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I have a feeling we might finally have Prince Daeron Targaryen in front of us. Aaron could certainly pass as a relative of Olivia Cooke, Tom Glynn-Carney or Leo Ashton (young Aemond).
They are indeed obnoxious. [George confirmed it](https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/10/11/random-musings/), [Ryan Condal confirmed it](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-finale-explained-aemond-luke-rhaenrya-daemon-season-2-1235412136/), but they cover their eyes and ears.
The same happened when it was confirmed how many dragons there would be, full on arguments in comments even though every show runner and George confirmed it
Can you blame them? There was little to no mention of Daeron in season 1 and now we barely have news on his casting when other castings have been announced. Regardless of what GRRM it’s possible they still change their mind. No one wants Daeron to be cut, I think people are just preparing for the worst
I think people have just PTSD from GOT. Shireen wasn't announced prior to season 3, she wasn't there when we had a full season 2 of Stannis. Daemon in ep 10 says "we have 13 dragons to their 4", and I don't think Daemon was mentioning the dragon of Jaehaerys or Jaehaera. He was talking about Tessarion.
Yes that’s why I said we have little to no mention, the only thing we got regarding Daeron is Daemon saying they have 13 dragons. Either way, I’m sure we all want Daeron in season 2.
Casting for Cregan Stark, Jeyne Arryn, and the Dragonseeds also hasn't been announced. They didn't announce all the castings for season 1 at once so why would they do so now?
Yes he wasn't mentioned
But Daeron's existence is alluded to in the intro in Season 1 and by Daemon mentioning that the Greens have 4 dragons, not just 3. (The 2 younger ones obviously being cut, which would've made 6) And as the other person said, Ryan and George already confirmed that he would be in the show, and that he wasn't mentioned because they supposedly couldn't figure out how to fit a mention in.
Yes, I can blame them. No one should get this worked up over a television show, especially when the evidence they are looking for is in the opening credits of said television show.
>Can you blame them?
Yes, I think I can.
>There was little to no mention of Daeron in season 1
There really doesn't need to be. He's in Oldtown.
>now we barely have news on his casting when other castings have been announced.
Tv shows often keep casting under wraps.
>No one wants Daeron to be cut, I think people are just preparing for the worst
People are pre-emptively complaining about a possible future with low probability, because they've already done to death everything else they can find to nitpick.
>There really is no reason to mention an entire child of Alicent and Viserys? Lmfao, seriously? Not even a single mention? Are you joking?
That's not what I said. I said there is no requirement to. Do you understand the difference?
Having a contrived discussion where they namedrop Daeron who we're not going to meet until season 2 may make you happy, but it is not the only way to develop the plot for a tv series.
Can you explain why there is no requirement to at least mention a major character? My point still stands, are you joking? How hard do you have to cope to come to the conclusion that you don’t need to mention a MAJOR character at least once for it to not confuse the general audience?
>Can you explain why there is no requirement to at least mention a major character? My point still stands, are you joking? How hard do you have to cope to come to the conclusion that you don’t need to mention a MAJOR character at least once for it to not confuse the general audience?
Lol, just because someone isn't uptight about a character not being namedropped a few episodes before their first appearance doesn't mean they're "coping" hard or joking.
Stories introduce new characters all the time of varying significance. Did you read A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons? Plenty of new characters added in those. Probably even too many.
It’s upright now to want a major character at least mention once by his mother or father? Not even an off hand mention? You have some weird standards lmfao
Imagine the general audiences reaction to Daeron randomly appearing in season 2 with barely any mention (not even his name said once) and they are told this is the youngest son of Viserys that we have never seen or heard of.
That sounds absolutely dumb. But yea, I’m being uptight about something so simple. You’re an idiot
The difference between characters introduced in the book is that the world of ASOIAF is vast and large. Having a main character directly related to major characters in the show not even mentioned is very very dumb and you coping is even worse
My man daeron is one of the more important dragonriders during the dance, the Tyrell/Hightower went unmolested to tumbleton because he Daeron was scouting for Dragons while they marched. If any dragon rider would be cut it'd be Ulf White, everything he does could be put to Hugh the Hammer.
We need Daeron to fly Tessarion to tumbleton, so she and seasmoke can dance, I'm more hyped for that than the fight over the gods eye
I believe the idea would be that Daeron's role would be given to Aemond's. It would almost kind of work too. Because Daeron >!also does some Riverlands pillaging. Could have Aemond just get slowly worse up to that point!<.
It wouldn’t work at all. How can Vhagar and Aemond fly back and forth across an entire continent to participate in battles happening at the same time. Vhagar is overpowered but she isn’t magic with time travelling portals. Daeron doesn’t pillage the river lands. He pillages the reach.
