House of the Dragon Season 2 - Book to Show

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

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A look at what happened in Fire & Blood vs. the corresponding events of House of the Dragon Season 2. We are back to our Sunday at 3 pm eastern timeslot!
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0:00.0	The The The And then. Oh, Oh, well. So, I'm going to go. As George R. Martin himself said, the show and the books are separate canon. One is not the other. However, that said, one is clearly based off of the other. House of the Dragon is adapted from Fire and Blood, but Fire and Blood is unlike the overwhelming majority of book to show adaptations.
1:56.3	I think a lot of us, probably most of us, listening to the show, prefer the show to change
2:01.5	as little as possible from the books.
2:04.2	We might all differ on what as little as possible means, but that opinion aside,
2:10.1	Fire and blood requires the addition of substantial portions of the story.
2:14.0	A song of ice and fire did not. Well, it did require portions to be added at the end.
2:19.5	Substantial portions, all of it, really, besides the bitch George had told them.
2:23.7	But on HBO's Game of Thrones, the showrunners didn't have to create personalities.
2:30.1	They had to do very little dialogue creation again after the point where the books finish
2:34.8	or are left off. George did all that already, but with few exceptions that's not the case with
2:40.1	fire and blood, right? There's not huge amounts of dialogue, huge amounts of
2:44.5	characterization. There are missing events, things that you would clearly expect
2:48.2	to be there but aren't written about conversations, dreams, relationships, things like that that just don't make a history book.
2:58.8	So there is a lot more implied creation for this adaptation than there is for a song of ice and fire.
3:05.6	A song of my fire they had too much they couldn't possibly do it all. Here
3:10.3	well and there's not enough in a lot of places and they must make up for that.
3:15.0	An example of that is one I've thrown out a few times throughout the season,
3:19.0	Damon's Ark in the Riverlands. It can be measured in sentences. You could count the number of sentences in fire and blood.
3:25.8	It wouldn't take you very long. It's not even a matter of paragraphs.
3:30.9	Rainier is grief-based inaction in the book spans a lot longer than the show does even.
3:37.0	She's actually sidelined for longer, so they change that a bit.
3:41.0	And from Eric versus Arrick to the Brooks Rest is under 450
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