WEBVTT - Olivia Rodrigo Is Spit Through a Brita Filter 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.600 Hello, virgins. I know for you it's Thursday, but for 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.640 us it's Tuesday, which is election day in New York City. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.600 And I hope that you voted. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.800 And if you didn't, you're a pussy. I was talking 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.400 to somebody yesterday at the UGG party, you just seca 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:25.000 really fabulous organizer who works with JVP and the DSA, 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.760 and she was saying that if you live in Bushwick, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:34.479 that some exit poles were showing that the margin of 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:39.559 victory could be as small as sixty people you. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.040 Got too well. I mean, there's no point as being like, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.440 go vote, because yeah, it's too late. It's too late. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.400 So but the thing is, if you hear this message 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.520 now and you didn't vote and we lost, you should 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:53.280 feel really bad. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.440 You should because you were one of sixty the scum 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.080 of the earth. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.800 You were one of sixty fagots in Brooklyn who actually 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:03.720 could have made the difference and didn't. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.320 And so that you know that that really small margin 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.479 kind of helps me understand why I was invited to 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:18.240 meet Mayor Zara Mundani and the the other folks on 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.080 the Democratic Socialists late on Friday night. Honey, were you 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.320 were you surprised when I like randomly sent you a 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.560 photo of me and. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.720 Zar on No on Friday, not really no. So I've 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.920 been told from organizers that that early voting numbers were 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.240 really really low, and I think that they had not 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:44.319 been expecting that because obviously the DSA's ground game is 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.440 so good like and I think that they have really 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:53.960 really really poured a lot into these various kind of 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:59.800 like city council with these these congressional district elections and 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.400 and but yeah, no voter turnout among young people. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.680 Was doo doo kaka. So that's that I think that 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:07.160 I was. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.800 I was asked via signal chats, et cetera, do I 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.680 know any famous people to kind of show up to 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.960 these phone banks, and so I knew that they were 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:25.320 recruiting internet famous divas and q rosamu. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.840 Yeah to hear the call. On Friday, I got a 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:36.160 message from a friend who I think works with uh 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:41.320 Zoran's team in some way, who invited me to what 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:46.080 was sold as a dinner, which is kind of why 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.400 I went. I thought it was going to be like 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:53.120 a chic you know, dinner with with Zoron and the Slate. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.600 What it was actually was a meet and greet with 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.239 or Dervs. I showed up it this restaurant in Bushwick. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.000 There was a line of people outside. I made friends 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.840 with the girl standing in line next to me because 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.000 we were both wearing We were both wearing head to 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.440 toe Asimiyaki and uh and tom Ford for Gucci bags. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.240 So I like made a new friend. She's great. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.800 You know the the uniform for waiting in line to 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.360 meet Yeah, of course. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.639 Well we were obviously the best dressed people there besides 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.200 Queen Jean, who I got to meet. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:31.919 Oh my god, did she have her tony? 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.400 She did not have her tony. But but but my 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.840 my friend who had invited me, when they were starting 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.560 to bring people in to meet, Zoron was like, can 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.040 everyone please move aside for Queen Gee? And she has 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:45.600 a tony. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.560 She has a tony that Zoron had like a pride 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.680 party earlier this month, And it was the day after 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.080 the Tonys and Zoron you know, called her out in 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.280 his speech and he was like, it is an honor 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.800 to have Queen Jean here, and we were more than 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.480 willing to make an exception for her plus one tony. 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.560 And it literally like you turn around and g is 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.080 like standing there hold like lifting holding her tony up 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.160 with one hand. She had the tony with her. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.200 It was I wish, I wish she'd brought it. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.479 If I had a tony, I would hold I would 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:20.280 it would be in my. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.400 Purse, it would be I would turn it into a 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:28.720 bag charm like a la boo boo would be really heavy. Though. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.080 Uh so we you know, we're we're let upstairs at 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.640 this restaurant to this like little rooftop space. We're like 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.479 mingling getting drinks. There's our derves. I had a really 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:43.040 fabulous oyster. And then Zorn comes out talks to us, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.479 and then they bring the whole slate into this little 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.840 room and tell us that we're going to line up 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.600 and each get a chance to go in make some 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.640 content with them. Because yes, this was primarily like an 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.279 influencer event. I think there were. They were specifically trying 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.400 to get more young people to turn out out to vote. