Those who have already seen ‘The Princess and the Queen’, the sixth episode of ‘The House of the Dragon’, have surely noticed that the start of the episode had a special force, since the series on HBO Max chooses to use two sequence shots to show us how Rhaenyra carries her newborn son for Alicent to see. Well, those two plans they have broken a curious record from ‘Game of Thrones’.
Indeed, the record that ‘The House of the Dragon’ has broken is that of the longest plane of this universe to date. Both exceed two and a half minutes in length and that honor belonged until now to the presentation of Mole’s Town in ‘The Mountain and the Viper’, eighth episode of the fourth season of ‘Game of Thrones’, with a duration of two minutes and fifteen seconds.
In fact, it is not the first time that the director Miguel Sapochnik opts for a resource, because he already did it in ‘The bells’, fifth chapter of the eighth season, which included two long sequence shots of more than a minute each in which Arya walked through a fiery King’s Landing .
Of course, it is most likely that Sapochnik will only direct one more episode of ‘The House of the Dragon’, since a few weeks ago his departure from the HBO Max series was announced, in which also served as coshowrunner. We will have to be attentive to whether he takes advantage of that last opportunity, and we will not have to wait long, since next Monday’s chapter will also bear his signature.
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