House of the Dragon S1
“We Light the Way”
Can a TV show be considered a “text?” In the English and American Studies departments, they certainly are. The word “text” can be applied to basically anything. A video game, an essay, a piece of meat in the freezer, an aquarium.
Whatever the case, things that I’m watching are going to live in the Reading section of my personal website, my digital garden — my everlasting gift to the world, that will continue on in my stead. How high and mighty of me to go there. To care.
“I am the crown, Sir Christin.”
Princess Rhyneira
This show doesn’t have the heart of its predecessor. The memorable and huge personalities. It has a sensitive and ineffectual king.
The timeline moves very quickly. But the show itself is slow.
“Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung of you after you are dead?”
- I like Daemon. The weird uncle who pops up out of nowhere.
- The beginning of the royal wedding feasts, aka. The jocks always get the girl in the end. And things always end badly in a GoT wedding.
- Which they did, as Sir Christin absolutely wails away on Lenore’s beau - and we get a classic partially broken open gory head shot.