Winter is coming Someone can explain to me why the expensive netflix project, the film adaptation of my favorite books by Andrzej Sapkowski, which was positioned, by the way, as a "Murderer"''Game of Thrones' everything from wigs to armor, from swords to interiors, from color correction to acting, looks so sloppy and unnatural. I love the universe of the witch, I love these characters, I even watched a godlessly cheap Polish TV series not without pleasure, but I can not watch a Netflix adaptation with a completely acceptable Cavill at all. Until last night, I explained to myself that, well, kamon, it's television fantasy, it's a priori ridiculous and unnatural. Check it out. But here on HBO comes the first series 'House of Dragons', the prequel of the same 'Game of Thrones' which 'The Witcher' and who with him intended to kill and confidently erases all these arguments about the immutable ridiculousness of serial fantasy.
Against the background of competitors in the genre, if ' House of Dragons' now there is a competitor at all (' Rings of Power' and the fourth season ' Heirs' not yet out), the prequel of the series about boobs and dragons looks very impressive. No questions about the cheapness of the environment, the insufficiency of scope or even controversial casting decisions can not be presented. Well, unless, let's all agree that here we have a story about long-haired blonde targaryens and all actors, aki midshipmen, wear not always successfully glued wigs. Otherwise, it is difficult to dig into cgi dragons, luxurious views of the royal harbor and tournaments of knights in white cloaks. Except for dragons, king’s harbor and white cloaks, there’s probably not much else to see during the season. If 'Song of Ice and Fire' George Martin was a large-scale saga about seven kingdoms, dozens of families and two continents, then in the prequel we will talk about only one particular family, albeit members of which are all as sophisticated and prone to incest. For example, forget about the Ice Wall – it got in my opinion a meaningless spin-off about Jon Snow, who is still unknown when he will be released. We have here again a confrontation for the iron throne in which swords have been added, but the problem is that the intrigue will be difficult to keep this time, since if you want, you can all read ' Fire and Blood' with a detailed description of everything that will happen in this era. After all, everyone has watched the series and imagine whose grandson in 170 years will be called the mad king and who of the Lannisters will slaughter him for the common good (thus interrupting the legitimate power of the Targaryen dynasty and earning the nickname of the King Assassin).
It remains only to relax and have fun: we have an honest prequel with honestly marked plot frames. Among a particular generation, the Targaryen family has someone to cheer for and sympathize with. Paddy Considine plays perhaps the most interesting of the king shown in both series - reasonable, calm, wise, but at the same time when you need a hot-tempered and even sophisticated cruel. Matt Smith, who so far wears the least white wig, may become the main favorite of the public - it already shows the makings of Jamie Lannister, Tyrion and even Petyr & #39; Littlefinger' Baelisha (no wonder he buys the same brothel). Embarrassing so far only the heroine of Emma D' Arcy in the role of flying on dragons Targaryen princess, talking about democracy and in general with all her strength cosplaying Daenerys. But in general, everything in terms of bright characters and strong actors here is good, Rhys Ivans in the role of the right hand of the house of the Hightowers I hope will still prove himself, and especially we have not seen Olivia Cook in the role of his daughter Alicenta, who will play an important role in the fate of the seven kingdoms. In terms of the main trump cards of Game of Thrones - violence and nudity - everything seems to be in order, even too much. The violence in the first episode is even too much, plus it is hypertrophied clearly against the background of the success of the crazy & #39;Boys' The subject, sorry for the expression, boobs are less revealed so far - but Sonoya Mizuno is certainly beautiful, and even more so Matt Smith complained there that he was tired of acting in the numerous sex scenes of his character, so it seems that fans of this aspect in the original series should not leave disappointed either.
I don’t know how to end a series that has just begun. We need to lower expectations in advance, because an epic in the spirit of the series based on the large-scale saga written over twenty years, we will not get a priori. But on the presented material, too, it is quite possible to tell a fascinating story that the creators of "House of Dragons" & #39; no doubt can do without much strain. Remember that winter is coming. How close, she's still two hundred years old.
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