Episodes

Monday Apr 09, 2018
Monday Apr 09, 2018
Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!
Today, Emmett and Jeff are pleased to present you with "Catelyn Might Have Done Something Wrong Right There: An Analysis of AGOT, Jon II": a three-act chapter which has Jon leaving Winterfell forever (but probably not)
This week, we talk:
- Answers to some of your burning questions
- Jon's illusions being dashed in his farewells to Winterfell
- Jon's outsider role as a defining force in the entirety of his arc
- The excellent three-act structure of the chapter
- Subtle warging hints!
- "Stick 'em with the pointy end" and its importance for Arya
- Our Independence Day/ASOIAF mashup
- And finally and not at all controversially, we tackle the question of "Is Catelyn Stark evil or a bitch or abusive to Jon Snow?"
This is a meaty episode.
Next Week: Daenerys Targaryen gets married in barbarian splendor!
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4 years ago
Going back through this chapter always reminds me of my belief that Cat is the worst and who she emerges as through Stoneheart is her true self. I know so many love her and that's great. I just can't, I can't forgive, like or get aboard the Cat train. Anyhoo, great episode as always. Yall are the best.
6 years ago
I'm not so sure that "constitutional democracies aren't good because there's still bad people around to potentially abuse that system" is a very good argument against it.
6 years ago
Jon’s description is very very similar to what Bran describes when he first sees BR. Coincidence? I think not....
6 years ago
When Jon enters Bran’s room, what does Jon’s description of Bran remind you of?
7 years ago
Properly functioning constitutional democracies don’t go to war against other properly functioning constitutional democracies. That’s one of the perks of elected democratic governments, and one of the scary things about strong man dictatorships that are currently acting to consolidate power all over the world.
7 years ago
you guys are not stupid or ugly. Kirt Russell is the correct Wyatt and Val Kilmer is the only Doc Holiday. You do a pretty go job analyzing ASOIAF too.
7 years ago
Time to start the best not a cast on the net!