House of the Dragon. It’s a masterpiece! Incredible writing, exquisite character development, tense political manoeuvring and in the rare moment of action, an unrivalled level of spectacle.
With that said, Exquisite writing? The whole of last season could have been two episodes.
It was wild how Rhaenyra basically teleported back and forth to king’s landing and everything Daemon did was half an episode stretched out across the entire season.
If I’m not mistaken you’re talking about plot rather than writing. I’m talking about the crackling dialogue and the incredible acting that carries it. It almost Shakespearean at times.
“The Dragons dance and men are like dust under their feet. And all our fine thoughts, all of our endeavors are as nothing. We march now toward our annihilation…
To die will be a kind of relief.”
I mean. Come the fuck on!!! That’s top draw writing if ever it happened! Particularly when it comes from such a headstrong character.
The eldritch imaginings of Herrenhall are obviously pretty weird (wyrd maybe even) and I understand that can be polarising, but it had some real Macbeth energy that I’m also very much down for.
In terms of plot, because of the great writing the repositioning of factions and characters was fascinating to me. The way and the why each of those new positions arrived kept me utterly hooked.
I’m not going to comment on House of the Dragon (as I haven’t seen it) but the term “writing” is very broad, and refers to the screenplay as a whole.
Settings, scene transitions, character actions and dialogue are all part of the screenplay, and so plot holes are very much writing criticisms, even if other aspects of the writing such as the dialogue are sharp.
Then I may very well be mistaken. I’ve always thought of it as the words that get from the page to my ears. I guess there’s a lot more to a screenplay than that though. I stand corrected.
House of the Dragon. It’s a masterpiece! Incredible writing, exquisite character development, tense political manoeuvring and in the rare moment of action, an unrivalled level of spectacle.
I don’t hate HoD, I just don’t care about it.
With that said, Exquisite writing? The whole of last season could have been two episodes.
It was wild how Rhaenyra basically teleported back and forth to king’s landing and everything Daemon did was half an episode stretched out across the entire season.
If I’m not mistaken you’re talking about plot rather than writing. I’m talking about the crackling dialogue and the incredible acting that carries it. It almost Shakespearean at times.
I mean. Come the fuck on!!! That’s top draw writing if ever it happened! Particularly when it comes from such a headstrong character.
The eldritch imaginings of Herrenhall are obviously pretty weird (wyrd maybe even) and I understand that can be polarising, but it had some real Macbeth energy that I’m also very much down for.
In terms of plot, because of the great writing the repositioning of factions and characters was fascinating to me. The way and the why each of those new positions arrived kept me utterly hooked.
I’m not going to comment on House of the Dragon (as I haven’t seen it) but the term “writing” is very broad, and refers to the screenplay as a whole.
Settings, scene transitions, character actions and dialogue are all part of the screenplay, and so plot holes are very much writing criticisms, even if other aspects of the writing such as the dialogue are sharp.
Then I may very well be mistaken. I’ve always thought of it as the words that get from the page to my ears. I guess there’s a lot more to a screenplay than that though. I stand corrected.
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