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So if you were with us last season, welcome back again, we're about halfway through more than halfway through the second season two. So if you're a newcomer, welcome, we're talking about house of the dragon, the big players in the dance, of course, the dragons, which there were plenty of this episode. So let's go ahead and jump into what happened in season two, episode six, the small folk, which is aptly named, it is aptly named and funny enough, like this was my favorite episode this season, even I think including Rick's rest. But before we dive in, we'll do our obligatory spoiler warning because we do discuss the canon of fire and blood the show is based on. So you are likely to come across spoilers throughout our episode, but we try to say the big ones for our fire section and our dragon dream section. But if you don't want to know anything, come back after you've seen the episode or the season, and if you want to know all the tea, then we absolutely have you covered. And secondary notice, we had to rerecord due to technical difficulties. And as you know, both Michelle and I, this is our like action project. There we go. And so we are going to be rapid firing this week. So if you listen to us in the car or something, it'll be for a shorter drive. It'll be for a shorter drive. So we're going to rapid fire through all the half of this episode. Amund runs team green this episode, Sir Darklin attempts to ride sea smoke. And it does not go well for him because in my opinion, he takes way too long to get on the dragon. If a dragon has given me that chance out of it up there at heartbeat, girl, listen, hold on. The fact that I, well, okay, before we even get into it, okay, we got a season, an episode of Game of Thrones, man. This was Game of Thrones energy. The pacing was there, the tension was there, the writing, the acting, the camera shots, the, oh my gosh, here's everything was there. It was running. Green. It was. I'm going to just run over what you're saying. Even running. Green. Listen, this man said, uh, uh, not today. Y'all going to listen. I am not a dog to be called to heal and mama, you fired. I was like, I got a second hand offended for everyone. Everybody. And I liked that feeling also the humor was so good this episode. You mentioned earlier in our previous recording before technical difficulties struck. You mentioned the tension is the fact that what the type of tension, the type of humor that elevates the tension has returned because it's funny because of context, like when Aiman kicked Kristen out, they go to Harenhall, it was good. And speaking of it's funny because it makes you cut your pearls. It's so uncomfortable that it's just like, oh, oh, that was funny. You're like, Oh, it's so, so, so it was just, this was good. I was so happy like that based on like where the story has taken them, I think that this episode was good based on where the story is headed. Yeah. Unfortunately, Damon is still in his haunted horror house, Harenhall. We'll come back to him, unfortunately, a gone and layers have a really good moment where they bond. And that's canon, Larry's is very helpful for Aegon during his reign. And we talk about Darren, who we're also going to talk about later on in the episode. And then our favorite part, Adam claims C smoke or C smoke claimed Adam, whatever. C smoke totally claimed Adam because Adam was like, Oh, Adam was like, what is happening? Please don't eat me in C smoke. I don't want to eat you. I want you. I came to find you. I've seen you. I've been scoping you out. I know where you live. Like when they interrupted Ranira and it was like, these smoke has been seen around the spice quarter. She's like, yeah, I know. And he's like, but, but he has a writer like, oh, wait a minute. No, it was, it was so good. So we are going to rapid fire jump into our blood section. I have questions for you less rock and roll. Okay. The real Amund has taken the screen. I've been waiting. I've been waiting. So thoughts on him dismissing Allison and threatening a gun. Listen, peak Amund is peak Amund. I'm so here for it. When Allison was trying to leave and he's like, mother, why are you on my council? And then she's like, listen, emotionally, I am your mother. I have experience. Amund's just like, the crown is grateful. Goodbye. You're fired. Right. It came down to like a blow for blow too. She was like, have the indignities of your childhood not been sufficiently avenged with his scar. And to me, that was kind of like a blow. It was a little bit of a blow and he's like, yeah, thank you very much. Like you said, the crown is grateful. You are dismissed. I was like, and I like getting second hand offended for characters. It's fun. It puts you in it with them. But, you know, I can see Amund run and stuff. I love how straight faced he is the entire time and he's just like, uh, yeah, your need is no longer