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The one true A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Re-Read Podcast by PoorQuentyn and ManuclearBomb
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!
Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the first chapter of Book Four, in which Frodo and Sam wander in circles before running into their new best friend: Gollum, aka Smeagol.
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!
Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the last one on Book Three, covering Saruman's downfall at Isengard and Pippin finding the Palantir, before we begin coverage of Book Four next week with Frodo, Sam, and their new best friend Gollum.
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
- Abandon analysis and live in the moment, wishing we were reading this chapter for the first time
- Watch as Dany wears masks and falsehoods before donning the garb of war
- Witness Dany re-embrace her ethereal and magical side to make positive political change in the present -- but with long-term consequences
- Watch as all masks drop as Dany springs the trap on the most heinous people imaginable
- Wave farewell to the end of the Act 1 of ASOS.
- Analyze why Quaithe, why does she make an appearance in this chapter.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
- Wave farewell to Ghost
- Break down Jon's crucial line: "we look up at the same stars, and see such different things"
- Continue Jon's espionage storyline from previous chapters
- Weep for the tragic romance of Jon and Ygritte
- Look back at Gendel and Gorne
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
- Frame this chapter as a crucible pivot point within Davos' ASOS arc
- Explore the ambiguous duality in his dynamic with Melisandre
- Deconstruct Melisandre's rigid binary worldview
- Poke fun at Alester Florent
- Set up Davos' quandary going forward: how does he further Stannis' cause as anything but a suicide mission?
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
- Announce our next patreon episode on the 2003 Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries
- Look into the woods with Bran and Summer.
- Talk about Bran in the context of the hero's journey and what that means for such a young kid
- Love the crap out of the scene with the Liddle Man
- Go deep into the Knight of the Laughing Tree story and who the knight might be (Quaithe? No.)
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
- Take stock of Dany's different kinds of power
- Analyze her relationship with Irri given that power
- Revisit Dany's dragons as her subconscious feelings given form
- Talk about her complex feelings toward Jorah
- Explore the system of the slave trade
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
- Introduce Slaver's Bay as the major new setting in ASOS
- Dig into the hellish imagery of Astapor specifically
- Explore the cultural context of the history and language used here
- Take stock of the horrors involved in the training of the Unsullied
- Analyze Barristan's role in Dany's decision-making process
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
- Follow Arya with the BWB and see the resistance movement in the Riverlands
- Discuss the realities of the BWB: its noble methods but its lack of an endgame
- Enter the magical world of the Riverlanders living in the trees
- Analyze one of the best one-chapter characters Lady Smallwood
- Answer the question about who the Ghost of High Heart is
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022