However, by merely the third episode, House of the Dragon quickly resolves this storyline. If the showrunners had followed the Night King and the White Walkers as the template for the Crabfeeder and the Triarchy, the War of Stepstones would have been gradually set up across multiple seasons, culminating in an all-out battle similar to that of Game of Thrones Season 8 episode, “The Long Night,” which depicted the heroes united against the Army of the Dead at Winterfell. On the other hand, Viserys continues to keep out of the conflict: “It's been three years. By the third year since the Crabfeeder became a threat, Daemon - with the advantage of his own dragon Caraxes - has successfully held off the Triarchy. Corlys, this time bypassing Viserys, goes to Dragonstone to make an appeal to Daemon and successfully convinces the king’s brother to join the fight against the Triarchy in the Stepstones. Months later, while Daemon has been exiled to Dragonstone, the Crabfeeder’s power and the Triarchy’s presence have grown. However, Viserys completely disregards Corlys’ concerns as he, as a peacetime king, wants to avoid war with the Free Cities at all cost. ![]() As the Sea Snake, Lord Corlys is deeply concerned with the Crabfeeder’s alliance with the Free Cities, called the Triarchy, who are encroaching on his territory of the Stepstones. ![]() RELATED: 'House of the Dragon': Daniel Scott-Smith Discusses the "Freedom" Behind Playing the CrabfeederĬraghas Drahar was first introduced in the pilot episode of House of the Dragon in a brief exchange between King Viserys and Lord Corlys Velaryon ( Steve Toussaint). In terms of the Crabfeeder, his storyline is an example of how Sapochnik and Condal are differentiating the show from its very successful predecessor. The argument that House of the Dragon is merely just another rehash of Game of Thrones can be made, considering that the battle for the Iron Throne, specifically the position as the Targaryen heir, is yet again another central plot point. However, this decision by showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal to tease the Crabfeeder as the series’ big bad, only to be quickly defeated by Viserys’s brother Daemon ( Matt Smith), is a welcome surprise. For audiences not so familiar with the books, the Crabfeeder’s brief presence in the first few episodes of House of the Dragon might have been disappointing. However, the Crabfeeder and his allies are far from the foreboding, gradual threat that the White Walkers were in Game of Thrones. Įven though the Song of Ice and Fire is reiterated by Viserys Targaryen ( Paddy Considine) to his supposed heir Rhaenyra Targaryen ( Milly Alcock), House of the Dragon introduced a new threat to Westeros with the introduction of the Crabfeeder, Craghas Drahar ( Daniel Scott-Smith). ![]() With the prequel series taking place roughly two hundred years prior to the original, fans may have expected the same scale and anticipation as House of the Dragon. By the eighth and final season, audiences were ready to see the Night King and his army face off against the Starks and their allies, ultimately being defeated by Arya Stark ( Maisie Williams). However, the show took its time in introducing their threat, first facing off against Jon Snow ( Kit Harington) and the Night Watch who guarded the Wall before their presence became known to the rest of Westeros. With the power to reanimate the dead and incorporate them into their army, the White Walkers proved to be a formidable enemy for the show’s main characters. Martin’s series of fantasy novels that the show is based on. It was a promise baked into the show’s mythology as a prophecy called the “Song of Ice and Fire,” the title of George R. Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Episode 3.Part of what made the original Game of Thrones series a popular success and made audiences follow week after week, season after season, was the ultimate promise of the Night King and his army of White Walkers.
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