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 a...
May 28, 2018•3 hr 39 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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 o...
May 07, 2018•2 hr 46 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 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 sce...
Apr 30, 2018•2 hr 23 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Apr 23, 2018•2 hr 50 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 16, 2018•2 hr 1 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast 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 r...
Apr 09, 2018•2 hr 1 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 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 invo...
Apr 02, 2018•2 hr 42 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast 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 sp...
Mar 28, 2018•3 hr 59 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 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 bec...
Mar 26, 2018•2 hr 11 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast 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" ...
Mar 12, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 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 - Th...
Mar 05, 2018•2 hr 39 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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/...
Feb 26, 2018•2 hr 34 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast 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: R emember 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 ...
Feb 19, 2018•2 hr 32 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ab...
Feb 12, 2018•2 hr 46 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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 le...
Jan 29, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Ple...
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