Beware Spoiler Phobes. You have stumbled upon a storm of spoilers. A podcast about HBO's Game of Thrones series in conjunction with the song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin.

This discussion can expand to include any Game of Thrones relevant books, shows, Internet experts, special features, teases, trailers, interviews, rumors, guesses, theories, and general crack-potitude.

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Do we have left? We have left in the lie. Chaos. A game in pit waiting to swallow us all. Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Hello and welcome back to a storm of spoilers. My name is Dave Gonzalez and I haven't read any of the books in George R.R. Martin's a song of Ice and Fire.

My name is Joanna Robinson and I've read every book in George R.R. Martin's a song of Ice and Fire.

And we are here discussing HBO's Game of Thrones adaptation that is quickly diverging from the books and becoming its own beast. And we're right along for the ride.

You might have noticed that if you are getting this podcast in your feed because you went to fighting in the world of them.com, click on the fitwear menu, went and subscribed slash followed and then hooked up either through iTunes or your RSS feed or even just downloaded it and put it onto your whatever you used listen to burning CDs.

Do we still do that? Sure. Why not? Yeah, perfect. Many disc I think is the only thing that's off the table.

I use my beta max. So wait. Oh, man, that's old. That's old school. You might as well be pressing the vinyl.

And we should do a vinyl version of this podcast. That would just be a vanity projects. Anyway, not important.

You've also noticed that this podcast shares a feed with fighting in the war room. It's a podcast that we did a very special 25th episodes, spectacular of this week where we talked about our own student films.

You could see on the site at fighting in the war room.com. That's the end of the plug. Let's get into the game of thrones and talk about this week's death in our string of episodes work main characters die.

This is a shocking one. Support for non book readers. I could hear your air quotes when he said shocking.

Yeah, it's good. It's called acting with your voice. So trying to try to get better and stutter less. We'll see how that works out as we progress.

But Joanna, you on your non spoiler vanity fair posts sort of goaded people in the really rooting to for over. And I think so you could replicate the experience of reading it when he dies, but maybe just to be mean not to be mean.

No, but yeah, just to get them really, really liking why wasn't sure how good of a job the show would do and they really didn't need my help. I think I could have been completely indifferent on over and and and Peter Pascal being so great and the character itself being so great.

I think people would have would have fallen over them anyway. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that people really felt that lost the same way book readers did when they met him and they're like great new character love him. Oh God.

He's gone.

And that sort of fits into your greater theme of that's what this story sort of motion of the season is. I don't want to keep putting words in your mouth, but I'm going to do until you stop me.

Well, yeah, I guess we talked about that in the context of Jamie. And we will talk about it in the future in terms of Tyrion.

But yeah, just this notion of you feel like you've got someone to latch on to. And if it's not Jamie, then maybe it's this over and guy who's got nice liberal politics and is pretty snazzy dresser. And then now, sorry, we're scrambling again. Who do we root for now?

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