After watching "Dragon Family S2E3", I only have one sentence after watching it:
It's a pity to discard it.
The rating of the third episode has dropped to 7.9, which is the worst in the series
Watching HBO step by step push the Game of Thrones and Gaiden to the guillotine, I had to reconcile with myself.
Since HBO is so dead, why should outsiders be disappointed and chilled.
After all, the real chill is not the loud noise, and the real disappointment is not the tears.
Rather—
I'm not going to ask about you anymore...
I think it's a good way to do it.
House of the Dragon：The Burning Mill
2024.6.30
01
HBO is in the process of filling with water
Updated to episode 3, "Dragon Family" has become a mediocre water injection drama.
The long-awaited climax is long ahead.
On the contrary, the screenwriter is still tirelessly pouring water into it, vowing to die to turn the sea and the river and flood the golden mountain.
Look at this posture, before the climax of the Blood Dragon Dance came, more than half of the audience was lost.
Episode 3 is titled "The Battle of the Moulin Workshop", which is taken from "The Battle of the Moulin Workshop".
This battle took place in the early days of the Dance of Blood, and was the first bloody battle between the black and green sides.
The two sides involved in the war are: the Brecon family loyal to the Greens vs. the Blackwood family loyal to the Black party.
The Brecken family, with their base camp in Stone Fence City.
It belonged to the ancient family of the Riverlands, inherited the ancestry of the ancestors, and later intermarried with the Andals and converted to the Seven Gods.
Family Crest: A brown shield and a leaping scarlet horse.
The Blackwood family, with their base camp in Raventree City.
It also belongs to the ancient family of Hejiandi, inheriting the ancestry of the ancestors, believing in the old gods and worshipping the heart tree.
Family Crest: A shield with a red background and a flock of black crows surrounding a dead fish beam and a black shield.
Since the beginning of the Heroic Era, the two major families have formed a blood feud, even if they intermarry and mediate, they all end up in nothing.
This millennium-long hatred has its own set of rhetoric on both sides.
According to the Bracken family, the Blackwood family was originally a vassal of his family, but later betrayed the Bracken family.
However, the Blackwood family believes that the Breckens are the betrayers.
During the Andal invasion, the Breckens rebelled and overthrew the Blackwood family.
In the early days of the Dance of the Dragons, Samwell Blackwood, Lord of Raventree City, led an army into the Bracken family's territory, burning crops, driving cattle and sheep, ransacking villages, and destroying old sacred churches.
The Bracken family, led by Amos Bracken, could not swallow this breath, and then gathered troops and horses to counterattack the Blywood family's territory.
Unexpectedly, the two armies met at an old mill near the river.
The verbal conflict turned into a war of liver and marrow, and the old mill burned in fierce battles that lasted for hours.
The results were quite disastrous.
Amos Brecon single-handedly kills Samwell Blackwood.
He was killed instantly by an arrow from a fishbeam (the arrow is said to have been shot by Samwell Blackwood's sister "Black Ary" Arishan).
As a result, this conflict became known to the world as the "Battle of the Moulin Mill".
It's a pity that a battle that went down in history was ruthlessly castrated by HBO.
In the last second, the black and green sides were tense and drooling at each other; In the next second, corpses were strewn all over the field, and blood flowed like a river.
I thought there would be an epic battle scene, but it turned out to be only a title and fleeting transitions.
This is nothing short of blatant fraud.
The fifth-generation master of the Ten Slaps of the Dragon Descending Sword, there is a saying:
"The highest level of martial arts is no move, no move means no killing, and if you don't kill, that is peace."
Adhering to the true biography of the master, the black party Rhaenyra hesitated for three episodes, and is still seeking a peaceful resolution of the civil war.
Even if she knew that the Greens Cole was leading the army to Harrenhal, she continued to be indecisive...
So, the screenwriter had an idea and arranged a secret meeting of old black and green girlfriends.
King's Landing, a place that is never defended and anyone can come and go as they please.
Rhaenyra disguised herself and easily enters King's Landing in search of Alicent.
The two met, cut the candles in the west window, and talked about the night rain in Bashan.
Talking about whether the girlfriend's love is broken, who the father loves, whether the last words mention the good daughter, who the throne is given to and so on.
I privately think that this meeting of the love of children is purely superfluous.
Both black and green sides are already in tension, each finding a set of arguments for claiming the throne.
It is pointless to argue about these now, and it will not be able to prevent the coming of war.
In short, the existence of this scene has only two functions.
First, inject water into the plot and make the audience vomit blood.
Second, it proves that the folds in the screenwriter's brain are flattened.
02
Is she the next red-robed woman?
Similar to Episode 2, Episode 3 also paved a number of new characters.
The first character, Ulf.
In the novel, he has white hair and calls himself "White-haired" Ulf.
This person has a "dragon species" with true dragon blood, and later became a dragon knight, driving the silver wings that originally belonged to the "good queen" Alysanne.
However, Ulf is known for his alcoholism and is completely addicted to alcohol.
After betraying the Black Party with Shui "Hammer", he wants to blackmail the Greens into getting the High Court.
It's a pity that he drank three glasses of poisonous wine in a row in a drunken manner, and he died.
