Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

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!

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

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!

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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