The Welcome to Hot D, the Hot D, the officially unofficial podcast for House of the Dragon on HBO. I'm Jim.

I'm Iran.

And we are back for our season 2 wrap-up podcast.

We have a sort of special edition here today because we brought in a guest. You guys have heard everything we want to say on the topic I think

You know with maybe minor exception but we do have somebody here, the Bald Move family, who has not gotten to speak their piece about it yet.

And that is Maister Anthony from the Electric Bukaloo Podcast, the Double Dragon Podcast, many others, I assume behind scenes I don't know of.

Anthony say hello and yeah let's talk about this thing.

Yeah, happy to be here.

Just a shout out to my podcast partner Steve who does both double dragon

and properly Howard with me where we cover movies but today boys it's all about season two.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, how did you like season two in general, Anthony?

I loved it.

I loved it so much that I thought it deserved a season finale.

Were you pleased that it got one or displeased that it didn't?

It was a good episode of television for sure.

We talked earlier about the numbers, a little underwhelming sort of season

two numbers for this second showing. And one of the things that really drives those numbers in my mind

is a big cataclysmic event or a big major death or some big battle at the end of the season that gets everyone talking and then other people will kind of want to catch up.

Oh, I don't want to be left out of that conversation. So I'll just do a

binge watch of this season and because it was kind of like someone lit a fuse and the fuse went got closer and closer to the dynamite and then as the that fuse started lighting the dynamite a Shakespearean actor jumped out and performed Hamlet for us.

That to me, that's actually a better magic trick than the fireworks or the dynamite but it's not the kind of

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