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Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 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 unpack AGOT, Catelyn VI in which Catelyn Stark makes it out of the Mountains of the Moon to the Vale proper...only to have to climb yet another mountain. She just can’t win, despite doing nothing wrong, ever.
This week, we:
- Give our initial thoughts on the FIRE AND BLOOD excerpt
- Catelyn's growing stony heart
- Feudalism and Brynden Tully
- Lysa as pitiable and why she's acting the way she is
- Catelyn's ascent to the Eyrie and how it represents the hero's journey and what awaits the hero at the top
- What is going to happen in the Vale in TWOW
Next week: AGOT, Eddard IX!
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Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 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 tackle AGOT, Eddard VIII in which Ned Stark pleads with Robert not to murder Daenerys and Viserys and ends up resigning rather than participate in murder.
This week, we:
- Discuss Ned's three arguments to Robert about not killing Daenerys
- How Ned leaving is a breakup
- How much of a shit Renly is
- Who was the merchant Littlefinger priced a hit out on?
- The moral event horizon: killing children in ASOIAF
Next week: AGOT, Catelyn VI!
Remember to check out part 1 of our patreon-only episode if you're one of our $5/above patrons. And if you're not a patron yet, link below!
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Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
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Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Sep 24, 2018
Monday Sep 24, 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 tackle AGOT, Arya IIIin which Arya Stark chases cats through the Red Keep and stumbles upon dragon skulls and a pair of conspirators.
This week, we:
- Talk about a potential First Blackfyre Rebellion show
- Discuss Arya's training montage, chasing cats
- Follow up on her chat with dad and how Ned giving her something to do was the best thing he could have done for her
- So much foreshadowing and groundwork: Illyrio, Balerion (the cat, not the dragon),
- What exactly was Varys and Illyrio's plan at this juncture in the story?
Next week: AGOT, Eddard VIII!
Remember to check out part 1 of our patreon-only episode if you're one of our $5/above patrons. And if you're not a patron yet, link below!
Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF
Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
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Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 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 tackle AGOT, Tyrion IV in which Tyrion Lannister rides as a captive of Catelyn’s Stark’s to the Vale, gets ambushed by Mountain Clansmen and sows doubt in Catelyn’s mind about whether he actually sent the catspaw to kill Bran.
This week, we:
- Answer a question about an AU where Hoster Tully isn't sick.
- Discuss how this chapter immediately follows up to Catelyn V
- Introduce Tyrion's changing mentality
- The Three Stooges in Westeros? Mmm hmm. They're here in this episode!
- Should Bronn have died in the Loot Train Battle in GoT, S07?
Next week: AGOT, Arya III!
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Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Sep 10, 2018
Monday Sep 10, 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 tackle AGOT, Eddard VII in which in which the Hand’s Tourney comes to a bloody close and the titular Hand has some very revealing conversations with King Robert and Varys the Spider.
This week, we:
- Answer a question about the convenience of Ned figuring out that Jaime was the father of Cersei's children
- Discuss Ser Hugh's life and death as representative of chivalry and knightly virtue
- Robert Baratheon's hatred for rule and the crown vs his love for winning and fighting for the crown
- The end of the Hand's Tourney and what Gregor represents
- Varys and his spiderwebs
- Foreshadowing Ned and Robert's death
- Who killed Ser Hugh of the Vale
Next week: AGOT, Tyrion IV!
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Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 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 joined by Chloe, AKA Liesandarbor!
This week, we:
- Answer a question about the upcoming Long Night
- Engage in depth on oh so many aspects of this chapter: the tourney, Sansa as fantasy protagonist, that apparently she's only 12 years old
- Lord Creepyfinger and Sansa
- The hold-your-breath conversation between Sansa and Sandor
- Ser Hugh's death and its impact on Sansa
- Minor character casting call
- Foreshadowing the Tourney of the Winged Knights in TWOW
- And finally, the war that ends it all: Is SanSan canon!
Next week: AGOT, Eddard VII!
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Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF
Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
Emmett's tumblr: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/
Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Monday Aug 27, 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 tackle Jeff's favorite AGOT chapter: AGOT, Catelyn V in which Lady Catelyn and her faithful retainer Ser Rodrik have a fateful chance encounter at the crossroads.
This week, we:
- Answer a question whether any of the gods are real in ASOIAF.
- Talk about Catelyn's family, her home and the fractured politics of the Riverlands
- The Inn at the Crossroads: not just a crossroads in space, but in time
- Feudalism and how Masha Heddle embodies it in her interactions with the incognito Catelyn and cognito Tyrion
- Our first inklings of the southron ambitions theory! (Jeff's favorite ASOIAF Theory!)
- Foreshadowing and irony in Catelyn's depictions of the Vale and Riverlands
- Bronn Foreshadowing
- And finally, the great debate of our time: was Catelyn right in taking Tyrion prisoner?
Next week: AGOT, Sansa II with Chloe AKA LiesAndArbor from Twitter and Tumbler!!
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Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
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Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 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 tackle AGOT, Eddard VI in which Ned Stark has a frustrating small council session, the reader receives our first inklings of who Stannis Baratheon is and Ned visits an armorer and his apprentice who turns out to be Gendry: Robert Baratheon’s bastard.
This week, we:
- Answer a question about what era of history in Westeros or Essos and our own time we'd live in.
- Announce our next patreon-only episode: a character analysis of none other than King Robert Baratheon!
- Get into the small council session, more players, Janos the Fuckboy, others
- Stannis! Stannis! STANNIS!
- Baratheon Family Dynamics
- Where is Robert Baratheon in all of this?
- Renly's knowledge of the twincest
- Who paid for Gendry's apprentice fee? The Amen Brothers open a detective agency and investigate
Next week: AGOT, Eddard VI!
Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF
Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
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Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 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 tackle AGOT, Jon IV where Jon makes a friend in Samwell Tarly for life.
This week, we:
- Answer a question about our favorite Nerstream Era Supreme Court of Westeros ruling.
- Talk through Sam and Jon's relationship and how it evolves
- Randyll "Lord Fuckface" Tarly gets his due
- Foreshadowing for the Red Wedding, Sack of Winterfelland Jon as the Last Hero
- What was Jon Snow's birth name? The Amen Brothers investigate!
Next week: AGOT, Eddard VI!
Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF
Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
Emmett's tumblr: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/
Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 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 tackle AGOT, Eddard V in which Ned soft-interrogates Grand Maester Pycelle, has a great moment with Arya and gets a lesson in paranoia from Littlefinger
This week, we:
- Answer a question about whether GRRM not taking an active role in the show led to lower quality seasons.
- Throw numerous shade at Pycelle (who deserves every bit of it)
- Analyze Ned Stark as our neo-noir medieval detective
- Pontificate on the heat and "sweet milk" and what they symbolize
- Pycelle's role in Jon Arryn's death
- Varys killing Pycelle foreshadowing
- How GRRM tells a mystory story
Next week: AGOT, Jon IV!
Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF
Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF
Emmett's tumblr: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/
Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish