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Game of Thrones Is Approaching Tricky Star Wars Territory


That could be a good or a bad thing, depending how A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms plays it.

His experience of the “Song of Ice and Fire” prophecy, meant to be the culmination of his extended getaway in Harrenhal, seemingly reconfigures his entire psychology in service to Rhaenyra, thus removing major conflict between two main characters. For viewers, the vision is communicated as a ham-fisted bit of brand management: We see images from Game of Thrones, complete with flashes of the Night King and a lingering Daenerys shot, that ultimately ties House of the Dragon together with its predecessor in a more overt way than ever before. This quality largely dissipated as the storytelling accelerated the pace of action in the final seasons, and the show suffered for it, because it was in these extended stretches that you got to spend time with these characters as they got to just be who they are and progressively evolve in relation to each other and the world around them.

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