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VoK 298: DragonCast – “The Broken Man” (S06E07 Review)

Posted on June 10, 2016 by vokalias | 2 comments

DragonCast returns to review the seventh episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, “The Broken Man”.

Join Adam (drownedsnow), Katie (LadyGriffin), Casey (Blue-Eyed-Queen), Michal (inkasrain), Small Paul (SerDinnerRoll), Greg (claudiusthefool), Matt (Varley), Bing (Shoeshiner), and Zach (Alias) for our best effort at some serious commentary and then perhaps the silliest aftershow yet.

Warning: Contains spoilers for all aired episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones (including Season 6 promotional material), as well as all published books in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.

0:50 – Introduction and Ratings
5:30 – In the Riverlands
22:15 – The North
40:50 – King’s Landing
49:25 – Volantis
55:45 – Braavos
1:02:25 – Riverrun
1:18:15 – Aftershow

Credits:
Edited by Alias
A Song of Ice and Fire by Alpine Universe
Kellen the Undying by Drumurboy
The Broken Man by Valkyrist

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VoK 297: The Forsaken (The Winds of Winter – Sample Chapter)

Posted on June 2, 2016 by bina007 | 1 comment

Vassals Assemble! to discuss George R.R. Martin’s newly released preview chapter from The Winds of Winter.

Hosts: Adam/DrownedSnow; Amber/Amberrocks; Bina007; Brett/Whiteraven; Casey/Blue-Eyed Queen; Matt/Varley; Nadia; and Small Paul/SerDinnerRoll.

Spoilers: For all published works in A Song of Ice and Fire including The Winds of Winter but not HBO’s Game of Thrones divergent storylines.

Music credit: Alpine Forest. One Night, Marry, Scorpions at 1hr 11 mins. Aftershow at 1hr 20 mins.

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VoK 296: DragonCast – “Blood of My Blood” (S06E06 Review)

Posted on June 1, 2016 by vokalias | 1 comment

DragonCast returns to review the sixth episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, “Blood of My Blood”.

Join Adam (drownedsnow), Greg (claudiusthefool), Katie (LadyGriffin), Casey (Blue-Eyed-Queen), Bing (Shoeshiner), Michal (inkasrain), Small Paul (SerDinnerRoll), Matt (Varley), and Zach (Alias) for another Dragoncast review as we head towards the second half of the season.

0:40 – Introduction and Ratings
8:20 – Beyond the Wall
18:05 – Hornhill
26:45 – Braavos
31:30 – King’s Landing
42:05 – The Twins
49:40 – The Dothraki Sea
1:05:00 – Aftershow

Credits:
Edited by Alias
A Song of Ice and Fire by Alpine Universe
Kellen the Undying by Drumurboy

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VoK 295: DragonCast – “The Door” (S06E05 Review)

Posted on May 24, 2016 by vokalias | Leave a comment

DragonCast returns to review the fifth episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, “The Door”.

Join Adam (drownedsnow), Bing (Shoeshiner), Jack (It Rhymes With Sleek), Matt (Varley), Alex (LuckyCharms), Greg (claudiusthefool), Katie (LadyGriffin), Jeff (jeff14), and Zach (Alias) for another classic Dragoncast review. Stay for the aftershow if you dare.

This particular podcast will also contain spoilers for an unreleased Arya chapter in the Winds of Winter during the Braavos section. Timestamps will be provided in the show notes if you want to skip past this part. Also, spoilers for Harry Potter.

1:05 – Introduction and Ratings
7:50 – The Wall
22:55 – Braavos
28:35 – The Iron Islands
36:20 – Vaes Dothrak
38:40 – Meereen
42:20 – Beyond the Wall
1:12:35 – Aftershow

Credits:
Edited by Alias
A Song of Ice and Fire by Alpine Universe
Kellen the Undying by Drumurboy
Greg’s Notes
Two years ago, GRRM told a guy that he wanted to be an elevator operator. That guy correctly guessed the implication of that statement

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VoK 294: The Last Unicorn [1982] (DVD Commentary)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by kcrumpton2013 | Leave a comment

Join Vassals Katie (Lady Griffin) and Matthieu (Beric175) on a fantastical road trip in their audio commentary for Rankin/Bass’s 1982 adaptation of Peter S. Beagle’s classic fantasy novel, The Last Unicorn.

