King Viserys, played by Paddy Considine, is missing two fingers on his left hand due to a mysterious illness. But during a scene featuring the monarch in House of the Dragon episode 3, titled “Second of His Name,” fans noticed the VFX gaffe that would help edit his missing digits in post-production. The blink-and-you-miss-it House of the Dragon mistake happens when King Viserys decides to send out help to Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) and his brother Daemon (Matt Smith) to defeat the Crabfeeder.
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As humans are behind groundbreaking technology like CGI, it’s normal for some details to skip past the VFX artists, but HBO will correct the mistake nonetheless. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the revised version of the episode will be available on the streaming platform HBO Max. The error echoes a similar situation that occurred years prior on Game of Thrones when someone left a Starbucks cup on a table during a scene from the fourth episode of the show’s final season. During an interview with THR earlier this year, showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan J. Condal joked they had “a very heavily policed set — there was lots of Starbucks-hunting going on” to prevent another incident. On a more serious note, Sapochnik and Condal reasoned that those situations are frequent on film and television.
Despite the infamous CGI blunder, House of the Dragon is doing well with audiences. Less than a week after its record-breaking premiere, HBO renewed House of the Dragon for a second season. The prequel takes place 200 years before the events depicted in Game of Thrones and 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, portraying the Targaryen war of succession and the beginning of the Targaryen House’s downfall.
Although its predecessor received criticism for its often gratuitous sex and violence, the new series chose to follow a different path. While House of the Dragon still delivers tons of gore, Sapochnik and Condal have decided to omit acts of sexual violence in House of the Dragon if they don’t serve the story. Moreover, the showrunners included intimacy coordinators on the set to ensure the actors’ comfort while performing these scenes. So far, the first three episodes crafted a compelling narrative and supplied gory entertainment that doesn’t feel too exploitative.
House of the Dragon airs on Sundays on HBO.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
