What is it that makes the Thrones fandom experience so unique and addicting? What is it that brought us all together as a community more than ten years ago and kept us together through all the ups and downs? And what is it that brings us back together now, at the dawn of a new series? No, it’s not dragons. It’s YOU! Yeah, you. And you and you. Game of Thrones cultivated a massive social media presence, with the show and the fandom feeding into one another joyfully. That frenzy resumed this week online, with Twitter flooded with #HouseoftheDragon tweets. People were nitpicking, comparing episode portions to Game of Thrones, debating each other furiously…my timeline was a mess. It was glorious. It’s good to be back, because we love this world that George R.R. Martin has created and seeing it brought to life one more time, under new hands, gives us another reason to come together and have fun with our friends online.
Our beloved Axechucker has retired and is enjoying the show from the spectator seats so that leaves me to pick up the gauntlet. So with that said, what did the masses think of the episode? Twitter had thoughts. Many many thoughts.
(Let the post load. It’s a lot of tweets. Not kidding. Many many thoughts!)
FIRST, a bit of HOTD pre-gaming…
omg we’re all gonna live tweet a show at the same time again pic.twitter.com/UCEOlW5LnM
— ali-oop (@eboldy) August 21, 2022
Congrats to @GRRMspeaking, Miguel, Ryan, and the whole #HouseOfTheDragonHBO team on their series premiere tonight! #FireandBlood pic.twitter.com/HQWHmNfV36
— Bryan Cogman (@cogman_bryan) August 22, 2022
Will I understand “House of the Dragon” if I haven’t seen “House of Gucci”?
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) August 21, 2022
Today is the day! Targaryen loyalists, assemble! Time to dust off your banners and hang them proudly on your walls!#HOTD pic.twitter.com/uDtkkADh7Q
— Corlys Velaryon is black deal with it (@conquerorscrown) August 21, 2022
today is THE day#HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/aU5nfafjcE
— lux;
house of the dragon era (@nonesistenome_) August 21, 2022
The HBO Max servers when everyone clicks play in 4 hours.
pic.twitter.com/8X02TpblsL
— Obie (@Obienator) August 21, 2022
Once upon a time in Westeros…so excited for tonight
#hotd pic.twitter.com/sTB0vsu5vL
— Esmé Bianco (@esmebianco) August 21, 2022
The existence of #HotD implies the existence of #ColdD pic.twitter.com/vcUNZc26it
— Patrick Sponaugle (@patman23) August 21, 2022
Only Dany knows. Knew.
I don’t want to spoil anything, but I’m super psyched to start hating a bunch of these people with super similar names in live action. #hotd pic.twitter.com/mvWqzOoVld
— Kae2
(@K2Kav) August 21, 2022
I can't wait to find out which minor character will be my Mord for #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/piLPbfchH8
— Eric (@EYIndy) August 21, 2022
Who can compare with the mighty Mord? “NO GOLD!” indeed.
Welp. Guess I’m back on my dragon bullshit 🤷♀️
#HouseoftheDragon #HouseTargaryen #TeamBlack pic.twitter.com/awlVhi9LyM
— Vaenerys Kenaeryen, Queen of the Ashes
Vanessa hon, you were never off it.
The thing I am actually looking forward the most is report on viewership of #HOTD
We spent years hearing how no one cares about GOT anymore. This is the first episode. General audience doesn't know the story or characters. It will purely be demonstration of brand power.
— who's who in westeros (@WeThrones) August 21, 2022
Same. And guess what? Turns out people do still want more tits and dragons.
We might not have the official #HouseoftheDragon intro credits yet…but we are happy to debut our new History of Westeros intro sequence for #HOTD coverage, created by @brwthepro – it's straight
— History of Westeros Podcast (@WesterosHistory) August 21, 2022
Honeyed rabbit with fiery dornish peppers in honor of #Hotd #HouseOfTheDragonHBO. The jus is absolutely fantastic! Definitely enjoy with a crust of black bread and a good ale. pic.twitter.com/sIgXyJSvF8
— Asha Not Yara (@ashanotyara) August 21, 2022
Me as I sit down to watch #HotD and realize that there are about to be a lot more fans of House Hightower because of this show, but knowing they deserved this attention from the start! – S pic.twitter.com/MsUO8cHpWs
— Davos' Fingers (@davosfingers) August 21, 2022
watching #HotD when you don’t care about the targaryens pic.twitter.com/WzbqzdjvvD
— Clint W, Attorney at Harrenhal
*cough* Those people exist.
Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one daughter who had no choice but to keep them all together.
It's House of the Dragon. pic.twitter.com/ydmd6Jhiyb
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) August 22, 2022
Close enough! Because psych. Cold open, and no credits this week, folks. Just the Great Council of 101 AC. (Ask your nerd book friends.) And GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Me when I saw there was no opening credits #HouseoftheDragon #HouseOfTheDragonHBO #HOTD pic.twitter.com/jiW424L71Q
— Arturo (@arturealo) August 22, 2022
The Great Council of 101 AC is an incredibly wonky and arcane statecraft and sovereignty event and so obviously it’s what I focused on for my first ever fandom #content. So I’m a lil hype to see it tonight. Just a lil. https://t.co/CCClCGjrIQ
— Clint W, Attorney at Harrenhal
I think it was a good switch for the show to make the claimants at the Great Council 101 Viserys and Rhaenys instead of Viserys & Laenor. Which is easier to follow for casual fans
— arah velaryon (@ieatzebra) August 22, 2022
Did clothes or hairstyles not change at all between then and 172 years later? #HouseoftheDragon #HOTD
— Lauren (@pinklemonade73) August 22, 2022
Dragonriding was such a climatic moment in #GOT. Seasons upon seasons built up to that breathtaking moment of Dany escaping the fire pit. #HOTD kicking off with this teenage princess on dragonback shows just how far Dany and Viserys fell from the might of their ancestors.
— K Kippins (@kippinsk) August 24, 2022
Triarchy? That like a ménage a tois? Kinky. #HouseOfTheDragonHBO
— Pinky Pod
🤍 (@PodPinky) August 22, 2022
Not my gay ass shipping Rhaenyra and Alicent knowing damn well it won't happen 🤡 Friends, is it gay to call your bestie to ride a dragon with you? I think it is. #HouseoftheDragon
—
소아영
How exactly does one get a job as a dragon wrangler? Because that's got to be the most dangerous job in the Realm. Next to being the King's Hand, of course. #HotD #HouseOfTheDragonHBO #HouseoftheDragon
—
Nymeria Direwolf Variant N1270
OK BUT ALICENT CLOAKED RHAENYRA WHICH MEANS METAPHORICALLY AND LITERALLY THEY GOT MARRIED IN EPISODE ONE OF #HOUSEOFTHEDRAGON
— queen of love and booty (@liesandarbor) August 22, 2022
Daemon and Rhaenyra have a chat but honestly all anyone had eyes for, as usual, was for the Iron Throne. It is spectacular!
The OG iron throne is 🤌
🤌
— Nick Maraldo (@nickmaraldo) August 22, 2022
Yoooo this Iron Throne FUCKS. #DemThrones
— Rod (@rodimusprime) August 22, 2022
Not uncle daemon being in love with his niece. @HBO I promise we don’t need the incest this time around
— church girl
🤲
🛐 (@JambaJuJu) August 23, 2022
I have some news for you regarding the Targaryens….all of them.
The Targaryens be 613 wigged down with every piece hitting.#HouseOfTheDragonHBO #DemDragons pic.twitter.com/Pn9wsz7FoC
— MBali
(@TheJessieWoo) August 22, 2022
I'm angry no one is mentioning the scene of Rhaenyra and Alicent talking about NYMERIA. Her story is another confirmed prequel of GOT.#HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/yTpjfq5z8p
— isa͛ HOTD
rhaenyra and alicent are so gay, like baby rhaenyra only wants to go fly on her dragon and eat cake with her girlfriend; if that ain’t the gayest thong ever… #HouseoftheDragon
— public enemy #1 (@yvsaintrs) August 22, 2022
I think King Viserys needs some Robitussin for that wound on his back. #DragonsYall #HouseoftheDragon
— Imara Jones (@imarajones) August 22, 2022
It’s giving the king bout to be dead soon! #HouseoftheDragon
— Girl up out the South. (@dAMsel_N_Succes) August 22, 2022
Queen Aemma in that mommy-influencer milk bath ready for her pregnancy photo shoot is a mood #hotd
— FPM (@FatPinkMast) August 22, 2022
It has never seemed more obvious that this baby is going to be a girl or die quickly. And the momma has already told the King she is leaving the childbirth battlefield #HouseoftheDragon
— jilly (@_jilly) August 22, 2022
This Aemma Arryn bath scene was my favorite in the pilot. A short scene that painted her character beautifully. #HouseoftheDragon
— Lauren Morgan (@morglaur) August 22, 2022
#HOTD So Viserys' dream. He heard the thundering of hooves. pic.twitter.com/BazLfQGPdI
— Joe Magician 🧙♂️ HBO Legit Source (@TheJoeMagician) August 22, 2022
Yep. Classic Targaryen dragon dream- it came true, in a terrible way.
