Radio Westeros, House of the Dragon, season one, episode three, second of his name. Hello and welcome to Radio Estros I'm Yoke Boy and it's great to talk about the

third episode of House of the Dragon called second of his name. Today we'll be

reacting to and evaluating this episode as well as

making plenty of book comparisons because we're all hardcore book fans so you

get some deep insights related to the text. We will avoid spoiling the future

plot of House of the Dragon as much as we can, but we're going to have a

spoilers all books section at the end to give our

Unsullied audience a giant heads up for that

So whatever you're a song of ice and fire or game of Thrones background. We do have a lot to offer and will certainly be ready to

fill in the blanks about law and story depth that the show understandably skirts over.

This episode jumped over three years in the timeline and the key development from the in-between is that King Vissaries is now married to Allison Hightower who has given birth to a son and is pregnant with a second child.

This new generation obviously puts strain on Visser's prior decision

to name his daughter, Renira, as his official heir, which is now at the heart of increasing tension

between key players. The showrunners have described this as a sort of coming of age

episode where Renira and Allison are required to leave their childhood behind

and several characters need to re-evaluate themselves and discover who they are and what they want.

I thought it was a fantastic episode. The slow pacing, rather than being boring, felt really indulgent and brought to mind classic 70 cinema such as Barry Linden. The show has now established herself as a tense

family-centric drama and this episode was largely about the shifting dynamics

within the keyhouses following Aegon's birth

with fire and blood action sequences serving as bookends to show us some

adrenaline-fueled conflict.

So today we have so much to say about this great episode.

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