‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 5 Reactions | Talk the Thrones

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Hello, and welcome to Talk the Thrones. I'm Chris Ryan. I'm joined as always by Joanna Robinson and a Daeron Tergaryen coin collector. It's Mallory Rubin.

**Joanna Robinson** (1:46)
She would, she would.

**Chris Ryan** (1:47)
We are here to break down the fifth episode of the third season of House of the Dragon right after this.
You can check out Mal and Jo going deep on this episode on House of R on Tuesday. Andy and I will casually and superficially chat about it on Monday on The Watch. We're gonna get into this episode with the recap.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:24)
I'm excited.

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Right after this.

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Feeling any unusual pressure today after Joanna's 10 out of 10 no-notes performance?

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This has been a time of the wringer where people are trying out for other people's gigs and it's really exciting, you know?

**Mallory Rubin** (4:02)
Yeah, even sitting in the BS chair.

**Chris Ryan** (4:05)
It's just like, so we'll see how everything shakes out and then I'll answer your question.
No, you were amazing. All the CR cosplay was very, very touching. Look, this episode felt a little bit more like jumping into a Ken Burns documentary midway through for me, and then telling myself that I would pick things up on the fly. We've got the Black Alliance Starks trying to forage a river to get to Tumulton. What river?

**Joanna Robinson** (4:31)
Blackwater Rush.

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Wouldn't you like to know? Yeah, I was going to say that.
The problem is, Criston Cole's band of raiders with Born to Lose tattoos are doing the guerrilla warfare thing up and down the countryside. In Harrenhal, various groups of men keep showing up looking for Aemond, and Alys Rivers keeps telling them, Aemond who? And then they don't leave. She lets the castle walls do the talking. Also haunted, Aemond, who is in some room somewhere in Harrenhal, having bad dreams that he knows or memories, while Alys gives him the old, If I inflict the pain, baby, only I can comfort you, which is the first time the Afghan wigs have been referenced on our podcast. Back at King's Landing, it's time for, in the words of Jonah Hillen knocked up, another shmoshmorshin on this show, Dr. Orwyle with the plan B, this time for Halaena who is with child at absolutely the wrong moment. But Halaena is listening to Papa Don't Preach in her room, and she's keeping the baby. What I didn't expect was for Messaria to be creeping on the situation, catching Alysant with the potion almost on her person, leaving Aly no choice but to down the elixir herself. Mother knows best.