needed. So goodbye. And he showed some emotion like I like that he showed a little emotion show that it was hard for him, et cetera. Like he is conflicted, but he's like, no, I came in here to step up and show up. And I am. And thank you very much. Your council. I'll if I need it, I'll come ask for it. Correct. After opinion, I'll ask you for it. And then Amund threatening Aegon was scary, but also if you think about it, like through Amund and Aegon's childhood, Viserys was bedridden most of the time. He was willing and Alison and Otto made sure to keep him from being able to stand up. And so now to me, Amund is just kind of taking his mother's practices and teachings as a mother and making sure Aegon's not going to get up. So Amund can rule. Yeah. You know, I hadn't noticed that and you make a very, like a very strong point. I also liked how black, finally, black fire is with someone who can't deserve to hold it, right? But also like that shot with black fire and and the dagger in Aegon's face, when he's like, what do you remember? I also like the fact that he's like, I don't even know if Amund actually believed him, but like he didn't actually kill him, like he's like, he gave him a chance. He's like, what you remember, because you were saying nothing. Correct. Yeah. Correct. So anything. Yeah. That was that was a good scene. Yeah. I figured out what it meant that he left the the voting piece with him. I couldn't tell that was just like the pressure on the wound. I know it meant something, but oh, maybe because maybe because he that was his decision to like let Aegon live because of the voting piece. So maybe he's like, all right, I'll let you live for now, but I think it meant something else. I'm curious if it wasn't just like salt in the wound of, hey, now I am your voting piece and here you can have it and good luck trying to get back to it. Oh, yeah. Like I'm your connection to the council. I'm your mouthpiece now. You don't have to deal. You guys let us know in the comments what you think it means because I knew it meant something, but I wasn't, I'm not sure what. So I think it'll be really cool to see like speculation about that for sure. Speaking of that, we saw like more, uh, politics and maneuvering and like, you know, we're having a fantastic time seeing Amund do his aim and thing and run and stuff. Ranira is also making some moves. So thoughts on, uh, Ranira and Team Black sending food to King's Landing. Oh, so freaking brilliant. That was so smart. Like Messiah last episode was like, there are other ways to fight a war. I'm like, what are you going to do? Like gossip about it. Talk to people about it. Hey, I'll know. So we're seeing that like the underlying message with the blockade that keeps getting kind of pushed over that a couple episodes ago, uh, is actually really affecting King's Landing. It's affecting the small folk. People are now trapped in King's Landing with no food and very limited resources. They're going to start killing people over riding and stuff. So Ranira's ass comes in with her red dragon Targaryen drag flag with food fresh spices peppered. Oh, my. So smart. The queen loves us. The queen remembers us, even when she's not here, she's our queen. So smart. And like it was like, I like how they juxtaposed it because Amund was like, why are they mad at us? Team Black is the ones doing the blockade, but it kind of shows the blockade from Ranira's point of view. It shows a small folk. The blockade is for Aegon. She cares about them and like, I thought that was just, that was so, so well done. And speaking of stuff that was well done and like really fun to watch Adam and see smoke. Adam and see smoke. This was my favorite. Okay. So they had Sir Darklin bless his soul, bless his heart comes in. He tries. Right? I'm not sure if it's because he took too long to get on see smoker if see smoke was just like, nah, good one. If he tricked him. Yeah. Right. Um, but I love it because we're basically going into the parking garage to find a car for Sir Darklin, right? And see smoke was just like, I got my own. I'll be back. And so he runs off and I sent you that meme, which to me cracks me up of see smoke flying behind Adam who's running as fast as his little ass can carry him and see smokes just like, let me love you. I love you. No, I, cause we saw see smoke kind of like checking him out for a minute. And then he's like, no, this is, this is the person I went. So I don't know if this is true or not, but I did see someone mention that, um, see smoke might have been mourning his bond because Layne or may have died across narrow sea because to my knowledge, I don't think I've seen a dragon take a new rider successfully while it's previous writer is alive. So that could add some, some subtext. But also in addition to that, like it's just, it's just really fun to see a dragon go pick it's rider because so far we've seen dragons, like the rider claims the