"My wife and son are dead. I will not sit here and suffer crows that come to feast on their corpses" I loved that line not gonna lie

“The gods are yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute power” This is a great line by Otto

We're one episode in and I think we'll need a whole video of Daemon roasting Otto throughout the season

“I’ve only ever defended you” not so much the line but the delivery game me chills

The king cutting himself can be interpreted more as maybe he's not a proper fit for being king. Daemon even says he wants to protect Viserys from himself. And don't forget that there was a king that actually died on the throne, implied he fell on one of the swords

I honestly have no complaints. Yes not everything is 100% perfect but it doesn't have to be to achieve great things. This show seems like it's made carefuly and with respect to GRRM's world. The cast is fantastic and it is gripping already from episode 1. I am enjoying it a lot.

When it shows rhaenyra riding the dragons, it's not daenerys' theme, it's just the whole targaryen theme. This episode too, has fair amount of good dialogues. And the fire and blood novel was also told from the perspective of a maester.

I think you’re a little too harsh regarding the dialogue, remember the first episode of GoT didn’t have constant brilliant dialogue all the time, it was spread out over several seasons, this episode already has some really cool lines such as: “The gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute power” "My wife and son are dead. I will not sit here and suffer crows that come to feast on their corpses" “The iron throne is the most dangerous seat in the realm” "The Dragon's blood runs deep." "Then why do you cut me so deeply" etc. It’s only fair if you compare this to GoT season 1 episode 1.

Given that they can't just plagiarize the books, I'd say the dialogue was pretty good. You have to remember Season 1 GoT might have the best dialogue ever in TV. It's an impossible standard to hold a show to.

All I’m saying is if Matt Smith doesn’t dance at some point in the series like he did in the greatest movie of all time I’ll be disappointed

I disagree with the side characters. Why would the audience need to know who Beesbury or Harwin Strong when they don't have anything to do with the story yet

Thrones had the brilliant dialogue from the books which DnD could simply copy word for word whereas Fire & Blood has hardly any dialogue in it.. that said it doesn't NEED to be ground-breaking it just needs to be good. I enjoyed the pilot a lot particularly from an acting point.

I've seen an interview somewhere with Ramin Djawadi and he said he will be pulling a lot from Danny's themes to the show, simply bc some of them weren't only her themes at all but the house's. I think as the episodes go on we will hear variations of her themes in thrones but with each targaryen's essence mixed in

When talking about the birth/tourney scene during the “Into the Episode” segment, Miguel Sapochnik said that they did intentionally cut the scene like that because of the conversation between Aemma and Rhaenyra about giving birth being women’s “battlefield” Edit: Totally not the scene Supercuts was talking about, my b

To me, Otto Hightower basically commanding his daughter to sleep with the King makes him much more unlikeable than Daemon.

"The gods are yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute power" - Otto That's a great line

I don't understand the big issue so many people have with reusing the themes from GOT. It's the thing I looked forward to the most in all of the spinoffs I've watched. Hearing the themes from the original series is always a delight as it immediately takes you back to that world and firmly establishes the connection between the original and the spinoff. Safe to say that hearing the Baratheon and Targaryen/Daenerys' themes were absolutely 2 highlights of the episode for me.

It seems so much like the first season of Game of Thrones, the storyline is different, but the quality, the over the top blood and guts, it's already a masterpiece Edit: I didn't mean to start The Red Wedding. It's my opinion, if you don't agree, move on.

I know a lot of people are kinda indifferent to the cast, but I think they’re great. Matt Smith and Paddy Condisine are easily the standouts, and their scene together in the throne room was fantastic if you ask me

Coming into this show knowing nothing about this conflict Daemon doesn’t really come off as a villain to me. Yeah his kind of big intro is killing off a bunch of criminals and then later he insults his own wife (which I’m guessing he never wanted to marry so makes sense) and the dead wife of Otto Hightower (which seems messed up in the moment but then we learn that Otto isn’t actually some loyal servant like we’re first led to believe so he is kinda justified with this insult) but then after the funeral scene he seems genuinely concerned about the well-being of Viserys and Rhaenyra. His insults towards Viserys loss of his wife and son seems to come from the fact he is hurt that his brother doesn’t trust him to be his hand. He cares about his brother and like he said he sees the small council for what they truly desire and feels he is the only one that can protect Viserys. He honestly is my favorite character so far

We have to stop comparing this one episode to all of game of thrones/season 1 of game of thrones. Camera work and production was different then, so it makes sense to take advantage of cinematography present day. A lot of the dialogue was taken from Fire and Blood and the dialogue felt very Westeros. The intimate settings, we are going to get plenty of as they aren’t solely doing cgi. They have been filming in similar lands as they did in GoT. The difference is the magic in this show isn’t a secret, so there’s no slow burn to it which would put in place more scenes in intimate settings. This show should not be compared to GoT and should be allowed to become its own thing.

