House of the Dragon - Season 2 Premiere "A Son for a Son" - Spoiler Review

My review for the Season 2 Premiere of 'House of the Dragon', written by Ryan Condal and directed by Alan Taylor.
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[@kevinpascual]

We’re in for a roller coaster.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Hell yeah. This is my most anticipated pop culture event of the summer.

[@aly4920]

Totally agree that the show should have it's own original theme music.That House of Dragon can stand on its own. Also, good policy on no theories. Thanks for your review. Go Team Black!

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I'll be curious to see if they cook up a new score for the Dunk & Egg series. Those stories are so different tonally from the rest of GRRM's books that they definitely deserve some new tunes.

[@liamdamon]

​@geekinwithJamesHancock I think they should use the same song but change up the instrumentation. Each Game of Thrones series could be specific to its own time period by emulating the different musical styles from our own history. The Dunk and Egg theme could be more of a lilting tune using flutes and pipes with drums and tambourine but using the same song.

[@cheekoandtheman]

People keep missing that Fire and Blood is written as a historical document with all the inaccuracy that comes with that , the series is what actually happens thus far more canon than the books . A fascinating approach

[@duybui83]

Yep. Same Hugh. I forgot the actors name but he's the same actor shown with Rhaenyra in the trailers.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Good to know and thanks for the confirmation!

[@YnotNomis]

Blood and Cheese!

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

They will live in infamy.

[@akinlikesfilms960]

why did the dog kick hurt me more than the end 🥲

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I felt the same. Those dudes are pure scum.

[@jcwoodman5285]

One of the Hollywood writers primary rules- Never kill the dog...

[@wavion2]

You can't kick a dog on a show and live. I will be very surprised if that dude survives the next episode.

[@akinlikesfilms960]

@@geekinwithJamesHancockalso i don’t know if you have seen Warrior, but the actor that plays Huw in HOTD is one of that shows regulars , fantastic actor, so i don’t think they’d cast him if he wasn’t going to show up later on

[@nemomarc7841]

Episode 1: HOUSE OF DRAGON. Intense tragedy, the fire of anger is only the beginning. Can’t wait for episode 2. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🐲 team Black

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Team black all the way. And now that kids have been murdered on both sides, I'm ready to see everyone surrender to their murderous impulse for revenge.

[@ghostwolf1435]

Team Black Represent

[@ziggy8253]

The very first scene with Queen Alicent shows how things are about to go down-I mean, get down-I mean 😅

[@braddollahite]

Hell yeah missed your reviews

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Many thanks! I'm thrilled to spend the rest of the summer in this world.

[@v.h.rodriguez7997]

Strong start to the season. Great pacing.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I know some folks were frustrated over too little happening after a 2 year wait, but as every fan of 'Fire & Blood' knows, there is some really savage shit right around the corner.

[@braddollahite]

Yeah FU team green. Go team black

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

So far I haven't met or spoken to a single fan of Team Green. I wonder if that will change over the season or everyone is just going to dogpile on them.

[@Broncos18]

Supporting killing babies is a weird take lol

[@e.h.4933]

I think that the theme song for Game of Thrones is a lot like the themes from the original Star Wars. It's another character in the story. So identifiable with that world it would be very dangerous to try a new theme. I think I understand why they used it though I can also understand wanting HotD to have its own identity.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

It is probably too late to cook up a new theme for HotD, but perhaps they'll give us something fresh for the Dunk & Egg series they are filming right now.

[@verkpunk]

I always stand up when watching James the Hancock

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

lol, high five!

[@Boblw56]

Agree about title changes and theme song. HOD always sets up future action well. Book Blood and Cheese scene was a little gross for TV but I think they handled it well. Heleana’s foreshadowing about “rats” was great. Good start.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I'm totally depraved and would not have minded a scene closer to the horror of the book, but at least they added that really disgusting sawing sound, lol.