dragon, Danny's dragons were born to her or we see people who have been dragon riding since we met them, but it was just really cool. Like see someone gets really close and he blinks. He like thundered into the earth. It was, it was just so good. Sir. Can I get your attention sir and I'm so upset that like we didn't get to see him actually get on and take his like his first flight, I guess, right? Somehow he had to get from looking to see smoke like what the to like riding and I would have been so happy to see that maybe it'll be a deleted scene released with like one of the collector's editions or maybe it'll be another dragon seed moment because I do want to see somebody like stumbling on to try to get onto a dragon for like the first time. I'm actually like in the books, I really didn't like him because of something that happens, but I actually kind of like he was character. So like if he gets like a cool dragon moment, I'm here like in the show, sometimes a show, sometimes a show will do it better. I think Biseris is better in the show. I think Aegon is better in the show. Maybe Hugh will be better in the show. So I'll be excited to kind of see like you said like a moment for that. But speaking of dragons and dragon riders, I know you have questions for me for our fire section. All right, let's jump in since we're speeding today. Yeah. Right. Okay. So cannon questions that I can't in correction, I have a cannon question for you. Okay. Is Rayna the new nettles potentially? You know what? I thought about like I didn't think about it. Right. So I originally thought it was going to be Beyla, right? I originally thought it was going to be Beyla because she already has her dragon. Okay. So in the books, Beyla, you know, is not involved this early. So I theorize that they had Beyla involved this early because she might be taking nettles place and they could be doing the platonic father daughter, Damon Nill storyline and just subbing in Beyla. So I thought that was kind of why Beyla was, Beyla was getting involved so early, etc. And why her dragon was large enough to fly so early in the show. But so there is a chance they could sub in Rayna for nettles, but I still hope nettles is he like, I kind of don't want them to because in the book, Rayna has her dragon hatched as much later. And her dragon's name is morning M-O-N-M-O-R-N-I-N-G and the dragon is pretty and pink. And so she becomes like the last dragon rider after the dance because everybody else loses their dragons. And so Rayna, having waited so long for her dragon, is now the last living dragon rider of the last Targaryen dragon that has, you know, that is bonded with a rider, you know? And you mentioned that in the previous recording you were mentioning that the new, the dragon that we're seeing in the veil could potentially be, who did you call it, Grey Ghost, I think? Grey Ghost. Okay, so this is a theory because it could, like you mentioned, if they are subbing Rayna for nettles, maybe it's sheep's dealer. I do want nettles still, but I'll leave it at the, there's a chance they're subbing in either of the twins for nettles, but I want nettles. So we'll see. I hope we get her. But so sheep's dealer, nettles be friends her dragon by bringing him sheep and like she brings him food and snacks. So and that's how they become bonded, right? But I'm wondering if maybe it's not Grey Ghost because Grey Ghost is an important like event marker for something that happens later on, but he's a shy dragon. He normally hangs out by the water in the mists, that's why he's called Grey Ghost. He likes fish, but maybe he's chilling in the veil and they use this as a way to like mention him earlier so we know he exists so that when the event marker thing happens then we know Grey Ghost has been around, right? Interesting. So we'll see or maybe, I mean, I thought nettles was around dragonstone, maybe, maybe she's in the veil. I don't know. I'm interested though to kind of let that storyline ride and see where it goes. I do hope we get nettles, but if it's sheep's dealer or Grey Ghost, I think they must have a plan. So I'm going to write that storyline. I'll let that storyline ride. Well, speaking of plans, we know, Ayman always has a plan, but what were your thoughts on Ayman wanting Otto as hand because it kind of surprised me when Larris was trying to make his claim to be a hand and then Ayman was like, "Nah, you can just send a raven to Otto." I was like, "Oh, that's interesting. What were your thoughts on that?" I think it's canon. I'm pretty sure Otto comes back as hand and while we have seen Otto's parenting choices, he is good on the council, he's been a hand to three kings and I think he may have been a firmer hand on the council that Ayman kind of grew up around. I think it makes sense that Ayman wants to bring him back. I think it makes sense that Ayman wants to bring him back. He has experience and Larris, as we see, is also kind