Rhanerya has no intention of breaking any wheel. She just wants to sit on top of it.

Viserys’ actor was AMAZING! My only complaint is that we didn’t get enough Rhaenyra

I may be wrong in this, but I read somewhere that the scene of Viserys telling Rhaenyra about the long night and the song of ice and fire was actually GRRM idea, and is directly connect to the end of the books, not the end of the TV Show.

I understand feeling apprehensive about the show, but at the same time it seems to me like there's way too much nitpicking in this video. You are comparing one episode with a whole season, even if you don't realize it, specially when it comes to memorable dialogue. Let the season play out

You are really really reaching here with the complaints. They aren’t obsessed with Dany they are just trying to give casuals something to relate to. I don’t think her character is being set up anything like Dany. I recommend you let the story develop more before all this unnecessary complaining

3:56 it’s not Daenerys’s leitmotif playing when we see Rhaenyra on her dragon. It’s the dragon leitmotif. Dany and her dragons have two distinct musical themes - you hear the dragon leitmotif whenever the dragons are around, and Dany’s leitmotif in other contexts, like the Mhysa scene at the end of season 3, the finale of season 1, and when Dany burns the Khals in season 5, etc etc. I don’t imagine Djawadi will bring back Dany’s theme in House of the Dragon, but I think it is understandable that we will hear the dragon leitmotif and see it develop in new and interesting ways in this story. Musical storytelling is important, and since the dragons are the focus of this show, to me it makes sense to carry over the musical idea we most associate with them.

Its not dany’s theme, its the targyrean theme. The themes in westeros are always house themes not character themes. Frozen north and stark themes, the rains of castemere, these are house themes that play for all the characters

You have to remember that George r Martin approved EVERY SINGLE EPISODE he has seen it. He stands behind it. So what we see on the screen is what he wants to give us. So to be fair. We shouldn’t confuse what we want vrs what will be . And I think it’s good that they mentioned Daenerys. She was legendary. But also I believe that they will try in some ways to connect the shows together . That’s why I believe we are getting the SNOW series.

4:10 dude that's not Daenerys's theme, that's the official theme of house targaryen

I thought Rhaenyra had some good lines like “I’m comfortable in this position” and “I wonder that if in the hours that my brother was alive my father finally found happiness” As someone who’s basically just watched game of thrones a few times and hasn’t read the books or know much other lore, I thought it was cool to meet new characters like Hightower and Corlys for the first time while they dealt with political stuff. I feel like I got the foundational characterization I needed from who we’ve met so far. The show is off to a great start for me, can’t wait to see where it goes.

I have to disagree with you on the music. It is very smart of the producers to use some of the same, very recognizable music. About 50 % of what makes GoT for me is the music. Music is the heart of a good film or series like this. Plus, the intro theme playing while we saw Rhaenya(?) fly made me think of the good ol' GoT and I had a surge of nostalgia.

That was not really Daenerys s theme I think. It's like a targaryen Or drogon theme and really fit well with episode. And i think we should give more time for it to develop and stop comparing it to the original show. Yes sometimes I feel like they should made it more like non movie like feel, (if u know what I mean) and it was awkward seeing steamy scenes because it was like in a movie.

It's not Danys theme. It's the Targaryan theme imo.

Literally one episode. The dialogue tends to come with more conflict. This was introductory, so let's wait.

Ngl I didn’t agree with 50% of the stuff you said I enjoyed the whole ep and didn’t really see anything I didn’t like, maybe that’s because I’m a dumb viewer but I loved it personally. the only thing I can criticised is some of the vfx but that was only for a few shots, good video mate keep up the good work. 👍🏻

Way too harsh a review, it was a sensational episode, felt like an antidote to the media influenced by Marvels over the top corny rubbish…it was grounded, realistic and took itself serious

Get well soon legend :)

When the King cut himself on the chair, I took that as symbolizing that he drew first blood by casting his brother way.

