...because its a teaser.
like why are you so obsessed with this? You're comparing the biggest parts of the GOT budget which are complete and have ample shots to cherry pick from to 30 a second teaser in which we see basically nothing.
And also if you really want to compare go show the battle of kings landing when Tywin shows up, its laughably low budget. But beyond that in the episodes you show, there are still low budget things that happen and not to mention the lighting and how that one episode was basically black?
also im loving the "grounded" complaints that it doesnt match LOTR that had *checks notes* cgi balrog, flying eagle big enough to carry Gandalf, walking talking trees, cave trolls, Nazgul Wyvern/dragon things, and a 100% CGI character in gollum, which by the way still looks amazing to this day.
Obsessed? Are you serious or are you just being intentionally obtuse and avoiding what im responding to? Do you even know how this line of discussion started?
Because someone said that this teaser looks better and more expensive than anything in Game of Thrones and makes it look small scale. Which, judging by the change of tune on this page since I posted those shots is clearly not the case. So yes, obviously I would compare the biggest parts of Game of Thrones as a reminder of what the show actually looked like at its peak, why the hell would I not. That's literally what's being discussed.
Its not a matter of "high or low budget" things happening, its correcting revisionist history.
And I don't know why its surprising that an episode called "The Long Night" in which there is a huge climactic battle fought at night, where many of our characters die and the home of many of our perspective characters is destroyed is dark.
But even beyond all that. Its a better representation of what House of the Dragon will look like given that the director of those episodes is directing episodes of House of the Dragon and is also its showrunner. Meaning that its likely he'll carry over his stylistic tendencies from Game of Thrones over to House of the Dragon and showcasing what he's capable of doing is better than showing off a few random shots of characters from a show that had barely even entered pre-production and going "this looks so low budget compared to RoP!".
And judging by your response to people's concerns about RoP in comparison to LOTR on a stylistic level it seems like you don't even understand what's actually being discussed in other parts of this thread. Nobody is talking about the contents of LOTR as a franchise being "grounded". Its a matter of its technical aspects of filmmaking that make one
look grounded in reality and the other not.
If you want to be excited for the show, go ahead, nobody is stopping you. But this is a thread for discussion in which people are free to share their own thoughts, opinions and concerns and discuss with others. If all you can offer is snarky posts that basically amount to you standing in a corner with your arms crossed and scoffing at anyone rather than genuinely engaging with a dissenting opinion why are you even posting.
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