Posted on 08/20/2022 10:48:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As summer comes to an end, two expensive fantasy series filled with sorcery, sword fights and fantastical beasts will premiere on rival streaming services.
While it may seem like Amazon Prime Video’s “The Rings of Power” and Warner Bros. Discovery’s “House of the Dragon” should be dueling franchises, as they begin within a couple weeks of each other, the two series serve very different purposes for their respective studios.
The stakes may be higher for “House of the Dragon,” which will go first. It starts Sunday on HBO and streaming service HBO Max, arriving as newly minted CEO David Zaslav is looking for fat to trim.
Cost-cutting measures have become status quo at the recently merged company including layoffs and content eliminations from HBO Max. As Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to save money, it’s also looking to consolidate its streaming services, something that will be expensive and time-consuming.
“House of the Dragon” tells the story of the Targaryen civil war that took place about 200 years before the events portrayed in “Game of Thrones.” It is based on George R.R. Martin’s novel “Fire and Blood.” Unlike Martin’s other books in the “Song of Ice and Fire” series, this one features an omniscient narrator who documents the histories based on collected accounts of events. In some cases, these stories contradict each other and there are multiple versions of events.
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When I had Prime, I did get interested in “The Man in the High Castle”. Except for one episode written by someone else (theme: Nazis taking LSD), the rest of the series was exceptional despite the fact that I later learned that it was only inspired by the short book. By Season 3, they made one of the more sympathetic characters into a homo pervert. As soon as he’s kissing another guy I turned it off. For good. I hope their tracking got that. I also canceled Prime.
It’s why I don’t generally watch any more series made in the US or Britain. Russians actually do some good shows and they are on YouTube, no faggotry there.
LOL
I doubt they'll be showing any melons in the LOTR due to the #metoo movement. So it's going to be dull and there will be no "eye candy". No one is going to watch.
Why would they be black? or chinese? or Indian?
Need me some Prill and Teela!
Wait 10 years. Unless it's a foreign production. Maybe in South Korea. Then it might be good. (Because it won't be woke)
The reviews I have seen are saying the shows are no good and woke.
Here is a video meme on Lord of the Rings that is funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OidIZ9FjZkM&t=895s
Or Riverworld!
I have been anxiously awaiting House of Dragon! But, seeing the looks of the Actors in the trailers, the aura is not appealing what so ever. It was such a turn off, I may wait before I shell out a few buck for HBO stream...
Ya... I’ll give that the Mexican approval... ElPasso!! If I wanted to see that I’d drive thru Detroit
“Because it is a historical and scientific fact that all Elves were White. Do I have that right?”
Word to the elvish mutha.
The Critical Drinker doesn’t lightly etch a phrase with sarcasm… thank goodness.
Good point.
The Targaryen look is very generic and will result in the characters looking the same.
the white hair aside, the eyes... acting is all in the eyes and from what I seen it was almost like B actors. I hope im wrong...
Sounds like that other HBO series which did very well in the ratings, and which my brother watched. He never watches TV, but he’d read that book or books. Guy taught himself to read by 3, so TV is too dumb for him.
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