Does HotD manage to salvage anything of value from GoT? I haven’t given it a second thought because the last few seasons of GoT were just such a total piss on the rug
I'd say that House of the Dragon is less bad actually than the last few seasons of GOT. The dialogue and storylines are better, but there's also more wokeness and perversion inserted.
To be specific, a lot revolves around "women being oppressioned", characters are bizarrely made black, and there's some unnecessary sexual perversion inserted.
As Dag says, there are no characters from GoT, and the 'fanservice' in terms of callbacks is limited.
Yeah man… the sunk cost fallacy and the fallacy of “a true GoT adaptation has never been tried!” kept me around too.
To be specific, a lot revolves around "women being oppressioned", there's some unnecessary sexual perversion inserted.
The only thing I know about HotD is the promotional images, where they have a platinum haired waif and a platinum haired african supposedly from “a family so inbred that madness has become a common and defining trait”. Since I don’t see them doing an ethnic cleansing subplot in a modern HBO show, I’m left to wonder, is this even addressed? Or just totally taken for granted like in the other show that inadvertently canonized ethnic cleansing (rangz of power that is)
I think the Proper Black guy is from a different family, while the white platinum hair is from the Targaeryen family. Now, supposedly these interbred with one another, but without changing the color of the black family. Just like in Dune, we had Fremen looking like Bedouins and Fremen looking like proper unadulterated black sub-Saharans - apparently, you're only allowed to marry someone of your own race among the Fremen.
It's so ridiculous. And no, it's not addressed. At least we don't get lectures about wacism - thank God for small mercies.
HotD is really good so far and it has none of the characters from GoT so there's no emotional baggage. I'm enjoying it immensely so far: there are some references to the GoT timeline, but for the most part you can treat it like its own separate universe.
Does HotD manage to salvage anything of value from GoT? I haven’t given it a second thought because the last few seasons of GoT were just such a total piss on the rug
They were awful, and yet I kept watching...
I'd say that House of the Dragon is less bad actually than the last few seasons of GOT. The dialogue and storylines are better, but there's also more wokeness and perversion inserted.
To be specific, a lot revolves around "women being oppressioned", characters are bizarrely made black, and there's some unnecessary sexual perversion inserted.
As Dag says, there are no characters from GoT, and the 'fanservice' in terms of callbacks is limited.
Yeah man… the sunk cost fallacy and the fallacy of “a true GoT adaptation has never been tried!” kept me around too.
The only thing I know about HotD is the promotional images, where they have a platinum haired waif and a platinum haired african supposedly from “a family so inbred that madness has become a common and defining trait”. Since I don’t see them doing an ethnic cleansing subplot in a modern HBO show, I’m left to wonder, is this even addressed? Or just totally taken for granted like in the other show that inadvertently canonized ethnic cleansing (rangz of power that is)
I think the Proper Black guy is from a different family, while the white platinum hair is from the Targaeryen family. Now, supposedly these interbred with one another, but without changing the color of the black family. Just like in Dune, we had Fremen looking like Bedouins and Fremen looking like proper unadulterated black sub-Saharans - apparently, you're only allowed to marry someone of your own race among the Fremen.
It's so ridiculous. And no, it's not addressed. At least we don't get lectures about wacism - thank God for small mercies.
HotD is really good so far and it has none of the characters from GoT so there's no emotional baggage. I'm enjoying it immensely so far: there are some references to the GoT timeline, but for the most part you can treat it like its own separate universe.