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Tensions between House Targaryen and House Velaryon boil to a bursting point, and a violent scuffle leads to a nasty — but spectacular — fight.

This is House Targaryen having the moment afforded to Lannisters, Starks, and more in “ This is the promised “Succession” with dragons, the full-tilt family war promised in George R.R. Alicent is the only one talking sense at this point, and the collective gaslighting of no one immediately taking her side starts to take a toll. From her trembling voice to her brimming eyes and the hand clutching that massive knife, Cooke has full command of this character who she has only played for two episodes. She cannot bear that Rhaenyra lives free of this oppression, and that she still manages to resent Alicent through it all. Alicent has never asked Viserys to choose between his wife and daughter, or between his sons and grandsons, but she is desperate throughout this scene for him to do so, just once, in her favor. The lengthy scene is otherwise filled with dialogue neither too dull nor too flowery, and watching it culminate with such well-chosen and potent words works wonders. The hall is filled out by Rhaenys (Eve Best), Corlys (Steve Toussaint), Rhaenyra, and Daemon (Matt Smith), all of them concerned for the injured children. Rhaenyra’s sons reveal that they were called bastards, and the shots that follow are exquisite. After the funeral of Laena Velaryon (Nanna Blondell), Rhaenyra’s son Jacaerys (Leo Hart) slashes the eye of Alicent’s son Aemond (Leo Ashton), which leads to the series’ most outstanding scene — not the child knife fight that ends with the stabbing, but the quarrel that follows. “Her son is responsible.” King Viserys (Paddy Considine) demanding to know what happened, and despite various ailments and growing age, his fury is palpable.

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After gasp-inducing violence and an unearthly consummation, there's now a dangerous union you really don't want to mess with. This mean all-out war.

HBO Max has responded to the negative fan reactions to House of the Dragon's dark Episode 7 calling it an intentional creative decision.

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Cut to Laenor and Qarl in a boat, presumably sailing across the Narrow Sea to Daemon’s former home of Pentos. Cut to a pair of scenes in which Daemon and Rhaenyra seemingly recruit Qarl to murder his lover… After being reunited at a funeral for Daemon’s late wife Laena Velaryon, Rhaenyra makes it clear that she wants to marry her uncle in the face of a looming war (Targaryens are gonna Targaryen).

Fans of "House of the Dragon" compare episode 7's dark night scenes to those in the "Game of Thrones" episode "The Long Night."

[CNET](https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/watch-house-of-the-dragon-episode-6-the-right-way-on-your-tv/) also recommends changing other TV settings, like switching to Movie, Cinema, or Calibrated picture modes and turning off motion smoothing. "The Long Night," episode 3 of Season 8, was famously lambasted by fans for being too dark to watch. Since much of "Driftmark" took place at night, entire scenes of dialogue or dragon-stealing were left in the dark, with characters appearing as blurry blobs against a black background. [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)] [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)] [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)] [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)] [New House of the Dragon episodes are available every Sunday on HBO and HBO Max.(opens in a new tab)](https://zdcs.link/JJWpn?cd36=Standard&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bt=video&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bm=content_body&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Be=offer&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bi=text-link&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bel=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bcd62=video&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bcd63=06IY3bkOY8p1OHt5bRNzX6D&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bshort_url=JJWpn&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Fvideo%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-weeks-ahead-trailer&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bt=article&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bm=content_body&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Be=offer&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bi=text-link&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bel=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bcd62=article&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bcd63=04rHjwWvwqhuycZY7gPy5Kn&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bshort_url=JJWpn&%3B%3B%3B%3B%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-game-of-thrones-song-ice-fire-prophecy&%3B%3B%3B%3Bt=article&%3B%3B%3B%3Bm=content_body&%3B%3B%3B%3Be=offer&%3B%3B%3B%3Bi=text-link&%3B%3B%3B%3Bel=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&%3B%3B%3B%3Bcd62=article&%3B%3B%3B%3Bcd63=03jhCieBhyJTzRgMZ57FhjR&%3B%3B%3B%3Bshort_url=JJWpn&%3B%3B%3B%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-otto-hightower-littlefinger&%3B%3B%3Bt=article&%3B%3B%3Bm=content_body&%3B%3B%3Be=offer&%3B%3B%3Bi=text-link&%3B%3B%3Bel=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&%3B%3B%3Bcd62=article&%3B%3B%3Bcd63=05xfiquPQT9IkgkFR56Pxm1&%3B%3B%3Bshort_url=JJWpn&%3B%3B%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-targaryen-family-tree&%3B%3Bt=article&%3B%3Bm=content_body&%3B%3Be=offer&%3B%3Bi=text-link&%3B%3Bel=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&%3B%3Bcd62=article&%3B%3Bcd63=05C31X47GDVnt27l6EGGWst&%3B%3Bshort_url=JJWpn&%3B%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-king-viserys-should-be-dead&%3Bt=article&%3Bm=content_body&%3Be=offer&%3Bi=text-link&%3Bel=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&%3Bcd62=article&%3Bcd63=05yLp237XIliDfsFxfKODFE&%3Bshort_url=JJWpn&%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-episode-7-ending-explainer&t=article&m=content_body&e=offer&i=text-link&el=New%20House%20of%20the%20Dragon%20episodes%20are%20available%20every%20Sunday%20on%20HBO%20and%20HBO%20Max.&cd62=article&cd63=05FKuJi04eLHx9jlgNzWBFU&short_url=JJWpn&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-dark-screen-episode-7) [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)]

House of the Dragon's seventh episode, Driftmark, is once again proving a pain for fans who are calling it too dark. Here's why it's so dark along with some ...

Overall contrast — that is to say, the difference between whites and blacks — is pretty poor and the overall picture is kind of a washed-out gray, but I at least can make out what is going on. With the Hisense, I usually have these set to those levels all the time because I have it set up in a room with a lot of windows and I need that brightness to overcome the glare. I managed to get a pretty bright scene by making sure that my backlight was at high and the backlight level was at 100. You can expect the colors for the whole episode to be a bit wonky when you have Vivid selected, but at least you’ll be able to see what is going on. This is probably the only time I will recommend watching anything in Vivid since it usually warps the colors so badly, but here I will make an exception for the sake of visual clarity. Hisense has far less of a limitation, as it can get more than twice as bright as the Sony. Even with all of my other brightness settings such luminance and backlight turned up to max, the scene is pretty difficult to make out in either of these settings. Some TVs do have ways of making the picture in this particular episode easier to see, I just wouldn’t go so far as to say it is a blanket “improvement” since there are tradeoffs. When I fire up the show, it automatically changes from standard definition to Dolby Vision, which I can see when I go to the Picture Settings. I do want to take this time to mention that adjusting “brightness” and “contrast” on most TVs doesn’t actually make the picture brighter or increase, but instead tends to just wash out what little image is there. While some televisions will let you turn HDR off entirely and bypass this problem, many televisions do not — or make it so confusing to do so that it’s not worth trying to figure it out just to enjoy one episode of a weekly show. Filmmakers are just as much artists as photographers, painters, and sculptors, so there is some level of creative license that they have for the content they produce.

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The final time jump in House of the Dragon is here. Everyone's all grown up, the greens have taken over King's Landing, and war is afoot.

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