Dunking on some HOTD Hot Takes

streamed 22/8/2022 (day of house of the dragon premiere)

[@JHarris533]

The Slants columnist Aaron Riccio praised multiple episodes of Season 8 and said 'The Bells' was a "masterful rebuttal of an episode" and said that the audiences inability to see what was happening in "The Long Night" was both "effective" and a "artful use of shadow."

[@jovial.milieu]

Damn, that's hilarious

[@glimbus]

lmao i love him

[@amaristudios8573]

“Artful use of shadow” but very scarce of anything else

[@joeyjerry1586]

Master rebuttal? Yes, because the bells is definitely the first episode that shows war is bad and doesn’t take the story in a happy direction

[@sarwatarannya8786]

@@joeyjerry1586 god I hate all this doom and gloom in my dragon show. Where's all the suger, spice and everything nice

[@ThatDangerousWolf]

Rhaenyra never dealt with the lesson about the birthing bed....? HER MOTHER LITERALLY DIED GIVING BIRTH IN THE SAME EPISODE AND RHAENYRA HAD TO GIVE THE ORDER FOR SYRAX TO BURN HER MOTHER AND BROTHER’S CORPSES

[@GageEakins]

I mean yeah....

[@Alphabunsquad]

But what lesson did she learn? She should have told us! Why wasn’t there a voice over!!?

[@Leo_ofRedKeep]

"It's so subtle, so tactful"… and that's the problem for a certain audience that needs everything hammered down. I always felt that early GoT was too good for its audience, maybe HotD is even better in this regard.

[@charlesn.2881]

Sure, the general television audience is dumb. But they're the most numerous, and therefore most profitable demographic.

[@jessjess23brooks89]

It is much like, "hush sweety. The Adults are watching tv." I hope they don't dumb anything down to appease idiots like this. The horrible violence should make them happy enough.

[@writershard5065]

This is why I don't care much for certain criticisms about subtlety. Subtlety is fantastic when done well, but if you wanna spread a message, subtlety is not going to help sadly. Movies like Don't Look Up made the right call by being about as subtle as a small nuke. Sometimes you gotta be to hammer home a message.

[@Leo_ofRedKeep]

@@writershard5065 Propaganda is about sending messages. Art is about allowing an audience to discover something personal in what it observes. Entertainment is neither but every step it takes towards sending messages condemns it to the rubbish pile.

[@viviandarkbloom1447]

I love this one season of Hot D so much more & not cause of recency bias- the more I think about it … the more I see & others pick out. So much to analyze

[@BattyButtercup]

It's a bit Alarming how nostalgic all these critics are for "a funny dwarf" because... Tyrion's story arc was shafted in favour of KEEPING Peter Dinklage in that role of "likeable comic relief" instead of book!Tyrion's progression into "Thwarted-Hero-Turned-Successful-Villain". Reducing Tyrion (& thus his actor) to "likeable comic relief" in a show like Thrones (epic fantasy political drama)? That had to hurt, as an actor, especially while Cersei's got to chew on "you're finally queen but you're entirely alone" and Jaime's got a "self-sabotaging redemption arc + epic romance". Dinklage stole scenes regardless but it's glaring that Tyrion did so because he no longer truly had Scenes of his own. When Mushroom shows up in HotD, a LOT of eyes are going to be focused on how the show will contend with the fundamentally dehumanizing nature of the "funny dwarf" archetype, in its full and terrible trappings, and the very real persons cast to play them.

[@kiera_rdh6697]

This is a beautiful and heartbreakingly accurate analysis of what they did to Peter Dinklage via Tyrion. I haven’t seen this pointed out so well before. Especially when Dinklage been so open that he vehemently hates when little persons are type cast as “the funny dwarf” or an elf or gnome just for being small. There is speculation that the character of Mushroom will be cut entirely from the show for this reason. This franchise has to stop relying on “comic relief dwarf” because it’s truly insulting and dehumanizing. Plus it’ll make the show look even more like it’s just trying to copy the original series.

[@elinaw6175]

Wow, I have never come across this or thought of it before, just wow. That makes me feel sad and stupid. I can only imagen how Peter Dinklage must feel

[@Nosliw837]

@@elinaw6175 Alt Shift X made similar observations about the neutering of Tyrion's character for "the sake of the show" a couple years back in his hour long Book Tyrion deep dive. Great video, check it out. Alt Schwift X came out with a Tyrion rap, clearly better than anything ASX could produce.

[@nicmagtaan1132]

Id like to think they can tone down a bit of dark Tyrion by making the show Tyrion slowly becoming tywin in terms of ruthlessness and use of treachery

[@MarkHalberstram]

@@nicmagtaan1132 My brother in Christ, I am sorry to tell you that the show is finished and they did not do this.

[@ClaireYunFarronXIII]

Glidus *defending* a _Game of Thrones_ property? Wow, _House of the Dragon_ truly is incredible.

