HotDBros... Why does HBO keep letting this Fricking guy do this? Nobody enjoys not being able to see Shit or having to turn up the brightness and making it look stupid.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-viewers-outraged-scenes-too-dark-1235391259/
>“Game of Thrones” fans might have experienced déjà vu while watching the seventh episode of HBO’s prequel series “House of the Dragon,” which resulted in outrage from many fans over several scenes being too dark to see. “Thrones” ignited similar backlash during its final season, especially for the dimly-lit battle episode “The Long Night.” Both that episode and Episode 7 of “House of the Dragon” were directed by Emmy winner Miguel Sapochnik.
>As many fans took to Twitter to express their frustration over “House of the Dragon” being too dark to see, one of HBO’s social media accounts went public defending the dark moments in the episode as “an intentional creative decision.”
Frick this Miguel Sapochnik guy.
I legit had no idea what was going on for a solid 10 minutes
forget about watching this shit during the day if you don't close all blinders
have you tried turning up the contrast a bit
Id rather question what creative choice this is other than incompetence
lmao Im using a color corrected ips on my pc and I cant see shit
use some decent video editing software
>ips
IPS has always been shit for shadow detail and blacks and no amount of shitty hacks for LCDs will fix it.
If you aren't using a Plasma, OLED, or LCoS based projector you're using shit tech.
are they trying to hide shitty cgi or something? Wtf is this?
He ruined the sexo scene too
>this is considered a "tasteful" and "good" sex scene by the critics
>actually showing breasts or ass is considered objectifying and you'll be accused of inspiring young boys to beat women as they grow up
>GOT can't even do sex scenes well anymore.
Yikes.
Shame. GoT had pure coom bait from the very beginning to the last season. I’ll never forget that thick hooker’s booba jiggling and her fat ass as she says “that’s brave” and shoves Bronn over and mounts him.
There were 2 coomer scenes earlier in the season that were quite good, but they didn't have penetration or breasts.
What is this weird fear of breasts tho?
Incest grooming is still ok through.
>coomer
>no breasts
How do you figure? I’m not a woman.
how blind are people that "they can't see" this
That clip is the result of someone increasing the brightness and contrast
what is this, day for night? lmao. its the same morons that have a sepia piss filter on the whole time like its a phone app, just so we know its the past, right?
I want to see breasts what happened
it looked fine in my screen, maybe don't buy shit tvs? or adjust your settings? fricking morons
glad you could watch it from the dark of your stinky basement
>works fine on my machine
Post TV model and pic of your settings
>here's your adjusted brightness screen bro
>take on me
winking.jpg
post your telly along with your black hand lad
It's the encoding on the SmartTV apps that does a fricking shit job. I can watch it fine on my computer screen but it looks like black nothingness on my tv.
Lighting wasnt an issue for me but I got a $9000 tv
The audio was all fricked up though, way too quiet especially during the funeral, was hard to hear people speakin
>get a $9000 tv
>listen to shows on the built in speaker
Black person move
Oh vey don't you know you need to buy a $1k speaker system with that goy?
Why would you pay 9000 for a tv when there's great tvs for 700-1500? And are those actual American dollars or monopoly Australian/Canadian?
Where can you get >85 inch TV for 700-1500?
>Where can you get >85 inch TV for 700-1500?
Netherlands
You could have bought a thousand tvs with 9 grand and resold them for quadruple the profit. Now you'd have nearly 40 grand in your pocket, instead your stuck with a shitty old tv with a rebranded name on it that'll start breaking within a year.
LMAO YOU STUPID FAT UGLY FRICK
But he's skinny
Watched the HDR 8GB rarbg dl on my macbook pro with miniLED screen. I could see what was going on, but it was so obviously a lazy day-for-night job. Egregious colour grading work
I thought they learned their lesson from Game of Thongs???
I was willing to give this show a chance but this "correct lighting" gimmick has gone too far
lmao who is the director of this shit?
that foo probably red that kubrick just used candlelights for that robin hood movie or whatever and tried to do the same here
fricking hack
This looks absolutely fine on my screen. You morons don't know how to calibrate your displays.
morons probably watch it in room flooded with light
TVs now need a GoT preset Kek. They keep fricking doing this, some are ok and don't have an issue, but a lot of TVs their shit just shows up black.
stream piggies get the slop they deserve
it's the same shit for the rips you dumb gorilla Black person
>imagine having a shitty screen that doesn't full RGB
I'm loving the fact most inside scenes have a candle lit look
yes, it super atmospheric, but people who dont watch on oled and hdr/dolby vision will say that its dark and cinematography is shit, when imo, HOTD looks much better than ROP, especially the lighting.
>intentional storybeat to make these events happen on a full moon night
>WTF WHY ISNT IT DAYTIME!?
There were scenes like this in the final seasons of GOT. It was damn near impossible to make out what was happening.
watched on OLED in Dolby Vision and it looked very good on my TV, but i can understand that someone who watch on pc or on badly configured TV, and on SDR instead HDR/Dolby Vision could have some problems with visibility. Also imagine watching something during daytime, like i never watch during daytime.
frick you, I have a better oled lg g1 than you and i had to turn it way up on brightness cause the way i normally had it, i couldnt see shit.
