Chris Ryan

Okay.

Can I talk about this for a second?

Right?

Yeah.

So they come in, the banners are flying.

Both you and I and George R. R. Martin are very happy that there are feet on the sigil, et cetera, et cetera.

Can't you see the banners, you giant cunt, is a great line.

Okay, but think about this.

Like, they come in, trumpets, banners, pomp and circumstance, Arian Targaryen being as imperious as he can possibly be.

How sad is this compared to...

any dragon let alone Caraxes landing when Daemon shows up somewhere like previously you're not asking who it is then when the Targaryens showed up they showed up on giant flying beasts and you were like oh shit Caraxes is here oh no Vhagar's here

We had to park Vhagar over in the forest because we can't even fit him on the tourney ground.

And those Targaryens are not coming to this goddamn tourney because it's way, way, way beneath them.

Sure.

You know, but just, like, seeing those banners fly is just, like, such a sad, like... Yeah.

visual echo representation of what they used to be, which was, you know, these mythic people, mythic god-like people showing up on these winged beasts.

And now they're like, we've got banners.

They've still got dragons on them.

It's a great show.

One of our listeners in the comments for Talk the Throne said Targaryen's in their flop era, which I just really love.