the biggest naval battle you’ve ever seen on television

It’s been two years since the second season of ‘The House of the Dragon‘ in HBO Max will end, just before one of the key moments of the series: the Battle of the Gorge. This is how this third year of the series based on the work of George RR Martin begins, and it does so with extraordinary reviews, which equal the good times of ‘Game of Thrones’. Will the rest of the season live up to this vibrant start?

The second season not only experienced a drop in audience with respect to the first one that made one think that the goose that laid the dragon’s eggs was beginning to look suffocated. There were also complaints from many viewers, who had the perception that the entire year had been a preparation for a naval battle that was about to begin just as the season ended. There was a reason: the season reduced its number of episodes from 10 to 8, and the showrunner Ryan Condal had no choice but to leave the battle for the season that begins now.

The Battle of the Gorge is the largest naval conflict in the entire history of Westeros, and pits the forces of Rhaenyra Targaryen, under the command of The Sea Serpent, against the fleet of the Triarchy, allied with the Greens, to break the blockade on King’s Landing. Condal acknowledged that the Gaznate sequence took four years to materialize, and that Even with HBO Max’s budget, it was not clear if it could be filmed on the scale it required.: with dragons, ships and multiple combat fronts. And of course, in the tradition of the series, we will see an important character die who will mark the rest of the season.

The third season incorporates several characters from George RR Martin’s book ‘Fire and Blood’: James Norton as Lord Ormund Hightower, Tommy Flanagan as Lord Roderick “Roddy the Ruin” Dustin, Dan Fogler as Ser Torrhen Manderly and Annie Shapero as Alysanne Blackwood. Although without a doubt the most suggestive character will continue to be Rhaenyra: Condal said of her that when a character is told that the gods have chosen him to rule and he has the power of six dragons behind him, “at some point he begins to believe his own legend.” Interesting territory to explore this third year.

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