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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!   In this episode, Tyrion charges headfirst into hell, and Sansa wishes she could join him just to get away from Cersei.   This week, we:    - Discuss what Shae does around these parts - Get into Maegor's Holdfast with Sansa and an increasingly drunk Cersei - Talk about how Cersei fails at the basics of queenship where Sansa succeeds - Analyze Tyrion's tactics on the battlefield - Talk about the hell and heaven of the battle and Tyrion's place in it - Debate on who ordered the hit on Tyrion Next week: It's the climax of the battle with ACOK, Sansa VII! Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     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/PoorQ

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!   Jeff is away for work (he'll be back in the saddle on 2/8), so Emmett is joined by guest host Matt aka Joe Magician to talk about Final Fantasy Tactics!   This week, we discuss:    - Our relationship to the Final Fantasy series - The byzantine shell-game storyline of Tactics - The themes of power, corruption, and lies - The incredibly dense gameplay - How Tactics is basically ASOIAF: The Game   Matt's twitter: https://twitter.com/TheJoeMagician   Matt's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joemagician   The Maester Monthly podcast: https://maestermonthly.wordpress.com/   Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     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 twi

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!   Jeff is away for the month, so Emmett is joined by guest host Manu of Podcast Sans Frontieres to talk Metal Gear Solid!   This week, we discuss:    - Our relationship to the Metal Gear Solid series - The labyrinthine plot of the series - The major themes of the series - How those themes factor into gameplay - Why ASOIAF fans would love MGS   Manu's twitter: https://twitter.com/ManuclearBomb   Manu's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-sans-frontieres/id1550010207   Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     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!   Jeff is away for the month, so Emmett is joined by guest host Merry of Learned Hands!   This week, we discuss:    - Merry's origin story with law and ASOIAF - Learned Hands, her excellent podcast with NotACast guest Clint W - Favorite legal scenes in fiction - How to think about storytelling as a moral speculative space  - Jon Snow: what is his deal?   Merry's website: https://upfromunderwinterfell.wordpress.com/   Merry's twitter: https://twitter.com/MaesterMerry   Merry's podcast: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/k67ja-c05db/Learned-Hands-The-Official-Podcast-of-the-Westerosi-Bar-Association   Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     Our twitter: twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=

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, it's all Stannis' fault according to Tyrion anyways.   This week, we:    - Discuss Tyrion's parentage (again) - Observe with Tyrion the aftermath of the wildfire - Lay out the shape of the battle to come and Tyrion's mentality coming into it. - Look at Tyrion and admire his bravery, even while disparaging him for propping up the illegitimate and tyrannical reign of Joffrey - Debate whether Tyrion's use of wildfire is justified Next week: Sansa and Tyrion are in danger for ACOK, Sansa VI and Tyrion XIV! Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     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: twitte

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, everything explodes.   This week, we:    - Talk about how Davos' background informs his perspective - Explore the meaning of Stannis' fiery heart banner - Lay out George's "threefold revelation" buildup to the wildfire explosion - Praise the wonder and terror of the imagery - Analyze the fiery demon that emerges from the explosion   Next week: Tyrion looks upon his works and blames Stannis in ACOK, Tyrion XIII! 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

Hi everyone and happy holiday 2020! It's been a hell of a year. Hell. Anyways, today, we're journeying back to 2012 to talk about Game of Thrones' most beloved episode: Season Two, Episode Nine's "Blackwater." Journey back as we synopsize, analyze, nostalgia-ize(?) on this George RR Martin episode.    Love you all. Thank you for spending your 2020 listening to us. See you in 2021!   Our Patreon: https://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, the Baratheon fleet sails up the Blackwater Rush to their inevitable victory.   This week, we:    - Praise the cinematic tension with which the chapter begins - Repeatedly and mercilessly dunk on High Captain Ser Imry Florent, who is the worst - Contrast Davos' dread for battle from his smuggler days with his sons' eagerness to prove themselves as young noblemen - Talk through the strategic layout of the battle... - ...and imagine how Jeff would do differently, and better   Next week: Tyrion springs the fiery trap in the second half of ACOK, Davos III! 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/B

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 joins the singers in the sept (yay) and has to talk to multiple Lannisters (boo).   This week, we:    - Cheer ourselves hoarse at arriving at the Battle of the Blackwater - Watch Sansa dance her way through conversations with Tyrion and Joffrey - Praise the beautiful imagery and prose in the sept - Talk about Sansa's empathy, where she sets its limits, and what it can and cannot accomplish in war - Welcome (reluctantly) Cersei, who is already drunk   Next week: we flip over to the Baratheon side of the Battle of Blackwater with ACOK, Davos III (Part 1)! 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: twitte

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, Theon Greyjoy is introduced to the idea that his actions have consequences. He … doesn’t take it well.   This week, we:    - Talk about all the dreams that Theon has, what the dreams mean and what prophetic dreams mean overall - Analyze Theon's growing paranoia, the murders that he's committing and his mindstate - Get deep into Asha and Theon's relationship and what Asha is trying to do by showing up to Theon with so few men - Recoil as Ramsay in the guise of Reek worms his way deeper into Theon's psyche - Realize that it's not Bran and Theon up on the walls. It's the miller's boys - Talk about Theon as kinslayer and the potential at least one of the miller's boys is his own son   Next week: It's battle time, baby. We're in the Battle of the Blackwater with ACOK, Sansa V! Alisha's twitter: https://twitter.com/totesnotalice    Alisha's instagram