Prince Daemon and his City Watch goldcloaks got up to some truly disgusting shenanigans in the premiere. Love or hate Daemon, Matt Smith is incredible.
I stepped away from the tv for 30 seconds and came back to them cutting people’s toilet parts off. I- #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/YiGg78wJZD
— Whitney Burney (@WhitneyOnAir) August 23, 2022
Daemon Targaryen returning back to Kings Landing:#HOTD#HouseOfTheDragon pic.twitter.com/5bUthkVnfw
— Sancheezzzy ✵ (@Scoby20) August 22, 2022
Daemon stans when I ask them if there were even any accusations (let alone evidence) during his and his Gold Cloaks' murder/mutilation fun times. pic.twitter.com/A3ACsNPaiE
— Frank Bumb (@frankbumb) August 22, 2022
this is a really, really well done scene
Viserys, Daemon, Otto Hightower
genuinely truly well done more of this #HouseoftheDragon— it's coup for my family (@GhostEsq) August 22, 2022
my favorite wig so far. cruel little legolas vibe #hotd pic.twitter.com/W9azmBTLeU
— Kim Renfro (@kimrrenfro) August 22, 2022
is Matt Smith gonna be in this Legolas wig all season or…#HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/Q652bVFqSA
— ethan ✨ (@thebeachb0y) August 22, 2022
Him and his half up, half down quick weave gotta GO #HouseoftheDragon
— *PoohShiestyHum* (@BRIng_Me_Dat) August 22, 2022
Daemon Targaryen new house flag dropped!!! #hotd pic.twitter.com/da82JhrF3i
— heir for a day (@motelsonthemoon) August 22, 2022
Otto: “That’s why yo shoes raggedy.”
Daemon: “That’s why yo mama dead. Dead as hell. What kinda shoes she got on in her casket?”
— Alisha (@totesnotalice) August 22, 2022
Daemon calling Otto Hightower a cunt #hotd pic.twitter.com/fZqf2Ej33Y
— FPM (@FatPinkMast) August 22, 2022
Daemon’s sex scene. #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/fVswW3jnkB
— goede ‘n terry bull (@By_Kemi) August 22, 2022
’nuff said.
Onto the night’s main event: the Heir’s Tourney. AKA Counting Your Dragon Egg Before They’ve Hatched.
Alicent and Rhaenyra in Deux Moi mode at the tourney. Tell us all that hot gossip pls
#hotd
— FPM (@FatPinkMast) August 22, 2022
rhaenys and corlys being the couple who talks shit about everyone else together. love that for them #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/NodIWkCih6
— j | hotd spoilers (@INEJSKNlVES) August 22, 2022
when you’re silently thinking: the Dumbass Council of 101 AC got the dumbass king they deserved and you better not blame this dumb shit on us pic.twitter.com/zrnv1dAaqH
— Cregan Stark Treason Law* (@MaesterMerry) August 22, 2022
Sick grind on that rail, bro #HotD
— Alt_Qthulhu (@Alt_Qthulhu) August 22, 2022
Rhaenyra and Alicent about Criston: oh no he's hot #HOTD
— King Jaehaerys, Tired of His Realm (@duckandcover) August 22, 2022
It's apt that the tourney is in honor of the melon being pushed out of Aemma Arryn's womb because it's literally shaped like a womb. Like Selina Meyer presidential library kinda metaphor. Amazing. #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/VBM8WCJ8DQ
— queen of love and booty (@liesandarbor) August 22, 2022
Big #HouseoftheDragon night in New York City apartments @HBO pic.twitter.com/xINets7U65
— BK (@Bkillinit) August 22, 2022
If you had a feeling the baby-birth wasn’t going to go well for the nice queen lady, here’s a cookie. And also a blindfold, because this is going to be awful.
