House Of The Dragon Needs More Characters Like Daemon

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Though he is undoubtedly a Republican, I found myself missing Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon's second episode.

Matt Smith's blonde-wigged creep dominated the series premiere, sitting on his brother's throne, needling Otto Hightower, cheating in a jousting match (and on his wife), murdering smallfolk, sardonically toasting his recently deceased nephew, and generally being a piece of shit. The episode ends with him being banished from King's Landing, though, and unfortunately, he was also banished from most of its follow-up, "The Rogue Prince." His absence made it significantly more obvious how uninteresting a lot of the residents of King's Landing are at this early point in the show's life.

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It's not that Daemon didn't get enough screen time, per se. He was present for the episode's climactic stand-off and two shorter scenes after that. Basically, he got the amount of screen time you would expect to see Arya or Jon Snow or Jaime get in a Game of Thrones episode that wasn't primarily about Arya or Jon Snow or Jaime. The difference, though, is that Game of Thrones was filled with interesting, charismatic characters. And, at least right now in House of the Dragon, we don't have many besides Daemon.

Daemon stands out from the moment he's introduced. When we first meet him, he's sitting on the king's throne. Then, he has a conversation with Rhaenyra in High Valyrian, evincing a roguish charm that has clearly won her over. As the episode progresses, we see that he has been leading a fascist kingsguard that seems completely devoted to him. We see him handle victory and defeat, and in neither is he pleasant. From the jump,