WEBVTT - House of the Dragon S3E05 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.200 Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for House of the Dragon 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:23.599 Season three, episode five, p one. Hello, my Namazation concepts 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.360 you on and I'm rosy night and welcome back to 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.159 xt revision of the podcast, where we diveete into your 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.160 favorite shows and movies, comics and pop books are coming 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.239 to you from my heart, where we're bringing you three 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:33.479 episodes a week. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.960 Las plus news plus nos. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.280 In today's episode, Oh my gosh, guys, it's a crazy 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.599 week of fifth episodes. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.720 We are we are freaking covering House of the Dragon. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.680 Did you think it couldn't get any better? Did you 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.479 think they might let it down? Let you down gently? 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.280 No, this is one of the craziest episodes of the 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.480 season yet, and I could not believe where they went 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.160 with it, and everything about it made me so happy. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:01.240 There's so much great character work in here, so many fun, scary, 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.520 incredible moments, so much gore. Be careful, so big tw 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.840 if you don't like dead animals or dead people. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.080 But this is a bang at Jason, Let's get into it. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.560 We open up with a conversation between Lord Oscar Tully, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:25.000 the young Lord of the Riverlands, and his northern uh help, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.000 Lord Dustin in charge of the winter Wolves, and they 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.120 are searching now for a river crossing so they can 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.840 get to Tumblton and do something about Lord Ormond's forces 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.120 who were camped out in Tumbleton. But the problem is 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.200 every time they come to a bridge, it's been destroyed. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.080 Kristen Cole's gorillas are like constant menace. They're lurking in 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.520 the forest. They're raiding them, they're hitting their supply lines, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.160 and they're destroying They're destroying bridges like everywhere they go. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.920 So Tully and Dustin are like, Okay, let's fight fire 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.240 with fire. We can do that too. Let's also do 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.880 a gorilla war. Let's also dirty. But before they can 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.800 really put the plane into action, Cole's forces raid the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.520 camp five minutes after this conversation between Oscar and Lord Dustin, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.120 kill a few guys, burn a bunch of tents, and 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.239 then disappear. We go to heron hall, we see the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.079 blackboat that may or may not be Alice Rivers. The 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.280 Queen's mercenaries or whoever these guys are, enter the Haunted Castle. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.760 They're looking for Amend. The Queen, of course, has been 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.360 hunting Aimond and Vagar for what for some weeks. Now 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:36.639 it seems Alice Rivers pops out. She's like, talks a 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:44.840 bunch of ghostly, scary shit, and she kind of refers 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.880 to the castle as being a living thing. And then 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.480 she's like, you guys should leave because this is too 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.720 scary for you. It's scary time. And then she conjures 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.840 a flurry of bats that like right out of the 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.200 end of Batman begins, I was good to say, it's 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.440 definitely having a flashback, and then disappears in the mitror 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.040 like that was really scary. They leave. She goes to 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.359 Amon's bedside, where he is in the grips of a nightmare. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:17.200 He is dreaming about a dragon and a castle, and 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.840 Alice holds him and he's of course recovering still from 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.800 his stab work. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.760 And not that we needed this, because we obviously had 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.560 gotten it from the implications, but this is proof that 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.359 Amond is there, Alice is lying to everyone, and this 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.480 is that kind of mysterious time period between them, and 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.840 we're getting to see how that relationship grows, and this 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:39.800 is really great. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:40.440 I have to say. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.480 Look, we always said, amen, he had the face card, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.160 he had the hair, he knew what he was doing. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.880 But this is such a fantastic different side to him, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.280 this kind of cowardly child. It's when he was a 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.320 kid again, It's when he was being bullied all the time. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.120 It's so good like this shit enamored me to him. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.720 And this is what Game of Ferns I think has 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.400 always done well, and how The Dragon does particularly well. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:02.800 There are characters who. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.200 Are evil, who you hate, but there are moments when 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.920 you root for them or when you kind of empathize 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.640 with them in unexpected ways, and I think this episode 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.320 did that for me for ament, even though I had 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.800 to keep checking myself and reminding myself who he is. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.000 So we go to the Red keep Master a while 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.640 off of the reveal at the end of the previous episode, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.200 is delivering some moon tea, some plan tee to Alison's chambers. