House of the Dragon is nothing than a decent show, but is hampered by an inherent inability to mirror the power of the original, and also by a crucial gamble that severely limits one's ability to be reimmersed in the Westeros universe.

This Targaryens-and-dragons-based series will trace the rise of House Targaryen from Aegon's Conquest through to the civil war known as The Dance of Dragons. This series is based on George R. R. Martin's Fire & Blood, a novel that exists in a finished form and covers all of the above material. Game of Thrones, one season covers one book. But that's not possible with Fire & Blood. There are too many kings, too many battles, and too many events in both the early going and in the later parts. Far more likely is that the show is planning to do a multi-season run, with each of these sections taking up at least one season, if not more. Most likely, the first seasons will cram all of the Aegon's Conquest battles in a rush to end with the forging of the Iron Throne. But the series would be better off splitting that war over two seasons (there's just so much history to cover) and end the first with the Burning of Harrenhal, instead.

Either way, combat is coming.