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He then explains that “Dreams didn’t make us kings, dragons did”, which is just about all that anyone could want from a Game of Thrones prequel, isn’t it? I mean, if you wanted to niggle, it wouldn’t have hurt him to throw ‘Uncomfortably gratuitous female nudity’ in there as well, but beggars can’t be choosers. As Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen gravely intones, this is a story about “Gods, kings, fire and blood”. And, better still, we see that rarest of sights: Westeros residents who aren’t white.įor the most part, then, the trailer is all about big themes. We get a glimpse of the Iron Throne and an enormous dragon. There’s sword fighting, which is basically horseless jousting. There’s jousting, which is great because who doesn’t like jousting. Whatever happens here, whatever awe-inspiring heights the Targaryens might face, we all know that one of their descendants will end up shagging their nephew and turning into Hitler and letting Bran Stark become king.Īs for the actual content of the trailer, we don’t have an awful lot to go on. House Targaryen might be sitting pretty for now, but we know what a steep fall it faces.

Like Better Call Saul, we already know where this story is headed.

And so they should, because House of the Dragon is ultimately a tragedy. All of the characters appear to be holding in a bout of gastroenteritis. And if you didn’t like Game of Thrones, you will probably still watch House of the Dragon so that you can keep up with what everyone else is talking about.Īs you might expect, this new series looks big and grand and expensive. If you liked Game of Thrones, you will like House of the Dragon. A first-look trailer has just been released and, although it is only 70 seconds long, the message couldn’t be clearer. Sure, it was easy enough to fill in the blanks, especially given the enthusiasm that everyone on Game of Thrones had for explaining every single thing that every one of their ancestors did from birth to death, but officially that was it.īut now things have changed.

We were given a cast list, shown a few photos, and promised that episodes would be released next year. Until now, very little has been revealed about the series. Set two centuries before Game of Thrones, it promises to chronicle the history of the fearsome House Targaryen. Why, it only seems like yesterday since the world came together to witness the culmination of George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire saga, asking itself questions like “WHY IS EVERYTHING SO DARK?” and “WHY HAS MY FAVOURITE TV SHOW GOT MASSIVELY CRAP?”īut two and a half years is a long time in the world of intellectual property and, reasoning that it’s still much easier to get viewers to watch a spin-off of something they grew to hate than to make them invest in something new, GoT prequel House of the Dragon is now on the horizon. T he Game of Thrones finale is still fresh in the mind of the public.