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.320 We know it's for Helena, but Allison doesn't really tell 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.840 him that, and he tells her listen, this is a 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.640 huge risk for me, sneaking around behind the Queen's back. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.800 I am being watched. They don't really trust me, So 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.160 this is it. I can't do this kind of thing anymore, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.680 and I can't help you in any kind of way 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.240 without first clearing it with the queen, or at least 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.599 letting her know what I'm up to. Okay, so sorry. Helena, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.840 of course, doesn't want to drink the moon tea. No, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.960 and Alison tries to explain to her, We're in a 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.440 very tenuous situation. It's very dangerous for you and for 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.320 this unborn child. What if it's a boy, then that 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.160 is the heir to the throne and Helena would have 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:12.680 to kill him. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.279 Would have to, yeah, and Ranera would kill them, but. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.760 She would do it, and she would do I mean 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.000 she would to be fair, she would have to do it. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.120 Yeah. And it's not a moral choice for her, it's 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.000 a political choice, yes. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.680 And Alison is like, listen, I've taken it many times. Okay, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.480 Raniera has taken Every woman here is taking it. We're 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.360 all this is how you this is how things are done. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.279 Nobody talks about it, but this is how it's done. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.000 Drink it. And Helena's like. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.240 No, I gotta say. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.000 I think Alison flopped the argument because the moment that 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.200 she's like, hey, me and Ranera both did this, and 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.120 look at how it saved us, look at our lives. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.560 And Helena's like, I don't fucking want your if you just. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.920 Put it, I think you just this is gonna be 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.200 terrible that I'm saying this out loud. I think you 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.159 just put it in her wine. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.280 Or I'm shocked Alison didn't just put it in there. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:00.720 Listen, do it. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.760 Obviously, I don't want that for Helena. And like you said, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.640 it's the right thing to say, but like. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:11.960 This is that moral formulation, that moral formulation. I just 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:12.600 want to be clear. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.720 Yeah, exactly right. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.760 Yeah, it's only in Game of Thrones, and like, but 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.560 I'm shocked Allison is at her most scheming hare and 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.480 she doesn't do it. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.360 That shows I love for Helena. I guess. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.080 Sabbath Afrey in the small Council chamber is complaining that 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.880 she doesn't yet have hair in hall. That was the 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:36.000 deal Jay said, come and as part of the negotiation 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:42.920 agreement that allowed the Northmen to cross the Twins, the Phraser' 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.960 supposed to get hair in hall. And Sabbatha is not 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.880 sitting in hair and hall right now, and she's really, really, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.520 really really complaining about it. She pushes almost too hard, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.080 and Renier basically says, listen, you have a council seat. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.720 That should be enough. For you and we'll deal with 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.839 the Harron Hall issue later and Sabbath accepts that they 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.720 go to the Council chamber for the meeting. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.400 Jalen Adam, Yeah, I just got to say, as Rena 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.480 as pr person, is she failing again here at common diplomacy? 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.720 I fear she. I think she is. I think she 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:22.200 should say. I mean, I don't understand why she doesn't say, sure, 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.520 gather your free army and march it to heron Hall. Yeah, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.360 take it and you will stay here as the as 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.240 part of my suppall council. But if you want to 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.560 put an army at heron Hall and hold it that, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.320 I mean, what's wrong with that? 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.080 Why not do that kill the people who come looking 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:41.600 for Amond? 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.080 But anyway, well, it might be it might be that 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:51.760 a large part of her forces are with Oscar Talley 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:59.280 marching you know, by dribs and drabs towards Tumbleton. So 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.040 it might be that she doesn't have a huge But 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.000 like I think that would be a solution. I don't 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.920 know that she's necessarily failing, but she should make it 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:10.560 clear that listen, you will get heron Hall soon, but 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.280 you know now is not the time. If that's indeed 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.320 with the formulation she's using. Anyway, we go to the 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.720 small Council, Balen Adam bring the news that Vagar has 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.280 burned a bunch of stuff in the riverlands and flew 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.560 off and now no one knows where. Damon says, well, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.720 in addition to that, we had basically a riot at 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.760 the dragon Gate, you know, hungry people just going crazy, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:43.360 and he blames Missaria, basically saying Massaria is like beloved 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.959 fucking poor people. She was supposed to be like the 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.240 poor people whisper. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.480 And where is her whispering? 