Hands on HotD: Episode 9 - The Green Council - feat. Kristine Kippins

In this ninth edition of Hands on HotD, Merry and Clint and Special Guest Hand Kristine Kippins cover Season 1 Episode 9 of HBO's niche arthouse property HOUSE OF THE DRAGON - The Green Council

In this episode we:Evaluate the good, the bad, and the suboptimal strategies and events of the Green Coup.Track Alicent Hightower's emotional journey from mourning to stressing to plotting and back to stressing SO HARD again.Celebrate Mysaria, the White Worm, for quoting not-necessarily marxist theory and listening to the Learned Hands Podcast.Pay respects to Lord Lymon Beesbury, He Tried :( .Critique Aemond Targaryen's historically and philosophically inaccurate interpretation of the line of succession.Check in with our EXCLUSIVE WBA Dragon correspondent Sanrixian on the extent of the damage to the Dragonpit. Enjoy Aegon's Wost/Best Hangover ever, where he gains absolute power, gets yelled at by a dragon, and his mom refuses to say she loves him.Appreciate Rhaenys' various girlboss power plays, from her dressing down of Alicent, to her casual war crimes, to her decision not to burninate the greens to embers.Seriously and solemnly evaluate Larys Strong's pornhub search history, and also what it says about Society. Supplemental reading:Learned Hands Officially Legally Correct (kind of) Line of SuccessionOur Dance Party Episode on the Greens CoupSanrixian on PatreonOutro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY. 

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