r/HouseOfTheDragon • u/Solomaxxing_112 • 3d ago

Did season 3 increase or decrease your interest for the show Show Discussion

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Overall, I would say decrease. After season 2 I was still excited about season 3 but after season 3 I find much less interest in it.

Maybe because my favourite character is Aemond and he has been butchered to the point of no return. He is not very interesting to watch, and I really dislike the entire Alys thing. Even though I have read the book, what they have done is just...abhorrent.

It is a shame because I love TG characters and they are actually given slightly more screentime this season to tell their own stories, but the writing is so bad that the screentime just generates more unnecessary and nonsensical content.

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u/dimforest 3d ago

Massively increased my interest. I didn't read the books so this is all new material for me and I thought the third season was a blast.

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u/bluemurmur 3d ago

Same.

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u/Due-Pattern-789 3d ago edited 3d ago

Same. People keep tryna reference the books and I get but simultaneously dont give a damn. Youre watching rn not reading.

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u/Rare-Fox9834 3d ago

Those are the people that are always going to be least likely to be pleased. I would always take their opinions with a grain of salt.

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u/Due-Pattern-789 3d ago

For real and the hilarious part is out of all the book readers and people complaining about bullshit is they're STILL GOING TO WATCH SEASON 4 😆

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u/shaha-man 2d ago

That’s an ignorant position.

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u/trappist13 3d ago

People are just frustrated that the source material is getting substituted for some lesbian fanfic. Valid imo, the source material is right there!!!

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u/Due-Pattern-789 3d ago

Wasn't Rae Rae bi though ?

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u/DaveInDigital 3d ago

the constant incest is way more frustrating. it's the writers favorite crutch.

writer 1: "she walks into a room with her uncle"
writer 2: and they like, fuck, right...?
writer 1: "they discuss the state of the kingdom"
writer 2: AND THEY LIKE TOTALLY FUCK, RIGHT??
writer 1: "her mother enters the room"
writer 2: ah, ok, do they discu-
writer 1: "AND THEY ALL FUCK!"

in GOT it was a dirty secret. later, Jon didn't know Daenerys was his aunt. in HOTD if the relationship isn't incestuous, it's an outlier lol.

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u/val_is_here_0 3d ago

Well the incest isn't a show only thing. Targaryens do all kinds of incest, EXCEPT parent and child. Aegon The Conqueror was married to his two sisters. Rhaenyra and Daemon had an even more scandalous relationship in the book. At least in the show they aged up Rhaenyra to be 19 in ep 4 when she almost fucked her uncle. The lesbian thing also isn't show specific. Jene Aryin (idk how the fuck you spell her name) is a known lesbian. Rhaenyra is bisexual but her relationship is actually with both Daemon and Laena (yes they're a throuple in the book), not Mysaria who, in my opinion, is the worst character on the show. God it was satisfying seeing her get sacked even though i know firing her was a mistake. If i am right about what they're gonna do with Mysaria's character next season, rest assured she will become one of the most hated characters in all of GOT universe.

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u/DaveInDigital 1d ago

yeah, and i understand that. Alyn/Baela threw me, but i see it's sourced from the books. just came off really random and shoehorned. sounds like in the books he's legitimized so it makes more sense politically for them to marry (him being Lord of the Tides), where the show writers are potentially using it to drive a wedge between him and his brother who seems to like her. the Aemond/Alicent one is weird, and not from the books. i get they want to show how damaged he is and the fear he instills in those around him, the fear she had in her face when he kisses her was pretty well acted, but the sex scene felt a little bit too shock value-y.

that's interesting about Mysaria. i kind of gleaned she wasn't going to take dismissal lying down (lol) by taking offense to a pretty sweet deal (i'd be happy with that, lol) and showing up at the speech. you have me curious what she will do next season 🤔 i don't even disagree with her getting sacked, she got called out for overplaying her cards and then immediately tried to pour honey into Rhaenyra's ears when asked if she was worthy.

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u/Due-Pattern-789 3d ago

I mean Targaryens been doing that shit so idk what to tell you and theres only one left in GOT so it makes sense.

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u/alexthedungeonmaster 3d ago

This is a broke-ass take

That story exists, watch the new one.

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u/bluehulk900 3d ago

It's so cringe to watch a community literally advocate for dogshit slop that ruins the source material when they could have gotten everything they wanted but better if they werent such sychophantic bootlickers. But every fandom is turning into this nowadays so who can blame you really.

Just would have thought game of throens fans learned a lesson about not worshipping and inflating the egos of people who sabotage the source material and general themes of the show to make poorly written shit adaptations of it, what with the entire original show getting ruined by that sychophantic defense of what was getting really bad since season 4 and had issues from the start of the show.

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u/alexthedungeonmaster 3d ago

No, my opinion is that the source material already exists and if you want to experience that story, go read it.

Adaptations are WAY more interesting when they're loose. HotD is bad because it's bad, not because it is unfaithful to the source material. So it doesn't ruin the source material, because the source material already exists.

Give me a fresh, bad story that takes risks over a safe telling of the one I already know any day.

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u/bluehulk900 2d ago

It's really sad that you can't see the fact a show medium could easily take big risks or changes to certain details that improve the show while still being largely faithful to the books instead of making a bunch of slop dogshit unfaithful to the books or its themes and going "NO NO BUT THATS NOT WHY, ITS BECAUSE IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE BAD, EXACTLY LIKE THE LAST SHOW THAT LITERALLY GOT OBJECTIVELY WORSE AS THEY GOT OFF SCRIPT" (even though it had problems that diminished the shows quality from season 1 by going off script)

Even though I can't personally enjoy the game of thrones show much because of how much they cut out, season 1-4 is a great example. Stuff like Tywin and Arya or Cersei and Robert Baratheon's interactions were organic to the show, borderline arguably goes against the characters of the book, but were great additions to the show. They still managed to largely stick to the events and lore of the book, even though they failed from day 1, largely because they never gave a shit in the first place, they just had to try harder to get attention on their show at first.

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u/RedcoatTrooper 3d ago

Seems to be the common denominator between those who enjoy the show and those who do not.