NOTE: The movie should be synced from 6:50 to 1:35:15. Due to skype issues, there is some minor lag and audio overlap throughout the track.

Credits:
Edited by Katie

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VoK 293: WolfCast – “The Book of the Stranger” (S06E04 Review)

Posted on May 21, 2016 by dagosrivers | 1 comment

Glen (Dagos_Rivers) is joined by the (missed) KrakenCast leader, Duncan (Valkyrist), and a new host (although I later realised he had been in VoK 151), Mattias (Maca). The rest of the regular WolfCast return from the first review: Matthieu (Beric175), Claire (DarkSister24) and David (ChurchofStarryWisdom).

Also discussed:
-Storyline by Storyline commentary
-Daenerys walking through fire, Terminator style.
-The Wall bookending the show.
-We continue to ponder what became of Gendry.
-Matthieu gets a grilling for being late for a podcast 🙂
-The Sopranos and future podcasts on that show.
-Update on Duncan’s academic life.

Running Time: 01:25:18
CREDITS:
Edited by Dagos_Rivers

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Tagged Beric175, ChurchofStarryWisdom, Dagos_Rivers, DarkSister24, Maca, Valkyrist

VoK 292: DragonCast – “The Book of the Stranger” (S06E04 Review)

Posted on May 19, 2016 by vokalias | 1 comment

DragonCast returns to review the fourth episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, “The Book of the Stranger”.

Join Paul (SerDinnerRoll), Adam (drownedsnow), Bing (Shoeshiner), Katie (LadyGriffin), Paul (Pod’s Plight), Michal (inkasrain), Alex (LuckyCharms), Casey (Blue-Eyed-Queen), Matt (Varley), Jeff (jeff14), Amber (amberrocks), and Zach (Alias) for another Game of Thrones review with more hosts joining by the minute as Skype chugs along with them.

00:40 – Introduction and Ratings
6:45 – The Wall
23:15 – Runestone
30:30 – Meereen
36:15 – King’s Landing
43:45 – The Iron Islands
48:30 – Winterfell
54:00 – Vaes Dothrak
1:10:35 – Aftershow

Credits:
Edited by Alias
A Song of Ice and Fire by Alpine Universe
Kellen the Undying by Drumurboy

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VoK 291: Arianne II (The Winds of Winter – Sample Chapter)

Posted on May 15, 2016 by bina007 | 1 comment

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Tune in for some OG Chaos as Adam/DrownedSnow, Bina007, Nadia and Varley chat girth, hippos, cataphract elephants and occasionally George R R Martin’s newly released Ariane POV chapter from The Winds of Winter. The after-show begins at 48 minutes and covers the coolness of The Fonz; Eurovision; and goats in trees.

Spoilers: For all published works in George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire plus all TWOW spoiler material. Music credit: Alpine Forest. Picture credit: Magali Villeneuve.

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VoK 290: Doctor Who (BBC One series) – Season 9

Posted on May 13, 2016 by vokalias | Leave a comment

Hosts Casey (Blue-eyed-queen) , Zach (Alias), and Paul (SerDinnerRoll) discuss Doctor Who series 9, speculation on future series, and a little bit of Face of Boe fanfiction. Adam (Drownedsnow) makes a late appearance in the after show.

Aftershow begins at 1:34:30.

Credits:
Edited by Blue-eyed-queen
Doctor Who XI, by Murray Gold (Feat. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales)
(The Majestic Tale of) An Idiot With a Box, by Murray Gold
News on the new companion, Pearl Mackie

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VoK 289: DragonCast – “Oathbreaker” (S06E03 Review)

Posted on May 11, 2016 by vokalias | Leave a comment

DragonCast returns to review the third episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, “Oathbreaker”.

Join Adam (drownedsnow), Greg (claudiusthefool), Katie (LadyGriffin), Casey (Blue-Eyed-Queen), Matt (Varley), Paul (Pod’s Plight), Paul (SerDinnerRoll), and Jeff (jeff14) for another Game of Thrones review.

Credits:
Edited by drownedsnow
Game of Thrones Main Titles by Ramin Djawadi
Greg’s Notes

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VoK 288: DragonCast – “Home” (S06E02 Review)

Posted on May 3, 2016 by vokalias | 3 comments

DragonCast returns to review the second episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, “Home”.

