“House of the Dragon” will debut on Sunday, August 21, but Olhar Digital has been privileged to have access to the first six episodes of the “Game of Thrones” prequel series.
In creating a production derived from another so fortunate, but ended so divided, the creators of “House of the Dragon” faced a great challenge: to create a series that carried the atmosphere of “Game of Thrones”, something expected .by fans of the series, but also to make it clear that this time things will be different.
The first episode begins with a real history lesson from Westerosi, with a familiar soundtrack in the background and shows something that will be at the center of this story: the family intrigue within the most powerful house in the kingdom, the Targaryens, who have a power that no one else possesses. : dragons.
But the feud within the family begins to take shape only in the pilot episode. The episode takes place during a Royal Tournament, on the occasion of the birth of the king’s son, as the series is concerned with introducing the main names in this “game of thrones” two hundred years before the events of the main series.
First we have King Viserys I, played by Paddy Considine, determined to finally have a child to keep his lineage, threatened by Westeros’ succession policy. After all, during the reign of that time there was no doubt that a Targaryen would be seated on the Iron Throne – remodeled in the series to more closely resemble the one imagined by George RR Martin – but WHICH Targaryen was another story. .
Then we have Daemon Targaryen, the king’s rebellious younger brother played by Matt Smith. It is through Daemon, but not only through him, that “House of the Dragon” features elements that will help fans connect the series with “Game of Thrones”: a lot of explicit violence, nudity and sexual content.
The episode also features young versions of Rhaenyra Targaryen, daughter of the king, and Alicent Hightower, daughter of Ser Otto Hightower, played respectively by Milly Alcock and Emily Carey. The two friends spend a lot of screen time together and talk about their ambitions, which are expected to change a lot over the course of the series.
The King’s wife is only introduced briefly, and she doesn’t get much space in the pilot, but at the same time she’s the one playing the episode’s most surprising scene, extremely shocking and well done – the one George RR Martin likened to the wedding scene. Red.
Although I agree with the author’s claims about the quality of the scene, I don’t totally agree with the comparison and the reason is simple: the Red Wedding caused so much shock because the characters were already known, which does not happen to any character in the pilot. from “The house of the dragon”. But that doesn’t take anything away from the scene.
At any moment you can feel the atmosphere of “Game of Thrones” in the pilot of “The House of the Dragon”, with the shining armor, a bloody tournament, several scenes of explicit violence, the meetings of the Reduced Council, the symbol of the Hand of the King, the historical soundtrack and King’s Landing itself, where the episode takes place, which is quite recognizable by fans of the series despite the changes caused by 200 years.
With a jaw-dropping episode finale, “House of the Dragon” begins its trajectory in style. It presents its calling card as a series that is very reminiscent of the original, but which has an intriguing history of a succession that promises to be complicated and cause a deadly split within the Targaryen family.
Episode 1 of “House of the Dragon” arrives on HBO Max this Sunday, August 21st at 10pm.
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Source: Olhar Digital
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