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Welcome to the Game of Thrones podcast, the officially unofficial podcast for Game of Thrones

on HBO on Jan. And today we're talking about season two episode two of the Nightlands. I would

guess this title was one word. I keep thinking of it as one word in my head. It's two words,

the nightlands. Where does it land? Somewhere at night. Yeah. It would mix any damn sense if it did,

if it if it if it if the nightland shows up. The nightland lands in high noon. This is like a wood

chuck could chuck situation. And this is not a Bojack horseman season four podcast. So so we'll

move past that. Are you asking me what I thought of it? I am. Indirectly. Very, very indirectly.

I it's it's good. It's good. It's not like you know a super impressive episode. It's not like

a statement episode. Okay. Yeah. That's what I meant. Like it's not. But but it continues to develop

the political intrigue. If Tyrion trying to clean up his sister and his his his family's mess

and King's landing. And also you know as much as we like Tyrion and think he's clever we see that

there's other clever people that are danger to him. And we continue to see John pierced the intrigue

up at Crastorskeep and get him into some moral quandaries. So and then theon. Whoa. Theon the

theon is a is a very unqualified emissary and his father and sister play him like a god damn fiddle.

Yeah. And he goes in thinking one thing and comes out and finds out it's the other. And I'm sure

tragedy tragedy is going to ensue. What do you think? I really like this episode. To me this is

one of like this is the defining tone I think of early Game of Thrones for me. There are so many

scenes in this episode of people with incredibly clever dialogue. Yeah. You know thinly veiled threats.

The best dialogue by the way is. Yeah. That's pretty good. I mean it took it took it's like

word Smith rivaling William Shakespeare to come up. But yes, do you know like the scenes between

like Tyrion and Cersei the scenes with a little finger and Ross the scene with Davos and

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