House of the Dragon’s showrunner has said season three deliberately avoided having Aegon kill Aemond, despite viewers expecting a revenge killing. The decision was intended to preserve dramatic tension, with the showrunner arguing that resolving the conflict so directly would be less interesting.

The article centres on the brothers’ fraught relationship and the expectation that Aegon might retaliate against Aemond. Rather than delivering that outcome immediately, the series has kept their conflict unresolved, leaving scope for further developments.