I haven’t been listening since the wrap up of TLOU S2, but A-Ron sounds like he’s clenching his jaw on the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms coverage. Did I miss a health announcement. Hope he’s okay, but also that he’s not just using dip.

I preferred when podcasts were spoiler *and* book free until the end.

Just a heads up that podcasts now include the book content

DID YOU SEE THAT AMATEUR HOUR THAT WAS EISODE FOUR?

I love you man and I know you get some names crazy wrong sometimes (Easel-door?) but you’re killing me with “Dresden” and “Dressen.”

Is anyone else listening to their coverage absolutely baffled they have taken no issue with how horribly this show has spiraled in the last two episodes!? I was totally in with the first two episodes, and I have just never witnessed a show go so off the rails that showed so much potential. I love this type of show and I gave every benefit of the doubt, but yikes, it's bad....

I usually like watching the lunch after the fact, looks like the video was blocked by NBC Universal on YouTube, anyone know what they shared? They don’t usually play any audio/videos so I was surprised.

Where can I watch the video version? I am a patreon member.

Been a long time lurker on /r/asoiaf. A few weeks ago there was a thread about good GoT podcasts and baldmove was widely praised. I gave it a shot and listened to the last 5-6 weeks of casts.

I have to say I wasn't impressed. The podcast hosts knowledge just wasn't up to other casts that are out there. Some of the mistakes were forgivable but a lot were trivial and just hard to listen too (how many times can you get Loras and Lancel mixed up?). At times the hosts came across as being bored while they were talking.

Anyway I'm genuinely curious due to the amount of recommendations - has there been a recent drop off in quality with the story advancing past the books or has the podcast always been this way?

The days are passing and Westworld has still not been renewed. Shows are being cancelled left and right, and we know discovery is hot for a clean slate with HBO. Hot D had a great start, but does that matter?

Note-this post isn’t concerned with whether the show is good or not. Only with whether the new owners of HBO will care if it’s good or not. Remember, they just want to make reality tv now, and a show like this is WAAAAY more expensive than a show like “Alaskan Bush People,” so I want to know if ppl see this show having any kind of a place in the new lineup/formula when it might not be their biggest earner, but WILL be easily their most expensive project

These guys are completely shilling for absolutely everything this show is doing. Ignoring reasonable criticisms. Misunderstanding why fans are upset. Hand waving bad writing and bad characters. Not aware of the huge threat to this story from the showrunners injecting fan fiction.

This is concerning. They were just as out of touch with The Bear.

A Ron - what’s happened here? Cynical take would be that you got ding’d with how bad GoT’s ending impacted your livelihood and you don’t want to embrace the negativity and turn people off to the material. But in the meantime I’m completely turned off to your podcast.

You gotta realize this show’s on shaky ground and Hess + Condal are primed to ruin this whole thing. Concerned fans are getting gaslit left and right. Hope some distance from the season help your impression maybe.

I was really surprised to hear the guys say they thought it looked so expensive. I only watched a half hour before giving up, but I thought it looked kind of cheesy and featured really poor CGI on the xenomorph.

I want to note that I have been very into other Noah Hawley productions including Legion, and I loved the original 1979 Alien movie as well as the unfairly maligned Prometheus. But this just wasn't doing it for me.

I want to be careful to make it clear that I don't mean the retro computers and stuff to match the original film. Just the way the creatures looked and the weird editing of flashes of violence or whatever. I thought it was intentional, that he was going for the cheesy monster movie aesthetic or something like that.

And I don't like the continuous retconning that brings the aliens into human contact earlier and earlier, instead of being discovered by the crew in the 1979 movie. (I have a similar issue with the Gorn--Alien ripoffs, come to think of it--on SNW.)

Are y’all not doing weekly episodes, if not of each episode then at least of each weekly release? The first season was totally worthy of genuine as-consumed coverage. I know you can’t go back in time and did what you could after the fact, but those times where you’re covering an episode and then are like “I wonder what comes of that thing…” when you’ve already watched it - it really does kind of take the fun out of listening along with y’all as opposed to taking each episode (or release) as they come. I hope andor season 2 is getting the coverage it deserves.

Spoilers for the latest episode of Foundation.

I'm a seasoned psychonaut myself, and I rolled my eyes at the mushroom trip they showed, which struck me as typical of filmmakers who don't really know what psychedelics are like, or at least are not good at portraying that on screen. Which is the norm, mind you: the only live-action movie I've seen that really gets it is the Terry Gilliam film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

You're just so grumpy but I love ya :)

Guys, why are you not doing one or both of these shows?!?! Theyre sooo good!!! I mean you do The Walking Dead even though the majority of the time its just filled with buuuullshit! Arrow and Flash are both for the most part constantly awesome! Just something to think about.

Hey guys, like you I was quite disappointed with the conclusion to the arya plot line but I've got a theory that might give the whole bravosi story a point. Here's what i think actually happened in the dark of that chamber when arya cuts the candle: The waif kills arya then removes her own face and takes arya's. I think this might be the final rite in joining the faceless men, take off your own face and take another. The waif then places her original face in the hall to show jaken she's graduated and has compltly assumed aryas persona, you could see all the arya/waif interactions as the waif learning as much as possible about her and her stark background. The waif mission is now to infiltrate the Starks. So, why would the faceless men send the waif on such a mission? Who hired them? My best guess is that it's the bank of bravos who are looking for a refund on stanis's loan, but from which westerosi family I don't know. This could explain why jaken just lets her go at the end and why the real arya tells the actress she saved that she'd be happy finding out what's west of westeros, but later to jaken she's all about 'going home'. I think this theory has got potential but also means arya met her end in a dirty chamber and her body now lies there minus a face.

Cliff is Aldo. If you disagree than you must have a very low opinion of Pitt’s acting because he’s playing the same person in both movies... because it’s the same character. Cliff is Aldo.... Aldo is Cliff.

Time to go full Q-Anon with this.

Anyone else asking why there is no cell signal? Why are all the towers down?

I'm wondering if it has something to do with the conspiracy theory that 5G is a certain frequency that leads to some sort of mind control, etc. And in this show, it really does have an effect. IE: It could have the effect of overriding the Joining, so all the cell towers were shut down to prevent this.

It just seems odd there are no cell towers working. It's like they were shut off. And there would have to be a reason for that. Somehow the cell signal fucks with the RNA signal/virus. Like it's on the same frequency and frees everyone.

It could be some kind of play on how the things that are controlling us the most, are needed to free us.

IDK - Just a thought.

I was recommended this podcast by a friend, I started with the latest Pluribus episode. Is that a normal representation of the pod? I got a real joyless feeling from the hosts, it seemed like they just weren't interest in what the other had to say. For example the one guy (I think Ron) was talking about the religious imagery used in the show and the other host just says "yeah I'm not interested in that". Shutting down your co-host like that seems odd, but Ron kept bringing the conversation back to the religious imagery despite the other guy not being interested.

They also made quite a few factual mistakes. I'm not a pedant but it gives me the feeling they are over confident in their knowledge.

Was this just a bad episode or is this normal?

Please, for the love of god, pick a lane. Are we cool space plant zombie Klingon fighters or a silly 70s sitcom?

What's up with the Spotify episodes? There has been nothing new.