House of the Dragon is now in its third season, but with releases spaced two years apart, each wait feels substantially stupid. My son was still an infant when the show first premiered in 2022, and he is in 4K preschool now. By the time the final season airs, he will be in first grade….
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Things I Like: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV Series) Season 1
Game of Thrones used to be my favorite television show of all time, but the ending kind of soured my opinion. House of the Dragon came out strong as a prequel, but the showrunners ended up dropping the ball in Season 2. Now we have another spin-off called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which…
Things I Like: House of the Dragon (TV Series) Season 2
House of the Dragon has had a long wait, since it’s been 2 years since the original season. But it does seem like the two years was twice the wait… for half the quality. It takes place immediately after the death of Lucerys Velaryon. His mother Rhaenyra Targaryen has reached a point of no return…
Things I Like: King Viserys I (House of the Dragon)
King Viserys is the king for the majority of season 1 of House of the Dragon. He wasn’t a strong king or even a good king, but he was a compromising monarch that managed to live a fairly decent amount of time. I felt bad for him when his first wife died and especially after…
Things I Like: Lucerys Velaryon (House of the Dragon)
Lucerys Velaryon was a character hard not to root for. The illegitimate son of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Harwin Strong, he was the legal heir to House Velaryon. Had him and his brothers been born with blonde hair, they may have been able to get away with it, but their bastard born status becomes the kingdom’s…