Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Nerd Soup. My name is Ruben, joined here today with Aaron, and we are back to review a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Episode 5 in the name of the mother.

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good stuff. Yeah, we're just going to jump right into this episode because it is one of the highest

rated episodes to ever come out of the Game of Thrones, HBO Universe 9.9 on IMDB.

And it was a heartbreaking episode with that ending.

I think that is a moment, a scene, the performances, the dialogue, everything about it is going to stick in my mind.

I've been thinking about this moment since I watched it.

It was incredible.

Like I said, the performances with Baylor, obviously the moment that he has in episode four was so inspiring when he says he's going to fight with Dunk and then seeing this trial play out, which was also really gnarly. Just all the bodies flying everywhere, all the guts and the gore, the chaos, and then the flashback, getting more information about Dunk and

his relationship with Sir Arlen, how that relationship began. I thought the overall structure

of the episode worked perfectly to really hit home on those themes. So yeah, no, I'm kind of with

the consensus here. I thought it was the best episode of the season. An all-timer, just an all-time

great, not only for Game of Thrones, but just an all-time great episode of television, one of the best I've seen, maybe ever. And, uh, yeah, Aaron, excited to hear what you thought about it. Damn, I don't, hard to follow that up. I think the, we talked about it last week, how like after last week's episode, I think that's

one that really takes this show to the next level where I wasn't really too sure how many

people were locked in on this, but while this was airing and the anticipation towards this one,

it feels like a lot of Game of Thrones fans have jumped on board. And it's crazy to say, I'm not going to say, like, obviously this is a throwaway show, but I think a lot of people had that kind of idea. People who might not be familiar with the source material, you know, I don't know if was on the top of everyone's watch list, but like when you take these past two episodes and throw it into like the listings of Game of Thrones,

even the season, like it's up there. I was like playing around like in my own thoughts before

bed last night after watching this. I'm like, where would I put this season so far compared to

the rest of Game of Thrones? Like maybe it's not season four or season three, but could you say

it's like better than half of Game of Thrones?

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