[@viderevero1338]

Truly the second coming. Old Glidus from 2015 has returned! The prophecy rings true!

[@shavedata5436]

true chads hate GoT seasons 4+ and dig HotD

[@Ebony_Darkness]

Legit seeing glidus likes it is the reason I started watch hotd

[@GageEakins]

"The series never dwells on the impact of free-spirited, dragon-riding Rhaenyra told by her mother...'childbirth is out battlefield'". This person shows exactly what kind of idiot they are. They need the show to hold their hand and tell them why gender roles are bad while taking itself out of the culture it is meant to depict. I'm sure they love when characters act like modern people instead of the people that they should act like based on their culture. The line speaks for itself. No other character would be surprised by Rhaenyra's mother's comment.

[@LukeSky2207]

I mean, it's not like she fought a war to prove that's wrong or something, right?

[@bellbanana]

the show itself literally intersperses the birthing scenes amongst the tourney scenes to show both "battles" being fought, and how the mother "loses" her fight the same way Daemon does. it's definitely a bad, careless take on the part of the critic.

[@keirangrant1607]

The funny part about the hate is that in real life there have been amazing women who ruled or essentially ruled, and would crush any man in a GoT. They want women to be in traditional subservient roles only. Thats so closed minded.

[@neuralmute]

@@keirangrant1607 Right? The only one from GoT that I can think of who might have outsmarted Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I at their best would have been Tywin Lannister. And either of them would have been smart enough to either behead him or hire him in a cold minute.

[@keirangrant1607]

@@neuralmute 100%! Catherine was a beast in female form. St. Olga of Kiev is my personal favorite. She was Tywin. She pulled a Rayne's of Castamere and wiped out an entire group of people

[@niksterkai4303]

Viserys: looses his wife in a birth to produce an heir who dies anyway Critic: wHeRe FuNni?

[@ThatDangerousWolf]

😂😂😂

[@DongusMcBongus]

“Ha Viserys your babies have nO bAlLs!” -Tyrion, the time traveling fetus.

[@ThatDangerousWolf]

@@DongusMcBongus Omg stop I’m snorting 😂😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️

[@menschman1464]

Theon horribly mutilated in his most private area, and mentally tortured. Permanently screwing up his mind. Season 7 and 8: hue hue, ball kick no work because no ball.

[@Smoneey]

It’s boring and cliche. Fun doesn’t necessarily mean happy.

[@ktgrnhig]

I think these writer’s definition of peak wit begins and ends with “I drink, and I know things”.

[@LuxLoser]

The Slant article is basically saying that because Rhaenyra didn’t decide to NEVER have kids or even have sex with a man, she wasn’t impacted enough by Aemma’s death. I think unless she decided to become a lesbian and swear off all men and pregnancy (which no queen would do), this guy wasn’t going to be happy.

[@angelalovell5669]

!!! Have we cracked this? Was he just an instant Alicent/Rhaenyra stan and couldn't bear the baiting in the first ep, knowing it wasn't going to go anywhere lest book canon be completely destroyed? Was this unacknowledged gay fury?! Doesn't matter, it makes me happy so it's headcanon now. Me TOO bro, me too.

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

Except Elizabeth I, apparently

[@AL-fl4jk]

It’s actually extremely brave building a career as a media critic then proudly showing that you’re bad at it

[@dogquixote]

So many of these critics just out themselves as incapable of empathizing with young female characters it’s legitimately embarrassing.

[@ChrisLamia]

Having a problem with Rhaenyra and Rhaenys is like having a problem with Christopher and Christian. They’re clearly different names

[@MrSpeedysam60]

Or Asha and Osha. ... ...fuck.

[@domskillet5744]

That first reviewer reminded me of a Tyrion line (from season 5 yikes but it's still a good line) "In my experience, eloquent men are right just as often as imbiciles." This man tries so hard to sound smart with lengthy sentences and excessive word choice but literally everything he's saying is utterly nonsensical lmao

[@virticrew11]

I really don’t like the notion that this story needed a “comic relief” character, especially in the way they did the first episode. Personally, I think the tone they took with the episode, as well as the tactful yet brutal portrayals of the c-section and the gold-cloak rampage would have been ruined by the presence of a character making marvel-esque quips all the time. I loved the humor in early GOT like everyone else, but i found the absence of comic relief refreshing and appropriate for this story. Having too much would’ve felt really out of place.

[@inalusa9011]

critics attention span is so low nowadays they need stupid jokes to keep them awake. They get frustrated when a show demands them to use their braincells and pay attention to the story..

[@idontuploadanym0re]

they’re upset that Will Smith don’t show up with a “what are we, some kind of House of the Dragon?” followed by him slapping Daemon in the face.

[@angelalovell5669]

@@idontuploadanym0re Well, now I'M disappointed this didn't happen.

