House of the Dragon
Summary
House of the Dragon ’s Helaena player , Phia Saban , reacts to the Blood and Cheese scene , saying " nothing prepares you " for it . Based on George R.R. Martin ’s bookFire & Blood , the popularGame of Thronesprequel serial reelect for its second time of year that past Sunday , continuing to chronicle the beginnings of the Targaryen civil state of war . House of the Dragonseason 2 sequence 1 endsby adapting the infamous profligate and Cheese view , which sees Daemon rent two assassins who end up killing Aegon and Helaena ’s six - twelvemonth - old Logos , Jaehaerys .
If you give people a snuff that you ’re in something like House of the Dragon , and then they hump that world at all and you say , " Oh , I ’m playing Helaena , " they ’re like , " You fuck what happens to you , right ? " I was being tell by the great unwashed on the train that I was sitting next to !
But nothing prepares you for scuttle [ the hand ] up and being like , " Okay , they ’re doing that episode one . " What I really like when I learn in the playscript was how simple they made it . It ’s all just place in the present , in the immediate moment . And , you know , that ’s not like too much negotiation . They ’re not seek to do too much with it .
House Of The Dragon Season 2’s Blood & Cheese Scene Is Brutal
(Despite It Being Toned Down For The Show)
House of the Dragonseason 2 ’s Blood and Cheesescene has receive divided reactions for making many change to the infamous moment . In the book , Blood and Cheese is a lot more brutal . For instance , Daemon employ the assassins to at once kill one of Aegon ’s children , rather than Aemond . Then , Helaena is forced to choose between Jaehaerysand Maelor , her two sons , the latter of whom does n’t exist in the show . moreover , Alicent is in the room and is bounce , muzzle , and forced to watch .
House of the Dragon season 2 , episode 1 has a very significant conniption from George R.R. Martin ’s Fire & Blood , but the show ’s edition is disappointing .
Despite it being toned down for the show , stemma and Cheese still stand asHouse of the Dragon ’s most shockingly brute second yet . It ’s graspable that the show opted not to show a child being beheaded onscreen , alternatively bank on the horrible sound of the indescribable act , and the result is chillingly effective . Saban ’s execution as a mother in blow , simply state , " They kill the boy , " is a elementary and efficacious way of limn the character ’s devastation .
As Saban says , the show simplifies its bloodline and Cheese scene . Just because there are few characters involved and fewer threats of fury made , does n’t mean that the show has bankrupt the scenery , as some have argued . Despite it being toned down , House of the Dragon ’s parentage and Cheese scene works well both viscerally and narratively , and it will be interesting to see how season 2 plays out after the plot - changing event .
House of the Dragonis streaming on Max , and vent new episodes on Sunday night .
Source : House of the Dragon podcast
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