Welcome to EW's Game of Thrones weekly podcast.

I'm James Hibbert here along with Darren Franich.

We're talking no one where we got ARIA's big showdown with the waif.

I know some of you are upset about how that went down and we're going to talk about that.

Along with the fan theories that totally went bust, Jamie's repressed-a-longing reunion with Brian and Tommon's betrayal of his own mom.

He's just the worst son ever.

Darren, what are your initial thoughts?

James, my initial thoughts about no one is that this is like my favorite episode of Game of Thrones in two or three years.

I was so taken with it right from the beginning,

which started with a long sequence of Lady Crane performing as Circe.

As I think I said on this show before,

I'd be totally down if Game of Thrones just became all about this sort of community theater recreation of scenes from earlier seasons.

I just loved it.

I mean, I really felt like just the feel of this episode.

Somehow we were really able to spend a lot of time with these characters in a way that we

don't often get to do now that the show is so spread out.

And I guess I kind of want to start with the ARIA sequence because, you know, I think I've

been on the record as saying I'd be very happy if this entire subplot were to perish in a gigantic

supernova of wildfire.

But I just found, you know, Aria's sequence with Lady Crane,

I just thought that that was a character who immediately felt so real and so vivid

and, like, she had a whole life of her own.

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