HBO-serien House of the Dragon har fået en ganske fin modtagelse på trods af, at den havde den utaknemmelige opgave at skulle være en prequel til Game of Thrones, og dermed havde et forventningspres uden lige.
House of the Dragon fortæller begivenhederne, der leder til huset Targaryens fald og sidenhen en blodig borgerkrig kendt som Dance of the Dragons. For at få det hele med, hopper serien en smule i tiden, og det kommenterer kildematerialets forfatter, George R.R. Martin nu på sin personlige blog.
Overordnet set synes Martin, at serien håndterer fortælleformatet flot, men han ærgrer sig nu alligevel over, at serien ikke har mere end 10 episoder:
"But there are only so many minutes in an episode (more on HBO than on the network shows I once wrote for), and only so many episodes in a season. Fewer and fewer as time goes by, it seems. When I was a boy, shows had 39 episodes a season. By the time I was writing for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, it was down to 22. Cable shrunk that even further. THE SOPRANOS had 13 episodes per season, but just a few years later, GAME OF THRONES had only 10 (and not even that, those last two seasons). If HOUSE OF THE DRAGON had 13 episodes per season, maybe we could have shown all the things we had to "time jump" over."
Den anerkendte forfatter mener også, at skal man yde hele seriens baggrundfortælling retfærdighed, skal der flere sæsoner til.
"It is going to take four full seasons of 10 episodes each to do justice to the Dance of the Dragons, from start to finish," skriver George R.R. Martin.
House of the Dragon er allerede blevet fornyet med en anden sæson, der skal produceres på et senere tidspunkt.