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.640 Where is the stuff? Like she's not able to control them? 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:58.520 And Missaria says, well, really the issue is the city Watch. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.040 She's there to brew. They react to any small thing 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:09.160 with like the utmost violence. And Damon comes back with, oh, yeah, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.559 you think so. Like the thin gold line of the 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.959 city Watch is all that stands between the population and anarchy. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.120 I've had two city Watch people murdered by unknown agents 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:27.200 of Lord Ormond. Probably. Meanwhile, there's the other question of Ormond, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.440 ty Tower and Tumbleton. What do they do. The debate 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:37.239 is between sending Damon's army after him or Damon's perspective 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.160 is why don't we just burn the whole fucking thing. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.439 Yeah, just but he's sick of it. He doesn't want 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.400 to play the parma. I want to say, I want 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.040 to shout out Emma Darcy here. Their acting in this 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.200 episode is so wild and we get this great kind 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.599 of and I'm not the first person to notice this. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.480 This is an internet thing, but there is more dragon 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.640 in their performance every single episode. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.840 They act less and less like a thoughtful. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.720 Human and more like somebody whose neck is always snapping, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.720 always shocked, always on the watch. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.640 And this conversation with Damon is so like that, it's 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:14.640 so lizard like. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.599 It's so about trying to understand Ranier's position in this 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.520 more council, and it's so fucking good. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.679 This is such a great I think Ranier is gradually 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.400 coming to the conclusion that listen, I'm trying to be 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.920 It would obviously be a peer disaster, not to mention, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:40.760 morally wrong to wipe out Tumbleton through dragonfire and kill 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.640 thousands of my own supporters. But I think she's kind 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.439 of gradually arriving at the conclusion that Mercy is not 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:55.440 getting her anywhere, and she is gradually gravitating naturally towards 0:10:55.640 --> 0:11:00.640 a more authoritarian outlook, but we will see. Or while 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.640 brings news that on the army marching to Tumulton Front 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.400 poster Tully is trying to get there, but Kristen Colesman 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.240 are making it really really hard, burning the bridges, et cetera. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.959 Rania orders Bayla and Adam to the riverlands, tells them 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.800 locate Aimond, locate Vagar, tell us where they are. Adam says, okay, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.960 we'll go, but we need like lunch and stuff for us, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.720 and Baila is like, no, I can go right now, hah, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.040 because she is desperate to get back into Nia's good 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:38.720 favor after she believes being blamed by Rania for Jayce's death, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.520 which is true. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.839 It's true doing that, But I also do think that 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.040 Beyla's own guilt is making it heavier. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.599 Like Ranera blame stuck in everyone that's you know, like 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.000 it's it. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.480 She does blame Baylor, and she's not doing a good 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.280 job being a stepmom, aunt, cousin or whatever the fuck 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.920 she is. Toha, but this is also about Bayla, But 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.400 I have to say I'm love it this Adam characterization 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.959 where he is kind of the one who's like he 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.120 wasn't raised by royals. He doesn't care what the queen says. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.040 To a certain extent, he wants his workers, he wants 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.599 his colleague in this case Bela, to be fed and 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.599 slept so they can do their best. I thought this 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.520 was such a telling interaction between them all. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:25.000 It. Rania eventually orders Damon to go to the riverlands 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:31.719 and just scout the area. Damon says, Okay, I'll go, 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.400 but we need to take care of the city watches 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.960 under immense pressure. They're not being paid. They're the only 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.439 thing again keeping the capitol from descending into complete chaos, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.880 and you need to figure out something for them right now. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.160 And Sabbath fray. Meanwhile, I was looking around like, believe 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.960 this is what O meeting is Like, this is nuts. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.000 Can we talk about that, Jason, because again, when we 0:12:55.080 --> 0:13:01.040 talk about Raniera's short term choices, rain now being on 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.319 the council sitting next to that smamy motherfucker that she 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.240 put as master of coin and he's given her all 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:08.840 the juice. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.560 They're calling Massaria a whore. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.400 They're assassin about how people got jobs, bastards upgraded to 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.240 counsel and the hand and shit this, to me is 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.240 bad planning on her nearest part. Is there a version 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.240 of this where these two just keep each other busy 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.800 with gossip so it's less dangerous or do you think 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.839 this choice will bite her in the butt the kind 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.120 of random small council appointment she's making. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.199 I think she's trying to do something good, which is 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.839 to reward her supporters. But I think she's doing it 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:43.079 very poorly because she's not choosing based on any kind 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.640 of competence level for the job. I mean, sorry, to me, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.240 is the main offender. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.760 I know, Jesus a fire Massaria get rid of her, Like. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.319 What the fuck is she doing? 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.600 She tell me when she has ever come with well, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.240 some juicy intelligence one time. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.880 We will end up at the end of this episode 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.520 asking that very question again, I think, but I do 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.640 agree with you. I don't think that these are smart choices. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.120 And it feels to me that there was something very 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:19.600 ominous about the kind of open disregard for Rania, like 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.560 the sassing of talking about a targarian that way. You know, oh, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.880 the whore who advises her, you know, the they would 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.040 never have said that stuff. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:28.720 In front of a series. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.440 This is a man who chopped a man's face in 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.160 half of saying the kids who are bastards were obviously bastards. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.440 So I think this Obviously we're going to get a 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.200 bigger moment of this with Damon. But I think this 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.400 kind of highlights that Raniera does not have the power 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:41.880 or sway or fear. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.320 That she thinks she everything. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:48.120 I think everything's just moving way too fast. Agree Ranier 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:54.320 and Damon argue privately about her authority and orders. Damon says, listen, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.920 I'll deal with Aymond and Vagar after the city Watch 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.080 thing is taken care of. We really need to to 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.560 take care of that, and he makes the case that 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.520 Renier needs to stop caring about the graffiti and just 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.000 get on with ruling the capitol, like, stop worrying about that. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.720 We go to Laris and Eggon. They're stumbling around the forest. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:20.080 Egon is this is I mean we talked about Emma Darcy, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.400 Tom Glencarney is great. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:23.040 This this. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.720 I think he is coming up for a little Emmy 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.720 contention off this season. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:34.680 Man his So he goes on an Eggon goes on 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.760 a little monologue here where he basically says, you know, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.480 my parents favored Aimoned. They taught him everything. He was 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.040 the perfect little boy. He was so great with the swords, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.600 he claimed vagar and he basically winges a lot, and 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:56.480 it's Tom Glencarney's performance is so wounded and so bitter, 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.800 but also like there is there's just some of the 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.320 brattiness of egg On in previous seasons is toned down, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.200 where he's just been vulnerable in a way that you're 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.480 not used to seeing from him, and it really lands. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.080 I was like, Damn, I get it. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.000 I'm literally I get it, dude. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.960 I'm literally like tearing up because I do think that 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.920 there is this kind of unbelievable little triptick here where 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.840 you get the Aimond moment and you hear Aimon's fears 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.520 and how he knows he was the most loved, but 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.640 how he worshiped his brother and how that was like 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.000 never really received, and then you get egg On and 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.480 you get this really vulnerable moment of him talking about 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.760 his position, and you buy into both of them because 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.080 the performances are so good. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:45.320 But then the real gut punch moment for me is Laris. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:50.360 His response to egg On is so fantastic, and it 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:58.520 is this kind of monologue ready moment where he basically 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.400 just says, hey, actually, your whole life you've had. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.880 That's the but that you're you're right, but yeah, yeah, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:13.359 go for it. Missaria goes to see Alison. She's heard 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.959 about the potion. She's learned about the potion through one 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.919 of her spies in the castle. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.080 Finally she's doing it. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.520 Whoa okay, but like, okay, so part one is finding 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.600 out about the moon tea. Part two in doing your 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.320 job is like correctly assess what's going on. Alison very 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.119 deftly and with ease, fools Messaria into believing that the 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.200 moon tea is for her, and she drinks it in 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.639 front of her, and Massaria tries to like lightly grill 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.800 Alison about who had knocked her up, but of course, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.520 you know, Alison manages to wiggle out of that one. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.000 Sorry but if this is I'm sorry, but if if 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.520 Missaria fans want to use this as a feather in 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.439 their cap from Masaria doing good job, she failed it again. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.359 She got bamboozled by Alice. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.639 I gotta say this is I love Alison. We know 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.040 I'm an Allison apologist. