There are only a few days left for the premiere of ‘The House of the Dragon’ on HBO Max. The long-awaited prequel to ‘Game of Thrones’ promises to be one of the television bombshells, and that little less than going to have to compete head-on against ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’. Also, George RR Martin has promised that he will have a scene that will rival the mythical Red Wedding.
“It’s Gut”
For many, that Red Wedding was the moment in which ‘Game of Thrones’ took the final leap to become essential. The funny thing is that it didn’t come until almost the end of the third season, while ‘The house of the dragon’ will take place in the first episode of the series and Martin describes her like this:
That scene is… I don’t want to use the word “enjoyable” for a scene like that, but it’s incredibly powerful. It’s visceral and will rip your heart out and throw it on the ground. It has the kind of impact that the Red Wedding had. It’s a very well done scene of something horrible.
A priori I have my doubts that it could have the same effect as the Red Wedding, since the fact of knowing certain characters for so long had a notable influence on their capacity for impact. Here it seems that everything is related to the birth of prince baelon (come on, it won’t literally be another Red Wedding), but we’ll see the exact circumstances.
Finally, it is worth remembering for the most impatient that ‘The House of the Dragon’ adapts ‘Fire and Blood’, a book written by Martin himself that you can find on any surface. Because here the complete story would already be told and it is not another case like ‘Game of Thrones’, which many of us are still waiting for the last two books of the saga to be published. Even more so after the statements of its author commenting that there will be important changes regarding the television series.