The dragons of House of the Dragon
Where Game of Thrones featured only three dragons, House of the Dragon will feature well over a dozen, many of them full-grown by the time the show starts. Dragons cost a lot of money to animate, which means HBO has its work cut out for it. One strategy: keep the shots very dark so we don’t see much detail, as with Daemon and his dragon Caraxes above.
Brightly lit or not, dragons can do some serious damage:
Below we have Syrax, Rhaenyra’s dragon. It’s hard to see in this shot but Syrax has a dragon saddle to accommodate Rhaenyra. That used to be standard on Targaryen dragons; a shame Daenerys had to figure it out on her own.
Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) is another dragon-rider, although she also takes time out of her day to educate her little cousin Rhaenyra on the ways of the world:
Here we have young Rhaenyra and young Alicent (Emily Carey) in happier times before war and ambition tear them apart:
Caraxes is the most cranky of the dragons on the show, which matches Daemon well:
House of the Dragon premieres on HBO and HBO Max on August 21.
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