GRRM recent blog post about episode 4

🐉GRRM praise episode 4 in his latest blog post:

"I trust you all caught “The Red Dragon and the Gold,” the fourth episode of season 2 of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. A lot of you have been wanting for action, I know; this episode delivered it in spades with the Battle of Rook’s Rest, when dragon met dragon in the skies. Our guys knocked this one out of the castle. I think they took it as a challenge."

🐉Also more details about dragon and rider bonding will be revealed in later books:

"My dragons do not talk. They are relatively intelligent, but they are still beasts.

They bond with men… some men… and the why and how of that, and how it came to be, will eventually be revealed in more detail in THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING and some in BLOOD & FIRE. (Septon Barth got much of it right)."

🐉And some shade regarding canon:

" You won’t find dragons hunting the riverlands or the Reach or the Vale, or roaming the northlands or the mountains of Dorne.

Fantasy needs to be grounded. It is not simply a license to do anything you like. Smaug and Toothless may both be dragons, but they should never be confused. Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper."

LINK: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/07/11/here-there-be-dragons-2/