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it's Charlie
HBO just announce House of the Dragon Season 3 and some changes of the story
of season 2.
With that moving some major plot points around, as well as the final end
point of the series in season four and what their plan is for moving
the timeline to the next major event in Targaryen history
after the end of the Dance of the Dragons.
So there's a whole bunch of stuff going on. We'll break it all down.
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all explained which plot points they move from season two to season three.
They were very specific about that just because of the way that they were
plotting out the rest of the show through season four.
The first big news is that they reduced the episode count for season two.
As much as that sucks, like everyone took a huge L for that.
The major reason was because they'd already renewed the show for season three
in Plotted out which major events they wanted to cover in season
three and decided the major battle they were originally going to end season
two on would fit better with the part of the dance
the Dragons they were doing during season three.
I'll explain what I think that is in a second.
But how's the Dragon?
Season two is now eight episodes, but what we've lost in
two episodes, we've gained in two more confirmed seasons, basically.
They didn't officially renew it
for season four yet, but they do plan to renew it much earlier
now, just so that there isn't a big delay between season three and season four.
But this is part of the reason for shuffling the story around so much
so that they could plan out, get season three going now, start working on scripts
while they're still working on season two.
Just very early days,
so there would not be a long break between season two in season three.
As you've all probably seen currently, Season two won't premiere until summer
2024.
That's nearly two years after season one, which really does suck.
The reason why the break is so long is because it takes them so much longer
to turn a season around
than it used to at the beginning of the original Game of Thrones series.
You probably remember this slowly happening
across the original Game of Thrones series.
In the early seasons, there weren't a ton of visual effects,
so they were able to turn seasons around relatively close to a year.
But as they got to season six, season seven, season eight,
the Dragons got bigger, the visual effects got bigger, the battles got bigger.
Then when we got to the house,
the Dragons series, that trend just continued even more visual effects.
So you have months and months and months of post-production tacked on
to the end of actual production.
That's where most of this extra production time comes from.
It also to boot, because it took them so long to get House of the Dragon out.
After the original Game of Thrones ended, they waited till very late to like right
after House of the Dragon had premiered before they renewed it for season two.
Normally they would have renewed it much sooner
and we're sort of working on season two much sooner.
So Ryan Condal, the showrunner, and George R.R.
Martin, who is heavily involved in developing the show,
everyone else working on scripts, starting pre-production, plotting out the season,
didn't actually sit down to start working on season two
until after it had been renewed.
So we just way, way later than they would normally have started working on it.
That's how they were able to get the original Game of Thrones series out
every single year, pretty reliably up to the last couple of seasons.
HBO had renewed the show way further in advance
that they knew they were going to be working on it
so they could start working it much sooner.
So the real blame here kind of lies with HBO dragging their feet
now that they've confirmed House of the Dragon is a huge hit,
we're not going to see as big of a break between seasons in the future.
Thankfully, didn't really take a genius
to figure out that it was going to be super popular.
The same thing will continue after they finished covering the Dance of the Dragon.
So I'll explain that later in the video because that will involve
the next part of the timeline that they jump to after season four.
The next big thing was that huge battle that they cut from the end of season two.
Those two episodes, they moved to season three the way they plotted out season two,
Blood and cheese and the assault on Herron Hall
were going to happen at the beginning of the season.
Two very different types of events in terms of scale like one is a huge battle.
Another is a really small but very WTF kind of moment.
But both are meant to shake the foundations of the blacks
and the Greens and both sides of this conflict.
They really set things off in a really big way.
Let them really get the actual dance of the dragon started in a big way.
The actual dance of the Dragons itself only lasted for about three years,
so it wasn't that long, but that's the actual fighting itself.
A lot of Season one covers the lead up to the Dance of the Dragons,
which really didn't begin until
after Rhaenyra had learned that Lucerys had been killed by Aemond and Vhagar.
That was the whole idea in the finale
is that when they were having the Black council,
she was having her coronation with her father's crown.
Otto Hightower had come to try and make a bargain with them for the Green's.
Rainier has said that they would have their answer on the morrow.
Then Lucius is killed by Aemond and Vhagar, and then she decides that it means war.
So on the morrow, they're going to answer the Green's question
with the answer of war.
Basically, the actual dance of the Dragons begins.
Later in season two, we have the Dragon seeds.
I won't talk too much about the events that lead up to the Dragon Seeds
because they involve some spoilers
for a few of the other major characters that we saw in Season one.
But this is basically the event where Jacaerys calls
for as many dragon seeds in the realm to mount the six riderless dragons
that were currently on Dragonstone vermouth, the Silver Wing,
Sea Smoke, Sheepstealer, the Cannibal and Gray Ghost Rainier.
As forces were able to claim some of them and use them in battle.
None of the dragons these were able to successfully claim
the wild dragons except for Nettles claiming sheep stealer.
So nobody claimed the cannibal or gray ghost.
Couple of people died trying to get a watch.
A couple more people eaten by some dragons during season two,
but both those dragons were still involved in the dance of the Dragons.
They just didn't have writers at the time.
Then I think the battle that they said they were originally going to end season
two on might be the one that happens right after Renee
Side calls all the Dragons is to claim the riderless dragons.
It's the Battle of the Gullet,
which is the area right between the south edge of drift mark
and the tip of the mainland.
