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

I'm Aaron. Today we're talking season one, episode eight, the Lord of the Tides.

This is the instant take, Aaron. We just watched the episode. What do you think?

I thought this was an incredible episode. I am just blown away by how much better this is than

it reads on the page. Just how much everything is working so much better. I know there's going

to be another big time jump this week, and I think people are going to, you know, if you were

kind of on the ropes with the time jumps, like I don't think this helps you add any, because it's

another sizeable, I don't know, three to five-ish year time jump. But like, man, it just,

everything works so much better with everything that's come before. Like, they really sell that moment

where Viserious almost did it. He almost just with the sheer force of his will and the love of

his family kind of got past it, at least I thought. He really touched Alicent and Ranera

and made something happen here. And that, I think that only really works with their deep

background, where it's like maybe at some points, at a certain point of time, they can be recalled,

like, Jesus Christ, how did they ever get to this far? You know, if you don't have auto,

give auto time to run over there and say his bullshit and everybody else, like, it's like, he

almost, he almost did it. And I thought, the serious, I've liked Viserious this whole season,

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