How, precisely, did season 2 of “Home of the Dragon” discover a technique to get Milly Alcock again to Westeros? All of it comes right down to Daemon, who, after the time leap — and after Laenor fakes his personal demise to stay freely — marries Emmy D’Arcy’s Rhaenyra and lives as her consort. In season 2, Rhaenyra, offended at her husband for a horrifying homicide plot he orchestrated that left two of Alicent’s grandchildren useless in a brutal vogue, orders him to take Harrenhal for her forces … and earlier than lengthy, Daemon discovers the dreary outdated fort is likely to be only a smidge haunted. Within the season’s third episode, “The Burning Mill,” Daemon goals of a younger Rhaenyra (Alcock in D’Arcy’s stead) stitching the decapitated head of a type of aforementioned grandchildren, the younger Prince Jaehaerys, again onto his tiny physique. Then, within the episode that follows, “The Purple Dragon and the Gold,” Daemon as soon as once more sees younger Rhaenyra in his goals; this time, she’s in entrance of the Iron Throne, and he beheads her after she accuses him of treason.
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After “The Burning Mill” aired, showrunner and co-creator Ryan Condal spoke to Leisure Weekly and mentioned that he was proud that the sequence managed to maintain Alcock’s return a large secret … and that, regardless of no matter an government mentioned to her beforehand, she was pleased to return again. “It was very simple by way of will,” Condal recalled. “We had been excited concerning the prospect. Milly was keen to return again and everyone was excited to have her again.”
“She’s very busy, so it was a tough factor to navigate across the schedule, however we basically had her in for a few days proper firstly of manufacturing,” Condal additionally remembered; “Home of the Dragon” needed to work round Alcock’s capturing schedule on James Gunn’s “Superman,” which options her as Supergirl. “I believe one in every of our biggest feats was preserving {that a} secret during, given the truth that it occurred proper originally,” Condal added.
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“As an alternative of warfare or dragons or photos of horror, it was actually extra of him being haunted by these individuals who he had achieved improper by in his previous, notably younger Rhaenyra,” Condal clarified as to why the present wanted Alcock to return for these two cameos. “That is the woman who took his declare, not elder Rhaenyra, performed by Emma D’Arcy. It is that model of Rhaenyra that eliminated him because the inheritor to the throne, after which was named inheritor and took his declare. As you may see his story at Harrenhal unfold, there is a component of Daemon having to reckon together with his previous and decisions that he is made and issues that he is achieved.”
“Home of the Dragon,” together with Alcock’s central efficiency and cameos, is presently streaming on HBO Max … however we possible will not see season 3 for a while now.
