Deleted lines from Daemon and Rhaenrya's almost-sex scene from House of the Dragon

In the fourth episode of House of the Dragon, "King of the Narrow Sea," Daemon Targaryen takes his young niece Rhaenyra out for a night on the town in King's Landing. The vibes between these two have been weird for a while, but Game of Thrones fans know that members of the Targaryen family tend to marry each other, so it's not a complete surprise. Even then, an uncle and a niece...sometimes I don't know whether to marvel at this show's ability to make me uncomfortable or call the cops.

Things get extra sketchy when Daemon takes Rhaenyra to a brothel, finds a dark corner, and does what comes naturally...or tries to. Daemon walks away from the encounter after Rhaenyra gets into it, finding it difficult to perform. The scene is all kinds of wrong, and one of the most memorable things to happen in the first season.

Now we have a little more insight into this sequence thanks to @darksvster on Twitter, who has saidthat they "got my hands on the scripts for episodes 2-10 and was able to grab quotes/scenes to share." They've previously shared looks at a deleted scene between a young Rhaenyra and Alicent Hightower from the script from Episode 2, "The Rogue Prince," as well as a scene between an adult Rhaenyra and her son Jace from the finale; that one looks like it was never actually shot. Now, they've shared a closer look at the brothel scene with Rhaenyra and Daemon:

This scene contains a few lines from Daemon that didn't make it into the finished episode. In all of them, he's trying to get Rhaenyra to reciprocate his advances. "There's no danger in it," Daemon tells her in the script. "The Maesters brew moon tea to get rid of any...unwanted consequences." Shortly after, he says, "You are a Targaryen, Rhaenyra. The Blood of the Dragon, the heir to the Iron Throne. The simple truth of it is...you can do whatever you want."

In the actual show, we hear Daemon whisper a few lines towards the beginning of the scene, but the rest of this dialogue is excised in favor of heavy breathing and kissing noises, which I think makes sense for the kind of scene this is. Sometimes, words just get in the way of the passion.

And now I feel uncomfortable again. Expect more of this sort of thing when the second season of House of the Dragon premieres on HBO and Max sometime this summer.

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