So it makes sense that House of the Dragon won’t reinvent the wheel there with its own title sequence. While co-creators Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik said they wanted to avoid a title sequence in the pilot, Episode 2 marks the debut of the official House of the Dragon opening sequence. The title sequence brings back the original Game of Thrones theme, but changes the visuals to match the show’s focus on House Targaryen. Meanwhile, the new title series’ visuals transport viewers to a towering view of the series’ characters, represented by various trinkets and symbols, using the same gears and cogs that turned the map of Westeros for the original show’s opening sequence . Meanwhile, as the camera pans over all these symbols, a bright red stream of blood runs down the walls of a castle eventually covering each one. Djawadi is back with the cellos, which he told Entertainment Weekly he saw as “the big Game of Thrones sound.” Beyond that, Djawadi says he focused on pulling the themes he thought were most useful from the original show in developing a new sound for House of the Dragon. “This is all about the Targaryens, so the big thing was keeping their sound and themes,” Djawadi told EW. “Definitely the sound that Daenerys had is connected to the Targaryens. The sound is the same. However, I think it’s important to point out that Daenerys actually has a separate theme from the Dragon theme. So, they’re two separate subjects, but sonically, they’re similar.”
