One thing’s for certain: HouseOfTheDragon is definitely a GameOfThrones series. As for what else it is, that’s harder to say. roxana_hadadi reviews HBO's new prequel
Photo: HBO House Targaryen’s words are “fire and blood,” and they should be what House of the Dragon delivers in this Game of Thrones prequel about the silvery-haired royals who ruled Westeros for centuries, emerged victorious from myriad wars, and quite often married one another. Blood, the series has, in graphic and gory bursts and splatters. Fire, though, is harder to conjure.
Given all that, House of the Dragon exudes a noticeable wariness in the first six episodes provided to critics for review, as if showrunners Ryan J. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are doing their best to head off similar grievances. Against complaints about how female characters lost their interiority as Game of Thrones went on, House of the Dragon offers up two teen-girl protagonists whom the first season follows through 15 or so years.
An opening intertitle informs that House of the Dragon begins 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, immediately tipping off that this series keeps non–Game of Thrones watchers at a distance. The Seven Kingdoms are ruled by King Viserys I Targaryen , who, as the oldest male descendant of the previous king, was chosen as ruler over a woman with a stronger claim, his cousin Princess Rhaenys .
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