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Recorded LIVE on Sunday night at 10:15 pm ET / 7:15 pm PT, Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler recap the Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 2 with a review of “The House of Black and White”.

Episode #2 Title: The House of Black and White

Episode Air Date: April 19th, 2015

Summary Authors: Jason de Lima & Jennifer Heinke

This week Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler recap Episode #2 of Game of Thrones, “The House of Black and White”. Rob begins by listing what he deems are the highlights of the episode: the Night’s Watch tie-breaker rules, Daenerys’ terrible speech, and Arya’s reunion with Jaqen H’ghar.

Jon Stark, Lord of Winterfell? (0:03:55)

Rob and Josh begin their discussion talking about Jon Snow’s decision to turn down Stannis’s offer to become Lord of Winterfell. Rob points out the irony of the situation and asks Josh if refusing Stannis’ offer to become Lord of Winterfell was Jon’s most Stark-Like thing that he could have done?Josh compares Jon’s response to that of his fathers rigid position on honor, nobility and duty. Rob finds it incredulous that Jon would pass up on the offer, especially since at this point he didn’t even know that he would become Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. Josh points out that at the point at which he refused Stannis’ offer, Alliser Thorne was the front runner to become Lord Commander. So in essence Jon was refusing the offer to be Lord of Winterfell, to instead suffer under the leadership of Alliser Thorne who does not like Jon. Rob and Josh are both baffled by Jon’s refusal. They go on to talk about Stannis’ reaction to Jon giving Mance Rayder mercy in last week’s episode. Both of them are surprised by his reaction. They feel like he took it very well. Josh then rhetorically asks where Stannis is going to go next? That no matter how much he might not like Jon, he has no choice and has to now deal with him as Lord Commander Snow

Lord Commander Snow (0:08:56)

In this segment they go on to talk about Jon Snow’s election to Lord Commander and the tie-breaker rules of the Night’s Watch. Rob liked this scene and enjoyed seeing a little bit about the politics

at the Night’s Watch. Rob asks Josh what his take was on Sam in this scene? Rob compares it to giving a roast. Josh replies by saying he really liked Sam throwing shade at Janos Slynt for hiding with the woman and children during the Battle at Wall from last season. Josh says this is the season of Sam.

Josh then goes on to talk about the candidacy of Jon Snow and Alliser Thorne. He says that in Jon’s case, he has a good resumé and that there is precedent for nominating such a young Lord Commander.

As for Alliser Throne, that he has experience, and that he lead and fought bravely at the Battle of Wall. Josh says that Aliser Thorne raises a valid point, that “do they want a Lord Commander that is going to fight Wildlings, or one who is going to make love to them?” He feels like Alliser has a real valid point, and says that there is no wonder why the vote was so close in the end. Rob then goes on to say that if he were Jon Snow, his platform whould be “The White Walkers are the big problem, not the Wildlings”. Josh agrees but mentions how Jon didn’t even know he was going to be a candidate until the last moment when Sam nominated him. They then go on to talk about the actual vote. Rob jokingly says its a good thing that they had a third set of voting tiles. Rob compares the voting to being Survivor-esque. Rob really liked the staking visual for the tie vote.