Yeah the dwarf prince , the black elf, and the human mom and kid are the most compelling parts so far to my non -Tolkien self
Looking forward to sitting down and watching this. I’ve heard good things from good people.
It is kind of sad that George RR Martin has been enticed by the very shiny aspect of television and has forgotten his roots.
I was pretty skeptical at first with House of Dragon, but the past two episodes feel like they could take their place among the top tier Game of Thrones episodes. But man it feels like Paddy was the heart of the show and definitely going to miss his character. I could do without any of the other actors, but he was phenomenal.
It has a lot of problems for me. First and foremost is that it’s so damn confusing with all this incest and all of these kids central to the story moving forward. I don’t have the bandwidth to go online after each episode and study the Targaryen family tree. But it appears to be getting more interesting.
Yeah, the time jumps certainly didn't help with that. Especially keeping track of the ages of the children, I had thought that eyepatch was the youngest of the boys but now he looks like the oldest (even though in reality he's 6-7 years younger than the actor playing his older brother Aegon).
because we wanted to discuss a show that hasn't made 100 questionable writing decisions in 7 episodes.
I start enough nerdy threads so I searched a thread that already mentioned LOTR and posted a reply within that same thread instead of starting a new one.
It might also be that no one else is watching ROP. I watched 2 episodes and wasn’t feeling it so I just haven’t been able to resume watching. In addition to the GOT series, I’ve watched all the Andor episodes too and think it’s decent.
Andor is very different than anything done before in Star Wars. Thus far, it has been an absolutely straight, not-dumbed-down-for-kids, character and bank-job drama going for as much realism as one can squeeze out of such a sci-fi universe. Lacks some levity that is typically interwoven with traditional Star Wars media. Thus far, there isn't even really a K-2SO character that Rogue One used to spew one-liners in order to break up the tension.
I’ll say this about Andor. I find myself wondering as I’m watching how the kiddos feel about it. I suspect they checked out of it several episodes ago.
For any of the Star Wars shows, if not Star Wars but with the same plot line, I wouldn't have watched. Star Wars is the only reason I've watched any of them, and I imagine that is true for 90% of their audiences.
An incredible number of story lines in the beginning. I did enjoy the finale and hope they relegate some story lines to the dumpster. It will be interesting to see the Stranger become Gandalf. What ramifications will Galadriel suffer after it is found out she helped Sauron.
Well thanks for spoiling.
. Actually I’m of the mindset that if I don’t watch something when it first comes out, then it’s on me. I couldn’t get beyond episode 2 but have full intention of getting to the rest of the episodes at some point. It was just very underwhelming. My 81 year old father finished it last night and really liked it though. I value his opinion because he can usually sniff out crap when he smells it.
HOD actually got a bit better after the time jump. Then there was another time jump and it got a bit better after that too. The last episode that finally set this whole thing up was pretty good. The upcoming war is based on a lot of hate, but the plot moving forward is set in motion by a big misunderstanding. I’m not a fan of that…I’ve seen enough of that in every episode of Three’s Company growing up. Martin said it’s going to take 4 seasons to tell the whole story.
Great article. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah. Streaming has made it so that shows have no time to grow and evolve. A shame, really.
I used to think that until the wife and I started watching a series that was week to week. I found myself not caring and hardly even knew that the show was on a certain night to watch it. With streaming I can choose to watch it and catch the next episode or two to get a better feel of what is going on or just stop altogether.
No one watched Firefly because Fox gave it the timeslot equivalent of a suicide, aired it out of order, and pushed it for playoff baseball multiple times. It wasn't a show that took years to become a cult classic, they started movie production less than a year after they cancelled the show.
More than fair.
Not disagreeing, but set Firely in the Star Wars universe, which it easily could have been, and it would have received prime timeslots and ran for 8 seasons and spawned 3 movies because it would have had a mega audience built in out of the gate.
yeah, I feel like they rushed through those time jumps anticipating that it would be too slow to try and regain a pissed audience with their new series if they took their time with it.
