in House of the Dragon In Season 2, Helena Targaryen (Fear Saban) does not have any scenes with Damon Targaryen (Matt Smith), but she does appear in the final episode of the series. game of thrones– See Vision of the Future This was a surprising moment, considering the strongest connection between the characters up to this point was that Helena’s son was killed as a second target by an assassin hired by Damon to kill Helena’s brother, Aemond (Ewan Mitchell).
The interlude from A Song of Ice and Fire is what everyone is talking about. House of the Dragon Since it’s the final episode, Variety asked Saban what he thought about the scene: “We first see Helena in Damon’s field of vision. She tells Damon, “You know your role… you know what you have to do.” Then she switches to the real world, where she tells Amon, “I’m not gonna let you down.” do not have She’s going to join him in the fight, and she knows how he’s going to die.
“I don’t feel like she was giving Damon advice because she wanted him to succeed,” Saban said of the trade. “I think picking one team or the other shows that she thinks anything can happen, and I think to some extent she feels a little bit transcendent. She has a clear insight that the end is near. And I wouldn’t say she knows it instinctively, but I think she knows it well enough to understand that we’re all heading in the same direction, not who’s going to be next on the throne.”
“Even with the scenes with Damon, I think it’s a little bit up to the audience to decide how much she is in his dreams. She may be a projection of what he wants to tell himself, especially since he hurt her so much with her son and everything. From a psychoanalytic standpoint, it may all be about him, and it may not be in a literal sense.”
Saban also reflected on something Helena said to her brother: “I don’t think she thought it was necessarily going to change his course,” Saban said. “It was just a momentary moment where she stood up for herself.”
Read the rest of the interview at Variety. Saban went on to say that she really hopes Helena gets to ride a dragon. House of the Dragon It’s coming to an end.
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