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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 Jun 25, 2018
Monday Jun 25, 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 get their hands dirty in the swamp politics of King's Landing as Lord Eddard Stark enters King's Landing, and we have our first small council session.
This week, we:
- Answer questions on why other theories besides R+L=J don't make sense and answer why there are few Valyrian steel weapons in Essos
- Breakdown Ned's no-good, very bad first day at the office.
- Analyze each of the small council counselors, who they are, their aims, their ambitions
- Littlefinger the Incel
- Is Pycelle an idiot, just pretending to be an idiot or is an idiot who thinks he's pretending to be an idiot?
- The beautiful tragedy of Ned and Catelyn's final meeting
- Get into foreshadowing and talk about why Ned fundamentally misunderstands his role as Hand of the King and how it leads to his downfall
- Do you like debt economics? We do! We analyze who is truly to blame for the 6 million golden dragon debt the crown currently has.
Next Week: AGOT, Tyrion III
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Emmett's tumblr: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/
Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn
Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Monday Jun 18, 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 journey north to the beauty and horror of the Wall, hang out with Jon Snow, Alliser Thorne, Tyrion Lannister and Donal Noye
This week, we:
- Talk about the Age of Heroes show and answer a question about whether Stannis will burn Theon, Asha and Rickon
- Jon as a bully and how he gets his privilege checked hard
- Weep about how much of a BAMF Donal Noye is
- How Ser Alliser is a terrible trainer of men
- Get into foreshadowing and callbacks, talk about the "cold gods of winter" as the Others and other assorted fun mini-theories
- We sing "Where in the world is Benjen Stark of Winterfell" and talk about what happened to Benjen and what his future role in the story!
Next Week: AGOT, Eddard 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
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 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 get into the thick of King's Landing and all its amazing architecture and wretched politics
This week, we:
- Answer questions about House Dayne in TWOW and our favorite music from GAME OF THRONES.
- We stare in awe at George's description of King's Landing
- Cash Rules Everything Around Me (in King's Landing)
- Littlefinger and Varys as poker players
- Untanling the conspiracies of Varys and Littlefinger
- Rodrik, Catelyn, Varys foreshadowing/mini theories
- Are Varys and Littlefinger working together? It's a real theory (and it's ugly)
Next Week: AGOT, Jon III!
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 Jun 04, 2018
Monday Jun 04, 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 ASOIAF mystic and mythical astronomer: Lucifer Means Lightbringer, AKA LML. He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Bran III, the trippy as shit chapter where Bran falls and learns to fly via the Three Eyed Crow
This week, we:
- Answer questions our favorite actors in GAME OF THRONES, what religions we'd follow and whether Robert's hatred for Rhaegar was motivated by Lyanna
- We get deep into Bran's vision sequence
- LML walks us through "the fire of the gods."
- We do work on getting into the foreshadowing in this chapter
- We address every, and I mean EVERY vision Bran sees and lay out possibilities for what it means
- LML sings Radiohead's Karma Police to Jeff's deep and abiding sighs.
Next Week: AGOT, Catelyn IV
Lucifer Means Lightbringer: Website, podcast, youtube, twitter, patreon
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 May 28, 2018
Monday May 28, 2018
It's been a while. We missed you (sort-of), but 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 TWO chapters from AGOT: Sansa I and Eddard III
This week, we:
- Answer questions!
- Emmett does Emmett things and talks about how Sansa is the embodiment of the fantasy reader
- Life is not a song and the thematic motif of Sansa's chapters gets talked
- We shit on Renly
- We talk about Robert and Ned death foreshadowing
- Get in deep on the feudal structure of Westeros and how it helps the powerful oppress the powerless!
It's just the best thing you'll hear until our next podcast!
Next week: AGOT, Bran III with special guest Lucifer Means Lightbringer!
