I guarantee you this if an elephant does show up in Westeros, Night King's getting one.

I'm not trading my dragon for an elephant. Welcome. Welcome back to Shatt on TV Game of Thrones edition, the unofficial

podcast companion piece to the Juggernaut HBO series Game of Thrones.

I'm one of your host Gene Lyons and alongside me is my Juggernaut HBO series Game of Thrones.

I'm one of your host, Gene Lyons, and alongside him is my co-host, Big D. Dick Ebert.

Good evening.

This is our deep dive episode,

where we look at this week's episode of Game of Thrones

and share our insights, research, and opinions.

This week's episode was entitled The Dragon and the Wolf.

It was the season 7 finale in which Tyrian tries to save Westeros from itself, the Starks execute little finger, the wall comes down, and finally, boat sex.

So what was your take on it second time through?

Second time through what I realized is, you know, the first time I thought we had a lot of closure,

a lot of the loops got sealed up tight, we had nice completion to a lot of

story lines. Second time through I went, went oh my God there's actually so much open

going into season 8 and it's going to be a very very hard 500 or so days until we get the next

season. For me the first time through it seemed like it was a long episode. You could feel the hour and a half and there's a lot going on.

I think when I, you're not watching it that initial, you know, premiere night with all the anxiety and the buildup. I don't think you enjoy as much.

This I sat back, let it wash over me. I had less problems than the first one is

miners they were. I still thought the entire thion crotch kicking was a joke but the

conversation with John before I liked so for me just as good and equally excited

for season 8.

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