House of the Dragon | GOT Spin-off | Season 2 June 2024

[SnokesLegs]

21 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

Well, George RR Martin posted a blog post today where he heavily critisized the showrunner Condal for his handling of certain aspects of the story and what they might mean for future seasons. He deleted the blog post just hours later, so make of that what you want.

In any case, George isnt all that happy with Season 2.

I know it’s George’s story, but things inevitably get streamlined in adaptations, and I’m sure that Condal and the writing team will have planned how they’re ending the show and taken into account which characters they need. They’ll have a much easier job of it than the GoT showrunners did considering Fire & Blood actually has an ending. Not entirely sure what George was hoping to achieve here.

[nox]

Condal has taken extreme liberties with the source material and this season suffered a lot because of it. Many of the changes were unnecessary and did not make sense even in the show's context. Martin has seen the outlines of 3rd and 4th seasons and suggests that they are even worse in that regard. By going public with the post, Martin is trying to prevent the show from going that route (since privately it seems the showrunners ignore his counsel).

[Belakor]

5 hours ago, nox said:

Condal has taken extreme liberties with the source material and this season suffered a lot because of it. Many of the changes were unnecessary and did not make sense even in the show's context. Martin has seen the outlines of 3rd and 4th seasons and suggests that they are even worse in that regard. By going public with the post, Martin is trying to prevent the show from going that route (since privately it seems the showrunners ignore his counsel).

 

Changing the source material for whatever reasons or just to prove points and it's a trend that needs to stop, authors and creators like George need to put more attention in how they make their deals.

[4815162342]

Martin should worry about writing his own stuff instead of spending time writing about others' writing 

[Torontofan]

On 9/6/2024 at 3:56 PM, 4815162342 said:

Martin should worry about writing his own stuff instead of spending time writing about others' writing 

 

I mean it depends people bastardizing his work ruins the brand and legacy of his work too. 

[4815162342]

1 hour ago, Torontofan said:

 

I mean it depends people bastardizing his work ruins the brand and legacy of his work too. 

 

Good thing nothing has been bastardized yet

[Torontofan]

10 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

Good thing nothing has been bastardized yet

season 8 of GOT 

 

lol

[4815162342]

16 hours ago, Torontofan said:

season 8 of GOT 

 

lol

 

We're talking about House of the Dragon here not something 5+ years ago 

[Torontofan]

17 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

We're talking about House of the Dragon here not something 5+ years ago 

and it seems house of dragon quality on the nosedive

[4815162342]

5 hours ago, Torontofan said:

and it seems house of dragon quality on the nosedive

 

According to whom?

[Brainbug]

2 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

According to whom?

 

I mean i personally think Season 2 has way more good than bad, but the online reception of the season is certainly very mixed. Plenty of fans (especially many book fans) have criticism towards the season. Reception to Season 1 was way more positive in comparison.

[4815162342]

1 hour ago, Brainbug said:

 

I mean i personally think Season 2 has way more good than bad, but the online reception of the season is certainly very mixed. Plenty of fans (especially many book fans) have criticism towards the season. Reception to Season 1 was way more positive in comparison.

 

And there's a difference between what you said and our old pal lordmandeep claiming that the show is now a smoking crater that is an affront to Martin's work

[Brainbug]

1 hour ago, 4815162342 said:

 

And there's a difference between what you said and our old pal lordmandeep claiming that the show is now a smoking crater that is an affront to Martin's work

 

Wait? Is @Torontofan actually Lordmandeep?? LOL suddenly a ton of things (posts) would make way more sense

[Torontofan]

8 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

According to whom?

  

The reception of season 2 is a big step down from season 1.

 

Season 2 seems like season 6-7 of GOT

 

I think Martin and other GOT fans are worried this turn into a Season 8 trainwreck which I think no one wants for latter seasons. 

 

I doubt it gets that bad but yeah the show reception is down quite a bit from season 1. 

Edited September 13 by Torontofan

[SnokesLegs]

6 hours ago, Torontofan said:

  

The reception of season 2 is a big step down from season 1.

 

Season 2 seems like season 6-7 of GOT

 

I think Martin and other GOT fans are worried this turn into a Season 8 trainwreck which I think no one wants for latter seasons. 

 

I doubt it gets that bad but yeah the show reception is down quite a bit from season 1. 

Season 2 would have had the same kind of reception as Season 1 if they’d not cut the season short and moved the big battle to next season. Season 2 for me was just as strong as season 1. Granted, I’ve not read the book, but I really don’t get this narrative that it was a nosedive in quality.

[ChipDerby]

Season 2 was better than Season 1, EXCEPT for the amount of episodes.

[Torontofan]

On 9/13/2024 at 5:53 PM, ChipDerby said:

Season 2 was better than Season 1, EXCEPT for the amount of episodes.

 

No season 1 had much better writing 

[4815162342]

2 hours ago, Torontofan said:

 

No season 1 had much better writing 

 

Season 1 was held back by the constant timejumps because of them feeling compelled to get to the Dance after 1 season instead of 2.

[Torontofan]

3 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

Season 1 was held back by the constant timejumps because of them feeling compelled to get to the Dance after 1 season instead of 2.

season 2 started to have season 6 & 7 Game of Thrones type issues of stuff seeming to happen that dont make sense or seems forced. 

 

I think we can argue but the last season didnt get as warmly recieved by audiences but there isnt much good mainstream TV these days so the show will remain popular

Edited September 18 by Torontofan

[ChipDerby]

5 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

Season 1 was held back by the constant timejumps because of them feeling compelled to get to the Dance after 1 season instead of 2.

 

Season 2 was helped by the stellar acting.