House of the Dragon Showrunner Dropped a Big Spoiler for the Show’s Finale
Yet we still don’t know what season 2 will eventually bring.
House of the Dragon season 2 has fans counting down the days until it’s finally dropped on Max in a few days, and the whole intrigue seems to get even more sinister with every update coming from the show’s creators.
However, even considering that the second season hasn’t even arrived yet, Game of Thrones ’ prequel already appears to have far-reaching plans for its definite ending as one of the series’ showrunners recently opened up about the crew’s ideas for the last season.
Ahead of the second installment’s arrival on streaming, House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal revealed that, despite having no clue about how many more seasons the show will eventually get, the creators have already come up with some plot twists that may conclude House of Targaryen’s story in George R.R. Martin’s cinematic universe.
According to Condal, “history moves on for another bunch of decades until the fall of the Targaryen dynasty, which is really kind of the end of the story, when the Mad King falls and Robert Baratheon overthrows the Iron Throne.”
Mad King is a common nickname for King Aerys II Targaryen, the last member of the House of Targaryen to sit on the Iron Throne. Although at first his reign had good prospects for his family’s cemented status as the most flourishing dynasty in Westeros, Aerys II soon fell victim to an illness mostly known as the Targaryen madness.
The mental instability of family members was a sorrowful result of those hundreds of years the Targaryens had favored marriages between blood brothers and sisters to keep their elite bloodline pure. The cases of incest that became very common thus led to the Targaryens’ constant health issues and Mad King’s paranoid schizophrenia.
Reflecting on House of the Dragon’s future after its second season, Condal also added that he is “not yet ready to talk about how many episodes or seasons we need. You know, we need to get there. But I know now — having gone through the process of writing and breaking season two and knowing where we’re going in season three — that we have a good plan, and we know the roadmap and how to get there.”
House of the Dragon season 2 is set to hit Max on June 16.
Source: io9