(If you want to avoid Season 2 spoilers, stay away from articles summarizing the Dance of the Dragons.) While we thought the conflict between Aegon II and Rhaenyra over Viserys’ vacant throne would be more of a centerpiece to the season, we’ve instead come to see the show’s slower arc: Season 1, like a prologue of sorts, merely sets the stage for the two-year war that will decide the King of Westeros.
When we last left the divided Targaryen royal family, the long-awaited civil war, the “Dance of the Dragons” had finally finally finally almost just about begun. May it last generations and always give us something to complain about. It takes us back to a simpler time, when we were sweet summer children in the spring of 2011. For all our grumbling about House of the Dragon’s first season-its elongated windup to events obvious from the jump, its textbook-plotted storyline, its delay of all things interesting and consequential-we have to say: when Ramin Djawadi’s score kicks in each week, we’re just happy to get another hour in Westeros.
