(Showrunner Ryan Condal. Credit to Deadline)
Written by Colleen Bement, Editor
“House of the Dragon” showrunner Ryan Condal and star Paddy Considine appeared at Contenders TV last weekend to celebrate the first season of the “Game of Thrones” prequel. They discussed some of the important and brutal scenes in season one, as well as hinted at what’s to come in the upcoming second season. According to Condal, I’m excited to pick up where we left off. Now we get to fall into the more traditional rhythms of storytelling and Game of Thrones. We’ve always talked about this particular tale, George [R.R. Martin] has too, of being a Shakespearean or Greek tragedy. This series is very much about a house tearing itself apart from within. Now that all those pieces have been set on the board, I’m really excited to tell the next chapter, to see what happens now that Viserys is gone and no longer keeping a lid on things.
Too bad that Viserys (Considine) died in Episode 8 and Considine will not return for Season 2. Although Considine admitted he was jealous of his co-stars getting to go back to work, he said he’s glad Condal did not try to prolong Viserys’ role on the show. The story was told. I’m glad they didn’t drag Viserys out. The fact it was put into eight episodes, it just made his arc all that stronger, says Considine. Viserys was the king of House Targaryan and after his death, his wife, Alicent (Olivia Cooke), was trying to get their son Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) on the throne. As we know, Viserys appointed his daughter Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy).
They relived that brutal opening scene when Viserys’ first wife, Aemma died in childbirth. That all-important male heir put that poor woman through a complicated birth with hopes of having a boy, and when he does, he doesn’t even survive. Considine says She’s butchered in this process of trying to save this child. He carries the weight of that all through his story. When he’s falling apart, he’s rotting, his eye’s missing, he’s not the one asking to be healed. Everybody else is, but it’s so much like he’s accepted it. The burden of the crown was too much for a man with a heart like that. These actions impact the generations until the time of “Game of Thrones.”
More by Condal, the trick was really to show this generational conflict that began with Viserys’ generation. He and Otto Hightower, his hand, passed down to Rhaenyra and Alicent as they grew up and became adults and had children of their own. This bitter rivalry grasping for power gets passed onto their children. It’s a three generational story and we needed to get through that in one season so we could get on to the Dance of the Dragons.
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