Didn't See That One Coming...

[netgirl_y2k]

Two episodes into both I am enjoying the new Lord of the Rings show more than the new Game of Thrones one, which I very much Did Not Expect.

Like, I'm not sure there's a vast gulf in quality between the two, so it's just going to be down to personal taste, and at least for me the big difference was that I had fun watching The Rings of Power, while The House of the Dragon has thus far felt like a pretty miserable slog.

I take the oft made point that many of the elf dudes in Rings of Power have supremely punchable faces, but counterpoint: at least none of them are *Matt Smith.

*I'm sure Matt Smith is a perfectly lovely chap, and I am aware that my antipathy towards him is wholly irrational, but hoo boy.

Comments

[naoist]

Weirdly relatable! So many people seem to find him charming as Daemon, but he comes across as... well, exactly what his character is: an incestuous, psychopathic nonce. I'm interested in seeing how the story responds to him, but people seem to genuinely be cheering for him to come out on top, and to that, I can only say: huh?!

Maybe it's because I'm not interested in men, so whatever possible charm he has is lost on me. I dunno.

[netgirl_y2k]

I have had a visceral absolutely not reaction to Matt Smith ever since his Doctor Who days. Nothing against the man personally, I'm sure he's very nice, but I am very much not picking up whatever it is that he's laying down.

tbh, I fell off the show after those first two episodes. It felt like he was trying to be both a show about the horrors of the patriarchy (hard to do in a prequel when we already know it doesn't get better) and the Daemon Targaryen hour, and it just wasn't jelling for me.