House of the Dragon


Within the ultimate moments of the Home of the Dragon season 2 finale, Daemon (Matt Smith) tells Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), “Winter is coming.” This season, Daemon Targaryen has modified considerably. Haunted by visions of these he deserted at Harrenhal, he’s now a modified man.

Followers have been eagerly awaiting a reunion between Daemon and Rhaenyra. Their reunion was crammed with understanding and devotion that stunned even Rhaenyra. In a brand new interview with TV Line, director Geeta Patel mentioned how Star Wars influenced her course of the reunion scene.

Within the ultimate episode, Daemon experiences his ultimate imaginative and prescient at Harrenhal, wherein he exhibits many issues, such because the three-eyed raven, a lifeless dragon, fallen males, Daenerys and her three dragons. Patel had two primary targets for this scene. “One was that we wished to be sure that Daemon did not all of the sudden come throughout as a weak particular person, as somebody we did not acknowledge.”

How Daemon and Rhaenyra’s Reunion Was Impressed by ‘Star Wars’

Moreover, co-creator Ryan Condal wished Daemon’s experiences at Harrenhal to make him notice that “there’s one thing greater than himself” and that “Rhaenyra is supposed to take a seat on that throne.” Patel explains, “Daemon is somebody who’s all the time occupied with himself, and right here he is requested to consider the larger image.”

Within the finale, Ser Simon Sturdy despatched a raven to Rhaenyra as a result of he feared that Daemon and Ser Alfred Broome had been plotting in opposition to her.

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Daemon, deeply affected by his imaginative and prescient, realizes, nonetheless, that he should help Rhaenyra if the Empire is to outlive. “Daemon is somebody who may be very deep and truly very considerate beneath the best way he expresses his concern and his anger, which is violence,” Patel explains.

Patel additionally mentioned that when she directed this scene, she noticed Daemon as a determine just like Yoda, who’s simply discovering his function. “He is the non secular chief. He isn’t somebody who turns into submissive. He isn’t somebody who steps again.

He is somebody who owns his function, and I assumed Matt did that fantastically.” Rhaenyra notices this transformation, noting that Daemon seems like “her father.” Patel provides, “When he says, ‘You’re the chosen one, you are able to do this,’ it is not a person speaking to a girl. That is somebody who has turn into a mentor for a hero’s journey, and the hero is Rhaenyra.”

All episodes of Home of the Dragon can be found on Max.