I know nothing about the books but dude they got playing Cregen Stark killed that role. He got 5 minutes of screen time and made that character seem a lot more interesting than most of the characters on this show which is one of my gripes about this show. None of these characters are written in a way that really makes me care about them. That Cregen character commanded the screen like so many other characters portrayed in Game of Thrones.. Most of these characters in House of the Dragon are just blah.