>t. watches content on half inch android
It's funny, there was so much wrong with late GoT that they felt they didn't need to learn their lesson from the bad lighting since it just got lost amid the countless other problems.
They failed so much that it helped to disguise their failures.
You know these people color grade the shows using 30k sony dual layer monitors
They should reference low end tv's and monitors too
Why do so many of you have such moronic brightness settings?
I'm watching on an Toshiba from 2014 and it was fine.
The worst part is the night scenes were obviously filmed in normal daylight and just made darker in post.
I thought it looked alright, probably would have thought nothing of it if I didn't see the promo photos
You are an absolute moron and do not work in camera or post or any other facet of production. Stfu and gtfo before you embarrass yourself again.
Not him but you're moronic if you can't tell that. It's nothing new for HBO, they've been doing it at least as far back as Generation Kill.
It was obvious day to night. And it looked like shit. Which part is wrong? Oh, you were just larping as someone who actually had a brain? Nevermind then
100% this was filmed during the day, regardless of what technique they used.
I think it looks cool and you’re all gays
>especially for the dimly-lit battle episode “The Long Night.”
Oh, the episode that basically killed the entire franchise
>Emmy winner Miguel Sapochnik.
Why is this communist moron still getting jobs? Connections to Kamala?
I like how the people b***hing about this shit probably have garbage TVs with bad contrast anyways. Imagine watching them on a nice OLED TV. Its fricking crazy how theres no noise or detail loss yet you still can't fricking seeing anything.
Watched it on a LG CX55. Had to turn the brightness up to 55 (usually 49) and turn of power saving as well. Not that bad but I never had to change my settings before.
I loved that dragon scene it was the first thing in a long time that had some SOUL and a bit of excitement and that fight afterwards was quite kino.
The episode was a fricking snoozefest until the dragon scene and fight escalated everything else to hell. Was ready to fall asleep so atleast it finally got good
>current year
>not doing ur own color correction on pc
do u even Cinemaphile bro
Point is that you shouldn't have to just because one guy keeps fricking it up. All other shows look fine then something he mades comes on and its trash
that's just the world we live in now with everything tinted heavyhandedly in some random color
>ACK NO HELP ME I NEED EVERYTHING TO ADHERE TO AN EXTREMELY FLAT EXPOSURE SO EVERYTHING IS THE SAME LEVEL EVEN THOUGH TRENDS OF CINEMATOGRAPHY USING UNDEREXPOSED IMAGES AND COLOUR GRADING (WHETHER IT BE THE TINTED COLOUR DYES OF THE 10s, 20s. SEPIA OF THE 30s, HIGH CONTRAST BLUES OF THE 60s, FLAT BROWNS OF THE 70s OR HEAVY MAGENTA OF THE 90s) HAS A BEEN A THING SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE FILMED IMAGE. I AM TOO SMART.
But I can see and udnerstand everything I need to understand in your pic, whats your point?
>WHETHER IT BE THE TINTED COLOUR DYES OF THE 10s, 20s. SEPIA OF THE 30s, HIGH CONTRAST BLUES OF THE 60s, FLAT BROWNS OF THE 70s OR HEAVY MAGENTA OF THE 90s
but all of that has been shit
who are you quoting, skizzo?
The smart money bailed after episode 5
It was fricking unwatchable, the bitrate was all over the place too for some reason
>all the homosexuals saying
>durrr I have a 20k tv it works fine!
>durrr I watched it on the pc, from the 600gb torrented raw
>durrr is just streaming that is bad
>durr is just the smart tv that doesn't have the right codec, download patch 1.234.52 to see the ass at the intended colors
if that shit isn't watchable in a 20$ toaster like in a 10k tv, then maybe hbo fricked up
Why don't they just pull a mad max and make their day or night scenes look blue?
>producers start frequently making dark as frick content to constantly frick with their fans and make them buy more expensive TV's with better blacks
haha based
gas all israelites
to be honest lighting was proper and refreshing
I don't give a shit that episode was great!
lmao all these morons with dogshit TCL and RCA TVs are seething. Fat americans with the blown out blurry-ass post processing enabled so their fricking football game looks "good".
Visual acuity is racist. I'm deeply disappointed in you all.
OPEN YOUR EYES Black personhomosexualS AND SEEEEEEEEEE
i discovered video after effects thanks to this episode.
it makes it bright and pretty tbh.
>vlc>video from the toolbar>first option>increase the brightness to your liking
bonus: you can increase the contrast to give sovlful colors to the scenes.
Looked fine for me you guys are gays
Ok I thought you were being schizo, I don't really post here often, and I assume most stuff is just people over compensating.
I don't give a frick about this show, don't even know what it's called now I'm writing this, but I watched the video.
OP is entirely correct, the lighting here serves no purpose, it's beyond unnatural, physics breaking in places. The camera work also adds to the feeling for me, that this is set in a world where everyone is partially sighted.
>watching House of Dragon after how shittily Game of Thrones ended
HBO knew you morons would watch and they are laughing
One of the big issues is that a lot of compression used by cable/streaming providers around the world isn't calibrated for dark content. There are less colors. So the images look especially worse.
I watched it in 4K on a big TV. The image was very flat.
The mistake is production not actually understanding how most people watch the content. It probably looks great in the production office, but that isn't the format the viewer is watching.
>we want a night scene
>how should we do it!?
>just throw a dark blue filter on it