The New Game Of Thrones Spinoff Will Premiere In January 2026 And Not Include Dragons, Magic, Or Most Of The Cool Shit That Made Game Of Thrones Awesome
Alright, alright. I'll admit the Clickburglar in me wrote that headline to sound like a negative little bitch just because that's what fuels the internet these days. But we can all agree that hearing there are no dragons or magic in a Thrones show kinda sucks, right?
I get that the political games playing out on a chessboard full of complex characters were a big part of why we all tuned into HBO during their golden prime time slot for years. Well that and the nudity. Still, it feels like the thing that separated Thrones from the weird British shows your parents randomly started watching was seeing someone potentially getting dracarys'd any given Sunday.
To be clear, I know dragons by no means equal a good TV show. Trust me I get that too considering I did a podcast for a show called House of the Dragon where the coolest character was caught in a bad dream for half a damn season while the fire and blood and cool shit keeps getting pushed back to "really soon, trust me" by the writers. However, maybe we can just wedge a few flashbacks for flash forwards (I have no clue how this timeline is set up) so we can see some sort of giant, mythical firebreathing monster lay waste to entire cities just to scratch the primal itch that has existed in humans since these things were created in our imaginations?
Ahhh fuck it, who am I kidding? Of course I am going to watch this show which will probably be filled with interesting characters in a very well built world that occasionally dabble in some TV-MA hijinks and I will probably like it until it inevitably hits a snag due to the show runner skewing from the source material like they have in all these shows. At that point, I will then complain along with millions of other people about Thrones sucking since the last season of the original series was such a disaster.
Speaking of which, I feel like we are only a few years away from AI being able to create a full final season that isn't a giant piece of shit that gives us a satisfying conclusion for what should have been the greatest show of all-time if Benioff & Weiss didn't crash land the ending, with an assist to George R.R. Martin for simply refusing to finish the goddamn books.