Jan 20, 2011
Episode 35: Blackwoody Returns
Episode 35 for the week of January 17th, in which we review chapters 58 and 59 of A Game of Thrones, consider the new HBO tie-in cover art, and showcase Chase and Kyle’s epic voice acting talent (watch out, Roy Dotrice). Christina is our guest host for this episode, raising our sexy lady quota to new heights. And as the title suggests, there is so much more Blackwoody this time.
24 Comments, Comment or Ping
Zeyik
great something to listen to while shoveling snow…
Jan 20th, 2011
Tom
If Varys hates magic so much, why does he want Dany to rule? She’s easily the most magical character among the royal possibilities.
Jan 20th, 2011
Kyle
Exactly the argument I was trying to bring up.
Jan 20th, 2011
Zeyik
I think Varys is more in league with the Citadel. Bring back dragons to destroy the others(magic). According to Marwin the citadel was the ones who killed off the dragons before. They could easily do so again. At the heart of Varys, he wants revenge and to remove any trace of magic from the world. At least that’s my opinion.
P.S. Chase owned this episode.
Jan 21st, 2011
Lauren
After listening to this and realizing that we know pretty much dick about Varys other than what he says and believing him is trusting a liar, I’m wondering if his story is appropriated from someone else’s experience. Or what if it was true to a point, and whatever vision he saw convinced him that magic needed to be brought back? Or if it’s true, and he hates the crap magic that they’re doing in the Free Cities to convince themselves that it’s not all gone and that real magic needs to be brought back so that they can shut the fuck up?
Basically I’m more confused than ever and I think it’s time for me to do a reread.
Jan 24th, 2011
Sam
HAHAH, oh man, you guys need to do the reenactment of the chapter every week (preferably ones with the Hound so I can hear Chase do that voice again)
Great episode! glad you guys are back
Jan 20th, 2011
Chase
I’d just like to point out that there was a heated debate over what to name this episode. Some suggestions were considered too low even for us.
Jan 20th, 2011
mimi
i would like to point out that most of those suggestions were yours.
Jan 20th, 2011
Kyle
I would never suggest a low brow title.
Jan 20th, 2011
Ashley
believe it or not but i basically amped chase’s voice as often as a could…. 🙁
Jan 20th, 2011
Chase
It’s better than the Too Loud that I am when I record.
Jan 21st, 2011
missmollygrue
That was fucking amazing.
Jan 21st, 2011
Katie
I have the same paranoia about Oprah stickers. Like suddenly I’m the housewife who rushed out to buy Pillars of the Earth because the giant O promised to blow me if I did.
I seriously doubt Varys had Barristan deposed on the big what-if of him going after Dany. The Spider’s good, but even that’s a fucking big assumption.
I’m with Chase–Jaime was awesome the moment he launched Bran out the window. Then again any mindless brutality against the Starks and their ilk instantly wins a gold star in my book.
Darth Sandor had me rolling. More performances!
Jan 21st, 2011
Tom
Littlefinger talks about leading a horse to water in reference to hiring the dwarf jousters at Joff’s wedding.Why do we think he had anything to do with Ned’s beheading?
Jan 22nd, 2011
Tom
Amin said that Barristan won his first tourney at 10. He did not. He entered one and lost, but earned the nickname “the bold” for the gravitas.
Jan 22nd, 2011
Chase
Amin is probably going to delete this comment because it shows that he was wrong about something!
Jan 22nd, 2011
JAZ
This episode was great. Glad the hiatus is over!
Jan 24th, 2011
Surya
That was a great episode. The reenactment was definitely the highlight with Sandor being awesomely badass and Joff being perfectly whiny. MOAR PLOX! (Also Chase’s Sandor was more Dark Knight Batman imo).
Also Kyle and Christina combined to make the single best Manwoody joke yet. That was just brilliant.
And I agree Mimi, that was a hard chapter to reread. I found Game of Thrones, particularly the Ned scenes, a lot harder to reread bcuz you know all the shitty stuff that will happen. I started my reread at the time you guys started it and my bookmark has been before the Arya chapter where Ned gets beheaded for over a year now…
Jan 25th, 2011
mimi
haha, when i was listening to the voice acting, i kept thinking “WHAT’S CHRISTIAN BALE DOING ON THIS EPISODE?!”
Jan 25th, 2011
Surya
And just because I am apparently that impressionable, I had dreams about Sandor as Hound-man. He would dress up in his Hound costume and be an awesome dark vigilante. His arch-enemy would be zombie Gregor but they would unite together against the Alchemist (or some other guy with fire bombs) due to their mutual fear of fire.
I guess you could have the classic superhero rescuing the ‘girl’ (Sansa) from the arch-villain but I don’t think anyone would last very long after being kidnapped by Gregor… I am a nerd…
Jan 27th, 2011
andromache
Entertaining episode.
Was that a Mongol reference re; who should’ve played Drogo or am I on crack?
Jan 26th, 2011
mimi
nah, i’m constantly asserting that tadanobu asano is my dream drogo. als my dream everything. but he did a killer job in mongol, especially.
Jan 26th, 2011
Huttburt
Definately more literal re-reads in the future! Great episode.
Jan 27th, 2011
Tom 162
I’m enjoying the journey through the back issues! Is it still useful to comment on a episode 7 months later? Let’s see.
I have a different view of Ned’s decision to ‘confess’. Instead of calling it a late realisation that family should sometimes come before honour, I see it as his final blunder. He seems to forget Cersei’s punitive spite, from when she insisted on having Lady killed in place of Nymeria. If he really thought through the opportunity of ‘confessing’ and taking the black, he’d see that it’d leave him free to spread the story of the twincest from the relative safety of the wall, and he wouldn’t seriously believe that Cersei would let that happen. He’d have been wiser to say very little at all. Everyone who saw his alleged treason also saw his paper shield get torn up, right? So he could just plead that he was following Robert’s orders, and that those orders got destroyed, and not by him..
He’s already seen that if you appease Cersei’s spite, she’s got plenty more spite to replace it. So, by playing (or *being*) the simple follower of orders, at least he doesn’t publicly endorse her assassination of his character.
Aug 17th, 2011
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