House of the Dragon Spoiler Thread

[CardiacCavs]

Hyped for Cregan Stark.

 

[DJTJ]

See ya’ll in 2025. No way this comes out in 2024.

 

[Jack Brickman]

See ya’ll in 2025. No way this comes out in 2024.

You think it’ll be three years before the next season? Most indications seem to be early 2024.

 

[DJTJ]

You think it’ll be three years before the next season? Most indications seem to be early 2024.

They’ll tape in 2023, and I struggle to think they’re going to tape what they need to in a short enough time frame. I figure early 2025, best case October+ 2024.

 

[Jack Brickman]

They’ll tape in 2023, and I struggle to think they’re going to tape what they need to in a short enough time frame. I figure early 2025, best case October+ 2024.

They’re supposed to wrap up filming in early summer 2023. That would put them on pace for an early 2024 release.

 

[CardiacCavs]

Seasons 1-7 of Game of Thrones were released on an annual basis.

S1: April 2011
S2: April 2012
S3: April 2013
S4: April 2014
S5: April 2015
S6: April 2016
S7: July 2017

Season 8 took a little less than 2 years. It released in April of 2019.

With the budget and scale of HotD S2, I'd expect it's turn-around time will be more similar to Season 8, then the rest of GOT. Around a 2 year turn around time, which would put it between June to August of 2024.

Fingers crossed its sooner.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Seasons 1-7 of Game of Thrones were released on an annual basis.

S1: April 2011
S2: April 2012
S3: April 2013
S4: April 2014
S5: April 2015
S6: April 2016
S7: July 2017

Season 8 took a little less than 2 years. It released in April of 2019.

With the budget and scale of HotD S2, I'd expect it's turn-around time will be more similar to Season 8, then the rest of GOT. Around a 2 year turn around time, which would put it between June to August of 2024.

Fingers crossed its sooner.

I think the gap between seasons one and two will be larger than the gap between two and three. They didn’t pick up this show immediately like they usually do and I think it’s because they wanted to make sure it sustained success. I don’t think anyone really knew what to expect after how generally panned the ending of Thrones was. I know so many people who watched it and almost no one thought it ended well.

But everyone came back for this show and stuck with it, so if season two premieres big, which it likely will, I’m guessing three gets picked up the next day.

 

[CardiacCavs]

With respect to the popularity of this show, I'll say that HotD memes seem to flood the internet in the days following each episode. They are everywhere on Twitter, Reddit, Tik-Tok, FB, Etc. I feel as if in one season it has already reached the heights of GOT in terms of the cultural zeitgeist.

 

[Chris]

With respect to the popularity of this show, I'll say that HotD memes seem to flood the internet in the days following each episode. They are everywhere on Twitter, Reddit, Tik-Tok, FB, Etc. I feel as if in one season it has already reached the heights of GOT in terms of the cultural zeitgeist.

Shit is definitely back in full force.

Not sure this will run long enough to reach the absurd heights of GoT, but it will burn hot for 3-5 years.

 

[Ohio]

What made GoT the cultural phenomenon it was was the unknown...meaning, what will happen after the book content ends? It generated an unprecedented amount of conversations, theories, predictions, debates, etc. Not just online but in person. Every Monday would be hours of GoT talk in the office. I was even using GoT as a conversation starter to pickup girls at the bar for awhile

HotD is awesome, but it's missing that "unknown" factor...the outcome(s) are more or less determined already. For that reason alone I just can't see it reaching the pop culture heights that GoT did. Honestly, no show will probably ever reach those heights again for a number of reasons.

 

[Chris]

What made GoT the cultural phenomenon it was was the unknown...meaning, what will happen after the book content ends? It generated an unprecedented amount of conversations, theories, predictions, debates, etc. Not just online but in person. Every Monday would be hours of GoT talk in the office. I was even using GoT as a conversation starter to pickup girls at the bar for awhile

HotD is awesome, but it's missing that "unknown" factor...the outcome(s) are more or less determined already. For that reason alone I just can't see it reaching the pop culture heights that GoT did. Honestly, no show will probably ever reach those heights again for a number of reasons.

Definitely true.

Little did we know… we were gonna get shit on in the end

 

[Chris]

What was the deal with Daemon choking Rhaenyra? I understand the point of the scene was I guess Viserys never filled Daemon in on the prophecy but I didn’t understand his banter nor him assaulting Rhaenyra.

 

[MattyFos.]

What was the deal with Daemon choking Rhaenyra? I understand the point of the scene was I guess Viserys never filled Daemon in on the prophecy but I didn’t understand his banter nor him assaulting Rhaenyra.

It seems like he thought Vicerys was wasting his time with his omens and potents (I think that's what he said)
Now he sees his wife, whom he thought was Fire and Blood like him, putting stock in the same shit Viserys did.

Prophecy didn't make the Targaeryens kings. Dragons did


He loved Viserys but it's safe to assume he didn't love his brothers indecisiveness, and unwillingness to burn shit to the ground.
I think he realized he married his brother.

 

[Chris]

It seems like he thought Vicerys was wasting his time with his omens and potents (I think that's what he said)
Now he sees his wife, whom he thought was Fire and Blood like him, putting stock in the same shit Viserys did.

Prophecy didn't make the Targaeryens kings. Dragons did


He loved Viserys but it's safe to assume he didn't love his brothers indecisiveness, and unwillingness to burn shit to the ground.
I think he realized he married his brother.

Makes sense, that is kinda what I figured. Whole scene was just a little odd to me.

Daemon is such an enigma, hard not to enjoy every second he is on screen. The scene with him singing in Valyrian to the untamed dragon was low key one of my favorites.

Also, we got to see Storms End finally - which imo looked so badass. Way way way better than our shitty glimpse of Casterly Rock at the end of GoT.

 

[MattyFos.]

Makes sense, that is kinda what I figured. Whole scene was just a little odd to me.

Daemon is such an enigma, hard not to enjoy every second he is on screen. The scene with him singing in Valyrian to the untamed dragon was low key one of my favorites.

Also, we got to see Storms End finally - which imo looked so badass. Way way way better than our shitty glimpse of Casterly Rock at the end of GoT.

Yeah this episode was a banger. They made questionable decisions with the lore with Aemond's big moment and Rhaenyra being more Viserys and less Daemon. But I'm ok with it for now. I actually really liked Rhaenyra trying to honor her father's wishes. The show did a good job showing his love for her and vice versa so showing her maturity and trying to do what he would do is a nice touch.

I'm less ok with the Aemond mistake. But I am on board with the series and they haven't shown that I can't trust their decision making yet. So I'll withhold judgment on it for now.

I really wish they'd stop talking about The Song of Ice and Fire though. Just reminds me of how they ruined GOT.