Episodes
Thursday Jun 14, 2012
Season Two Episode 10: Valar Morghulis
Thursday Jun 14, 2012
Thursday Jun 14, 2012
Season Two of Game of Thrones comes to a close, tying up lots of loose ends. Tyrion awakes to find he is no longer Hand of the King, but at least he still has his nose. Joffrey finds a new fiance in Margery Tyrell, but Sansa's elation is short-lived. Theon laments the foolhardy path he has taken, but then tries to embrace it with a rousing speech to his followers. They are unimpressed. Jon kills Qhorin Half-hand to prove to Rattleshirt that he wants to join the wildlings. Daenyrys enters the House of the Undying to rescue her dragons, but has an unexpected vision of her Sun and Stars and son. The men of the Nights Watch hear three blasts of the warning horn for the first time in 1,000 years, and Sam gets a good close look at a wrinkly white walker on a rotting horse. The army of wights surround the Fist of the First Men in an awesome supernatural cliffhanger.
Thursday May 31, 2012
Season Two Episode 09: Blackwater
Thursday May 31, 2012
Thursday May 31, 2012
The entire season has been building up to the siege of King's Landing and it did not disappoint. We were not treated to the spectacle of knights clashing in broad daylight across a burning broken bridge of boats, but we were treated to one hell of a CG explosion that blows Davos into the Blackwater. Cersei gets drunk and morose and almost discovers who Shae is, then almost poisons poor little Tommen. Stannis is the first up the siege ladders, sans helmet. Tyrion rallies the troops and leads them out after the Hound gets spooked by everything burning, and Joffrey wimps out. Lord Tywin's host arrives in time to save the city from Stannis, with Ser Loras apparently leading the vanguard.
Friday May 25, 2012
Season Two Episode 08: The Prince of Winterfell
Friday May 25, 2012
Friday May 25, 2012
Lord Tywin decides it's time to leave Harrenhall, and Arya doesn't have time to tell Jaquen he's her third name. So instead she correctly guesses that Jaquen would rather help her escape with her friends than kill himself. Robb Stark finds out his mother set the Kingslayer free, and winds up in the arms of his field surgeon girlfriend. Tyrion frets about the impending siege of King's Landing, and about Shae's safety after Cersei tortures Roz, mistaking her for Tyrion's true mistress. Quoren Halfhand tells Jon he should pretend to 'go native' with the wildlings, and shoves him down a slope before he can object.
Thursday May 17, 2012
Season Two Episode 07: A Man Without Honor
Thursday May 17, 2012
Thursday May 17, 2012
Theon goes hunting for Rickon and Bran, and comes back with two extra crispy child corpses. The Kingslayer kills his cousin and Lord Karstark's son to escape his pen, briefly. When re-captured Karstark wants his head, and with Robb off visiting the Crag with his field surgeon girlfriend, Catelyn is afraid she may lose their hostage. Daenerys discover she's been hoodwinked by Xaro and Pyat Pree, who stage a coup of Qarth. Tyrion frets over the imminent siege of King's Landing by Stannis. Sansa becomes a woman grown. Cersei laments that her incest led to Joffrey's bad behavior.
Thursday May 10, 2012
Season Two Episode 06: The Old Gods and the New
Thursday May 10, 2012
Thursday May 10, 2012
Bran's dream of drowned men in the courtyard of Winterfell comes true. Osha sleeps with Theon and kills one of his men, to help the Stark boys escape with their direwolves. A starving mob assaults King Joffrey's entourage in the streets of King's Landing. Catelyn catches Rob flirting with... not Jayne Westerling. Jon Snow is unable to kill Ygritte, the wildling girl he captures, and ends up spooning with. Danerys is unable to convince anyone in Qarth to fund her invasion of Westeros, meanwhile someone makes off with her dragons!
Thursday May 03, 2012
Season Two Episode 05: The Ghost of Harrenhall
Thursday May 03, 2012
Thursday May 03, 2012
Things move along quickly in this episode. Lots of story from A Storm of Swords is consolidated in interesting, and not always satisfying ways. The Shadow baby strikes, and it changes everything. We get our first glimpse of life for Arya at Harrenhall, and death for the Tickler at Harrenhall. We see Theon struggling to prove himself as Captain to his ironborn crew. We see Tyrion expertly scheming... and plotting. Daenerys meets the people of Qarth and discovers Ser Jorah's got the hots for her.
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Season Two Episode 04: Garden of Bones
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Shadow Baby in the house! Melisandre gives Stannis a son and gives Davos the creeps. Rob chats up a field surgeon as she hacks off her patient's foot. Lord Tywin saves Gendry from a fatal case of rat bucket. Littlefinger strolls around Renly's camp, pissing people off. Arya adds a mantra to her bedtime ritual, and much much more. This episode covers a lot of ground, and Chuck, Craig, Phil and Mike are here to offer pseudo-expert analysis.
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Season Two Episode 03: What Is Dead May Never Die
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
This week Chuck and Mike (shirts) face off against Craig and Phil (skins) as they break down the latest Episode of Game of Thrones. Brienne of Tarth gets a cool introduction as a new character this week. Theon makes a major decision, Tyrion makes a shrewd move, and Arya and Yoren share a nice moment before Yoren is gutted by Sir Amory Lorch. We discuss it all, but mostly Chuck goes on and on about how much he hates Shae.
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Season Two Episode 02: The Night Lands
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Lots of new characters introduced this week, and Pike is added to Opening Credit sequence. We meet Sallador San, Lommy, Hot Pie, Jaquen Haqar, Biter, Rorge, Balon Greyjoy and his daughter Asha... I mean Yara. There's some good intrigue at Craster's Keep and at King's Landing. We learn more about Davos and Melisandre and Arya and Gendry become friends. We let Phil give his unspoiled impressions of the action and then we pick things apart in comparison to the books.
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Season Two Episode 01: The North Remembers
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
We are back into the swing of things with a new podcasting crew and a new season of Game of Thrones on HBO. The action picks up right where it left off. We ruminate on lots of changes and variations on the way things are portrayed in A Clash of Kings in a thoroughly entertaining and spoiler-free manner.