- Praise Sansa for keeping the room together after Cersei flees

- Watch the colors explode outside on the Blackwater

- Break down the influence of both horror and romance on Sandor

- Discuss the arrival of "Renly's ghost" as reported by Dontos

Next week: everyone leaves Qarth (finally) in ACOK Daenerys V!

- Discuss what Shae does around these parts

- Get into Maegor's Holdfast with Sansa and an increasingly drunk Cersei

- Talk about how Cersei fails at the basics of queenship where Sansa succeeds

- Analyze Tyrion's tactics on the battlefield

- Talk about the hell and heaven of the battle and Tyrion's place in it

- Debate on who ordered the hit on Tyrion

Next week: It's the climax of the battle with ACOK, Sansa VII!

- Our relationship to the Final Fantasy series

- The byzantine shell-game storyline of Tactics

- The themes of power, corruption, and lies

- The incredibly dense gameplay

- How Tactics is basically ASOIAF: The Game

- Our relationship to the Metal Gear Solid series

- The labyrinthine plot of the series

- The major themes of the series

- How those themes factor into gameplay

- Why ASOIAF fans would love MGS

- Merry's origin story with law and ASOIAF

- Learned Hands, her excellent podcast with NotACast guest Clint W

- Favorite legal scenes in fiction

- How to think about storytelling as a moral speculative space 

- Jon Snow: what is his deal?

- Discuss Tyrion's parentage (again)

- Observe with Tyrion the aftermath of the wildfire

- Lay out the shape of the battle to come and Tyrion's mentality coming into it.

- Look at Tyrion and admire his bravery, even while disparaging him for propping up the illegitimate and tyrannical reign of Joffrey

- Debate whether Tyrion's use of wildfire is justified

Next week: Sansa and Tyrion are in danger for ACOK, Sansa VI and Tyrion XIV!

- Talk about how Davos' background informs his perspective

- Explore the meaning of Stannis' fiery heart banner

- Lay out George's "threefold revelation" buildup to the wildfire explosion

- Praise the wonder and terror of the imagery

- Analyze the fiery demon that emerges from the explosion

Next week: Tyrion looks upon his works and blames Stannis in ACOK, Tyrion XIII!

- Praise the cinematic tension with which the chapter begins

- Repeatedly and mercilessly dunk on High Captain Ser Imry Florent, who is the worst

- Contrast Davos' dread for battle from his smuggler days with his sons' eagerness to prove themselves as young noblemen

- Talk through the strategic layout of the battle...

- ...and imagine how Jeff would do differently, and better

Next week: Tyrion springs the fiery trap in the second half of ACOK, Davos III!

- Cheer ourselves hoarse at arriving at the Battle of the Blackwater

- Watch Sansa dance her way through conversations with Tyrion and Joffrey

- Praise the beautiful imagery and prose in the sept

- Talk about Sansa's empathy, where she sets its limits, and what it can and cannot accomplish in war

- Welcome (reluctantly) Cersei, who is already drunk

Next week: we flip over to the Baratheon side of the Battle of Blackwater with ACOK, Davos III (Part 1)!