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 May 07, 2018
Monday May 07, 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 an emotionally-challenging chapter which goes in deep into Catelyn Stark's grief over her son, cover yet another attempt on Bran's life and then we see the inklings of Catelyn Stark, #smart #politician emerge
This week, we:
- Talk about FIRE AND BLOOD, VOLUME ONE
- Emmett gives us an EXCLUSIVE Ice and Fire Con report
- A portrait of Catelyn in grief
- We talk about how Theon is written weirdly
- Lady Stoneheart/Red Wedding foreshadowing in this chapter!
- Libraries and why they burn or will burn in TWOW
Unfortunately, we'll need to take a 3-week break after this, but when we return on May 28: yup, it's Sansa's first chapter (Jeff is thrilled)
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 Apr 30, 2018
Monday Apr 30, 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 ASOIAF veteran and aficionado of all things pun and history related: Aziz from History of Westeros. He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Tyrion II, the history behind the chapter and dangerous and exciting foreshadowing of things to come
This week, we:
- Answer questions about Ser Dunk's descendants as well as what scenes from Seasons 6 and 7 of GoT we're interested in reading in TWOW/ADOS
- Busting up Tyrion and Jon's delusions during their long roadtrip
- Tolkienesque influences on the chapter
- Tyrion and Jon as underdogs and how they play off each other
- The Fate of Benjen foreshadowing
- Famous R+L=J foreshadowing and a subtle foreshadowing
- What's up with those dragon skulls following everyone around in the Red Keep?
- The Field of Fire: past and future
Next Week: Someone tries to kill Bran (again)
History of Westeros: Website, podcast, youtube, twitter, patreon
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 Apr 23, 2018
Monday Apr 23, 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 pleased to present you with "Affairs of the State:": our analysis of AGOT, Eddard II!
This week, we:
- Answer two more questions
- Get in depth on Robert's psychology
- Theorize about Varys being a conduit of bad information to Robert
- Jorah Mormont and why it had to be Ned who went to bring him justice
- Wylla and how GRRM wants us to pay attention to the different stories on Jon's parentage
- Jaime and the Unsatisfying Warden of the East subplot
- POV intersections: how Ned and Jaime view the killing of Aerys II.
Next Week: Jon and Tyrion go on a road trip the opposite way!
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 Apr 16, 2018
Monday Apr 16, 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 pleased to present you with "Forgetting to be Afraid:": our analysis of a very controversial chapter in ASOIAF: AGOT, Daenerys II! And we're joined by none other than Eliana, AKA glass_table_girl on reddit, AKA Sailor Moonblood on twitter (https://twitter.com/arhythmetric) to join in a tough but great talk on this chapter.
This week, we:
- Answer two more questions
- Eliana's spectacular in-depth talk about Daenerys: her fears and her assimilation into Dothraki culture
- Emmett does his thing talking about intimacy and how the chapter crafts intimacy between Daenerys and the Dothraki and Daenerys and Khal Drogo.
- Orientalism and the pitfalls of the Dothraki in ASOIAF vs how the Wildlings are depicted
- How Illyrio's gift of the dragon eggs weren't in the original version of AGOT
- The history books that Jorah gives Daenerys and their importance come TWOW per GRRM
- House of the Undying/dragonriding foreshadowing/callbacks
- Finally, we got into significant depth on marriage customs in Westeros/Essos and whether GRRM was basing Dany's marriage (at 13) on real-world medieval history or not
Next Week: Bros Ned and Robert go ridin'
Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's website: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
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 Apr 09, 2018
Monday Apr 09, 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 pleased to present you with "Catelyn Might Have Done Something Wrong Right There: An Analysis of AGOT, Jon II": a three-act chapter which has Jon leaving Winterfell forever (but probably not)
This week, we talk:
- Answers to some of your burning questions
- Jon's illusions being dashed in his farewells to Winterfell
- Jon's outsider role as a defining force in the entirety of his arc
- The excellent three-act structure of the chapter
- Subtle warging hints!
- "Stick 'em with the pointy end" and its importance for Arya
- Our Independence Day/ASOIAF mashup
- And finally and not at all controversially, we tackle the question of "Is Catelyn Stark evil or a bitch or abusive to Jon Snow?"
This is a meaty episode.
Next Week: Daenerys Targaryen gets married in barbarian splendor!
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