![]() ![]() When we first catch up with Vis in this hour, he is little more than a skeleton grafted to a bed. But how else am I to describe Viserys’s fateful final dinner as anything other than HotD’s finest hour, and maybe one of the best scenes ever in the Game of Thrones franchise?Ĭonsidine has been superb as the sickly monarch through all of House of the Dragon’s run but he is transcendent here. It seems as though every week for the past four weeks I’ve declared a new scene to be the best in the show’s history. That opportunity, of course, comes in the form of King Viserys I’s (Paddy Considine) heroic last stand. By giving Walter a choice, Breaking Bad instead becomes a far richer saga about one man uncovering the darkness that was within him all along. Without his old colleague Gretchen Schwartz presenting Walt with the opportunity to pay for his cancer treatments and help his family without selling meth, Breaking Bad is merely the story of a man backed into a corner with no other options. Would the story of Walter White’s descent into evil have had the same impact if he wasn’t given a choice to elude it? Almost certainly not. Think about Breaking Bad for a moment (if you’re not already). ![]() Great dramas give their characters one last futile chance to avoid it anyway. Good dramas understand that conflict is unavoidable. In its eighth episode, “The Lord of the Tides,” House of the Dragon stands on its own once again. I’ve largely avoided those comparisons in reviews thus far because this show deserves a chance to stand on its own two dragon feet. Given its outsized cultural status as a fantasy epic and a prequel to a larger text, there are many easy comparisons that can be made between House of the Dragon to both Game of Thronesand The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This House of the Dragon review contains spoilers. ![]()
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