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.479 We it was like very disorganized and weirdly I wound 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.560 up right at the front of the line. So that 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.919 worked out really well, okay, because if I if I 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.039 had had to wait another ten minutes, I would have 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.279 simply left. Yeah, but I didn't, so I got to 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.480 meet the whole slate, including Zoran. I made a little 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.680 video with them, which you can see on my Instagram. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:26.839 I thought it was very cute. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:29.440 It looked so good. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.480 Yeah, And I had alternate questions I was going to ask, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.960 like I was going to ask Zora on team Edward 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.159 or team Jacob, but I liked the question I ended 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:40.880 up with better. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.080 They were like, you have ninety seconds ago. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.719 Yeah. And then after I finished filming with them, I 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:53.320 did tell the mayor that, you know, my grandma had 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.040 recently passed, and that she, you know, had was born 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.599 and raised in New York and raised her family there 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.039 before moving to Florida in her fifties and that and 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.320 you know, this is true. She and my grandma was 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.320 a staunch Democrat, and I really tried to push her 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.919 more towards being a leftist in the later years of 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:20.320 her life. But she was so excited about Zoran becoming 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.240 our mayor and just what it meant for the city. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.880 And I told him that, and he thought that was 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.520 very sweet, and we had a really nice little moment. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.239 And so I'm happy I got to share that because 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.000 I knew she would have been really happy that I 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:37.919 got to meet him. So hopefully everyone voted and the 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.800 people we wanted to win one and the people we 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:45.240 wanted to lose lost. But you know, we'll see. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.040 Really weird to be sending this message from the past 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.920 into the future, but hey. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.080 And it's just a it's a good reminder. Like you know, 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.520 I think I've been saying this is with the world, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:03.720 with our countries in the state that it is. I 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.560 do think funneling your energy and attention into local politics 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.040 and intercommunity in your community and things that you can 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:18.760 actually have a tangible outcome on is what's really important. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.840 Because yes, it's sometimes good to scream into the void 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.960 and be anihilist, but. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.400 But mostly not, but mostly not, but mostly not. I 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:36.720 have a related and verurgeon in question. Yes, is Rania 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.680 a Republican or a Democrat? And and which one is 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.760 Alison and it and we have to pick who is who? 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.640 Okay, this is I'm gonna actually try to answer this 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:49.720 question in good faith. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.800 I I honestly have no idea, but you know the 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.840 world much better and I look. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:01.560 Forward, I would I would say I don't. Okay, obviously 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.280 this is a different political system. It's a monarchy. These 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:10.240 are not elected representatives. I think because the entire schism 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.000 that drives the plot of House of the Dragon, this 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.520 Targarian civil war that is known as the Dance of 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.720 the Dragons, is about Raniera being usurped because she is 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:25.120 a woman. I would say that would I guess maybe 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.280 kind of automatically automatically make her a Democrat. And then 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.280 the people you know, trying to preserve the patriarchy are 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.200 Republicans or I guess maybe we would say not democrat 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.760 or Republican, but conservative versus liberal, right, But really they're 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.360 kind of both centrists because they just want to keep 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.360 like Raniera doesn't want to you know, help the small 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:52.320 folk or like you know, make grands, sweeping political changes 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.000 that will actually improve people's lives. She just wants the power. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.040 She wants to be at the top. Yes, yes, in the. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.440 Most Democrats as well, so that still applies. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.280 Yeah, and yeah, so that well, I'm saying that's because 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.000 like I don't think she's a leftist, you know, and 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:17.320 also Raniera is. But I guess the one thing that 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.120 does make me feel like, okay, maybe she is like 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.160 sort of like a well intentioned Democrat, is that at 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.040 least in the show. You know, as we learn in 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.000 the first season, she is driven by this secondary motivation 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.520 or I guess maybe like what she sees is her 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.760 like true purpose, which is that she needs to ensure 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:40.560 that a Targarian from her line specifically is sitting the 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.800 iron throne when the Long Night comes, as her father 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.000 passed down Agon's dream to her in the first season 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.000 in what was a departure from the books, but like 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.720 George R. Martin has kind of signed off on it, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.760 this idea that like there was a prophecy about the 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.840 White Walkers and it was passed down through the Targarians, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.679 and so Varania is not just you know, trying to 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.520 become queen because she wants to be queen, but also 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.720 because there is a true purpose to a Targarian being 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:14.480 in power, and this the dance of the Dragons, this 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.520 target and civil war is what leads to the Dragons 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.440 dying and the Targarians being out of power when the 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.520 Long Night comes. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.040 And I okay, like, I'm like actually so much more 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:31.199 invested in this very silly analysis than like some recapping, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.200 which is often hard to follow for me. But like 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:41.200 there's also this thing of like bloodlines on Alison's side 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:50.160 and the illegitimacy of some of Rania's descendants called the Queen. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.120 Of Bastards, which is a hat that I got at 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.160 HBO's House of the Dragon premiere event the other night. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.920 He was on a boat, which you famously do not do. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.959 So don't do any function wherein you cannot leave immediately. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.800 Well or did the boat not leave? 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.319 Well, the boat did leave, but it was for a 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.440 specific and short amount of time. It was only a 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:18.000 forty five minute cruise around the like Harbor, peer whatever. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.040 So I knew it was going to be on and 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.840 off scinct succinct. Yeah, So I went to this premiere 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.839 event on Sunday. There was a sunset sale and then 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:38.040 a screening of the first episode. It was kind of overwhelming, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.360 but fun. It it's always fun to watch a show 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.040 like that with a live audience, especially like an episode 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:50.160 like this season premiere episode, which was action packed. It 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.280 was very fun to be screaming along with everyone and 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.800 like it was basically like being on Twitter watching the 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.280 episode but in real life. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:58.640 Yeah. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.040 And there were like lots of little photo ops. I 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.640 got some T shirts and there was an iron throne 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.520 you could take a picture with I was not going 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.240 to wait in the line for that. I did get 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.480 a bunch of swag, including that hat and this Jasira's candle. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.880 I just shocked that you got in the boat. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.920 Honestly, I okay, I was shocked that. So they told 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.400 us to dress comfortably, which of course I did not. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.480 I wore heels, and then I was expecting sort of 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.360 a doll invasion situation where there would be twinks kind 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.960 of helping me get on the boat. And there were 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.880 crew members standing on the side of the ramp that 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.760 I had to walk down at almost a nine degree 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.000 angle to get on the boat, but they did not 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.920 like reach out to help me, and I really had 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.920 to just like do it myself. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.800 I'm sorry that sounds really unglamorous. You should be treated 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:58.400 like a queen. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:04.040 But getting off the boat, I was serving cunt because 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.240 it was much easier to uscend than it had been 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.720 to descend, and I was, yeah, I was like I 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.960 was walking off the boat with Star Emersu and we 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.199 were we were like cleaning out together. That was fun. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.440 It was a good night. It was a good episode. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.280 I do think it's the best episode of the show. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.240 I also do think it should have been the season 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:26.320 finale of last season. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.600 It's the best you think it's the best episode of 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:36.200 the entire series so far. Yeah, oh my god, I 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.920 need to watch it. Not with my laptop open. I 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.280 need to re engage because I spent I had spent 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.200 like the all of last week kind of rewatching season two, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.920 which is actually so much juicier than I remember, even 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:55.320 though it is also often boring and I do, but 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.000 I I it is like so delicious and I was 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.560 like really excited to watch this episode by the time 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.719 it came out, but unfortunately I've been balancing a lot 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.400 of work and so I need to give it my 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:06.360 undivided attention. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.280 Yeah, you got a lot going on, and like I 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.920 don't necessarily want to do like a beat for beat 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.240 recap that's not really interesting, Like this episode is essentially 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.080 a big naval battle and people die. But there's a 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.360 couple things in the episode that really struck me that 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.080 I wanted to like tap in on. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.680 As like maybe maybe it would be helpful to like 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.600 like maybe as if we're not treating it as a recap, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:37.200 it's almost like we're kind of projecting themes we always 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.280 do predictions. I'm just describing this for virgins that either 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.000 do or do not watch House and Dragon to kind 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.040 of levels on like how we kind of approach certain 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.240 kinds of genre TV watching, which I think is like 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.120 it's fun to get a little reddity, I think is 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:52.800 what we like to do. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.760 Yeah, So, the the thing that stood out the most 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.800 for me in this episode, I loved the. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.440 Scene aside from the milf incest. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.520 Well, yeah, well that that's for different show. Oh well, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.760 oh my god that no, there's also milf insusts in 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.000 this episode. Oh my god. I was thinking about the 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.280 vampire and then but the mother's Son incest down both 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:20.120 of the TV shows I'm currently watching. Of course, Bayla. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.360 I really love the scenes with Bayla and Sheep Stealer 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.120 the Wild Dragon. But I think the thing that I 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:31.400 found the most stunning was Emma Darcy's acting as Raniera, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.600 so very pivotally, very pivotally. In this episode, there's this 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.600 naval battle going on. Reniera wants to hop on her 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.040 dragon go fly into the fray, and her son Jasas 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.760 is like absolutely not, has the King's guard lock her 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.120 in her room and flies off on his dragon, and 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.680 ultimately at the end of the episode spoiler alert is killed, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:59.360 and there's this scene of Raniera in her chambers realizing 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:05.680 what's happened, and she has changed into her writing letters 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.200 to write off to battle, and when she realizes she 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.200 can't go and what's happening, she takes the dress that 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.920 she has changed out of and puts it down on 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.040 the table and starts stabbing it and slashing it. And 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.640 it was such a powerful scene and it really, to 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.480 me is like not to be too woke, but this 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.920 is the reason why you cast someone with gender to 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.640 play a character with gender, because, as I said, as 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.040 we first started talking about House of the Dragon, this 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:40.520 entire show, this entire part of the Targerian dynasty, is 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.560 about the succession crisis that is driven by misogyny. Raniera 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:49.320 is a character who, had it not been for her womanhood, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.680 would be the rightful heir, and she is a victim 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.520 of this patriarchal misogyny. Emma Darcy is a non binary 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.440 actor and in that moment when they were stabbing that dress, 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.200 I could just I could just imagine what from their 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.199 own life they were pulling from and putting into that 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:15.840 and how effective that made it. And I know we 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.080 like to we like to make jokes about you known 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.600 cis non binary and cis people playing trans people and 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.400 blah blah blah, and actors are always like anyone should 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.199 be able to play anyone, and yes, that's true, but 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.520 I do think you when you cast an actor who 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:36.200 has this something extra in connection with the character, you're 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.360 going to get a little bit of extra special sauce. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.760 And that is that was really like such a such 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.560 a great example of that for me in an episode 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.040 that was like so overstuffed with these big, larger than 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.280 life moments. And then she like she has this line 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.840 of dialogue right after that where she says, and I 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.720 think this is supposed to I think this is a 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:03.000 quote that is maybe stolen from Queen Elizabeth where she says, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.760 I may have the weak and feeble body of a woman, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.520 but I have the spirit of a king, which some 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.600 people are like mad about because they're like, you shouldn't 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.040 call women weak and feeble. And it's like, babe, shut up. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.680 This was when jillion years ago, in a non existent 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:27.560 fantasy world with dravers with dragons idiots. I also, okay, whatever, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.240 I I yeah love Ranier a team Ranhier, even though 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.399 like she is kind of an establishment democrat who only 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.000 cares about poor people if they can get dragons for her. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.800 And I do think something that Emma Darcy has been 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.159 saying in interviews is that by the end of the 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.280 season they think that the audience is really going to 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.000 be challenged to keep supporting Rnier, like it's going to 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.919 be harder and harder to agree with the decisions she's making. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.639 And it feels like it's been that way like last season. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.840 It just it feels like turn turn and turn in turn. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:09.879 Like everyone the cards have almost never felt like they 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.040 were stacked in Renier's favor, and everyone is like doubtful 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.600 of her leadership. I feel like well. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.439 In world, in World, But I think Emma Darcy was 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.800 talking specifically about the audience and that way, and that 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.240 by the end of the season we may no longer 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.520 be on her side. Now interesting, I don't foresee a 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.280 reality in which that happens. I also I know what 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.080 happens in the in Fire and Blood, the text that 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.879 the show is based off of, so like I know 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.080 the rough details of how the rest of the war 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.399 plays out. But Raniera could do literally anything and I 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.200 would support her. And also there might be adaptational changes, 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.520 because in fact, there's a really big change in this 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.760 episode in how this final battle and j just Sarahs's 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:03.480 death plays out, which really kind of made the episode 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.640 more thrilling, even though it ultimately still ended the way 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.359 it does in the book. How It got there was 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.159 very different, and I really liked that change. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:20.080 I want to know how you're feeling about the I 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:27.520 guess what feels like unwieldy amounts of dragon fighting dragons 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:33.120 that are not as controllable or malleable as previous iterations 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.920 of the dragons. And then I also kind of want 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.000 to know about this snaky guy that I want to 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.040 know what your feelings are on this sneaky guy that's 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.640 kind of bringing a gone to deliverance, et cetera. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.679 Okay, first of all, he got hotter between seasons or 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:47.840 is it? 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.120 No? No, girl, he's not. He's not hot at all. 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.480 Okay, So on the on the wild Dragons of it all. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.760 So that so that is one of the biggest changes 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:06.000 the show show has made. The character Raina who claims 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.760 sheep stealer the wild Dragon. We see that at the 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:12.639 beginning of this episode in the in the book in 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.760 Fire and Blood, that is a completely separate character, and 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.200 a lot of people have been upset that they were 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.760 seemingly merging these characters into one. It is now confirmed 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.080 that happened. There is no Nettles, Raina is Nettles. But 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.880 what that led to in this episode, this big change 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:36.719 is that Raina and Sheep Stealer are in the book, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.560 are not present at the Battle of the Gullet. So 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:45.159 that whole sequence where Raina flies in and is ultimately 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:50.719 the reason that Jessis ends up getting killed because Bayla 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.959 and Moondancer have to come in and save him, that 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.720 none of that happens in the book. So that was 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:01.040 very thrilling, and it almost made me for a second think, Okay, 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:06.200 maybe is Jasarah's gonna survive, Maybe Baylow will die instead, 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.520 maybe Raina will die maybe, but no, we still ultimately 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:14.640 end up at the same place with Jace dead, but 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.560 there's now all of these different steaks, and I like that. 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.560 We're also complicating the idea of what a dragon rider 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.919 is because you know, in the last season we introduced 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.439 the dragon Seeds, who are these bastards with Targarian blood 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:32.000 who are now dragon riders, and so now we're seeing 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:38.080 the wild dragons and this. You know, Raina was raised 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:42.359 in these Targarian customs of these dragons with saddles, you know, 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:47.080 who follow Valerian commands, and that's what she's expecting when 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.520 she hops on this wild dragon. Who I saw someone 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.240 who said, like, damn, she wasn't in a saddle her. 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:54.080 I know, her pelvic floor was torn up. 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.240 Oh my god, I know That's what I was thinking about. Honestly, 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.639 I was like, that is like, you are raw dogging it. 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.080 But she's like, you know, screaming these commands at this dragon, 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.280 and this dragon's like, bitch, I don't know what you're saying. 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:12.120 I have no idea what you're saying. Oh, I mean, yeah, 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.359 it's it's. It was kind of like, to me, the 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.600 all of the New Dragon writers from last season and 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:22.000 now and now this season, to me, are the the 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.280 the kind of the most thrilling and compelling parts of 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:24.840 the show. 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:26.960 Not the mother son incest. 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:30.040 No, yeah, I mean the mother's incest. I like incest. 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.400 I'm so desensitized to you in this show by this 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.520 point that I was just kind of like, yeah, of 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:35.640 course he wants to. 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:39.040 Fuck her, okay, but I watch your reading. 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:41.679 Her pussy of course she's gonna use her pussy for 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:42.960 power once again. 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.439 Okay, here's I want your read on this, because I 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:52.119 actually thought in that scene, obviously Aimon t has mommy issues. 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.080 We saw him, uh. I think it was last season 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.520