[@Shotgun979]

Daemon Targ is absolutely half legendary warrior / petulant child havent they read the book?

[@theguywithpants]

“None of that wit or energy is present here” damn they shoulda just had episode 1 open with mushroom saying “I drink and I know things”

[@olenickel6013]

This would be an absolutely amazing scene to have. Just him telling a bunch of wild rumours that he pulled out of his arse, then being questioned how he could pissibly know who is bonking who in the red keep, and answering this.

[@HOTD108_]

@@olenickel6013 We need an hour long scene of Mushroom adjusting chairs.

[@wildercerrate7295]

The subtlety is exactly why Im loving HOTD right now... Yet it seems a lot of it goes way over people's heads

[@brennanbarnes7628]

Damn you Glidus, 'Tysha's husband' is going to slither into my brain every. single. time. I see/hear the name Tyrion.

[@mfbobyle6771]

Idk how anyone can write off a show from 1 episode. It was a good start. Best Game of Thrones thing we’ve had in like 6 years lol

[@yuh6712]

Thats what I keep saying.......

[@omaridaniels8427]

That's not saying much, given how lackluster the last few seasons of Thrones were. The bar wasn't exactly high.

[@mfbobyle6771]

@@omaridaniels8427 ya that’s the point

[@Charles-In-Charge]

It’s so obvious that even before the episode came out, these publications told their writers they had to make an article calling HOT D terrible, regardless of what was actually provided

[@Bronimin]

pure controversy clickbait

[@idontuploadanym0re]

i hope people don’t get turned off from the show as a result. the premiere was very promising, and i think even the most casual of fans would agree with that.

[@dantefromdevilmaycry9857]

@@idontuploadanym0re do people even read these articles anyway? I didn't even know they existed until this video were recommended.

[@georgechapman9688]

And make rings of power sound great

[@Charles-In-Charge]

@@georgechapman9688 Funny how that strategy doesn't seem to be working out, since ROP is getting such a mixed reception from fans

[@liammcfarlin3923]

The show does a lot of showing instead of telling and as a result you have to use your brain just a tiny bit while watching. This component is ignored in the article (and by a lot of the reactors I've seen watching the show). I swear if I see one more person say how good and nice Otto Hightower is or how good of a king Viserys is I'm gonna lose faith in humanity again.

[@irondragonmaiden]

The Green contrarians (or Green fans who drank the Kool-Aid) are very vocal.

[@jakerooke174]

In a few years he’s gonna be saying “have you seen house of the dragons”

[@alexrockas3704]

The slant article was written by a horse

[@theprimo100]

Drogo himself? Or just that Lannister kid?

[@alexrockas3704]

@@theprimo100 i believe it’s an unrelated 3rd horse, Maybe George will tell us in TWOW

[@nailati]

it's the only possible explanation

[@irondragonmaiden]

That's an insult to horses

[@s4m1r_65]

what matters is the fanbase has risen again and the show has been almost universally well received.

[@Guinnessdrnkr1234]

Alicent's emotions were not too complicated when she was told to go fuck the king. It was anxiety.

[@Nutsacc]

This will be a nice archive of terrible takes to come back and visit once all these media sources pivot when they realize public perception of the show is actually really good.

[@jessthemess7248]

yeah, like imagine thinking Paddy Considine's acting sucked at all, let alone was the worst

[@claymusicoff5663]

I find it strange that when we read stories about explicitly only male leaders, the story isn’t about politics. But when it becomes about critiquing that, it is about politics

[@wephilips6651]

So true. People who complain about ‘politics in their show’ actually mean politics they don’t agree with but almost anything is political. It’s like people who say that anyone in a prominent role not a straight white male is ‘forced diversity’ and ‘political’ by definition regardless of the plot or theme.

[@HOTD108_]

Politics is how the world works. It's what people are allowed rights, and what people are allowed to say and do. Life in inherently political, and it's objectively impossible to make art/media that is without politics, because everything is intrinsically political, and always has been since society was invented.

[@elfodelputoinfierno]

I've seen people complain there's too many Targaryens in this show so... Not taking critics seriously anymore. Nope. Not going to let them ruin a (so far) good show because they have the brainpower of a walnut.

[@Lrodpotato]

