House of the Dragon S1E03 - Second of His Name
A Cast of Kings - A House of the Dragon Podcast
Decoding TV
4.4 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of A Cast of Kings, David Chen and Kim Renfro dive into House of the Dragon’s third episode, “Second of His Name.”
This week another massive time jump resets the status quo. What are the positives and negatives of these time jumps from a storytelling perspective? Why is Viserys so indecisive about who is heir should be? What are the parallels between Rhaenyra and Danny from Game of Thrones? Who is Johanna Swan, exactly? Who were those dudes eyeing Rhaenyra when she got back to camp? Listen to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast exists because of our supporters at decodingtv.com. |
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| 0:11.0 | that Kim Renfro and I will record just for paying members. |
| 0:14.0 | Thanks to everyone who makes this podcast possible. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't have a dragon pit, of course, but I do have a means and resources to build one. |
| 0:24.0 | Why would you need a dragon pit? |
| 0:27.0 | To have dragons, of course. I do anything for my queen or lady wife. |
| 0:35.0 | That's Jason Lannister finding out the hard way that I do anything for my queen or lady wife line doesn't work super well. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to a cast of kings, a decoding TV recap podcast about the HBO original series House of the Dragon. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm David Chen and I haven't read Fire and Blood the book on which House of the Dragon is based. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm Kim Renfro and I have read the book upon which House of the Dragon is based. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to the show everyone on this podcast. What we do is we recap. We spoil. We speculate about every episode of House of the Dragon, which is airing right now in HBO this week. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll be discussing season one episode three, second of his name. |
| 1:15.0 | We will never or try not to in general spoil anything from future weeks episodes that includes anything on the next time on preview or anything that's revealed in Fire and Blood or the rest of the books. |
| 1:25.0 | We will assume you've watched Game of Thrones though. So note that. |
| 1:29.0 | Now before we get into season one episode three of the show Kim Renfro. |
| 1:35.0 | We got to address some of the responses, some of the questions, some of the events that have happened over the course last week since our last episode of this podcast. |
| 1:44.0 | There was major news that dropped. I believe Hollywood Reporter was the first one that reported this. |
| 1:50.0 | But big news for House of the Dragon. |
| 1:55.0 | Miguel Sepochnik has left the series or is leaving the series. |
| 2:00.0 | Miguel Sepochnik was the co showrunner of House of the Dragon along with Ryan Condal. |
| 2:07.0 | Apparently it is a amicable split. Sepochnik has entered a first look deal with HBO to develop new projects and will remain as an executive producer for the duration of the show. |
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