Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

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)

 

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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!

 

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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'

 

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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!

 

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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See you all next week for AGOT, Catelyn II!