[@jamiehuntley5082]

Loved it! Great to be back. Another great vid James

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Fired up to have this show to look forward to the rest of the summer.

[@AkronRain69]

Great episode! Emma D’arcy was amazing and they only had one line.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I'm a big fan of Emma's interpretation of the character as well.

[@batgurrl]

Love your review, as always. Thanks James for ‘spoilers’

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Many thanks! Very fired up to discuss this epic saga in granular detail for the rest of the summer.

[@batgurrl]

@@geekinwithJamesHancockyou are very welcome. It’s the only drama I am watching (I have overpriced ‘premium cable’ and can’t afford any streaming services lol)

[@charityschmidt3958]

Hard to be on any team when I know how it ends. 😬

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Totally fair. In the end, all these characters are on really on the same team and it is the realm itself that is going to lose.

[@jacketernity4609]

That was a great season premiere! Can’t wait for more. Great insights as always!

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

With so many franchises in ruins these days, it is a genuine relief to have a cool fantasy to look forward to the rest of the summer.

[@brucer2152]

i was sitting on the edge of my seat...waiting...I can't wait to see the dragons blowin' hella outta stuff...

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

The good news is the book features a cornucopia of dragons unleashing bloody mayhem. If the show captures even a small fraction of those scenes, we're in for a wild ride.

[@brucer2152]

@@geekinwithJamesHancock I just hope they do some daylight dragon fights. Not night time ones that they use to help cover cgi lack of details. Spend the lucre!

[@aftertheshowmoviepodcast]

Watching TV standing up that's a new one. Noone can call you a couch potato.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I have my lazy zonked out moments with other shows but with shows I love I can't sit still.

[@paulthebeardedonedowning6820]

yep this was great I was up in my seat soaking it all in I have a love for all the characters in one way or another and I am ready for the emotional roller coaster when some inevitably get bumped off lol

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I'm very curious to see where they will wrap up this show in after a few seasons. As I reread the book, it occurred to me that there is not a natural conclusion or off ramp for the show. The consequences and aftermath could be be interesting but perhaps too grim and depressing, lol.

[@paulthebeardedonedowning6820]

@@geekinwithJamesHancock ah ok it's on the endless list of reads for me lol it'll be a tough call as I don't know if I wanna read it all while the season is going on or wait while it's finished lol

[@AdrianMendoza23]

I thought this episode was lack luster actually. I'm not a fan of that new intro. The way you felt about The Boys first three episodes of season four I feel a bit the same about this episode. Unrewarding. I do like the two actors that play Blood & Cheese. I'm going to do a second viewing. 20:40 - Yes, I believe so. I have a question. That northern montage of Creagon and picking stones from a sack. What's up with that? Is he a brother of the nights watch?

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

I need to rewatch that scene but I believe that scene was showing how 1 in 10 Northerners go to the Wall no matter if they are highborn or lowborn. And no worries if you find the show to be lackluster. I probably give the show a pass on many fronts in that it is one of the only franchises these days that is trying to do justice to the source material rather than destroy it.

[@jamesruggieri7076]

The Hugh we met is the same as later in the story

[@vanessalore9942]

Edited for grammar I understand complaints about changing things but I know a lot of people who didn’t read the books who almost quit this show because of Sunday night. I thought it was a good compromise. I really do enjoy the characters on both sides because the acting is so good. However, Team Black forever!

[@Gloria10828]

That’s so funny I didn’t know you stood up watching some shows #hardcore 😂

[@ghostwolf1435]

Love the new Title Sequence I literally got chills from seeing Cregan Stark and the Wall

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

It was definitely a great reminder of what was initially the heart and soul of this world on TV. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the Greybeards to make their way South.

[@ghostwolf1435]

@@geekinwithJamesHancock The Hour of the Wolf 🐺 Oh Boy

[@Chris_H103]

Love this! Gonna be a hell of a ride

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Absolutely. Looking forward to a summer of bloody mayhem.