of, Ayman and Larris are working together. I'm sure Ayman is somewhat aware, so it makes sense he's like, "No, not you, but let's bring Otto back," because I think that he has more experience. He served through other conflicts, et cetera. I'm pretty sure it's canon that he comes back because Ayman names himself, protector of the realm and I think that as Regent, he speaks with the king's voice and the king's hand, so I think it makes sense that he brings him back on. I liked that Larris was trying to take the hand position from Ayman to try to save his position, like him and Aygon are trying to still work together, which could be another reason that Ayman was like, "Yana." Yeah, because I think that him and Aygon are in a similar position, like their positions are similarly threatened, so it makes sense they make an alliance and I do think you do need a master of whispers or a mistress of whispers, but you do need a master of whispers and I'm wondering if Ayman's just going to keep Larris and be like, "You can stay," but like, just know I know, you know, so we'll see, we'll see how that kind of goes. Speaking of alliances, I don't question for you, so we were talking about Reneera and Masaria working together to send the food to the small folk, but they also got involved a little bit more than food. I'm not that about it. What do you think about Reneera and Masaria's little embrace? So in the book, this is my interpretation of fire and blood. A lot of the stuff in the book is subtextual, so this is my interpretation. I always thought that Damon, Laina, and Reneera were like a Thruple during his marriage with Laina, and later on I also kind of thought that Damon, Masaria, and Reneera were also a Thruple. Interesting. I'm a little offended and sad that Damon is being left out, but I think I also saw or read somewhere that Emma Darcy actually suggested the kiss. They mentioned that the original was just like them to have some like breathing and stuff in between, but it felt natural to Emma for them to move into the kiss. So they suggested that that kind of be added in there. What was like the funniest part to me was when they got interrupted, they got interrupted, and then they had to like shut it down so fast and take a minute when they were having like a conversation and he walks in, he's like, we saw C smoke and she's like, I know you saw C smoke. I know. He's been there. Please. Hello. You mentioned that in like our last recording. I think you, what did you say? I think he said something to the effect of she was like, I know you saw C smoke. Why are you here? Oh, yeah. I know you did. Yeah. Cause he comes barging in his, his, her King's, King Queen's garden. He's like, we toss me C smoke in the spice corridor and she's like, yeah, he's been there. Why are you in here? Go away. And then he's like, Oh, no, with a writer. And she's like, Oh, okay. That's a point. We got to get back to business. I have to say, so I was paying attention to how they would look. If you were in, like, come barging in that room, right? They did a really good job of breaking apart, acting like nothing was happening because we're near as like leaning over the table, like, you know, looking at something or just like, yeah, I'm just like, Oh, having a really difficult conversation and my sorry is just like, Oh, yeah. Nothing. Nothing is happening here. I'm, I'm just weird. I'm just, I'm just chilling here, uh, having an important conversation. Nothing to see here. I do want to say, though, one of the reasons that I did like the, the scene was because they didn't really like shove it in your face. You know, it wasn't, uh, this has to happen because you have to fit into the, this realm or world or what, you know, whatever, however you want to interpret that, uh, but I just liked it. It was natural. It was organic. It just happened. They both seem to enjoy. I just, I don't know. It was a good, good moment. It was a good moment. I liked it. I think it's also like, it's like a mention of the canon, but, um, it's like, it's like, it's like a mention of it, but I also saw a, uh, a tweet. Someone sent me a tweet that said, uh, I don't know if this counts as mature content. I'll keep it as PG as possible, but, uh, the tweet says something to the effect of book Damon used to watch while Reneera and Laina were, you know, doing their thing. So even if he finds out he won't be mad, I was like, somebody get him. Like somebody gets him out of here at Hall. He's just going to be mad. He wasn't invited. I just got him. He doesn't know. He wasn't invited. I was like, he's invited in the book. We'll bring him out of here and haul. There's more stuff going on down here. So many needs to put a meme together of like, Reneera and the Saria kissing and then Damon with his briefcase heading to his car in Harren Hall, like fuck. I'm on the way. He's not piecing out. Finally someone leaves the haunted house. Nobody ever leaves a