House of the Dragon breaks the HBO Max record. The long-awaited spin-off of Game of Thrones continues its journey with excellent numbers, and everything indicates that it will stay that way for now as a second season has been confirmed even though it has been a few days since the first season. However, the 7th episode of the series left a bitter taste in the audience and not exactly because of the story, but for technique.

After its premiere, social networks and forums all over the Internet were flooded with criticism of this final episode. And as many users have mentioned, the partition shows a ‘too dark’ image, prevents you from watching the episode properly. This creative decision has hurt the experience of many viewers by asking if the show is geared towards how we view the content on our televisions.

It’s already happened in Game of Thrones and it’s happened again in the House of the Dragon

Those who have followed the television adaptation of the George RR Martin stories from the beginning will be familiar with this fact. And this isn’t the first time complaints have been directed to the technical part of a chapter in this universe. It’s already happened with Game of Thrones in that massive episode of ‘The Long Night’ of the eighth season.many viewers complained that ‘nothing was seen’ at various times in the episode.

History repeats itself with the seventh episode of the first season of La Casa del Dragón. dark moments prevented viewers from enjoying all the action. HBO pronounced Regarding this on social networks, he commented that seeing it in such low light was part of a ‘creative decision’ by the team.

I was reading a lot of comments about how dark some footage of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” looked…
Did you know that most of these were shot in bright light and blacked out in post production?
Seeing so many negative comments, I don’t know if they were justified in this creative decision. pic.twitter.com/408stFXmGI

– Pol Turrents (@polispol) October 4, 2022

‘Marcaderiva’ is directed by Miguel Sapochnik, the same person who was responsible for the ‘Long Night’ episode on Game of Thrones. At that time, his statements before the Game of Thrones episode were as follows:

“It made sense that this was humanity’s last hope, the last beacon of light, and we needed a setting that suited it, in terms of where we were going to go with the story that was going to reach a surreal and chaotic climax. So there was every reason to do it and no one sat and thought if it would look too dark.

As director of photography and content creator Pol Turrents said, the most criticized scene of the episode where the two protagonists of the series are seen on a beach is, recorded in daylight and in great detail, but hidden by creative decision in post production.

This type of situation often occurs in film and television, where a scene is later altered and darkened by dimming it. achieve the narrative value that the author intended. However, the negative unanimity in practice on the subject suggests that there may be a problem on the technical side, making it more difficult to watch, especially when compression is also applied by the stream platform.

While a work of such caliber is mastered in a studio, it is used whenever possible with appropriate screens and environments suitable for full enjoyment, but at home the situation is very different, as in the vast majority of homes we often find LCD panels without FALD technologies and mediocre contrasts. they do not allow the authors to view the content for their own purposes.

The light in the room, the reflection from objects in the room, the bitrate of the content in HBO Max, and the image quality of the most common panels, among other factors, disrupting the viewing experiencethat is, although it was a creative decision, perhaps the same goal could only be achieved with other balances and without damaging the experience in this way.