The show treats the Dothraki as wiped out, then puts them back in later battles with no explanation.
1. THE POP CULTURE PUB PODCAST episode "They Kinda Forgot...." is a solo Chris Lockhart episode about continuity mistakes in Game of Thrones, Star Trek, and Voyager.
2. Chris Lockhart hosts alone because Kevin Deason and the other regulars cannot join, and he says "real life stuff came up" after he also missed the prior week.
3. The episode asks what happens when writers "forgot some important information" and uses that idea to compare later seasons of Game of Thrones with several Star Trek stories.
4. Chris says Game of Thrones seasons 1 through 4 were "pretty fantastic," but season 5 started "going off the rails" and season 7 and season 8 rushed the ending.
5. He names Jaime and Bronn in the Dorne storyline, the High Sparrow, Cersei, the Battle of the Bastards, and the Sept explosion as specific examples from season 5 and season 6.
6. He says George R.R. Martin reportedly said the story would need 10 episodes per season and 13 seasons to be told properly.
7. Chris argues that D.B. Weiss and David Benioff should have handed the show to new showrunners instead of rushing the ending after their Star Wars plans fell apart.
8. He singles out Daenerys Targaryen "kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet" and says the later scorpion scenes make the fleet and the dragons feel inconsistently written.
9. He also says Samwell Tarly surviving The Long Night "is a crime against writing," because Sam is not a warrior and was swarmed by the dead on screen.
10. Chris says the Dothraki were effectively wiped out in The Long Night, then later reappear in full force near King's Landing without explanation.
11. He argues that Game of Thrones once cared about numbers, travel, and strategy, but later seasons ignored those rules and made forces appear to teleport.
12. He compares Jaime's journey from Winterfell to King's Landing with King Robert's month-long trip in episode one, saying Jaime could not plausibly make the same route in a day or two.
13. On Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Chris calls the Dominion an "anti-Federation" made up of the Founders, the Vorta, and the Jem'Hadar.
14. He points to the season two finale destruction of the USS Odyssey and the Bajoran colony New Bajor in the Gamma Quadrant, then notes that neither gets mentioned again.
15. He says TNG's Galaxy-class ships still make little sense to him as family homes, because he thinks children would be unsafe on vessels that encounter battles, strange life forms, and emergencies.
16. He uses the TNG season seven de-evolution episode to ask where the children were when the crew turned into ape, fish, spider, and Klingon-like forms.
17. Chris says the episode mixes serious continuity complaints with side tangents, including jokes about Jonathan Frakes kissing multiple Star Trek women and a discussion of Riker's beard.
18. The delivery is conversational, improvisational, and full of tangents, with frequent self-corrections, parenthetical asides, and repeated "you know" phrases.
19. Listeners who like Game of Thrones continuity debates and Star Trek lore.
20. Listeners wanting tight editing, fast pacing, or spoiler-free analysis.
