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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 Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
- Trace Catelyn's changing relationship to the Seven
- Dig deep into all the gorgeous imagery in this chapter
- Talk about how gods (and stories) are fluid vessels needing an audience to be complete
- Praise Catelyn for sticking up for the truth
- Boo Renly for rejecting her plea for peace
Next week: Renly is killed by a shadow with his brother's face in the second half of ACOK, Catelyn IV!
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
- Indulge in one of Emmett's favorite tinfoil theories: Renly as Robert's bastard son
- Discuss how the political is always personal and vice versa with Stannis v. Renly
- Marvel at how George builds up Stannis with one hand while cutting him down with the other
- Take a big ol' juicy bite out of Renly's peach
- Set up the battle between the Baratheon bros...which will, of course, not actually happen
Next week: Catelyn bares her soul before her gods in (the first half of) ACOK, Catelyn IV!
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
- Talk about why Renly didn't back Stannis
- Get into the type of castle Storm's End is and why it works as archetype for Stannis and Renly
- Stannis and Catelyn dance. More accurately, Stannis huffs, Catelyn tries to smooth things over. It doesn't work
- Does Stannis have a point? Is he right? Is he wrong? The Amen Brothers throw some elbows
- Stannis: the true sad boy of ASOIAF
- Is Storm's End a spaceship? We discuss
Next week: Stannis, Catelyn, Renly and a peach!
And we were joined by Chloe, AKA liesandarbor from the Girls Gone Canon podcast for this episode for her voice work as Lady Catelyn Stark! Find her stuff and listen to GGC!
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
- Talk about the news Bran, Rickon and those little monstrous Freys receive from Oxcross
- Analyze Jojen's green dreams and how everyone takes it so damn literally!
- Witness House Bolton entering the Northern game and get introduced to "Reek"
- All the foreshadowing of things to come!
- Who killed Stevron Frey? (It was Black Walder)
Next week: Catelyn, Stannis, Renly and the parlay at Storm's End!
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
- Dig into the Fist of the First Men (though not literally like Ghost!) in terms of both its surface strengths and deeper weaknesses as a fortress
- Watch with exasperation as Watch leadership descends into mission creep and the last war's strategies
- Introduce Qhorin Halfhand, a peerless badass with a heart gray as his cloak, here to educate Jon in discipline, self-sacrifice, and knowing thine enemy
- Take note of how many plot threads are being set up in these chapters, from the Night's Watch mutiny to the wight attack on the Fist to the Horn of Winter
- Furiously debate who buried the dragonglass and horn at the Fist: Benjen or Coldhands?
Next week: we return to Winterfell, where Jojen Reed urges Bran to open his third eye. Ser Rodrik also returns to the castle, bringing with him a prisoner who goes by Reek...for now, anyway.
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
- Contrast the knights beating a helpless child because the king said so...
- ...with the not-knights, the cripples/bastards/broken things, standing up for her
- Take note of how Sansa is maturing and growing wiser, even under such dire circumstances
- Lay out exactly how screwed Team Lannister is after the Battle of Oxcross
- Imagine how Robb's Westerlands campaign would look through a POV's eyes
Next week: the Night's Watch arrives at the Fist of the First Men and joins forces with Qhorin Halfhand in Jon IV *and* V!
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
- Talk about what will befall Catelyn at the end of the story and how she'll be remembered.
- Get deep on the union of secular and mystical in the castle of Harrenhal
- Talk about the Bloody Mummers and the strategic Lannister position at this juncture in ACOK
- Analyze Jaqen H'ghar, his place in Arya's story and question whether he's the better alternative to the horrors Arya has experienced.
- Unpack the most horrific story in all of ASOIAF: Chiswyck's story of what happened after the Tourney of the Hand
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Next week: Sansa faces Joffrey and is rescued by hero? Protagonist! Tyrion Lannister!
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
- Talk about our favorite funny lines in ASOIAF
- Examine Tyrion's fun-yet-chilling conversation with Lancel
- Zero in on why Tyrion goes to Shae
- Analyze how Tyrion has put on masks of power, intrigue and games while forgetting about doing the justice he promised to do
- Delve into Tyrion's problematic relationship to Shae and how sex work
Next week: back to King's Landing for ACOK Arya VII as Jaqen H’ghar offers Arya three murders, wishes
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Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
- Praise how masterfully George changes moods as this chapter goes along
- Shiver as Jojen gets creepy with Bran's dreams
- Zoom out to put the "little grandfather" in context with the other magical heralds of A Clash of Kings
- Sift through both the short-term blind spots and long-term wisdom of Maester Luwin's worldview
- Pity Bran for his bittersweet dreams of knighthood, tempting him onward to sorcery
Next week: back to King's Landing for ACOK Tyrion VII as Lannister dysfunction somehow gets even worse. And we will be joined by a new guest: Jinx Lierre!
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
- Discuss the "leftover" bits of ASOIAF
- Praise the trippy imagery in the Qarth storyline...
- ...and critique the shapeless plot and threadbare supporting cast
- Lay out Dany's (somewhat redundant) character beats in ACOK
- Come up with opposite ideas about how we would fix Qarth
Next week: we fly back to Winterfell for Bran IV and our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE!