{"id":7404,"date":"2021-12-29T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2021-12-28T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:39:18","slug":"most-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/12\/29\/most-anticipated\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Anticipated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is almost at hand, and with it will come all manner of new television shows, on network, cable, and streamers.<\/p>\n<p>I have got to confess, I was chuffed to read that the <em><strong>most<\/strong> <\/em>anticipated new show, according to IMDB, was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(drum roll, please)<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSE OF THE DRAGON!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/house-of-the-dragon-imdb-most-anticipated-original-tv-series-2022\/\">https:\/\/movieweb.com\/house-of-the-dragon-imdb-most-anticipated-original-tv-series-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a hell of a list to be at the top of, too.\u00a0\u00a0 Amazon&#8217;s new Tolkien series?\u00a0\u00a0 Neil Gaiman&#8217;s SANDMAN?\u00a0 Marvel shows?\u00a0\u00a0 STAR WARS shows?<\/p>\n<p>Good company.<\/p>\n<p>I am anticipating <strong><em>HOUSE OF THE DRAGON<\/em><\/strong> pretty eagerly myself, for what it&#8217;s worth.\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, I am hardly objective.\u00a0\u00a0 And I know a lot of what you will be seeing.\u00a0 (I, um, wrote the book).\u00a0\u00a0 Also &#8230; mum&#8217;s the word now, don&#8217;t tell anyone&#8230; I&#8217;ve seen a rough cut of the first episode.\u00a0\u00a0 And loved it.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s powerful, it&#8217;s visceral&#8230; just the way I like my epic fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan and Miguel have done an amazing job, and the cast&#8230; just as with GAME OF THRONES, most viewers will only have heard of a few of the actors, but I think you are going to fall in love with a lot of them.\u00a0\u00a0 (Only to have your heart broken later when&#8230; but no, that would be telling).<\/p>\n<p>I think the Targaryens are in very good hands.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipate away.\u00a0\u00a0 I do not think you will be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is almost at hand, and with it will come all manner of new television shows, on network, cable, and streamers. I have got to confess, I was chuffed to read that the most anticipated new show, according to IMDB, was&#8230; (drum roll, please) HOUSE OF THE DRAGON! https:\/\/movieweb.com\/house-of-the-dragon-imdb-most-anticipated-original-tv-series-2022\/ That&#8217;s a hell of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[15,300,11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}