Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Savage Starlight, where the

officially unofficial podcast for all of the mushroom-based zombie action on HBO that you can

handle.

Tonight we're talking about the fifth episode of the second season feel her love

Jim is off on assignment studying mycology joining us tonight is my producer talitha

talitha did you feel the love tonight for this episode oh man I felt a lot of things

I loved the end of the episode. But overall love, I had a burning

passion for revenge. I don't know if you call that love. Maybe obsession. I, yeah. So like, I love this episode.

I thought this episode is awesome.

This is the first episode where I did not feel any qualms and the, you know, I was

nervous about things.

I was nervous about like the spores and how they eschewed that mechanic in the first season.

And then, uh, you're going to come back to introduce it like,

man, is that going to feel right?

But I felt like the way they executed it was so fucking gross

and Lovecraftian and body horror

that it just genuinely affected me.

And so much of this episode is just wholesale video game dialogue, situations from the video game.

And it continues to just delight.

It's funny because, like, you know, you read something like Lord of the Rings and you're always imagining like, oh, what does Rivendale look like?

And then Peter Jackson does it.

And everybody's like, oh, is that how you imagine?

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