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Necessary Realness: Who Slayed successful the House of the Dragon?
(Warning: This nonfiction features spoilers for House of the Dragon.)
House of the Dragon is lone heating up.
After the Game of Thrones prequel's season 1 finale—which saw a peculiarly saddening decease successful Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy)'s young son Lucerys (Elliot Grihault)—co-creator Ryan Condal is making definite fans are bracing for adjacent much convulsive ends going forward.
"Season 1 was mounting the array for a precise bloody feast to come," helium told Entertainment Weekly in a diagnostic published Oct. 24. "The crushed that I wanted to truly walk our clip doing this is due to the fact that I wanted everybody to recognize who each of these characters were and the agelong past they had down them—behind their fathers and their grandfathers—that led america to this constituent wherever they extremity up warring a civilian warfare against each other."
But present that each the main players person been introduced, Condal says play 1 is conscionable the tipping constituent for the Targaryens' civilian war.
"I'm truly funny successful picking up with each of those characters that we spent each of this clip introducing, peculiarly Rhaenyra and Alicent's families, and seeing what happens present that we've flipped the chessboard implicit and spilled the pieces connected the ground," he explained. "How bash each those react? That's the communicative that we archer successful play 2 and beyond."
During the Oct. 23 finale episode, Lucerys met his extremity aft his uncle Aemond (Ewan Mitchell)'s dragon Vhagar went aft Lucerys' Arrax, sidesplitting the different dragon and Rhaenyra's lad successful the process. Though Lucerys' decease was intelligibly an accident, it cemented his mother's determination to combat for her crown, confirming the impending Dance of the Dragons.
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The amusement has already been renewed for a play two, which Condal confirmed he's presently writing. And though the Targaryens person present been divided into 2 camps battling implicit power of the Iron Throne, don't expect the adjacent chapter to beryllium a classic Game of Thrones situation.
"It's incredibly messy and analyzable and gray, and it's 1 household warring each other," Condal teased. "This is not Starks vs. Lannisters. This is an extended household doing conflict with 1 another. So it's harder to find those entrenched sides."
House of the Dragon season 1 is present streaming connected HBO and HBO Max.
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