Battle of the Defenders

Westeros is full of dragons during the Targaryens’ early rule, and HotD is finally starting to use them. So here are all the dragons and dragonriders and the sides they’ve chosen in the show so far.

Season 3 opens with an epic battle and here's everything you need to know to follow the action

The Battle of the Gullet, which spans barely four pages in George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, is a 25-minute action sequence in the Season 3 premiere of House of the Dragon. The show made some major alterations, adding characters who didn’t participate in it and leaving out some who played a significant role. Let’s break down the key differences in how Fire & Blood and House of the Dragon’s “craziest episode of television ever made” depict the infamous and tragic Battle of the Gullet.

The brooding pace and relative silence that characterize writer-director Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood is more evocative of his standout debut film Pig than it is his far more mainstream A Quiet Place: Day One, making this elegiac but brutal period piece his most niche and least accessible film yet. Still, its heady mix of mournful drama and murderous action certainly distinguish it from the litany of other Robin Hood films in existence.

A horror RPG with novel ideas of its own, even if it doesn’t always have the courage to follow them through.