House of the Dragon
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Game of Thrones Prequel. Dark filming, a weak plot, annoying characters, feels woke and a bit boring.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-10-26 |
The reign of House Targaryen begins with this prequel to (172 years before) the popular HBO series "Game of Thrones." The events leading up to and covering the Targaryen civil war of succession, known as the "Dance of the Dragons"... all become some melancholy spoiled girl wants to become the Queen to overcome her Daddy issues.
- The reviewers loved it, because of a lot of the plotlines break traditions and social norms -- and that feeds their need for imagining a progressive utopia (if they could just kill everyone in their way).
- To reviewers and woke, the spoiled daughter is justified in anything she does because she's got tits and is fighting the male patriarchy. (Yawn). Never mind the consequences of her actions, and what's good for the house or Kingdom. (I don't mind female leads, but the story has to be deeper than, "I'm a girl, and I'm as good as any man!".. even if she isn't.
- The film style is unnecessarily dark and hard to see. When viewers complained they defended that it was what they were going for. Yeah, it's still fucking annoying.
- As a friend put it, Rhaenyra is the main villain in House of the Dragon (even if the reviewers/left haven't figured it out). Once she agrees to a sham (open) marriage with Laenor (a gay man), and becomes his beard, that is where she commits mass murder (people will die). The entire stability of the entire society is put in jeopardy by her cuckolding her husband and birthing bastard children, which is going to cause a succession crisis. This act, more than all others, is the greatest evil in the show. Though the directors/writers play her as the hero and not the anti-hero.
- Everything centers around her self-centered desire for Daddy's approval of becoming queen (which seem tied in her mind), and a complete lack of interest in what's best for the family, their people, or the Kingdom. It's not like she's going it because she thinks she'd be a better ruler. (And they've shown no reason for it -- that she'd be better than the alternatives). So it's just a quest for power, with little value on traditions or consequences.
Postmodernists love it, not because it's good, makes sense, or has any depth... just because it challenges social norms, without concern for why the norms exist, or how she's making things better by challenging them. Hey, if they ever read Chesterton's_Fence and understood it, they wouldn't be good progressives/postmodernists.
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