HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Showrunner Responds To Criticism Of Daemon's Characterisation: "He Killed His Wife"

House of the Dragon viewers were not too pleased with Daemon Targaryen's actions in the recent season finale, and showrunner Ryan Condol has now responded to the backlash...

Daemon Targaryen has always been a morally dubious individual, but for many fans of George R.R. Martin's Fire and Blood, the version of the character Matt Smith plays in HBO's House of the Dragon made the jump to outright villainy - and they are not happy about it.

In the recent season finale, Daemon violently chokes his wife/niece Rhaenyra when she brings up Viserys' "The Prince that Was Promised" prophecy - hours after she gave birth to their stillborn child.

We've seen Daemon do some pretty heinous stuff over the course of the season (including bashing his first wife's head in with a rock), but for many, putting his hands on Rhaenyra was a step too far. This does mark a departure from the book, though nothing we've seen from Daemon in the series up until now suggests that he wouldn't be capable of this kind of act.

Even so, showrunner/co-creator Ryan Condol has clearly taken note. "Yeah, please explain to me and George who Daemon is as a character, everybody," Condol sarcastically responded to EW when asked about the backlash.

"Well, I mean... he killed his wife," he added. "We've seen Daemon do very questionable things all season long, but he's being played incredibly by an actor who's exuding charisma," Condal says of Smith. "He's fun and fascinating and dangerous the way these great Game of Thrones characters are, like Bronn [Jerome Flynn] and Jamie [Nikolaj Coster-Waldau] and the Red Viper [Pascal]. We're really drawn to those characters as an audience, but that doesn't mean that they are unimpeachable heroes that are not capable of doing really questionable things."

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