It's the gullet that literally feeds into Blackwater Bay.
That's why it's called the Gullet.
And it is known as the bloodiest sea battle in the history of Westeros.
So, you know, you know, it is going to be a huge battle on the show.
It's a little bit
like Blackwater on steroids from the original Game of Thrones show.
Like imagine that times ten.
Also, the fact that they're going to use
two episodes to cover it in no spoilers, but during that battle
there were a lot, a lot of parallels to what happens
at the end of House of the Dragon Season one.
So originally I think what Ryan Condal and George R.R.
Martin had planned for the end of season two was to end on a similar type
of tense moment that they ended season one on in.
What they've done now is move that to early season three made it even bigger.
Like I said, two whole episodes,
meaning that the new House of the Dragon Season two finale
is probably all about the Dragon seeds claiming the riderless dragons.
Maybe they'll end on a teaser at the beginning of the Battle of the Gullet.
Like things get started with the battle in the end on a cliffhanger in the battle
picks up at the beginning of season
three, There's still a ton of big battles, a ton of WTF moments in the dance.
The dragons between Aemond and Vhagar are killing Lucius.
In the Dragons he's showing up so there's still a lot of them during season two.
It's not like there won't be any huge battles in season two.
I think they just didn't want to blow too many of the major battles in season two.
The other side benefit,
just in a practical sense, is that with two fewer episodes
they can finish season two and release the episodes way faster
and it becomes much cheaper
for them for HBO because they are spending like $20 million per episode.
So we're still getting all that really important stuff.
The really huge battles, the big events, really crazy stuff.
They're just pacing everything out
between the Four Seasons now a little bit more carefully.
Also, there's the big reminder here.
The actual Dance of the Dragons didn't last that long.
Like I said, it basically starts with Rhaenyra here, finding out about Luke
Cyrus's death, then answering the Green's with the call to war.
It only lasted for about three years, like not quite three years.
Season one was mostly about the lead up to the dance.
The Dragons leaving you with season two,
Season three in season four to cover those three years of the actual dance.
Probably in the final episode too, like the season four finale will cover
some of the aftermath as well,
the same way they did in the original Game of Thrones show.
They covered the aftermath.
What happened to the main characters
directly after that final battle with Searcy, HBO current plan
for House of the Dragon after Season four,
when they finish the Dance of the Dragons, is to treat the show like an anthology,
so they'll continue calling it House of the Dragon.
They'll just do Season five as a completely different event, jumping
to a different part of the timeline with a totally different cast of actors.
They'll still be adapting from the Fire and Blood book.
That's basically a Targaryen history book written from a couple other perspective.
It's not written
in the same first person perspective, the different chapters of the Regular,
a Song of Ice and Fire novels is written more like a history texts
with other masters, other people like Mushroom The Court for
who is an Easter egg for during season one.
Just remembering events in the Targaryen history.
That's how they're able to add details to each of the episodes.
Like, Oh, they remembered events a little bit wrong.
Like the things that they heard about this event in recorded these masters
mushrooms were wrong in A lot of that extra context comes from George R.R.
Martin. Like George R.R.
Martin wrote, Obviously the Fire and Blood book and he helped them
write Season one, Season two, help them write the rest of the show, too.
So it's not like they're just making stuff up on their own whole cloth.
So like after season four,
there might be like a two year break while they plot out the next part of history.
How many seasons?
The next part of the show is going to run
in the jump back in time, do Aegon's conquest and they can jump forward again.
Do the blackfire rebellions and just continue doing
that, jumping around in the timeline, treating it like an anthology series.
That's how you wind up getting ten seasons of House of the Dragon.
It's just a bunch of different events with a different group of actors.
Each time.
They didn't actually say which event they planned to do next
after Dance of the Dragons.
I'm actually hoping they go backwards in the timeline and do Aegon's Conquest x
just because the whole vibe of the Blackfire
rebellions would feel similar to what's happening right now
with the dance of the Dragons in the target in Civil War.
Like a battle within the family over the succession,
the Blackfire rebellions are a little bit different
in that it was a battle over the succession between one of the bastards
who had been legitimized in named himself black fire in the other legitimate heir
that everybody assumed
would take the throne after his father Aegon the fourth died.
And that's kind of what's happening right now, even though it's not a bastard
in the line of succession, like it's two people
legitimately within the line fighting for the succession.
Aegon's conquest is a completely different type event.
Like he's literally
just conquering the six kingdoms in trying to conquer Dawn unsuccessfully.
There were a lot of Easter eggs and references to that
during House of the Dragon Season one, like recontextualizing
the reason why Aegon conquered the Six Kingdoms
all because of his Dragon dream, where he saw the coming long night.
He didn't know when it would happen.
He just saw the Night King coming, this wave of cold washing over the realm.
So the only way for the realm to survive would be to unite them.
And the only way to do that would be if he conquered them,
because there was so much infighting that were happening
between the different realms at the time.
Let me know in the comments if they did Aegon's Conquest next, who would you
want to play those characters like Aegon in his two sister Wives?
Also, for those of you that have wanted them
to do a much bigger version of Robert's rebellion with like a big series,
they could also do Robert's Rebellion as another future House of the Dragon series.
They will be filming season two for most of the rest of this year,
so we'll get more footage and teasers from the set.
I'll do more bonus videos as we see more Easter eggs and things pop up.
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