Lot of comments saying it was bad the whole time, and I’m misremembering season 1. As someone who literally just rewatched it for the sake of this video, I can confidently say that’s not true 👍👍👍

EDIT: And if your reason for it being bad is that you hate black people and/or women (which I’m seeing a disturbing amount of in these comments) you’re a shallow and stupid person and I do not respect your opinion.

Show so ass that the title doesn't even has a weird metaphor about it breaking Sheev's knees or something.

Between the historically awful ending to the main series, the decline of HOTD, and the fact that the books will never be finished. I feel like I'm trapped in an abusive relationship with this fictional universe.

House of the Dragon burnt my house to the ground and left me to freeze in the winter snow

Rhaenyra demanding that Alicent kill her sons and Alicent actually agreeing was insane.

Sheev you are completely and objectively wrong and that's because in 1996, Tyrion did a backflip and that means that Game of Thrones was always goofy and this show is a masterpiece and Ryan Condal should write The Winds of Winter.

People talk up season 1 A LOT, and while I agree there are some aspects to be praised, the scene where Maelys comes out of the ground, and Cristion getting away with what he did at Rhaenyra’s first wedding, proved to me these showrunners don’t take the world of westeros seriously.. oh what could have been

Yeah Alicent and Rhaenyra's relationship does not make a lick of sense after Aemond loses his eye and it only gets worse.

House of the Dragon developed a drinking problem, and comes home each night more drunk than the last

I like how they tell us that kinslaying is the most taboo thing you can do, so bad that youll never be forgiven; yet Alicent, who comes from a devoutly religious family and who starts the war to begin with, happily offers up her own sons and half her family...

The House of the Dragon show doubled my student loans and put my cat back in the tree

Jace could've been a really cool character if he'd spent less time trying to mog the cameraman.

I think season 1 gets glazed a bit more than it deserves in hindsight, the cracks were already there in the writing. But the cast turned in excellent performances, especially Emma D'Arcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, and Patty Considine. The latter, in particular, carried the second half of the season on his back and made Viserys a more sympathetic and interesting character than he was in the book. That was enough. I enjoyed season 1 very much.

The wheels came off in Season 2. A lot of people want to attribute this to the Hollywood strikes and HBO cutting the show's budget, and those undoubtedly played a role, but I don't think Condal and Hess deserve the benefit of the doubt. It was their narrative decisions that shaped the show we got more than any extenuating circumstances.

As someone who read the book, I had no idea what's the people's problem with Sunfyre being alive. Everyone kept asking how it's possible; someone asked if Aegon used blood magic; someone asked if Sunfyre's a zombie now;  I legit couldn't see what their problem is and why they overcomplicate the simple situation this much.
Then I realized without context from the books, it's pretty hard to understand what even is happening. Like yes, he survived the battle in the book too, but it was much less ambiguous and made a lot more sense.
This is just one example of how the show expects the viewer had read the book, but at the same time kinda goes against 50% of what's written in the book.

'he survives this having sunk under water in a full set of heavy armor'

ah so now we know where Jaime got that from, turns out its a family trait

The sexual assault that Alicent went through just being immediately forgotten is so fucking typical and gross. Like why even bother if you're not going to unpack that shit at all. It's just shock value slop at that point.

Genuinely incredible irony that a series’ infamous for diminishing quality after running out of book material would completely ignore the finished material for it’s prequel..

Clarification on your clarification - in both book and show Azor Ahai is an idea that predates Aegon and his dream. I think what the show intends is that Aegon's dream says that from his line the prince who was promised (this ancient figure of prophecy) would come. It's an interesting idea but the execution is quite wobbly in a lot of instances, at least as relates to that prophecy specifically. Me being pedantic aside, great analysis here!

House of the dragon destroyed my nuclear arsenal and planted the seed that ended my royal line

You completely nailed the reasons why I hate Rhaenyra’s arc. The show has her flip in the s3 finale and expects us to clutch our pearls as if they haven’t spent the last 3 seasons painting her as a mostly morally infallible character who seeks out peace but is done dirty by her allies, her family, even her own son. The writers have stripped her of her agency by removing her own personal flaws and instead laying the blame for her turn to “evil” ( a stretch) at the feet of everyone else.