Ultimately, he chooses Viserys, and we take off from there.
“One of the writers wanted to begin it later, with Aemma dying.
That was one possibility,” Martin says in a new interview.
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“Another of the writers wanted to begin even later than that, with Viserys dying.
But what happens there?
Then you have to present all that material in flashbacks or dialogue, that becomes challenging too.
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But we discussed all these possibilities.”
Martin for his own part had a different plan in mind.
I was the only one who was really enthused about that."
In the end, the series began where it did and it turned out quite nicely.
House of the Dragonis available to stream in full on HBO Max.
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