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! In this episode,  Sansa Stark, reeling from witnessing her father’s execution, is forced to stand strong against Joffrey (who is the worst), Meryn Trant (also the worst), and Sandor Clegane (not entirely the worst??) This week, we: - Talk some Shirley Jackson - Get deep on Sansa's grief - Ponder Sandor Clegane as anti-cynicism - Show how it's not all horror. George ain't a sadist or nihilist - Talk some retcon foreshadowing - Discuss Sansa's end point: Queen in the North! Next week: AGOT, Daenerys IX with Eliana AKA glass_table_girl from the Girls Gone Canon Podcast! Michal at Hypable:    Vassals of Kingsgrave:  Nice Jewish Girls:  Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/ Our youtube page:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber Emmett's twitter:  twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Jeff's twitter:  twitter.com/BryndenBFish  

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! In this episode, good ol' Maester Luwin reassures Bran and Rickon that their creepy nightmares about their dad being dead are meaningless...and of course, he is proven 100% right. Since when do dreams *mean* things?! This week, we: -Discuss the different directions George considered going with books four and five -Set up the struggle that will dominate Bran's storyline in the next book: the secular v. the magical, the Stark in Winterfell v. the Winged Wolf -Dig into the layers of political and personal history down in the Winterfell crypts -Pay tribute to the Ned Stark shaped hole inside Bran, Rickon, and his own tomb -Ponder where the Children of the Forest went and what they did after the Andals arrived per Luwin's story... Next week: AGOT, Sansa VI with new guest Michal Shick of Hypable, Nice Jewish Fangirls, and Vassals of Kingsgrave! Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/ Our youtube page:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber Emmett's twitter:  twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Jeff's twitter:  twitter.com/BryndenBFish

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! In this episode, George RR Martin finally stops dicking around, pulls out our hearts, and steps on them while we watch. This is the chapter where Dad dies. We also talk: - An off-screen event we would have loved to see on-page - Ned's death is a tragedy, not a genre deconstruction - Arya's training arc continues and she grows through adversity - Red Wedding and Ned's death parallels - Who really killed Ned Stark? This episode is also available as a video which is 1 hour longer! Check out the director's cut of the episode:  Next week: AGOT, Bran VII! Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/ Our youtube page:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber Emmett's twitter:  twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Jeff's twitter:  twitter.com/BryndenBFish

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! In this episode,  George gets his horror on as everything collapses around Dany--personally, politically, and of course, magically. We also talk: - Daenerys as a physical dragon - Foreshadowing things to come with flies, hitting the mood  just  right - The importance of POV: a bad act by someone we sympathize with - The real (black) magic was the friends we made along the way - Emmett answers all of Jeff's questions about magic! Our next livestream on AGOT, Arya V is tonight if you're listening on the release date and can be found here:  Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/ Our youtube page:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber Emmett's twitter:  twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Jeff's twitter:  twitter.com/BryndenBFish

...and that's a wrap. Join Jeff and Emmett in discussing the sorrowful, the satisfying, and the sickening in "The Iron Throne," the series finale of Game of Thrones!   Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber   Emmett's twitter:  twitter.com/PoorQuentyn   Jeff's twitter:  twitter.com/BryndenBFish