Later tonight, Game of Thrones fans can embark on their next adventure into the world of George RR Martin with Dragon House. It’s hard to underestimate the effect on television that HBO’s Game of Thrones had on its fans, and the television world as a whole, and released during a golden age of television with likes. of breaking Bad being at the same time, he always had to look his best to get the attention he deserved.
Following Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books, game of thrones shocked audiences with its graphic depictions of a fantasy land, with blood, gore, nudity and adult themes aplenty, as well as a surprisingly intertwined story with a complex roster of characters from all sides of the conflicts within it.
It started so well but it ended terribly
From the end of the first episode, many of us knew we were in for a wild ride when Jaime and Cersei Lannister were taken on an incestuous date by young Bran Stark. In an attempt to cover their tracks and prevent their secret from coming to light, without hesitation, Jaime pushed Bran out the window of the tower he had climbed and through, at which point, until his presumed dead. For those unfamiliar with the source material, it was a shocking few minutes of television, and it was this hard-nosed, unrestrained style of storytelling that kept us hooked and kept the quality of the show high. for four or five seasons.
By the end of the fifth season, both showrunners David Benioff and DBWeiss had caught up with Martin’s books, and by the release of the sixth season, it was immediately clear that this was going to be a problem. The quality of the overall show has dropped sharply over the past three seasons, especially in the parody which was the eighth.
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The final season changed a lot of the established rules of previous seasons, so much so that it rushed the later parts of the story. Characters used to take entire seasons to travel across the continent of Westeros, but now, in season eight, they’re jumping all over the place. Some of the foreshadowing and story beats of previous seasons were ignored or completely forgotten, and many character motivations were odd or completely wrong to the characters themselves.
At the end of the eighth season, especially with the reveal of who the new leader of Westeros would be, fans felt slighted. Many were annoyed at the end of such an incredibly poor eight-year journey, at odds with the characters they had watched and grown up with, and even the cast of the show were publicly upset at the end.
Dragon House
With the spin-off of game of thrones As of tonight, the buzz around it seems off the charts, with critics praising the pilot closer to the quality of its predecessor’s first season, rather than the last.
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Even with the rave reviews, stellar marketing, and some die-hard fans shouting their love from the rooftops, there are plenty of fans who still feel sour about game of thrones last season, and are less enthusiastic.
It’s understandable, because with eight TV seasons culminating in this way, it’s hard to want to commit to something that’s set in the same world, from the same production company – albeit with different showrunners – with the same fervor and enthusiasm as us. made over a decade ago. It’s also hard to expect fans to get excited about a story involving the family we know so well. game of throneswhen you know exactly how badly this story ends…
Does this mean that Dragon House will be bad? Of course not. In fact, with the money that has been pumped into its first season, the talent on offer and the minds involved, it should be quite the opposite. Let him take the world by the scruff of his neck like games of thrones fact is another story.
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