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Not that it matters, necessarily.
In this story, the board has essentially been reset.
This prequel does not start from a particularly enviable position.
A natural question arises: WillHouse of the Dragonbe able to accomplish the same?
As far as the premiere goes, not really.
Let us count the dialogical ways.
Ive lost one babe in the cradle.
Had two pregnancies ended well before their term.
Thats five in twice as many years.
I know it is my duty to provide an heir, and Im sorry if I have failed you.
But I have mourned all the dead children that I can.
But its still a recitation of history between two characters who share that history.
To celebrate the firstborn son we presently do not have?
The line was delivered in jest, though, so it gets a pass.
I made him Master of Laws, and you said he was a tyrant.
As Master of Coin, you said he was a spendthrift that would beggar the realm.
Look, Daemon is bad news.
Its believable as far as rhetorical body checks go, but the seams of character development are showing.
My lords, the growing alliance among the free cities has taken to styling itself The Triarchy.
Contextually speaking, council scenes are great devices for dispersing copious amounts of plot-sensitive and world-building information.
In the first (of three!)
They call him The Crabfeeder due to his inventive method of punishing his enemies.
Props to Steve Toussaint, though, for grounding the delivery of that info dump as much as possible.
Its been 70 years since King Maegors end.
These knights are as green as summer grass.
None of them have known real war.
I wonder if this is how we should celebrate our future king, Corlys wonders, with wanton violence.
But the construction of the line itself is cliche.
The tournament sequence is home to another expository line, though this one I happen to like.
You are Daemon Targaryen.
Wielder of Dark Sister.
The king cannot replace you.
Lets not forget thatGame of Thronesgave us the termsexposition(courtesycritic Myles McNutt).
The Entire Opening Sequence
Man, this is a tough one.
gather to pledge fealty to the new heir.
It was a dream … Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men.
Tis to begin with a terrible winter gusting out of the distant North.
When this Great Winter comes, Rhaenyra, all of Westeros must stand against it.
Aegon called his dream The Song of Ice and Fire.
