‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Finale Instant Reactions | The Midnight Boys

2026-08-10 14:00:00 • 1:31:08

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Jomi?

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To fill us, the people who love and the stuff, guess what?

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I was out of sprouts here the day.

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Shout out Jake from Sprouts.

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I'm in Sprouts and went in line for a sandwich.

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He's like, hey, you're joking, Lian, Jomi.

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He had a podcast up there in the Sprouts, man.

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Shout out, Jake.

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I said, yeah, the picture took a picture, it was crazy.

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We're up right now, fellas.

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This is our time.

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We made it to Sprouts.

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We made it to Sprouts.

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Bigger than shopping out Sprouts now, y'all.

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Shout out to you, bro.

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I'm really proud, Jomi.

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This is the way they go.

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It goes, John's, Vaughn's, Ralph's, Sprouts.

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One day, you'll make the whole food, then to Bristol.

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We're not going to hold the food.

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This is whole food is all the way around the way.

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Sprouts by the crowd.

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Where's the one where all the rich white ladies go?

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Everyone.

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Everyone.

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Never make it to Sarah.

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I don't know.

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You'll be able to make it.

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But that's going to be.

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I thought you shoot for it.

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No, I was at Vaughn's last night.

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That shit was Gotham, bro.

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Vaughn's at night.

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Vaughn's off.

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They got the Ralph's off.

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What does it call it?

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Like the Ralph's by the Grove.

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Ralph's by the Grove.

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Which one?

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I think third and LaBrea.

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Okay.

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That Ralph's.

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Yeah.

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A little Gotham.

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, 30th and LaBrea right there.

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Yeah.

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Now look, Ralph's, here's the thing about Ralph's and Vaughn's.

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Vaughn's got all the stuff.

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No, yeah, it do.

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Yeah, it's stock.

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It's just maybe.

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That was one of the first Vaughn's is a little bit.

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It's chaotic in there.

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If you could, I was in there at like 930-10.

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I was like, hey, by the way, we have to make sure that we get to the podcast sooner because

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I don't want to get another text from Dave Jacobi saying 21 minutes and you guys haven't gotten to the podcast yet.

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I was, I wanted y'all, y'all guys know something.

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I don't take y'all niggas about y'all podcast.

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Take you know some Jacobi now.

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That's my guy.

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That's my man.

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That's a OG in this.

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Yeah.

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Whatever.

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Last week.

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I can't think of no anytime.

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I texted anybody and went like, hey, man, get to do it now.

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You're a breaksquick.

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What the fuck you all right now?

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Jacobi, what is it?

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Can we fucking live?

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Yeah.

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Can we live?

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That's my guy.

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Yeah, he's a man.

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He's a man.

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He is a super nice guy.

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Funny he's got around.

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Oh, ladies.

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Like, very funny.

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Now, who is that again?

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Showrunner.

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Showrunner.

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Showrunner.

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Yeah.

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We might have a special guest on that.

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So on Thursday, bloodmash previews Wolverine and Star Wars Zero Company.

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What is Star Wars Zero Company?

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It's basically like, you know, like those like tactical games like XCOM and stuff like that.

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It's just like moving soldiers on a church.

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Are you sure it's real time?

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Yeah.

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Not real time.

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It's turn based.

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Oh, god.

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It's even worse.

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No, it's great.

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It's basically that.

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It's on console.

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Yeah.

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Like not like Halo Wars.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just like Halo Wars.

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I don't know why I asked y'all what the shit is when I have no frame of reference for what

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the fuck out of that.

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This is how I know like I'm a nerd, but I'm not that deep.

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Because I was just like, you started talking about shouts.

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I have no clue what it is.

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No clue.

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No clue.

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Today, the midnight boys give you their instant reactions to the season three finale of House

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of the Dragon.

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Special day.

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The end of sprint is over for the dragons, man.

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And ultimately season, we only got one more season left.

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Eight episodes left.

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Eight episodes of the show left.

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It's been a while, right?

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Okay.

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So we're going to get into the show.

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There's we're going to spoil a whole bunch of things.

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Hopefully you've already watched it.

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If you haven't, Steve, it's really.

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We're getting ready to talk about House of the Dragon.

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You're listening to a reaction podcast.

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The spoilers are coming.

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Okay.

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To begin our reactions, we're going to bring you the midnight manifests.

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We'll chuck, push you in the know for all the need to know for House of the Dragon.

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All right.

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There's your midnight manifests for House of the Dragon season three finale directed by

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Andre Parique written by Ryan Condo and Ty McEl.

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Renear is walking to the news that Aegon and Sunfire have returned.

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This sends the Queen's spiraling.

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Renear is sending Damon to quash the Orman uprising in Templeton.

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This misses Missaria from the Council and ships are off the Pentos.

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Force feeds are sister Helena who's on a hunger strike.

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March is on the set to declare herself the prince who was promised.

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And not the worst thing that happens this episode, but definitely not the best.

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The Aryan jumps out of her a little bit when she gets a little too comfortable touching

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Baylor's face.

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Meanwhile, Amy continues to have a hard time in Herod Hall.

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Alice reveals that she's a 100 year old witch, Kirsten Hunt the Holes of the castle after

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using Dark Magic to try and keep her son alive, who was also the last heir of King Heron.

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Soon after, Aegon shows up with Sunfire.

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Amy and Admissie tried to kill his brother because of his jealousy.

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Aegon tells Aiman he will only forgive him after the two joint forces to take down Renear

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and her reclaim the Iron Throne at the Battle of Templeton.

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Orman's plan devolves after losing a drunken wolf in the city.

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Sir Gwayne offers up Coralus to Damon, seeing that they're marching towards their death.

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However, Damon refuses the peace offering.

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By the time Orman finds all, he slaps the dragon rider around.

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This leads all to take his frustration out on both sides and burn the city to senders.

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Damon escapes with Coralus to live another day back at King's Landing.

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Renear unmarked his on the set, kills the master, denied her the crown and gives a tear

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to a radical speech that moves no one in the crowd.

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When Renear returns to the red keep, she finds that Helena has jumped out of the window

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to her death.

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That has been your very long midnight manifest for House of the Dragon season three.

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For now, I will start with you then in three actions.

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Ben, what are you looking at over on the computer?

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Nothing.

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What's he looking at?

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I'm not telling you.

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I'm looking at the 2014 Hercules movie.

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Anyway, so I thought this was a great episode.

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I'm talking about from a character standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from the

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standpoint of a standpoint of scale, lots of stuff happening, lots of high leverage things

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happening.

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I thought it was a very, very, very good season finale for the show.

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Then we got the full arc of Renear into our building.

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Okay.

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Yo, Ben Poison, tell me.

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I was really worried about the episode because a lot of good things were happening, but

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I thought it was going to be a redux of season of the season finale season two, wherever

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they get right up to the point where they about to fight.

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Then we have to wait two years.

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But once the action started, I was like, okay, now we're cooking with some gas.

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To his point, I thought this was an incredible episode.

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So many things, so many arcs that got resolved in this episode.

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Some things, they said it for the future, some things at the end right now, but I was

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completely enthralled.

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I'm really glad that we were able to get the fight that we didn't get the end of season

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two.

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We got the fight that was supposed to end season three in this episode.

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And so I'm really glad that it all came together.

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Yeah.

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I think the season was kind of weighed down in two was weighed down very much with like the

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note of like, where are the battles, why aren't things happening?

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And then obviously this season made up for it tenfold, both in the beginning and the

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ends of this season.

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I think the battles, of course, were amazing, but I was really, really intrigued by how

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suddenly funny this episode was and like kind of balls of the wall entertaining for what

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Game of Thrones is known for.

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And the kind of like incredible acting chops from like all of our key players that make

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this show like a real good tent pole for what the like high stakes television spectacle

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can be in the year of our Lord 26.

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So I loved it.

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I've like, love the battle.

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I thought everything that was happening with a Matt Smith, Damon, Coraless, Orman, that

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would just like so great.

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Love how this show continues to do all of their battle scenes.

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The Reneira stuff.

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A little fast for me, the breaking bad, like she had been slowly breaking bad all season.

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And when it like everything kind of lights on fire, I thought it might have been a little

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too cartoonish.

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Like it was, everything was happening so fast.

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There was part of me that wished more of the season had been about that and less about

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like the gold cloaks.

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She ran against.

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I did the correct.

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Family.

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I want to be a bit disagree button.

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We should all have.

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Okay.

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We would be using it all the time.

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All the time.

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I think we have disagreements, but they're rarely, rarely vehement right?

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I vehemently disagree.

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Would it be that?

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Let me tell you why I vehemently disagree.

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Let me think.

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I like your hair.

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Thank you.

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I like, you know what I mean?

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Because like we all got, we all belongs, but this is a very important thing just in the

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world.

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But we different belongs.

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Yeah.

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We belongs with the locks.

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You belong with that.

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Is this still blonde?

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This seems more like platinum.

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Is it platinum?

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Is platinum blonde?

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No, there you can be a platinum blonde.

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Yeah, but this isn't platinum blonde.

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That's like, there's a platinum.

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It's still looks so great.

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Silver's not blonde.

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Okay.

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No, this is great.

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This is great.

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This is great.

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This is great.

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This is not blonde.

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This is not a blonde.

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No, he's chrome.

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This is closer to Cisco.

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They need to.

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Okay.

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Well, then what's the difference between silver and platinum blonde platinum blond because platinum

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was like,

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platinum blond is just like bright blonde with like a little bit of white in it, I believe.

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Right.

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But I'm saying if you say a platinum, Emma, Emma frosted me is like a platinum blonde.

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It's a difference between aqua and turquoise, you know, it's just it's a name for a different

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type of color.

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No, that's not.

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I love when you try to be that way and then it doesn't work because you could say it's

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a deeper shade.

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It's a lighter shade.

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It's a more, it's a shade that goes this way.

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But you know what?

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I don't want to talk about that because I try to explore something with my friends and

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then get thrown back.

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I would just say is the difference between Emma and Cisco to me.

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I feel that because it consists gold was not blonde.

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You can't say he was blonde silver.

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Emma never knew he was a dragon.

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Okay.

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So let me tell you why I've evenly disagreed.

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Vimyly.

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And I've evenly disagreed because I thought that even last episode or the one before that

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even, I thought it's just going to take one thing to make her go.

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What they were able to do was load up to me effectively.

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And I'll be interested to see how people feel about this because they're going to be some

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people that agree with you.

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Load up enough stressors on her and enough questions on her to where the only remaining

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option for her is to be exactly who Damon says she should have been the entire time.

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Because that is really the thing that she's been doing.

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He's been there the entire time almost exasperated with her.

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It going to have to kill him.

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She didn't want to do it.

