The original post: /r/television by /u/TemurTron on 2026-02-09 21:30:58+00:00.
Original Title: Pretty much every fantasy/sci fi IP should take note of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Give us more grounded, cozy stories in your world for your spinoffs, rather than cheap knockoffs of the original series
Holy crap is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms a show I never knew I wanted! After seeing House of the Dragon stumble and Rings of Power flop, I feel like there’s so much that other shows could learn from the idea of building more smaller scale, cozy type stories in already established fantasy/sci fi worlds.
I think Rings of Power has struggled because they are trying to create this huge epic feel in a time period that was best kept to a prologue in the classics. This has happened time and time again with shows that try to recreate the exact momentum and concept of the original IP. Meanwhile, what we usually want as fans is just more of the original, which can be just as well given in smaller, slice of life stories with good characters and established world/lore building.
I really hope this leads to other IPs taking note, and we get things like chill, lower stakes Marvel adventures (like Hawkeye), or a laid back Star Wars show, or some cool LoTR variation that’s mostly just Hobbits chilling and arguing. Give me more of this branch of spinoff and less shitty recreations of the originals please!