‘House of the Dragon’ showrunner is giving the dragons more personality in season 2

‘House of the Dragon’ co-creator Ryan Condal shares the technical and storytelling challenges of bringing the show’s dragons to life as they go to war.

The proof-of-concept is usually just a capsule version of a larger creative project, made in hopes of selling it. But House of the Dragon co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal only felt as if he’d proven he could helm a worthy prequel to Game of Thrones—the last TV series seemingly everyone watched—after it was already airing.