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She did not want to do it.

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This season to me with her character was a test of her own goodness.

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Like what?

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She's not in this anymore for the people.

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She never really was.

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She never really was.

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That was what she told herself to be able to get through it, to be able to do some of

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the really terrible things she's had to do and really endure some of the losses that

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she's had to endure in order to get to the point that she is right now.

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But when you get to the end of it, it was never, she treats people very poorly.

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It was never really about anything more than herself.

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And when she learns Aegon is alive and some fire is alive, it's just like, you know what

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man?

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Fuck it.

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I tried.

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This nigga's half burnt.

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His drag is half burnt.

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Now what the fuck do I do?

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Let's try it your way.

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The Strother broke the camel's back.

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All the entire season is her dealing with these things.

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Like whether it's the people or Damon or she's like all that stuff.

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And then when A actually the person who's supposed to rule, remember we said he was dead

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just getting his alive, his drag is alive.

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Everybody is now coalescing on him as the actual ruler.

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I got a step up.

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I got to do something.

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And that makes her act out.

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Step up.

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Yeah.

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I'm curious because like, yes, this has kind of been the like emotional like she's fighting

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against like the tides or like the the upstream battle of like trying to be like the quote unquote

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good ruler of King's Landing while still trying to like, well Damon and his urges to

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kind of just like trash and burn everything and like actually conquer.

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And the idea that this really came to the head in this episode, I do believe it.

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Emma Darcy incredibly performs it.

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But I kind of agree with you, Charles, that like it's always great to have more runway

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for that because that's the most compelling thing that happens to her at the end of this

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season.

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And it's kind of more so accentuated in episode three, I believe where it's just her

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in the in the kingdom, like kind of having a stressful day.

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I wanted more of that and that descent into madness like that episode lays perfect

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runway from like, okay, you could easily see how she's going to make this turn here.

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But I could kind of I kind of would have wanted it to be more.

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And I also think what I was maybe bumping up against is if I remember correctly, the

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prophecy is not as tied to the books and they are like doubling down on part of me would

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have thought it would have been more interesting for.

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Renera to turn bad for all of the reasons that are all right.

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She's lost lovers.

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She's lost children.

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She's been at war.

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People don't think a woman can rule.

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All of that stuff to me is just like great fodder to for someone to break bad.

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I think it was more so.

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I don't want to say like crazy, but the descent into madness that comes from the prophecy

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was the thing that kind of rang the most false.

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I'm like, there's already so many reasons she should just be like burn them all to the

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ground.

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It was the prophecy part that I was like, it feels like this jigsaw puzzle.

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Is it connecting as much as I would?

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Jomi doesn't fucking agree with you.

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Well, I don't I don't believe this guy do think like there is a better way to be like,

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yeah, I don't like you.

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She's lost all but she's lost sons.

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People that she's really loved and cared about have died.

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But also, Renera is not a good person.

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No, none of these good people.

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She's incredibly selfish.

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The entire this entire thing is because her dad told her that she was supposed to rule

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and then someone you served her and she's like, no, it's mine.

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It's mine.

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It's mine.

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It's mine.

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Right.

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If she does all those things for her, if she turns bad because of, you know, I lost

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somebody this and that like, yeah, you can still like empathize with her and we can

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the show can still humanize her, but her turning bad because it's supposed to be me.

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Forget all that.

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It's supposed to be me.

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So this is my birth right.

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They kind of like, yo, Renera, let's just chill out.

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But it's been true to everything that she's been up until this point.

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She's just screamed it for the first time.

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But then the birth right to me makes sense.

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Yeah.

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Her initial anger, especially in that first season of my father said, I should rule.

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It got smashed away from me.

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I can understand that.

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Same thing when she's crying over Jason's body.

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I can understand that.

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I can also understand the prophecy.

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It was just, I don't know what, like to me, that still feels like something that was

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tacked on.

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I don't know if it was tacked on, but I would say that because we know it's garbage.

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Right.

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That's the thing.

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They tell the people, but it's also not garbage.

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So this is the thing that is not garbage at all.

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Not for her.

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Not for like the entire world, but for her.

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No, it doesn't happen for her.

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I know we know it doesn't happen for her.

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What the show and the character are litigating is destiny versus belief.

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Everyone believes that they have a destiny.

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Everyone thinks that there is a destiny.

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All of these stories we tell about people, like you think about the stories that we tell

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the really interesting stories are the ones where you subvert your destiny and you go,

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oh my God, this is what the fucking old wise man told me I had to do.

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And then old wise man goes, ha, ha, ha.

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You do what you just want to do is basically have a car.

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Yeah.

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Whatever you want to do, like whoever they said you were supposed to do is what you're

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supposed to do is figure out your own destiny and the best way to serve humanity.

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But like in her story is the story of the Targaryens.

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That's why when she gives that speech to the people at the end, what she essentially

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is describing is their doom.

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And she can't see it because she's a Targaryen and her being exalted is their doom.

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So she's saying, hey, all of this stuff happened.

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All of these people were together and then he came and he united all of the kingdoms,

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protecting everything.

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As I'm doing it for you.

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But what she doesn't say is that man, we had to kill five, six million people.

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We had to go through and burn up all of these people that you know.

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We had to establish this kingdom where most of you guys live in squalor.

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But we're doing it all to protect you because we are gods and you are just people.

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That's in you if you are a Targaryen, particularly if you are a Targaryen that's in line for

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the throne.

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Now we watch all of these other characters that have that color here.

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Go off and do side quests and side missions when they are not burdened with protecting

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the entire realm and living up to this thing as some kind of more than human demigod, right?

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When they just go to the wall or go do whatever.

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But when you're in that spot, you have to believe and she's really believed the whole

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time, but she's been trying to trick herself into thinking she's something more than one

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of those people.

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When she found out he was back, she also found out something else.

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She found out that they believed in him.

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That's what broker.

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What broker was when he came back, okay, so there's a claim.

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That's cool, whatever.

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But when he came back, he was a direct rebuttal or he was refuting her standing as the

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one that is promised because now the people believe in him.

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They think the fact that Aegon is alive is proof.

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It's the second coming.

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It's like Aegon's burns might as well be a stigmata, right?

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So like looking at that, she's like, okay, well, fuck it.

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They believe in him now.

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That's not the way this is supposed to go.

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The only thing I have to do now is just choke everything out to where in my dominance,

20:12

they'll have no choice but to believe in the prophecy.

20:15

So the thing that really to me ran her crazy, I'm not, I can understand what you guys

20:19

are saying.

20:20

I think it actually makes a lot of sense.

20:21

But I thought it was, I thought it was apt for her to break right there because now the

20:27

belief system is being corrupt.

20:29

The narrative of him coming back is more for the people to believe in than a queen that

20:34

just supposed to be there.

20:35

She was doing everything that she was doing.

20:36

Yeah.

20:37

Everything to force their belief or to earn their belief in something that she doesn't

20:45

just believe in her entire identity is oriented around it, right?

20:48

So that's why her saying, fuck it, I'm gonna go to the septum and now we're gonna kill.

20:53

She did not do that before.

20:55

She wanted them to believe in her.

20:56

Yeah.

20:57

She knows.

20:58

Now she knows it's impossible.

21:00

And the guy actually says the guy goes, okay, he's going back.

21:03

That's even, that's more proof that you're doing.

21:06

As you go, you know what?

21:07

Fuck it.

21:08

The only thing I have left, it's like a commentary on a modern rule.

21:11

I stopped like a filibuster and after this.

21:14

The only thing I have left is to fucking make you believe.

21:18

And when everybody else is dead and I'm here, you don't have any choice.

21:21

If you guys don't believe me, I'll kill all of these people and I'll put somebody in there

21:24

that does.

21:26

So like by the time she got to that point, I felt like it was earned and I felt like

21:30

Agon being alive was the perfect thing to make her snap.

21:32

Wonderful.

21:33

So I mean, the Agon and Aemon stuff to me, not to piggyback off what Chris write is

21:39

it.

21:40

Like the, I think what happened in this episode is the greens are just so much more fascinating

21:44

to me now because when Agon realizes Sunfire is back, he almost loses it where it's like

21:52

he finally becomes maybe not the king he shouldn't have should have been all along.

21:57

But let's say he would have still been on the throne.

22:01

He had something that is true.

22:02

He's looking at it.

22:03

Yeah.

22:04

Yeah.

22:05

Now I will say the other thing like I like to see, but I was like damn Aemon.

22:09

Heron Hall really got to you.

22:10

He's not gonna fight you back at this.

22:12

No, that's gross though.

22:14

But I was gonna tell someone Heron Hall does to you.

22:15

That is true.

22:16

No, that's what Heron Hall does.

22:17

I mean, remember last the end of last season when David and Renera finally showed

22:22

the Heron Hall and Damon was like, look what I did for you.

22:24

He bent the knee too.

22:25

Aemon going bent the knee to his king.

22:28

That'll Tom Glen-Carnie because he went crazy in that seat.

22:32

He was so funny.

22:33

He was great.

22:34

I'm alive.

22:35

Got like hilarious.

22:37

And then he read his brother for Filth, dog.

22:39

But he was still like, hey, we gonna need big arm.

22:43

Yeah, of course.

22:44

I mean, at first he didn't, he wanted him to be regular Aemon.

22:51

And by the way, I don't know what he thought he was going to do.

22:53

I guess he was going to burn him with Sunfire.

22:55

Yeah.

22:56

But like he was, but he came there.

22:59

Did he know he had, no, he had already heard that big arm went around.

23:02

But look, but to me that scene where he goes, oh man.

23:06

I was supposed to be joined.

23:07

I was supposed to enjoy this.

23:09

I love that.

23:10

I love you too.

23:11

You was great.

23:12

And is Alice now the ultimate malef?

23:16

Because when Aemon found out she was a hundred, he was like, oh, he was like, he was like,

23:22

he's like, when she walked in, he's like, he's from the college.

23:26

Oh, that's my patrol.

23:27

That's my wife.

23:28

She was telling that story.

23:31

And I was like, damn, you've been alive for a hundred fucking years trapped in this fucking

23:36

castle.

23:37

I was really fucking sad.

23:38

No, no, no.

23:39

I don't think she can leave the castle though.

23:42

I think that's part of her curse is that she can't leave the riverlands or anything like

23:45

that.

23:46

So when Aemon's like, yeah, you're going to get Vega out of here.

23:49

You got to, you come on.

23:50

Yeah.

23:51

And I, she's like, no, you can't leave because she's going to be, she's going to be alone

23:53

again.

