and then the next morning she gets up dressed up to convey the appropriate message to the people who's concerned she's going to hear and of course because of course starts her period at the same time just to make this day a little bit harder, that much harder.

Welcome to Hot Deep, Bald News, officially unofficial podcast for House of the Dragon on HBO.

I'm Jim. I'm Aaron. And it's season three. It's episode three. It's an episode without a name as far as I'm aware.

We'll get it on the night.

But Aaron, this is an interesting episode of Hot D, in my opinion, because it's in

arguably less exciting than the previous two, I think,

you know, having a massive sea battle and the queen retaking the throne.

I feel like those are hard things to top.

But I got to say, I really enjoyed this episode for its sort of out-of-the-box format or I don't know, its dissection of like

what it actually means to take over a kingdom that has maybe been partially sabotaged,

maybe mismanaged, or by your very actions to take it over has been decimated.

It was just a super interesting examination of this whole dilemma she's in after her major triumph last episode.

What did you think?

I really enjoyed it.

As a book reader, I, this was really thrilling because, like, I didn't expect anything that was happening.

You know, the central, the Darren trap, you know, the central switch, eru is a, as a show-only invention that I was completely delighted by, but I also can't

see where, I kind of think I see where they're going with this and how they're going to

like, you know, adapt some of the things that I was more expecting to have to season.

But like, yeah, I just first of all, I was thrilled to see that stuff happening.

Because like, it's like, oh, wow, they captured Darien.

That's fucking wild.

That, okay.

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