18-06-2025
House of the Dragon S03 Director Setting Fans Up for Disappointment
House of the Dragon has went on to be a spectacular show, but deviations from the book (and admittedly focus on women) has led to some toxic backlash that is pretty hard to avoid online.
With Season 3 incoming director and cinematographer Loni Peristere was asked by Gold Derby what fans can expect from the third season, to which he says:
'It's definitely everything that the fans want. Everything they've read in the book, everything that they know is coming. This season goes to 11.'
Though that does sound fine and dandy for anyone who hasn't been keeping their ear to the ground when it comes to the series, it does sound like Peristere could be setting the fans up for disappointment with him saying it's 'definitely everything that the fans want.'
Even George R.R. Martin himself has already come out online about not being pleased with the omissions that the series made with the source material; and those omissions are going to trickle all the way down to events that are expected (or rather not expected) to take place in the next season.
Personally, I don't really care that much anymore when an adaptation makes omissions—that's something expected when mediums change— but there are definitely going to be fans tuning online every week just to talk about how much they hate what's been removed and saying how they wish showrunner Ryan Condal never made the series in the first place.
It's honestly exhausting as a House of the Dragon fan, but the moment social media and the Youtube algorithm stops rewarding rage baiting, maybe we can see this die down eventually.
House of the Dragon Season 3 is expected to come out on HBO Max sometime in 2026.
