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Welcome to another episode of EW's Game of Thrones podcast. I am James Hibbard here with Darren Franich, and we're going to be talking today about so many things in Blood of My Blood.

There is a lot to figure out.

Like, why is Tom in such a total wimp?

How weird is it that we're actually gaining Stark family members this season instead of losing them?

How much motivation do Dothraki need exactly?

And could an entire episode be built around Gilly looking surprised and amazed by ordinary things?

I think so.

A lot to discuss, a lot to unpack.

Though I guess one headline here, Darren, is nobody died this episode, which is very unusual and strange. Were you happy

or disappointed by the lack of blood in blood of my blood? I feel a little bit like gilly right

now, James, in that I am surprised and amazed by an episode of television where nobody died.

I am very surprised by the most ordinary thing on television.

I really like this episode.

I remember on a previous podcast, we were talking about going back and watching, you know, the very earliest episodes of Game of Thrones,

which had a very different feel only because, you know, there very earliest episodes of Game of Thrones, which had a very different feel

only because, you know, there was sort of less crazy plot turns, less people dying, you know,

you could spend more time with the characters. And this kind of felt like that to me. And,

you know, we got to spend so much time hanging out with Aria, and she was not getting hit in the face every two seconds.

It's been two seasons of her across the sea, getting punched by people and getting the kind of Batman Begins treatment.

And I found like getting to spend an hour or, you know, however long, with Masey Williams just sort of talking to people and watching people was the most fun

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