I am terrified at the potential mess they could make of House of Dragons. The Dance of the Dragons is great raw material, but it doesn't come with extensive source dialogue, and lends itself to the temptation of going full-on CGI at the expense of the (highly complex) plot.
The fact that the two main characters - Rhaenyra and Alicent - are Strong Female Leads™ also comes with the risk of repeating the mistakes of the Dornish plot, where insistence on the Girl Power stuff is just one-note and results in flat, unlikeable characters.
Another way of screwing it up could be just overimposing the Starks/Lannisters boring goodies-vs-sexy baddies dynamics on the Blacks-vs-Green civil war. No. The Blacks are not the goodies. Give us two sides of deeply flawed characters to cheer for.
There are so many ways this could go wrong, and - after the final seasons of GoT - if they get this wrong the cinematic universe is over. So give 👏🏻 us 👏🏻 complexity 👏🏻 and 👏🏻 good 👏🏻writing 👏🏻not 👏🏻 just 👏🏻 dragons 👏🏻
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