Season 2 of House of the Dragon Rumored to be Chopped Down to 8 Episodes | Watchers on the Wall

In case you yearned for the times of shorter seasons of recreation of Thrones, Deadline has just been announced that season 2 of Home of the Dragon will reportedly run solely 8 episodes, fairly than the usual 10. This comes as a shock to many, given George RR Martin himself had indicated that it could take 4 10 episode seasons to do HOTD justice. So what occurred, precisely? Dive in as I muse…

The rumors are that 10 episodes had been deliberate, however with the total scope of the collection outlined, plot factors acquired shuffled round, leading to a season arc that can take solely 8 episodes to inform. It was even famous that an supposed season 2 battle was pushed to the as-yet-unordered season 3. Going additional, the rumor mill means that HBO is severely contemplating ordering scripts and casting for season 3 simply to get the ball rolling. Of further notice is that GRRM and Ryan Condal (showrunner) have seenawed with one another on whether or not 3 or 4 seasons are vital to inform the whole story.

Take into account that TV strikes each extra rapidly and extra slowly than it used to. I say it strikes extra rapidly as a result of lately, higher budgets are poured into extra TV exhibits than they ever traditionally have been, resulting in longer delays between seasons as greater and costlier exhibits similar to HOTD, The Mandalorian, theboys, The Crown, and many others. have far longer and extra sophisticated post-production durations, which means extra persons are continuously working for longer. It strikes extra slowly, nevertheless, in that the downtime between filming, from an actor’s expertise, can generally stretch to over a yr between actually being on set from one season to a different. What was once the September to Could calendar yr for TV is hardly a factor in any respect anymore.

Bringing this again to Home of the Dragon, let’s be actual, in an period of costly TV, it is STILL among the many costliest exhibits. Due to this fact, by scaling again from 10 episodes to eight, it may shorten (probably) the filming time, in the reduction of (ever so barely) on the post-production time, (theoretically) permit the writers and producers extra time to craft the following season forward of time, and even get the actors again to work on the following season earlier than it in any other case would, retaining youthful actors from growing older out of their characters too rapidly.

However all of that is rampant hypothesis; I am just a few man. What do I even find out about TV? I imply, all I do is watch it on a regular basis. However hey, do not you?