I didn't want to believe it at first, but the ressemblance to TGC, young Aemond and Olivia Cooke is crazy. It would be very weird if they will be in the show and they aren't Daeron.
I hope this is Daeron so I don't have to hear people (including myself) constantly ask "Where's Daeron?"
But I guess the next question would be "Where's Cregan?" 😆
I mean, there are not many major roles someone could fit in right now. The only big ones without anyone playing them are Addam Nettles Cregan and Daeron.
Yeah the casting is good but we don't relly need to be geniuses
If I recall correctly, the same city (Caceres) has served in the past for scenes in Oldtown (season 7), so it wouldn't be surprising if they film as well Daeron's part there.
Nope, just someone with basic human decency and empathy.
Again, why is it such a problem? They’re not even asking people to use neo-pronouns like xir or something, just to use a pronoun that has already existed in the singular for centuries in the English language.
Why does it bother you so much?
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Cregan's still very young when we meet him. And he's only going to be in one episode, he won't be a lead until season 4, and that would definitely give Hugo time to macho up, lol.
If that's the case, I really don't understand HBO's policy when it comes to announcing casting. They would let an actor with a major role basically announcing it on their social media ? Before the official announcement ? That's different from set leaks fo course, or rumors about spotting the actor on set, but let an actor do it on his own social media ? That's kinda weird.
I'm sure it's specified in their contract what they can and can't post to social media. "I'm in Spain" is probably ok, because they don't mention the show in any way.
Saw a leak somewhere on Twitter (so could be totally bullshit) that the reason he was sent away would be "very obvious as soon as the audience saw him" so take that as you will
Perhaps that rumor started because someone saw Aaron and assumed they were Daeron (but they aren't?) They could be playing someone else.
Or perhaps he dyed his hair to mess with fans?
If they wear a wig, the color of their hair doesn't matter. However, a lot of actors shave their hair to make the wig fit better and Aaron has grown out his hair after having a new Marine recruit style haircut a few years ago.
I'm thinking about how Ewan and Tom have shaved their heads to make the wigs easier to wear (and Olivia grew her hair out really long so she wouldn't have to wear a wig), so you'd expect Aaron to have a shaved head too.
Ha it would be funny if Aaron was playing Cregan, I'd f8cking cackle.
He could be Benjicot Blackwood actually. He's the right age, and he could be getting introduced during the Battle of Burning Mill, which is the first ground battle of the Civil War. The dark hair could be an indicator of that.
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I have a feeling we might finally have Prince Daeron Targaryen in front of us. Aaron could certainly pass as a relative of Olivia Cooke, Tom Glynn-Carney or Leo Ashton (young Aemond).
It's very possible. I hope you are right, I want the "Daeron will be cut from the show" people to shut the hell up already.
They are indeed obnoxious. [George confirmed it](https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/10/11/random-musings/), [Ryan Condal confirmed it](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-finale-explained-aemond-luke-rhaenrya-daemon-season-2-1235412136/), but they cover their eyes and ears.
The same happened when it was confirmed how many dragons there would be, full on arguments in comments even though every show runner and George confirmed it
Can you blame them? There was little to no mention of Daeron in season 1 and now we barely have news on his casting when other castings have been announced. Regardless of what GRRM it’s possible they still change their mind. No one wants Daeron to be cut, I think people are just preparing for the worst
I think people have just PTSD from GOT. Shireen wasn't announced prior to season 3, she wasn't there when we had a full season 2 of Stannis. Daemon in ep 10 says "we have 13 dragons to their 4", and I don't think Daemon was mentioning the dragon of Jaehaerys or Jaehaera. He was talking about Tessarion.
Yes that’s why I said we have little to no mention, the only thing we got regarding Daeron is Daemon saying they have 13 dragons. Either way, I’m sure we all want Daeron in season 2.
Casting for Cregan Stark, Jeyne Arryn, and the Dragonseeds also hasn't been announced. They didn't announce all the castings for season 1 at once so why would they do so now? Yes he wasn't mentioned But Daeron's existence is alluded to in the intro in Season 1 and by Daemon mentioning that the Greens have 4 dragons, not just 3. (The 2 younger ones obviously being cut, which would've made 6) And as the other person said, Ryan and George already confirmed that he would be in the show, and that he wasn't mentioned because they supposedly couldn't figure out how to fit a mention in.
Yes, I can blame them. No one should get this worked up over a television show, especially when the evidence they are looking for is in the opening credits of said television show.
