Much criticism of seventh episode of ‘House of the Dragon’: “I couldn’t see it” | TV

TVIf you’ve watched the seventh episode of ‘House of the Dragon’, there’s agood chance you couldn’t see anything that actually happened in it. Theepisode was so dark in color that viewers had difficulty recognizing the facesof their favorite characters. The dark episode is said to have been aconscious choice by the makers, although many Twitter users clearly do notagree with that decision.

Fans of ‘Game of Thrones’ may have had a ‘déjà vu’ watching the seventhepisode of the HBO prequel ‘House of the Dragon’. During the episode ‘The LongNight’ in the final season of the original series, there were also some scenesthat were too dark to see. Remarkably, both that episode and the seventhepisode of ‘House of the Dragon’ were both directed by the same person: Emmywinner Miguel Sapochnik.

When many fans expressed frustration (in the form of memes) after watching theseventh part of the prequel on Twitter, one of the HBO accounts on the socialmedium defended the director’s choice: “The dark lighting of the scene was aconscious creative decision,” they wrote.

(Read more below HBO’s Tweet.)

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But the fans were clearly not pleased with this. Many of them claim that theepisode is “unwatchable” because the screen is simply too dark. When the samereactions came to the dark episode of ‘Game of Thrones’, the directorresponded: “The dark-lit cinematography was necessary for the atmosphere ofthe series. From the perspective of where the story was supposed to go – whichwas to reach a surreal, chaotic climax – we needed an environment that wasfriendly to that,” Sapochnik said. It is not yet known what his argument isthis time.

Check out some Tweets about the seventh episode below:

“A photo of my face watching ‘House of the Dragon’ last night.”

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“House of the Dragon” maintains the classic Game of Thrones tradition ofmaking an episode so dark it’s almost unwatchable.”

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“Me who have to squint every week to see something from ‘House of the