A Flight of Links

- Star Citizen Alpha 3.0
- Yahtzee reviews No Man's Sky
- Adam Jensen sucks
- Oh yes I did
- Worms WMD
- id Software and the first seven stages of man
- Masters of Orion review
- Kill Box
- Harald Bilz died
- Is Firely overrated?
- Godzilla Resurgence review
- GOT Season 7 NEws

ASOIAF meta
- Aegon and Arianne
- Eddard
- Sam
- Melisandre
- Men's Lives Have Meaning 2
- Aeron's vision
- King imagery
- Masterplans

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 143

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 143! Our guest judge this week is Beat_Train, who started reading the books upon a recommendation from a lanky friend with the goal of staying ahead of the show, which he finally convinced his wife to watch. Mostly a lurking member of the community, Beat_Train has taken part of the TOTH re-read series and has been a two-time guest judge before for the Court. His Beat_Train pseudonym comes from his time as a runner at the University of Notre Dame.

A Flight of Links

- Deus Ex Mankind Divided review
- Sean T Collins rips into Stranger Things
- New exoplanet discovered
- Game about freedom of speech
- Angry Joe reviews No Man's Sky

ASOIAF meta
- Victarion 
- Stannis
- Arya
-

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 142

Thursday is court day! Sorry it's so late, we had some issues.

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 142! Our guest judge this week is Dan Pepper, who has been a Song of Ice and Fire fan since 2009 and has appeared on several Vassals of Kingsgrave episodes and guested on A Podcast of Ice and Fire. He dressed up as Hosteen Frey this year at his second Ice and Fire Con. In real life, he's a newspaper reporter who lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

A Flight of Links

- MJW can be black, yes
- Yahtzee reviews Quake
- Stranger Things Season 2 to be written by Stephen King
- Wertzone about new Star Wars movies
- Purefoy plays in a Netflix show
- Wertzone reviews Stranger Things

ASOIAF meta
- Tyrion's dragon
- High Sparrow
- The Daynes
- The Others
- Tyrion
- Renly
- No One

Boiled Leather Audio Hour #53

The Theory of Everything: Analyzing Popular Theories from a Narrative & Thematic Perspective, Part II (A Patreon Production)

One of our most requested episode formats is back, thanks to our loyal patrons! Subscribers to our Patreon have selected the topic of this episode, a sequel to a much-loved previous installment in which we took a look at prominent fan theories not just in terms of whether they’re possible or even plausible, but whether they make sense in the framework of the kind of story George R.R. Martin is trying to tell and his overall vibe as a writer. This time around, the individual topics have been pitched in by our patrons as well, and there’s a wide range, from what we think happened at Summerhall to whether we believe Bran is essentially a godlike figure to which fool we like best. Give it a listen, and if you like what you here, become a Patreon contributor so you can select future podcast topics yourself!

Download Episode 53

Additional links:
The Theory of Everything, Part I
Our Vulture article on the biggest fan theories
Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour
Our PayPal donation page (also accessible via boiledleather.com).
Our iTunes page.
Mirror.
Previous episodes.
Podcast RSS feed.
Sean’s blog.
Stefan’s blog.

A Flight of Links

- Suicide Squad review
- What's wrong with the DC franchise?
- Huge interview with BryndenBFish
- I so want this game
- StarCraft HD?

ASOIAF meta
- Aegon's band
- Elia's revenge
- Bran

A Flight of Links

- Jared Leto's bad method acting
- The making of the antihero
- Indiegames and the small child in a scary world

ASOIAF meta
- Davos I

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 141

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 141! Our guest judge this week is Michal Schick has been an ASOIAF fan since 2003, and currently covers the books, as well as Game of Thrones and other nerd-friendly properties for Hypable.com. She is a regular host on Vassals of Kingsgrave, and hangs out on Twitter as @inkasrain.

A Flight of Links

- Time Commanders gets a remake
- Women too hard to animate?
- Steven Attewell reviews Killing Joke
- Wonder Woman
 - It was so freaking bad
- D&D movie enters preproduction
- More Wonderwoman
- StarCraft Universe released
- Star Trek movies ranked
- Asmodee is sweeping up the boardgame market and ratcheting up prices

 ASOIAF meta
- Smoke on the water
- ASOIAF as anti-war-story.
- Jaime
- Earning plot
- Stuff
- Inn at the Crossroads
- Tyrion I
- Asha's plan 
- Jaime
- Unified Westeros
- Kingswood Brotherhood
- Roose's lie
- Kingsguard
- More Kingsguard 
- Jaime
- Asha and Robb
- Gendry BS
- Third Estate
- Jaime
- Medieval prisons
- Sybelle Spicer
- Mance
- Tyrion
- Kingsmoot

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 140

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 140! Our guest judge this week is Calvin (aka KCenturion), he lives in the UK and is the co-founder of weirwood-net.com, an easy-to-use ASOIAF character database. You can also follow him on Twitter @CassiusGren.

