Must justify my father's faith in me. Rule as he would have wished. At any rate, we must begin.

Welcome back to the official Game of Thrones podcast, House of the Dragon. I'm Jason Concepcion. And I'm Greta Johnson, and Queen Reinera is on the throne. It's her

first day at work, and good Lord, is it a rough start? Yeah, it's a little bit of a mess. Everyone

wants something from the boss. I certainly wouldn't want that job.

No, I feel like we've agreed on that in the past, but it's reaffirmed today. Today is especially

exciting because we are talking about episode three, which is fantastic. It was written by Sarah

Hess, directed by Claire Kilner. And luckily for us, we have executive producer and co-head writer Sarah Hess and executive producer and director Claire Kilner back on to talk to us about this episode.

And after that, we'll be joined by Steve Toussaint, who plays Lord Corlis Valerion, the sea snake, to talk about how Corliss is a changed man after the Battle of the Gullet and his decision to leave Kings Landing.

All right, let's get into it.

The start of Queen Rainier's rule on the Iron Throne, this wild, wild time.

Is Eamon not flown away, as I promised?

Did the guards and the parapets not suffer you to pass?

I have done all I could.

Will you blame me only for what men have done?

Let's start with the cold open, which is the scene we get before the main title and theme song play.

And this is pretty unique for House of the Dragon.

This is also the moment where we think Ormond just hands over Daron to Damon with no problem.

Pretty canny move. And one that you imagine Damon should have seen coming? I am pretty surprised by that in retrospect. Yes. Yeah. A little bit of a rush, I think he was in.

Yeah. Well, do you think it was just that they had the same hair? So he was like, yeah, you must be a turguer. I mean, I think it's that. I also think that it's just kind of flew in, assumed Ormond would keep to his word. And, you know, he seemed pretty sincere about it. Like you put up a little fight, then he poled his sword and was like, well, I don't want to do this, but I guess I have to.

And, well, I don't want to do this, but I guess I have to.

And the fact that he was so good at lying when giving his word, I think is, one, something that should give a lot of people on the black side paws

that Ormond is a, going to be a very tough opponent. Yes. Well, I also think, I don't know,

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