The opening of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” has the same opening music and similar look to “Game of Thrones.”
Is this branding or laziness?
It’s all very odd because our press screener didn’t include the opening, which didn’t appear in the first episode even in the on air version. It’s like they couldn’t figure out what to do, so they threw this together.
Fans on line were outraged. For all this money, HBO couldn’t come up with something new and exciting?
The similarities are a mistake, I feel. The new opening does nothing to differentiate this show from the original one. Is that the point? Shouldn’t “HOD” have its own identity? Yes!
I remember in the past, you always looked forward to the spin off shows’ themes, whether it’s a “Star Trek” series, or “Rhoda,” or, for those of us old enough, “The Girl from UNCLE.”
I hope by season 2, HBO can come up with something more creative.