haunted house. Right. Finally, he's getting ready to leave the haunted house. I love that he packs up and he's just like, nah, I'm out. I know. And like I enter, like my interpretation fire of love was that Damon brought Masari a two dragon stone because she was so good at her job and like, he's like, here, mistress of whispers. She's fantastic. And then like, you know, the threat will begins, right? So I'm just like, why is he suffering when this is happening? So many it's in that manner, Raven, I'm telling him to get his butt down here. But yeah. So those are my thoughts. I was just like, it's a, it's a nod toward the cannon. I'm still sad that Damon is stuck up there away from all the good stuff. Like it's, it's not fair. Right. No, it's not fair. But we can go ahead and get into our dragon dream section if you want. Yeah. Yeah. So I have, um, instead of cannon corrections or, um, in addition to cannon corrections, I have lines of corrections because I realized like two days ago that I had like messed some stuff up on our last episode. So stay tuned for lines of correction. Okay. So I reread a second, like a couple of days ago, I reread like further back than I had read earlier and I have read the whole thing. So like I try to refresh my memory. So I refreshed more of my memory and realized that the house, Bracken and Blackwood conflict does happen during Damon's stay. Last week I said it happened before. It happens during, because he got to Heron Hall earlier than I thought he did based on like, you know, my memory. So he gets the Heron Hall house, Bracken house, Blackwood conflict happens during his stay at Heron Hall, but like it's still happening differently because to my knowledge, like, and like the book, like I think Damon's doing, I think he's supposed to be doing a really good job in the Riverlands during this time. So he's just amassing armies doing his thing in the book, but in the show, he's apparently. Yeah. In the show, he's apparently struggling. Uh, but, uh, so, and also I mentioned that I didn't remember the phrase and I completely forgot about a character named Sabbath, a fray who is involved in the dance, which thus implies the phrase were involved in the dance, which makes it make even more sense that Jace was there. I'm sorry. I forgot about the phrase. The phrase were involved. My bad. Um, the phrase are here, the phrase are here. This is stupid random, but Sabbath is such a cool name. Sabbath. Yeah. Like I am. I was typing in our show notes and it corrected the B to a V, but I had to fix it because like Sabbath, though, it, it's kind of like goes off to it. It just, it just rolls. It kind of reminds me of Savathun, the witch queen in Destiny too. So is that, oh, you know, I haven't, I haven't seen anybody play Destiny in so long, but I know that they've been like adding to their lore. Oh, yeah. Hey, it is my favorite from Destiny. Kate is my Kate is so good, um, also, uh, so as far as canon corrections, the dragons needs do happen differently, but I'm, I think the show spreading it out will give us individual time with each dragon rider. But in the books, like it's called the red sewing because it happens so quickly. Everyone's on dragonstone. They all to my knowledge. Everyone's on dragonstone. They all try and claim their dragons. It goes terribly for some and fantastic for others. Hence the red sewing. I like, I liked your analogy previously where you said it's kind of like the dragon hunger games and the dragons are the cornucopia. Everybody's going for the cornucopia. So that's kind of how it is in the books. Like it's just like everybody get, like, they are promised like a, a night hood or something like that. They're, they're promised important things like night hood and land. I think if you can ride your dragon for team black, um, so everybody gives it a shot and a not everybody succeeds, but, um, I did like that we got to see like a one on one for Adam and see. So that was so cool. But I like that, uh, that in the books, you said that they kind of make a call out for it. And it really raised banners without a better term for anybody who thinks they have Targaryen or Valarion blood, like come, come over here. I don't know if you, yeah, I think it's Jason's idea because we're near a still recovering. It's Jason's idea. He's like, let's just put a call out. If you have any Targaryen Valerian, well, to them, if you have any Targaryen blood at all, come give it a shot. And so everybody comes to give it a shot because Adam and Alan have the blood of old Valeria through the Valerian line because they also were from Valeria. They just weren't like originally dragonlords. And then a lot of the other ones are dragon seeds, et cetera, from around dragonstone for a while. But I'm going to be really excited. Like, um, it was so cool. I wish we could have seen Adam take his first flight, but you mentioned they might be saving that for another character. I don't like Hugh in the book, but I'm starting to kind of like Hugh in the show. Um, so maybe we'll get to see his first flight on Vermatore because we haven't really seen him. We've seen him care, like be vulnerable with his family, but it would be neat to see that from his character. Uh, well, my husband and I were kind of joking about the fact that it's always one degree of separation seemingly, um, because like John Snow is one degree separated when he claimed a dragon or this darkland guy was maybe two, like six degrees of separation essentially. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I think there's two, there's multiple theories. So some people think that you can drag and ride because of your Targaryen blood, because of like blood magic, they had done back in old Valyria. And that's why Targaryens can drag and ride. Some people think they work into their dragons. Some people think that it's Targaryen propaganda made to, you know, maintain the power. Um, I personally, so nettles to my knowledge does not appear to have any like Targaryen or Valyrian blood in the books. So, and she like bonds her dragon by bringing him sheep and like they actually like bond over that. So that's pretty cool though. It is really cool. And I really want like, cause they're kind of leaning that way, like, you know, if anybody can do it, anybody can do it. So maybe, maybe that's how we'll get nettles. I, I just, I just really want to see kind of the direction they take that, but yeah. So, um, the dragons needs to do, oh, go ahead, I'm sorry. And then the final thing I wanted to say about that, cause you mentioned Adam and Alan of whole, and that's obviously going to be, he's a laner stepbrother, essentially. Um, so in the books, they, in the books, people say that Adam and Alan are laners sons, but everybody's like, I don't think so, so that's how that they, yeah. So that's how they're like probably Corley says sons. And he actually asks Ranira to naturalize them after Rainy's, because I don't think Rainy's new in the books until, you know, he, after she dies, he naturalizes them. And so they become instead of Adam and Alan of whole, they become, um, Adam and Alan Valerian. Yeah. Yeah. So we see Alan like shaving, right? He was shaving his white hair off. He doesn't want to be what I didn't notice that I am, I, I genuinely thought that was like the, uh, shaving cream material. It was you. You look pretty. Yeah. That was a good observation. I was like, why I didn't. And that actually makes me think that's why Adam is like, you really think that's going to help. Oh, see, I, that just went, I think I was so distracted that the episode was as good as it was. Actually, I was just like, I'm just here for the road. No. That, thank you. I didn't, I totally thought it was just like, he would just live his best life. That explains why they came down when they follow the knife to the white cloth and came back up. I was like, that makes it. Thank you. Miss that one. But no, so the dragon seeds, uh, do happen differently, but I'm along for the ride for the show. If that means we get one on one time with each dragon, see claim in their dragon. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. I'm currently writing like a dragon, like a medieval fantasy with dragons in it. I'm always here for the dragon. Goodness. I'm here for it. Yeah. That's fine. But, um, and then we arrive at my customary point is that in the next episode of preview, someone mentions that Damon is making a mess of hair and haul and there is absolutely no canonical proof that Damon made a mess of hair and haul. He's a massing armies. It takes a while to amass armies because people have to march, but like he, he's doing a really good job in the Riverlands. Guys, don't let the show fool you. Damon is running stuff in the Riverland, living his best life doing a really good job. And I think that I just have to accept. I'm not happy with it and I will revolt, but we did, we did mention previously that we're seeing a little bit more of the West, because you mentioned that there are, there is stuff happening in the West and we did get to see the golden tooth and the Lannister army. Yeah. And like they, they brought lions to battle. That was cool. That was so cool. Why are the Lannisters so extra? But can you imagine? Okay. We saw what direwolves can do, can you imagine what lions can do? Like, I mean, people have put large animals in war before, like people have taken elephants. Um, I think in the new gladiator trailer, there's a rhinoceros in the, in the Colosseum. So like, and also like that's their signature thing. So I know. It's so cool. Can you imagine you're just in war fighting regular people and the lion comes at you? I'm just, you got dragons. You got lions. It's like, why am I? It's like that artwork, uh, it's like that fan art of like all the house sigils kind of like coming at each other. So good. But no, Damon