House Of The Dragon TV Series Season One Review

 

Game Of Thrones as like Game Of Thrones itself House Of The Dragon has been subject to episodes leaking online. With the final episode of his shows stellar first season leaking online at least two days before it's premier on HBO and well then I promised myself that once I saw the final episode of this shows first season I would write a review of it and so then join me as I review the first season of the TV show that has been the best thing on TV recently with the show in question being called simply just "House Of The Dragon" enjoy.

The plot of this show is nearly two hundred years before Game Of Thrones the Targaryen family ruled Westeros however war is looming and the once tight nit family is starting to fall apart at the seems. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this shows plotline being genuinely engaging and very well written and paced out in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Paddy Considine as Viserys I Targaryen , Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen and Olivia Cooke as An Older Alicent Hightower. Also starring in this show is Emma D'Arcy as An Older Rhaenyra Targaryen , Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower , Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon , Eve Best as Rhaenys Targaryen , Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria , Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole , Milly Alcock as Young Rhaenyra Targaryen , Emily Carey as Young Alicent Hightower , Phia Saban as An Older Helaena Targaryen , Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen , Ewan Mitchell as An Older Aemond Targaryen , Bethany Antonia as Baela Targaryen , Phoebe Campbell as Rhaena Targaryen , Evie Allen as Young Helaena Targaryen , Leo Ashton as Young Aemond Targaryen , Nova Foueillis-Mosé as Child Laena Velaryon and Savannah Steyn as Young Laena Velaryon.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With every single one of this shows cast really nailing there characters and turning in some really good performances at the exact same time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Doing the actual CGI for this show is MPC Episodic , Outpost VFX and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pixomondo. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good with all of this shows CGI effects being movie quality good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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The one thing that I wasn't expecting from this shows final episode was for them to make Rhaenyra Targaryen. Simply because I think something this important would have been mentioned on Game Of Thrones but the fact that it wasn't makes me wonder if something tragic is to happen to this character either by the end of the next season or by the end of this shows run since that's the only way that I can see something like this making perfect sense interms of this world and what this world has already established thanks to Game Of Thrones in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

This show does have quite alot of time skips inbetween each episode which in some cases can make quite confusing. However for alot of the time the time skip is referenced in the actual episodes themselves with the largest time skip being inbetween episodes five and six however in doing all of these time skips the show does miss on the chance to explore storylines that otherwise get forgotten due to the fact that there's a time skip and that's bit of a huge let down for me personally since the show does create some interesting plot threads but due to the time skips they just don't get explored as much as they should've done in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Rather fitting this show has very similar endings to both it's first and final episodes with episode one ending with the death on Rhaenyra Targaryen's mother and this episode ending with the death of one of her sons. This to me was quite interesting because now we get to see how this character gets to deal with the death of her own son whilst also having an entire army at her command and so this should make season two not only all the more interesting but also all the more important as we get ever closer to the dance with dragons in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then this show has ten episodes all of which last around one hour each which is in line with Game Of Thrones. I will admit that this show having one hour long episodes does work to this shows advantage since it does allow for scenes to breathe and for the smaller moments to have a lasting impact on us the viewers like the scene between Viserys I Targaryen and Daemon Targaryen in episode eight were Daemon Targaryen helps his dying brother ascend to the throne for the last time and a scene like that wouldn't be in the show if this show had a much more shorter running time because it's not that important of a scene in terms of that episode and that's episodes plotline in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

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 show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With actor Matt Smith getting alot of really cool action scenes and heck there's a shockingly cool action scene at the end of this very episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this show was such a fantastic show and is easily better then The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power since this show actually has good acting and good writing within it 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 show in this very review and as such that means that this first season erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 9.5 out of 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.

Game Of Thrones "Fire And Blood" Review

 

Game Of Thrones fans since I had such a good time writing a review for you all yesterday I thought that i'd write a review of another Game Of Thrones episode today. Just like with the last Game Of Thrones episode that I wrote a review for yesterday I had so many choices for good or even average episodes and well I went with the episode that has a pretty iconic ending and yes I will most likely be talking about that iconic ending in this very review and so join me as I review the Game Of Thrones season one finale with the episode itself being called simply "Fire And Blood" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Dany pays a terrible price to save Drogo all in the meanwhile the news coming out of King's Landing rocks the world of Westeros to it's core and sets in motion events that will have devastating effects on several groups of people for years to come. I will admit that the summery for this episode was a lot easier to write and I loved the story being told in this episode with the story itself being very well told in my humble opinion.