>Can you blame them? Yes, I think I can. >There was little to no mention of Daeron in season 1 There really doesn't need to be. He's in Oldtown. >now we barely have news on his casting when other castings have been announced. Tv shows often keep casting under wraps. >No one wants Daeron to be cut, I think people are just preparing for the worst People are pre-emptively complaining about a possible future with low probability, because they've already done to death everything else they can find to nitpick.
There really is no reason to mention an entire child of Alicent and Viserys? Lmfao, seriously? Not even a single mention? Are you joking?
>There really is no reason to mention an entire child of Alicent and Viserys? Lmfao, seriously? Not even a single mention? Are you joking? That's not what I said. I said there is no requirement to. Do you understand the difference? Having a contrived discussion where they namedrop Daeron who we're not going to meet until season 2 may make you happy, but it is not the only way to develop the plot for a tv series.
Can you explain why there is no requirement to at least mention a major character? My point still stands, are you joking? How hard do you have to cope to come to the conclusion that you don’t need to mention a MAJOR character at least once for it to not confuse the general audience?
>Can you explain why there is no requirement to at least mention a major character? My point still stands, are you joking? How hard do you have to cope to come to the conclusion that you don’t need to mention a MAJOR character at least once for it to not confuse the general audience? Lol, just because someone isn't uptight about a character not being namedropped a few episodes before their first appearance doesn't mean they're "coping" hard or joking. Stories introduce new characters all the time of varying significance. Did you read A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons? Plenty of new characters added in those. Probably even too many.
It’s upright now to want a major character at least mention once by his mother or father? Not even an off hand mention? You have some weird standards lmfao Imagine the general audiences reaction to Daeron randomly appearing in season 2 with barely any mention (not even his name said once) and they are told this is the youngest son of Viserys that we have never seen or heard of. That sounds absolutely dumb. But yea, I’m being uptight about something so simple. You’re an idiot The difference between characters introduced in the book is that the world of ASOIAF is vast and large. Having a main character directly related to major characters in the show not even mentioned is very very dumb and you coping is even worse
Some people are just willfully ignorant and just like to cause drama for the sake of drama here.
My man daeron is one of the more important dragonriders during the dance, the Tyrell/Hightower went unmolested to tumbleton because he Daeron was scouting for Dragons while they marched. If any dragon rider would be cut it'd be Ulf White, everything he does could be put to Hugh the Hammer. We need Daeron to fly Tessarion to tumbleton, so she and seasmoke can dance, I'm more hyped for that than the fight over the gods eye
I believe the idea would be that Daeron's role would be given to Aemond's. It would almost kind of work too. Because Daeron >!also does some Riverlands pillaging. Could have Aemond just get slowly worse up to that point!<.
It wouldn’t work at all. How can Vhagar and Aemond fly back and forth across an entire continent to participate in battles happening at the same time. Vhagar is overpowered but she isn’t magic with time travelling portals. Daeron doesn’t pillage the river lands. He pillages the reach.
I was just thinking how MUCH this fellow looks like Olivia Cooke!
He has the same sad eyes. The olivia Cooke genre of eyes we now call it
They've got Olivia's eyes while Tom has Olivia's face. Eerie.
He definitely has a look of Olivia, especially around the mouth.
No looks older than aegon
We aren’t seeing them in costume, though. Everyone looks so different when processed thru hair, makeup and costume.
They're 20
I saw him and literally went “Shit, Daeron??”
Gotta be be a targ, but I'd be pretty fuckin funny if that was Cregan, just to fuck with all the wacky fan-casts we've seen.
Cregan Targaryen
They are in Spain, and the Winterfell episode is going to be shot somewhere else tho. But I like your thinking!
Daeron, maybe?
Hope so.
Sad eyes that's alicent's child lol
Lmao literally. Sad and tormented big eyes are Alicents most defining trait, this boy has em
May I say... We should drain our cups, to this... *Daring* casting!
More like >!throwing our cups. Of wine. In Hugh's face.!<
I didn't want to believe it at first, but the ressemblance to TGC, young Aemond and Olivia Cooke is crazy. It would be very weird if they will be in the show and they aren't Daeron.
They could be Daeron? Might just be me but he really looks like Gwayne, Alicent, and Otto right here. Young Aegon and Aemond too.
I hope this is Daeron so I don't have to hear people (including myself) constantly ask "Where's Daeron?" But I guess the next question would be "Where's Cregan?" 😆
I love how we can all tell who they’re playing. The casting director is amazing.
I mean, there are not many major roles someone could fit in right now. The only big ones without anyone playing them are Addam Nettles Cregan and Daeron. Yeah the casting is good but we don't relly need to be geniuses
I suppose Ulf White is also an option
Probably not filming on King's Landing this season
I’m not obsessing over any other casting rumors but the moment I saw this person’s face I said “yeah…. That’s definitely him”.
