As House of the Dragon is set to arrive, a hotly anticipated battle is drawing massive attention to the third season.
It is the Battle of Gullet.
Ryan Condal, who is the showrunner, described the battle as “arguably the craziest episode of TV ever made.”
He compared the battle to the iconic battle of Helm’s Deep in the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
“To try to tell this story without doing the Gullet would be trying to film Lord of the Rings without doing the Battle of Helm’s Deep,” he told EW.
“If we were going to do it, we had to do it right. And that meant dragons and ships and multiple theaters of conflict.”
‘Season 3 starts at 60 miles per hour’
With previous seasons being criticized for being slow, Emma D’Arcy, the show’s Rhaenyra Targaryen said season 3 will be different.
“The series this time around starts at 60 miles an hour,” she told EW.
“We’re finally watching a war that has been building for two seasons.”
D’Arcy praised Condal for building the hype for the upcoming battle that has been simmering for previous seasons.
“I’m so impressed by Ryan and the team, because it takes real nerve to stage a conflict that has been, until now, primarily interpersonal, interfamily—and then to finally, in one huge gesture, allow that conflict to unleash on the realm as a whole, I think, is some very classy plotting.”
House of the Dragon season three arrives on HBO Max on June 21.
