10-21-2022, 01:22 AM
I've never seen Paddy Considine in anything else, tho after HotD I certainly want to. His Viserys is an infinitely superior and more interesting character than the book version, and I think even George RR Martin has said that Considine's Viserys is better than the original. In the books he's fat and jolly and weak-willed, but this Viserys doesn't seem weak—or at least not in the same way—so much as somebody who wants to please everybody, but, when he picks something to stand on, he will never, ever back down on it: having made Rhaenyra heir, it is something he is consistent on, never changes his mind on, even as his desire for everybody to get along, and to please those around him, means that he's completely blinded to the brewing civil war around him.
Haven't seen RoP, and nothing I've heard about it makes me want to.
I have an inkling that the folks behind House of the Dragon have been inspired by the 2005 Les rois maudits, a TV adaptation of Maurice Druon's The Accursed Kings, a series of historical novels that Martin has cited as inspirations for A Song of Ice and Fire. I've seen a couple screenshots of Les rois maudits and in terms of the costuming, the way the colors really pop and the way that they separate characters narratively, reminds me a lot of HotD.
The opening theme reuse irritated me so much I threw together a 30-second "demo" of what an original theme for it might sound like. Whenever I have some free time I'll finish it.
Haven't seen RoP, and nothing I've heard about it makes me want to.
I have an inkling that the folks behind House of the Dragon have been inspired by the 2005 Les rois maudits, a TV adaptation of Maurice Druon's The Accursed Kings, a series of historical novels that Martin has cited as inspirations for A Song of Ice and Fire. I've seen a couple screenshots of Les rois maudits and in terms of the costuming, the way the colors really pop and the way that they separate characters narratively, reminds me a lot of HotD.
The opening theme reuse irritated me so much I threw together a 30-second "demo" of what an original theme for it might sound like. Whenever I have some free time I'll finish it.