is raising an army in the Riverlands in the book. He's doing a fantastic job of it. It takes him into raise armies, but that's to be expected. So he's navigating all that stuff, but I, um, I am not happy with it. I will revolt, but I am coming to understand that book, Damon and show Damon would not sit with each other at a lunch table, they would not acknowledge each other. And that's just, I just hope all I want is peak Damon for this peak thing that happens later. And if they can just get him there, like fine, if you're going to do this for like, to put this on screen fine for filler, but just get him to peak Damon so we can have the peak moment that I can't spoil because it's too far away. Listen though, like we're, we're getting peak Damon. So I think there's a chance there's a chance we could get peak Damon. We can do it. They can do it. I know they can do it. Just just push him. Cause he's already there in the book. The way that Ayman does, as turned his heel and turned like a 180, I am loving it. I love it. It was such a good character of this episode. Just imagine how good it'll be when they stop nerfing Damon and just imagine just take it and turn to 10. Right? But I actually don't really have new next episode of predictions. Like I have been the dragon season, the red sewing has been like my standard thing because that's kind of what's happening. So more dragons. That's a big deal. It is a big deal because they do need aerial support. So yeah, so more dragon seeds and red sewing, hue and olfe and hopefully nettles will still need to claim their dragons. Kings landing will continue falling apart, hopefully on favor of team black. And I hope that they're working up the gullet because hue and olfe and jace and nettles fly as aerial support for the battle of the gullet because they actually let us see them talk about it this time as it is looming on allyset. They are reaching across the narrow sea, I think to the triarchy, which comes in, which the triarchy comes against, if I remember correctly, the triarchy comes against coilyce's fleet. And then hue, olfe, nettles and jace fly as aerial support. So it'll be a huge game of throws likes to end likes to end on big finale set pieces. And that I think should be the big finale set piece for season two. And we're moving. Yeah. We're making progress. Oh, and the triarchy is who they fought in the stepstone stepstones in season one. That's actually a really good call out because they they have beef with Damon and that's why auto reached out. And he's like, I mean, you won't come hurt him, song. But so yeah, so hopefully we will see that happen. And I'll try and wait for maybe episode seven before I like give spoilers for the gullet. I don't feel fair to talk about it now. So I'm actually really curious if you're going to be correct, because traditionally in the game of thrones original series with the 10 episodes, the ninth episode was usually the big one. Oh, and in the 10th episode was, I mean, it was always really big and heavy, but it was kind of a fallout of what happened in the ninth episode in the later season. Okay. So like it's like the one before it is like the climactic moment and the next was a resolution. All right. Well, I mean, if it surprises me and they're like, boom, it's a gullet today, then I will explain it in my fire in the fire section. I will be though, because they didn't, they haven't set it up to be. So I was just wondering if they're going to just kind of come out and surprise us and coreless is now in battle, or if they're just going to lead up to it and that will. I don't know. They might, they might spring it on us like one third of the way into an episode, you have to fly right now, but we do have to get he would off on their dragons first. So that'll be like our timestamp, but we will absolutely have a lot more tea and I'll definitely be really happy to like explain, you know, me, I dropped spoilers, Michelle. So I'll be happy to explain it when it happens for sure. Good. So we will be back every week on couch soup.com during season two to recap the latest episode of House of the Dragon. Yes. Be sure to hit that like button, ring the bell and let us know in the comments what lore you would like us to dive into next. I don't know if we talked about it too much, but Darren is here. So if you're excited to see Darren, check it out. So he's, he's actually like really important down south. He has a dragon, his dragon's name is Taserion Taserion, and he's just, he's my favorite team green. He makes good decisions. Gwayne's description was on point. So I'm excited to see Darren. Good. I'm excited to see who Hugh and Olf claim because there are quite a few dragons still left to claim. So we'll see. Yeah. I'm excited. And we'll talk about it. All right. Thank you guys. Thanks for being here and see you all next week with all the firemen. Bye. a.
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