Radio Westeros, House of the Dragon, season one, episode 8, the Lord of the Tides. Hello and welcome to Radio Westeros's I'm Yoke Boy and it's great to be here to talk

about the eighth episode of House of the Dragon called Lord of the Tides. Today we'll be reacting to and evaluating this episode as well as making plenty of book comparisons because we are fans of the books, but we'll avoid spoiling the future plot of House of the Dragon, and we're going to have a spoiler section near the end, and we'll give you a giant heads up for that.

So whatever your song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones background, we have a lot to offer tonight. In this episode there was a significant

time jump from last week of more than six years. So far in House of the Dragon we've had episodes revolving around attorney, a hunt, a wedding, a funeral

and the showrunners describe this week's episode as the hospice episode.

Renira, Damon and family were visiting the Red Keep to straighten out the succession struggle,

developing on Driftmark, but at the heart of the episode was the tail end of Visser's decline as his long period of suffering from a leprosy-esque wasting disease reaches its conclusion.

Being king though, Visserus got little solace in his dying days as important political matters still needed to be addressed.

Last week focused on the tensions and violence between a new generation of characters who have inherited

some of the conflict laid down by their parents and this week we saw those children more

grown up in becoming young adults with all the recastings and time jumps at last

house of the dragon has really reached its final form given that the only thing holding the piece together was the ailing

the series, his death at the end of their episode is highly significant in that it will surely

begin a crisis of succession.

Before we get ahead of ourselves though,

there's so much to analyze in this episode

as we've put Visseras's final deeds

under the microscope. So we've much to say, can't wait to get into more depth, let's

say hello to my Radio Westeros co-host, Lady Gwyn.

Hello, good evening. Welcome everyone. Hello, good evening.

Welcome everyone.

Hello, Emily.

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