Welcome to Hot D, the officially unofficial podcast for House of the Dragon on HBO.

I'm Jim.

I'm Aaron.

Today we're back with season one episode six feedback episode, Aaron, I hear the feedback

is just overfilled this week.

Again, it's not I don't know if we'll ever get the season seven season eight game of

Thrones where we're getting a thousand messages a week, but we got just under 250.

I just counted.

I've got 38 here in my dock.

I doubt we'll even get to read all those apologies if I didn't get your email, but I'm trying

to represent thoughts and opinions more than individual people and I hope I'm doing

a pretty good job of that.

But you know, I read you decide hotd at ballmove.com is how you run the gauntlet is how you one

man, Damon, the Targaryen, your way into the show, hope you have dragons, air support.

First up is Vanessa from San Jose, Cali for y'all, who says I was listening to your feedback

episodes today, specifically the discussion around Kristen and Rainen's close relationship

and couldn't help but thinking about the choices the show runners have made in terms of

aging or de-aging their characters or playing with the initial timeline events and how

that changes our own opinions of the major characters on the chess board.

For example, I think it's important to note that Sir Kristen had already been a member

of the Royal Court for seven years at the beginning of the show.

A fact that the show runners had changed when Sir Kristen first appeared on the scene

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