Hello and welcome to the Nauticast podcast, the one true chapter-by-chapter 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 Manuclear Bomb.

And welcome back to our coverage of House of the Dragon.

We are here with Season 2, Episode 4, The Red Dragon, and the Gold.

Warning up front, I'll be nothing but hyperbole this episode.

I really loved it.

Yeah, yeah, we got spooky Harun Hall shit and High Flying Dragon shit.

It's literally the best of every world possible.

Something for everybody.

Yes, yes.

So this episode was directed by Alan Taylor and written by Ryan Condal.

That's kind of the new brain trust of the show following last season, which was Ryan Condole and Miguel Sopachnik.

Alan Taylor being an

Old Thrones hand, directed a handful of episodes there, as well as this season premiere

of House of the Dragon. So very veteran hands for what I would say is the fireworks factory

that we've all been waiting for, possibly both within this season, but also the series overall. The promise of

House of the Dragon of the Targary and Civil War is dragon clashing with Dragon. And despite

Vagar getting the munchies on Luke at the end of last season, I think this is the first time we

really got that kind of visual battle that we've expecting all

series. I think that's a good point, good comparison to what we saw with Luke and Aman at the end

of season one, because that felt more like a like a horror scene. It was like a slasher vibe.

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