A knight’s tale that needs no dragons

With burnout being the defining state of our time, a new “Game of Thrones” spinoff may be the last thing most people want to see. The final seasons of that drama swooned into a creative tailspin that “House of the Dragon” couldn’t pull out of. Worse, that show transformed high fantasy’s most magnificent beasts into little more than pimped-out rides for pasty dictators.

Season 2 ended with clashing Targaryen factions heading to war, and . . .  lots of staring, which is pretty much how the first season wrapped up.