House of the Dragon Season 3 is almost here, and it’s course-correcting one of its most debated creative decisions. Season 2’s isolating portrayal of Matt Smith‘s Daemon Targaryen is going to change. The actor himself divulges, and with the trailers as anything to go by, it seems fans will finally get what they wanted.

House of the Dragon finally fixes one big Daemon Targaryen complaint

While much of Season 2 received strong reviews, Daemon’s prolonged, vision-heavy arc at Harrenhal became a running frustration — a character defined by violence and ambition, reduced to wandering a crumbling castle and speaking to goats. The subplot got a divided response, with many fans feeling it kept the Rogue Prince far from where the real story was happening.

The trailers for House of the Dragon Season 3 seem to make the correction clear. Daemon is back on dragonback, cutting through the Riverlands, and standing beside Rhaenyra in the Red Keep, a place he has not set foot in since the brutal events of Blood and Cheese. This time, he is not just brooding; he is moving.

Matt Smith himself appeared to sound relieved. While speaking to ScreenRant, he admitted that both he and the character were ready for a change. “It was good. I think both character and actor were sort of happy to be back on home turf,” he said. Then came a line that gets to the heart of the matter: “His addiction and his predilection towards violence, that is his burning desire. He’d have joined a football firm or something. Do you know what I mean? He wants to be about it.”

There is a frankness there that cuts through any attempt to dress up Daemon as a misunderstood antihero. He is not deemed complicated in the way some characters are. He wants to fight. Season 2 largely denied him that outlet, and the show felt the drag. Smith also noted the simple pleasure of working opposite a full cast again. “Thank the God, not just a random goat,” he said.

House of the Dragon Season 3 will run for eight episodes and release S3 E1 on June 21.

Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on SuperHeroHype.