Dark Wings, Dork Words

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!

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.

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.

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.

This is the first episode of our Horror discussion trilogy, recorded prior to the airing of Game of Thrones Season 2.  Chuck, Eric and Molly are joined by special guest the Reverend Podfather, co-host of The Necronomicast.  We talk about why we like horror, what makes a good horror story, our earliest horror memories and our favorite horror movies.

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.

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.

We wrap up our masterpiece in three acts with the focus being Sci-Fi on television.  Stick around until the end and you'll be treated with a special featurette on Battlestar Galactica.

Our discussion of all things Science Fiction continues, featuring Molly's bonus 18-minute Sci-Fi Music Mixtape!

Dark Wings, Dork Words are proud to present our first Bonus item: Melisandre!  A song for all 'A Song of Ice & Fire' fans.  Please enjoy this musical tribute to our favorite Red Priestess.  just imagine the jewel at her throat pulsing as you listen to Eric Salonis' parody of 'Les Poissons' from Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'.