When I first discovered 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game of Thrones back in 2012, I had trouble getting into it. I liked it, but the sheer number of houses, characters, and locations was too much for my dumb 18-year-old brain to follow. It wasn’t until 2016, when I had graduated from college and started living with guys who watched religiously, that I gave it the ol' (post-)college try and had it click for me.
It turns out, despite my years of not watching the show, it had been worming its way into my subconscious. Ned, Tyrion, Jaime, Cersei, Arya, and Daenerys had all lived on in my brain, and when I picked the show back up, I easily understood who everyone was, how they were related to each other, and what their roles in the grander scheme were. It just♚ took some time.
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Distance Makes The Mind Grow Foggy...
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Don’t get me wrong, I remember Rhaenyra and Daemon and Alicent. The main conflict of the show is still pretty well lodged in my brain. It’s t꧅he minor characters, ✅and the seemingly endless children in blonde wigs, that are evading me.
...And House Of The Dragon Has A Ton Of Characters
Some of those towheads are taking center stage, which makes them easier to remember. Aegon, Viserys’ and Alicent's eldest son and the Greens’ king, featured prominently in the premiere, alternating between generous ruler and impetuous teen. He tormented the Small Council by bringing his young brother to a meeting and demanding one member give him a piggyback ride, but also attempted to generously meet the small folk's needs, though he was obstructed by Otto Hightower. He's emerging as the kind of complicated character I love in Thrones, which has allowed Aegon to make an impression.
Likewise, his brother Aemond is hard to forget. I don't think I'm the first to note that his character design - long blond hair, a tall frame, an eyepatch over a long scar, and impish smirk - makes him look like a live-action anime villain. And his role in escalating the conflict between the Greens and the Blacks into war means that he's forever stuck in my memory as the guy who said, "Vhaegar, no, noooo!" as his massive dragon chomped his cousin to bits.
But there are so many others on the periphery that I'm not sure I remember at all. I have zero memory of Alicent's twin children, who figured prominently in the premiere's climax. I have only a vague memory of their older sister, who seems to have prophetic powers. And I was fairly thrown by the beginning of the episode which featured Rhaenyra's eldest son, Jacaerys, arriving in the North for a tour of the wall. The Night's Watchman giving the tour was a new character, and Jace made so little impression on me in the first season that I might as well have been watching two completely new characters.
None of this is a critique of the show. Television's approach to serialized storytelling wasn't built for the streaming era's approach, where years often pass between seasons. As a kid watching Lost, I remember being ahem lost when a new season started, and I'd only been waiting a single summer, not multiple years. Streaming makes it possible to easily catch up, which is nice, but the glut of content makes it hard to justify devoting ten or more hours to watching a show you've already seen. But if I'm going to spend the rest of the season going "Wait, who's that?", pausing the show, and clicking around a wiki until I'm satisfied, it actually might save some time to get it out of the way now.