Join Michal (inkasrain), Adam (drownedsnow), Bing (Shoeshiner), Jeff (jeff14), Steven (SJLee), Katie (LadyGriffin), Casey (Blue-Eyed-Queen), Matt (Varley), Paul (Pod’s Plight), Greg (claudiusthefool), Paul (SerDinnerRoll), and Zach (Alias) for another Game of Thrones review chock-full of hosts and jokes, if not intellectual commentary.

1:00 – Introductions and Lemoncake Ratings
8:15 – Beyond The Wall
17:30 – The Wall (Part 1)
21:20 – King’s Landing
31:20 – Meereen
35:40 – Braavos
38:45 – Winterfell
45:40 – In the North Someplace
52:40 – Pyke
57:05 – The Wall (Part 2)
1:09:03 – Aftershow

Credits:
Edited by Alias
A Song of Ice and Fire by Alpine Universe
Kellen the Undying by Drumurboy
Greg’s Notes

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VoK 287: Westerosi Travelogue (Vol.1) – GOT locations in Northern Ireland

Posted on May 2, 2016 by bina007 | 1 comment

In this episode Bina007 describes a recent road trip to Northern Ireland to visit Game of Thrones locations. It’s a beautiful country and seeing locations is a great motivation to get to otherwise quite obscure but lovely villages and parks. That said, it’s not yet very well set up to receive GoT tourism so this podcast aims to give you some pro-tips that we wish someone had told us before we’d set off!

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VoK 286: Theories of Ice and Fire (Vol.4) – Cersei and the Valonqar

Posted on April 29, 2016 by bina007 | 3 comments

In the second Shaggycast, our hosts explore theories surrounding the Maggy the Frog prophesy regarding Cersei and the Valonqar.

Hosts: Scott AKA Shaggydog, It Rhymes with Sleek AKA Jack, Blue Eyed Queen AKA Casey; Ser Dinner Roll AKA Paul and Dark Sister 24 AKA Claire.
Aftershow: 2hrs 15mins.
Picture credit: HBO.
Spoilers: This podcast contains spoilers for all published works in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. The aftershow also contains spoilers for HBO’s Game of Thrones.

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VoK 285: WolfCast – “The Red Woman” (S06E01 Review)

Posted on April 27, 2016 by dagosrivers | 2 comments

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VOK Wolfcast roster changes this year, with Dagos_Rivers (Glen) leading the pack and joined once again by Beric175 (Matthieu) – who mysteriously disappears half-way through the recording, and joined by (relative) newcomers: DarkSister24 (Claire) and ChurchofStarryWisdom (David). They review the launch episode of Season 6, of Game of Thrones; they discuss each location, and associated characters; provide their lemoncake scores and make some predictions of where the storylines are going.

The WolfCast discuss whether Season 6 will outperform Season 5, how long the show will last; are the writers eager to end the show, and if certain storylines *cough* Dorne *cough* will survive much longer.

Also discussed:
-Official posters for each Season, and which is the best
-What is this ‘Heads Up’ game, as seen on Ellen?
-We reminisce on E4’s ‘Misfits’.
-How hard it is to get into a show when it is massive, like
Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead.

Running Time: 01:45:50
CREDITS:
Edited by Dagos_Rivers

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VoK 284: DragonCast – “The Red Woman” (S06E01 Review)

Posted on April 25, 2016 by vokalias | Leave a comment

DragonCast takes flight once again to review the sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones!

Join Adam (drownedsnow), Casey (Blue-Eyed-Queen), Katie (LadyGriffin), Matt (Varley), Paul (SerDinnerRoll), and Zach (Alias) for a whole new season of not-at-all nitpicky Game of Thrones reviews.

00:43 – Intros and Lemoncake Ratings
7:05 – The Wall
13:30 – Winterfell
16:25 – Somewhere in the North
21:13 – King’s Landing
26:15 – Dorne
32:35 – Meereen
38:25 – The Dothraki Sea
45:40 – Braavos
46:55 – The Wall (Part 2)

Credits:
Edited by Alias
A Song of Ice and Fire by Alpine Universe
Kellen the Undying by Drumurboy

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VoK 283: Cold Comfort Farm (by Stella Gibbons)

Posted on April 23, 2016 by bina007 | Leave a comment

There’s something in the woodshed!

