Julia, Kylie, and Caroline celebrate the royal wedding by squeeing through their entire discussion of episode 5 of House of the Dragon, “We Light the Way.”
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The intro & outro saltarello is performed by Stary Olsa from their album “Liepšaje (The Best)”, which is available for purchase on Bandcamp.
Episode Breakdown:
- 0:00 – Intro & episode recap
- 7:00 – UBS corrections
- 8:45 – Lady Rhea
- 17:50 – Alicent’s fun day
- 25:00 – A proposal is proposed at Driftmark
- 38:00 – Julia’s Criston Cole headcanons
- 51:15 – Royal wedding time
- 1:13:00 – Julia pulls out her Kobo again
- 1:24:30 – The short, short version
- 1:32:10 – Highlights & lowlights
Related Links
- All UBS Podcast episodes
- Parody Project: Burning Love
- House of the Dragon Is Winning This Thrones Hater Over (spoilers through 1×04)
- House of the Dragon is Actually a Compelling Story about Westeros (spoilers through 1×05)
- The Tragic Dance of Power and Patriarchy (spoilers for HOTD)
- Game of Thrones retrospective series
- GoT Season 8 articles
- ‘The Wars to Come’ GoT Rewatch Project
- A Song of Pins and Needles (Caroline’s wardrobe analysis)
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