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The House of the Dragon timeline, so far

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The Game of Thrones prequel takes place almost two centuries before Daenerys Targaryen, but jumps ahead years and years into the future. Here’s how much time has passed so far on HBO’s new show.
House of the Dragon episode 6 takes a major 10-year time jump in the action — and however it plays out in the long run, it’s exactly the kind of move the show should be making.
One of the best parts of House of the Dragon, HBO’s so-far-so-good Game of Thrones prequel series, is how co-creator George R.R. Martin and showrunner Ryan Condal reaped storytelling philosophy from Netflix’s The Crown. Peter Morgan, creator of that series, knew it was impossible to linearly chart every beat of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign (RIP), so from the first season, the drama bounced from significant moment to significant moment, with each hour playing like a stand-alone film.
House of the Dragon’s time jumps make Martin’s “history” of Westeros from the book Fire & Blood come alive with equal significance. Knowing that every week, viewers will catapult ahead by a few months, or even years, means that episodes can just deliver the good stuff. Game of Thrones found epic scale in the map (which it often had to cut corners to fully chart); House of the Dragon finds that same scope in time.
One of the worst parts of House of the Dragon is that I am but a feeble man who often needs to be told exactly where and when things are happening in a story of this scale, and yet there’s no hand-holding. Consider me a big fan of when David Fincher used screen-filling WordArt to scream things like “FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA,” in Mindhunter. While the locations in the contained drama of House of the Dragon are fairly easy to follow (although who doesn’t love a map?), I’ll admit that I’ve never been five minutes into an episode and felt confident that I knew when things were playing out.

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