804 - The Last of the Starks

HOTD: A House of the Dragon Podcast

Bald Move

After Shows, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

As we announced last week, we've declared #FanBankruptcy, and are along for the ride on this saddleless dragon we call Game of Thrones. Keeping this in mind, it was nice to see this episode, "The Last of the Starks", run back to their roots in setting up some classic court politics and intrigue, with multiple betrayals and backstabbing in the offing! Jaime and Brienne hooked up! Pod is still very much the Rod! The Stark girls won grim smiles from the Hound! On the other hand, they're still struggling with the way they are telling the story they want to tell; characters die in unbelievable ways, and crucially characters then later live in completely unbelievable ways. With just two more episodes left, hopefully the Double D's haven't declared creative bankruptcy and we'll get a few twists and turns that manage to please most. Thanks to everyone who voted last week, we have released a preview chapter for our new book, Gods of Thrones! It's perhaps hard to wrap one's mind around what a pseudo-scholarly satirical take on the religions and cultures of Game of Thrones actually looks like, and now you don't have to guess. If you dig the preview and want to get to the owning a copy stage, volume one and volume two are now available in paperback and e-book formats at Amazon! Last call for our exclusive "House Snow" enamel pins! You can also get the design printed on a rough and ready cotton t-shirt! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Game of Thrones podcast, the official
0:22.4	podcast for Game of Thrones on HBO. I'm Jim. I may run. And today we're talking about season eight episode four,
0:27.3	titled The Last of the Starks. I can't believe there are only two more episodes of this great show.
0:33.4	I can't believe there's only four more stars. Yeah, that's that's only twice as many as as the episode number.
0:39.2	Right. Yeah, I'm, yeah, I mean, it just struck me that like in two weeks, Game of Thrones is over. Yeah.
0:45.8	And I'm sort of sad about that because I 90% like this episode. Okay. I think there's basically one
0:52.1	scene that doesn't work for me, but everything else I thought was in some weird way like a return to old
0:58.6	Game of Thrones that we saw a couple of seasons ago. You have a lot of characters playing some
1:06.2	games here, which is what I love about Game of Thrones. Yes. I think that they are definitely
1:12.7	harkening back to that. And after the Night Kings and Dallions, they wanted to get back to the
1:17.9	human drama. And I actually, when I, you know, keep in mind the cleared fan bankruptcy and I've
1:23.1	got a fresh slate. I got a clean, clean slate. I thought, and then putting aside that this wasn't
1:30.9	the story I wanted to tell. I'm like, I think they're doing a pretty good job at telling the story
1:35.4	that they want to tell. But the glaring exception is these guys just really don't know how to stage.
1:40.7	Yeah. It's the year on ambush. It's the biggest problem in this episode. But it's the meeting in
1:46.4	front of the walls of King's Landing. Like there's almost like walking level, walking dead levels
1:51.6	of obtuseness about this is the set piece we set logically giving everyone's motivations. This is
1:57.8	what would happen. But it won't because either we're blind to the scene that we have painted and the
2:04.0	logical ramifications of it. Or, you know, hell, we just whatever. And, you know, you see the problems
2:11.4	you don't care. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's only there's only two more episodes left.
2:15.5	Fuck it. Right. At times it does feel like someone, you know, about production crew or, or let's say
2:21.7	the showrunners sort of just trying to get to the end of this thing. Like in being sort of halfway
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