![]() Yes, House of the Dragon is an adaptation of Fire & Blood, but not the earliest pages of the book. A Matter of Successionīasic Targaryen premise aside, what is House of the Dragon actually about? You could crack open Fire & Blood to find out for yourself, but even then, you won’t yield an immediate answer. If you want to experience the series without any knowledge of what happens to the characters, it’s best to google with extreme caution. The other side of that double-edged Valyrian sword: House of the Dragon is based on parts of a completed novel, which means when discussing this material, spoilers abound. But because Fire & Blood is a history tome told by an unreliable narrator and sources, the showrunners can pick and choose the milestones they want to focus on and embellish, and the ones they want to ignore altogether. They know the start and end points of the House of the Dragon route. Where Benioff and Weiss’s Thrones had a whole paved road to drive on-right up until it met a cliff-Condal and Sapochnik have almost the opposite opportunity. It tells complete stories about each of them without much dialogue, leaving plenty of room to explore between the bullet points. The first of a planned duology (hold the laughs), Fire & Blood chronicles the ascent of numerous dragon-riding kings in Westeros. House of the Dragon draws instead on a different book: Fire & Blood, Martin’s sprawling fictional history of the Targaryen kings, written from the perspective of a maester of Westeros. In the case of House of the Dragon, though, these future winds are beside the point. ![]() Of course, the author insists he’s still plugging away, with one recent update offering a relatively optimistic outlook on the book’s status. Book of the DragonĬondal’s adherence to the written Westeros word might strike some as funny, considering the running joke around these parts: Martin’s books are still not finished, with his sixth and penultimate book in the Ice and Fire saga, The Winds of Winter, yet to be published. Add the lessons learned from that hidden gem to the equation, and House of the Dragon appears to be in very good hands. The Josh Holloway–starring show explored a grand concept through a deeply personal lens, loaded with the grandeur and casual barbarity expected from the Targaryens (and the harsh treatment toward its cast one would expect from Thrones itself). If Condal’s Flea Bottom street cred isn’t enough on its own, consider his and Carlton Cuse’s tragically short-lived and overlooked USA Network sci-fi series, Colony, about humanity’s struggle to survive an alien-occupied Earth. ![]()
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