When he said "he called the dream a song of ice and fire" my eye roll was audible

My favorite bit was the fact that they actually went deep into showing the jousting tournament. I love this kind of stuff and it reminded me of S1 GoT. A Knight's Tale is one of my guilty pleasure films.

I've waiting for your video since the episode came out Good job !

The first episode was solid 👌, they really gave their all to bring this story to life. I hope they maintain the quality 🙏

i feel like they mentioned dany in the opening title because theres obviously a significant amount of ppl who arent too familar with the show or books BUT have heard/seen dany (Emilia Clark) because of how popular her character was or because of all the negative attention the last season got...not to mention this is about the TARGARYENS there were only like 4 living known targaryens in game of thrones DANY being the most known it makes sense to bring her up when covering her ancestors

I was waiting for your review, didn't bother to look at it until my lord commander approves. Wishing you a speedy recovery as well!

1 episode in: “not as good as GoT” Give it time man!!

Idk why but I feel like you’re already a little over critical of this show over small issues. Although you say it’s good I feel like your nit picking. It’s one episode. Give it time and flesh out

tbh the only thing that is missing for me was some sort of comedic relief, something like Robert or Tyrion. Everyone loved them because of the range of emotions they were able to inflict on a viewer, in this show all the characters are very dramatic, a bit too dramatic.

Dude, it's 1 episode. And it's off to a good start. Let's enjoy HoTD as a companion piece to GoT without having to compare them.

Wasn’t good as game of thrones? Please specify which part. The writing surpasses at least season 6 onwards (for me) but feels on par with the first half.

The episode was great. I only wished that there were more scenes with Rhaenyra and Aemma since in the book hardly anything was said about their relationship. For me Matt Smith’s acting was outstanding in reflecting Daemon‘s personality. The Velaryon children not having any dialogue was a little weird so I hope they don’t get replaced by the older versions in episode 2

I thought the first episode was really solid. Not groundbreaking but still good dialogue imo. The biggest problem I have is with the wig maker for the Targaryen’s…

bro the introduction of daemon in the throne room was epic...cant wait to see him use his dark sister in a proper battle...

I loved this first episode.Hopefully they will set up and adapt the events of The Dance of the Dragons war

I hope they still use locations like Croatia for the outside scenes in the Red Keep's gardens, you could feel the green screen behind the heart tree lmao

This is the only video I've watched that addressed some of the same issues I had with the first episode and didn't just talk about how great it was for 10 minutes, thank you.

As a woman, watching the birth scene was extremly upsetting and left me in tears for the rest of the episode. But I also appreciate the reality of pregnancy portrayed, especially now.

Bruh its just Ep1 nd people are expecting some masterpiece right out of the gate Give it some time I have high hopes for this show

2:56 this was the first thing I said once the episode ended; the show really assumed you were already pretty well versed in the Westeros Universe

"1:38 This place reminded me the S2 scene between Littlefinger and Cersei where Petyr said: ,,Knowledge is power.'' I was happy that I remembered the great scenes like this instead of the trash which is S8.

It’s got me hooked again. I’ve watched the episode 3 times, I don’t know why but my favorite character so far is Daemon. Corlys actor is also incredible and super excited for the next episode.

Just to say about Daenerys' theme, it's not really HER theme. It's the Targaryan house theme. If you notice, each house has their own theme. The Starks, Aryns, Lannisters, Martels and Tyrells all have their own respective themes. You just see Daenerys followed by the Targaryan theme because she is technically the only Targaryan that we knew of. The only individuals I'd say that had their very own Leit Motifs (character themes) in Game of Thrones would be Petyr Baelish/Littlefinger, Dany's three dragons and Lyanna and Rheagar's love. The rest are all focusing on the families, not the individual characters.

You're absolutely right about the excessive cuts and during the fight while I was watching it there were some times that a character would be in a losing position but with a cut they would be doing just fine in the fight.

Great, great start!!! My husband and I watched: myself a fan of the books and my hubby only watched GoT. Great sharing of points of view

I personally hope they feel free to take liberties to "retcon" the previous series, as if to suggest the long night will actually be significant, Jon's lineage and resurrection isn't pointless, and the prince that was promised actually means something.

The birth scene was a really disturbing scene which took me back to the early seasons of GOT where some scenes where just really difficult to watch. Also Rhys Ifans was easily the best actor of the episode, it's going to be really fun to watch him in coming seasons.

