House of the Dragon‘s Finale Director Explains Daemon’s Game of Thrones Moment

House of the Dragon‘s surprisingly subdued play 2 finale, “The Queen That Ever Was,” near a batch of threads dangling for season three to address. But since caller episodes aren’t coming anytime soon—and fans privation answers, dammit!—it’s clip to scour morning-after interviews for immoderate penetration oregon hints. Fortunately, the episode’s director, Geeta Vasant Patel, is present to assistance with immoderate of the dense lifting.

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In an interrogation with Variety, Patel, who besides directed this season’s 3rd occurrence (“The Burning Mill“), talked astir Daemon’s vision. It straight references immoderate important Game of Thrones moments—including White Walkers and the commencement of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons—and experiencing it convinces the wayward King Consort to enactment Queen Rhaenyra’s assertion to the Iron Throne.

House of the Dragon archetypal referenced A Song of Ice and Fire successful play one; King Viserys explained it to his girl arsenic a prophetic imagination had by Aegon the Conqueror, and said it’s a communicative each Targaryen ruler indispensable recognize arsenic they unite the realm against this supernatural threat. In play two, Rhaenyra passed the communicative to Jace, her lad and heir. But “The Queen That Ever Was” was the archetypal clip House of the Dragon has visualized the oral history—and it was besides the archetypal clip the amusement has straight glimpsed its Game of Thrones future.

“I was truthful honored that I would get to beryllium portion of executing that,” Patel told the trade. “When I received the script, each these beats of the visuals were listed, but determination was abstraction for direction. You person to fig retired however each those things are going to travel unneurotic … I thought the dragons [next to Daenerys] successful shadiness would beryllium truly absorbing due to the fact that it’s not astir Daenerys, it’s astir the communicative of history. We’re successful Daemon’s constituent of view, truthful that imaginativeness had to archer the communicative to Daemon of the past of his radical and that Rhaenyra needed to beryllium connected the throne. It’s precise tempting to beryllium like, ‘Let’s amusement Daenerys! Let’s zoom successful connected this!’ But that’s not what it’s about. In fact, Daemon doesn’t cognize who she is. It has to marque Daemon recognize that helium has to crook the genu to Rhaenyra willingly.”

The imaginativeness besides features hints of Daemon’s ain doom-laden future, but Patel wasn’t consenting to speech astir what whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium coming successful play 3 (“I tin get successful occupation if I uncover anything,” she said).

Less cagily, she admitted she—like everyone watching—would similar to cognize what’s up with Otto Hightower. He’s been MIA since leaving King’s Landing successful disgrace, and a speedy chopped successful the finale reveals the crushed for his absence: he’s been locked distant successful a prison… somewhere. “I was asked to sprout that scene,” Patel said, but she wasn’t fixed immoderate discourse for it. “I privation to cognize wherever helium is, too. I don’t know!”

Head to Variety to work the afloat interview, which besides digs into that tense country betwixt Rhaenyra and Alicent, and gives immoderate details connected the 2 caller dragons that made their debut successful the finale.

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