23:54

And I complain a lot about like how slow the show gets when we get to Harrenhal, but

23:58

I think this was actually a really great, not justification, but I think a use of the

24:03

lore of Harrenhal and what it does to not only people in that realm, but like, it's a great

24:09

metaphor for what Renew is going through right now when like somebody is trying to fight

24:13

against that fate that is already determined for them or already destined for the Alice's

24:19

tried everything, got all those masters, tried witchcraft and failed.

24:24

And then the price for all of that is your curse to this place and you live here for

24:27

a hundred years.

24:28

I mean, but the thing that I always found what was interesting in the first game of

24:31

Thrones about prophecies is that most of the time they were either bullshit or it was

24:39

the prophecy that would undo the more that they believed in the prophecy, the more that

24:44

they would just sign their own fate.

24:45

Yeah.

24:46

And I always felt like worked in that original show, which it was like, you actually think

24:51

it's going to go this way, but you can't control your destiny.

24:53

You can't control your fate.

24:55

And the more that you think that you are the prince that's promised, the more that you

24:58

were not.

24:59

And that's what I do think works with how Ramirez sees the world where it's like the reason

25:05

that even she has to dismiss Masaria to me is because like that's her last moment of

25:10

weakness and humanity as a ruler.

25:13

But she can't stand to have this person who basically saw her at her lowest where she

25:18

was begging her to just be like, am I worthy?

25:22

Am I really this person?

25:23

But it was, I'm sorry it was rough.

25:25

I was money on the dresser.

25:27

That was less of a man.

25:29

That's what happens to be like, yo, explain.

25:31

I mean, you think that they respect you, but then they show you that they don't.

25:34

I mean, you think that they respect you.

25:36

You think that they tell you that they're going to come into your, you know, I oftentimes

25:40

wonder.

25:42

What happened the next year after pretty woman?

25:44

I oftentimes wonder, I don't care to sad now.

25:49

How do you know that they didn't live together happily ever after?

25:52

They might have.

25:53

They might have.

25:54

Could a graduate where they're just sitting on the bus then could have been or it could

25:57

have been pretty woman to divorce.

26:00

Okay.

26:01

I often wonder if he could truly accept her because she had a heart of goals.

26:04

She hadn't been doing it for that long.

26:05

You know, they slimmed that in the movie right?

26:06

She only been doing it for a couple of weeks because right?

26:08

Because if she, if he did, if pretty woman, if he did say it to her, how long have you

26:12

been doing this as she'd have been like, well, I'm seven years in this motherfucker?

26:15

Maybe he looks at it differently because he looks down on her.

26:18

How would this have affected this in the only fans era?

26:21

What?

26:22

It would be a pretty woman took place now.

26:23

I mean, look, at this point, that's how pretty woman starts.

26:27

You see her and then like, whatever.

26:28

I mean, Niggas don't care anymore.

26:29

And that's great.

26:30

Right.

26:31

So was we've taken these things away.

26:32

We heard about the touch of her.

26:34

But like, like, I'm saying, that's great.

26:37

That's great.

26:38

And then in this situation, treated her like that shows me that you never really loved

26:43

her and fucked with her and like valued her in the first place.

26:46

Can Miss Maria go back to her home girl?

26:48

I would have gone on that both the penthouse, but if you got all about it, man, she got more

26:54

to do.

26:55

She worked for a lot of this.

26:57

She got now.

26:58

Now, you know what?

26:59

She was, she got paid out.

27:01

She has service.

27:02

Yes.

27:03

She, the minute she got off that fucking wagon, I'm like, bruh, the dragons are descending.

27:07

You, you got out of the contract.

27:09

You just go.

27:10

Look, at this point, if I'm here, I'm like, you know what?

27:12

Fuck it, man.

27:13

Let me make some trouble.

27:14

This is what I love about this episode.

27:15

Makes some trouble.

27:16

Makes some trouble.

27:17

She's no cigarette.

27:18

She knows the girl.

27:19

She knows the trouble.

27:20

But she, she's resourceful.

27:21

What I liked about this episode is it felt like everybody broke out of the chains and

27:27

shackles that were locking them in.

27:30

Everybody made the wrong decision.

27:32

Yeah.

27:33

It's a, everybody said, fuck it.

27:34

Full wrong decisions, right?

27:35

And off is, he is the thesis for this episode.

27:42

Because the thesis episode is, you know what?

27:45

Fuck you too.

27:46

That's what this is about.

27:47

It's fuck you too.

27:48

Renera, you know what?

27:49

Fuck you too.

27:50

Off with his dragon, busing the you and coming around, burned him up.

27:51

No, he was so funny.

27:52

He was a long way around it.

27:53

He's funny.

27:54

He's funny.

27:55

He's funny.

27:56

He's funny.

27:57

He's crazy.

27:58

He's the fairest.

27:59

Like, off.

28:00

He's funny.

28:01

He's funny.

28:02

He's funny.

28:03

He's funny.

28:04

He's crazy.

28:05

He's drunk.

28:06

He on the back of the dragon.

28:09

The one fucking thing, Ormond.

28:11

What a fucking ridiculous mistake.

28:14

So Damon smacked off around.

28:17

And that's what pissed them off.

28:19

Yeah.

28:20

And then Ormond does the same thing.

28:21

And Ormond said, you know what, bro?

28:23

Fuck you, dog.

28:24

I'm not defending it.

28:25

But if I'm Ormond, first of all, you know I got my nose this week.

28:29

And your fucking dick is out.

28:31

Fuck you on the fucking.

28:32

And I asked you to come look for me.

28:34

Yeah.

28:35

I didn't know you had one job.

28:37

Open up one job dog.

28:39

That's crazy.

28:40

That's facts.

28:41

But to me, I'm not like, don't put your hands on me, dog.

28:43

That's the one.

28:44

No, I wasn't fucking what off.

28:45

Because he was up in the fucking tavern.

28:48

He was demanding a train.

28:49

He was talking crazy about Damon, man.

28:52

We were drunk.

28:53

He was drunk.

28:54

That's the thing.

28:55

Yeah, that's the thing.

28:56

And find the hole.

28:57

And all that shit is okay.

28:59

Just don't put your hands on me.

29:01

You smack me around in front of people.

29:02

I'm a burn your dumbass up.

29:04

Well, I ain't burning him up.

29:05

I'm a burn up all your people.

29:06

I'm a burn, I don't burn me.

29:08

Don't fucking smack me.

29:09

And then send me on the dragon to go do your bidding.

29:12

I got a dragon.

29:13

Flying under the influence is crazy.

29:14

I didn't say that.

29:15

So I will say what it was like not the longest part of the episode.

29:19

But what I thought was really genius is that Damon is almost in the, um, he is in

29:26

the position now where maybe for the first time ever, he sees what dragon fire can do

29:33

from the ground.

29:34

Yeah.

29:35

And when he wakes up, it's like, oh, shit.

29:39

What did we do?

29:40

What happened?

29:42

I want to ask, Jimmy explainer, because I, you know, I was doing my Googles and shit.

29:48

No, daddy.

29:49

In the book, is it an old and hue that that turn?

29:55

And it seems like in this episode, he didn't turn.

29:59

But Damon definitely does see him being like, why the fuck are you?

30:02

Yeah.

30:03

Well, he, because nobody again, all hell is broken loose.

30:06

Nobody's fallen in distress.

30:07

Right?

30:08

He nobody can find off.

30:09

Q, like he was supposed to be guarding, um, he's supposed to be on the room with Thor at

30:13

King's Landing, but he's there to, you know, try and race to his wife.

30:16

Yeah.

30:17

Like, it's just, like completely held the scout to messed up.

30:19

I think he smokes, supposed to be there in this battle as well in the book.

30:23

So like the lot of moving pieces, like obviously, I mean, there's a lot of things.

30:27

I mean, we've talked about it all season.

30:28

A lot of things have changed from the book to the show.

30:31

But I think in this particular battle, they encompassed just the nightmare that Tomlton

30:37

was.

30:38

The battle was incredible.

30:39

I mean, uh, yeah, a spectacle for sure, but just the devastation, the loss and the absolute

30:44

and just like holy crap, what the hell are we doing here?

30:48

Aspect of that battle is just on screen for all to see.

30:51

And it's amazing.

30:52

Is this battle?

30:54

I don't know if I agree with the politics, but you, you could go back and say to Ranera,

31:01

age, just to be real.

31:03

If you start handing out the nuclear codes to Aremal, fucking, this is kind of what you're

31:08

signing up for.

31:09

So it's really funny in the books, Jace is like, Jace is like, don't do this.

31:16

You start giving, you start giving this stuff to people.

31:19

They don't think they're us.

31:20

They don't think they're as powerful as us and they're going to act untowards.

31:24

Mm hmm.

31:25

So wait, so the common folk to poor folk don't get dragged.

31:29

No.

31:30

They're the Mongols in the show.

31:31

Yeah.

31:32

He's like, yo, this is not, we can't, we can't, we can't do this.

31:34

This is not a good idea.

31:35

Again, you start giving people, hey man, hey, oh, if you're the little homie, but we don't

31:39

give you a dragon, what happens?

31:41

Oh, he the man now, oh, fuck it.

31:43

Well, you also treated him like shit.

31:44

Well, but even still though, right?

31:46

Like even like, even before that, he was like, yeah, I'm the man.

31:49

Yeah, he went, remember, he went back to his hometown and went back to the town.

31:52

I was like, yo, the promise they treat him like the help because I will say, this is

31:55

not the worst thing that happened in that episode.

31:58

I went in Reneira, grab Bela.

32:00

I was like, hey, yo, get your talk about it.

32:03

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

32:04

I was like, this is, I mean, like, Brennera was messing up the whole episode.

32:08

That had, that was, that was racial.

32:10

That was racial.

32:11

Renera racial racial.

32:12

Rachel, that because she grabbed Bela, it's in your blood.

32:15

It's in your blood.

32:16

What did I mean?

32:17

That was a, I was like, like, come on, man.

32:18

Race.

32:19

Absolutely.

32:20

Come on, man.

32:21

I don't think it was race.

32:22

You don't think it was race.

32:23

You don't think it was right.

32:24

I don't think it was race.

32:25

You don't think it was right.

32:26

Okay, I think that no think for the first time.

32:29

For the first time.

32:30

Well, I think that no think it's race.

32:31

Rich is built.

32:32

Marra, fact, I think that it's really discussed how you guys have indulgent race baiting.

32:39

To answer questions of plot that are, I know you not.

32:42

Race out of it.

32:43

Race out of it.

32:44

I know you not, you want to bring up a no set?

32:46

Well, no, no, hey, I saw another one.

32:50

That's why I face times you about, uh, I think you're going to face something

32:56

you because in Widows Bay in the car. Oh God. Like when it's all of them in the car in Widows Bay.

