House Of The Dragon: Are The Time Jumps Hurting The Pacing?
House of the Dragon has been a pleasant surprise for many fans of Game of Thrones who felt burned by the heavily panned final season. The return to the Song of Ice and Fire universe has made a name for itself by being different in a number of ways, some better than others.
Game of Thrones was notoriously a very eventful series. A single episode packed in a ton of content, from action scenes to tense dialogue exchanges. Episodes almost always had to cover the days, if not the hours, that immediately followed the episode before it.
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Between each episode of House of the Dragon, there's been a substantial jump in time. Six months passed between the first and second episodes. Around three years then pass between episodes two and three. A baby born in the premiere is on his feet toddling by episode three. A trade dispute mentioned in passing in the first episode is heightened in the second and concluded in the third. The narrative is moving fast, and it can be tough to tell where all the pieces are when each episode begins. There's no timecard revealing the gap between each episode, it's given subtly through context clues. The show certainly doesn't need to spoonfeed that information to the audience, but the fact that each episode takes place in a different era than the one before is a bit jarring.
Films in a franchise have some leeway when it comes to time. A piece of a long-running film franchise could take place years after the last or carry the momentum from its final moments. Time jumps between seasons of television aren't uncommon. The show goes away for a while on some big cliffhanger and the audience is prepared for a new experience when it gets back. Anime loves a good time-skip,
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