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

Today we're talking season one, episode eight, the Lord of the Tides. This is the instant take, Aeron.

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. You know, like, uh, and, and just how

much everything is working so much better. Like, I know there's going to be another, there's another

big time jump to this, this, 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, your 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 Viserys 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, and, 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 never get to this far, 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 Viserys this whole season,

but I thought he was fucking heroic in this episode. Like, it was filmed and shot like,

Boromir taken all those broom shafts to the chest. Like, he's, yeah, do, he's, he's sacrificing

himself to, to save people he loves. And I felt all that. I was genuinely moved that him

thinking that he had saved his family. Like, you know, like, when he sags to his seat and he's just

so happy to see the thing that he's always wanted to see all these years come to pass.

I thought it's great. It just, it just really worked for me. Let's start to, start to finish.

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