Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

Episode 10: A GAME OF THRONES, Tyrion I: "Quality Family Time"

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 "Quality Family Time: An Analysis of AGOT, Tyrion I": our first chapter from the POV of Tyrion Lannister!

 

This week, we talk:

 

- A best-of Apple Podcast reviews

- Tyrion as an anachronistic modern POV and our reader sympathies

- Dysfunctional Lannisters

- Detective Tyrion puzzling out Jaime and Cersei's involvement in Bran's fall

- All the foreshadowing of Tyrion vs Sandor vs Joffrey vs Cersei vs Jaime

- More 1993 Letter stuff!

- The Winterfell Library and that book "Engines of War" and how that might play out in TWOW

- Is Jaime's fate spelled out here in Tyrion's first POV chapter

- Why Penny the Dwarf is the mirror GRRM holds up to Tyrion in ADWD and what she means to Tyrion.

 

It's a goshdarn good episode

 

Next Week: Catelyn Stark may have done something wrong: our analysis of AGOT, Jon II!

 

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Why A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is better than A STORM OF SWORDS (Patreon Special Episode!)

Hello! And welcome to a very, very special edition of the NotACast ... podcast! All about why we think that A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the better book than A STORM OF SWORDS. And we're joined by A Song of Ice and Fire LUMINARY BookShelfStud AKA Michael! (@BookshelfStud on Twitter!)

 

Now, if you listen to us regularly, you know that typically, we give you all one chapter per week, but recently we started a patreon campaign which kicks off on April 1st (No foolin'). To give you all a taste of the special episodes you will get if subscribe to our patreon for a mere $5/month or more. 

 

In this nearly 3 hour long episode, we cover topics like:

- The strengths of ASOS (Stannis, Catelyn, Samwell, Battle of the Wall, Red Wedding, Purple Wedding)

- The weakness of ASOS (Early King's Landing, early Arya/Bran, climaxes not spaced out)

- ADWD's strengths: Quentyn! 

- ADWD as a study of leadership and its failures on the part of Dany and Jon

- Delving deeply into the psychology of the characters

- Getting at the heart of the themes that dominate DANCE and A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE as a whole.

- Weakness of ADWD too! Orientalism, mid-point Jon, Dany, Tyrion chapters, the choppy endings and cliff-hangers

- Finally, we get into the meta side: why we prefer ADWD over ASOS and talk about the fandom in 7 years since ADWD.

 

It's great fun, and please consider our patreon if you're able to (But if not, no worries, friends. We'll keep doing our chapter by chapters for YOU!)

 

To quickly recap what our patreon is and the reward tiers, it’s:

 

$1-4/month: Sparrows: A Thank you from us at the end credits, special episodes

$5-9/month: Poor Fellows: Thanks and show notes, special episodes

$10-19/month: Sworn Swords:Thanks, show notes, special episodes 1 day early release and the option to submit a question for us to answer in our rotating “Question of the week”

$20-29/month: Kingsguard: Thanks, show notes, special episodes 2 day early release and the option to submit a question for us to answer in our rotating “Question of the week”, special episodes

$30 and above/month: Lords Commander: Thanks, special episodes, show notes, 3 day early release and the option to submit a question for us to answer in our rotating “Question of the week”, special episodes

 

Thanks again to Michael for joining us. Check out the Maester Monthly podcast that he co-hosts along with his excellent dives into fantasy short stories on Fantastic Transmissions!

 

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Episode 9: A GAME OF THRONES, BRAN II, "The Things I Do For Love"

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!

 

Okay, listen up. Normally, we'd say, "We're so excited to talk this episode", and we mean it every time, but LISTEN. This episode. By R'hllor's fires, you ladies and gentlemen are going to like this episode all about one of the most iconic chapters in all of A Song of Ice and Fire: A GAME OF THRONES, BRAN II! 

 

This week, we talk:

 

- Bran just before and as he becomes broken

- Winterfell architecture

- The plots and schemes of Team Lannisters

- Why Martin isn't a sadist as a writer

- Direwolves and crows

- Was Jaime right to push Bran? 

 

No foolin', this is our favorite episode yet!

 

Next Week: The Giant of Lannister: AGOT, Tyrion I!

 

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Episode 8: A GAME OF THRONES, ARYA I "Needlework"

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!

 

Our eighth episode of the Not A Cast and our first introduction to the only character who has a POV chapter in all 5 published books of ASOIAF: Arya Stark!

 

This week, we talk:

 

- Arya, like Jon, as the Winterfell outsider

- Our first look into "female space" -- the sewing circle and the expectations placed upon Westerosi noble women

- Those two "sewing circles" -- the literal one and the training yard

- Our likes and dislikes

- R+L=J. Always.

- More abandoned foreshadowing!

- Some Sandor Clegane trivia

- Does Jon's line about finding Arya frozen with a needle still in her hand foreshadow her death? Opinions vary!

 

There's a lot here, and you won't want to miss!

