Comes out in January, here’s the trailer:
I’m much more excited about this one than House of the Dragon or any of the others in production. For those who haven’t read the novellas it’s based on, it’s a very small scale story about a poor and naive but very well-meaning young knight, and his squire, as they get in over their heads amongst the powerful and influential of the Seven Kingdoms. Takes place a hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones.
The novellas are fantastic - as good as anything GRRM has written.
GRRM still has not finished “A Song of Ice and Fire.” I am very cautious about getting into anything else he has done. It’s been what…15 years (give or take…I forget)?
That and the disaster that was the last season of “Game of Thrones.” I am very gun-shy at this point with all of it.
(and yeah, I read the books)
These are self contained stories, and at least the first three are already written. So we have three seasons before we should worry.
I enjoyed Game of Thrones but was bored by House of the Dragon. I hope this is more interesting. I’m hopeful about this new show. BTW, I recognize Peter Claffey, the lead in this show, from a little show I watched on Hulu called Wreck (which was OK, but nothing great).
Is this Dunk and Egg?
Same. I really, really tried. It felt more like bad fan fiction in the same world than a legitimate prequel. Just not enjoyable. And I wanted it to be good and tried to give it a chance. But yeah, I was bored. And I’m a nerd who is into the lore of the books, and played a tabletop RPG based on A Song of Ice and Fire for a while, so I was really open to learning about more of the world and new characters and everything. But no, boring. At a certain point I felt like I was forcing myself to watch the shows as an obligation, that’s when I stopped.
I hope this is a lot better.
Yes!!
I forgot almost all of the 2nd and 3rd novellas, but The Hedge Knight works perfectly as a movie; I’m skeptical of adapting it as a mini-series. Obviously they can get more subscriptions out of an 8 episode show than a single 2.5 hour movie. Probably throw in a lot more screen time for the Targaryen machinations and the puppeteer?
It’s 6 half hour episodes, so basically movie length.
Last one was written in 2010, before the last GOT book. There is no chance of any more. None.
I personally think this will be awful, and I loved the Novellas. This is going to make the Hobbit films seem short. They are making a six episode series from the equivalent two chapters of the Hobbit.
The novellas were supposed to be 3 of at least 9, possibly 12, and often had subtle dots joined in the ASOIAF universe. I expect them to blare those in our faces.
I will watch them. But probably start from hate-watching.
BTW, Game of Thrones ended six years ago or so. It amazes me that HBO didn’t have spin-off series ready to go immediately after. Game of Thrones ended in 2019 while House of the Dragon started three years later. Contrast that with The Walking Dead, where the spin-off series started during the run of the original show and still continue.
There were rumors in the last season of game of thrones that they had like 5 different spinoffs in some stage of pre-production. I don’t know if they just never got picked up or what. But yes, you would think they’d be ready to cash cow the shit out of the series. I wonder if the poor reception of the ending derailed some of those plans. Less impetus to cash in when the audience was not super eager for more.
I think they just wanted more Game of Thrones. Which would have definitely benefited the show. Usually I’m on the side of the creatives when they want to end a show and the suits want to keep milking it, but this was a “fuck it, let’s just get it done” ending.
It doesn’t even matter really, this is not Game of Thrones. There is no huge overarching plot. The novellas are self contained stories with their own individual plots and beginning middle and end.
That the novellas had individual plots doesn’t mean the series couldn’t have a huge overarching plot.
Oh I’m sure it could, but we have to assume the writers of the show know and understand there is zero chance of getting more from GRRM.
There’s no big overarching plot, except that it’s the further adventures and development of the two main characters.
I believe they made a pilot for a show starring Naomi Watts that was going to start very soon after GoT ended but they didn’t go to series on it. So House of the Dragon was moved into pre-production.