With season 1 already finished, we are going to tell you about the great modifications that HBO has decided to carry out with respect to ‘Fire and Blood’. Of course, we do not plan to reveal anything that will happen in future seasons of fiction.
If you want to know in advance everything that is going to happen in the coming seasons of ‘The House of the Dragon’ -Season 2 is already confirmed and this is all we know-, you just have to get hold of the book ‘Fire and Blood’, written by George RR Martin, where what happened about 200 years before is told through different explanations. the story we met in ‘Game of Thrones’. Of course, then do not come with tears of alligator dragon in the eyes for having run into ‘spoilers’ as big as who wins in the dance of the dragons…
On the other hand, if you are curious to know how the series differs from the publication, but you refuse to reveal what will happen in the future, this is your place! because we are going to tell you the biggest differences between ‘The House of the Dragon’ and the book ‘Fire and Blood’, just focusing on what happened in season 1 which has just finished its broadcasts.
We’ll start with some anecdotes, like that, in the books, Alicent and Rhaenyra have never been best friends. The reason for this was none other than the age difference between the two. In the series they were about 14 years old, while in the book Alicent had just come of age when she married Viserys (who by the way was 29 and not in his late forties) and Rhaenyra was only 9. The real ‘bestie ‘ The Targaryen heiress was Laena Velaryon, Daemon’s second wife, who died through the fire of her own dragon, Vhagar.
The relationship that Rhaenyra had with her uncle in the first chapters, who is joined by Criston Cole to form the love triangle, was just a rumor. At no time was it confirmed that Daemon and his niece ended up kissing in a brothel and moments later ended up in bed with the gentleman. It was simply the meaningful sex scene that the series needed.
Following with Ser Criston, this one ended Joffrey’s life., Laenor’s lover, at the Velaryon’s wedding to Rhaenyra. He did not suffer any retaliation for his actions, something that has surprised the fans, but it is that in the novel he does it during a tournament held during the nuptials. Everything is fine there, of course. This is one of the most disparate deaths on television to those described on paper. Laenor faked her death too, only they blame it on her lover., Qarl Correy, with whom he ends up escaping. But we are sorry to tell you that Luke’s end was as we saw it: in the mouth of a dragon during a fight against Aemond.
Secondly, there is a very important absence in the series: the fourth son of Alicent and Viserys, Daeron Targaryen. Apparently, the writers have not yet written a story for this character, but he will appear throughout the seasons of ‘The House of the Dragon’. He currently appears to be in Old Town, Hightower territory.
And now we’ll get into the aspects that the series has completely inventedwe assume that to give more rhythm to the plot or cover gaps in the story, since ‘Fire and Blood’ is not a novel as it is, but a kind of essay told in the third person.
The story of the dagger with which Arya ended the Night King, which Viserys hands to Rhaenyra when he tells her the story of A Song of Ice and Fire, is a nod to ‘Game of Thrones’. Rhaenys’ moment during Aegon’s coronation, for example, didn’t happen in the books either.. They clearly invented it to show that she is the queen who was not allowed to reign, and the same thing happened with the role of Viserys. Paddy Considine has given a meaning to the king of the Seven Kingdoms that does not appear in the book, making us love this character a lot. Larys Strong, our favorite fetishist (ugh) didn’t have such a present role. During the pages he was named as a possible culprit in the death of his brother and his father, a fact that the series confirmed, but his approach to Alicent was all his merit.
Finally, we come to THE difference, which not only marks a big change in the plot of ‘The House of the Dragon’, but also ‘de-villains’ one of its protagonists. While we see that Alicent supposedly misunderstands Viserys’s intended last words for Rhaenyra, where she talks about Aegon I the Conqueror and mistakes him for the one who has illegitimately donned the crown, in the book he simply takes advantage of the fact that Rhaenyra is in Dragonstone to usurp the Iron Throne. Thus, without hot cloths.
In summary, the most important differences of the book with ‘The House of the Dragon’
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