In the play, the character of Ulf has changed a lot.
For example, he no longer has the traditional white hair of the Long family, but a black hair.
In Episode 2, Ulf made a brief appearance.
The scene where Aegon II hangs the ratcatcher was led by him.
In episode 3, his role became more.
He publicly proclaimed himself as the son of the "brave" Berlon, the illegitimate brother of Prince Daemon and the late King of Viserys, and the uncle of the only queen, Rhaenyra.
This detail can be regarded as filling in the blank space of the original work.
As for whether he will do the ugly thing of betraying the underworld, it depends on the screenwriter's ability.
The second character, "Otto's son and Alicent's brother" Calvin Hightower.
In the novel, at the King's Landing tournament, he is shot down by Christon Cole, who originally belonged to the Black Party.
Later, he served as the deputy captain of the Golden Robe Army, paying attention to the captain Laquette's every move to prevent any wrongdoing.
Compared with the novel, the changes in the play are relatively large.
For example, in the first episode of Season 1 of "House of the Dragon", Galvin Hightower was defeated by Damon, not Cole.
The moment the helmet hits the ground, we can also see Calvin Hightower with short black hair.
But.
Coming to Season 2, Episode 3, Calvin Hightower has turned blonde and is still traveling with Cole.
This just shows that the role has not only changed actors, but also changed from a cameo to a resident.
The third character, Yari Hewen.
This is a character full of mystery.
Some say she is a maid who dabbles in potions and spells.
Some say that she is a forest witch who is good at using black magic, who is younger than her actual age, and usually bathes in virgin blood to stay young forever.
It is also said that she was the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman in the Riverlands, and served as a wet nurse for the father and son of Leonor, Harwin, and Larys of the Harrenhal Sturt family.
During the Dance of the Dragons, she was the mistress of Aemond Targaryen the One-Eyed and was pregnant with a son.
Yari Hawen can see visions through fire.
Many people speculate that she is the priestess of the Lord of Light.
There are even book lovers who think that she is another identity of the red-robed woman Melisandre.
In the novel, Arrie Gawain predicts the life-and-death battle between Aemond and Daemon at the Lake of God's Eye.
"Aemond said, 'She can see you through the dark clouds, from the mountain stream at dusk, from the campfire at dinner. My Arri, she can see a lot of things in the flames, and it's foolish for you to come alone. ”
It's not the same as a novel.
In the play, Arrie Gawain uses a vision to tell Dimon that he is going to die in Harrenhal.
Heart Tree + Future Prediction makes this character mysterious.
Even, some people have begun to expect her to be tied up with the three-eyed crow.
03
Dragon Dam's Egg
Finally, let's talk about dragon eggs.
In episode 3, Rhaenyra arranges for her third son, Joffrey Valerian, to travel to Eagle's Nest in the Vale to protect her cousin, Lady Janine Arryn.
In order to prevent the Greens from coming to assassinate the prince, Aegon III Targaryen and Viserys II Targaryen were sent to the Vale.
In addition, she asked her second daughter-in-law, Renia, to bring the four dragon eggs laid by Syracuse with her.
If Prince Regio of Pantos agrees to asylum, she advises that it is best to take the dragon eggs to Pantos (in the novel, she takes the three dragon eggs to Seagull).
"These dragon eggs are fragile, staying here will be destroyed sooner or later, you will shoulder the hope of our future, I need you to play the role of a mother that I can't do."
This adaptation instantly sparked speculation from the audience.
Among the 4 dragon eggs, will it include the three dragon eggs of the dragon mother?
"Game of Thrones" Season 1, Episode 1, Dragon Mother received a gift from Governor Illyrio Mopatis at the wedding banquet-
Three dragon eggs.
The Governor described:
"This is a dragon egg, Your Highness Daenerys. From the Shadowlands east of Asha. It has been fossilized over thousands of years, but it is still beautiful. ”
At that time, some people speculated that the egg of the dragon mother would not be the local egg produced by Yaxia, but the egg of Menghuo.
Here's why:
Alyssa Farman, daughter of Count Marco Farman of Fairy City, is in love with her niece, Princess Aria (not related by blood, this daughter is the daughter of Rhaenia Targaryen and Aegon the Uncrowned).
Later, Alyssa Farman, who longs for freedom, steals the three dragon eggs of Rhaenenia Targaryen's mount, Dream Fire, and abandons love.
She sailed to Pantos and sold the egg to the Sea King of Braavos, where the whereabouts of the dragon egg were unknown.
However, the third episode of "Dragon Family" appeared in the dragon egg plot, which set off the mystery of the dragon mother's dragon egg.
In this regard, the director stood up and made the final decision:
Among the four dragon eggs of Syracus, there are three eggs of the dragon mother!
What's that? The dragon mother's egg is just like that??
From this point of view, in order to rub "Game of Thrones", the director has disregarded the spirit of the original work.
In my opinion, this is a deliberate change that has been deliberate for a long time.
It is also an irresponsible subversion of a song of ice and fire.
Now that I look back on the second season of "Dragon Family", a sense of shamelessness of forcible linkage arises spontaneously, and the appearance of the villain's ambition is also on the paper.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree with the changes in Dragon Family?
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