*Regina George’s voice* “Stop trying to make ‘Game of Thrones’ happen!”
That’s not only because they’re both set in Westeros, feature dragonriders from House Targaryen, have several factions fighting for control of the Iron Throne to the detriment of the smallfolk, or because some crew members have worked on both shows. It’s afirst revealed by King Viserys to his young daughter Rhaenyra —one that’s familiar to fans ofhas made the connection even more explicit.
Some of those scenes, such as Queen Rhaenyra on the Iron Throne and Daemon plunging into the water, were more immediate. But he also got a speedrun of the next couple hundred years in Westeros, including glimpses at an army of White Walkers and wights and his descendants Brynden “Bloodraven” Rivers sitting on a weirwood throne and Daenerys Targaryen hatching her three dragons in Essos.
“The world is not what we thought it was,” he explained, speaking in High Valryian. “This war is just the beginning. Winter is coming with darkness and doom.” When Rhaenyra noted how similar Daemon sounded to Viserys, he added, “I saw it. I saw that we cannot withstand it...And yet, somehow, we must.”
If you didn’t pick up the connection before, Daemon uttered House Stark’s words, “Winter Is Coming,” somewhat clunkily as he pledged his loyalty. Daemon doesn’t know how Dany’s fight with the White Walkers will play out, so he’s approaching his fate head-on; he only knows that getting Rhaenyra on the Iron Throne is paramount to it. But we do. And therein is a problem.
Part of the issue that comes with crafting a prequel to a wildly successful show or film is building meaningful suspense when we already know what happens. Many prequels fail to sustain that suspense or focus too much on the granular . Or they’re too tempted to thread in those Easter eggs, even if it doesn’t always make sense.
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