There is a house of the dragon.
Last night was the premiere of House of the Dragon, the Game ofThrones spin-off series that brought George RR Martin back into the fold, but not the original Game ofThrones writers.
House of the Dragon has spent over a trillion dollars on marketing, so it's better if it's good. Is that the case?
It is indeed. The initial pilot episode was enjoyable.
I didn't know what to expect from House of the Dragon other than it was about the Targaryen family. I think this is a great series to remind us of what we missed in Game of Throne.
We had almost every major character in the same place, Winterfell, when the series began. It was not uncommon to be watching a season with pairs of characters scattered across eight cities on two continents, with many disappearing for weeks at a time, in some cases.
I am sure that House of the Dragon will leave King's Landing at some point, but it seems like a small scale production. That isn't an insult and I'm not saying it looks cheap or anything. It is just a tighter, more focused cast and what appears to be a main central storyline as opposed to a lot of different threads.
There is a game of thrones.
The struggle for power in the first few seasons of Game of thrones was interesting because of court drama and personal betrayal. The 7 and 8 seasons of Game of thrones were so large that they had to fight us every two weeks. They were fun, I suppose, but it wasn't the reason people fell in love with the show. The bigger problems that had developed within the story itself were not masked by the big battles.
The House of the Dragon feels like it was back in the day. The fight for the crown and the future of the family is already clear as an uncle pits against a princess. After the mess that Game of Throne became in later seasons, this all feels good. Before it ran out of source material and had more money than it knew what to do with, a clean slate was needed. I was looking forward to seeing more after last night.
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