‘House of the Dragon’ outrages fans with dark episode: ‘Abomination’

The world of Westeros is a darkish place. Not only for the violence and gore, but in addition actually.

Followers of the “Recreation of Thrones” prequel sequence “Home of the Dragon” took to social media to precise their frustration concerning the lighting in Episode 7, “Driftmark.” The hour featured a number of pivotal scenes that had been filmed on a seaside at evening, together with Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) having intercourse along with his niece Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) proper after his spouse’s funeral, and in addition Aemond (Leo Ashton) claiming a dragon.

However many viewers couldn’t see the motion enjoying out, as a result of the scenes had been so dim.

“No f – – king manner are they severe with the lighting on this scene. I can’t make out a single characteristic,” one viewer tweeted.

The flurry of tweets prompted HBO to reply to complaints about screens being darkish, as one fan identified.

“We admire you reaching out a couple of evening scene in Home of the Dragon: Episode 7 showing darkish in your display,” the assertion despatched to many individuals learn. “The dimmed lighting of this scene was an intentional artistic choice.”

“i really like acquired/hotd however I feel the franchise has a really actual drawback with inadequate lighting for evening scenes,” added one other. “I do know they're going for historic accuracy/generally practically full-dark is for dramatic impact however once you often can barely see what’s taking place it’s irritating.”

“@hbo in case you be taught ANYTHING from Twitter tonight it’s that we love a little bit of temper lighting however we additionally wish to SEE WHATS HAPPENING,” one other fan posted

One other viewer commented on how significantly better the “Lord of the Rings” motion pictures had been at lighting. 

This isn’t the primary time that the dearth of lighting has been an issue in Westeros. On “Recreation of Thrones,” the battle episode “The Lengthy Evening” in Season 8 was infamously so darkish, that viewers additionally took to Twitter to complain about their incapability to see what was taking place on-screen.

Co-“Home of the Dragon” showrunner Miguel Sapochnik, who directed “The Lengthy Evening,” additionally directed “Driftmark.” 

Steve Toussaint, Shani Smethurst, Eve Best and Eva Ossei-Gerning in one scene.
Steve Toussaint (from left), Shani Smethurst, Eve Finest and Eva Ossei-Gerning in a single dimly lit scene.
Ollie Upton / HBO

HBO didn't reply when The Publish reached out with a request for remark. 

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