33:02

Uh-huh. I was a friend of mine. Okay. So I got to finish let me finish the story. So in Widows Bay

33:09

when they're all in the car is his Evan and everybody's in the back and there's a black girl right

33:14

there. Right. Another one dropped a friend a freshman just dropped one. Okay. Number one. But I have

33:19

to stop doing this for real. That's why I would like if you guys stop bringing it up because the

33:23

friend of mine went to a meeting at Warner Brothers. Oh. Meeting at Warner Brothers. This is the

33:29

true story that he told me. So I don't know what I can say if it was a meeting at Warner Brothers

33:34

and he says he mentions my name in the meeting and he goes isn't the guy isn't that the guy that

33:39

doesn't like biracial people? That's not that's not a good thing. Okay. I love that they immediately

33:46

just said oh he just said he's by right. I'm telling you. I'm gonna hit me up and he goes I have a

33:50

funny story to that's right. Meeting that that's I don't want okay we you know I've been asked to stop

33:55

and so maybe some of those same people going on all the time I saw what happened see all right and

33:58

that's so I'm not saying I think maybe it's time to to issue an apology to the biracial's.

34:06

Does that camera? I would just like to take this time to address the biracial community

34:16

from behalf of things that we said on this podcast and on how you're learning the podcast and

34:21

just let you guys know that we are one. I recognize and understand that we are one. You missed the

34:29

I'm sorry for what? You missed the I apologize for what? If you're gonna apologize. You are one big

34:38

black community. I am sorry for making you for the little or less than.

34:46

This might be the biracial agenda. If if

34:50

no if I say anything if I say anything that offended you my bad. All right. All right. That's

35:02

the fuck off. But while we're against spicy Adams a house Negro.

35:11

Wait, which was the ball? Well, Alan. Alan is a house Negro.

35:14

Hey, bro. First of all, bring up the what's the actor's name again because we want to say this

35:18

very clearly. We're not talking about the actor himself. I completely agree. I was I've

35:27

I really hate be hard. I'm like, yeah, when you're in his ear about like you're the blood of

35:34

He took he put on the helmet. He became the feds. Yeah, immediately killed a priest. That's how you know

35:42

because that's not something that a sister but what I asked you to go into church.

35:45

But she's not gonna make him do it. I'm like you do kill you want to kill the priest. You look at his brother

35:51

like get the fuck out of here. His brother. Think about that. Turned his back on his brother

35:56

on his brother. What why won't man? Hey, guess what? He turned his back on a black queen because he's

36:05

like, hey, yo, did you hear what she did to bail up? Fuck off. Okay. Not to defend Alan. I know

36:13

this will come. All right. Just just go ahead. But do the same thing. This is all I ask.

36:18

Do the same thing to him. It better be good, joe. What's there? He has always been about duty and he

36:29

has always been about following orders that it's been his entire life with his at the shipyard

36:34

with his father that was for nearer. He is not a guy who asks any questions. Yeah, when he's

36:39

pointed somewhere, he does it. It would this is what this has been the opportunity for him to

36:44

look in the room. He'll be like, hey, man, maybe I need to decide to make my own. I need to decide.

36:49

I got to make my own decisions. I need to do something for me. Absolutely. 100%. But this is

36:56

extremely in line with the guy we've known for what two seasons now, which is if you point him

37:01

somewhere, he will do it. He will do it without fail. And he will like honestly, probably succeed.

37:07

That's the kind of guy that's why she went there. Do you think he has ambition? Like his brother

37:11

said. No, I think that's why when she's like, hey, go be my sword. He's going to go be the sword.

37:18

Respect the fact that we're sitting there like, brother, this is a horrible idea. Listen to your

37:23

brother. He's got sense. But here's the thing. Your dad is captured. All of the soldiers that you

37:29

want to boss around now are like, hey, that is our lord. Is it fuck him? Then Bayla, who like,

37:36

you're supposed to be in love with our guys. He's like, fuck her. And then your own brother is like,

37:40

hey, man, come on. That one friend that'll do that just wants to keep the job.

37:47

Do anything to keep the job. I mean, look, what Jomi said makes a lot of sense. But a lot of times,

37:53

those are the types of things that we expect culture to override. So that's kind of what makes you

37:58

like a autom. When it makes you an uncle Tom, a lot of times is when you go, when you know,

38:03

I'm getting cuffed and I look over at you and you look

38:08

like, because you back in the blue, I'm like, what about the black nigga? Like, you know, I'm saying,

38:12

you're gonna let him talk to me like this? Like, like, like, you see these fuck ass cops, whatever.

38:17

But like, but so what I'm saying is that is the type of thing that kind of makes him that.

38:21

Yeah. If we were calling him that, maybe it's not fair. Maybe it's very consistent with his

38:24

character. But at the same time, it did seem like in this situation, there was a clear choice for

38:30

his character to make between the connections that have been made in his family. The new family

38:36

that he has and all that stuff. And what really felt like self-adassment at a point because, yeah,

38:45

because Adam did not fall. Adam did not do the same thing. Adam goes up and Adam is like pulling

38:49

on him going, Hey, there are a lot of people here, people here that we need to kind of keep in

38:56

the front of our mind. And his thing is he's been asked to do this. So yeah, she probably understands

39:04

that he is duty bound in a way that a lot of the characters aren't. And she operationalized it,

39:08

but at the same time, what the way we view character, the way we view loyalty is in a personal

39:15

relationship, and not necessarily like a loyalty to an entity. And he knows he already cursed.

39:21

I felt so bad. Once he killed all dude, he looks at the sword. He's like, fuck, man. He's like,

39:27

I've cursed my life or generations. Now he killed me doing it. He killed a Pope man. You can't do that.

39:32

That's brutal. That, there's wheat. I mean, we talked about it when we were watching it.

39:38

But a lot of things happen this episode. Characters do a lot of things that they can't walk back from.

39:43

Like Damon killing kids. Come on. Those two kids rolled out the way.

39:48

Run. Run. No. All right.

39:49

No, no. He's not waiting. He was hurting them low too much. He was going to kill them.

39:58

I'm not like he's crazy, but he definitely was going to kill the kids.

40:01

Like why allow like is I get it? But like why?

40:07

Why even give it to him? Why give him the hesitation situation?

40:10

Do we are we still trying to wrestle with Damon? No, no, because remember when before he left

40:15

Renear was like, yo, don't embarrass me. Don't do none crazy out there now. And he was like, I got you.

40:21

Regular brother regular. Damon would have burned out whole thing with a burn out all time.

40:24

Burn the kids. Burn the old woman. Burn everybody. Millay, I tough.

40:27

We got to get it. It was funny when the messenger rolls up to the war.

40:34

They put kids up here. Yeah, David.

40:36

She's like, God damn.

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Hello, ring of verse fans. I regret to inform you that due to the initiation of deep

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saddle protocol, this bit had to be edited out of the pod. I know I'm just as disappointed as you are.

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Thanks as always for listening. And the midnight boys.

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Pew pew. We'll get back to you shortly.

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It's not funny. It's not funny.

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See, oh my God, I can't breathe. My, my head hurts.

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We're not even going to get into some of the subtle political messages that were raised.

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That was hard to do into this. Oh my God. Let's go. Let's go to the high towers real quickly.

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What's your man? The top high tower night guy or

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not or Joe, uh, Bull John Rockston. No, he the man. He the man. Yeah.

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Like he's a heavy grain. So going back to going.

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Grain is unkillable.

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Plot armor like crazy. Like you're in the boys. Does the plot armor not alter him?

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I'm starting to fuck with Grain's character so much because all Grain is doing in this is

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surviving people with fucked up ideas. Yeah.

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Surviving Christian. And he just knows I don't love a character that knows

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just when the cut they fucking lost his. Yeah.

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Like he not going down with the death star or getting blown up on any.

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He's like, you know what man? It looks like the rebels got you guys. I'm out.

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Right. And so he's done this several different times at the end of this episode

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when it pops up and he's not dead. I'm like, this motherfucker. He knows how to keep

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I mean, I even love way. He like he's trying to find his nephew.

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He runs the death you about to pull out the drag. He's like, hey, come on.

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Like, well, that's a good team because he's like, yo, he doesn't say his name,

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but he invokes Christians like, yo, man, I seen people act to fool when they know

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their times coming. My homie did that. Your uncle's doing that. You don't have to do that.

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Mm hmm. We can just we can figure something out. We can go.

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And then ultimately like, I mean, we don't know where Dernis

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right. He's looking for Dernis. He gets up. But to your point,

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peace, survive Christian Cole's death, uh, death march. He survived or miss death march.

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Hey, he's guy. He'd have he'd have met now. Is his cunning like cowardice or calculating?

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In this world, it could be seen as cowardice. He's the smartest person in the show.

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Right. This one is the one that's dragging the sky. I don't know how much cowardice.

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Like, if I don't have a dragon, I'm like, hey, oh, bro, come on. What are we doing?

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What do you think about his offer for peace, though? Smart moves.

43:06

Tough. Or the only thing that you could do at that point is the only thing that you can do.

43:11

I want to give MVP to Coralist because like Coralist was crashing out this entire season.

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And he finally got back to you. Yeah. Coralist being like, I think he knew deep down.

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Damon wasn't going to listen to him. But him even just being like, come on, bro.

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Like this is happy. So you can only be a coward if you run from a fight where there's

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something to fight for. Like if if if you walk in down the street and you accidentally step

43:38

up somebody's shoe and they go, you're fucking with you. Hey, bro.

43:44

Hey, man, you got it, bro. Man, my bad, bro, straight up. But you know, if you are defending someone

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or if your cowardice is being called upon, right, make sure a coward when you when you refuse

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to defend something that's worthy of defense. But when when you look at something and you go,

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Hey, my life is not worth that. And there is no honor on the line. There's no safety on the line.

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Like run it from something stupid, not dying or getting in a fight or busing your shit up for

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something dumb. Does not make you a coward. So I don't know that I've actually seen cowardice

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from him. So Christian Cole goes, Hey, I want to marshal glorious death. Can you see him like,

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yo, I'm not on that. Yeah, it's not that I'm afraid to fight. I fight when it's time to fight.

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But I'm not going to fight your ridiculous, Piric. Maybe even Piric. No, Piric is actually a victory.

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But I'm not going to fight your ridiculous like insignificant battle for your personal trauma.

