I know right the 2020s what the f***

Hey Now, GOT was nowhere near a disaster, it just ended disastrously.

LOTR did also have The Hobbit trilogy which weren't as great as the LOTR trilogy but still very good.

GOT huge

@@blingximus well ya that’s what I mean. S8 in particular

And acting

Right because within only 2 episodes they managed to create a full enough character that we could understand him without him explaining all his reason. Its a pretty confident move on the writers part and it worked.

That part was kind of cool, but the fact that for years the Triarchy has lived and kept them at bay, and then all the sudden fall for that ploy, just doesn't really hold water for me.

Exactly! I was trying to explain how this show doesn't waste words. Well shot, directed and written.

@@ordocastus The look on Daemon's face when the messenger read the letter from the king was priceless. I thought he was actually touched, and then... The characters are complex.

If you have read fire and blood you know that the best still to come. THEY are still establishing the characters because it occurs over about 30 years

For House of The Dragon , we are barely scratching the surface , real greatness is yet to come

@@fahad.2924 Fingers crossed. So far so good.

With only 3 episodes it can’t be a masterpiece. If they do it right with the source material they have, then it will be epic.

It's a masterpiece compared to RoP.

That was not so much Matt Smith's decision as it was the showrunners and the writers, but he did act well. I actually don't think most of Rings of Power actors are bad, but they have shit writing to work with, so there's only so much they can do.

Paddy Considine has acted way better than any other cast member

its was his subtlety in his movements were fantastic when he wasnt speaking plus his actions scenes were great!

Him and Paddy Constantine steal the show

The casting is a mess though. I mean you can take one or two actors (Matt Smith) as doing a good job but compared to initial Game of Thrones seasons, it's far below that level of quality.

@Tala K True.

Love the guy, great docto then Prince Philipp and now Daemon. A powerhkuse that guy is.

When the show started I was disappointed because the role is not one that lets him show off his rascally charm, but after episode 3 I'm fully invested.

ingenious

That would have been a great ending. The petty squabbling turns into a war and no one is left to stop the white walkers.

He's not writing for the show. They give him a big bag of money, he gives his advice and input on some things and the show runners can either listen to or ignore him.

@@liamjm9278 Nah. George himself said Ryan is working closely with him on approving stuff with the series. HOTD is based on a collection of history and isn't a POV novel.

@@airwaters George a 2 weeks ago in an interview, with the History of Westeros Podcast, explained what he does, which is what I said. He can influence the show-runners by talking to them about things, but that's it. He has no creative control like script approval or anything like that, just his advice which can be ignored. It's similar to his role in early Got. Even then some of his advice was ignored like Jane Pool not being established, which caused problems later on with Ramsey.

His father was tytos who was just as bad

Lannister were mostly inept if you look at their history only Loren and Tywin stood out.

Tywin was a titan as he felt most of his siblings were inept, so he went out to crush all of them and secure the family line.

@@raphaelostrowski6336 and Gerold (Tywin’s grandfather)

​@@raphaelostrowski6336 Joanna Lannister was kind of cool

Just wait a couple of episodes more,... That feeling will change....

@@8asw8 Wait for what? Few episodes of what, Rings or House od Dragon?

@@stevem2323 Wait for wokeism to kick in in HOTD

@@googlelord1678 lmao. Not happening though.

@@8asw8 You think? I don't know man, i didn't see almost any of that, if we disregard Corlys Velaryon. I think they paid the woke tax with him, and took cancel police of their back. I mean HBO isn't the same as Amazon, in any regard.

Emma d'Arcys acting is "excellent"?

@@8asw8 She hasn't been in the show yet.

@@USN1985dos Just realised that. Than the chick that lays Rhaenyra. And since d'Arcy's comments before release, I am not holding my breath for her.

@@8asw8 I think Milly Alcock (current Rhaenyra) has been pretty good, tbh. As for D'Arcy, her haircut alone flags her as a tard, but hopefully she can act enough so that it's possible to separate the character from the actress. If not, then it's going to be a pretty bad spiral. At least the end of her arc will be satisfying if that's the case, lol.

