and what ryan condal and miguel sapochnik, the showrunners for "house of the dragon" have done, is madee from the outset to sort of rework the perspective that the audience is getting here and make a sort of correction to the history that was put forth in "fire and blood." and they did it all from a very female-centric perspective. and so i think bringing in female directors and female writers and story consultants from the get-go really helped shape the story in a way that we're seeing the effects of and how people are responding to these female characters. geoff: well, tell me more about that. i mean, how is how has that been apparent in both the way that the characters are written and the ways in which the storylines unfold? kim: yeah. for one, we're now almost finished with the first season, and even before the season began, miguel sapochnik and ryan condal both sort of let everybody know, hey, we aren't going to show any examples of sexual violence on screen for this serie they felt it was important to address the way that women are stripped of agency or controlled through patriarc