CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Robotic acting, wooden dialogue...
and no reason to care what happens By Christopher Stevens Published: 22:00, 17 June 2024 | Updated: 22:15, 17 June 2024 e-mail View comments House Of The Dragon (Sky Atlantic) Rating: Boredom is coming! And with it, definitive proof that no amount of computer-generated castles, dragons or fleets of warships under sail can compensate for the lack of a story. Big-budget medieval fantasy returns in House Of The Dragon , based on the barrowloads of notes compiled by novelist George R.R.
Martin for the background to his Game Of Thrones series. Running out of steam with his complex, interwoven plots, charting betrayal and power struggles in the fictional realm of Westeros, Martin began procrastinating. He scribbled hundreds of pages of faux history, drawing on accounts of the House of Plantagenet and adding mythical elements.
These were published in a zonking great hardback edition called Fire & Blood, in 2018. Another breezeblock of a book is rumoured to be on the way — we can gauge how inventive and original it will be from the rumoured working title . .
. Blood & Fire. Perhaps there’ll be a third volume called And Fire Blood.
Big-budget medieval fantasy returns in House Of The Dragon , based on the barrowloads of notes compiled by novelist George R.R. Martin (pictured: Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen) CGI creatures and landscapes have always been mainstays of the Game Of Thrones universe, but this prequel has nothing .