- Praise how masterfully George changes moods as this chapter goes along

- Shiver as Jojen gets creepy with Bran's dreams

- Zoom out to put the "little grandfather" in context with the other magical heralds of A Clash of Kings

- Sift through both the short-term blind spots and long-term wisdom of Maester Luwin's worldview

- Pity Bran for his bittersweet dreams of knighthood, tempting him onward to sorcery

Next week: back to King's Landing for ACOK Tyrion VII as Lannister dysfunction somehow gets even worse. And we will be joined by a new guest: Jinx Lierre!

- Discuss the "leftover" bits of ASOIAF

- Praise the trippy imagery in the Qarth storyline...

- ...and critique the shapeless plot and threadbare supporting cast

- Lay out Dany's (somewhat redundant) character beats in ACOK

- Come up with opposite ideas about how we would fix Qarth

Next week: we fly back to Winterfell for Bran IV and our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE! 

- Talk about our favorite bad movies

- Analyze the smallfolk caught in the chaos and brutality of war

- Evaluate how Arya deals with her powerlessness and watching people be tortured, murdered and raped

- Let Emmett go deep on Harrenhal and why this is his favorite over-the-top castle in ASOIAF!

- Theorize on what will happen with the surviving people on Arya's list

Next week: Sigh ... it's Qarth guys. It's Qarth in ACOK, Daenerys II!

- Talk about Gerion Lannister and whether he'll turn up in TWOW or ADOS

- Get into the Esgred/Theon dynamic

- Interrogate Theon's self-conception and why the Ironborn continue to reject him

- Analyze Balon Greyjoy's great war "plan"

- Analyze the Iron Islands story in ACOK vs. S02 of the Thrones Show

Next week: Tyrion bonds with Cersei over their joy at Renly and Stannis fighting each other ... only for him to poison her in ACOK, Tyrion VI~ Gotta love all these healthy respectful sibling relationships in ACOK! 

- Theorize about Val's role in the story

- Introduce Craster and his nightmarish prison factory of a Keep

- Introduce Gilly, and watch as her peril unravels the Watch's self-justifications

- Dig into the complex, opaque dialogue between Jon and LC Mormont at chapter's end

- Make explicit all that's implied about Craster's deal with the Others

Next week: we head back to the Iron Islands as Theon meets the girl of his dreams, only to find out too late that a) she's his sister b) she's the heir and c) he's a chump.