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And he's looking around and seeing a bunch of people that are putting their personal trauma

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above anything else. He loses his nephew. He goes, bro, you want to go out and fucking die for all

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of this dumb ass shit? No. What the fuck are you doing? Don't get on the little bitty dragon and go

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out there and get your shit pushed in. I mean, I will. Both times for Sir Wayne. I don't know if he's

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completely fighting for other people. But you could say what's our christen call. It's like,

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you are leading a bunch of men to their death. And then at um, Tumble tin, they are putting kids

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on a wall at a certain point. Yeah. Someone has to roll out and be like, do we need to do it like

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this? Yeah. Because most of these people are going to. Man, I mean, they have the scene

45:27

of beginning. I don't know if you guys noticed this. But when uh, Orman is knighting Darren and

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you there's like see, there's like a cut where he's doing the, the, the sword taps and see

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going like, like, bro, like, this is not what he wants for this kid. Right. He does not want him

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to go and die in his uncle's, you know, crazy war. And then when he's got, he, they're lighting up

45:49

the kids on the, on the, on the wall. And he's like, yo, what like this entire thing is,

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is worthless. And he's just now like innocent children have to die for this. Like we don't have

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to live like this. We don't have to do this. Like he was telling Darren, like, yo, Darren's like,

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I can't run. He like, yes, you can. Big dog. Like I won't as I won't like for you. He loves

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that kid. He loves that kid like his own son. So like, bro, you got to do whatever you got to do.

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I'm here for you. My dad told me my dad said there's a difference between running and leaving.

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To me, I respect going to respect him. He's, I didn't see him. I haven't seen him

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avoid any battles. I've seen him do things that are brave. I just think he's not fucking stupid.

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And everybody else is pretty stupid. So man, you're mentally stupid.

46:40

Dumas rocks. I mean, everybody in this show is the dumbest nigger that has ever lived in

46:46

West roast. So it's a dumb off. I mean, he was so funny when Roderick was yelling, he was yelling

46:53

at the wall. They went, boom. Yeah. And that's what I hate. I hate where I'm like, damn, I'm

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standing next to the leader. I'm really, they start taunting them off. I'm like, taunting them.

47:05

Don't send the arrows. It's fucking way. You can see where the line is. Yeah, is Damon, is Damon

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in a bitch? Damon. You're not going to do it. So let me tell you why. Let me ask you why

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though. Let me ask you. Let me ask you. Just so we didn't see Damon get busy on a lot of people,

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right? Yeah. Mm hmm. But like kind of a weight bully. That's what they do. There's a there's a

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tournament boxing called a weight bully. And that's like, hey, if I'm, if naturally I fight at 175

47:32

because I walk around at 200 to 190, I only fight niggers that's coming up to the weight. So I'll

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fight guys that are like 160, 170 trying to make this weight kind of trying to come up when I'm

47:43

a big that way. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a big that way. So it's a weight bully. You weight bully people

47:47

around. Mm hmm. Then you go up to the next weight class. You go fuck with the heavy weights. And

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then you get punched in your shit. Now what I saw in this episode was Damon who I've seen flexed his

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shit a lot to motherfuckers who came fuck with him. Get fucked up by the old John Rockston. That's

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what the fuck I'm talking about. Look like to me, Damon was having some problems. That one,

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Aiman, that one, the guy that you cut off his head from behind and what none of that. That was a

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guy that was on your level and a little like to me. He kind of got, got with him a little bit. You

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got to respect both John Rockston. Okay. His sword is called orphan maker. Okay. I'm not fighting you.

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Fuck that. I'm gliding. But here's the thing. Damon, that was to your point. That was a higher

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weight class. That dude had at least 100 pounds on my man. Yeah, he did. Come on. John Rockston is

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not like you. Damon is the man, right? Damon, but both on rocks and there's also one of them once.

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Okay. It's legitimately like a heavyweight battle of two guys who can throw hands. Yeah.

48:52

Lux the fuck out of that debris. Yeah. He was getting a little ahead of the

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scene. It was caught by surprise. Guys, I understand what you're saying. All I'm saying is in this

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situation, I didn't see that same swag. I expect to see that same swag that same whatever.

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No, David got some Lexi. He got. Yeah. He got some Lexi. But I'll tell you what,

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that was a 10. That was a 10. A round and look like he was on his back to me. Oh, no, he was about

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to get got like he was. That was locked. You would have. I mean, you would have given it to John

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but the split decision though. What it wouldn't have been unanimous. I think it was going.

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Well, it looked like to me it was almost a knockout. If the fire, if the fucking shit wouldn't

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have fall down and split them up, he was giving them hands. When they were both at the swords,

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he dispossessed him of his sword first. True. So where does John Rockston fall in the high

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archie of badass motherfuckers? I

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he's probably like, I like top 10 because you can't put them against like Sir Arthur Daintewane.

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Obviously, that's the best way. Cole in this time period. In this time period.

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Well, just how's it a drag? It's time. Remember, he remember the first season, he beat

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he beat a, what's his name? I can't really forget his name. Damon in the in the

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Oh, in the opening to like the first thing. Yeah, right. He beat him there. The tournament. Yeah,

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right? So Cole got hands too. I think like over time we've seen it. I like Damon is like probably

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like the best swordsman like in this like in this time period. But him, John Rockston obviously

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a Amon's got hands or sorry, Amon's got hands. And uh, what's his name? And and Cole, probably like

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your top four guys with the sword at this point. Yeah. Um, so you know, he's days, I'm looking

50:40

right now exceptionally dangerous and combat, breaking comfortably amongst the upper tier fighters in

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his era due to his lethal skill and the advantage of wielding a valerian still sword.

50:50

Yeah. Orphan making. So look, all I'm saying is this, I still fuck with Damon, but this was

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an episode. And I think this entire season. And this was why I really enjoyed this season.

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This season sought to strip away some of Damon's reputation to make him into a character that was

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easier for the writers to mold because he was such a badass in the first couple of seasons of the

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show that that just cannot persist once we had to have a more critical eye of the game. Damon

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is, is he aging out, you know, could be an aging player. Is that really maybe this is his last

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one? Well, this is definitely a slash. I mean, you, you were, you were mentioning like for him

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to be there and um, courtless, but like, yo, man, it's time to go. He's looking on his face, man. He

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was like, he was like, he never, he never seen Damon shell shocks. He never seen him like, yo,

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this is, this is too much for me. He was around like, yo, bro, this might be, uh, this is,

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this is bad. This is grim. At this point, man, like you, it is a level of, is it time for you,

51:46

brother? Called a family. Go home. I will say though, the true villain of this,

51:52

besides the bailish it, though, the minute I was on some like, Ranera needs to die is when she was

51:57

force feeding Kalei and I'm like, Keter, that was horrible. Do we talk about Helena?

52:03

Yeah. So part of me was tough. Part of me thought, because I was rooting for Helena. I was like,

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man, Helena, I thought she was, she was like escaping to go get dream fire, be like, you know what?

52:16

I was set off. Yeah. I was really hoping that like, she would just try,

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mm hmm, she could escape. I like that.

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I felt like this season, I was like, man, Helena annoying by the end. I was like, damn,

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she deserved better. Absolutely. That's what she deserved better.

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She has, she had that scene with her in Ranera where she's like, you, all the things you love are

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ugly. Like all of this is ugly. And like, it's such a beautiful metaphor when she's talking about

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like that beetle that like feeds off the wastes of other animals. And it's like gold and green and

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all these things. And Ranera just doesn't understand like the type of mind that she has because

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it's not from this world, this world of seeking power and destiny and all these things. And she's

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just appreciating life. And the, oh my god, the line of like, you think being alive is simply not

53:06

being dead. Like so good. Helena and Baylor was reading Ranera for Phil. I was like, I don't know if

53:14

I could have had those two back to back. Because I would start looking at myself different. Like,

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damn, every single person that I talked to and it's basically like you're full of shit,

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you're ugly, your friends are fucking ugly. I hate you. I would have thought, I thought

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Ranera would have had a more like active role in Helena's death. But I don't know if it's

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as sinister as killing Helena, but it's nearly nearly that where plan has gone over the same

53:42

window that Tom and went in over. I was about to ask, is that the same? It looks, but it's got the same

53:47

same eye line to the steps right there. I'm like, that's got to be the same window. But

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she, she's like, oh, she went over and she looks at the tapers she should work on and she sees

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like Helena falling down and then she goes over a little bit and she's, oh, I'm on the throne.

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Oh, that's good for me. Drops it. Close it. I'm crunching blood. I see laugh a little bit.

54:09

Doesn't care. Like close. But doesn't care. But that's a, that's a complete arc. Yes. That's a

54:16

complete arc, a total subversion. That scene right there legitimately is like, it's Anakin

54:28

cutting Mace Windu's arm off. Like you've completed your arc like Neil, you are now Darth Vader.

54:36

Because this entire season, this entire show, once again, what the character has been struggling

54:43

with is this prophecy and this promised thing to rule that also is bumping up against the fact

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that she's trying to be decent while doing it legitimately in that scene, she looks at it dead sister.

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Not a moment after I'm on the throne. So anything that happens to get me on this throne is okay.

55:08

And that also means the death of her sons. So like at this particular point right now, it's done.

55:15

It's her, her character is now fully forward, which I think is the great thing about this season.

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Is that there is no more in between with her. Like throughout the whole, the grabbing of the face,

55:28

when she consolidates her people, she consolidates the most robotic people. She hasn't consolidated like,

55:34

it's, it's Alan. Alan,

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Troy Mandelini. It's like, it's she consolidates the people that are wind up toys, not the people

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that are human beings. All of those people said, Missouri to the crew. Get the fuck out of here.

55:46

Can I ask you think? Because I think you can read it two ways with Helena's death.

55:51

Missaria, as she's walking out of the castle, Warren's Lena, that essentially you are never leaving

55:56

here. It's like, it's over. So do you think Helena, her death is because we're suicide,

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is that she's like, Oh, I'm never going to escape this. Or because now that

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Renera is on a one way track, her visions are more clear. And she's like, Okay,

56:16

all of my family's going to die. Like she, like she has seen enough to know, this is the end

56:21

of the Dargarians. This is the end of my sister, my brothers, my kids.

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Because I was like, I think it's a little bit of both because she's making this tapestry.

56:31

And it seems like once she finishes the tapestry, she's just like, there's just no,

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but also there's there's also this great thing that this that isn't like a hard confirmation

56:41

because of that. Like, yes, the tapestry is likely prophetic in the fact that like she is seeing this.

56:47

And this is part of her vision. And she's keeping that from Renera. But there was a fleeting thought

56:51

in my mind where I'm like, what if she had just finished that tapestry in order to

56:58

say Renera and like just call her and like affirm her that like, that's what this is.

57:02

I'm going to kill myself. It was basically her suicide now.

57:05

That should be really kind for Atlanta to do. I don't know. I was she would throw

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a lot. She also has never at any point in the show been that simple.

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Yeah, right. Like you only mean, but like, I like, I like that. I didn't.

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I like a whole backstory. When we got a bottle of episode where all of this stuff is Helena's doing,

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she's behind it all. We've been the tapestry.

