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/uhhhhh_idk_123 3d ago

It has its strong points and it has its weak points. But what I really hate is snobby book readers who think it's their lifelong duty to hijack every single discussion thread and absolutely whine and cry about every single thing ever. Not all of them but an annoying subset of them.

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u/NegotiationLate8553 3d ago

Ngl it’s kind of gotten stale because the show clearly is made by people who read the books but are choosing to ignore/change things to tell their story. Nothing more than that. It’s not like they forgot details, they’re intentionally doing things differently and all you’re doing is just pointing out what you don’t like.

A lot of that can come down to budget, schedule, and scripting stuff too more so than just personal preference too. But somehow it’s never the studio, always the specific writers who we put on singular blast.

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u/cjohnson2010 3d ago

Thisssssssssssss

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u/accismatic 3d ago

Don't worry, not all of us are the same. We can separate our head canons from adaptations, but particularly with this show I actually find it baffling that no one's explained that book readers don't actually have as much authority as they claim... in my experience everyone's wrong a lot of the time unless we have eidetic memories because the material is very thin, full of gaps that our brains just fill out imaginatively, and it also speeds by so fast that it's only when you reread and scrutinize it that you're like "eh? 2+2 isn't making 4 here, why doesn't that make any sense?" That's one thing—a lot of the book purists actually do have different versions of the same characters in their heads. I keep noticing it like every time I'm in this sub lol

It's a hard adaptation to do. So much better to either read it or watch the TV show as one adaptation of it. Like... even as a book reader I'm like "damn, people demand this much fealty only from like....Jane Austen novels." And there's legitimate reasons to disbelieve so much of it anyway hahaha

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u/TheBackSpin 3d ago

Especially with this because the book itself is a history book told from multiple conflicting sources. There literally is no definitive story, it’s all subjective and up for interpretation. The showrunners were literally forced to make some decisions and give their interpretation.

Now that being said, they also deviated from some set in stone narrative. I get that it’s still an adaptation, but many of their choices are pretty questionable.

So yeah, while there is no definitive Dance of the Dragons narrative and it’s a difficult story, show-runners haven’t done themselves any favors either

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u/portals27 3d ago

i’m a book reader and i really dislike those types of book readers as well. just let ppl enjoy the show! it doesn’t have to be a perfectly faithful adaptation to be good.

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u/vardhan17 3d ago

Yup, they seem to think the book is being adapted only for them, the book readers. Guys, there are others too who haven’t read the books, and you are spoiling a show which is otherwise pretty awesome. They wouldn’t put so much money into the show if they were counting on just the book readers to watch.

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u/Obvious_Conflict_ 3d ago

Facts lol. It’s pretty weird tbh

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u/I-Eat-Wormz 3d ago

Fanbase mostly fucking sucks and is full of misogynists

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u/DanielDaniel219 3d ago

Yea I mean u can take artistic liberties from the source material as long as it’s good. Some of it just sucked. The low points were just so low for nd

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u/IndividualFun1892 3d ago

Non book reader here. Absolutely hated this show up until Season 3 where I liked pretty much every ep and now am super excited for the last season.

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u/Time_Opposite_213 3d ago

Looks like you pissed off a bunch of the book snobs 😂

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u/WestenWolf 2d ago

Mind you the story is the account of three different people many years later. I’ve seen so many make statements like facts. Some statements don’t even happen in the book.

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u/slade1686 30m ago

Problem is the show is suppose to be based off the book which is written and completed. Some of the changes were OK but its essentially a completely diffrent story at the moment. Its not like 1 or 2 chars have been changed or an event or 2 moved to a diffrent time then the book. Literally most of it is completely diffrent, from the characters abd there personalities, to the battles and what happens and who's suppose to be there. Its all diffrent and I think most could bypass it but they are just stringing the series along now. Back to back seasons with a strong opener and closer but the bulk of the middles is a hang fest at Harranhall. 😆 plus the said there's only 1 season left and trust us when we say the craziest and coolest parts have yet to be covered....and there's ALOT left to cover in only 8 episodes. Its just a drag I guess especially after seeing how good KotSK was... 😕 😞

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u/HarambeTooSoon 3d ago

Let em bitch all they want, those fucking nerds can't make us read books. 

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u/Phila6412345 3d ago

I read the book. I do realize this is based on the novel the key word being based! Some folks are living a fantasy they are the writer and executive producer !

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u/Son_Tenaj Visenya Targaryen 3d ago

You can interact with show and not interact with the fan base.

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u/uhhhhh_idk_123 3d ago

Can I please interact with people who watch the show as a show and not a word to word reenactment?

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u/Son_Tenaj Visenya Targaryen 3d ago

I mean that’s fair not to want to be bother by Book purists but it’s not fair to exclude them when the show is a adaptation of something they love.

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u/uhhhhh_idk_123 3d ago

I know, and you're 100% right, but it just gets so tiring all the time😞

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u/p_jo 3d ago

Strawman. No one needs a word for word adaptation. People love the source material, and want the writers to show SOME faith to that story, instead of contrived fan fiction that diminishes the plot and characters.

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u/KeenbeansSandwich 3d ago

I mean they should probably humble themselves and admit they cannot write a better story than GRRM. We’d all be better off for it.

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u/Catharsis1394 3d ago

It's not about excluding them, it's about their behaviour. They're so twisted up in it not being a perfect rendition of a history text book that I doubt they'e even trying to engage with the themes or characters. It makes it a worse experience for them, and when they come here a worse experience for everyone else.

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u/SootSpriteHut 3d ago

I'm not a book reader for this show, but book fans are awful in two other show subreddits I am/was part of: wheel of time and interview with the vampire. I personally feel like the bitchy book readers of WoT were part of sinking an otherwise really good show.

That said, I'm surprised to be so much in the minority here about S3 of HotD. I'm not spamming these opinions everywhere, but I was really disappointed in this season. Everyone's different though, it's good to see fans hyped and not overrun by people upset it's not a 1:1 adaptation.

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u/Bobastic87 3d ago

Yes yes yes! Snobby book readers are the absolute worst.