 

In TWO weeks: The Things I do for love: AGOT, Bran I

 

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Episode 7: A GAME OF THRONES, CATELYN II: "The Cup Has Passed"

Hello and welcome to the Not A Cast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

 

Welcome to our seventh episode of the Not A Cast entitled: “The Cup Has Passed: An Analysis of A Game of Thrones, Catelyn II,” our second POV chapter from the character who has done nothing wrong ever.

 

This week, we talk:

 

- Our special patreon episode that'll be released to the general public before our patreon goes live: Hint, it's about A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

- The sense of history flowing through Catelyn's second chapter

- The importance of who POV is and how GRRM preserves his mysteries

- A Maester Luwin love fest

- So. Much. R+L=J.

- All about Ned Stark and Ashara Dayne and why Ned makes the most sense of the Stark Ashara loved.

 

This is a an episode you won't want to miss!

 

Check out @liesandarbor's excellent twitter feed which has all sorts of R+L=J evidence: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor 

 

Next week: AGOT, Arya I!

 

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Episode 6: A GAME OF THRONES, JON I: "Jon Gets Well and Truly Drunk"

Welcome back to the Not A Cast ... podcast. Today, PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish discuss our first POV chapter from everyone's favorite bastard (unless you're a psychopath), Jon Snow! Lots to discuss and unpack here. We talk about:

• How Jon and Sansa share a naivete about the world that they lose throughout AGOT
• How GRRM structures this chapter against the uses of the word "bastard."
• The plethora of Obi-Wan Kenobi figures in Jon's life and how these mentor figures work to "kill the boy"
• Our likes/dislikes
• We address the question of whether Benjen was in on R+L=J
• We talk MORE abandoned foreshadowing
• And PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish have their first true disagreement as they discuss the Tyrion Targaryen theory

This is a hell of an episode.

Finally, the boys reveal their patreon campaign, tiers and rewards. Check it out: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF 

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See you all next week for AGOT, Catelyn II!

Episode 5: A GAME OF THRONES, EDDARD I: "This is Her Place"

Welcome to the Not A Cast ... podcast. Today, PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish discuss our first POV chapter from the main character of Game of Thrones: Eddard Stark. Join with us as we discuss:

• Fire and Blood, Volume One and what we're looking forward to in that book
• Emmett's next essay in his Theon ADWD essay series: Remember your name, Part 2: Always Smiling
• Ned Stark, living in the horror of his past
• Symbolism through statues: how Martin communicates the over-arching theme that Ned is going in the wrong direction with the crypts
• Our likes and dislikes
• Unpacking the convoluted story behind Sweetrobin Arryn's fostering
• Jeff tries to bait Emmett into another theory discussion with ... surprising results

We have fun. You have fun. We all have fun.

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See you all next week for AGOT, Jon I!

Episode 4: A GAME OF THRONES, DAENERYS I: "The House with the Red Door is in Braavos"

Welcome to the Not A Cast ... podcast. Today, PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish discuss our first POV chapter from Daenerys Targaryen, the once and future queen. Join with us as we discuss:

• Our favorite theories from last year.
• Emmett's excellent breakdown of the chapter
• Lots and lots of discussion of Dany's place in the narrative
• Our likes/dislikes
• How George RR Martin retconned the Blackfyres into the story when they weren't in GRRM's head when he wrote this chapte
• Jeff baits Emmett into talking about where the House with the Red Door is.

It's fun. We're having fun. 

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See you all next week for AGOT, Eddard I!

 

Links:

• How Brienne the Beauty Became Pretty by JoeMagician
• TWOW Prologue Theory: The Silent Man by feldman10
• Uprooting the Lemon Tree: Symbolism & Character Development by glass_table_girl
• Lemon Memories, or Lemories, or How I Learned how to Stop Ingesting Tinfoil and Understand ASOIAF by jonestony710

Episode 3: A GAME OF THRONES, CATELYN I: "Enter the Godswood"

Welcome to our third episode of the Not A Cast ... podcast. Today, PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish continue our story in Winterfell and get our first POV chapter from the perspective of Catelyn Stark, who BTW has done nothing wrong ever. Join with us as we discuss:

• Our first fandoms way before ASOIAF
• Emmett's excellent breakdown of the chapter
• Why GRRM described the POV of Catelyn as telling the story of King Arthur's mother
• Our likes/dislikes
• Abandoned foreshadowing! Utilizing GRRM's 1993 pitch letter to focus on a part of the chapter that was likely intended to foreshadow events in the letter but not in the published text
• Emmett and Jeff get hot, real hot, about a certain scene from Season 7 of Game of Thrones

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See you all next week for AGOT, Dany I!

Episode 2: A GAME OF THRONES, BRAN I: "The End of Summer"

The chapter that started it all. A GAME OF THRONES, BRAN I was the first chapters that George RR Martin ever wrote. And boy is it a doozy. Join PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish as they break down and analyze this chapter, talk about how ASOIAF came into being and get ethereal with their theories.

 

Our friends and their contributions to the podcast:

 

- JoeMagician had the point about Bloodraven piloting Mama Direwolf to Winterfell

- a4187021 had the excellent last line from A DREAM OF SPRING theory

 

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