Men privileging a fetus over a woman while not offering the woman informed consent. Escapism! #HouseOfTheDragonHBO
— Wanda Maximoff is Pro Abortion (@WestviewWandaM) August 22, 2022
I really hate Viserys now. #HouseOfTheDragonHBO #LongLiveAemma
— Mj (@ThisGrayArea) August 22, 2022
Buddy gave up his wife for a CHANCE at a son.
Wait ain't the Sept named after Baelon? #DemThrones
— Rod (@rodimusprime) August 22, 2022
they really cutting this lady open.#HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/Sv0YNhbzW6
— ethan ✨ (@thebeachb0y) August 22, 2022
Viserys saying “I love you” before cutting his wife’s belly without anaesthesia.
I hate the man. #HouseoftheDragon https://t.co/8mswF9B6qB— Sonya Marmelad |
“Dracarys.”
That’s probably the saddest one I have ever heard #HOtd
— number one criston cole stan (@motelsonthemoon) August 22, 2022
I thought Aemma Targaryen’s death was horrifying, validating, and deeply moving. I had traumatic emergency c-section and the climax of #HouseoftheDragon’s first episode was like a gut punch combined with fingernails on a chalk board. For me, it was the opposite of gratuitous. https://t.co/C03ZHZcFmH
— Cregan Stark Treason Law* (@MaesterMerry) August 23, 2022
I have my thoughts on #HouseoftheDragon but 2 things did bothered me: the pacing. It was rushing like crazy thru plot & Aemma’s prolonged suffering. Felt gratuitous. We didn’t need to see that.
— JJ (@CatladyJJ) August 22, 2022
THIS MAN STRAIGHT UP BOO-HOOING WHEN HE SENTENCED HIS WIFE TO DEATH TFOH #HOTD
— King Jaehaerys, Tired of His Realm (@duckandcover) August 22, 2022
I need to know if Sian Brooke’s vocal cords and mental state are okay after that c-section scene in #HouseOfTheDragonHBO because post 19 hours later and I am still unwell. pic.twitter.com/KXci3tuNyL
— Kalina Hyde (@KalinaHyde) August 22, 2022
Viserys and the Small Council face a tough decision now. Choose between a violent prick or a woman, for the next heir. Hmm tough call. It takes them way too long to make a decision. But really the most important bit-
HE SAID A FEAST FOR CROWS #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/cuilrg60Y1
— queen of love and booty (@liesandarbor) August 22, 2022
#Corlys Velaryon, Westeros’s ultimate Wife Guy
— Clint W, Attorney at Harrenhal
We wouldn’t have these problems if they’d chosen Rhaenys to begin with. (Corlys is thinking that but he’s probably right.)
Otto and Alicent Hightower have a father-daughter moment that quickly dissolves into what-the-fuckery.
Why he sending that baby to that man chambers…Unt unh #DemDragons #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/qJpQvrMzxS
— Girl up out the South. (@dAMsel_N_Succes) August 22, 2022
Sending your young daughter to give the king some trim is something not even Stannis Baratheon would do. #DemDragons
— I'm a A-1 nigga, a thick sauce nigga (@FirstName736928) August 22, 2022
All I think about when I see Viserys and his model of Valyria #HouseoftheDragon #HOTD pic.twitter.com/Kq2spwo0Dv
— Ashaya
(@MeereeneseKnot) August 23, 2022
Daemon gets rightly called out by Viserys for talking shit:
Respect to the guy that is so into Daemon speaking, that he freezes mid thrust during a wild drunken orgy to turn and listen. That's how you command a crowd. #HouseoftheDragon #HOTD
— Joe Magician 🧙♂️ HBO Legit Source (@TheJoeMagician) August 22, 2022
'Heir for a day' #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/5Uc17fpLVn
— Sic Mundus (@TheSicBay) August 22, 2022
Viserys: did you really call him "Heir for a Day?"
Daemon: pic.twitter.com/9TN7nsl43b— Daemon's Defense Attorney HeyDom (@heydomt) August 22, 2022
Daemons wife prolly mad as shit he coming back
dont bring that community dick back here#Dragonsyall #HouseoftheDragon
— 🧚
♀️Ethereal🦄 (@KingSaintLB) August 22, 2022
Debate over- Rhaenyra is the new heir of the dragon, and she gets to hear the fancy-schmancy secrets, which may sound familiar…
Daemon listening in on the succession council#HOtd pic.twitter.com/q90sCVtKNZ
— number one criston cole stan (@motelsonthemoon) August 22, 2022
I love how we focus in on a Stark when Viserys tells his daughter about the Long Winter while GoT music plays in the background #HouseoftheDragon #HOTD .
