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Any ideas on what's going on with Donald? Clone, robot, robot-clone?

Ironic this episode coming out so soon after South Park called out the laziness of multiverse stories. Hopefully that was a one-time thing and Angstrom / Brainiac will stick to using portals for travel. I'm curious what the card was that Olga gave Mark's mom.

Honestly, will no one ever learn? If you're passing something dodgy off to someone in a dark secluded location, and they ask you if you're the only one who knows about ____, lie. "Yes, I'm the only one, but if I don't report in to one of several different law firms scattered across the globe, with a passcode that only I know, they will release the information to the public in multiple countries".

I'm definitely enjoying this much better than The Boys S2 or S3. The acting is hit or miss, but the writing is much better, and there's not a lot of overt political commentary (besides the Men Are Bad, Women Are Good dichotomy. That was so obvious when they had female!Jordan lecturing male!Jordan). Plus any time I can see Jensen Ackles on the screen I'm happy. Didn't need to hear about him teaching a her to masturbate though. I realize it was actually Cate talking through his image but still, yuck.

Brink showed him the mock-up for a hafnium-carbide alloy suit. GB described it as "low 8 figures, easy. No one is gonna pay for this". So a durable suit was possible just too expensive for anyone to bother until he got a NYC to pay for it. .

Well that was an ending. No idea what it means though.

They are leaning a bit on the "women peaceful, men warmongers" angle again. Last week Alicent wanted to try the peaceful route; this week Rhaenys tells her husband that Rhaenyra is the only one keeping the men around her from going to war. At least until she turned around on that last shot and looked murderous. I thought it was odd that Aemond didn't intend to kill Luke, since I couldn't figure out what he WAS trying to do. "I drove my truck repeatedly at the guy on the bicycle, almost ran him off the road and into a lamppost several times, but I didn't mean actually to kill him".

Agreed. It also reminded me of Cercei blowing up the Sept of Baelor. There should be consequences in that the smallfolk of King's Landing would hate Rhaenys (and by extension, Rhaenyra). Maybe that will lead to the Shepard and the attack on the Dragon Pit, but based on the comments one of the show-runner types made in a magazine about civilians not mattering, I doubt they're that far sighted to set something up at least one season in advance. So I'm skeptical.

Wow, the "women are good and peaceful and men are horrible war mongerers" message was a little heavy handed. And WTF was with the White Worm's sudden social activism? They didn't set up the child pit fighting until like 3 minutes earlier in the episode, and she's a master spy but also a social worker. Weird. Loved Alicent throughout the show. The actress is so good.

Later Helaena asks where Dyana is, so I assumed the "tea" was poison and Dyana is sleeping with the fishes. Speaking of Helaena: "Beware the beast below the floor". Sounds like another "he'll have to close an eye" prophecy.

Maybe it's just the wig and the prominent chin, but Aemon looks remarkably like his uncle Daemon. He has a good Matt Smith-esque smirk too. Having Alicent decide to push for Aegon based on a misunderstanding is pretty contrived. She might have started to reconcile a little with Rhaenyra, but there are plenty of reasons (namely Otto and Ser Criston) that would push her that way anyway. There was no need for this Three's Company mistaken plotline.

Bit slow, and I admit to fast-forwarding through the Daemond / Rhaenyra sex scene. Viserys proclaiming that anyone questioning the boys' parentage should lose their tongue was setup for a payoff next week I assume? Loved Alicent's "oh crap oh crap" reaction every time Larys was looking her direction or spoke to her. She knew just how dangerous he was. I also loved Vhaegar giving Aemon a "go away, kid, you're bothering me" look then going back to sleep.

I caught that too! Said so matter-of-factly. I did wonder if her previous statement about the millipede had a hidden meaning - "the last segment has no legs at all". It was probably just more "hey, Helaena is a little odd" dialog. Regarding Aegon's exhibitionism out the window Tommen later dives from, was that a subtle nod to the fact that there's a video on the interwebs of Tommen's actor (Dean Charles Chapman) and his cousin jerking off for a webcam audience?

Durin to Elrond: "Give me the meat, and give it to me raw". Amazon is taking dialog from porns now.

Clunky dialog alert: "What color is the Hightower when they call their banners to war?" "Green!" As You Know exposition at its best.