Why does the internet want to date Daemon Targaryen? House Of The Dragon's production team doesn't get it either
"I'm a little baffled how they're all 'Oh, daddy!'" writer Sara Hess shares. "How—in what way—was he a good partner, father or brother—to anybody?"
[Note: This article contains spoilers for House Of The Dragon episodes 1 through 9. Read on with caution!]
There’s just something about… incest? Despite his devious, murderous, smooching-his-niece-in-a-brothel ways, the internet cannot seem to get enough of House Of The Dragon’s Daemon Targaryen, played by Matt Smith. The wayward younger brother of King Viserys, Daemon is quick to dispose of an enemy or inconvenient friend. But despite episode after episode of unsavory actions, the Daemon fancams (and fanfare) just keep coming.
It’s something that House Of The Dragon writer and executive producer is personally a little confused by. Sure, Daemon may have helped a stumbling, ailing King Viserys up the stairs to the throne in HOTD’s most recent episode. But even if that makes Daemon respectable by Westeros standards, is that really enough to warrant a drool-worthy boyfriend in real life? Especially after that whole incident in the Vale?
“He’s become Internet Boyfriend in a way that baffles me,” writer Sara Hess tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Not that Matt isn’t incredibly charismatic and wonderful, and he’s incredible in the role. But Daemon himself is … I don’t want him to be my boyfriend! I’m a little baffled how they’re all, ‘Oh, daddy!’ And I’m just like: ‘Really?’ How—in what way—was he a good partner, father or brother—to anybody? You got me. He ain’t Paul Rudd.”