Altho they phrase it in a way that's like oh there's too many dour Targaryens which doesnt rly make sense since when we start GoT pretty much half the cast was Starks and Lannisters and the remainder was 1 or 2 for every other house. What I think they mean by that is that every scene revolves around 3 characters and that's Viserys, Daemon and Rhaenyra. It's either Viserys being mad at Daemon or Rhaenyra or both. Daemon getting Viserys upset with his actions and getting Rhaenyra hot and bothered. And Rhaenyra annoyed at her dad and getting hot and bothered when she sees Daemon. And then every other scene is one of these characters interacting with other characters and we barely see the other characters interacting without a Targaryen being around or them talking about something other than one of those 3 Targaryens. And then when they says there's no Tyrion or Cersei that quotable or whatever. What they rly mean is that's there no person involved in the story that has motives beyond advancing their station. All the characters in HotD have similar motives/goals. Unlike in Game of Thrones where there's characters like Ned, Robb and Jon that just do what they think is right even if it's not to their own benefit. We don't have a Bron who is only motivated by gold. We don't have a Brienne who wishes only for glory and honor. We don't have a Hound who simply likes to fight and kill because it what's he's good at it and doesn't rly care for the game of Lords. And there's no Tyrion who's just been mistreated by his family for reasons beyond his control and wants his father's recognition/approval. Or characters who are simply motivated by revenge like Arya. There's no Varys that is looking out for the realm as a whole and a Littlefinger that wants to see it burn so he can be King of the Ashes. Hell there's no Podrick just running around running errands for people and bringing wine. There's no Shae that is just looking for her next meal ticket. Theres no Hot Pie whos just a friend to one of the characters and likes to cook and literally doesnt matter in any way to anything. The closest thing to a character that has any of these exterior motives at first is Criston Cole but that will eventually change so that means theres literally no characters that are around simply for the ride or whos motives aren't rly related to the succession plot line. And this problem exists because the book that this is based is like an outline of what happened from different sources that say conflicting things so it's not like GoT where literally every little thing in a scene is described. So by comparison HotD seems very empty or like they describe "dull or boring" but I wouldn't the describe the show as whole that way because there is alot of other things I think they get right.

[@TheDudztallicA]

It makes me sick that you can be this intellectually dishonest with yourself and others and make money off it. These articles should never have been written, let alone published

[@jolinefields3460]

Bye the way your laughter is just so infectious and made this whole thing and my day week month 😅❤

[@user-ek8bl8yh9b]

I was honestly pleasantly surprised by the episode, the only complaints (namely surrounding the prophecy thing) being easy to ignore and having no impact on my enjoyment of the show. Even then the prophecy thing could serve to explain Rhaegar’s obsession with the prince that was promised. A lot of other complaints I’ve seen boil down to not being “book accurate” but I think that’s okay especially considering the book isn’t even a novel - the source material is meant to be “unreliable” which leaves things open to change. Honestly looking forward to the rest of the episodes, and all of the glimbus content that goes with them

[@user-ek8bl8yh9b]

also I low-key think the Velaryon change is smart because that one thing will be much more visually clear to the audience and because so far Steve Toussaint looks like a really good Corlys

[@federicoganora6936]

I agree that it explains how after the dargons die out the Targs become more paranoid and prophecy obsessed, the catspaw dagger is still dumb though.

[@kat8559]

@@user-ek8bl8yh9b it makes so much since bc house velaryon and in particular corlys are seafaring and do lots of trade between continents, which irl meant lots of cultures mixing together. Like egypt and the mediterranean. (Whereas the greyjoys were relatively isolated from other cultures)

[@wildercerrate7295]

Tbh even the books aren't "book accurate" and it's been states that what happens on the show is the canonical objective telling of the story

[@wildercerrate7295]

@@user-ek8bl8yh9b it makes sense also because of valyria being inspired by Rome which most definitely was not an ethnostate. Along with it's geographical location within essos it wouldn't make much sense that the valyrian would be completely homogenized

[@gayvinmcginnes2508]

Acting like Cristan Cole's defeat of Daemon wouldn't have consequences... lmfao

[@PhileasLiebmann]

"The source material is as slight as Tolkien's appendices." What does this mean? Tolkien's appendices are fucking massive!

[@creatrixZBD]

I love that HBO dropped Ep 1 on their KZbin channel FOR FREE, the day that Rings of Power comes out. You play or you die, Amazon ;P

[@nailati]

audibly laughed at "you know, Tysha's husband"

[@Persephone_Personified]

Ppl are saying it’s “flat” bc there is no dick jokes or Tyrion season 8 quips. You know what I say? GOOOOOOOD

[@underscore_5450]

The show could definitely have done with a scene of a main character saying "this has deeply affected me" so I don't have to think deeply about anything while watching the cool dragon show.

[@StefunnyStrange]

You can tell some of these critics are the types who screamed in excitement at watch parties as Littlefinger’s throat was slit or when the whites pulled Dany’s dragon out of the water in chains somehow. They don’t like when you take time with the plot or build up events because they get easily bored. They don’t care if it makes sense as long as it is something you can watch in a bar. Their brains can’t handle complex plots and they need action or twists every 5 seconds as if they have f*cking ADHD. I swear to god those are the worst type of fans and the morons that D&D tried to appease (but even failed them). These type of fans ruin good shows.

[@JessicaSilva-gq7zc]

Don’t bring us people with ADHD into that. These critic are just morons that wouldn’t be able to recognize quality television even if it hit them in the face with a brick

[@Aioki.Germany]

Who ever wrote that article is on crack . This show is amazing . I was screaming watching. This is secretly D&D writing the article.

