'House of the Dragon' Creator Explains Why Opening Credits Were Changed for Season 2

If you caught the season two premiere of House of the Dragon, you might have noticed there’s a new opening credits sequence.

The first season’s opening credits featured blood going through a maze-like puzzle while the second season’s opening credits show a medieval tapestry being threaded.

So, why the change?

Keep reading to find out more…

“The amazing opening sequence for the original show put us in this place where — not that we were trying to top it, but that we were trying to continue the tradition of an evolving credit sequence that changes,” co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal told The Hollywood Reporter.

He continued, “In the original show, the credits change as the show changes geography, showing you more and more of Westeros. We wanted to continue that with our title sequence, but as we got to the end of season one, we realized that the bloodlines and ancestry story we were telling that season — 20 years of time in season one — had been brought to an end because now the Targaryen ancestry is sort of set. We didn’t have much place to go.”

“So we decided to go with radical change. Now that the page has turned and we’re at war, this is a living history and we want to depict that history in a visual way and give the fans new things to take apart and dive into. This really great titles company, called yU+co, came in and I pitched them the Bayeux Tapestry, which is this famous work of art that is both a piece of art and also the story of a very particular period in medieval history. A lot of what we know about medieval combat, about medieval dress and customs, comes from that sort of visual history,” Ryan continued.

“And those guys took it and ran with it and came back with this and I love it,” he added. “It gives us a lot of places to go. The story obviously starts on Valeria and and then at some point in the sequence, you’re like, ‘Oh, I remember that from from season one’ and you see how we’ve moved from Aegon the Conqueror’s time and pass through all the kings, and now we’re telling the story as we’re seeing it unfold and also seeing it literally being stitched into this tapestry.”

See which cast members returned and which ones didn’t.

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Watch the original credits below!