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

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...

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.

Takes up a whole special feature disk on the 4k box set for Game of Thrones. Seeming to indicate something special was forthcoming, but this is really bad. Back story worthy of its own full scale presentation, maybe, which Season 1 of House of Dragons has indicated, not Season 2 though, sadly. Maybe it further helps us understand some significant developments towards the end of GOT Season 8, some seemingly all of a sudden developments. Its low budget to an extent it closely represents the work of a youtube hobbyist, or something like that.

It has some aspects that indicate a restrained talent, it seems, perhaps some kind of horribly unreasonable production time limitation, giving us nothing but a slightly more giving story board presentation. Actually, reminds me of a PowerPoint presentation, more than a meaningful, storied animation.

More more more. Like an audiobook, but with visuals. I wish all my books had this. More please. We can't wait 4 years. Just audio and clever graphics please. So good.

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.