5 burning questions for House Of The Dragon episode 5
Will we bid farewell to key cast members? Where do Daemon and Otto go next? Here's everything we're hoping to learn this week
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After last week’s banger of an episode (haha, get it?) things are heating up on House Of The Dragon. Which isn’t surprising, since we’re almost at the halfway point and things are only going to get wilder from here. Wilder than peasant cosplay as foreplay to incest in a steamy brothel? Oh, yes. The show seems to be just about finished laying the groundwork for the next phase of the story. The characters are in place and the subject of succession has been established as a fault line among nobles and the small folk alike (it also happens to be a hot topic in the real world right now). Now the real game begins. The preview for this week teased an upcoming royal wedding, and if we know anything about big weddings in George R.R. Martin’s world, we know they’re usually rather eventful affairs. Here are a few other things we’re pondering as we head into the next new episode.
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So the loss of Milly Alcock is my biggest concern. There is no question that her and Matt Smith dominate just about any scene that they are in, and she has portrayed all of these aspects of her terrifically. Maybe our next cast will be just as great, but it will be sort of like swapping to new characters altogether. I say this because I felt this with The Crown, where I thought Claire Foy and Matt Smith were great, and then they switched to Olivia Coleman and Tobias Menzies, who are both terrific actors, but I never really enjoyed as much in those roles personally. Of course, the series changed a lot as well, so that did not help.
SPOILERSConsidering Rhaenyra is 33 when she dies, I have no idea why hair, makeup and acting couldn’t have kept Alcock in the role.
from what i understand she was specifically cast as the younger version of D’Arcy so without the swap she would never have been cast at all.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited For Emma D’Arcy, loved her in everything I’ve seen of her, but it seems a shame to lose Alcock, and especially this early.
Damn! Not necessary to post this! At least you could have left space between your warning and the information. Now I can’t unsee this, and you have ruined it for me…
This too!
Did this really need a slideshow? Could not bullet points be sufficient enough?
I’m sorry, but these articles are dumb. It’d be one thing if the show had more mysteries, but so far it does not. Your “burning questions” are basically just four different ways of asking “what happens next?” and then the time jump casting question. There may come a time when this show leaves us with burning questions, but don’t try to force it.