[@Georgio29]

I feel like a lot of these takes were just outlets banking on people hating the show so they could seem relatable.

[@arunsingla3452]

8 minutes in and have laughed more in this then i have in last couple of months.

[@JL_Lux]

I love all the people who saw a black person and immediately thought it was “woke” i like to revisit the comments to see everyone say “oh it’s not bad” lmaooooo why would seeing a black person make u upset?!

[@matthunter983]

and left wing rags like Rolling Stone and Slate are calling it sexist...the Mary Sue criticized it for not having MORE non whites...the woke mob cannot be appeased

[@JL_Lux]

@@blaubeer8039 lol i love that too or they are like “i hope they don’t mKe this about women wanting to be in power” ummm that’s literally what this and GoT is about. Everyone wanting power

[@olenickel6013]

The main criticism of that casting choice, one I share btw, has always been about how a black Velaryon clashes with the theme of the folly of "purity of lineage". Velaryons and Tagaryans are obsessed with their heritage, to the point of becoming incestuous. Casting someone clearly diverse from the other Tagaryans undermines that theme visibly, which is bad. And the casting choice was purely made for diversity reasons, the producers admitted as much. The irony here is that they could have cast the entire Tagaryan related core cast with black actors and it would have worked better for the show, even underlined them as an essentially still foreign part to Westeros that has had to try real pointedly to paint themselves as true Westerosi nobility. Could have been fun, but more than token black actors for the "look, everyone rages about us being woke" free publicity you won't get from media. Alas, I need to emphasize: this is a minor quibble. The show is good thusfar, seems to take its themes serious overall and Toussaint is just such a good actor that the visual clash between casting choice and this underlying story theme of "Valyrian purity obsession" is easily overlooked.

[@olenickel6013]

@@blaubeer8039 Ok, fair enough. I bet there's plenty of bigots around who aren coming at this from just a casual racist gut reaction. And yeah, I don't subscribe to the "they changed it now it sucks" school of thought, but there's plenty of people whining about lack of purple eyes to be fair. Minor, unimportant detail of them being special and different that can easily be replaced with something else and especially in a visual medium it can be subtle.

[@matthunter983]

@@blaubeer8039 yes..and you would celebrate the casting of a white actor to play Shaft..and you would call all that opposed such casting bigots...you would stand proudly upon you moral soapbox and say...".believe me, the main issue is that these people see a white person on screen and get upset about it. No more, no less. Then people naturally look for a rationale to hide behind, such as Shaft is clearly black, to make a fuss about."... ..wouldn't you?

[@somegenerichandle]

I feel like HBO and similar streaming providers need to take a cue from the video game industry and give youtubers like Glidus the episodes too. I'm sure they'd dictate embargos and all, but at least they know something about the books.

[@skippycoulter]

I think they do, Carmine of Red Team Review mentioned and advanced copy. I think Glidus did too come to think of it...

[@glimbus]

We did not get advanced copies in the way journos did. As Carmine is keen on saying, it fell off the back of a truck. I agree though - imagine Alt Shift X drops his "Explained" video the day the episode airs. That would do a lot for many viewers.

[@gayvinmcginnes2508]

That first review was conscripted by Amazon.

[@guccifer764]

We’ll have Mushroom spouting dick jokes come the next episode. Maybe then the show will meet it’s comic relief quota.

[@idontuploadanym0re]

35:00 yes, that’s how he should be played!! if you have a problem with that, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of Daemon’s character. what do these people expect, a stoic Brienne of Tarth type??

[@jessjess23brooks89]

Sunday HOT D has become my wine night after I put my kiddo to sleep. Meaning, I'm pretty fucking pissed when I watch it. And still I can follow and enjoy the subtleties and symbolism. Makes me wonder that while I'm a few brain cells down and understand what is going on, how stupid must people be to not understand how good it is while sober.

[@kari8187]

Critics: There’s no laugh track, therefore *poo poo*

[@rsad8510]

These guys should go back to writing eight grade book reports.

[@alexdigg]

The reaction to the first review: "HaVe YoU SEEEN HoUsE oF ThE DrAgOn!?"

[@jakesadler7266]

Sorry as soon as that degenerate first article started spoiling the rest of the season I couldn't watch. But did wanna say amazing job as per demolishing shitty takes and/or writing with solid logic and common sense. I really love your channel dude

[@KarlKarsnark]

A second channel....sneaky, sneaky ;) (Subbed)

[@rubbish_kat]

'was she traumatized at all by this loss' 'she never reflects on this' yeah nah her total aversion to the idea of marriage even when given a choice of any suitor she wanted couldn't possibly have anything at all to do with her strong association between marriage and death by childbirth... "i wonder if, in the hours my brother lived, my father finally found happiness" "locked in a tower and made to squeeze out heirs" What does he meaaaan she never reflects on it, HOW MUCH DO THEY HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU Does she have to look at the camera and be like 'im acting like this because I'm afraid of having the same fate as my mother'

[@terellchapman8737]

The first argument is definitely some “foreshadowing is not character development” energy

[@Nemenon]

I love it when you disable adblock on a page and you get a bukkake of ads.

