5 burning questions before the House Of The Dragon finale
We’re anxious to see the fallout from last week’s eventful episode, and to discover how it plays out as House Of The Dragon wraps up season 1
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Here it is, our last House Of The Dragon burning questions feature for season one. The first season kept us guessing week after week, and even threw book readers for a loop a couple of times. We laughed (not as much as we’d hoped), we cried (more than we expected to), and we struggled with who to cheer for in this world where nothing is simple or stationary. And even if the prequel series didn’t quite fill that Game Of Thrones-shaped hole in our hearts, it was nice to be back in Westeros and see dragons take to the sky.
Last week’s episode kicked off the Targaryen civil war we all knew was coming. We saw what happened in King’s Landing as the Greens put their coup in motion. Now we’re heading to Dragonstone to see how Rhaenyra’s side takes the news that her crown has been stolen by her half brother. That’s not really a burning question—since the answer is obviously, “not well”—but there are a few other questions we have before House Of The Dragon takes its final bow of the season.
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I don’t watch this show, so no comment… but can someone make a slideshow about all the weird tables in GoT and what all the weird things on them mean?Wonder how much trouble I’ll get into at work if I put a lot of random flames on the meeting room table…
I mean,…..there’s really only one “weird” table in GoT and it’s the one you see in the slide above, and the weirdness is from the fact that it’s shaped in the form of a map of Westeros – the continent on which this show is based – and has the names of each of the kingdoms and places carved into it.I would imagine part of the reason why lighting it up like that with all those candles and such, is not a problem is because the table itself is likely made out of obsidian – also referred to as ‘dragonglass’ in the show – because it’s so plentiful in the Island on which they’re based, and also because, like (certin) glass, it’s translucent or light-permeable.So…..not flammable and also excellent for lighting up from underneath.It also happens to be the same table from which Aegon the Conqueror – who first conquered and united the seven Kingdoms of Westeros – planned his conquest, several centuries prior to when this story takes place.
Okay, but slide 5, what are the coasters with the balls on them that the little girl is looking over so seriously?
That’s a different table.It’s the small council table at King’s Landing.A regular-ass table (or at least, a regular-ass looking table) if we’re to be honest, that just happens to have those “coasters” as you call them with the balls that the members of the small council put in them to indicate that the small council is in session.There’s nothing particularly special about it other than its symbolism.The small council is the King (or in this case, Queen regent), his (or her) Hand (basically right-hand man), the Master of Coin (finance minister dude), Grand Maester (chief medical officer), Master of Whispers (chief information officers) and Master of fleets or ships (the Naval chief).There might be another I’m forgetting.The reason the queen looks so serious there is because the king has just died and they’re discussing his succession.
The only true winner in the game of thrones is the candlemaker
Too bad everyone “kind of forgot” about the sweet LED lighting in the Painted Table in the original series.Seriously though, that was an amazing touch.
They “kind of forgot”,… a lot of things in the original series.And ironically ended up making it mostly forgettable.
No one got finale screeners so we’ll be waiting a while for the reviews, but for all its pacing and time jumping, HotD would win against S1 GOT, and likely anything after S6. The casting has been phenomenal and despite these actors not having POV chapters to reference their internal dialogue, I feel Rhaenrya, Daemon, Alicent, Viserys, etc far more than I felt any of the Starks outside of maybe Ned. And the ones that did find a groove (aka the Lannister clan) mostly lived long enough for shoddy writing to destroy their characters. Was it a perfect outing? Nothing is. But way to do justice to the ASOIAF world and lore.
My only exposure to HotD is at second hand from someone who refuses to believe that when I say I’m not interested, I’m really not interested, and who keeps telling me “You really have to watch this scene” or asking “Can you explain what’s going on here?” In that capacity, I can only think of two really burning questions:1. Will they explain the demise of the dragons? (There are dragons in HotD, but by the time of GoT, the dragons are all dead and all that’s left is the three eggs.)2. Do the people who spend hours upon hours explicating HotD, preparing (and listening to) podcasts on the subject have too much time on their hands or way too much time on their hands?