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Plus I'm Jim I'm Aaron and today we're here to talk about season two episode seven unnecessary

death Aaron what do you think of this episode?

I think it was the second time this season where I was seriously challenged with the

act of willpower to not just immediately hit next episode

right that's that's why that's where we really earned the money watch and television is

resisting to go on on to the screeners to spoil ourselves so we don't fuck up the podcast

I mean it's it's this is a great episode it's got a lot of great things going on for it I do have

a concern um okay about how the thing about how the episode ends and kind of like a conversation we

had with David David Goyer last week but yeah it's another terrific episode it's super exciting

I like the state craft I like a lot of the monologues and duets some really great writing some jaw

dropping visuals with the spacers they also really elegant I mean you know it's a lot like they

had the situation in Dune where you've got a navigation guild that's dependent on a chemical

um but it's like chemical to survive not not just uh yeah it's a it's a gem hadar situation

so it's like that's that's inherently interesting um the fact that the foundation has a way to

kind of free I mean that's the thing it seems like that you the the foundation has a lot of

soft power here that they're trying to wield and the empire is going to try to wield the

actual power and uh we'll see how it goes but I don't know if they're starting to tell the story of

foundation is really being ready for the empire right that yeah yeah well at the same time

Harry himself just getting totally screwed like all of Harry's plans seem to be failing right now

and I don't I don't know if I buy it I don't know if I there's some other thing that Harry's

got an unfold here that says I kind of expected some of these plans to fail and if they did I had

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