@@USN1985dos he hasn’t even seen the fucking show and he’s chattting shit ahhh

Agreed. Fantastic character and development.

Determined to beat those bast*rds WITHOUT Big Brother's help or die trying. Matt Smith nailed it.

You mean the worst battle filmed for this IP yet? One man, Legolas...erm, I mean, Deamon cutting through dozens like its nothing, dodging volleys of arrows and then, the masked grunting gimp...erm, I mean Prince Crab Feeder then forgets his enemy has an army and dragons and sends his own entire army out to...surround the one person...oh fuck it this battel was shite. Oh, and it all happens because Deamon gets a LETTER saying help is coming and so he magically wins because, angry, even though he was losing for 2 fucking years? Yeah this is some quality shit.

@@thomasjones4570 Average Riverdale watcher.

@@ashutoshmaraj4881 Its brave of you to admit being that. Not sure why you would. But congrats and know I feel sorry for you.

HBO seems to have a way to make their shows look real. Rings of Power looks cosplaying in comparison and I can't point out exactly why.

@@googlelord1678 I don't want to see any of those things nude. Guyladriel would ruin it by talking.

true. Rings of power looks like a ripoff soap opera that happens in the tolkien world.

@@googlelord1678 Yep RoP will surely "win" in the MSNPC media acolytes' demographic. They exhibit the collective discernment of a boiled turnip.

The reason is garment dirtiness vs cleanliness.

I thought GOT and COK mentioned a Godswood that Sansa goes to pray at. Thought I was losing my mind lol

@@tanvir254 SPOILERS for Jon's heritage below! Yeah, he is. He's the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.

@@AW-xc1xc is this written in the book?

They were cut down by the Andals thousands a years before ASOIAF.

Weirdingwodes we is Ent.

It's over and done. Let's move on already.

nah house of dragons still sucks cuz of the casting

they have one goal, DONT BE BORING. LOTR ROP, is *BORING*

@@MalcomJuliaMorgan And they at least have interesting characters in HOD.

And don't attack your potential customers.

Thats what I did in Thrones. The dialogue got really horrible after se5

season 8 GOT proved that and this "rings of power"..well I'm guessing the writers of that show still haven't seen season 8 GOT at the end of the day, the cgi doesn't matter, the message doesn't matter, the diversity or woke'ism or whatever doesn't matter..only the story matters, if it's not entertaining then it fails, plenty of shows out there forget this, they get lost in dramatic scenes or flashy fight sequences or really heavy dreadful atmospheres and elaborate set designs but they end up being a depressing chore to watch, the characters are lame, you gotta have AT LEAST 1 character that draws you in and hopefully it's a lead character, this doesn't even have 1 it reminds me of the walking dead where for many seasons there was no character development in characters that had been there for years and the only time they developed a character was the very same episode they killed him in, haha, you could spot it so easily, meanwhile that same actor was in a previous series for just a few episodes and he's identified as that character, HBO develops characters so well, hell the SYFY channel does it better than Amazon seems to do it, their characters just jump from scene to scene, this show will fail just like that Y:The Last Man failed..and that show should have been a very easy success, that show could have been huge, what a waste

Honestly, I’ve been thinking that the writing is decent (nothing special) but the acting has been piss poor besides Daemon and the Hand of the King. Viserys has had a few good scenes which is dependent on the scenario. He lacks range.

No white walkers; instead Dragons. MORE Dragons

GOT's legacy is ruined, for me. I love the first four seasons. But ultimately, I judge the series as a whole and GOT let me down big time. It's not just the last season but the constant downfall in quality of storytelling post season four. No amount of prequel, or sequel is going to fix that. At least this story is written and has an ending, so they can't make up excuses.

@@saelind73 I was thinking the same thing: the symptoms of decay already started season5 onward , notably with Stannis' death

I’ve actually been really surprised in how many people who got burned have committed to watching this. They say they just really missed this world. I’ve no doubt if it starts self destructing, they’ll bail, so hopefully they kept that in mind when they were writing it.

