House of the Dragon: HBO Unveils First Footage From Game of Thrones Prequel

All I want is The Winds of Winter 🥶

R1 I mean...same, but I'm not holding my breath at this point.

Look! A Black person!

I’m in only if they openly shit on how the GOT show runners hit the eject button on the last two seasons and give a blood oath that it will not be allowed again.

On a scale of one to ten, how much incest will there be?

The trailer doesn't really show very much

R6 probably 16.

R7 that's the point of a teaser.

All these years and HBO still can't figure out how to make those Targaryen wigs not look like shit?

I really like Eve Best.

I am intrigued. I did not have high hopes but the teaser looks interesting. The source material got some juicy female characters. Queen Sersei times 10.

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing it. I only have one quibble: Matt Smith as Daemon? He's too ugly for that role.

I'm concerned that if I watch this I will start to really like it a lot and become fully engaged in it, and it will last for 8 seasons, but the 8th season will turn out to be such a flaming pile of dog shit that it ruins the entire series to the point where you can't even bring yourself to binge watch it again even after a couple years have gone by because all you will be able to think about is how the entire show ended up being for nothing since there was no satisfying payoff at the end, only stupid storylines with abrupt endings and established characters doing things that made no sense given their character's development over several seasons.

I definitely watch it. But unlike GOT, if it starts to jump the shark, I won't persevere in order to 'see it through'. The moment it starts to lose my interest, thats it.

Serious question. I never read the books, so please tell me if there are supposed to be black Targaryans…..

Do we trust them after that horrific final season of GOT though?

r16, I would for 2 reasons:

1. No damn Dave and Dan. The showrunner is GoT Director extraordinaire Miguel Sapochnik.

2. The story has already been written. No made up crap.

[quote] I never read the books, so please tell me if there are supposed to be black Targaryans…..

Why not? It's a mythical place and time.

[quote]Serious question. I never read the books, so please tell me if there are supposed to be black Targaryans…..

Who the fuck cares what was in the books? Sounds like you have a problem with some of the characters in the TV series being black? Seriously go fuck yourself you racist piece of shit.

R19 fuck off with your “must be a racist” bullshit. It is just a benign question. Stop being so easily triggered and stop labelling people as something terrible just for asking it.

Does it say anywhere that the Targaryans were white or do we just assume that...because we assume all kings must be white?

R21 seriously. Calm down. You are reading way too much into this. I just looked it up, and no, the Targaryens are fair skinned.

[quote] All I want is The Winds of Winter 🥶

But I'm too busy writing up my super-important projects like "The Wit and Wisdom of Sansa Stark"!

How many non-white people have the managed to cram into this shit? I wish this was made in the 90s or early 2000s.

R22, Fairskinned does not equal white.

R22 please see R24

[quote]I never read the books, so please tell me if there are supposed to be black Targaryans…..

No Targaryens were black, but there were families that supported the Targaryens, like the Velaryons (of which Brit actor Steve Toussaint is playing one) who were not written with a clear family trait like white hair and violet eyes and hence, can be played by a black actor just fine.

This looks awful. Matt Smith is hideous and the other actors didn’t look much better.

Was Westeros only inhabited by Targaryans at that time? The white hair does look like bad wigs from Lord of the Rings elf costumes. I stopped watching right before Ed Sheeran had his cameo (read about that he would be in the next episode) for some reason, but was planning to catch up later on, then I read how viewers hated where the show was heading and then ripping the final season apart.

R29 If I’m remembering Fire & Blood correctly, the Targaeryons flew in on their dragons and drove the existing people out of King’s Landing and took it over, so there was a lot of tension in Westeros with various people in the North and West trying to come retake the area and kick the Targs out, or intermarrying with them to gain power.

Targaryens have very elaborate and precise physical description, which make most of them pretty White. However the the GoT universe is also diverse and there are plenty of non-White races in it, particularly in Esos continent.

How man extreme weather seasons into the future will this arrive? I mean.....

Was that guy black? I just thought he was tanned.

Who's gay in it?

Also this is what the targs should look like from the book description. Live action targs look like Californians with white hair.

Black people... the third wheel of fantasy television.

Nah, fuck this. Not helping HBO with their GOT money grab. Never forget season 8!