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But look, what I'm saying is the show was fucking awesome. That's what I'm saying.

57:32

I mean, I can talk about Alison showing up at the last five seconds.

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No, we're not going to show by what the fuck she been at.

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All of this work. All of the shit going on.

57:39

That was the one. Everybody fucking burnt up.

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Man, Niggas getting burnt up. They shit cut off all of this.

57:47

You got you and some in the forest with some fucking moss.

57:49

Like, like, Snow White was making that to me because I felt I felt bad for Alison because

57:55

weren't in earlier episodes. Wasn't Helena, Helena talking about the fucking flying insects or

58:01

whatever. And I feel like Alison realized she's like, damn, Helena's out of here.

58:06

Like, I think that was her night. Oh, that could be like, it was a metaphor for like, maybe.

58:11

I don't know. Alison's to keen on the picking up like those notes.

58:16

But there seemed to be a little bit of sadness on her face.

58:19

Like, yeah, I would. I can't wait for season four, but because Alison will show up.

58:23

Hey, man, what's going on? Hey, everybody. Yeah. That was going on.

58:26

Perfect motherfucking segway. Talk about season four.

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It's all is, I mean, to see it's the last season, right? We get eight episodes.

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It is going to be a time. So, so let's talk about before we get to that,

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in this will help set up season four. What is the board now? Because essentially,

58:45

we know that all of his flipped.

58:47

All of his flip, though, because he was burning everybody.

58:49

Yeah. That's the thing I have a question. That's the quite. That's my old rogue.

58:53

Yeah, he's good. So he's not black or green.

58:56

Right. In the books of and and you are like, yo, we rocking with the greens, big dog.

59:03

We they pick a side. And this one, obviously, we don't know what's going on with you.

59:08

But it seems like you when his wife dies, that might be a triggering event of like

59:14

if Renera had listened to me early in the season. The black did this. It's their fault.

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Given me everything that I wanted, my wife would still be alive. But

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we get get open the books like, yo, I'm team green. So for him to like burn ormen,

59:27

like that's I mean, everybody saw everybody knows like, hey, he's a guy who killed ormen.

59:31

Like what side is he actually on? Right? Is he team green? Is he team black? Who knows?

59:36

Or is he just a wild guy out there, which is arguably worse?

59:39

Oh, yeah. If you're the Targaryens, I say it was so funny, bro. It was hilarious.

59:43

It was. It was. I'm doing the big loop arrest.

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He really like spinning it.

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Everybody forget it. Fuck you too and then burnt them the fuck up. Okay. So where's the board?

59:55

Talk about the board. Because we have Aiman and Aegon are together. It seems like Aegon is

1:00:02

finally like, you know what? I'm in charge. Aiman is the second in command again.

1:00:07

I could see him maybe trying to like parlay with Ofe Hube. He like, hey, yo,

1:00:12

we could treat you a little bit better. We can give you some lands.

1:00:15

Daran is still, I don't know if he's still alive or not, but he's there. Tassaryon is there.

1:00:20

So at minimum, if they get, I'm not going to count Hube yet.

1:00:26

And I live, even if we count off, that's what? That's four dragons, right?

1:00:30

Yeah. And then on the other side who have, I mean, Bayla's locked up with Moon dancer, Adam

1:00:37

and C-smoker somewhere, we guess. Vermithor again, two knows. It's Caraxi, Syrax,

1:00:44

and Caraxi's the Traxi's young fly. So really, you're kind of, dude, it's like four on four.

1:00:51

I mean, are we talking about the account for those other dragons?

1:00:54

No, I don't think so because remember, Aegon and Aiman were like, I mean, it'll take

1:00:58

a couple hours to get to Tomlton. Right. Yeah. They were like, we're going to go to Tomlton.

1:01:01

And that needs to be resolved. Well, Bern, we'll burn that host and then we will march on

1:01:05

King's Landing and retake the throne. That's the plan. That's like, I mean, that's a good set of four.

1:01:10

Even here's the thing. So it's the sides, it seems, are like two, your point four on four, but

1:01:15

Sunfire ain't peak Sunfire, but it's still a dragon though, you know, against, against men,

1:01:22

it matters against other dragons, not so much. Yeah. Yeah. And even what's Darren's dragon?

1:01:26

To Saran. To Saran is a little, little small. Like, what the fuck are you going to do?

1:01:31

Right. I don't get to practice. I think the size is a little bit weird because

1:01:35

that's a swallish room that they're in and you can really fit to Saran. Yeah, if you fit into

1:01:40

a corner, not even taking up the whole room. So what you're saying is that

1:01:46

you're saying that the size of something and its effectiveness is based upon the space that it

1:01:52

isn't inhabited. So anyway, right. I think what we're going to see is just making entertainment

1:01:58

podcasting. I'm just making it entertaining podcasting. Right. I think what we're going to see

1:02:03

is to answer your question actually, it's going to be a little bit more even, right? The greens

1:02:09

are on the back foot with the dragons before. Now it's kind of like, now we're 55. That

1:02:15

what it looks like when you got four and I got four or I got five, you got four, right?

1:02:20

It's not like this wealth of dragons where they had like, at the beginning of the show, but the

1:02:23

greens also have a leadership problem now right now. The greens. Yeah. The greens. So Orman's gone.

1:02:29

Uh, Darren is a young babe in the woods. Allyson probably will be reengaged. Do they have a

1:02:36

leadership problem? Agon is alive. Agon is alive. True. Yeah. But I said, I'll sit try to poison

1:02:44

like Amin. So I don't know about that. So I'm saying is like, they don't, they're so yeah,

1:02:50

Allyson, I would know, no, to be honest with you, yeah. I guess they stand the woods.

1:02:53

Agon is there and Agon is going to like go through and basically grab up all the power that would

1:03:00

have been there because he is the top guy. Yeah. Yeah. He's the king. So he's the king. The king

1:03:08

is alive. The king is alive. And so now, if we look at what you surpers now, if we look at

1:03:13

Ranera's side, though, a yo, I don't know how much baila is really going to be excited to be

1:03:20

following her lead, especially because like you left my grandfather to basically die. So I know

1:03:26

you don't really give a fuck about it. It's like that. And then he was treating me like this.

1:03:30

Adam seems kind of just like, man, fuck this whole shit, bro. So you understand like the

1:03:35

understanding problem now, which is, I mean, this is something we talked about throughout the

1:03:40

season, but or even baila mentioned it in this episode. Hey, man, when you, when people have

1:03:45

used to you, you treat them with this. And then as soon as they're disposable, gone, not even,

1:03:50

not even a thought. How do you high supposed to keep dragging riders happy? If that's how you

1:03:55

train everybody, right? Now when, when it's, when it's time to be tested, when it's time to get in

1:04:01

the mud, when everything's on the line, who do you got to fight? Which, who do you got by your side?

1:04:06

It's time to get live. It's time to represent sunset park. What time is it? It's time to get

1:04:13

live. It's time to represent sunset park. What? Yeah, I never seen sunset park. No, I'm a

1:04:20

storm. I can't say I have. Wow. We should, okay. Okay, we're going to old man van. We got to do

1:04:26

the old man van. We're going to do a film festival. So that didn't work. I thought you

1:04:29

hadn't seen it. I thought, Oh, I gotta say something real quick. Just before we move on.

1:04:35

So earlier in there, what? I don't. I'm sorry about the show off the rails. I kind of like the

1:04:42

way I look in this. You look good. You look good. So earlier in this bitch,

1:04:49

okay. We're in there talking. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know, old was on the toilet.

1:04:55

On the toilet. Right. Oh, he says, old on the toilet, like Elvis Presley. Funny. Great

1:05:02

reference for Jeremy. Elvis Presley died. I think 1977. Yeah. Okay. Great reference for

1:05:07

for Jeremy. Thought to myself. You thought about it for like two minutes. I thought, I thought,

1:05:12

I'm looking at it so long. I'm looking at it, Jeremy. I'm like, so Elvis Presley, you know,

1:05:20

Barry Gordy. Okay. Elvis Presley dying on the toilet. Like,

1:05:29

Jeremy's barely 30 years old. Elvis Presley dying on the toilet. Used to be something that was

1:05:34

talked about in culture like all the time, like all of this stuff with Elvis Presley.

1:05:37

No one fucking brings that dumbass shit up now, but nobody fucking talks about Elvis no more.

1:05:42

If that fucking movie not going coming out, nobody talks about somebody used to see Elvis every

1:05:46

single week in the 80s, right? In the 90s. I saw Elvis somewhere. Elvis is still a lot of

1:05:50

things. Nobody talks about it. But that which happened 20 years before Joe,

1:05:58

do you have a rebuttal 20 years before Joe, me was born. Barry Gordy is still alive. Yeah.

1:06:07

A rebuttal. No, but this is not the first time like this particular thing has happened. I remember

1:06:12

I was at Alan Seagal, Shadow Alan Seagal, he the man we were talking and I used like below

1:06:18

them in Dozenline and he looked at me like, what do you, how do you know what how do you know

1:06:24

what that is? I'm just like, I've been outside. Not outside enough for Barry Gordy, unfortunately.

1:06:28

Sorry. OG my phone. Please, you know, I said to apology before, but I just want to reiterate how sorry.

1:06:35

I would say though, our black fans do got it. Chill on us because looking at the comments,

1:06:41

they were mad for real. All right, y'all.

1:06:46

I've seen all those comments. I have to take some accountability and be honest about it.

1:06:50

Y'all can suck my dick. Okay. That's accountability. There's no reason to be rude.

1:06:57

I don't get nasty. I'm good at talking, but I'm not as smart as you think that I am. I keep telling

1:07:03

you on that, right? Keep telling you guys that over and over and over again. It took me a second.

1:07:07

Also, I would like to say this. We did not think about the fact that what was tripping us up

1:07:12

was the fact that, uh, well,

1:07:15

should be the front. It's right now. Let's think about it.

1:07:19

From Laina. Okay. Laina. But the fact that she is an outside thing. Their brother and sister,

1:07:27

but it's a bastard situation. If they were the same brother, their half brothers, that's

1:07:31

the space in between. And there's a generational thing because they're basically the same age,

1:07:36

huh? No, no, but the, but Alan and Adam are more, they're the same age. It's like, okay,

1:07:41

actually closer and age to the younger, to the grandkids, the artists, the sister. So all

1:07:47

that stuff was money in the waters a little bit. Like my mom was real disappointed.

