‘House Of The Dragon’: Showrunner Ryan Condal Talks About Season Finale, Those Dimly Lit Episodes, And Maddening Time Jumps

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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the season one finale of House of the Dragon. HBO’s prequel to the Game of Thrones ended its 10-episode run Sunday.

Here, showrunner Ryan Condal talks about the meaning behind Daemon’s (Matt Smith) aggressive behavior toward Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), why so many episodes looked so dark on our TV screens, and what we can expect from future episodes. DEADLINE Was it always plan to bookend the season with, ahem, dead Targaryen infants? RYAN CONDAL No.

I mean there’s a lot of beautiful symmetry in this season. It also began with a dragon ride and ended with a dragon ride. There’s a lot of symbolism to take from it.

But yes, I think we realized in the domino-ing of events that happened in the final episode, one aspect was linking the horrific birth that goes terribly wrong in the pilot with another horrific birth that goes wrong in the finale.