Review of House of the Dragon

I was really enjoying this show and was very invested in the characters and the actors playing them, especially Milly Alcock who I thought was outstanding.. such a strange decision to change everything in episode 6 and I can't imagine what it would have been like had that happened in Game of Thrones, surely fans would have been up in arms

Game of Thrones has so many narrative threads also, of which House of the Dragon would have been one .. this show really felt like it was going somewhere but then episode 6 is like a reset and the same ground is covered again.. many characters don't look or behave at all like their younger selves which is not true to life, especially Rhaenyra goes from being super spirited to completely lifeless and resigned

Also some things make no sense.. for example a knight is allowed to bash someones brains out at a wedding party without any consequence.. surely he would have been executed. Instead he freely walks out has time on his hands to nearly perform seppuku, and gets a promotion

I am also not sure why they use the Game of Thrones music in the opening/closing of the show since this is a different show with a different feel, and deserves an alternative theme or arrangement

On the plus side lots of really beautiful ambient sound, as good if not better than Game of Thrones.