1:07:53

Mom was out of the dragon. Yeah. My mom was really disappointed. She was like, son,

1:07:57

baby, like, what you talking about, baby? I didn't really mean what I was saying. I'm,

1:08:03

but you guys are right. I was stupid. I was stupid. I was stupid. Now we love y'all, but damn,

1:08:06

y'all were mean. They were going crazy. One, one, one sister just went the, uh,

1:08:11

the comment was just they all slow. I saw that. That, all right. And I'll tell you guys something.

1:08:17

Not all of us. If you go back and you watch that clip from the beginning of the clip, Steve's like,

1:08:22

huh? It's just, just, just, just uncle, which is tough for us in that situation. Listen,

1:08:29

it's a lot. Look, the family, the family choose a reef. You know what I'm saying? It's hard to,

1:08:34

to pick up on like, which is which it was so and everything is so confused. Everything is,

1:08:39

they're love. What did what did, um, who was it? Oh, it was like, that's her. Her niece.

1:08:44

They're lovers. Husbands. That's crazy. No, no. That scene was when you talk about people,

1:08:51

and I really do understand what you guys are saying about right now. I was off in my own perspective.

1:08:54

A long way to it. But when you talk about people who had a villain turn that was like,

1:08:59

to me a little bit unearned, I kind of think Ulf was one. Like, I know Ulf got punched in his,

1:09:05

she didn't know all that stuff. But the way Ulf was acting in the bar in this episode,

1:09:11

the way he was acting, people were like scared of him. Yeah. And that's like never been his character

1:09:17

that I've seen on the show. Can I, can I just say this? I think maybe some of my pushback to this

1:09:22

final episode was, they don't have a handle on the dragon writers, where it's like,

1:09:28

when Hugh is like cradling his wife, it's supposed to be the sad moment, but it doesn't really

1:09:36

emotionally hit. And to your point with Ulf, I understand his villain turn like logically.

1:09:42

But it was like almost overnight he went from being someone who was sad because he couldn't

1:09:48

hang out at the tavern and buy his boys drinks to basically being this big swinging deck,

1:09:53

being like, you better be afraid of me. I have a dragon. And it seemed like maybe the show didn't

1:09:58

have enough real estate to really make that turn. I mean, kind of, but not really, I feel like

1:10:06

they did a good job of seating. I've been vehemently, I can't even speak.

1:10:10

In the bottom line. Venn made me disagree. I think the show did a good job of me. Like,

1:10:15

Ulf feels important. He's got a dragon. He had a tribune some type of way. Yeah, type of some type

1:10:19

of way. And the Targaryens are like, no. Yeah. Right. How do you slide yourself off Targaryen?

1:10:26

Absolutely not. You can't go to the bar. You can't drink. You stuck here with you with in the

1:10:32

red keep with nobody. Right. All right. Well, I don't really like that. I'm going to sneak out

1:10:36

Damon punch punch me in my face. All right. Forget that. I'm leaving. Right. Go out being a bar

1:10:41

in old or not old town. Sorry, Tumbleton. Having fun. Guests too drunk. Guests punched in his

1:10:46

face bar. I mean, like, all right then. So nobody really nobody really rock. But also,

1:10:51

all right, Dan Bay. We all we all fitted that. Also think about his life before he had a dragon.

1:10:55

He was the life of the party at his bar with his friends. Like hanging out living his life. He

1:11:00

had a shit life. But he made it his own. He was that two episodes ago. Yeah, legitimately being

1:11:05

that and this one, he was at the bar going crazy. Yeah. I think, I mean, the whole the the

1:11:10

huge thing is interesting though, because I mean, this is something we talked about while watching

1:11:13

we're like, I kind of can't you can't put that all on you to you know, Huey Huey because he was

1:11:19

like he went to get his wife. So yo, the same with you. We can get out of here. She was like,

1:11:25

no, I'm good. And then when he goes in there and he finds her obviously like it's that because he

1:11:30

wanted to rescue her from this. Oh, you saying that she she asked for it. It's not what I'm saying.

1:11:35

It's not what I'm saying. No, it's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying. It does not hit to your

1:11:43

point. It does not hit the way it's supposed to hit when we see her in it. We see him hold her in

1:11:49

his arms. It sound like dang bro. Like we just like, this is something like obviously like it

1:11:55

was obviously going to happen. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can see what you guys are saying with that.

1:12:00

Because like that his his storyline hasn't really been. It wasn't really served well by this season.

1:12:07

There's enough enough there. But like there he was kind of more like someone

1:12:14

who was left almost unguided, uncared for. And then all of these things happen. They almost

1:12:21

kind of shoehorn that in to give us an understanding. That's why something more terrible is going

1:12:25

to happen for him or he's going to do something terrible. But I do think with the amount of story that

1:12:29

they had to deal with this season that this episode was a pretty fucking amazing. Yeah.

1:12:38

This realization of a lot of the story points in the show. Yeah. Do you think how soon

1:12:42

to drag in or over all would be a little bit more successful if they did have more real estate instead

1:12:49

of like eight athletes. I mean, yeah, even tenors. Well, because I was just like, I like all of

1:12:55

these characters. Obviously, I love the world. I was just by the end of this, I was like, I was even like,

1:13:02

damn, we could have gotten two episodes. Not to battle. But like not to absolve this of the fact that

1:13:06

it should be this expensive. But like these episodes are like 20 million pop or something.

1:13:09

It's like, it's real. It's real. There's no prices every week. This one was like

1:13:14

our 10 also, you know, sometimes we like the apple. I mean, look with us, with us, I mean, us as far

1:13:22

as the whole watching group of people. Sometimes we like filler episodes. If you get in,

1:13:28

you eventually get one where it's just the story of a baby dragon coming into it. It's a dope.

1:13:33

Right. No, man. Like, 10 years. It's five off 100 years ago. It's a little bit.

1:13:38

So you wouldn't fuck with the Sunfire episode where like Sunfire just holding on for dear life.

1:13:43

And then it's basically his baby. That's what you get. So like, I do.

1:13:51

I personally think nine, even one more would have been good. I don't know if we need to stretch

1:13:56

this battle. But I would have liked to see, I don't know though, the best season is the first season.

1:14:02

It had 10 episodes. Yeah. But again, like we did kind of get like not the equivalent of a

1:14:07

bottle episode, but we had the right runway. The show being the, it's most effective is to me,

1:14:12

again, like I said, my favorite episode is episode three, where we have Ranera attempting to rule

1:14:18

and it's slowly kind of dripping away for because it's entirely her POV. And that's when,

1:14:23

like when a show has more real estate, you get more episodes like that. And yeah, we could

1:14:29

like that more. But again, I'm perfectly happy with what we got. Wait, wait. So you just say,

1:14:33

so you think the first season is the best season. Yeah. Disagree. What's the best season? This one.

1:14:38

Viminally, this one is this one. This is the best season. Yes. Because here's a thing. I'm not going to lie.

1:14:44

The first season, I didn't get a fuck about them kids. Like we were, it was way too much about them

1:14:50

when they were young. I never think about it. No, it's close though. I'd have to think about it.

1:14:53

I think the first season got some fucking shit with it. It's got, it's, it's good. It's good.

1:14:57

The first season had motion. Like we, this is like before, we cared about those characters,

1:15:03

man, back then. Like dragon, the dragon's carried a show now. The series walking into.

1:15:08

Oh, yeah. That was the room. Come on. That meant something. That meant something.

1:15:13

Yeah, but here's the thing. This was an uneven season, but the highs of season three.

1:15:19

I agree. Yeah. But Sarah's dying at the, it,

1:15:24

gutting stuff. I love, I still love West Rose. We're ready for the midnight meter. I think we are.

1:15:28

All right. Y'all know what it is. Midnight meter one to 12. One is the worst and 11 and 12

1:15:34

are there for true game changers? We'll start with you, then. The whole season. Yeah. Nine.

1:15:38

Nine. Strong eight. Seven. Yeah. I got to go nine. I almost went 10.

1:15:46

Almost went almost went 10. I can't go 10 now. I can't go 10. But it's a nine. It's a nine for me.

1:15:50

This is great fucking television. I love. Yeah. I would just say I do think even if he was probably

1:15:57

a minute. So you saying that this episode, this season is the best season of the house of dragon,

1:16:04

ever and it's the seven. Yeah. So what was season one? To me? Yeah. Like a six. We back on the

1:16:10

drugs. I think they need George. I do think they need George. I'm tired of the dick right. Oh my

1:16:18

God. The George dick right. It's, it's, it's way too far. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Hey, we got two,

1:16:24

we got two game with the own seasons. This fucking year, which one had George? Onnie. The one that he

1:16:30

actually wrote, the one that he actually put like character motivations and story into fire.

1:16:36

No, George George. He tell us he's like, hey, go. They're trying to do what you hear. I'm not

1:16:41

talking about. Yeah. He's a more booked. You know, it seems like you're doing it seems like you're

1:16:46

disson. Ryan Kong. You don't even know. I'm a point of fingers. I'm not acting like everybody.

1:16:54

I love you. Ryan condol. I think, I think like given what the book of Fire and Blood is,

1:17:00

which is again, is a like historical retelling of the history of the Targaryens from like all

1:17:06

different types of secondary and tertiary sources, right? These a lot of these characters don't have

1:17:12

like motivations in like real motivations in a book, right? They say, oh, right nearer might have

1:17:17

been this or Alice. It may have been that over seris may have or may not have done this. When you

1:17:22

have to put it into like a story, you have to actually give these characters motivation,

1:17:25

reliable to like piss off people in the book that are like really passionate about the books

1:17:31

whatever. For the Knives and the Kingdoms, brother, it's like, it's there. What did Aegon want?

1:17:36

What did Dunk want? Like these characters have like life and these like given breft of them,

1:17:42

which like I think he's amazing, right? It's the same thing that happened with them, D&D and

1:17:48

Game of Thrones. The first seasons when they had like the books and these characters and everything

1:17:53

that they their motivations and everything. Perfect. It's great. We're like, wow, we love this show.

1:17:57

As soon as that's off, as soon as the books don't have them and you got to make this TV, it's like

1:18:04

it's hard. I'm not possible. I'm not. This is how good it is. I'm sure if y'all break that out,

1:18:10

get Chuck's face as you show me his talking. You was looking like, let's niggas talk some

1:18:17

fucking bullshit. Here's a big Brian Condole, OG legend. What they managed to do

1:18:24

the battles and the scale of this are amazing. Some of the Allison shit just hurt like popping up

1:18:31

randomly like, hey, y'all go to Heron Hall. Hey, we gonna have Damon and Heron Hall for a

1:18:36

fucking year talking to some cheese and shit. That's the type of shit where I'm like, come on, bro.

