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Lizardchuckle t1_iuakrj8 wrote

Reply to comment by SporadicSheep in ‘House Of The Dragon’ Author George R.R. Martin Muses On The Many Ways The Series Could Have Started by HumanOrAlien

The conquest would only really work for a mini series or something. The conquest is like 2 battles - 1 of which is essentially a trap where they very easily win. They breeze through everything because of dragons, Aegon wins over the admiration of everyone very easily, every minor conflict they instantly solve with dragons, the only campaign that is drawn out is Dorne and that's mostly them burning down empty castles because the Dorne's refuse to fight them.

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really-shiny-panties t1_iuano30 wrote

Whereas with Maegor the cruel…you got a clusterfucked situation where multiple factions have a single objective

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antonjakov t1_iuasivb wrote

i wish they would discuss maegor more - i think they should be more open to flashbacks. his story really highlights some of the topics that become relevant again with daemon and rhaenyra, like the second son complex and succession crises

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DisneyDreams7 t1_iubkzxq wrote

This is a dumb take. By this logic Breaking Bad could only work for a mini series since it is a simple plot which can be seen to a reasonable conclusion. If you have good writers, then you could make it into a full series

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