having both daemon and rhaenyra’s significant others/parents of their children die by fire is just screaming doubles. like even their partners are looking in the mirror. they’re already married to very similar looking siblings (daemon even commenting on laenor being pretty). they now both have two children of the opposite gender with a third of the way. they’re both trapped, rhaenyra in the life she’s always had, clutching to it so tightly scared to let in slip though her fingers. and daemon having already let it slip is now trapped in the freedom he is granted, freedom to go and live anywhere and anyhow he pleases. anywhere except the one place he truly wants to be.
this and episode three are probably the only two episodes we will get without them together and yet they are both still intrinsically tied. episode three with them violently taking a life. verses now with a potential birth and then ultimately with a life being taken from them. the life that helped them bare new life. insane.