Hey everybody. We're here. All right. So where do you want to start? I mean, listen, we waited two years for this episode and we did not waste any time. It was jam-packed. You could really feel how much it was supposed to follow the finale of the season two. We did not waste a beat getting right into the action. And I mean, I think that

if you're going to make us wait a long time, come back splashy. And they really did. Yeah,

the flow of the first part of the episode had that sort of, not momentum, but just

rhythm of what episode nine would have felt like in the past. And with,

especially Commander Lohar being such a big character in this one, we can understand how much

they wish that this would have been released with that, with season two.

It absolutely. It absolutely should have. It should have. It would have it absolutely should have it should have it would

have narratively it would have packed a bigger punch if it had come after episode eight i think that

from a looks epicness standpoint i mean the battle of the goal it was incredible in terms of how

many ships got burned you know in terms of like a sea battle

a naval battle i thought it looked awesome and i thought it was great we watched it with

motions moving on which was unforgiving i i wonder if this happened to anyone else but i don't know

if it was a new HBO setting but I have a smart TV and all that stuff

has turned off, but some streaming platforms when they update their service or their firmware,

or I'm not sure if they're able to push through something that I don't know about that would make

this happen because I definitely have all that stuff turned off. But the moment this episode came on,

I was like, oh, no. Yeah, and it didn't help. It didn't help. Yeah. It didn't help. But I enjoyed the intensity of the battle. I felt like, like I said, if we're going to wait so long to see the show and if you're going to have to get people bought back in, then let's show them dragons and ships and fire and fighting and killing, you know.

I just think about all the people that might have been accidentally given that or shown or

everyone in the past year and a half, two years, three years that bought a smart TV that maybe

doesn't have those settings turned off. A lot of the things that we saw in the episode today were not improved by that in the slightest.

That's terrible.

I bet that they're not playing it in, you know, 30 to 40 FPS or whatever it ends up being after the artificial smoothing is added at all their premieres around the world.

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