1:18:39

We tighten as opposed to what in the books they set him a hair and he's gone forever. This is where

1:18:45

the writing comes in. There's where the writing is like, I'm not dissing the whole show. I'm just

1:18:50

saying the connective tissue of it. People told us that. Whoa. That's George's. He wrote the book. He

1:18:57

didn't write the show. Oh, dad, dad. He wrote the book. Hey, we go past Mass Smith. He's gonna be the man.

1:19:03

Hey, check it out. Mass Smith. Hey, text season two off. We will put your hair on and disappear. Yeah,

1:19:08

George didn't do all of that.

1:19:13

Joey.

1:19:14

Joey. Joey. Joey. The book. I understand that. I'm talking about the show. So then what do you want?

1:19:20

So then what do you want Conno to do? If I say, if I say Conno did a good job, we say we do it a good

1:19:27

job. Joey, don't let him. I'm losing my mind. No, you lost it. I'm losing my mind. You broke that.

1:19:33

You broke the thing. Just just I'm like explain to me. So if I say, Hey, we cast Mass Smith,

1:19:38

we sent Mass Smith to Harrahall. We say, yo, Mass Smith does nothing. Right. For like, I don't

1:19:46

how many pages, whatever. He's just gone. And then there's a hosted Harrahall. Yeah, he brings everybody

1:19:50

together. Okay. What do you want Conno to do? Anything to make that more interesting. The show is

1:19:56

made. I'm not. You can't, but you can't glaze your own. I'm not glazing you work. You can not

1:20:04

repeat the same mistake twice. You can't have a season where you're like, Hey, Mass Smith,

1:20:08

we're sending you to Harrahall. And then you do, Hey, man, we're doing the same thing. And it's

1:20:13

the same thing because the same thing does happen. They their stories. Mary, that's the whole thing.

1:20:19

Here's what I will say. Do I think Conno has played this entire thing perfectly? No, I think there's

1:20:23

been mistakes all over the place. However, you can't be like, Yo, man, where's Georgia? This is his

1:20:28

book. A lot of this is the problem stem from his story telling. And there's maybe a reason why he's

1:20:34

an active rebellion against this show and not night in the seven days. Well, okay. We'll learn more

1:20:40

at during the Ryan Conno interview. Good. This is the dumbest. Why are you not just a conno? He was

1:20:48

always hitting anybody. Are you getting you breaking the equipment? Why are you broken? You broke it,

1:20:53

bro. Can you broke it? Now you got to hold it. Hold it. Hold the mic in your hand. Yeah, because he

1:20:58

wrote night of the seven kingdoms. He gave a gun and he got a hard. He not hold on. He gave

1:21:04

a gun to Ark. He gave dunk in Ark in the fire and blood. These characters just do stuff on the like

1:21:11

mushrooms like yeah, man, we might have heard that Alice. It may have done this. Stop the uses

1:21:15

like, Yo, we might have heard a radio is doing that. The degree of difficulty on fire and blood

1:21:21

is incredibly hard. We're not taking that away. We're not taking that away. I just think that you

1:21:28

might be misinterpreting what we were trying to say about what were you trying to say about the

1:21:31

fact that like, yes, it's hard, but there have been mistakes along the way. And while we can't put

1:21:35

that all on George, I just can't say something real quick. It's very interesting. I just want to say

1:21:39

something. I want to note this. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. Right. And this is the

1:21:44

way there was. It is also because people are going to watch and listen to this. And I did think

1:21:50

it's important. I'm going to say this once. We're never going to talk about this again. This is a

1:21:55

$150 million production wherever the fuck it is. Yeah. Saying that their mistakes are long

1:22:00

the way and there are. I'm not this is not to Steve. This is just general. This is not to Steve.

1:22:05

It's not to Steve is not to know me. Yeah. It's there's so many moving parts. Right. Yeah. It's

1:22:10

it would be so incredible. When you think when you think about the perfect arcs of television

1:22:16

that you watch number one, like everybody we talk about how Andor was perfect, right? Another

1:22:21

perfect thing about Andor was only two seasons. Right. And so like when you start to stretch that

1:22:26

story out a little bit, you have one book. There's all kinds of things. I just want to make sure that

1:22:31

we hold and I know that we do. Once again, this is not into about anyone. Of course. That we hold

1:22:36

space for the prodigious job that these creators and I want to say this like it's a lot of stuff to do.

1:22:42

We don't want to forget the history of it too. Yeah. There were bakeoffs. There was wish series is

1:22:47

going to go first. I'm not saying I think some people can say with George in the past because

1:22:54

these are his children. He holds on to them tight. And sometimes that is in direct conflict with

1:23:00

trying to get a season of TV on television. Yeah. In a right time. I just for the last season,

1:23:08

there are some things I just want to be a little bit tighter. That's it. I think that's fair. No,

1:23:12

I mean, it's really in my whole thing is like, oh, crazy. But yeah, because I spent a lot of time

1:23:17

like looking at this stuff, reading this stuff and seeing all these the conversation around it.

1:23:21

And the fact that my whole thing is the fact that George has escaped all type of culpability for

1:23:25

this is just insane of me. Like he's got a role to play. Let's not act like he's not involved in

1:23:28

this at all. Let's talk about this more on the next podcast because I want to talk about

1:23:33

just the entire adaptation world that we're living in right now because you can have a conversation

1:23:39

about this. The children of blood of bone, all of that stuff Emily Wilson. You can have all kinds

1:23:44

of conversations about this because we're seeing stuff that's a little bit now that's not true.

1:23:50

There've always been authors that were like super involved in the adaptations when they came to

1:23:54

this. I think Mara Puzzle wrote the screenplay for the golf other. So I think so when you look at

1:23:59

some of this stuff, it's all but now there is a push pull that I'm seeing right now that is,

1:24:07

it's like in the front of the news now. Yeah, they changed my view. Before when the author didn't

1:24:13

like when something got changed in their book, you would do find out on like the special edition DVD

1:24:17

and that shit. Yeah, you find out like 10 years later. Now you find out before this shit comes out.

1:24:23

Like I didn't like what they were doing all the problems and stuff like that. So I do think that

1:24:26

there's a really especially as everyone's like, Holly was in an arm race for what they can adapt

1:24:31

and like steal fandom for people because now it's not even just about how great the book is. It's

1:24:35

about whether or not the book already has a built-in fan base to get you sitting in front of the

1:24:40

seat or to go out to the movies and that even ups the fucking the ante because now your authors

1:24:48

probably to some degree either a celebrity or a very important cultural figure which puts them

1:24:54

in a big measure in contest with the creators on the movie on the show. And the last thing I'll

1:24:58

say about House of the Dragon, this is why like I give the creators a lot of credit. They have a

1:25:03

different task than Game of Thrones did. Game of Thrones got to get to this level where there's

1:25:08

dragons and battles all of the time where with Ryan Connell and co they're like, oh we're basically

1:25:13

making like the final seasons of Game of Thrones every single season. And that's a lot harder to

1:25:19

accomplish versus like, hey, we're gonna have three really, really difficult seasons where we're

1:25:23

making multiple movies versus we're basically making eight movies every two or three fucking years.

1:25:29

That is almost impossible. And to your point with Andor, they had to do it twice and they knew

1:25:35

this is our beginning. This is our end. Yeah. And also, you know, with even with George R.

1:25:41

He saw the way the end of the game of Thrones thing went and he doesn't want too much dirt on

1:25:44

his on his on his legacy. So he's probably holding on a little bit tighter too. A little RC Cola,

1:25:50

bro, we held you down. We got no cover. Man shout out to Condo, brush out to RC, Condo,

1:25:57

the motherfucking man shout out to the 2014 Hercules movie which I went and saw with the Rock.

1:26:02

And then I remember I like that bitch. For whatever reason, I remember I came back to

1:26:08

TMZ. Yeah, he did a Hercules movie. I remember I came back to TMZ. I was like, the Rock Hercules movie is

1:26:13

okay. People from the office went to see it and then they came back and they went, yo, Van,

1:26:17

are you fucking out of your mind? I'm never I never get my man went, yo, bro, I took my family to

1:26:22

that. I was like, no, I thought, do you have a weakness for the story of the sandals movie? This

1:26:29

he man, it's something about it. I have a weakness for all of us. The only movies I take serious or

1:26:34

movies that take themselves seriously. And then the bar, the bar for me goes like way through the

1:26:39

like John Carter. No, I never saw that. Actually, a part of it. I never started to watch that.

1:26:44

When I saw that in the theater. I never saw that, bro. I saw parts of it at home, but I didn't go

1:26:49

to the movies to see it. I mean, I didn't go to Moose Hd or Brick. All right. Big time,

1:26:54

Brick almost an all time. Yeah. No, he was on a roll. He was doing, they gave him three or four

1:26:59

different shots. They gave him, I only want to get into it because that's actually sad. Like,

1:27:03

I think you make it come off it and nigga getting his moment. Like that one, the one with

1:27:10

them. Like he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, what was the one with the Aaron Taylor Johnson

1:27:19

and Benizo, the total savages, savages. I like savages. I like that. All right. Or savages. Okay.

1:27:26

All right, guys, that's it. Uh, Jummy. I don't know what the hell happened with Jummy on this one.

1:27:30

Because you be on socials too much. That's what it is. That's true.

1:27:33

You be in the comments where they like, where's George? Where's George? This is what you do to him.

1:27:38

All right. No, no, this is what you do to him. It's true. The House R has an interview with Ryan

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Comble out that you can watch right now. It's up right now. On Wednesday, the midnight boys are back

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to discuss the season. The Natalie of X, man, 97, special guests might be in the house for that.

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There's a button as previews Wolverine and Star Wars Zero Company. Star Wars Zero Company. It's,

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it's a, it's a role turn playing game. Yeah. Take turns. Different, different order of those

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works. But yeah, different turn based game. Yes. There you go. It's like you go. Man, y'all,

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guys, you, you, yeah, you take turns. I'll get nice turn based game. Yeah. TV, TVG's. There you go.

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That's TVG. Um, our producers today are a lands and airs Jake Renexcom. Devin Moral,

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the Jummy, Devin Ron on social, hashtag Jummy Dragon Fight. This is a production from a

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Juno Ramcapal before I say this, I would just like to tell all of my co-workers and colleagues,

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like CT, Kaleika, who doesn't work here. But I would say just how much fun it was to watch the season

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finale in the room together. Oh, that was great. Charles did not fucking do it. I was doing my

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fucking receipts from San Diego, Copacus. Charles, you might as well just go and ask for 35,000

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dollars because that's what you spent. But like Charles, Charles did not do it was a lot of fun.

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It was so fun that I almost kind of feel like the show would be better if we watch all of these

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episodes together. Honestly, could be the move. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.

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Chuck take us out. The midnight boys are shaking their dreads. The Dragon Riders are Mongols.

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All respect to Mr. RR and Ryan Con. Oh my god.