Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.10 – “The Black Queen”.
We discuss the use and abuse of theme, why this show is best interpreted as a family drama, and we get into some pretty heavy cereal talk…you don’t want to miss the end of this episode 🙂
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.09 – “The Green Council”.
We discuss why for characters to be believable, they must do everything in their power to achieve their wants, why Alicent is still in service to men, and why Ser Harold Westerling is a good boss because he always gets the Starbys for his crew…
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.08 – “The Lord of The Tides”.
We discuss why the characters are finally starting to feel true to the story, the irony in King Viserys’ final night, and why the dragon keepers need to invest in Shout sticks…
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.07 – “Driftmark”.
We discuss the validity of the show holding the twist from you, why the night scenes look so…odd, and why Mary always gets her christmas shopping done BEFORE Halloween(!)…
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.06 – “The Princess And The Queen”.
We discuss the effectiveness of the time jump, how two characters go from 0 – 100 real quick, and why Viserys totally has dragon stick figures on the back of his carriage…
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.05 – “We Light The Way”.
We discuss the need-for and burden-of chaos, rat imagery, and why Mary has put on a green dress and called her banner men to arms!
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.04 – “King Of The Narrow Sea”.
We discuss why we can start to a person to root for, using characterization to define sex and not the other way around, and why Mary REALLY regrets giving her dad a segment on this show…
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Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.03 – “Second Of His Name”.
We discuss the the theme of legacy for Daemon and Viserys, why the visual language of the open was vintage GOT, and who we think is the Lady Whistledown of the Targaryen court…
We discuss the “big breath in”, why Aethelhelm is right (from a certain point of view), and why Finan is totally a Gilmore Girls fan…
Mary & Blake discuss House Of The Dragon, episode 1.02 – “The Rogue Prince”.
In this episode, why we think there are such low stakes right now, how the kingdom has suffered because of “the order of things” and why Ser Cristan Cole is Pearl Jam guy — but only the early stuff…
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Mary & Blake discuss the series premiere of House Of The Dragon, episode 1.01 – “Heirs Of The Dragon”.
In this episode, we chat the argument between prologues or being thrown into a show, why the show invites comparison to Game Of Thrones through visual language and writing itself, why NOT having archetypes can sometimes be a bad thing, and why were are soooooo frakking happy to be back in Westeros…
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