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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 Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
- Talk about our favorite bad movies
- Analyze the smallfolk caught in the chaos and brutality of war
- Evaluate how Arya deals with her powerlessness and watching people be tortured, murdered and raped
- Let Emmett go deep on Harrenhal and why this is his favorite over-the-top castle in ASOIAF!
- Theorize on what will happen with the surviving people on Arya's list
Next week: Sigh ... it's Qarth guys. It's Qarth in ACOK, Daenerys II!
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
- Wonder what would've happened if Tyrion had killed Cersei in this chapter
- Compare and contrast the unhappy Baratheons with the unhappy Lannisters
- Analyze how Tyrion uses the power of the Iron Throne
- Watch Tyrion take Pycelle apart
- Theorize about what Tyrion's role will be in the war against the Others
Next week: George invokes centuries’ worth of war crimes along Arya's path to Harrenhal, Emmett’s favorite place in Westeros, for some reason.
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
- Talk about Gerion Lannister and whether he'll turn up in TWOW or ADOS
- Get into the Esgred/Theon dynamic
- Interrogate Theon's self-conception and why the Ironborn continue to reject him
- Analyze Balon Greyjoy's great war "plan"
- Analyze the Iron Islands story in ACOK vs. S02 of the Thrones Show
Next week: Tyrion bonds with Cersei over their joy at Renly and Stannis fighting each other ... only for him to poison her in ACOK, Tyrion VI~ Gotta love all these healthy respectful sibling relationships in ACOK!
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
- Theorize about Val's role in the story
- Introduce Craster and his nightmarish prison factory of a Keep
- Introduce Gilly, and watch as her peril unravels the Watch's self-justifications
- Dig into the complex, opaque dialogue between Jon and LC Mormont at chapter's end
- Make explicit all that's implied about Craster's deal with the Others
Next week: we head back to the Iron Islands as Theon meets the girl of his dreams, only to find out too late that a) she's his sister b) she's the heir and c) he's a chump.
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
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!
In this episode, Catelyn arrives at the traveling court of the rightful(?) king(?) of Westeros, Renly Baratheon the First of His Name, who makes her a reasonable(?) proposal before Stannis ruins(?) everything, as usual, just because he’s jealous(?)
This week, we:
- talk about the literary influences on GRRM and ASOIAF
- Get in on Catelyn's mental state just prior to her rendezvous with a terrorist king
- Zero in on the Reach, what they stand for and why they suck just as bad as the Lannisters
- Spend hours shitting on Renly
- Why Daemon Blackfyre to Renly to Young Griff is excellent paralleling on George's part
Next week: ACOK, Jon III for Jon III, as LC Mormont’s Great Ranging arrives at Craster’s Keep, the happiest(?) place in Westeros.
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
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!
In this episode, friends and family come together to celebrate community and chow down. But Jeff can’t call it Christmas. Thanks Obama.
This week, we:
- Discuss cannibalism v. sacrifice
- Bathe in the warm glow of friends and family at the harvest feast...
- ...while analyzing all the little sad moments that show Bran's frustration with his life
- Introduce Jojen and Meera Reed, our homeschooled kids
- Talk about who their mother might really be...
No regular episode next week, but we will be releasing our latest Patreon episode (talking Winterfell with Joe Buckley, author of Great Castles of Westeros) for the general public on Monday, December 30!
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
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!
In this episode, the street preachers ranting about the apocalypse overtaking King’s Landing don’t even know how right they are.
This week, we:
- Ponder if Euron was Quellon's favorite son
- Cringe at the Alchemists and their dreadful "substance"
- Lament the fate of Cleos Frey, a pawn to be moved
- Dig into the layers of dysfunction and missed opportunities in the Tyrion-Cersei dynamic
- Talk the past, present, and future of wildfire
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
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!
In this episode, Arya Stark and her companions learn to never trust anyone over 30.
This week, we:
- Talk about whether Robert would have used magic to kill Rhaegar if he had the opportunity
- Get deep on how starving kids and hunger hollow people out
- Demand answers from Tywin as to why the hell he's using these horror tactics
- Examine the death of the mentor figure and how adults really are the worst
- Talk about how Sansa and Arya are similar in their circumstance and what yielding actually brings to peasants and nobles
- Examine Gendarya in depth! Will it happen in the books as it happened in the show?
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
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!
In this episode, in which the princess in the tower is sought out by two brave knights who want to spirit her away to freedom. Well, neither of them are knights. And both are completely fucking drunk.
This week, we:
-Discuss theories we hope to be WRONG about (a new concept for Jeff)
-Use Dontos' letter to show how Sansa is gradually maturing in her worldview
-Talk about the imagery of chivalry and how it changes as both character and audience age
-Compare and contrast Dontos and Sandor, Sansa's not-knights in non-shining armor
-Marvel at how differently this chapter reads when you come back knowing who pays Dontos (namely, Littlefinger)