Who may not, it seem, walk for much longer among you. But tonight I wish you to see me as I am. “My own face is no longer a handsome one. Viserys removes his golden Phantom of the Opera half-mask to reveal a haunting void where a face should be and he delivers an urgent message as if it comes from beyond the grave itself: Later at dinner, when Considine delivers his beleaguered character’s last monologue, it is truly something to behold – just as much Shakespeare as it is Martin. An old man using every last bit of his remaining strength to walk across a room is both riveting and intensely affecting. Still, I don’t know if we’ve ever seen quite anything like this. We’ve seen ice wights shatter into nothing when struck with a magical sword. We’ve seen dragons lay whole cities to waste with their fiery breath. We’ve seen a lot of incredible phenomena on Game of Thrones. This man who is barely more than a corpse dragging himself across the great hall and onto his iron chair (with a brotherly assist from Daemon) is awe-inspiring stuff.
He cannot even help himself out of bed.Īnd yet, King Viserys does help himself out of bed! He ends up doing quite a bit more than that. This sad, pitiful creature cannot help anyone. As the newly-married Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Daemon (Matt Smith) arrive at their father/brother’s bedside to argue their case for Luke Velaryon as The Lord of the Tides, they quickly realize that there is no use of it. Half of his face is missing and he has been rendered an incoherent mess by copious amounts of “milk of the poppy” to treat his pain. 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. We would love to hear your valuable feedback and suggestions.This House of the Dragon review contains spoilers. Brand new soundtracks produced by Alan Walkerįollow our Facebook to stay up to date with our new levels and game changes.Help the rolling ball escape the traps and unlock the new musical stories.Abundant game scenes for you to unlock: Mountains, Universe, Forest, Snowfield, Inferno.
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