10 Things We Need To See In House Of The Dragon Season 2
3. More twists on Fire and Blood's canon
Artistic license gone wrong can swiftly devolve into abhorrent on-screen results, a consequence that HBO have intimately painful experience with. The quality of the storyline with the final seasons of Game of Thrones juxtaposed with the masterful content of George RR Martin's writing felt like the cinematic equivalent of a chimpanzee trying to complete Franz Kafka's legendary unfinished novel The Trial with the wrong end of a crayon.
The humbled show runners clearly saw the error of their ways as they mournfully surveyed the smoldering ruins of a show that had captured the imagination of a generation; less is always more. This epiphany has had absolutely exemplary on-screen results for House of the Dragon, boosting the already stratospheric quality of the gripping new show. The additional nuances posed by a childhood friendship between Rhaenyra and Alicent, the inspired take on Laenor Velaryon's fate and Aemond's unintentional complicity in Lucerys' death are all minor tweaks on events within Martin's canon that have landed on screen to a showering of critical acclaim.
Long may this example of stunning artistic license continue. The prospect of additional twists on a series of already electrifying events is almost too dizzyingly exciting to comprehend if handled properly. Let us pray that House of the Dragon's early wave of success does not precede HBO getting caught up in full-on Mad King mode once again and hastily obliterating another glorious show that they spent years carefully building in a sh*tstorm of clichéd blockbuster nonsense.