Inceptionzq Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 3 hours ago, 4815162342 said: The Stepstones part of the episode felt a little shaky, since it kinda glossed over how after three years Daemon and Corlys were losing, yet also simultaneously had the Crabfeeder's forces pinned into a cave network on a single island. If the original issue was that the Crabfeeder's pirates were assaulting Westerosi ships, then by blockading them to a single part of a single island haven't you met the conditions for victory? Just bottle them up and let them starve. I’d guess that Crabfeeder had the advantage on supplies considering there are three Free Cities are a lot closer than Driftmark is, so they could hold out longer than the Velaryons could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inceptionzq Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Also, at the beginning of the episode Tyland says that the fleet is still being hit by the pirates at night. Pinning them down hasn’t completely resolved the problem. And that Crabfeeder’s mercenaries are leaving in droves, which is probably why Daemon and Coryls have been fighting for years since the army was previously stronger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnokesLegs Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Very good episode (even if the Crabfeeder’s men did seem to have worse aim than a Star Wars stormtrooper)! It’s going to be a shame to lose Milly Alcock when the time skip happens though, she’s been great as young Rhaenyra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potiki Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) The first episode of the prequel has been watched by just more than 4M people, according to Sky, beating the 2011 launch of the first Game of Thrones. According to UK ratings agency Barb, this figure places House of the Dragon on a par with the likes of Netflix’s Stranger Things and Disney+’s Obi Wan-Kenobi. source: https://deadline.com/2022/09/house-of-the-dragon-game-of-thrones-viewing-records-1235108852/ The is for UK and should add Australia viewership below: Quote House of the Dragon has set a new viewing record with 1.235 million viewers watching the first episode on FOXTEL and BINGE since premiering last Monday (August 22). Monday’s first episode also became the biggest premiere for any show in history across FOXTEL and BINGE and continued to grow across the week as people caught up on demand. Source (August 30th): https://www.adnews.com.au/news/house-of-the-dragon-breaks-viewing-records Sorry the formatting is a bit messed up copied and pasted from the streaming tracking thread. Edited September 7, 2022 by Potiki 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cax16 Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Liked it considerably more then Rings of Power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) And this is not the only TV series Martin is involved in. He is also one of the producers of "Dark Winds" over at AMC, a YV series based on Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. This was a labor of love for Martin,since he was friends with Hillerman before the Latter's death. It also gives him a chance for something completly different then his usual Fantasy/Sci fi stuff. Edited September 7, 2022 by dudalb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cax16 Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 So so good, so happy to have this back on Sunday’s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potiki Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Not as good as the first 3 episodes but the last 5 minutes set up some interesting elements going forward. Looking forward to next week, crazy that we will be half way through the season come next week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyxx Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 This episode was too hot even without titties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnokesLegs Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Excellent episode, really, really enjoying this so far. I saw the IGN review mention that it needs more action, but I couldn’t disagree more, GoT was only rarely about action during its best seasons, to the point where when action did happen, it hit like a brick. Give me more of this slow, character driven intrigue any day over a show that substitutes action for story. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cax16 Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainbug Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Episode 4 was very good. The Season so far is a trillion times better than GoT Seasons 7-8 and also better than 5 and 6 imo. Feels really good to see this world again with actual good writing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatebox Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 (edited) Watched the first two episodes. I’m neither a LotR nor a GoT fanboy, but it’s ridiculous that Rings Of Power and House Of Dragon got similar reviews. The latter is so superior at basic storytelling it’s barely worth debating. Actual characters with clear motivations and conflicts who you care about - what a novelty! Edited September 13, 2022 by Hatebox 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 25 minutes ago, Hatebox said: Watched the first two episodes. I’m neither a LotR nor a GoT fanboy, but it’s ridiculous that Rings Of Power and House Of Dragon got similar reviews. The latter is so superior at basic storytelling it’s barely worth debating. Actual characters with clear motivations and conflicts who you care about - what a novelty! I'm honestly really skeptical of that number Amazon gave out for Rings of Power, its very conveniently the exact same number that HBO says the House of the Dragon premiere got over the course of its first week. And I didn't see the third episode of Rings Of Power trend on social media this past Thursday night/Friday the way GOT/HOTD does every Sunday. The few third party numbers we did get from Samba TV had HOTD more than doubling ROP with 4.8 million to 1.8 million. This isn't across all devices, but thats still a huge discrepancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdysm Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Ozymandias said: I'm honestly really skeptical of that number Amazon gave out for Rings of Power, its very conveniently the exact same number that HBO says the House of the Dragon premiere got over the course of its first week. And I didn't see the third episode of Rings Of Power trend on social media this past Thursday night/Friday the way GOT/HOTD does every Sunday. The few third party numbers we did get from Samba TV had HOTD more than doubling ROP with 4.8 million to 1.8 million. This isn't across all devices, but thats still a huge discrepancy. I might be mistaken, but I believe we haven't seen any worldwide numbers for HOTD. To my understanding, the 10M it did in its first day and 20M it did in its first ~6 days were only based on US viewing. ROP's 25M viewers in its first day was a worldwide number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cax16 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Another great episode. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 fantastic stuff feels good having appointment television of this scale again 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 The costuming in this show is insanely good, sometimes I feel like I'm watching and admiring the outfits more than listening to the dialogue. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyxx Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 13 hours ago, Ozymandias said: The costuming in this show is insanely good, sometimes I feel like I'm watching and admiring the outfits more than listening to the dialogue. I noticed while rewatching episode 4 before I played the new episode that the king’s outfit was pretty spectacular when he was grilling his brother in the throne room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