I can’t believe people here are upset there’s black people in a mythical historical time period.

I resurrected this thread because I watched the trailer again.

I think this will be primarily inspired by the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. The Targaryens very much seem to be inspired by the Ptolemies.

R39 Martin is all about English history. GOT was inspired by the War of the Roses, House of the Dragon is inspired by The Anarchy.

We're never getting the 6th book.

[quote]In February 2021, Martin said he had written "hundreds and hundreds of pages" of The Winds of Winter in 2020 but that even though it had been the most productive year with regard to The Winds of Winter, he still had hundreds of pages to write; although he was hopeful of finishing in 2021, he did not want to make any predictions

R40 The Targaryens are parallel to the Ptolemies. They were definitely the inspiration behind them.

“The Winds of Winter” and “A Dream of Spring” will never be published or even finished.

GRRM will finish Truman Capote‘s novel “Answered Prayers” before he finishes his own work.

I'm guessing woke HBO is not yet too woke to give up crowding the screen with marvelously well developed nakkid ladies

#DRAGONSOWHITE

R44 As long as they're woke enough to give us some hot gay sex scenes idgaf.

Martin got to enjoying his celebrity, and being fawned over. Not to mention he’s obese and with probable additional health issues. So I doubt he’ll ever finish the series.

But where money beckons, someone will surely complete it, after much poring over his notes, and coaxing from his heirs.

I mean, look at the GWTW sequel, not to mention all the further DUNE books.

Will that cute lil bottom twink be back?

R48 well if it's a prequel set 200 years before the first series...hmmm...

It will be a Wheel of Time situation, where they bring in someone else to finish Martin's work after his death. He's had what, more than a decade to bring out Winds of Winter? Nobody expects him to finish at this point.

Pretty sure fatty martin has millions of notes on how to finish wow and dream of spring at this point, he knows nothing will please the fanbase and likely doesn't want to stress over it. He'd rather die than deal with the crazy fanbase. Lmao.

"[R19] fuck off with your “must be a racist” bullshit. It is just a benign question. Stop being so easily triggered and stop labelling people as something terrible just for asking it."

Racists are such precious little snowflakes.

The black characters aren't Targaryens, but their families came from Valyria, where the Targaryens were originally from.

Valyrians are pretty much magical albino, have all the traits Albinos do. White hair, purple eyes, skin sensitive to sun rays etc. So black Valyrians isn't that much of a stretch really. There's even hobo Valyrians in the books lmao.

Oh god, dragons? Everyone wet their pants when the dragons appeared in the final seasons of GoT. They were supposed to fix everything but in the end, all they did was suck up the CGI budget that could’ve gone to better scripts.

Now we have an epic story about a race of characters that we know dwindled to nothing in 200 years which isn’t even a long time span as epics go.

HBO chief Casey Bloys told TheWrap during a Web X interview on Tuesday that the unpredictability of COVID is to blame for the lack of an exact debut date for the series. “One of the reasons why we were trying to be careful with declaring a date is when you’re producing with COVID — and every show has dealt with this — crew members, cast members get it,” Bloys told TheWrap. “You can shut down unexpectedly.”

Bloys said they were trying to be “cautious about declaring a date while producing a show — a huge show — during the pandemic.”

“It was not trying to be coy or anything like that,” he continued. “It was just trying to be realistic.”

Production on “House of the Dragon” has completed, Bloys said, and we should get a premiere date soon. The series is set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones” and tracks the arc of House Targaryen from rise to fall, using George R.R. Martin’s 2018 novel “Fire & Blood” as the source material.

YASSSSSS!!!! FINALLY!

My boo Ryan Corr is in this. I’d watch it just for him, but I’m not interested in shows like that.

OP- I'm OUT

r9 same deal with Storm's wigs in the first 3 X-Men movies. Platinum hair is really hard to work with. The only people capable of making it work is whoever is in charge of RuPaul's hair and makeup team.

r13 I'm right there with you. I got HBO Max to watch the final GoT season and kept it all these years. Not once an I bring myself to rewatch the show because it's almost embarrassingly bad once I think about where all the characters end up.

Whoever did those horrible wigs should be taken out back and shot like Old Yeller.

I can tell you how it ends: THEY ALL DIE.

Sunday August 21 premiere on HBO and HBO Max.