I really enjoyed the episode, for a pilot episode and having to introduce many key characters and reintroduce the audience to the world in such a different time, I think it did a good job at that. I really enjoy the characters and how they're not so cut and dry, like Daemon being a bit of a tool but Viserys siding with him on the city guard, Otto Hightower acting as hand of the king as well as seeking to elevate position through his daughter and using the king's suffering, it's such a cool start and I hope all that continues. Admittedly, the birthing scene was difficult to watch, but that was the point, so well done. The one thing that perhaps didn't sit great with me was Viserys talking to Rhaenyra about the song of Ice and fire. I did expect we'd get bits and pieces like this since the targaryens are about as entrenched in prophesy as they are inbred, but this one in particular seemed a little bit convenient for what we already know, especially since we know how underwhelming it actually ends up being. Otherwise, I'm very on board with this so far

An aspect of the early scene with Rhaenyra's dragon flight that gave me chills were some of the shots that mirrored Dany's razing of King's Landing. At first, I found hearing elements of the musical score that echoed Dany's gave me a comfortable sense of nostalgia as Rhaenyra flew over and around the Red Keep. But then the theme shifted and the shot panned to an upward view from the street, with a dragon soaring overhead. The last time we heard this theme and looked up from this view alongside the commonfolk of King's Landing, people were screaming and running in terror as Dany and Drogon bathed the street in fire. At that moment, my comfortable nostalgia twisted and I felt assured that any dealings with the Targaryens would only end in Fire and Blood.

I liked when Lyonel strong got cut off by Otto. Lynoel is known to talk slow

"The gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute power." - for me, that was the line of the episode

Been looking forward to your review of this

You hit it right on the head with Otto Hightower being a mix of Tywin and Baelish

rhaenyra feels way more like an arya type of character than daenerys imo. She talked about wanting to be a knight and explore, and not be locked down to being queen. This in cotrast to Daenerys whose entire personality trait was about claiming the throne. Polar opposites imo.

4:01 I totally disagree with you on this point. That shot is perfect only with that soundtrack 👌🏼Although I'm sure that we're gonna hear new themes but still I want to listen GOT theme music mixed up with the new theme music

That first-person camera of the jousting was insane. Makes me hope someone makes a jousting VR game if there isn't one already.

That line about Matt smith being balls deep after watching him in doctor who for so long is JOOOOKES 😂😂 so true

"The blood of the dragon runs thick." "Then why do you cut me so deep?" I really liked hese lines and their delivery felt really emotional.

Personally i think episode 1 of this show is much better with information about characters than ep 1 of GoT for example the first time we see Tyrion is in a Brothel we legit don't know anything about John Aryn personally i didnt even know Jamie and Cersei were siblings until they told us Robert saying I kill him every night who??? Rhaegar everyone forgto about him till season 7 Robert and Ned talking about his Rebellion without saying any important thing exept Bessy

Otto Hightower is currently my favourite character. His whole attitude just fits in the world of a song of ice and fire.

waiting for this episode for so long now ....

"10 yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars you have been the king, and yet you have never asked me to be your hand" - I really loved how Matt Smith spoken this sentence. I also agree with that dialogues are weaker than GOT and they have more focused on filming than writing. Ireally miss Tywin writing a letter while ignoring his chilren and conversations of Baelish and varys

Episode was going all well until Viserys started talking about the winter and I got the Arya Stark killing Night King flashbacks

And I thought I was the only one who absolutely loved the actor playing Otto Hightower. He is literally perfect for the role - I haven't read the books but I hope he is important to the story and we see more of him.

I love what you said about Otto. I remember reading the history book George wrote and Otto was hands down my favorite character. Even with the BTS that came out before the shows release. And before it showed the actors name and who they were playing. I was like that has to be Otto. The littlefinger and tywin comparison is great too.

You can't really compare one episode of Hot D to the whole show of GoT. But I was pleasantly surprised and am excited to watch more.

The end part where Considine tells the family secret about dream of A song of Ice and Fire was a bad move. They should have kept this series from s8. Unless they plan something big, like in Snow show. Otherwise , quite good characters, not as memorable and audience-friendly as Jon and Tyrion, Ned and Arya. The rest is pretty on top, since it's fucking HBO. I guess, at the end of s1 we can make up our minds whether this show can fill the void in our hearts after gargantuan fuckup of an ending.

