the dragon house returned to the screens after HBO and the platform Max will premiere the second season on Sunday, June 16, but the new faces and locations They are not the only changes in the series. The fans realized that The opening credits have undergone a drastic change, moving from a model of Old Valyria that traces the bloodlines and rulers of the Targaryen dynasty to a tapestry illustrating the rise of House Targaryen and the beginning of its demise.
This is also a departure from the original opening credits of Game of Thrones, which were a 3D model of the fantasy world with the theme song playing while important landmarks and castles rose from the ground. The showrunner Ryan Condal said that the original credits, which served perfectly for the first season, had been “left without a route” for the second.
While the first season shows the complex history of the Targaryen rulers, continuing in this style would have stopped in its tracks, as the second season focuses on the fight of Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney). for him Iron Throne. “In the second season, now that this war has started, it seemed like it was something else, something different,” Condal told Elle. “We’re taking you through this really important living history of the Targaryen dynasty.” She explained that, for him, a “living story” looks like a tapestry, which, according to him, was one of the most used methods to telling stories in medieval times. And he added that he is “delighted” with the results.
What do the new opening credits show? To sum it up as concisely as possible, the tapestry highlights key points of Targaryen history, bringing us up to date on the final events of the first season of the dragon house. The tapestry begins with Fate of Valyria, when an unknown catastrophe destroyed the Targaryens’ ancestral homeland, forcing the family to emigrate to dragonstone, an island located off the eastern coast of Westeros. One of the main ways the three brothers got the rulers of Westeros to bend the knee was the harrowing burning of Harrenhall, two scenes of which are included in the opening credits.
Next appear King Maegor the Cruel and King Jahaerys with his sister-wife Alysanne. Finally, the credits give way to scenes that everyone recognizes from the first season: the first is the Great Council of 101 BC, when Jahaerys named Viserys (Rhaenyra’s father) heir because his cousin, Rhaenys, was female. The next two scenes show the division inside House Targaryen, illustrating the Green Team and the Black Team on opposite sides of a table, and illustrating Rhaenyra’s half-brother and “shitty usurper king”, Aegon, sending ravens for support, while she sent her children already his cousin Rhaenys on the back of a dragon. And this leads to the brutal reminder, as if it were needed, of the evisceration and bloody death of Luceryon Velaryon and his dragon in the jaws of Vhagar and his rider, Aemond Targaryen.
The series’ original opening credits changed as rulers married, had children, and died, meaning this tapestry can be expected to be transform and lengthen as the final season progresses. With two new spin-offs of game of Thrones on the horizon (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and 10,000 ships, It will be interesting to see what new ideas showrunners can conjure to put their own spin on their respective opening credits sequences.
