Bone Up On Your Thrones

Guys, this was it! The final episode of perhaps the most culturally significant fictional television show of our lifetimes. Harry and I are joined by good friend and executive chef at Hull's Kitchen Ben Wicks, and we get DEEP into the meat of the episode, the season, and the series. This is a long one, and it's kinda late, and I can't think of anything to write here that we didn't cover on the episode. Enjoy!

It's the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, and tensions are running HOT across Westeros. Harry and I dive deep into this lengthy, sometimes gratuitously violent episode, touching everything from the human cost of genocide-by-dragon to our affinity for the Red Keep's Map Room (RIP). We also discuss the complete mail-in job perpetrated by D&D, rank our favorite deaths from the episode, and conclude that Cersei really didn't get her money's worth from the so-called Golden Company.

Our hearts are heavy this week for many reasons. First and foremost, because the writers seem to have mailed it in towards the end. We chat about that. Secondly, because it's apparently so goodamn expensive to CGI a direwolf that Jon couldn't even give Ghost a goodbye boop. We chat about that too, Thirdly, Rhaegal gets sniped from way downtown by heat-seeking crossbow bolts, in a clear attempt to even up the stakes of the final battle. We chat a good bit about that. And last, but absolutely not least, our hearts are heavy because we've lost the light of our (or at least my) life, the gentlest and most lovely person in this whole besotted tapestry, the greatest translator in Naath's history... Missandei. We don't chat about that too much. Rest in Power, sweet queen.

Guys, I done goofed up. We had a whole podcast recorded in two parts - one before the soccer game that we played on Thursday night, and one after. During the editing/uploading process, this big dumb idiot somehow overwrote the part we recorded before the soccer game, which covers roughly half the episode. So enjoy what you get here, and we'll come back strong next week. In case the jokes in the episode title don't make sense because we talked about them before the game: that huge wight giant busted into Winterfell like Ricky from I Love Lucy, Jorah died and was immediately inducted into the Friendzone HOF, and we thought Sansa and Tyrion might get kinky with that knife in that one scene. Love y'all, promise to come back strong next week.

We talk a WHOLE bunch about an episode where, according to many folks, not much happened. This was the calm before the storm situation, where our favorite heroes spent their last night among the living either drinking, fucking, apologizing, or doubling down on trying to get some serious action. We're actually pretty proud of this episode despite (or perhaps because of?) the copious amount of whiskey consumed whilst recording it.

It was a classic premiere episode from everyone's favorite incest-laden fantasy dramedy, with lots of character reunions, pithy one-liners, gratuitous boobs, and dragon Uber rides to secluded snow sex sierras. We kinda zoomed through this one because it's been a WEEKEND, Harry had to go to bowling, and I need to pack for my flight that leaves in less than 12 hours. But we love you all and we love everyone on this show. Except Bran.

YOU GUYS IT'S ALMOST HERE! The final season of Game of Thrones descends upon us like winter, which is to say, slowly but surely. This is a pretty classic episode of Bone Up On Your Thrones, where we ramble on about whatever crops up in the old skull, including who's gonna die, who's gonna live, who's gonna kill who, and who's gonna get it on with who. Lots of whos in this one, we're sounding like a couple owls out here. Dive in.

It's June and we're sorely missing some Thrones in our life. And if we're missing Game of Thrones, we can only imagine how much YOU'RE missing THIS podcast! Harry and I sit down to confusedly hash out the previous season, make some speculative guesses as to how the final season will play out, and compare the houses of Westeros to the teams of World Cup 2018. Enjoy!

In the final episode of the penultimate season of Bone Up On Your Thrones, your fearless podcast leaders are joined by good friend of the pod Greg Hall, a resident of the greater Atlanta metro area who decided to fly up to Boston on a whim because he had a bunch of miles on his credit card and he effing loves his friends. 

Anyway, Greg, Harry, and I yap about the questions and theories swirling around this latest episode of Game of Thrones, including the identity of the Night('s) King, the possibility of the wine in Cersei's chamber being poisoned, and the CGI budget that may/may not have precluded HBO from showcasing Ghost, arguably the most important character in the series. 

Also, I think we missed a question from Madde. Sorry Mad!

The Game of Thrones season 7 finale was so big, so beefy, so downright girthy, that we had no choice but to split our recap into two parts. In this episode you'll find Harry and I diving deep into the melee, with discussions on the potential NSFW antics Qyburn was planning with that wight's hand, the hijinks Drogon and Rhaegal could have been stirring up offscreen, and a potential new book-sourced nickname for Viserion. 

 

Also, a mystery guest shows up at some point. You'll know it when you hear it. 

 

On Thursday, we'll be coming in hot with a mailbag-type pod, dissecting the many awesome questions we got from listeners across this great nation of ours. If anything in this ep sparks a question, you know where to send it.