‘The House of the Dragon’: How long does the series progress in episode 8?

Episode 8 of the HBO Max series The House of the Dragon, the lord of the tides, which refers to one of the many names by which he knows Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint), has made a major new time jump. How many years has the plot advanced this time, two episodes from the end of season 1 of the series? In the passage from episode 5 to episode 6 we skipped ten years, how much time have we now advanced in the plot proportionally? The jump this time is similar. Instead of ten years we have jumped at least six years, from 120 AD. C. to 126 AD, if we take into account the ages of the children of Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Corlys disease, although they could also be nine if we take into account that Viserys (Paddy Considine) in fire and blood he officially dies in 129 AD In 120 AD all the events that are divided between episodes 6 and 7 took place, in 126 AD. C. is the moment in which Corlys falls ill, which the series has told us is not just any illness, but the result of an infection from a wound suffered in battle. The episode 8 teaser played the distraction and wanted us to believe that we were going to attend the funeral of King Viserys, Paddy Considine (there we had the old-new hand of the king, Otto Hightower -Rhys Ifans- on the Iron Throne talking in the name of Viserys, and what we have seen have been his last days Six years are enough for a new change of actors, this time only the children of Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke ): Helaena, Jacaerys, Lucerys, Aemond and Aegon Targaryen, who have released new interpreters, at the point where they abandon their adolescence (if Ty Tennant had convinced you as Aegon, go away saying goodbye to the character and that wonderful cameo of Doctor Who with the son of the most distinguished doctor and the most popular doctor, Matt Smith). If we go strictly by the book, since Jacaerys leaves Aemond blind (which we see in episode 7) and he gets Vhagar (who is the most important dragon in the entire series, so don’t lose him… watch out ) until his grandfather and father die, respectively, nine years officially pass: Viserys dies on the third day of the third moon of 129 AD But the series seems to compress what happens between 126 and 129. It is true that the series is It takes a lot of licenses when many of the events take place, but due to the age gap of the children, we would be in that environment approximately: between six and eight years in which the respective branches of the Targaryen family, in addition to getting more and more angry, they grow exponentially.

The series is intelligently compressing time (the order of the factors, remember, in this case does not alter the product). In the book fire and bloodFor example, siblings Laena and Laenor Velaryon haven’t been dead for half a year when Daemon and Rhaenyra marry. In the novel, the niece and uncle’s rush to get married is because she is pregnant with their first child and Rhaenyra doesn’t want her to talk about bastard children again. Between Jacaerys’s fight with his nephew Aemond (or have you forgotten his relationship?), Laena’s suicide (who in the book dies after a complicated delivery and not voluntarily grilled) and the murder of Laenor (official death with a corpse in between) two years pass. The series, however, has been faithful to the succession to the throne of Driftmark… despite skipping part of the plot (Rhaenyra and Corlys other nephews).