[@33jamesds]

That first one is the click-baitest article. They were told by the editor to "try to make the show sound bad, but also make it sound like you actually watched it." There is no substance in that article at all. I'll definitely continue watching.

[@Coooooops]

this guy watched the show and complained about things it did literally in front of his eyes

[@John-xr9ry]

Considering there are lots of people who genuinely called Season 6 of GOT a masterpiece, it’s not surprising see these idiotic articles

[@BubblegumCrash332]

Thrones and so far HotD just have this perfect mix of genres that make it work for the masses. Other fantasy shows have never quite figured it out. Not sure exactly what the secret sauce is (possibly GRRM) but you know it when you see it. Wheel of Time and possibly Rings of Power lack this pixie dust.

[@melanatedqueen6662]

You haven’t seen ROP HTF do u know what it lacks? 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@aliensconfirmed3498]

There is no secret sauce. It's just general good writing. Dialogues, characters, screenplay etc etc and more. GRRM does these things very well so you can actually call him secret sauce.

[@Ashbrash1998]

I think its because he does grey characters so well and makes fantasy somewhat realistic. Good characters don't always win, and could die. Characters you can hate you can fund things to love.

[@Rougarou99]

Once the anniversary of the Season 1 finale passes, you should do an update on these writers for what they said about the rest of the show.

[@snally6111]

Oof, was tryin to stay away from spoilers, u should bleep that part out

[@ajae...]

I'm right there with you with Sansa's hair. I found it distracting. Rhaenys's do makes her head look deformed. But neither are anywhere near as bad as little Leana's hair. Just wow. She has more hair than body, and it's just bad. I imagine any hairstylist who does black women's hair had a spit take when they saw that. I don't, so it was just a hard eye roll. There's no reason they should have let her on screen with that thing on her head in the 21st century. The lady around the corner from me could have done better. Corlys's hair is probably the best deadlocks wig Hollywood has done, though that's not saying much.

[@eriktatos]

One of the many reasons Viserys did a hard pass despite it causing the downfall of Targ power

[@cowsharkdefin6376]

It takes a long time to grow curly hair. Even with it relaxed my sister's hair never got below her shoulders because it needed trims for split ends. And my sis and I are white. A 12 year old girl wouldn't have hair that long even if it were stick straight. Maybe if she were 22 or 32 but not at 12.

[@ajae...]

@@cowsharkdefin6376 Mmmkay. It's not the length that's a problem. It's the volume and texture that makes it such a bad wig. It seems as if it was made for a much larger person.

[@werallgonnadi3035]

@@ajae... You're acting like nobles never wear wigs.

[@ajae...]

@@werallgonnadi3035 I'm acting like I'm responding to glidus's commentary on the bad wigs worn by the actors on two fantasy tv shows, Werall. You're acting like you don't understand that or how to start a different discussion about the history of hair pieces in Europe without an insult.

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

32:20 - Larys is the Han Solo of House of the Dragon

[@Velociraptour]

The Slant articlewas too verbose! So much so that the writer got too lazy to proofread it for bs. It reads like a high school essay trying to reach an assigned number of words.

[@andyfletchxr]

i haven’t liked a video faster than this right here

[@eriktatos]

This is a hilarious contrast to the RINGZ OF POWER reviews…is no critic entertained

[@traumer9622]

Sansas wig was horrible... but Cerseis short hair wig was an abomination

[@MineKynoMine]

I love how it just fucking ends lol

[@sevensicilies]

It's kinda funny seeing the parallels between winds and the season 6 pisstakes. For the record though, as long as the jokes keep coming I don't think any of us really care if it's season 6 or hot d

[@basedchimera5859]

These are all just Preston Jacob's using fake accounts

[@sam_c95]

Too many spoilers in these articles unfortunately. I've read the books but I still would like to not know how the show is going to portray things until I see it for myself.

[@jolinefields3460]

Def written by rings of power hype bot trying to put it on same bottom shelf as that🤣

[@BLooDCoMPleX]

I'm convinced that these are just troll articles for click farming through outrage.

[@andalilbitqueer]

you'd think you and your stream watchers getting spoiled while reading the article would warrant a spoiler disclaimer on the reupload of you getting spoiled, but i guess not ;__;

[@sackajules]

This critic is a tree........Pass.

[@lukaslambs5780]

Dragons Show good!!!!!