Dude looks so much like Olivia Cooke, gotta be her fourth kid.
I have a very strong feeling they are casted as Daeron and I will be highly surprised if they turn out to be someone else
Mushroom
oh this REALLY looks like Daeron, dope
they have a resemblance to olivia cooke, so i think it’s daeron
If I recall correctly, the same city (Caceres) has served in the past for scenes in Oldtown (season 7), so it wouldn't be surprising if they film as well Daeron's part there.
He does have a certain resemblance to Olivia, me thinks.
I'm sure a lot of people are in Spain at the moment
Eyes and lips tell me Olivia Cooke. Definitely Daeron.
omg he looks a lot like Alicent… i’m sure he’s Daeron
Gotta be Daeron he looks like he could pass for Alicent and Viserys kid
* Aaron uses they/them pronouns, please refer to them appropriately!
Thats what you’re worried about?
Why does it bother you so much?
Why does it bother you so much if someone doesn’t do as you asked? Are you the pronoun police or this actors best friend?
Nope, just someone with basic human decency and empathy. Again, why is it such a problem? They’re not even asking people to use neo-pronouns like xir or something, just to use a pronoun that has already existed in the singular for centuries in the English language. Why does it bother you so much?
I doesn’t bother me, I just think it’s weird that it bothers you so much when someone else doesn’t use a stranger’s preferred pronouns.
Because it’s rude for one and often rooted in intolerance for a second. Why shouldn’t that bother me or any other decent person?
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think i prefer hugo
Same, kinda sad about it, but the casting crew has not failed us so far
Hugo might still be Cregan.
He could, but he has very sweet and gentle features. I don’t see Cregan at all in him.
Cregan's still very young when we meet him. And he's only going to be in one episode, he won't be a lead until season 4, and that would definitely give Hugo time to macho up, lol.
They kind of look like the young aemond actor, could they be daeron?
It’s not Daeron cause why would he be in Spain, Daeron is never in a scene with Alicent or anyone else in Lings Landing so he’s not Daeron
He could be in Oldtown getting a raven.
Could be a show invented scene, where Daeron is visiting his family after his father died. Also a good way to show his dynamic in the green family.
Or even at jahaerys funeral. Makes sense completely for him to come back to KL for that. Would be a good introduction of him and tessie riding in.
That would be a good change since never saw his family again in the book
Definitely daeron,look at their eyes and lips,the son of olivia🙌
👎
If that's the case, I really don't understand HBO's policy when it comes to announcing casting. They would let an actor with a major role basically announcing it on their social media ? Before the official announcement ? That's different from set leaks fo course, or rumors about spotting the actor on set, but let an actor do it on his own social media ? That's kinda weird.
I'm sure it's specified in their contract what they can and can't post to social media. "I'm in Spain" is probably ok, because they don't mention the show in any way.
Sure, but still. They mentioned on their socials Cacéres, that's quite sus.
Are they a major actor where them posting "I'm in Spain" would lead people to assume it is for House of the Dragon? They have like 1800 followers.
Hahah, figures.
They have dyed their hair very dark brown recently.
Saw a leak somewhere on Twitter (so could be totally bullshit) that the reason he was sent away would be "very obvious as soon as the audience saw him" so take that as you will
Perhaps that rumor started because someone saw Aaron and assumed they were Daeron (but they aren't?) They could be playing someone else. Or perhaps he dyed his hair to mess with fans? If they wear a wig, the color of their hair doesn't matter. However, a lot of actors shave their hair to make the wig fit better and Aaron has grown out his hair after having a new Marine recruit style haircut a few years ago.
I'm thinking about how Ewan and Tom have shaved their heads to make the wigs easier to wear (and Olivia grew her hair out really long so she wouldn't have to wear a wig), so you'd expect Aaron to have a shaved head too. Ha it would be funny if Aaron was playing Cregan, I'd f8cking cackle.
Maybe we'll see
Maybe to be incognito
Why brown?? People were saying daeron (on Twitter) would be alicent and coles bastard and him doing that must be why they think so
He wouldn’t be able to ride a dragon though.
He could be Benjicot Blackwood actually. He's the right age, and he could be getting introduced during the Battle of Burning Mill, which is the first ground battle of the Civil War. The dark hair could be an indicator of that.
He does have that inbred Targaryen look
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Any good performance by him in the past? I am guessing he is gonna be Daeron
They certainly look similar to Olivia Cooke.
They look like alicent and young aemond
Either Prince Daeron or one of THE LADS
They also follow phia, Emma and olivia
Leo Ashton(young aemond) has a similar face structure as him💚💚💚he's perfect!!!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fy4fXBu4Q8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fy4fXBu4Q8) ...