House of the Dragon 2x2 “Rhaenyra the Cruel” | Early Access
Added 2025-11-20 15:01:32 +0000 UTC
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The issue is the source material is so bare bones and reads like an in-universe history book with three narrators who reference events in different ways. Game of Thrones in comparison is a series of fully fleshed out novels.
Tanweer Beckett
2025-11-21 09:09:23 +0000 UTCThe funny thing is that the twist of the brothers duelling isn't even a twist in response to Game of Thrones. It's straight out of Fire and Blood as a sort of tragic metaphor for the whole conflict referenced in a throwaway line of how they died in each others arms, but obviously handled with a lot more tension here. Honestly, the show handles the limited source material REALLY fucking well when you consider its just random backdrop and a lot of these characters never really had any proper characterisation. But also, that comment about the show basically being reality TV is so fair lmao, its just drama and the plot is like porridge
Faeginn
2025-11-20 21:03:19 +0000 UTC
