Episode 166: A STORM OF SWORDS, SAMWELL I: ”The Terror (Part 1)”

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In this episode, Samwell Tarly is walking in a winter wonderland...y'know, let's make that terrorland. Sounds right.

 

This week, we: 

 

- Break down how George structures the reveal of what happened at the Fist

- Praise the formal experimentation of interweaving past and present

- Shiver in fear at the exquisite tone of dread a la Stephen King and found footage

- Analyze Sam as a POV, as his stress and self-loathing keeps breaking the surface

- Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls

 

Next week: we plunge back into hell to finish up ASOS, Samwell I!

 

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