Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Monday, May 13th, 2019.

On today's episode we're taking a break from talking about the latest film and TV news

to discuss last night's instantly divisive episode of Game of Thrones.

My name is Ben Pearson, I'm the senior writer at slash film managing

editor Jacob Hall. Hello, hello. And a staff writer at Nerst, Lindsay Romaine.

Hello. points of you and Jacob on various ends of the spectrum in terms of

Game of Thrones episodes last night but but before we get into that let's talk a

little bit about why we're here in our game of Thrones fandom overall.

Jacob do you want to set the timber of this conversation for us? Yeah I want to have this brief round all.

Jacob, do you want to set the timber of this conversation for us? Yeah, I want to have this brief round about before we begin the out of conversation because when I wrote my very negative review of the long night a few weeks ago,

everyone on Twitter

I started accusing me of hating having an axe-a-grym,

when it's actually the most important pop-cultural item

of my entire life.

I've been reading the books for a decade.

I've been writing about the show since season one. This has been a third of my life has been dedicated to understanding exploring and loving game of thrones and will mix on the most recent seasons. I feel I'm mostly warm on season 8

outside of that season 3 episode.

So I feel like whenever we have conversations,

we need to make sure like,

we remind people sometimes that we get this passionate because we love the

hell out of this stuff and Lindsay even though you got Nerdists these days you used to write a lot for

slash film and your first the first time we I published you was when you pitched a game

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