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on HBO, I'm Jim, and today we're talking about season 1, episode 3 titled Lord Snow.

Other than an off-handed comment that I think is a bit of a joke, I'm not sure exactly why this is called Lord Snow.

I think that's that you got it. Really? That's it? Well, I mean, that seems pretty insignificant.

One of the central arcs of it is John learning how to command. Well, John learning not to be a douche. Checking his privilege. Yeah.

There you go. Checking his bastard privilege. Highborn bastard privilege. Okay. So it's just a jab in him. Yeah.

Which I got, I just thought, man, overall, that's pretty insignificant. What else would you call it? What do you mean? The War for Cersei's Cunt.

That would have been a pretty epic title because you're like, my God, you sit up straight like, wow, you know what? It's going to be a big episode.

Let's see what kind of content warnings we're going to get here, but no, that's another title. Like my first kill. There's that one.

Back alley, Sally. Sure. Sure. Okay. Yeah. What do you call that the anti-name game when we just make shit up? Yeah.

That's what you call 50% of ball move. Anything before we get into the recap? Yeah, correction to my correction. And I swear to God.

If this doesn't stop, I'm just going to start referring to all filming locations as North Dakota.

But I had a few concerned Scotsman, a Brit and a American right in and say that actually, actually, she's a lot of the Winterfell scenes, especially in the pilot, the original pilot.

And some survived into the actual pilot were filmed at Don Castle, I probably mispronounced that, which is in Central Scotland near the Sterling District.

And it's a really cool impressive. You can definitely see why it could stand in for Winterfell. So the Scots get through to, I'm not going to read any of the emails because some of them are heated.

Let's just all get along people. Okay. Because there's that other thing is like, you know, next it's going to be Croatia writing in and then Spain.

Yeah. Just want to know if it's all North Dakota. That's from here on out. It's Bismarck. Okay. All scenes of Kings Landing were filmed at Bismarck. That's all. I just want to update that to make sure everyone got to do.

Then let's get into the recap. We start off with the Starks arriving at Kings Landing and Ned is immediately invited to a meeting with the Grandmaster.

He decides not to change before he goes in there. Jamie's waiting for him in the throne room, though, before he can get back to the council chambers.

They talk about the Mad King killing Ned's father and Ned essentially calls Jamie a coward for not stopping it, even though 500 other men stood around and stop it. And also for serving as the hand wall, it's safe.

And now here's Ned serving as the hand wall was the Kingsguard as a Kingsguard. Yeah. Now here's Ned serving as the hand wall. It's not very unsafe for him. Yeah, you know, it's funny because I always thought that Ned was a bit tough.

Tough on Jamie. All things considered everyone's tough on Jamie giving his age of when this happened and his inexperience and the fact that, you know, if you buy into Jamie's narrative that he, you know, single handedly slew a terrible king and spare a lot of the populace.

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