Can Matt Smith turn a lighter shade of white? Can he blanch? You know how they have the the darkest black color that they can paint on things the

Blight white? Yes, the Sepatistics brought on to do essentially day for night with his face like it's a

God He's he's white white but can we make him

whiter we need it we need to see this man blanch okay okay yeah

yeah. Welcome to Hot D the officially unofficial podcast for House the Dragon on HBO. I'm Jim.

I'm Iran. And today we're talking season 2 episode 2. We finally got a title a Ron. It's Reneera the cruel.

We speculated, oh maybe they didn't want to give us a title because it's a spoiler.

Nah. Nah, I just think they fell a little behind on getting the title up on any platform across the internet.

But it happens.

So here we are.

We're near the cruel. What do you think of this episode?

I think it's really commendable how Ryan Condell is telling this story on so many levels so well. Like a lot of things I was kind of puzzled by in the first

watch became so clear in the second one. The parallels that he's drawing emotionally between

you know, Renira and Helena and even Agon, and how he is just really, like I noticed

some things and the conversation she has with Missira and Damon just

really subtle storytelling that you don't have to pick up on but if you do it just makes it that much better.

I really enjoyed the action scene.

You know the brothers don't have a lot of buildup in the books nor the show but I think that they did enough to make those

stakes feel weighty it was really a painful thing that those brothers had to do. And this really makes like Sir Christian Cole

a truly hatable person that he, you know,

throws this young knight's life away just so that he can feel better about himself

or he can let some of the venom that's inside him, his inadequacies.

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