So while Thrones had about 1,400 pages of source material per fictional year, Dragon will have an average of fewer than 10 per year. And rather than three years, that material spans three decades. By comparison, House of the Dragon’s story stems from only about 250 pages from the Fire & Blood companion book. The Thrones show was adapted from (for now) the first five books of the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, which comprise more than 4,200 pages and span about three years’ worth of events in the timeline of this fictional world. It’s really only the sibling marriages that cause conflict.) Now, Dragon has the dual difficulty of getting the audience to understand, first, that the practice is acceptable among the main characters, and second, how all the characters relate to one another. (Actually, marriage between first cousins is practiced throughout the continent. Thrones dabbled in incest with Jaime and Cersei but, like the rest of the non-Targaryens in Westeros, treated it as a taboo. The so-called Doctrine of Exceptionalism explained that the Seven’s opprobrium against incest didn’t apply to the Targaryens. Incest was so ingrained in Targaryen custom that, before the events of the show, King Jaehaerys even helped develop a new teaching within the Faith of the Seven, Westeros’s dominant religion. It’ll have marriages between a niece and her uncle, and a nephew and his aunt. Dragon will have marriages between siblings. They’ll also all be married to each other, because a show about Targaryens is also inherently a show about incest. Many of the show’s central characters will thus look physically similar, with the classically silver Targaryen hair. The Starks and Lannisters, Tyrells and Martells, Arryns and Tullys, and Greyjoys and Baratheons are all present in this story-but only as peripheral figures orbiting the central Targaryen star. Unlike Thrones, which brought many different Westerosi houses into conflict, Dragon is much more tightly focused. Notice I said flowchart and not family tree because, well, the Targaryen family tree is almost too knotty to understand, which brings on reason no. Good luck keeping track without a flowchart. “All the dragons have weird names with Xes in them!” actor Emma D’Arcy, who plays the adult version of Rhaenyra, said in the THR story. There are also too many characters whose names start with “Al” to list here, as well as a young Aegon, not to be confused with the other young Aegon, not to be confused with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror.Īnd that’s not even counting all the dragons, many of whose names also look similar. So prepare for a show that contains multiple characters named Viserys multiple characters named Joffrey a Daemon and a Daeron a Laenor and a Laena a Rhaenys, a Rhaena, and a Rhaenyra and an old Jaehaerys, a young Jaehaerys, a Jaehaera, and a Jacaerys. When co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik broached the idea of making tweaks, his fellow showrunner, Ryan Condal, responded, “ We can’t,” according to a Hollywood Reporter story. The Game of Thrones show occasionally changed characters’ names to alleviate this issue: Asha became Yara because of the similarity to Osha, while Robert Arryn became Robin, even though his character in the book was actually named after King Robert.īut Dragon’s creators seem committed to Martin’s original character names. In a television show already suffused with fantastical lore, however, that repetition could prove confusing.
Fathers name their sons “Jr.,” popular athletes inspire new names, and seemingly every congressman is named Mike or John. He likes to repeat character names in his books-which carries some level of verisimilitude, given how parents (most notably monarchs) name their children in the real world.
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The TV Tropes encyclopedia has a “pretty rigid rule” called the One Steve Limit, which it explains as “no two characters in a work of fiction … should share the same first name, or even similar-sounding names.” But George R.R.
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As prequel series House of the Dragon approaches, creators and audiences alike know what King’s Landing looks like and how a Thrones show is supposed to feel-but that doesn’t mean the new show will have it easy.Īctually, House of the Dragon could prove an even trickier adaptation than Thrones. Now the foundation has been laid for a successful show in the Thrones universe. Martin’s epic saga took 15 years to reach the screen, survived a failed pilot, and only then blossomed into the juggernaut that won more Emmys than any other drama series in TV history. As a fantasy story with a sprawling cast, inhuman magic, and incredible violence, the first book in George R.R.
A Game of Thrones was supposed to be unfilmable.
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