Welcome back, everybody. We just rewatch the Battle of the Gullet. This time, without motion smoothing on it. What did you think? All right. Well, it makes a huge difference.

Yeah, it actually is. Okay? It makes a massive, massive difference. It does. So it made a big difference to you, too.

Oh, a massive difference.

A massive difference.

And that's not the kind of thing that you would normally pay attention to.

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

It did make a difference, but I will say what you were trying to say on Sunday, or at least I think the sentiment we had on Sunday still held true. And it was even more

glaringly obvious to me after seeing it for the second time in the correct context with the

correct lighting. Just about like the storyboarding of the fight. Yeah. And I think, I mean,

and also just kind of the heart of it, you know, and I think that it's an incredible battle. That was literally George's blog post, by the way, about the heart of it. Oh, yeah, I mean, because it's true. The butterfly effect, yeah. It's true. And I've been thinking about that a lot this week. And so, I mean, the battle's really cool. There's a lot of great, incredible shots with the dragons. There's a lot of real

ships out there, and that's pretty wild, and that's pretty nuts. But I just, I can't help but think.

I've been thinking a lot this week about this battle as we went into it. It was being proclaimed

as the next Blackwater Bay. Yeah.

And so I was wondering to myself, why does this not feel like Blackwater Bay?

I think that's an obvious thing because we don't have things like Tyrion rallying the

lanercers, you don't have the hound dealing with his inner turmoil, like we don't have

the wildfire.

There's so many reasons why.

But it's because you can have the coolest effects and the coolest ships and the coolest

dragons on planet Earth.

And if you don't have the heart of the story, it doesn't really matter, you know?

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