House of the Dragon vs The Rings of Power

I watch both... but House of the Dragon is by far the superior series. It isn't epic scale (either in spectacle or array of stories) in the way Game of Thrones was, but the acting and craft that goes into it puts anything from Rings of Power to shame.

It really shouldn't ... Rings of Power had the budget and material to be both a quality series and an epic extravaganza. It is a major disappointment.

Hard to compare, really. One is for adults and one is PG.

I haven’t watched a lot of it but I thought that’s why they had the silly hobbits in it and one of the parts I did see was someone getting their throat slit with only a line of blood.

I assumed that was to do with the age rating, like the ‘Mortal Combat’ computer game when it came out on the Super Nintendo.

Favourite characters in RoP:

There was a captured elf in Rings of Power, I thought he was shaping up to be an important character when they were in the trenches... don't even know if he had a name... but nope, he was dead by the end of it. He had 'presence' on screen far over most of the regulars!

So, I would pick Elrond, as his scenes are the most interesting in RoP. Although, being superficial here, he looks weird as an elf.

The Harfoots in Rings of Power... I expect the general consensus will be that they are the least favourite characters.

Favourite episode... Ada.

In House of the Dragon, it is hard to pick anyone out the standard is so high, especially from Matt Smith as Daemon and Paddy Considine as Viserys. But I'll pick out Rhys Ifans as Ser Otto Hightower as someone who I never really noticed as an actor before, but he has that 'presence'. The younger actresses playing Alicent and Rhaenyra were excellent.

And it's a pity we didn't get to see more of Daemon's estranged wife (Rachel Redford as Lady Rhea Royce) before she met her fate...

Favourite episode... Driftmark.

Sorry for over use of the word presence, but you know what I mean :)

'Dull and boring' would be going a bit far for me, but it is pretty dour and monochrome, 50 shades of brown. Missing the colour and wit and variety that merited repeated rewatching of GoT.

I should have mentioned that in Rings of Power Adar is a compelling character... ironically the actor is an ex-Game of Thrones alum. Joseph Mawle played Benjen Stark. He was also very good as Odysseus in BBC series Troy: Fall of a City, which punched above its budget in terms of storytelling.

* Trivia point... in GoT he played the brother of Ned Stark (Sean Bean). Sean Bean played Odysseus in the movie Troy

House of the Dragon is moving too quickly would be my only complaint with it. The issues don't really get a chance to gestate until they completely different characters 5 years later. We don't see the development, just the result. This makes it jarring but it's so brilliantly acted that it's believable. I would have taken 3 seasons just to get to where they are now and really enjoyed it I'd say but it it gets through a few to do the big events up to ASOIAF I can dig it, with maybe another show to do the smallfolk the nitty gritty elements.

Well the whole throne room scene from Visery's slow walk and his gold mask to 'say it' and 'he can keep his tongue' - is the highlight of the season so far.

The dinner scene was also excellent. Heartfelt followed by confrontational.

Paddy Constantine's performance has been great all season, but this was another level.

Also I love how eyepatch is a total bad-ass now.

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