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

And I'm Aaron. And today we're talking season 1, episode 7, titled Drift Mark. Aaron,

another watcher to what you think about it.

I still think this is an excellent episode. Everything I thought about the other night, I was really

pleased. I really even enjoyed. They honestly threw me there at the end with, you know,

plane or surviving and still being out in the world because, again, in the book, there

is, you know, he's murdered. Everyone agrees it's the Carl. And there is the customary,

well, Sept and Eustace says this. And Blah Blah says that. And Old Mushroom, he thinks

the Damon had him murdered to clear the path. Blah Blah Blah. Mushroom seems like he's

right to hell a lot more than I thought he would have been when I started reading this book

like three years ago. But what everyone got wrong apparently is that Trenira and Damon

were a little bit more, I guess, merciful towards the lane or than it seems like from the

book. And I don't know. I said, I don't know where they're going to go with that. It's

really exciting. You know, as a book reader, when they kind of threw a curveball like that,

I love the beg our stuff. I thought that was just truly epic and really, you know, again,

keeps wetting my appetite for when the dragons start fighting each other. They're getting

better and better at it. I thought the dragon actual dragon flying was really great. I

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