HBO Defended HotD’s Dark Lighting As ‘Intentional’ After Fans Complained They Couldn’t See Shit

If you watched the seventh episode of House of The Dragon, no you didn’t because it was so fucking dark no one could see a goddamn thing. Which, apparently, was an “intentional creative decision”. Fans of the show took to Twitter on Monday night to complain about how fkn hard it was to watch the latest episode, called “Driftmark”, when so much of it was shrouded in darkness. Not even the dimmest screen setting would help — things were still barely perceptible to the naked human eye.

can #HouseOfTheDragon get over their dark aesthetic and let me actually see what’s on my screen #HOTD pic.twitter.com/wSH8TeizR2

— fck laura neal (@raging_fangir1) October 3, 2022

Me trying to see what tf is happening in this dark episode of #HouseOfTheDragon #hotd pic.twitter.com/y7L8eu0gfE

— Mark (@Mark_Flood11) October 3, 2022

How dark the scenes be in #HouseOfTheDragon .. I can’t see shit. #HOTD pic.twitter.com/c9OS7oN3Bl

— 𝒥𝑜𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑒 (@MelaninVirgo90) October 3, 2022

Hi Stephen! We appreciate you reaching out about a night scene in House of the Dragon: Episode 7 appearing dark on your screen. The dimmed lighting of this scene was an intentional creative decision. Thanks! ^LL

— HBOMaxHelp (@HBOMaxHelp) October 3, 2022

Thank god for those glow in the dark white ass wigs because that’s the only thing I can see #hotd

— Mike (@michaelcollado) October 3, 2022

“Driftmark” does make a little more sense when you realise it was directed by Miguel Sapochnik: the same man behind that infamously dark battle scene in “The Long Night” in Game of Throne‘s final season.

He got backlash for it then too, but justified his direction by saying it was atmospheric.

“It made sense that this was the last hope humanity has, the last beacon of light, and from the perspective of where we needed the story to go — which was to reach a surreal, chaotic climax — we needed an environment that was friendly to that,” Sapochnik told IndieWire at the time.

“So all the reasons for doing it were there, and nobody sat there and wondered if it was gonna be too dark.”

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