In an interview with GQ, Emma D’Arcy shared how they approached their character Rhaenyra’s time on the tragic season. The finale culminated within the Targaryen Princess shedding her unborn daughter and her son Lucerys proper after, which finally grew to become the final straw in Rhaenyra’s inevitable determination to plunge into warfare, aka the Dance of the Dragons. D’Arcy revealed they examine Rhaenyra’s journey early on and knew issues would get difficult by the point the finale arrived. They described the sequence as having “large life occasions,” and a present like that’s certain to get bloody.
“Virtually, I knew that within the second half of episode 10, the shapes are so large, in that there are state-shaking occasions all through. The problem is to search out someplace to go. The forex of Home of the Dragon is actually: large life occasions. And usually they’re throughout the class of struggling and trauma. Episode 10 is like one hilly panorama, with big tremors.”