Warning, you are listening to the House of the Dragon episode of X-ray Vision this week,

and this episode contains spoilers for House of the Dragon episode 4. So be warned, lots of spoilers. Many!

Hello! My name is Jason Concepcion, and welcome to X-ray Vision the Crooked Podcast where we dot deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture.

Special episode disclaimer. There is so much stuff happening right now, so much content, so many stories to talk about, so we will be splitting.

This week's sessions into two episodes, two easily digestible episodes. Part one, our continuing coverage of Hot D, House of the Dragon, including recap of episode 4, and the Ask the Master segment.

Part two will be all the Marvel announcements from D23, plus coverage of She-Hulk episode 5, and analysis of what all of that stuff means for the MCU going forward. In this part, in this part one, episode one for this week, House of the Dragon episode 4, Ask the Master.

If you want to jump around, check the show notes for timestamps, joining me today to talk about all of the things that we are talking about is the great, the why is the wonderful Rosie Knight Rosie, how are you?

Hello, I'm so happy to be here with you.

I'm so happy to be here with you. We're both back from travels. Hopefully we have both avoided COVID. I'm knocking on wood.

Yeah, me too. Knock, knock, knock.

And I can't wait to talk to you about the... Let's just dive into it, because there is so much. Let's open up the doors to the House of the Hot D, House of the Dragon.

We are stepping out of the airlock and into the streets of King's Landing for episode 4 of House of the Dragon, King of the Nero Sea written by Ira Parker, and directed by Claire Killner.

It's marriage tour time. It's time to find a mate for Reneira, and we open at Stormsend. It's the first time seeing Stormsend, the seat of House Baratheon, the seat formally of the Drand and Storm Kings before the Baratheons. We are in the Stormlands.

Reneira is staggering drowsily through various and terminably long speeches about how such and such person and such and such person is the right person to marry her.

There are bridges. There are speeches from the man-woodies. And from the muds, folks, it's great to see House mud extinct when we catch up with the realm in Game of Thrones era, but alive and well and kicking right now. The muds, great to see them.

Lord Dondarian of the Dornish marches makes a speech, and he is straight up elderly. Reneira just resplendent in a strapless gown. Kristen Cole by her side is just over all of this.

She roasts Lord Dondarian by asking, hey, what was it? Do you remember what what it was like when you met my great grandmother, good queen, Allison, and Lord Dondarian is like, that was 50 years ago, and she's like, yeah, exactly.

You old, and then everybody's like, whoa, I then Lord Boros Baratheon is like, that's not that was unkind. That was unseemly. And Reneira is like, yeah, I would like, I would like to be matched with someone who isn't 40 to 50 years older than me.

So let's move on, shall we? Next up, a young nobleman, literally 12 or 13, perhaps 14 of House Blackwood of the Riverlands. Lord Boros is like, hey, Raventree Hall. I know this guy looks young, but just so you know, Raventree Hall, they were kings before the conquest, which I got to say Rosie. Here's the thing about

Westerners before the conquest and hundreds of years into history, previous history, there were a lot of like a lot of

everyone was a king. Everyone was a king. Yeah, it's like not everyone, but many of these houses were kings. They were all they can all say they were king, but that's okay. Yes, absolutely correct.

House Blackwood, they were kings back in the day. And of course, a young lord of House Bracken pipes up to talk shit famously the Blackwoods and the Brackens have been at each other's next going back to the age of heroes. Nobody actually knows how this started.

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