Welcome to HotD, the officially unofficial podcast for House of the Dragon on HBO, I'm Jim.

I'm Aaron.

And today we're talking season one, episode one, the heirs of the dragon.

Yes, that's right.

We got a title and only took them two days to give us title for the episode they've released

for like the biggest premiere in the world.

Seems strange to me that they wouldn't have that on launch, but you know, HBO is going

to do what HBO is going to do.

Aaron, second, third, fourth, ninth watch, I don't know how many times you watch this.

Who knows?

What do you think of it?

I thought the heirs of the kingdom was an odd choice because so many people are fixated

on the wig work, the dodgy wig work, like why would you draw attention to that?

You know, the heirs of the king, I don't know.

But the title and big was titles aside, I think I got four watches in total, now counting

the ones I saw out in LA.

And every time I watch this, I feel like my estimation of it grows because I think about

all the things that it has to do, which it has to kind of like draw in and remind people

what Game of Thrones is and this universe is and get you to care about stuff that's

like, you know, I recognize that that sigil here, but you don't know any of these people.

And how they are able to just draw those connections to Game of Thrones fans' hearts, who

I think want to love this show.

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