WhenHouse of the Dragon season one premiered , its built - in hearing of Game of Thrones fans comment immediately a similarity between the two display : Ramin Djawadi ’s iconic theme call . And Dragon ’s opening night - credits graphics — while not identical — were for certain resonant of Thrones ’ . WhenDragon returns for its second season , however , viewers will notice a gravid alteration .
The euphony is the same , but the computer graphic are quite different . or else of blood run through stone and metal , the cast and crew names unfurl while a tapis is being stitched as blood seeps into the cloth . “ We did decide to go with the new primary title chronological sequence this twelvemonth , ” showrunner Ryan Condal excuse to io9 as part of a House of the Dragon season two press roundtable . “ When we were looking at the sequence we did in season one , which I think works very well , it was visually dynamic and interesting , but it was really about — it was fundamentally a home tree . It was about the bloodlines of this generational sept that get down with Viserys and then goes down through Rhaenyra and Alicent and then on to the generation of their children . ”
This season , however , that second generation — King Aegon II , Aemond Targaryen , Jacaerys Velaryon , and so on — are now fully part of the level . “ The family is kind of exercise set at [ this ] point , ” Condal enunciate . “ Game of Thrones loves an evolving claim chronological succession , and we just did n’t really hump where to go with it from there . So the idea was , if the first season was about ancestry and bloodlines , season two is now about [ being part of ] this living account , this period that becomes very seismic , both in this time and then for all the decades to add up . This is such a famous prison term in history that even character in the A Song of Ice and Fire Scripture are think back to the Dance of the Dragons , which is the most brutal and bloody civil war fought in this time . ”
Alicent (Olivia Cooke) says her prayers in House of the Dragon.Image: Ollie Upton/HBO
Condal continued . “ So we want to do something that was that was active and that was communicating about the theme in the story that we were telling in time of year two and beyond . And it felt in my mind , the way to do that was to find a way of return the account in a visual way . We went to a tapestry and there ’s this wonderful title fellowship called yU+co that designed that for us . And the idea is that we are living through account , and we ’re seeing it stitched into the fabric of this tapestry as we move , the fourth dimension start in Old Valyria and takes us all the path through to , as you see at the end of it , Vhagar taking out Arrax over Storm ’s End [ as see in the season one finis ] . And I remember you ’ll stay on to see it acquire from here . ”
House of the Dragon season two go far June 16 on HBO and Max .
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