I always considered the theme for Dany the theme of the Targaryen house as a whole. Each House had it's own motifs in the original show and I enjoyed hearing it again.

All Otto Hightower scenes where extremely enjoyable and make me remember how great the early dialogs is also vesrys and daemon punishing him scene where so good.

Loving HOTD so far, Daemon and Rhaenyra are amazing

Very good points. I agree with pretty much all of them. I liked the episode but some dialogue scenes seemed a bit generic and forced to me But overall it was decent for the opening of the show.

This first episode was OK . I am looking forward to the next episode. Let’s see what happens .

I know some people didnt care for the where viserys goes " instead of supporting me or rhynera, YOU CHOSE TO CELEBRATE YOUR OWN RISE" that was a powerful delivery

Respectfully, I think everything you said was perfectly on point until you brought up the birth scene. As someone who hasn't read the books and not watched all of GoT, it did at times become difficult to know who was who. I think rewatching it would let me find out better though, and I don't mind being thrown right into the atmosphere. Additionally, Daemon has some interesting scenes with the king, but aside from that is coming off pretty strong to me as a villain. I'd like to see more of his personal development come through to make up for the gold cloak situation. I understand that it has a different feeling for everyone, but as a woman, there are very few horrors greater than what was displayed in this scene. There is absolutely not a singular spark of feeling, anywhere in me, for the king now. Nothing. Nothing he says about his mourning matters. He doesn't deserve to mourn. No feeling he displays relevant to them matters. He betrayed his wife in one of the most horrific and vulnerable spaces you ever could. His entire development is gone for me now. She was coherent, speaking to him. She wasn't dying, or flailing, or anything like that. By all means, there was no reason to LITERALLY MURDER her. He was impossibly selfish and deserved to lose them for it. She wanted to live, clearly. They could have done away with the traumaporn aspect by having him speak to a dazed queen who wanted desperately for him to save their child. Unfortunately, they didn't. I don't have WORDS to express the brutality of it. It doesn't matter what he does after this because he can never ever be seen as anything other than one of the vilest men who would betray his loving wife at a time when she needs him and that protection most. Her scene with Rhaenyra rings in my mind as a reminder of historic horror. This is what people think we are for. We are not people to them. We are only birthing machines. If that is what this was meant to carry, it did so excellently, and it certainly SEEMS to convey some of that message! The scene itself and the acting and everything is WONDERFUL, but it looks like they somehow still expected us to... what? feel bad for him? In some of the interviews they discussed him being a good man but a bad king, but it isn't ever possible for him to be a "good man" now. I just don't think they realized the actual horror of what he did, and somehow that is worse than the character doing it. That they could write it and think it ever possible to look beyond again. This is a very long comment but I'm interested in seeing if anyone else feels this way... like. It's simply not possible to move him beyond this for me.

This is harder to write because there aren't any particular scenes from the ASOIAF books to draw dialogue and setting from, only facts and relationships so this show has to be more creative and already it shows that it's good.

Our expectations are off the chart as well, we have to take this into account.

Ngl the Scene syrax flying over kingslanding gave me goosebumbs

Never thought Id say this about got, but I think they used violence a bit too much. In got when we did see violence it was in your face unrelenting but still shocking and served a purpose. In this show it feels like it was in every other scene and a little much (imo)

I will respectfully have to disagree with most..1, the dialogues are like gold to me (comparing to season 5-7), and again it's only ep1, most of the quotable GOT lines comes later in the show anyway. 2.It doesn't seem like they are establishing Daemon as a villain to me, he just looks like an arrogant prince with a good heart, Otto looks more sinister lol, and both of them are cool and smart. 3. Why do they have to establish all the side characters that fast? Even in GOT season 1 it took me several episodes to be fully clear about what houses and what positions people are.

Seeing the tournament I immediately looked for Roberts big belly and grey, brown hair. Damn ... I felt what they are trying to do. The best was the intro in Harenhall hearing Ramin's music again. The prophecy ruined it a little bit for me ... But the first episode gets a 6,5/10. I agree with the text and storytelling Voice but I guess they didn't found a way to explain the current situation in Westeros any better. I myself was very pleased to see that the conflict of this season becomes VERY clear at the end of this episode. I am a book reader and I am very eager to see what they are going to do 🎉

The line about absolute power was good