This episode touches the light spoilers for “Dragon House” Season 1 finale.
Warner Bros. While Discovery can theoretically report any number they want for the “House of the Dragon” season finale, Variety notes that the show’s streaming view count has also increased or remained flat in its first six weeks, according to third-party Nielsen data. It jumped from the 327 million minutes aired in the show’s first week to 741 and 781 million minutes in its second and third weeks, then offset by 1.02 billion, 960 million, and 1.01 billion minutes in its fourth, fifth, and sixth weeks, respectively.
Personally, I was happy to see Sea Snake Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) return in the finale, I think his ambiguous mid-season debut and all the off-screen talk we’ve heard about him since then has been one of them. One of the more glaring examples of the show’s time jumps is quenching the drama and investment with certain plots and characters. “Dragon House” is based on the book “Fire and Blood” by George RR Martin, and this season is all about setting up the Targaryen civil war or A Dance with Dragons.
The finale is about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (I. Next season promises to bring all-out warand by the way, you can watch all ten episodes of “House of the Dragon” season 1 on HBO Max.