"Just when I thought I was out just when I thought I would no longer have that sweeping, ever so slightly irritating theme tune ringing around my head for hours on end, or feel the need to remember the difference between House Tyrell, Tully or Arryn, I suddenly find myself pulled back in to the Game of Thrones extended universe."
"Before its arrival, I had departed Westeros for good. My faith had first been shaken by that rushed, badly plotted final season of Game of Thrones proper, which bashed to bits six previous seasons' worth of finely tuned political intrigue and fascinating character dynamics in a succession of endless (often badly lit) CGI-laden battles, before flambeing them in dragon fire."
"Worse came with House of the Dragon, a dreary, po-faced, endlessly withholding slog of a prequel series, the enjoyment of which seemed to rest entirely on whether the viewer was familiar with deep lore buried within a Westeros history book that George RR Martin wrote instead of cracking on with that sixth novel. If, like me, you were not, the show proved to be little more than a confusing conveyor belt of platinum-haired poshos glowering at each other."
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a likably low-key spin-off about a cloth-eared hedge knight and his shrewd child squire, ambling through its first season on HBO/Sky Atlantic. The Game of Thrones final season featured rushed, badly plotted storytelling that dismantled six seasons' worth of political intrigue and character dynamics through endless, often badly lit CGI battles and dragon fire. House of the Dragon is a dreary, po-faced, withholding prequel whose enjoyment depends on familiarity with deep lore, making it confusing without that background. Dragons increasingly dominated proceedings, pushing the series into full fantasy and away from earlier, human-scale scheming.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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