GOT : House of the Dragon

Gonna be tough to wait a whole week for another dose of HotD



(I didn't watch it, I just wanted to make a dumb joke)

It's got to be true, they said it on The View

I've got Jezebel's next thinkpiece ready to go, btw.

Why is Corlys Velaryon Blonde?
In what should have been a series-changing casting decision, HBO showmakers can't help pushing white physical ideals onto Black Bodies

It's the same show basically, just trying to figure out a new set of characters and decide who I like and stuff.  There are some big jumps forward in time that I think will start to bother me (for instance, this week's episode is 3 years ahead from last week's).  And from what I understand, we're just a couple eps away from both Rhaenyra and Allicent are gonna be replaced by new actresses because they're jumping ahead to where they're adults.  I guess they have to do cover a big time period if they want to actually get through all the shit covered in the book, but it feels like this is going to be distracting.  It's hard enough remembering who everyone is because the Targaryens all look the same and have the same name (which I believe I pre-copmlained about); big time jumps and new actors aren't gonna help.

Also some of the CGI kinda sucks for such a big budget show.  Anyway, I'm entertained and will keep watching.

Having read the book (#hb), this storyline takes place over like 25-30 years or so so there are super important characters that aren't even alive yet (spoiler).  GoT fucked around with timelines from the book but that was mostly to not make everyone look like giant pervs (Dany was like 13 in the first book, Sansa was 11 or 12 I think) but I guess they figured there was really no way to condense this down too much.  

In any case, enjoying the new show so far.  I don't know why it makes me laugh but it's what, 170 years or whatever before GoT and its still the same 20 families popping around driving the plot (except for the Velaryons I guess, who weren't very important in GoT).

Agreed.  Also, while there are certainly characters that are going to die (spoiler?), there are still adults that will be around for quite a while so I wonder if they're going to age them up or what.