"Dragon House" - long trailer (HBO)
Since "Game of Thrones" came to an end in 2019, there has been a lot of talk about subsidiary series that will continue to take place in the universe created by George R. R. Martin and take off on the wings of its success and dragons. , and many others that had been planned were put on hold at this point in the face of Warner Bros. Discovery's belt-tightening.
Now Variety is reporting on a new spin-off that, while still in the very early stages of development, is taking precedence over the others and indicates, rather ironically, a frustrating lack of flight that prevails in -HBO. This is another series whose plot takes place hundreds of years before the events of "Game of Thrones", and in this case also before the events of "House of the Dragon", and it describes the conquest campaign of Aegon Targaryen I and his sister-wives, who arrived on the backs of their dragons and conquered six of the seven kingdoms of Westeros Aegon was the first to establish and sit on the Iron Throne,And with him began the Targaryen dynasty whose descendants we have come to know since the first season of "Game of Thrones" in 2011.
This family again?
From "The House of the Dragon" (Photo: Ollie Upton/HBO)
come on.
The greasy fingerprints of the huge success of "Dragon House" are evident on this selection.
An audience of tens of millions around the world illustrated that the shortcomings of the existing subsidiary series do not change much for him.
It's not critical that this time it's also a familiar fight for a throne just like in the mother series, it doesn't matter that it's the same yellow-haired and incest-loving dynasty that we've already had enough of.
So here is another variation on the same story we have already seen.
Even if you are fans of the first season of "Dragon House", you may agree that returning to the same family is the epitome of narrow-mindedness.
Literally.
Instead of taking advantage of the many opportunities - some of which have indeed been in various stages of planning in recent years - to explore the vast world that Martin created in his many books, instead of staying a little in other countries, new ones, which received a smaller representation in the previous series (ahem, Doran), or that the ridiculous television adaptation They are a sin to the coolness and richness of the original (ahem, Doran!) - HBO chooses to return to the proven and conservative.
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Ridiculous processing.
The sand snakes in "Game of Thrones" (Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO)
This is a choice that not only contradicts the ethos of HBO, which has always stood for originality and anti-television boldness, but also sins against the original existence of "Game of Thrones".
When it arrived at the beginning of the previous decade, it was an expensive and brave gamble on the part of the cable giant, which until then had never experimented with distinct fantasy.
The descendants of "Game of Thrones" are more expensive than her, but they are a much moderate bet, not to say cowardly.
No one expects the network to pour two hundred million dollars on a strange avant-garde work that will be indirectly related to "Game of Thrones", but from here to another series about the Targaryen dynasty is a long way off.
Of course, a lot has changed in the television landscape since 2011. HBO today is part of the streaming wars, as part of the Warner Brothers Discovery service, and in this framework they are all arming themselves with new adaptations of intellectual property at their disposal - Disney with Marvel and "Star Wars", Paramount with the worlds of "Journey Between Stars", Warner with the DC universe that will soon be relaunched and with a new series of "Harry Potter", as we were informed just today, and now and again.
The result is more and more of the same and an audience that is already losing desire and interest, according to Phases 4 and 5 of the Marvel Universe.
Considering all this, if our screens are destined to absorb universes that are only ever expanding, it is not excessive to expect that some of these many productions will leave the box and break A bit of the punch. It's already happening in series like "Endor" and "Star Trek: Lower Decks", which are getting a lot of praise, why don't we get something like that from the worlds of "Game of Thrones"? After all,
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