Hello and welcome to the NataCast, podcast, the podcast that usually goes through a song of ice and fire, but not here.

I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Poor Quentin.

And I'm Manu, also known as Manucleur Bomb.

And welcome back to our coverage of House of the Dragon, Princess and the Queen,

episode six, although part of me just wants to call it episode one again, because so much changes,

it's almost like we're looking at a whole new show. Yeah, honestly, it feels like a new season

of television started. Like the previous five episodes could have aired last year for all that

it matters, because it's a definitive paradigm shift and everything that's going on. That's reflected not just in the main new actors,

that's the most obvious element, but also just that this was the biggest time jump so far. And

a lot of the episode is hinting at what happened in the interim, I think mostly successfully,

maybe not entirely,

but mostly. And it's just a, it's a really ambitious episode across the board. And this is one I think we'll look back on as where the series could have gone drastically downhill. Like I can

imagine a much worse, less successful version of this episode with kind of the same content.

If the execution hadn't been as strong as it was in front of and behind the camera,

this could have been where it lost people.

But it does not seem to have been the case, which is great.

That's exciting.

Yeah, there's a very positive reaction to this episode.

It is, I wouldn't call it overstuffed because that sounds negative,

but it is one of the episodes where it feels like there's a lot

going on. And you could have honestly almost split this into two episodes given the weight of

some of the things that happened. That's very true. But of course, we have even more plot

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