• With HBO’s critically acclaimedA Knight of the Seven Kingdomsgearing up for its season finale on Sunday, it’s time to check in on that otherGame of Thronesspinoff: the far darkerHouse of the Dragon, which now has a suitably ominous teaser for its upcoming third season. • (Spoilers for the first two seasons below.) The series is setnearly 200 years before the events ofGame of Thrones,when dragons were still a fixture of Westeros, and chronicles the beginning of the end of House Targaryen’s reign. • The primary source material isFire and Blood, a fictional history of the Targaryen kings written by George R.R. • As book readers know, those events culminated in a civil war and the extinction of the dragons-at least until Daenerys Targaryen came along. • The first season spanned many years and featured some pretty significant time jumps, which required replacing the younger actors as their characters aged. • For those who might need a refresher: King Viserys (Paddy Considine) died, and his second wife, Alicent (Olivia Cooke), conspired with her father, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), to crown her eldest son, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney), as king instead of Viserys’ declared heir apparent, Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy).
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- HBO’s House of the Dragon has released a new teaser for season 3, underscoring that the struggle for the Iron Throne will become an outright war. The clip, set nearly 200 years before Game of Thrones, hints at escalating conflict among the Targaryen heirs, following the civil war that ended the dynasty’s reign and the extinction of its dragons. Recapping earlier seasons, the series has chronicled the rivalry between Rhaenyra and her brother Aegon, the brutal death of Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys at the hands of Aemond’s dragon Vhagar, and the fallout that left the throne contested. The teaser’s ominous tone signals a darker, more violent third season.
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