What I love about this is all the work it took to get two people across the table from each other.

The amount of craft that goes into building those sets, that table, that space, those costumes,

to just get those quiet, unspoken moments is the magic of the process for me.

Welcome everyone to a bonus episode of West of Westeros, Entertainment Weekly's Game of Thrones podcast where we're still talking about House of the Dragon.

I'm Nick Romano, a senior writer here at EW, and I'm joined by my

co-host Lauren Morgan, and EW TV critic Darren Franich. Darren, we started this whole thing with you,

and now we're wrapping things up. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you. I kind of feel like

I'm the old king now.

I've lost one of my limbs,

maybe multiple limbs.

Really, just like,

I didn't realize this show was going to turn out

to be the best mummy movie

since Mummy Returns.

That was an unexpected bonus

when he pulled off his mask. And I was like, oh, look,

oh, look, there he is. He's Lord Imhotep himself. But so much to discuss from the finale,

question mark would be my reaction to the finale. But glad to be here. Glad to be here to discuss this. And I'm very

sad that based on George R. Martin's recent comments, we are not going to be doing the Wins of Winter

Book Club between now and season two of House of the Drag. It's been taking him like about

three years per fourth. Or maybe it's just going to be all downhill from now. Did you feel taking him like about three years per fourth so, or maybe it's just

going to be all downhill from now. Did you feel, Lauren, like, if he'd said any other, like, fraction, I would have been happier. Like, like, you know, you know, it's fundamentally the same amount of time if he'd said, like, oh, I'm, I'm like five, six done. That's still probably three years. But I'd be like, oh, wow, he's almost there. Three quarters are just like, oh, man, that's like, we got, we got some time ahead.

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