The success of Game of Thrones proved that audiences find morally gray fantasy characters compelling, so it was to be expected that its spin-off prequel series House of the Dragon would follow in its footsteps.
Less expected was that Amazon’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power, would also dip its toes into a more complex morality, stepping away from what general audiences may have expected from a prequel to J.R.R.
Tolkein’s fantasy epic.
It begs the question: have audiences lost their taste for stories of straightforward stories of “good versus evil”?
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