Game of Thrones Episode 4: The Spoils of War
“I had forgotten what a small and noisy people they are…I would bring them dragons, and they shout out for grapes.” “Grapes are real. A Continue Reading
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Game of Thrones Season 7: The Queen’s Justice
And now the rains weep over his hall, without a soul to hear. “Rains of Castamere” is best known as the Lannister anthem, but it’s Continue Reading
Game of Thrones Season 7: Stormborn
It’s been said by many characters, in many words, all the way back to Robert Baratheon in the second episode of Game of Thrones. “There’s a Continue Reading
Game of Thrones Season 7: Dragonstone
Fitting a show with the finish line in sight, the season premiere of Game of Thrones was pervaded with melancholy. From siblings remembering their dead Continue Reading
Episode 91 – Game of Tropes
Sorry for our delay in posting the podcast – we continue to discuss and dissect the latest episodes in Game of Thrones. We have MANY Continue Reading
That Seems Really Unlike You
That Seems Really Unlike You: AKA – The way Unbowed Unbent Unbroken SHOULD have happened Like many people watching Game of Thrones, I am less Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Children
This season began with Tywin Lannister, at the height of his powers, melting down the family sword of his enemy. It was easy to imagine, Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Watchers On the Wall
The final moments of last week’s Game of Thrones were as bleak and nihilistic as they get, reminding us in no uncertain terms that Westeros Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – Mockingbird
There’s a sense of unpredictability hanging over Game of Thrones this season, or an instability underlying the structures of Westeros and the people propping them Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Laws of Gods and Men
Game of Thrones, like the books that inspired it, is a series about power and all its trappings. From the get-go, as Eddard Stark spiralled Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – First of His Name
I don’t speak German, so maybe someone who does can enlighten me – is there an enormous compound word for that feeling when a deeply Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – Oathkeeper
Well, it’s finally happened. An episode of Game of Thrones to make ASOIAF readers go “Holy shit, what?” the same way their Unsullied* fellows have been Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: Breaker of Chains
There was about an hour of Game of Thrones on Sunday night, and much of it probably deserves discussion. Tywin Lannister’s history lesson, the sudden Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: The Lion and the Rose
It’s not uncommon, when you’re talking about A Song of Ice and Fire or its small-screen sister Game of Thrones, to hear some variation on Continue Reading
Episode 34 – An Icy Game of Fiery Throne Songs
This week Megan, Nick, and Reuben get together to discuss the upcoming season of Game of Thrones over on HBO. In the process, they can’t Continue Reading
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Book Review Roundup
Daylight Savings has ended, which means that Seattle can stop pretending to give us clement weather and get on with the natural cold grey dark. Continue Reading
Game of Thrones, and Getting On Board With Tie-Ins in Games
The first time I attempted Fantasy Flight’s table top Game of Thrones game, there was something of a hurdle. Every player – every potential player – at Continue Reading
I Knew GRRM When He Used To Rock’n’Roll: The Armageddon Rag
Most Song of Ice and Fire fans know by now that George R.R. Martin had a long and fruitful career before he ever turned the Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: Mhysa
There’s one real issue with Game of Thrones’s habit of making Episode 9 of each season a powerful, high-budget shocker – they have to follow Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere
I read A Storm of Swords about nine years ago, in a public library, because I had to start reading immediately, to find out what Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: Second Sons
On the surface, “Second Sons” wasn’t that much different from the last couple weeks of Game of Thrones: lots of set-up, checking around the world, Continue Reading
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