522: ASoS Jaime IX (repost)

Spoilers, profanity, Jaime x Brienne. Ser Duncan the Tall and his mysterious hairless squire "Egg" start their adventures in episode 1 of the first season of HBO's latest foray into Westeros. We love the casting, we love the tone, and we love the little digs at Game of Thrones. I ...  Show more

Spoilers, profanity. Welcome to the house of Hopium, our words are: it's only six episodes! Are they trying to get into the Emmys comedy category with the half-hour episodes? If so, we approve. Clotho makes the mistake of reading Reddit complaints. Does George always fall out of ...  Show more

Jaime reminds The Kingsguard who’s in charge and Petyr Baelish gets showy with his mastery of The Game of Thrones in Jaime VIII (Hardback page 750/Paperback page 912) in George R.R. Martin’s “A Storm of Swords”. Ivan and Red discuss Ravens from the Bannermen, books vs toilet pape ...  Show more

In the new (and newly titled!) Dragons on the Wall, we discuss all of the big events this week, including Cersei's power struggle and Arya's training. We aldo chat about Jon Snow's choice vs. Dany's the week before, plus what we think about a notable change for Sansa from the boo ...  Show more

Ivan and Red cover Daenerys, Arya, and Bran (702-740). They talk about Jorah's poor fashion sense, Arya going Oliver Twist, Bran noting people don't fight very well, Bran suggesting a two man Power Ranger-like assemblage of himself and Hodor, and The Kings of Winter. Next week we ...  Show more

Ivan & Red march toward Neds end, covering pages 618-664. We discuss the Steve Jobs of Westeros, Horror & Slobber, Thoros of Myr, Carl Vance, mispronouncing "sigil", the Kingsguard becoming ornamental, faces exploding into moths and more. We also mention the Tales of Dunk and Egg ...  Show more