When Home of the Dragon season one premiered, its built-in viewers of Recreation of Thrones followers seen instantly a similarity between the 2 reveals: Ramin Djawadi’s iconic theme tune. And Dragon’s opening-credits graphics—whereas not similar—had been definitely evocative of Thrones’. When Dragon returns for its second season, nonetheless, viewers will discover an enormous change.
The music is identical, however the graphics are fairly totally different. As a substitute of blood operating by stone and steel, the forged and crew names unfurl whereas a tapestry is being stitched as blood seeps into the material. “We did resolve to go along with the brand new predominant title sequence this yr,” showrunner Ryan Condal defined to io9 as a part of a Home of the Dragon season two press roundtable. “After we had been wanting on the sequence we did in season one, which I feel works very effectively, it was visually dynamic and fascinating, nevertheless it was actually about—it was basically a household tree. It was concerning the bloodlines of this generational household that begins with Viserys after which goes down by Rhaenyra and Alicent after which on to the era of their kids.”
This season, nonetheless, that second era—King Aegon II, Aemond Targaryen, Jacaerys Velaryon, and so forth—are actually totally a part of the story. “The household is sort of set at [this] level,” Condal mentioned. “Recreation of Thrones loves an evolving title sequence, and we simply didn’t actually know the place to go along with it from there. So the concept was, if the primary season was about ancestry and bloodlines, season two is now about [being part of] this residing historical past, this era that turns into very seismic, each on this time after which for all of the many years to come back. That is such a well-known time in historical past that even characters within the A Track of Ice and Hearth books are pondering again to the Dance of the Dragons, which is probably the most brutal and bloody civil conflict fought on this time.”
Condal continued. “So we wish to do one thing that was that was dynamic and that was speaking concerning the themes within the story that we had been telling in season two and past. And it felt in my thoughts, the way in which to do this was to discover a method of rendering the historical past in a visible method. We went to a tapestry and there’s this glorious title firm referred to as yU+co that designed that for us. And the concept is that we live by historical past, and we’re seeing it stitched into the material of this tapestry as we transfer, the time begins in Previous Valyria and takes us throughout to, as you see on the finish of it, Vhagar taking out Arrax over Storm’s Finish [as seen in the season one finale]. And I feel you’ll proceed to see it evolve from right here.”
Home of the Dragon season two arrives June 16 on HBO and Max.
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