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.480 Her homosexuality has changed the entire source material and we 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.560 love her for it. But This is Allison at her 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.000 most fucking conniving, and it's kind of cool to see 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.440 Olivia cook back at it. I mean, I was so 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.960 shocked in this moment by how easily manipulated Massaria was. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.359 The I texted the x Ray Vision group chat was like, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.040 is this gonna be a fucking love triangle? Like, is 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.480 Alison gonna manipulate her Laris style? 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.800 There's this great these great moments of knowing where Alison 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.919 tries to play on the fact that they both care 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.040 about Raniera, they've both known Raniera, and also like, guess 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:46.600 what Raniera knows that I have a fucking boyfriend, and 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.120 she uh knows a bit well about herself, and Massiria 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.200 tries to kind of poke and imply that she knows 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.080 it's Kristen Cole. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.440 It's so well done. But Alison fucking wins. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:02.200 And this is that conniving, old town, fucking high tower 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.359 bitch that we have not seen for a while, because 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.200 she's gonna do whatever it takes to keep Helena and 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.320 the baby safe. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:14.119 Clearly, Cole and GWayne are tromping through the woods and 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.359 GWayne is discussing Ormond, basically saying he's a thin skin twat, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.600 but he's a very very smart guy, and you know 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:26.080 he's a capable fire and he then says, man, old Town, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:27.640 you gotta see it. You got to see it when 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.200 the sun is rising over West russ from the from 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.680 the high tower. It's so good. You gotta come there. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.280 We'll hang out like you're doing a job. It's like 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.840 it's everything. Let's get away from all this, Like when 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.080 this is done, let's go to old Town. Come with me, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.320 and let's just brow out. Then suddenly the horses start 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:51.840 screaming and falling down, and we see that Oscar Tully 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:57.639 and Dustin have spread these little sharp metal coltrops is 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.159 what they call them in real life, but in the 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.400 world they call him crow's feet and they get stuck 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:10.040 into the horses feet and cripple them. Basically, so put 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:15.520 his horse out of its misery. Damon talks to Captain Largent, 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:21.520 Commander Largent of the City Watch, and he's like, you 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.680 guys went a little overbord in the graffiti. Shit, you 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.639 need to shill out. Largin is like, well, what do 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.000 you want me to do? My guys are getting like 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.560 disemboweled in the streets and nobody knows what's going on, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.080 and Damon's like, well, I know exactly what to do. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.840 I Am going to make a big speech then, and 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:37.879 I'm gonna lift their spirits. But before he can do that, 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.400 there's some screams from nearby alley and they find two 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.480 more guys with their guts cut open in an alley. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.760 These are Ormond spies that are doing this, and we 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.840 watch the one of them send the latest update, I 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.480 guess to Ormond and Tumbleton via Pigeon. Ormond is managing 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.440 the you know, the hardening of Tumbleton. He chats with 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.800 Darren about history and about leadership and politics, and tests 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:09.800 Darren about his understanding of both of those subjects. Ormond 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:17.320 gives a very praiseful history of Mariah Martel, the Yellow 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:22.920 Toad of Dorn, who resisted the first Eggon's repeated attempts 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.879 to conquer Dorn in a using gorilla tactics. In a 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:33.720 very very smart and ruthless way. Ormond tells Darren that 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:39.000 the Targerians never understood the culture of west Ross, the 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:43.600 various cultures of Wes west Rosi civilization. Then Darren makes 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.880 a winning move in Cyvass and Ormand gets really mad 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.119 really really really fucking mad. But then like flips on, 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.360 Diamond tells Darren never ever apologize for making a winning move. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.400 And then he's like, I gotta show you something. You're 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.280 gonna love this. Oh no, and he goes into his 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.879 little person. He pulls out a coin and he's like, 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:09.080 I had you minted as king Darren, so guess what 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:11.600 your ring begins now. So this is obviously a huge 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:17.840 problem because I mean, insane mood, I would consider it 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.159 a long shot that Darren takes the throne, but now 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:21.560 he's been kind of forced into it. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.840 Jason is when we think about kind of just on 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.720 a minimal TLDR level, like this doesn't seem like a 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.760 smart Marshall play to me from Ormond, do you think 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.359 he has the backing and the support that we just 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:35.359 don't know about? 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.640 Well, I think that he thinks. I think he's got 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.320 more irons in the fire than he's letting on this. 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:44.520 This is what. 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.479 We are circling around because everybody keeps saying Riniera keep 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:53.760