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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- SetupThe dagger with the prophecy
In episode 4, Viserys shows Rhaenyra a Valyrian steel dagger that belonged to Aegon the Conqueror. Heated in the fire, it reveals an inscription about the prince that was promised and the song of ice and fire. That dagger comes back later.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe same old main theme
Ramin Djawadi, the composer of Game of Thrones, came back for the score and kept the original show's main title theme.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo Rhaenyras, two Alicents
Because of the ten-year time jump midway through the season, Milly Alcock and Emily Carey play young Rhaenyra and Alicent. Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke take over afterward.
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- Behind the scenesThe opening becomes a tapestry
The season swaps the opening titles for an embroidered tapestry, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, that tells Targaryen history thread by thread.
source ↗ - CameoMilly Alcock returns
Milly Alcock, young Rhaenyra from season one, comes back in a guest role.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesShot during the strikes
Filming kept going through the 2023 Hollywood writers' and actors' strikes. The mostly British cast was covered by the UK union Equity's rules.
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- ReferenceThe antlered man
The antlered figure at the end of episode 1 is likely one of the Green Men, guardians of the Isle of Faces. In one version told in Fire & Blood, Addam of Hull lands alone on the isle and speaks with one of them.
source ↗ - CameoFantastic Beasts' Jacob joins
Dan Fogler, Jacob Kowalski in Fantastic Beasts, joins the cast as Torrhen Manderly, whom Rhaenyra makes Master of Coin.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesRenewed before the last one aired
HBO ordered this season in June 2024, three days before season two premiered. HBO later confirmed that season four will be the last.
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- ReferenceIt all starts with The Hedge Knight
The season adapts The Hedge Knight, the 1998 novella that kicked off George R. R. Martin's Dunk and Egg stories. The first episode shares its name.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesHBO passed in 2016
Martin pitched a Dunk and Egg series to HBO in 2016, and the network chose House of the Dragon instead. That same year, Ryan Condal suggested the idea to Martin, who turned it down because he wanted to finish the story first.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesHalf-hour episodes
The six episodes run 30 to 42 minutes, much shorter than the other Westeros shows. Critics singled out its buddy-comedy tone.
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- Behind the scenesMartin's lost cameo
George R. R. Martin filmed a cameo as a Pentoshi nobleman at Daenerys and Drogo's wedding in the original pilot. Daenerys was recast, the scene was reshot, and he was cut.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe pilot nobody saw
HBO wasn't happy with the first pilot, and much of it was reshot. In it, Tamzin Merchant played Daenerys and Jennifer Ehle played Catelyn; the roles went to Emilia Clarke and Michelle Fairley.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Iron Throne is too small
Martin praises the show's throne but says the one in the books is far bigger: a hunched, lopsided beast of thousands of swords, too big to even fit on the set.
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- SetupThe Lannister song
"The Rains of Castamere" keeps turning up: Tyrion whistles it in the first episode, the soldiers sing it before the battle in "Blackwater", and The National plays it over the credits. Remember that song.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesMartin wrote the battle
George R. R. Martin wrote "Blackwater". The season got a 15% bigger budget to stage that battle.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAsha became Yara
In the books, Theon's sister is called Asha. The show renamed her Yara to avoid confusion with Osha, the wildling at Winterfell.
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- ReferenceThe Red Wedding really happened
Martin drew on two events from Scottish history: the Black Dinner of 1440, where two young Douglases were killed after a feast, and the 1692 Glencoe massacre, where guests murdered their hosts.
source ↗ - CameoA Coldplay drummer at the wedding
Will Champion, Coldplay's drummer, cameos as one of the musicians playing at the wedding at the Twins.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe bear episode
George R. R. Martin wrote episode 7, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", named after the song the Bolton men sing.
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- CameoSigur Rós at the Purple Wedding
Icelandic band Sigur Rós plays "The Rains of Castamere" at Joffrey's wedding feast.
source ↗ - ReferenceIce becomes two swords
The season opens with Tywin having Ice, Ned Stark's Valyrian steel greatsword, melted down. It becomes two blades: one for Jaime, and Widow's Wail for Joffrey.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesPedro Pascal arrives in Westeros
Pedro Pascal joins as Oberyn Martell. The producers said he made the part look effortless.
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- Behind the scenesThe show outruns the books
This is where the show starts pulling away from the published books. Tyrion, for one, meets Daenerys, which hasn't happened in the books yet.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFour episodes leaked
Screeners of the first four episodes leaked right before the premiere. They racked up 32 million downloads in the first week.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe walk in Dubrovnik
Cersei's walk of atonement was shot on the Stradun, Dubrovnik's main street in Croatia, between the cathedral and the Sponza Palace.
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- ReferenceWhy Hodor only says Hodor
In "The Door", the show reveals where the name Hodor came from: the cry of "hold the door" he heard as a young man shrinks into a single word.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesLight of the Seven hits the charts
Ramin Djawadi's "Light of the Seven", which opens the season finale, hit No. 1 on Billboard's Spotify Viral 50 chart.
source ↗ - CameoMax von Sydow and Ian McShane
Max von Sydow takes over as the Three-Eyed Raven, and Ian McShane shows up as a septon.
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- CameoEd Sheeran as a Lannister soldier
Ed Sheeran cameos as a Lannister soldier singing by a campfire when Arya passes. Members of the band Bastille also filmed cameos.
source ↗ - ReferenceRed Wedding payback
The season opens with Arya disguised as Walder Frey, serving poisoned wine to the men of House Frey at a feast.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOnly seven episodes
For the first time a season has seven episodes instead of ten. The stone stairway of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in Spain became the approach to Dragonstone.
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- Behind the scenesThe coffee cup at Winterfell
In episode 4, a takeaway coffee cup sits on the feast table at Winterfell in front of Daenerys. It wasn't from Starbucks, and HBO digitally erased it afterward.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe Long Night runs 82 minutes
With only six episodes, the season has the longest ones in the show. "The Long Night" runs 82 minutes and the finale 80.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA petition for a redo
In 2019, a Change.org petition asking HBO to remake the season with different writers topped 1.7 million signatures.
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Timeline
when each title takes placeHouse of the Dragon
101–129 AC, ~170 years before Game of Thrones
House of the Dragon · S1Viserys's succession splits the Targaryens
129 AC
House of the Dragon · S2The Dance of the Dragons begins
129–130 AC
House of the Dragon · S3The Targaryen civil war escalates
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
209 AC, ~90 years before Game of Thrones
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms · S1A hedge knight, his squire Egg and a tourney
Game of Thrones
298 AC
Game of Thrones · S1Ned Stark becomes Hand of the King
right after S1
Game of Thrones · S2Several kings fight for the Iron Throne
right after S2
Game of Thrones · S3The War of the Five Kings drags on
right after S3
Game of Thrones · S4King's Landing, Meereen and the Wall under pressure
right after S4
Game of Thrones · S5Jon at the Wall, Daenerys in Meereen
right after S5
Game of Thrones · S6The North returns to the heart of the war
right after S6
Game of Thrones · S7Winter is here and the dead advance
right after S7
Game of Thrones · S8The final season
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