Amanda (Middlecylone) and Bina007 discuss Stella Gibbons’ hilarious 1932 novel satirising rural melodramas, as well as the 1995 British film adaptation starring Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Fry and Rufus Sewell. There is much mollocking, clettering, and heaving of porridge, not to mention some of the worst West Country accents committed to tape.

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VoK 282: War & Peace (BBC One miniseries)

Posted on April 21, 2016 by bina007 | Leave a comment

Bina007, Stuart (Firenzed) and Imogen.OB discuss, in various permutations, Tolstoy’s epic tale of love amidst the Russian aristocracy during the Napoleonic wars.

To start, Bina007 & Firenzed cover the major story arcs of the mini-series, the depiction of war and other adaptations of the novel. Then at 1hr 7mins, Bina007 & Imogen.OB get into an in-depth discussion of the novel and the mini-series. Finally, the aftershow begins at 1hr 58mins and includes: Intro to Firenzed, ASOIAF and Chekhov Wildfire; plug for Cockneymoot on May 1st at Blenheim Palace; a lot of Sega/Creative Assembly Empire and Napoleonic Total War chat; our thoughts on Napoleon more generally.

Contains spoilers for the the novel, its adaptations, and Napoleonic history, if such a thing is possible, as well as occasional references to A Song of Ice and Fire.

Music: Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. This was also composed, like War and Peace, many decades after the battle of Borodino to commemorate Russia seeing of the perfidious French invasion.

Sources mentioned in the podcast:
[BBC TV] The 2016 miniseries
[BBC Radio] The 2015 radio play/podcast
[Bondarchuk!] A clip from the 1967 4 hour Soviet film
[Audrey!] A clip from the 1956 Hollywood epic
[ReliveWaterloo] Real-time Waterloo timeline
[Napoleon The Great?] Debate on Napoleon’s legacy
[Napoleon’s Crimes?] Controversial French book

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VoK 281: Alas Poor Yoren! aka The Great Linear ASOIAF ReRead (Part 17)

Posted on April 19, 2016 by bina007 | 2 comments

In the 17th part of the Vassals’ epic re-read of George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, we cover events from the 18th to 28th February 299. This translates into Cat 1, Arya 3, Tyrion 2 and Arya 4 of A Clash of Kings.

Your podcast hosts are: Adam (DrownedSnow) Amanda (Middlecylcone), Bina007, Claire (DarkSister24), Jackie (Joie-Olivier), Matt (Varley), Michael (Khal Wadege), and Patrick (Ser Patrick The Tall).

Podcast announcements at 1hr 15m and Aftershow at 1hr 24m.

Picture credit: The A Podcast of Ice and Fire MS Paint project of A Clash of Kings. Cat 1 by Mimi Mieville. Music credits: Alpine Universe & the awesome Talking Heads.

The chapters for the next episode will be Sansa 2, Davos 1, Tyrion 3, Arya 5 and Bran 2.

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Tagged Bina007, DarkSister24, drownedsnow, Joie-Olivier, Khal Wadege, middlecyclone, Nadia, Ser Patrick the Tall, Varley

VoK 280: Game of Thrones – Pre-Season 6 Speculation

Posted on April 17, 2016 by bina007 | Leave a comment

Join our American hosts as they preview Season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones.

Hosts: Zack (Alias), Greg (claudiusthefool), Matt (Varley), Adam (drownedsnow), Casey (blue-eyed-queen), Dan (dansparce), Jeff (Jeff14), and Steven (SJLee).

Spoilers for all episodes of this series and all published works in George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Edited by Drowned Snow.

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VoK 279: The Revenant [2016] (Review)

Posted on April 15, 2016 by vokadmin | Leave a comment

Revenant Movie.jpg The vassals gather to discuss the film “The Revenant” as well as the life of Hugh Glass, who’s life and deeds inspired the book that inspired the film.

Hosts Greg (claudiusthefool), Jack (It_Rhymes_With_Sleek), Amber (Amberrocks) & Matt (Varley) discuss the life of the mountain man, the ferocity of grizzly bear attacks as well as make way too many beaver references.

Contains spoilers for the novel “The Revenant” as well as the film.

Edited by Greg

Music: “Crawling Back” by Roy Orbison