or characterisations (Fire & Blood is written as if it’s a history book written centuries after everything happened, with all the biases and ‘I-wasn’t-alive-to-see-this’ context history books have). It’s in more than capable hands IMO, my only concern is that it has a lot of dragon-on-dragon fights coming up and when GoT tried its hand at that it made for one of the most disorienting, awfully shot, and excessively-dark-to-hide-bad-CGI scenes I have ever seen. My only complaint so far is that I can’t have Emilia Clarke and Kit Harrington on my screen every week (also the Targaryen wigs are bad) but oh well 😔😔
