“It’s visceral and it’ll rip your heart out and throw it on the floor,” George R.R. Martin tells V.F. of that HouseOfTheDragon scene. “It has the kind of impact that the Red Wedding had.”
There’s a lot of opportunity for expansion. That’s what we’ll find a lot of in the series. [What] Ryan and his team of writers have been doing great so far is to do an expansion that does not contradict the book. I mean, you can add a lot of things. You can add scenes. You can even add some characters. But you can’t do anything that affects the structure—or otherwise, three or four books later, you’re going to be in trouble.
We wanted to dramatize that. We think you see plenty of violence of all colors in Westeros, but there is a particular violence to childbirth, even childbirth that goes well in the end. We wanted to dramatize that. We also wanted, on a dramatic level, to have Viserys have to make a choice. It was really important to make him an active participant in what happened to Aemma and to Baelon.That is so powerful. Paddy performs that heartbreak and the difficulty is on his face.
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