I like that they continue to portray the women in this show. Queen and princess are almost the center of the first three episodes. It's a strange, ambivalent franchise anyway: some women - not only noble women - are strong, powerful and intelligent. Sometimes it even feels like Got and HotD are primarily stories of female empowerment. Sometimes however women are mere victims or chess stones subjugated by a society ruled by men. I mean that's to be expected in a medieval world, but the show mirrors this fact too often by exploiting female bodies as mere props or uses them as a beautiful backdrop (not in this episode tough). It rarely does this to its male cast members.
I like this episode very much. It's a slow portray of some of the main characters (in particular girls and a soft king). The amount of sex, violence (the war rages on but back in King's Landing it's almost a footnote people sometimes talk about) and CGI is scaled back in the first 45 minutes or so and the show does what this franchise does best: tell stories about family feuds, prudent government and power, social mobility, class barriers and believable romance, tragic fates, gender inequality and so forth. Best line:
King: "Who do you have in mind? Advisor: "Prince Aegon!"
That's quite a notion. Awesome and disturbing.
Even when this show tells a story about war, it's quite spectacular. The "Achilles at Omaha Beach" scene and the subsequent battle is actually entertaining (and quite detached from realism though. Plot armor level is turned to eleven). It tells you a lot about Daemon though.
PS: I don't get it why people seem to expect British accents in all these fantasy shows. I mean, I get it, it's a fantasy show and British English seems exotic to some (and it was produced in the UK), but if that's based on the belief that all European English speakers in history sounded like contemporary speakers from the UK it seems so wrong. Shakespeare (or Chaucer for that matter) probably sounded a lot more like a rural peasant from today's Ireland or like Americans than Elizabeth II. It's of course not a big issue and won't lower the show's quality but it's interesting nonetheless.
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2022-09-05T06:57:25Z— updated 2022-09-14T10:31:38Z
I like that they continue to portray the women in this show. Queen and princess are almost the center of the first three episodes. It's a strange, ambivalent franchise anyway: some women - not only noble women - are strong, powerful and intelligent. Sometimes it even feels like Got and HotD are primarily stories of female empowerment. Sometimes however women are mere victims or chess stones subjugated by a society ruled by men. I mean that's to be expected in a medieval world, but the show mirrors this fact too often by exploiting female bodies as mere props or uses them as a beautiful backdrop (not in this episode tough). It rarely does this to its male cast members.
I like this episode very much. It's a slow portray of some of the main characters (in particular girls and a soft king). The amount of sex, violence (the war rages on but back in King's Landing it's almost a footnote people sometimes talk about) and CGI is scaled back in the first 45 minutes or so and the show does what this franchise does best: tell stories about family feuds, prudent government and power, social mobility, class barriers and believable romance, tragic fates, gender inequality and so forth. Best line:
That's quite a notion. Awesome and disturbing.
Even when this show tells a story about war, it's quite spectacular. The "Achilles at Omaha Beach" scene and the subsequent battle is actually entertaining (and quite detached from realism though. Plot armor level is turned to eleven). It tells you a lot about Daemon though.
PS: I don't get it why people seem to expect British accents in all these fantasy shows. I mean, I get it, it's a fantasy show and British English seems exotic to some (and it was produced in the UK), but if that's based on the belief that all European English speakers in history sounded like contemporary speakers from the UK it seems so wrong. Shakespeare (or Chaucer for that matter) probably sounded a lot more like a rural peasant from today's Ireland or like Americans than Elizabeth II. It's of course not a big issue and won't lower the show's quality but it's interesting nonetheless.