Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

ANIMATION 4/10. Has Disney spoilt the standards of animation? This rendition seems more like Anime, more of a narrated comic book with a series of static frescoes. Blended, earth-colored, detail-poor imaging. At least, unlike Japanese anime, the faces were not of prepubescent children with impossibly un-Asian saucer-like eyes, spiky hair, and machine-gun sounding dialog.

VOICE NARRATIVE 9/10. Clear, neutral but modulated Brtish standard English. Just intonated enough to NOT be like a monotonous documentary, but a master narrator in front of a fireplace.

PLOT. I am too concerned with the excitement and complexity of adult life to invest grey cells into the intricately puzzling alien "societies" of fantasy franchises like "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", "Mortal Kombat", and, now, "Game of Thrones". They all smack of primarily continued to be financially milked. Do we honestly need another James Bond, Resident Evil, XXX, Star Trek, Spiderman, Avengers...?

GENERAL EXHORTATION OF PRODUCERS Perhaps, with COVID influence, that studios will realize that one can produce more cheaply and quickly with digital technology and CGI than previously, that brainlessly repetitive "blockbusters" should be dropped in favor of many more "independent" productions; that other countries have mythologies to consider other than Norse, other fables than Medieval European.

Amazon's unlimited budget has spawned excellent locally-produced series from India, Germany, Russia, Spain, and probably other countries in the making.

Korean cinema contains many excellent drama, crime, action plots. Has anyone considered "Man from Nowhere" in Western incarnation? Have you seen the epic dramas coming out of Russia? The nuanced thrillers from tiny populated Norway?

Why don't Western writers develop fantasies from Indic, Native American, South Asian, Central Asian, African fables and myths - not necessarily verbatim, but taking inspiration from the moral lessons and societal comment.

Black Panther is simple a transposition of Western material societal norms in Africa - It ISN'T a validation of inherently African cultures.

This DVD came with my boxed set of season 7. It's short but fills in a lot of the events that are often referenced on Game of Thrones. It doesn't go too in depth, but given that there are planned prequel spin-offs, it's understandable that they don't want to tell the whole story. It explains the main points of the events that led up to the political situation of Game of Thrones (Robert's Rebellion for example). The animation is much more stylised than we might be used to, but for me, that is part of its charm. It is more like looking at a storybook than watching Disney style traditional animation.

Plot: interesting and very well narrated. It has a lot of information!

Animation: smooth but very poor. There are things that, for a 2017 production, are really unwatchable.

Soundtrack: not as great as the original show but is very enjoyable.

Conclusions: a perfect introduction for everyone, both if you already had watch the show or you are going to do it. But, probably, you'll have to cover your eyes...

The animation is horrible and the storyline reminds me of someone reading a dull book. I expected more fire from a movie about a hit hbo how. Maybe that's why I never heard of this....

It's a strange one this : on one hand HBO went to the expense of asking the actors who play main characters to voice different chapters (such as conleth hill, Nikolai coster-waldau, Sophie turner, Aiden gillen) and that part is done really well. It gave a short but enlightening history of the rise of the targaeryan empire up until the events of the main show. On the other hand the animation is all over the place! Some scenes are quite pretty like a living watercolour, some are intentionally sparse but artistic (almost anime), some are like bad CGI and some literally ARE unfinished CGI! It's well worth a viewing though to all GOT fans, but for the audio and show history rather than the animation.