You know, sort of fight against any sort of darkness that he was doing, actually, to do it quite sort of matter of fact and quite politely seemed enjoyable.

I don't know, when we were doing it, it was like that's and that feels sort of crunchy.

You know, it feels like satisfying to do.

That's why I don't think he's mad. You know, I think it's very deliberate.

Sort of scarier if he's not mad.

Welcome back to another episode of West of Westeros Entertainment Weekly's Game of

Thrones podcast where we're

currently covering House of the Dragon, HBO's first Game of Thrones successor series. I'm Nick Romano,

a senior writer here at EW, and I'm joined by my wonderful co-host Lauren Morgan and the surprise

return of EW staff writer and podcaster Christian Holliv.

Christian, I know you've been off in Lord of the Rings territory on EW's All Rings

Considered podcast.

Thank you so much for popping over back to Westeros.

Thanks for having me back.

And I'm glad to be with both main hosts instead of the like backdoor pilot, you know,

spin-off episode that me and Allison did a couple weeks ago.

You know, it's been fun covering the distinguished competition on our other contemporary fantasy series

podcast.

But I'm sure all the listeners out there are excited for the return of Christian's Clubfoot Corner, the second of the podcast where I talk about how much I love Laris Strong.

Well, this week we're going to be talking about episode seven of House of the Dragon.

But before we get into the nitty-gritty details, there's another deleted scene that's been

popping up on social media that I want to talk to you guys about.

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