[@stellacoltrane4058]

James, are you watching “presumed innocent “ on apple? Has lots of 80’ erotic thriller vibes

[@leyssallenne]

What happened to the maids baby? I thought that was the one killed….

[@Billeh556]

Did anyone else notice the frames lagging? Was super annoying

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Didn't happen on my end, but I'm sorry to hear that. These streaming platforms are incredibly unreliable.

[@Billeh556]

@@geekinwithJamesHancock James! Thanks for the reply! I think you’re missing out not watching and covering Shogun 😢 really would love to hear your take on the show. Been watching your reviews and opinions (99% agree with everything you say) for quite a few years now man, keep kicking ass! 💪🏼

[@universalcollective427]

it was alright, they butchered blood and cheese, took the heart out of one of the most shocking brutal episodes in all of game of thrones history. i mean there were dragons, but nothing really got me excited, after waiting 2 years, it was just like ... meh, ok

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Totally fair. I'm just happy to have a show back in my life where they are trying to do justice to the source material rather than destroy it. I suspect that show will take its foot off the brakes over the next few episodes when Daemon goes after Harrenhal.

[@kendallquillin1334]

Is Alan Taylor a good replacement for Miguel Sapochonick??

[@SeekingGodsWill]

First time watching this show. I started with Season 2 Episode 1. I was kind of excited at first with the music. Then the first scene where the raven is traveling, I was like hell yeah. Then the kid on the horse just sucked my enthusiasm away. After that It just got worse and worse as none of the characters were interesting to me. At the end of the episode I found the child death scene to be horribly acted. Why wasn't the woman screaming bloody murder for help? Why did we have to walk into a sex scene? I thought this episode neared bad. It try's to be Game of Thrones but isn't as good or well-acted. My 2 cents. I will go away now.

[@DrDetfink]

House of the Dragon 🐉 where the consensus of America will never misconstrue “Are you Team Black or Team Green?” 😂 Between the two factions in this family feud or Civil War, Team Green is the fun, psychotic characters. A colleague and I try to diagnose Team Green around the water cooler: Aegon II narcissist, Aemond psychotic and antisocial personality, Sir Criston “Friend Zone” Cole definitely history of PTSD, Alicent major depressive disorder, Helena schizophrenia, Sir Larys Strong fetishistic disorder. Team Black is very one note. Rhaenerya created her own demons by losing her V card to Sir Criston, then banishing him to friend zone…followed by having multiple kids who look nothing like her and her husband….and she expected every one to fall in line? Alicent had to sleep with a man twice her age infected by leprosy. As Tony Stark said in Iron Man 3, “We create our own demons.” Daemon can’t stick to the script and a loose canon. Rhaenys is the wisest person in the room but every one keeps brushing her off. Sure she could have ended the line but the backlash would have ended the Targaryen line. A son for a son makes the whole realm blind with violence and hatred.

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Excellent breakdown. I'm team black but Aemond is my kind of psychopath. I'm ready to see all the attack dogs break their chains and get after it. I have a feeling that this season will build up to the battle at Rook's Rest which would provide a devastating finale, but I suspect Ryan Condal will throw a few curve balls at us as well.

[@murderycatdoll1380]

The Blood and Cheese Scene was Awfull imo. It was so unemotional and that she fled into the room where the Queen fcks around was SO Bad....it took everything out of the drama and the focus of that horrific Situation with the Boy. That was absolutely unnecessary to me. Otherwise i liked the First Episode. Emma brought tears in my eyes 😭😭😭

[@Patrick-sh9tt]

Savage

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

As soon as I learned the title of the episode, I knew we were in for something gnarly.

[@stellacoltrane4058]

Always looking forward to your commentary 🫶 it’s gonna be a great summer

[@geekinwithJamesHancock]

Absolutely. Between House of the Dragon and the DLC for Elden Ring, my appetite for fantasy is getting well and thoroughly satisfied.