It’s, of course, a huge success.
There’s no way it could go wrong, right?
Still,House of the Dragononly fits the 10-episode season mold by sacrificing a good chunk of chronological time.
Its first season spans a whopping 16 years and makes wide use oftime jumpsto cover all that.
It’s a rather excessive use of time jumps, to be honest.
Why Are There So Many Time Jumps?
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Recently,George R.R.
But not enough to fully justify the rush with which some plot lines were dealt.
When its first season debuted,House of the Dragonhadn’t yet been renewed.
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The time jumps, then, make explicit how the studio actually approached the show as a gamble.
If the show was well-received, then good, everything may seem like a success.
If not, well, at least we got some dragons, right?
It’s a fictional history book, meaning that its focus is mainly on factual events.
What we get is the introduction of heavily important characters to the Dance of Dragons with very little context.
Take Aegon Targaryen (Ty TennantandTom Glynn-Carney), for example.
A good example is Aemond Targaryen (Leo AshtonandEwan Mitchell).
When we see him years later in the following episode, not much has changed for him.
