Daemon Targaryen

Um, and he was so fantastic in that and I just...

You know, the Daemon Targaryen fan edits were just, just all over my TikTok For You page.

And, and now, and now I just feel like my Matt Smith obsession is really creeping back up on me and I'm scared.

I get it.

But I, I think I'm more aligned with you where, yeah, it feels like we should've gotten, uh, an episode nine and 10.

Because it feels like I, I was really looking forward to what Aegon and Daemon were gonna get into.

I'm alive.

After, you know, after Aegon found him in Harrenhal finally.

I just, I think-

Aemond.

What'd I say, Daemon? Uh, yeah, I was really looking forward to seeing what Aegon and Aemond were gonna get into, especially after...

Imbecile.

It is a sprawling, massive ensemble.

You have heavy hitters like Matt Smith as Prince Daemon, Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra

It's a huge cast

Narrowing the entire population of Westeros down to just 41 people is a wild exercise in establishing a caste system

There's not incestuous stuff going on in the real history.

But there is this weird, because I think what you get with Rhaenyra and Daemon is this sense that you never know whether he's going to turn against her.

And there's this sense that he might want to be king.

And you do get in the history, what you actually get is this sense that Robert, Earl of Gloucester, is someone that everyone feels like they could have backed as king.

You know, like, have me out of the way.

Because before me, you know, before her father named me the heir, you were his heir.

But then you also get the impression that her father, Viserys, never maybe fully intended Daemon to be the heir since he didn't tell him the story.

that he told Rhaenyra?

Then we discussed the war itself, and that was fun as well.

Now, as you all know, Daemon Blackfyre died on the Redgrass Field, his army was defeated, and that ended the war.

But not the Blackfyre cause.

Right.

His ability and determination made it all happen.

It was he who reclaimed Blackfyre itself on the battlefield.

It was he who gathered Daemon's other sons, daughter, and widow and fled with them across the Narrow Sea before King Daeron's loyalists could capture them.

Now, apart from looming large in the history of Westeros, Bittersteel is also a compelling character.

I like Mushroom.

Uh, let's talk about Daemon and Nettles.

Uh, this is crazy different from the show because not only is Nettles not, like, on the run and Rhaena, but Nettles is part of the, the hunting party looking for Vhagar along with Daemon.

Mm-hmm.

They are kind of roaming the countryside together.

And I believe it.

It's hard to deny.

Uh, Daemon's that kind of guy.

And Rhaenyra's like, I'm being merciful.

And then they're like, okay, anyway, Daemon, what are you up to? Oh, I found out that my daughter's the one that killed my wife's son.

Uh-oh.

Let me lie to her about it.

And I would even say perhaps a looks maxer, an early incel because some of his stuff being like very Christian, whatever.

I think that we could probably say, it's hard to say, okay, wait, I have a question for you.

Because when you hear the Hightowers talk about the Targaryens and also when Daemon talks about being a Targaryen, the Targaryens are colonizers, yes? Yes.

Yes.