One of the defining characteristics of a great cartoon show is that it’s family-friendly enough for kids while still offering enough depth and intrigue for adults. Image: Netflix What they learned from working on Avatar: The Last Airbender But they hope people will feel more satisfied with the narrative once the larger framework becomes clear. “People are much more willing to sit down and watch all of in a row, so we’re able to do a lot more connective tissue between the episodes and expect everybody to immediately know what was going on,” Ehasz said.Įhasz and Richmond say having fans who want more Dragon Prince isn’t a bad problem, as it likely means the show was good. But addressing the initial season as one story - and assuming viewers might watch it all in a sitting - let the creators assume that their audience would remember all the finer narrative details from episode to episode. While the creators did craft the show with the expectation that viewers would binge-watch it, they thought of The Dragon Prince more as an extra-long feature than a series, so the complaints took them by surprise. One of the most common complaints about The Dragon Prince, aside from the controversial animation style (which may get an update in season 2), is that the first season felt too short. How streaming and the internet have influenced The Dragon Prince The Dragon Prince just got the green light for season 2 on Netflix, so we’ll get to see at least some of those long-term ideas unfold.
“I think paying attention to all the details and making sure the character arcs you’re building are going to resonate as authentic for the characters but also fit into this world that’s unique and special and figuring out how it’s all going to fit together - it’s always really hard, but that’s what we love doing.”
“It is a labor of love, but there is a lot of labor, especially when you’re trying to build a big, epic world with lots of details and a kind of physics of magic that makes some sense and actually has some rules to it,” Ehasz said. The worry was about making sure the show always felt “real and grounded.” Developing the internal rules for how The Dragon Prince works, however, was one of the most grueling aspects of the process. The hardest thing about making The Dragon PrinceĪccording to Richmond, The Dragon Prince does not have a lore bible, but the writers have jotted down 400 pages of “cool ideas” about where they can take the story.
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