[@glimbus]

DRAGONS SHOW GOOD

[@rev0568]

Tbh, I have only really see one person say they dislike the prophecy of Aegon, and though I get the outlook... I'm kinda clinging onto that prophecy for hope. HOT D is great so far and I can't wait for episode 3. But if that prophecy is what I think it is, a hint of a soft core rewrite of season 8 alla "Snow" (Jon snows show that is supposedly in development set around post season 8) to allow the redemption of Jon Snow and other ruined characters, one where Jon takes his birth right and plunges into the political intrigue of a dying Westeros. A show that tackles the horrid situation the continent is left in post season 8. I could be wrong and it IS just supposed to be a nod to GoT, one that explains the Targaryens fixation on prophecy (Jaehaerys II I believe it was had Aerys and Rhaella wed based on prophecy if I recall, while Rhaegar was clearly motivated by it. The fact Aegon, the man who made their house what it is today, had this dream makes it that much more impactful..) but we'll see. Maybe I'm wrong and Snow will do something else that's awesome. Maybe Jon goes to Essos I dunno.

[@Lrodpotato]

Altho these hot takes are truly horrid in their reasoning. I personally think the show doesn't suffer because of its characters because at their cores their all good characters. I think it suffers mostly because of its direction, simple plot, and the time jumps it makes it seem like nothing eventful is occuring for long periods of times. This will probably be slightly resolved once we get to when actual war of succession starts but for now I feel like nothing is really happening its all just alot of exposition and build up. So I can see why ppl would think its dull because it's been 5 episodes of just Rhaenyrasaying she doesn't wanna get married or made to have children, being selfish and having very little thought for her image, Viserys being reluctant to ever make a decision about anything until his hand is forced for him and just slowly dying because he is truly unfit to rule that the throne itself rejects him, Allicent being forced into position by her father and than realizing that her only choice is to play the game if she doesn't want her children to die and slowly growing hateful/jealous of Rhaenyra (probably will be one of my favorite characters), Otto is plotting for the rise of his own family but at the same time he is no Littlefinger so I'm not wary of him because he still cares for the realm in fact everything he says is literally to prevent a war for the succession. Corlys is simply trying to get what was denied to his wife but sadly he was blessed with a son akin to Loras Tyrell in GoT so it will all be for nought, Daemon is probably the best part of the show although I find his ambiguous nature a little frustrating sometimes but thats his charm and I found his battle against the crabfeeder to be a bit lackluster but passable I guess. Criston Cole is probably my greatest disappointment... I find the way they decided to put him against Rhaenyra to be a bit cringeworthy because based on the way things happen in the show I don't feel he loves Rhaenyra or showed interest beyond what his duty entails so if he valued his honor and his vows so much then he should've never fallen to temptation to begin with alteast that how I see it. Regardless he did fall for temptation and after getting rejected by Rhaenyra instead of coming to terms and making a plan of action to redeem himself eventually, he kills a person due to self-anger and then tries to kill himself because thats how weak-minded he is which is very different from what I perceived his character was. Overall, I think it's just decent. The characters themselves are the only reason I'm coming back to watch but it's not as good as people make it out to be.

[@filiprochette7793]

Am I the only one who thinks some of the GoT episode titles are way too ambitious for what they actually display? Especially in the later seasons

[@Cussy69_420]

So many articles are exactly the same here in Germany! Without any clue about what Fire and Blood is, Westerosi history, Targaryen history but at the same time highly critical and condescending

[@waltonsmith7210]

But the show is so good...

[@lolagranola77]

It sure is

[@evannesbitt7852]

Alternate title is "Uncle Glimbo gets a little saucy and rants about the faults of free speech"

[@eriktatos]

You FOOKING tell these clowns glimbus!!!!! #AltSHIFTXisawarcriminal

[@emilyhuizinga9249]

they didn't show Rhanerya..... shows her doing just that

[@ArtoriaPendragon-t8m]

But what about lord 🐝zzzzzbry.

[@julioulloa5403]

If you want me to see the glimbus movie again.. i will

[@jaredmcdaris7370]

I often feel that people don’t really understand what acting is, and I think these articles are illustrating that. My biggest problem with the first 2 episodes is the acting; not that it’s poorly done, but that it’s largely the same. Viserys gets some diversity in a few scenes (and Aemma in one, for obvious reasons), but by and large everyone has the same mannerisms, the same style of expression: reserved intensity. Rhaenyra’s and Allicent’s relationship has been compared to Arya’s and Sansa’s frequently, and I think this can really highlight my point. Consider how Arya behaves in the first couple seasons with how Rhaenyra behaves: vocal choices, physicality, gestures, how they face toward or away from someone, etc. Contrast that with Sansa: both childish, both sometimes devolved to just shouting, but typically very different people. For Rhaenyra and Allicent, their differences are largely opinions they express, rather than how they communicate. Otto has often been compared to Tywin, but there is no one trying to deflate him like Tyrion (and failing), no one trying to shout him down like Cersei (and failing), no one to effectively contrast who he is. The characters mostly exist in vacuums, dynamically. I think this is a (common) result of directors being unwilling or unable to have clearly low-status characters. Funny wine dwarf was often the clear loser or clear winner in verbal conflicts, and those clear results could flip at a moment’s notice. Ditto for Cersei, Jaime, Brienne, the Hound, all the most beloved characters. But I think show-runners often want every character to be “cool,” so one can say or do anything that might make them seem like the loser in an exchange: low-status can only be conveyed by rote presentation of facts. Anyway, I should probably cut this short before I start to ramble for several minutes without accomplishing anything.