A Flight of Links

- Wow this looks stupid
- I do agree on this about Darkest Dungeon
-  Nostalgic about games
- Urban Empire
- Training screenwriters
- Lovecraft
- Iron Man and the Island of Stability
- Wonderwoman trailer looks fantastic
- Romans in the middle ages
- Star Trek Beyond review by Wertzone
- Starbound review
- Killing Joke controversy
- New Star Trek TV series

ASOIAF meta
- Eddard
- Doran
- Littlefinger
- Baelor I
- Sample chapters
- Dragonbinder
- Sansa's marriage
- Plato and Varys
- Davos
- Honor
- Timeskip
- Eddard
- LF economy
- Kingdom of the North
- Vale secession
- Tyrion replacing Eddard
- Euron key moment
- Bloodraven and Euron
- Sympathy for Euron
- Rights of pits and gallows
- Stagnation
- Fever dream
- Robb
- Explorations of Euron
- Ellaria's monologue
- Love for Tyrion
- Lazy Leo
- Dany perceptions
- Dead mothers of dragonriders
- Rhaegar at tourney
- Deepwood harbor
-

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 139

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 139! Our guest judge this week is Eamon Redmond, a member of the community. 

A Flight of Links

- GOP Arcade
- An article about it
- Samuel L. Jackson explains GOT
- Making Britain communist in HoI4
- What we learned from New Horizons
- Really looks good
- Epic disaster waiting to happen
- Star Trek Beyond review

ASOIAF meta
- Fantasies
- Arianne's marriage
- Ashford Tourney theory
- Bubbles
- Mormonts
- Dunk&Egg series
- Stannis and Dany meeting
- Aegon's tenure
- Euron and the Old Way
- Quellon's children
- Varys' motivations
- Slayer of Lies
- Grand Maester Conspiracy
- Agricultural knowledge
- Davos, final part
- R+L=J
- Davos endgame
- Time skips
- Eldritch apocalpyse 
- Biggest monster
- City foundation
- Waynwood finances

Boiled Leather Audio Hour #52

The BLAH Salon: Adult Swim’s Jason DeMarco

Our special interview series returns at last! This episode, Sean & Stefan are pleased to welcome Jason DeMarco, Senior Vice President/Creative Director for Adult Swim On-Air. Jason’s worn many hats at the venerable nighttime animation/live-action/surrealist powerhouse: He’s the co-creator of its anime/action block Toonami, the person responsible for the network’s distinctive promos, and the unofficial “musical director” for both Adult Swim’s on-air sound and the albums and singles it’s released from a variety of hip-hop, electronic, and rock acts. He’s also a longtime fan of both A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. Jason joined us for a wide-ranging discussion of the books, the show, the network, the seismic changes television has seen during his 20-year career, the connections between animation and comics, how those fields are viewed in America, Japan, and Europe respectively, the difference between European-American fantasy and its Japanese-genre counterpart, and much more. Cue up your Run the Jewels records and listen in!

Download Episode 52

Additional links:
Jason on Twitter
Jason on ask.fm
Adult Swim
Sean’s article on the legacy of Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Adult Swim
Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour
Our PayPal donation page (also accessible via boiledleather.com).
Our iTunes page.
Mirror.
Previous episodes.
Podcast RSS feed.
Sean’s blog.
Stefan’s blog.

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 138

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 138! Our guest judge this week is Snark Knight, a member of the community. 

A Flight of Links

- Voices in your ear
- StarCraft Ghost - what went wrong
- Where are video game mums?
- What's wrong with Stellaris' victory conditions?
- Why do we keep the E3 around?
- If you are ever interested in how thoroughly one can misunderstand art
- Oh god that game was really good for all those reasons
- Stellaris Alpha Mod
- Oh god yes

ASOIAF meta
-  Cape Kraken
- Limits of the wildlings
- Better Ironborn plot
- 2nd Red Wedding
- Arya I 
- Others
- Quentyn's band
- Dothraki
- Tyrell food blockage
- Slave economy
- R'hollor
- House Thenn
- Rolly
- Littlefinger
- Bracken-Blackwood feud
- Aegon
- More Aegon
- Mance
- Moaar Aegon
- Nymeria's conquest
- Sansa
- Creepy moments
- Dany
- Mance, Qyburn, Daario

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 137

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 137! Our guest judge this week is Joe, who has been a long-time fantasy and science fiction fan who has been reading A Song of Ice and Fire since early 2010 and has in the past been a frequent poster and is still a frequent reader of Westeros.org and ASOIAF Reddit. He lives in Minnesota with his dog (Ser) Duncan. You could find him at twitter @JoeTwheets.

A Flight of Links

- GOT 6.10 reviews here, here, here, here,
- An appreciation of Ramsay Bolton
- Inside four battles
- Art of the GOT death scene
- 10 questions for GOT season 7
- Orange is the new Black season 4 analysis, I don't agree
- Spielberg hypetrain wrecked
- Wertzone reviews GOT season 6 
- When theories are confirmed
- Why WarCraft is a hit in China
- Teleportation in GOT
- OESE review
- Interesting movie

ASOIAF meta
- Stark and Bolton marriages
- Euron as a postmodern villain
- Aegon in the show
- Stark family tree
- I don't agree
- I do agree more
- Frankengregor
- Forley Prestor
- Sept destruction
- ADOS endgame
- Tyrell endgame
- Aegon doctrine
- Starks reacting to Dany
- Did Euron go to Valyria? 
- Tywin
- Renly
- Robert and the Dothraki
- Euron and Valyria
-

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 136

Thursday is court day!

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 136! Our guest judge this week is Bailey, a history nut, book nerd & political junkie. Wife to a fellow geek. Mom to a future super villain. Step-monster to a precocious princess.