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I'm Jim. I'm A-Ron. And today we're talking about season six, episode eight titled No One.

Very professional. It seems to take we just got done watching it. What'd you think?

I feel like this is one where my honesty with the listener is going to get me in trouble.

But I thought it was a bummer of an episode, man. Oh, bummer. Like there was some excellence here and there, but it's overshadowed by what I think is at best

an uninspired wrap up for Arya's Bravo storyline. Okay. And at worst is just horseshit.

Yeah. I'm leaning more towards worst. I really didn't like those last five minutes.

I mean, there is a million ways you get a handle last week's episode without her taking what I considered fatal gut shots.

Yep. And I think this is becoming a bit of a problem. I mean, like I've looked over Sandor getting thrown off a cliff and had compound fracture and I'm a deal.

But like I don't know what to read as fatal damage unless a person's head comes off, which I feel like in a show about medieval combat knowing what people can can take.

Like, oh, the hand. Okay. He's a big fucker and he's hard to kill. Arya's a little girl. Yeah.

And also Arya was a fucking idiot last weekend. She didn't. I mean, yeah. I mean, we talked about how surely I can't. I get it. She's a little girl.

So she's gonna make mistakes. However, she's also been trained by the peerless assassins of the world. And I expect her to make better decisions than going around flat.

I mean, what I thought was going to be some kind of skillful trap or some misdirection was just played straight. And I'm not a fan.

Yeah. And then like we talked about how like you leaving a faceless man if you'd asked me before tonight would be roughly as hard if not harder than then leaving the mafia.

If the mafia had a peerless, almost supernatural assassins working for them. But apparently you can just be like, I'm Arya Stark. And I got business with Westeros peace out. And Jack and we'll give you a Rogus smile next week.

Jack is on top. Luca Bratzie's face on. He's gonna come after Arya at the docks. Jack and he's like buddy Christ at the end. He's winking the thumbs up. And like I could get I just.

I'm with you. And Arya is one of my craft Arya is one of my favorite plotlines and for them to just do this perfunctory sloppy storytelling really offended me.

So there that's that is my hot take for this episode. I did not care for anything to happen with Ari at all.

Right. Now I agree with that. I will say that I really liked a lot of other stuff that happened in this episode. Let's talk about some of the things I liked.

And then I'll agree or say your I have been waiting. I have just been waiting for so long for the mountain to finally strike. And he does. And he scares off the puny faith militant.

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