[@theoadamsiv7844]

new here. ur hilarious! insta sub

[@JacksonCharvelRULE]

Blackwater is number 1... duh

[@waltonsmith7210]

It reminds me of Helms Deep

[@wisdommanari6701]

Did you livestream this? And I missed it?!?

[@johnbaker1773]

Lotta copium going on here

[@jolinefields3460]

Wow this is so embarrassing 😳 😂

[@mayasoley4847]

That article is the epitome of “everything woke turns to shit” and it’s amazing

[@Ronfost89]

My hot take is that it was exactly ok. Also calling it hot d is a terrible idea

[@AlbertAlbertB.]

Visarys did something terrible? He tried to save the child, when he knew that if he did nothing they would both die. He tried to save his child and his kingdom from disarray, and the tragedy is that he failed, at the cost of his wife. Furthermore, Daemon did what was very common and thought of as justice in the middle ages, namely dismemberment as punishment. That is a horrid thing today, but not back then, when this alternate history is happening at. His crime would be his trialless justice, which is also common, in the middle ages and in ASOIAF books, and mainly his liking of the amputations, which isn't addressed.

[@sealy_99]

The fact that he took away Aemma's agency and didn't give her input in the choice is terrible. Heck, he didn't even properly tell her what was going to happen and she was just shoved down the bed while she could see Mellos get ready to cut her open.

[@AlbertAlbertB.]

@@sealy_99 Lol yes, lets ask her is she wants to die horribly, or cut open.

[@AlbertAlbertB.]

@@sealy_99 HIS EMOTIONS WERE TOO HIGH, WITH THE DYING OF HIS BELOVED WIFE AND ALL! And buddy boy, in those times, that is what operations were like. It was a gruesome scene, and heartbreaking, but that does not make it a terrible deed of Visarys. That shows what a crude battlefield she was on. The alternative, and that was made very clear was that the baby would poison her from the inside.

[@sealy_99]

@@AlbertAlbertB. Viserys being emotional and the scene being heartbreaking and gruesome does not make it mutually exclusive for his actions to be wrong and terrible. I’m not saying the actual deed (horrible and tragic as it is) is terrible by Viserys. What’s terrible is Viserys betraying his wife (who he apparently loves) who clearly does not consent, was not given a choice or a say in the decision and was not even told what was going to happen but found out after seeing a knife. All the while, Viserys is telling Aemma that everything is going to be alright, when it clearly wasn’t, and she wasn’t fooled.

[@pg1448]

@@sealy_99 Yeah but this is Westeros, women simply don't have agency in these matters in their world, childbirth is their duty, that's what the sentence "childbirth is a womans battlefield" really means. I mean as a loving husband he could have told her what was about to happen, but that they were going to try to save the child without asking for her consent is just realistic as far as I can tell. And that's not really Viserys being a terrible husband, it has much more to do with the way their culture operates and the priorities it sets. In this case: the life of the future king > her agency and right to determine over her body.

[@thisguyducky]

So these takes are really bad and like piss. So you might say, a piss take. I'll see myself out.

[@studentloans2488]

I would make fun of normie feminist journalist but then i remembered im simpiing for a guy who thinks the night king is Rhaegar and uploads pisstakes twice a year....

[@dookieshoe2905]

Last

[@johnbonargo929]

shows literal dog water

[@mercurydylan899]

Glidus scripted is solid to great. Unscripted, however, man it’s annoying. Lots and LOTS of forced laughter.

[@Smoneey]

Hot D is kinda flat. It lives off nostalgia and is so far very dry and uninteresting. Wake me up when something actually happens.

[@Tripleat117]

Hard disagree. I have no clue when you mean "lives off nostalgia" my friend has never watched GoT and I showed them this show and they enjoy it quite alot. The story doesn't rely on GoT at all.

[@Smoneey]

@@Tripleat117 Would it have the fame or notoriety it has without being preceded by GoT? Would your mate have even heard about it?

[@Tripleat117]

@@Smoneey I mean that's basically the struggle of any new IP, right? Any audience it gets is gonna be because of how well it advertises itself. The reason why I brought up my friend is cause I thought you meant it relied on nostalgia to help its story. He is, well was, entirely unfamiliar with ASOIAF before this and I didn't really need to explain anything to him for them to be engaged and enjoy the story. I mean maybe he would of never heard of it, but that doesn't diminish any of the qualities this show has.