Been posting about this in the main GoT thread but giving this a bump because I'm reading Fire and Blood and just got through most of the plot of what this series will be (at Hour of the Wolf right now).Very very hyped. Some notes: Daemon Targaryen might be in the top 3 best characters that GRRM ever created. Very interested to see how Matt Smith portrays him. Mushroom better be in this as the comic relief. Unclear of what the timeline for season 1 is going to be. In the trailer we're seeing things in the "present" that take place a 10 years before the war, and flashbacks for things almost 20 years before the war. Unless they take some creative liberties they're going to have to make years long jumps between each episode to get to the main story of Dance of Dragons by end of the season.
Rewatched the trailer after i read through most of the story and i swore that brief snippet was Aemond One-Eye and Lucerys Velaryon's confrontation at Storm's End and i thought "wow they're getting to THAT in season 1?". What you said makes much more sense lol
Yeah I get the feeling we're either 1. Not getting the Dance in season 1, or 2. we're gonna be seeing a looooot of flashbacks. Because King Viserys is going to have to die to kick everything off, and unless a lot of his scenes are flashbacks, I imagine he'll be with us for most of season 1 Which would make sense I think, you can get a season of mostly set up and getting the pieces into position, and then you can probably get a solid 2-3 seasons at minimum out of the Dance itself. I assume with so many spinoffs happening in the World of Ice and Fire that HBO doesn't need this to be another 8-10 season show, and a 3-5 season show is good enough. I guess how many seasons is depending on how long after the dance they want to get to with who ends up ruling and what their rule means for the Targaryen line going forward.
If they do season 1 on the background/prelude, end it on Viserys dying, Green Counsel naming Aegon II, Cole killing Beesbury, Rhaenrya giving birth to the malformed stillborn, have season 2 be mostly "war of the ravens" cold war stuff, then ending it on the Dragon battle at Storm's End/Blood and Cheese, and then having the remaining seasons be the actual fighting war and it's immediate aftermath i think they could stretch it the entire Dance of Dragons story into 5 seasons at most.
Yeah I think timeline makes some sense. I think Paddy Considine is the Sean Bean/Ned Stark role here where he's kind of the "star" for the first season before dying as needed to push the story forward. It wouldn't make sense to get him and then kill him off after only a couple episodes
so December most likely? I just can't wait for all the annoying people who for some reason can't discuss this show without talking about the ending of GoT and somehow don't understand that this doesn't have the same showrunners to gradually be like "ok this Lord Fleabottom guy is pretty fucking badass"
Lol I think the next book is supposed to start with his reign....but I do think more interesting things happen under him as he grows
God I would love that. There’s always a chance since Viserys was his last rider. At least we’ll get Vhagar
GUYS IT'S AUGUS-...mother f I'm laying my head on my desk here from lack of sleep last night so yeah I'm not on the webs a lot today. But yesssssssss! Though I do hate it starting up right when my school year is starting, and during football season...interesting choice by HBO
Every time I see her name, I wonder in my head if it’s pronounced “Alicent” like Allison, or “Alicent” like Elyse.
Interested to see Rickard Stark there...by the time the Dance is over, Cregan is the ruler in the North. I wonder if the series is going to time hop as much as it needs to to tell the full story.