House of the dragon has hours where I am barely hanging on and yet other hours where I'm gripping the TV. Be inconsistency of this painfully slow over the orchestrated plot as well worth the slow burn. Moments of brilliance sometimes last seconds but have such a brilliant impact that they make you feel it in your bones. Carefully folded together. Once everything begins coming together around episode 7 and into 8 it really starts to get its feet.. just a few episodes ago I almost fell asleep during one of them. But outside of that it has been brilliant for the most part. I think it the pacing could improve greatly by not including irrelevant scenes and sticking only to those that are important. As a filmmaker myself I know the struggle between wanting to keep everything and having to purge much. But the show could do with purging just a little more and it could have received another star.

For example season 1 episode 8 lord of the tides at 1 hour 20 seconds approximately, the scene where the king looks upon those around him it has a certain reaction which I will not disclose for the purposes of spoilers is absolute brilliance and captures hours of plot into one moment of incredible acting composure production and videography.