— Lauren (@pinklemonade73) August 22, 2022
them talking about that damn “long winter” and it lasted one episode #HouseOfTheDragonHBO pic.twitter.com/fv208SbJCA
— e. (@misscuddlesx) August 22, 2022
“Aegon had a dream, he called it A Song of Ice and fire.. promise me Rhaenyra”
🥹 #HouseoftheDragon
— Mj (@ThisGrayArea) August 22, 2022
when the dude in the dragon show started talking about the prophecy of a long winter is coming and how all the kingdoms would need to unite to fight it in the future…i just rolled my eyes, it’s not even gonna be that big of a deal, my guy
— ashley ray (@theashleyray) August 22, 2022
WHEN VISERYS SAID THAT THE WHITEWALKERS ARE COMING AND THERE SHOULD BE A TARGARYEN ON THE THRONE TO SAVE THE REALM OF MEN AND UNITE THE REALM AND THE DREAM IS CALLED A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE AND WHEN THEY PLAYED THE THEME SONG IN THE END #HouseOfTheDragonHBO pic.twitter.com/ZWKiX3LwKs
— pj 🧛♀️ hotd era (@vampyrslayyyer) August 22, 2022
Nobody thought to tell me the secret…Might have saved a spot of bother…#HOTD #HouseoftheDragon #GameOfThrones
— Daenerys Targaryen (@danygonebad) August 22, 2022
Of course everyone on Twitter is still arguing over whether Dany or Jon was the Targaryen who united the realm against the cold. So, ya know, business as usual!
The GoT theme music at the end got everyone jacked up in a good way.
Hearing that music at the end tho #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/pn45utiVmK
— Vin Bálor(House Targaryen Supporter) (@VincentTondy) August 22, 2022
Closing credits
#HOTD pic.twitter.com/wgD8Hdp79M
— EmotionalSupportAcct (@AcctSupport) August 22, 2022
Listening the iconic Game of thrones theme at the end of #HouseoftheDragon episode
— Divyansh
(@_divyanxh) August 21, 2022
Two days later and everyone is still digesting, reeling, processing and debating. Some final thoughts?
One of my favorite things from #HOTD was the heraldry and costuming. We actually got a ton of the minor houses. And the Hightower sigil looks so fucking cool
— Mysaria's there for the vibes (@Micah_ofClark) August 22, 2022
I'm still high on the HOTD premiere, but I don't currently feel great about Mysaria's presentation. I know they have a lot to do, but if the character is a sex worker with an inherently alienating role in the story, she should be given more dimension (and clothing) off the bat.
— Michal ~ מיכל תהילה (@inkasrain) August 22, 2022
The targaryen sigils, dany’s themes playing everywhere, the high valyrian.. yeah hotd got me. Cannot believe i have to look at that beast every week now. pic.twitter.com/iZkMcaczeU
— maz (@Iewyndavis) August 22, 2022
These wigs aren’t bad. I thought they were really good, especially the locs wig. What kinda wigs did you want to see? #DragonsYall #HouseoftheDragon
— Earnestine (@ohhEarnestine) August 22, 2022
I hope with this Game of Thrones series we get another round of people naming their babies after a character who seems cool, but then at the end of the series it turns out he's eventually known as Jertholmew the Pants-Shitting Coward or something.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) August 22, 2022
$20 MILLION AN EPISODE AND STILL NO VISIBLY PURPLE EYES – WHY MUST I SUFFER SO? SO MUCH CANNON AND NONCANNON AND STILL THEY NEGLECT THE EYES. JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE SILVER HAIR!! #Hotd #Targaryens #PurpleEyes
— jilly (@_jilly) August 22, 2022
Well if nothing else, they certainly have managed to pack a lot of trauma into the first episode of House of the Dragon.
— Half-Man Dan (@Fade_Me_Fam) August 22, 2022
Yep, collective trauma, that’s why we’re here. And dragons.
That wraps up our Twitter recap for the series premiere. You can read my regular review over yonder, and make sure to enter our awesome giveaway for the Secretlab TITAN Evo 2022 House of the Dragon Edition Chair!
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