If HOUSE OF THE DRAGON had 13 episodes per season, maybe we could have shown all the things we had to “time jump” over… though that would have risked having some viewers complain that the show was too “slow,” that “nothing happened.” As it is, I am thrilled that we still have 10 hours every season to tell our tale. THE SOPRANOS had 13 episodes per season, but just a few years later, GAME OF THRONES had only 10 (and not even that, those last two seasons). By the time I was writing for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, it was down to 22. When I was a boy, shows had 39 episodes a season. Fewer and fewer as time goes by, it seems. Do I wish we’d had more time to explore the relationship between Rhaenyra and Ser Harwin, the marriage of Daemon and Laena and their time in Pentos, the birth of various and sundry children (and YES, Alicent gave Viserys fourchildren, three sons and a daughter, their youngest son Daeron is down in Oldtown, we just did not have the time to work him in this season), and everything else we had to skip? Sure.īut there are only so many minutes in an episode (more on HBO than on the network shows I once wrote for), and only so many episodes in a season. (Truth be told, we have an incredible cast, and I love all of them). Very briefly, however, I think Ryan has handled the “jumps” very well, and I love love love both the younger Alicent and Rhaenyra and the adult versions, and the actresses who play them. Maybe in my next blog, or the one after that… or maybe never, since work keeps piling up. I do not have the time to say it now, though. Not with any kind of official “statement,” but with some musings on the subject. I wanted to address the “time jumps” in the HOUSE OF THE DRAGON too.
And hey, if epic fantasy continues to do well, maybe we will finally get that. I will never understand why Corwin and his siblings are not starring in their own show. Most of all, I want Roger Zelazny’s NINE PRINCES IN AMBER. I want Tad Williams, I want Joe Abercrombie, I want Patrick Rothfuss, I want a good adaptation of Le Guin’s Earthsea books, I want Alan Garner, I want Robin Hobb… oh, the list is long, I could go on and on… and would if I did not have a zillion other things to do. THE WITCHER, SHADOW & BONE, WHEEL OF TIME… and THE SANDMAN, a glorious adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s groundbreaking comic series… those are a good start, but I want more. I am a fantasy fan, and I want more fantasy on television, and nothing would accomplish that more than a couple of big hits. Nothing would please him more than to see both shows succeed. Ryan says pretty much the same thing I said in that interview with THE INDEPENDENT a few months back. There’s a website called THE WRAP that has a couple cool interviews with Ryan Condal, including one where he spoke about our supposed rivalry with RINGS OF POWER… which mostly exists in the media. There’s a lot more I would love to blog about, but I do not have the time…
((And no, I am not going to assault Archmaester Glydayn, who does not actually exist. (No, I am not really going to rewrite FIRE & BLOOD, that was a jape). Meanwhile, I am going to give Archmaester Gyldayn a smack for leaving out so much good stuff. If he doesn’t get one, hey, there’s no justice. Paddy deserves an Emmy for this episode alone. The character he created (with Ryan and Sara and Ti and the rest of our writers) for the show is so much more powerful and tragic and fully-fleshed than my own version in FIRE & BLOOD that I am half tempted to go back and rip up those chapters and rewrite the whole history of his reign. Kudos to Eileen Shim, the scriptwriter, to Geeta Patel, the director, to our incredible cast… and particularly to Paddy Considine, for his portrayal of King Viserys, the First of His Name. Sunday’s episode, “Lord of the Tides,” was everything I hoped it should be. I mean, I cannot really review the show, that would be crazy, I am hardly objective… but I do want to commend Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik and the cast and crew for the work they’ve done. HOUSE OF THE DRAGON has helped brighten my Sundays as well.
#YT MUSIC WRAPPED FULL#
So life is magical and full of joy… right now, at any rate. I had almost forgotten how good it feels to win. And the G-Men won a couple of nail biters, including a victory over the Packers in London that was as shocking to me as it must have been to Aaron Rodgers. The Jets had another miracle last minute victory last week, and on Sunday they just crushed the Fins. Those of you who enjoy my football posts (yes, I know that is not all of you)… I have been watching the games… and enjoying them, since both the Giants and the Jets have been winning.
I see that my mighty minions have posted about my upcoming events in New York City later in the month.
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