I have no idea how old anyone in ‘House of the Dragon’ is supposed to be
Are the characters 50? 30? 20? Who knows. PLUS: ‘The Acolyte’ and Darth Teeth, a new ‘Penguin’ trailer, and how ‘Blade’ got snagged.
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I’m going to need to see some IDs
What’d everyone think about the Season 2 premiere of House of the Dragon?
Despite the show doing everything it can to invoke the same level of obsession that its predecessor enjoyed with viewers (I still think it’s hilarious that House of the Dragonstraight up uses the Game of Thrones theme song, which is the equivalent of Frasierusing the Cheers theme song), House of the Dragon has yet to capture my attention anywhere close to the glory days of Game of Thrones.
We skipped watching the premiere on Sunday night, instead catching up on Monday night. Look, I know that we’re working from George R. R. Martin’s source material, but I don’t know if I can keep watching a show that repeatedly dives into plot points like birth trauma and killing kids. (I can’t award points for cutting back on the sexual violence that Game of Thrones often seemed to delight in when it’s been swapped out for new kinds of violence.)
I’m sure I’m in the majority when it comes to just wanting to be able to enjoy watching the giant CGI dragons fight each other
On a much dumber level, the other issue that’s made it hard for me to enjoy House of the Dragon is that, for the life of me, I can’t remember how old some of these characters are supposed to be in relation to each other.
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