'Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.' Unless, of course, their ending gets trashed by offensively lazy writing. Then you put them away and pretend they never happened. Such was the fate of Game of Thrones...UNTIL NOW!!!!!

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote 'to light a candle is to cast a shadow.' Those may as well be the new words of House Targaryean, said to be closer to gods than men for their ability to make Matt Smith look hot in a blonde wig. Covering the self-inflicted demise of Westeros' OG rulers, House of the Dragon employs some truly remarkable storytelling devices and some truly bizarre ones.

I miss Tywin Lannister.

00:00 Intro
02:08 Not GOT: Storytelling
05:05 Dialogue & Characterization
11:04 Exposition
17:19 Consequences & Rules of the Story
23:48 Narrative Cohesion & Inevitability
31:00 Character Development: Showing vs Telling
32:19 Alicent Hightower
38:05 Rhaenyra Targaryean
42:38 Daemon Targaryean
47:59 Viserys Targaryean
52:50 Final Thoughts


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