Yup, I’m a little concerned. Milly Alcock is really popular. Actually it might be good, since some are associating her with Denarys, and she is not her.

Hard agree. Especially since I saw a video of Emma at the premiere and she had a rather goofy looking, short masculine haircut and wore a huge men’s suit. Ever since then, all I can picture “older” Rhaenyra as, is that utter clown. I can’t associate her as a Targaryen Princess after that, much less one who was called the “Realm’s Delight”.

Rhaenyras children will be around 13 years old, milly is too young to look sround 30 years old

Me either. I don’t know why people associate her with Daeny, they have totally different vibes and nothing the same in looks. People just see blond hair and blank out

Indeed. The whole time skip and new actors and characters introduced in the second half of this season will set the show up for the rest of its run. The first half is already established as a nice mini-arc in the grand scheme of things. The second half will make or break the series.

The cinematorahpy in RoP is another level. It does feel better made but... The problem was the source material. It's not even remotely the size of the backstory (already written) to HotD and the characters aren't really Tolkien's apart from a few. It's not awful like some have stated though. Better than the Hobbit films if you ask me. I can pick far more faults in the Hobbit movies than a slow start series.

It's not as if Morbius was riding on Smith's shoulders; he did a job and left. Jared Leto, on the other hand... that prettyboy tripod should probably run screaming.

I was thinking the same thing. I remember the books mentioning that

yep

She goes to the Godswood, but the weirwood trees in the South were cut down by the Anals thousands of years ago. I think their heart tree is an old oak or something.

Weirdingwodes we is Ent.

Ah yes, the "Anals" xD

*harfoots* he he

Don't forget that obligatory dance number

Bollywood sure is not for everyone but they could never mess up Tolkien more than Amazon did 😁.

@@saymyname2417- Bollywood wouldn't do a better job than Amazon, but at least you would be able to call an Indian help desk employee and complain about the series without being called a racist.

In vain you are talking about Bollywood. They would do MUCH BETTER!!!

@@andermolk2428- Why are you writing in capitals? It adds nothing to your argument.

I still respect George R. R. Martin he's been writing books and scripts his whole career nothing has changed.

Is there something better about the Easton press books than other publisher's? When I was in high school it was Balentine books (BB) editions that I read

I agree. I don't really understand why they changed Millie since she is 22 years old and could play a woman in her thirties. And then they didn't even shange her for someone visually older.. Emma is only 30. So I don't really get this swapping of characters, but we'll see how it goes. I'm just glad Matt Smith wasn't replaced!

@@yenneferL98 realistically Millie looks anywhere from 14 to 20 depending upon the scene. Absolutely the best decision to change her

Exactly! She makes a convincing Rhaenyra and her chemistry with Matt Smith’s Daemon is great so far. But the slightly older actress who replaces her? Nah. I don’t see her as Rhaenyra and she probably has no chemistry with Smith and idk why they just couldn’t keep Milly for an older Rhaenyra when they literally also kept Matt Smith as an older Daemon too. Like I don’t understand the point of replacing her especially since said older replacement isn’t even THAT much older than she is. Just seems like an unnecessary waste.

@@yenneferL98 yeah like you said, her replacement isn’t much older anyway and they kept Matt as older Daemon too instead of replacing him for an older actor as well, so why replace Milly? Especially since she seems like such a good Rhaenyra (so far) and it isn’t like she’s a kid. She’s in her 20’s.

Its funny how people are judging D'Arcy without having seen any scenes. She isn't replacing Milly. Instead, Milly was cast as D'Arcy's younger version. It's in line with the rest of the cast as well. Not limited to this specific character.

Yes, this. As long as it’s not in-your-face and shoved down your throat, ppl seem to generally be fine with such things especially if the actors are competent. But Rings Of Power does exactly that, blatantly shoves the wokeness in your face, all the while insulting Lotr fans directly and bastardizing Tolkien’s lore.

I dislike the race swap of Valyrians but it still made more sense to turn only one family from a distant land black than to just sprinkle poc here and there (like in RoP).

​@@nickb1156 Agreed, it would have been better had they not done any race-swapping but the shows popularity seems to not be suffering from it.