Starring in this episode is Michelle Fairley as , Catelyn Stark and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen , Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont , Aidan Gillen as Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Richard Madden as Robb Stark , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy , Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark , Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister , Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo , Natalia Tena as Osha , Conleth Hill as Varys , Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister , John Bradley-West as Samwell Tarly , Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle , and Mia Soteriou as Mirri Maz Duur.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was in all honesty really freaking good in my opinion. With all of the actors in this episode giving some truly wonderful performances with some of the actors not even saying a word and you understand right away what that character is feeling that's how good the acting in not only this episode but in Game Of Thrones is as a whole in my opinion. 

Doing he CGI  for this episode is BlueBolt , Pixomondo and Screen Scene I have to admit I haven't heard of any of the companies that did the CGI for this episode which is a shame because I really did like the CGI in this episode. Yes there was only really one scene that had CGI with that being the ending to this episode but this show also uses CGI in more subtle ways like extending cities or making building either appear or bigger then what they are in real real life and I have to admit that the CGI effects in this episode were honestly really good but of course the CGI in this episode is as good as CGI effects in later seasons of Game Of Thrones 

Just to give you guys and example of how good the acting in this episode is the first scene with Robb Stark and his mother Catelyn Stark is a great example of how good the acting in this episode is. Since with barely any words since with barely any words being said you get that the two ae deeply upset by the death of Ned Stark and due to the fact that there are barely any words said between Catelyn Stark and Robb Stark you can tell what the other is thinking just by the looks that they give each other and this is something that would have been lost if the characters told you exactly how they were feeling instead of letting their body language tell you what they are thinking.

There is one shot in this episode that is infamous and it's the shot where you can see a George W Bush mask on a spike. Now both David Benioff & D.B. Weiss (the creators , showrunner and producers of this show as well as writers for not only this episode but for several other episodes) have said that have a George W Bush mask appear on a spike wasn't a political message but I have to wonder why was the scene removed from all home media releases and it's just in America it's every country that Game Of Thrones surely just removing the shot from all repeat episodes as well American home video releases would have been enough but it now means that fans outside of America now don't get to see what all of the fuss was about that shot was about which is a shame because I would have liked to have seen that shot and judge it for myself but it feels like I was robbed of that chance but at the same time I can see why the scene was removed since it could have been seen as a political message and that could have isolated some of the Game Of thrones fanbase in my opinion.

Now then sadly I cannot post the actual images that I want to use to talk about this just because the scene does feature nudity as do the images from that scene and this blog is rated PG so that means you'll have to make do with the above image. However by going of who is in the above image you can have a fair idea as to what scene I have to talk about because yeah that end scene with Daenerys Targaryen is so freaking good it's a scene where everything just comes together perfectly in my opinion with the music being really epic , the CGI being really good , the writing being really solid with alot of the characters in that scene getting some good lines and the acting from everyone in that scene / sequence being really good as all hell that final scene / sequence with Daenerys Targaryen steals not only the entire episode but the entire first season of Game Of Thrones for me because that final scene / sequence with Daenerys Targaryen is so good in my humble opinion.

Now just like with the last episode of Game Of Thrones that I reviewed I actually cannot remember the running time for this episode but I do now that this episode is at least fifty minuets long. Which for me at least is a bit of an issue just because this episode was so good that I wanted the episode to last longer and hell the episode had more then enough story for the episode to be longer if the makers of this show wanted to make the episode but since the makers of this show chose to not make this longer episode the episode goes by super quickly with scenes that should have lasted longer instead being over with in a few minuets and this in turn hurts the episode in my opinion since it now means that those scenes can't have as much impact as those scenes would have had if the episode was a bit longer in my honest and humble opinion.

Now then in what is rather a strange move for a Game Of Thrones finale there actually isn't any action or action scenes in this episode. With instead the main focus of the episode being how certain character react too the death of Ned Stark (this episode came out in 2011 so it's not a really a spoiler anymore so get over it lol) which is the right move in my opinion but at the sae time I would have liked to have seen some action scenes but at the same time I can see why there wasn't any action scenes in this particular episode tho but that's just what I personally think tho.

Overall this was a really good episode and it was a good way to end the first season of this fantastic show in my opinion. However there are some faults in this episode which i've discussed in this review and i've talked about the good things that are in this episode in this very review as well and as such this episode gets an 9.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from Google Images and the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page with my preferred website to use for images from this episode or from Game Of Thrones as a whole being the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page just because the images that are on the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are always pretty high definition which fir me at least is always a good thing since it makes the review more pleasing on the eye and it makes the image itself alot more pleasing on the eye in my opinion.