Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy miss working together as much as we miss watching them

The second season of House of the Dragon is nearly at an end. The new season has been very different from the first, and there have been a lot of ups and downs. One thing I think a lot of fans probably miss is the interplay between lead actors Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy, who play husband-wife team Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen respectively. The pair of them had a monster fight towards the start of the season, Daemon left to raise an army at the crumbling castle of Harrenhal, and they haven't seen each other since.

According to Smith and D'Arcy, they felt the distance behind the scenes. “It’s a shame because I miss them terribly and not being around them…but it was what the story required," Matt Smith told The Hollywood Reporter. "Daemon is off on his own path trying to figure things out sort of head first into the dark hole of his own consciousness, into the abyss.”

D'Arcy found being apart from Smith tricky, too. “Frankly, I found it frustrating," they told Variety. "I know I’ve spoken a lot about it, but I enjoy shooting with Matt a lot, and it was a shame for me not to get to do more of that. I don’t want to spoil anything. But inevitably, there is a bigger enemy at hand. And so both of them have to figure out how they’re going to approach that ultimate battle.”

Rhaenyra and Daemon will almost certainly reunite in the House of the Dragon season 2 finale

Whatever battle D'Arcy is alluding to looks like it will happen in the season 2 finale. Although we don't see Rhaenyra and Daemon onscreen together in the trailer for next episode, we do see what looks like Rhaenyra's dragon Syrax on her way to Harrenhal, so the implication is that they'll reunite:

Frankly, I wouldn't have minded Rhaenyra and Daemon spending time apart if Daemon's plotline at Harrenhal hadn't felt, in my humble opinion, so dull and contrived. I don't know about you, but those dream sequences he kept having got old for me quick. We'll see if the show has any more left this Sunday night, when the House of the Dragon season 2 finale airs on HBO and Max.

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