@@buzzardbeatniks I had noticed some complaining when it was first announced but it wasn't done too sloppily and, most importantly, the GoT fandom doesn't care as much. The LoTR series focuses on the white part of Middle Earth and the fandom was used to seeing white characters only (and there should be only white characters).

Yeah, who could have expected that viewers just despise being threated as children in need of kindergarten moral lessons?

I thought the same thing. But clever tactics aren't as impressive as cool sword fighting and lots of people being burned alive 🤷

Well said, it is great that they came out at the same time -- so that this very important fact is clearly illustrated to studio heads with a night and a day example, side by side. The gods are clearly with us, let us hope that (studio) men take heed.

There was small issues toward Corlys actor but it seems to have died. Idc he's black you can explain that away easily. The actor playing him, I like his a lot.

@@dangerousboxx666 the velayrons being black doesn't make much sense, but the actor is doing great

@@leonrussell9607 their dad got some native tail in the summer isles. They were a poor house at the time and had not arrangements for marriage. His dad being a explorer inspired him to be the best. Filmsy but it's something. A better excuse then all the dark skin elves get genocided by LotRs

I always thought it was kinda boring that GOT didn't have many fantasy elements. Yes, whitewalkers, yes, dragons. But hell, there are no wizards? wtf. Wizards are awesome!

@@FDJUwe Maybe Rings of Power is something for you. ;P

@@FDJUwe You clearly haven’t watched the show properly or paid attention at all. There were Sorcerers in it.

@@GermanOlle both have shit scenes like galadriel killing 1 troll and being a crap characher, and daemon killing 50 ppl and evading 500 arrows lmfao, still so far away from GOT godly first 4 seasons.

That's like ending the sentence with "but still a million times better than an amputation without narcotics"

It's still a million times better than 9/11.

I keep screwing that name up too lol.

he was great in peaky blinders

I believe also Hot Fuzz and Peaky Blinders!

@@TheRuddster95 who was he in Hot Fuzz?

@@winterwolfsden One of the Andy's

I have the same comment, 100% agree.

Nope, there’s many interesting characters an the main are yet to be apresented or even do something big

well its just bc daemon is the only one doing interesting stuff before the dance. Dont worry we will se other interesting characters like aemond or aegon the second.

Be patient

I see what you did there

- I thought he was a comedian - so does he

I notice that it is one of the weak decision that ROP had made. They should have put critically acclaimed actors to helm 1-2 important characters. Then the rest can be relatively unknown. GOT had Peter Dinklage & Sean Bean. HOTD had Matt Smith & Paddy Considine. It just puts some trust in the level of acting prowess in the show. It will give leeway to unknown actors to show how they will do next to the great actors they are with. This is the reason I am impressed with young Alicent and Rhaenyra as they are holding their ground with Matt, Rhys, and Paddy. It was a very impressive feat, acting-wise. ROP should have someone charismatic and acclaimed early on.

I was waiting for another crap show. But what a pleasant surprise

Colloquially they are used interchangeably even amongst conservationists and biologists. In fact, the only time I hear the word stag is when it is associated with specific members of that family, such as red deer i.e., Red Stags.

Yes because at least Tywin was loyal to the Crown until Aerys pissed him off one too many times. So Otto is definitely like a Littlefinger, obviously not really loyal to Viserys, only his own self interests.

I have to agree the meme editing in this review was exceptional.

You just want to watch unnecessary fight scenes.We get the point from the half body he was dragging

@@adedayooyegunju828 You can think whatever you want, but you'd be wrong.

It was a good episode but it left a bad taste in my mouth because of how stupid the ending battle was.

You aren't nitpicking, the end is stupid imo. Sending out your entire army to attack one guy that is already shot? I know he's a dragon rider so important to take out, but it still wouldn't have required more than crab-feeder sending an archer to the spot where Damon was taking cover and firing an arrow into his face from a safe distance. It was basically lets make this character make a decision that no person actually would so the plot can happen. You'd think with George assisting with the show they could've come up with something more sensible.