Game Of Thrones fans today just so happens to be a very special day for me personally as it's my birthday and one of my presents was season one of House Of The Dragon. Well you just all know that I had to take a look at this shows debut episode just to see if this episode is still as good as it was when it first aired last year and so then join me as I review the episode that brought us back to the world of Westeros and the world of Game Of Thrones with the episode is question being called simply just "The Heirs of the Dragon" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when he names his only daughter his heir King Viserys I Targaryen faces backlash from all fronts which threaten to cause a civil war. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot doing a very good of setting up the characters and telling a genuinely intriguing plot in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Paddy Considine as King Viserys I Targaryen and Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen. Also starring in this episode is Rhys Ifans as Ser Otto Hightower , Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon , Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Targaryen , Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria , Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole , Milly Alcock as Young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen , Emily Carey as Alicent Hightower , Graham McTavish as Ser Harrold Westerling and Sian Brooke as Queen Aemma Arryn.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which isn't new for Game Of Thrones since even during it's bad seasons Game Of Thrones always had great acting in it and it's great to see that this show continued that trend by having great acting in this very episode.
Doing the CGI for not only this episode but also I think for this entire show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Visualskies. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes CGI being so good that it could have been in a feature length film because it's that good.
To me Prince Daemon Targaryen is someone who is trying to be a rockstar but has no idea how to make it as an actual rockstar. Since everything about this character just screams rockstar to me from the way that he walks down to the way that he talks and given that Matt Smith chose to play this character in a way that suited him that wouldn't actually surprise me if that was true since this character is basically a rockstar in every single way and heck as the show would go on he'd even have multiple women just like an actual rockstar.
Sadly its not all good since this episode does have it's fair share of flaws as well the first of which being that the show doesn't reopen the world of Westeros up. With the vast majority of the episode being set within Kings' Landing which oddly enough makes the show feel alot smaller then what it actually is and as such we don;t don;t get to see how other famous Game Of Thrones locations where at this point in time which is shame because there could be a wealth of stories just waiting to be told during this time period and by restricting yourself to just one location your making feel alot more smaller then what it actually is.
The other thing that this episode doesn't get right is the death of Queen Aemma Arryn which is something that i've never liked happening this early on in the show. Since it's something that would have been alot more dram tic if it was done in say episode six for example since then we would have had a lot more time to really get to know this character and to see how she fits within her family and to see how she interacts with other characters and yet by killing her of in the first episode it just comes across as having a death in the episode for the sake of having a death in this episode.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and two minuets. Which is the perfect amount of time for this episode to last since even tho it doesn't have tom set up the world it still has several dozen new characters that it has to set up and it just can't do that and sill a good and even well thought out story and it really does help that this episode had some great pacing to it as well and as such this episode really did fly by and not feel as long as it was.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty. Not that bad since we don't get an awful lot of action in this episode but what little action that we do get does look good and is really visually cool to look at in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this episode is still a great debut for what would be a great first season and while this episode does indeed have it;s fair share flaws those are very minor flaws at best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out pf 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.