cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18334368

“House of the Dragon” hit a Season 2 high in viewership with Sunday’s finale, which drew 8.9 million multiplatform viewers across HBO and Max, per Warner Bros. Discovery.

That’s up 14% from the Season 2 premiere night, which garnered 7.8 million viewers. However, it is down from the audience size for the first season finale of “House of the Dragon” in 2022.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38872178

Is @[email protected] ( https://lemmy.ml/c/houseofthedragon ) the only fediverse discussion group for House of the Dragon? Maybe there's one covering both Game of Thrones and HotD? #hotd #houseofthedragon #got #gameofthrones #lemmy

Lots of talk across season one about the opening credits. How do we feel about them?

Personally, I'm a big fan of them using the iconic music, and I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot barge pole.

The actual visuals? Utterly perplexing to me, and I say that as someone who's familiar with the source material. I understand what they were going for but I think everything is a bit hard to parse.

Finally. I have absolutely no idea who these guys are, but it's nice to be able to visualise them in the roles at least.

One of my biggest complaints about season one was the constant jumping between time periods. I understand the necessity, given the story that they are trying to tell, but I think it took an awful lot of people out of the show, and made it even harder to bond with those adult characters that are going to be carrying the show going forward.

Season two should feel a lot more.....stable by comparison.

Don't try to change my mind,

The show is coming back, and I'm anticipating a bit more activity on the community so I think it probably makes sense to hash this out now.

Rheneyra!

Aegon!

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7335742

My favourite scenes are heavily skewed towards the end of the season. Not that the younger actors didn't do great, just that I found the drama to be much more engaging as the series went on.

As such, my favourite scene in the entire first season is:

'....And Strong'.

I think the actor playing Aemond is absolutely bossing it, and this scene is the culmination of a few episodes of building tension. The way the scene is shot, the way the actor delivers his lines and then the pause, damn that pause. We all knew what was coming, and to finally hear him say it was both incredibly satisfying and fantastic fun.

Still no casting news however.

How do we feel about this? My initial reaction is that it's going to be a very expensive story to tell, but one that's over pretty quickly....