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast that usually goes through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! But not here, oh no, not here.    In this episode (previously available only to our $5+ patrons and now available for everyone), we take a deep dive into "The Forsaken," Aeron Damphair's released chapter from TWOW. If you like what you hear, check out our Patreon for many more bonus episodes and benefits!    This week, we:    - Frame Aeron's descent as both physical and spiritual - Discuss how George creates Euron as a patchwork villain made of contradictions and eerie juxtapositions - Contextualize Aeron's first drug-induced nightmare within the psychedelic history of the United States - Analyze the apocalyptic imagery of said nightmare - Try and fail to warn Falia Flowers of what's coming for her   Next week: our regularly scheduled programming resumes back in Winterfell with Theon as he continues to rule justly and nobly ... or makes a botch of it while

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, Catelyn riddles in the dark with Gollum/Jaime and discovers the horrible truth behind the backstory.   This week, we:    - Talk about the rules of the game and how playing this game demonstrates the arrested development of these Robert's Rebellion-era characters - Gape at Jaime for his casual admissions of truth and how Jaime is denying Catelyn catharsis with his admissions - Talk about vows and how it displays the rotten system of Westeros - Get our eyes opened specifically to the type of king that Jaime kingslayed - Sympathize with Jaime (of all people) because even when he tells the truth to Catelyn, she dismisses him as a kinslayer. - Debate about whether Catelyn was correct to release Jaime for Sansa.   Next week: We're back in Winterfell with Theon as he continues to rule justly and nobly ... or makes a botch of it while having nightmares and

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, Catelyn deals with the apparent deaths of her younger sons by talking to a sympathetic friend: Jaime Lannister? Do I have that right…?   This week, we:    - Trace Catelyn's story from the explosion of colors at the start of ACOK to midnight at the end. - Marinate in Catelyn's grief over Bran and Rickon - Hold hands with Hoster Tully as Catelyn confesses she just wants an end to the bloodshed and for Robb to be safe - Come to Jaime Lannister's cell armed with a sword. - Analyze the structure of Robb Stark's marriage to Jeyne Westerling and talk about whether it was good (it was not)   Next week: Gollum--I mean Jaime offers some riddles in the dark.   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/UCmmDfP

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, Tyrion faces his most frightening challenge yet: dinner with his big sister Cersei.    This week, we:    - Filter the news of Bran and Rickon's "deaths" through the Lannister dynamics - Take apart the Tyrion-Cersei relationship and how they race each other to the bottom - Run down the checklist of Lannister problems prior to the Battle of Blackwater - Take stock of the price paid by powerless women for Lannister dysfunction - Delve into how Tyrion tries and fails to bury his sins with Shae Next week: Catelyn steps into the void to face Jaime in ACOK Catelyn VII (Part 1)!   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 t

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, Jon Snow gets some practical education from Qhorin Halfhand and some … weird education from his brother Bran.   This week, we:    - Continue on the march through the Frostfangs and point out the Tolkien influence on these Jon chapters - Examine Qhorin Halfhand, his mentorship of Jon and why Jon has to learn and also reject Qhorin's teachings about the wildlings. - Get into the weirwoods with Jon and Ghost and try to figure out what's happening in this weird-ass scene - Talk about Dalbridge sacrificing himself and how this example inspires Jon for the rest of his arc - Damn Jon's Season 2 arc and talk overall about Jon's story for all the books. Next week: We're back in King's Landing with Tyrion and Cersei. Should be a fun time. (It's not).   The Boiled Leather Audio Hour: https://boiledleatheraudiohour.tumblr.com/  Stefan's twitter: https://twit

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, everything is on fire and all Sansa wants is someone trustworthy to talk to, but instead she has Dontos, Sandor, and Cersei. Oh, and in case all that wasn’t enough, she just got her first period.   This week, we:    - Watch with Sansa as the smoke rises from Stannis burning the kingswood and Tyrion burning the suburbs of King's Landing - See how Sansa is responding as a disappointed romantic to Dontos and his promises of salvation - Get deep into Sandor Clegane's relationship to Sansa as the dark mirror to Sansa's disappointed romanticism. - Empathize with Sansa as she menstruates for the first time and what that means for her as she's hauled in front of Cersei - Explore Tyrion's pre-battle planning and praise Tyrion for his tactics even as Sansa remains our POV for the coming battle and has a unique POV on things to come Next week: We're up in the F

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, Jon joins Qhorin Halfhand and his A-Team as they go after wildling spies...only for Jon to immediately get a crush on one.   This week, we:    - Contrast the competence of Qhorin & Co with what we've seen of the Night's Watch so far - Plunge into the new setting of the Frostfangs - Break down Jon's ethical crisis with Ygritte - Explore the layers of the Bael the Bard story - Watch as Jon chooses mercy, unlike Theon last week Next week: back to King's Landing as Sansa has to deal with Dontos, Sandor, Cersei, and her first period in ACOK Sansa IV!   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/Br

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, Theon decides to make up for all his bad decisions with even worse ones.    This week, we:    - Wake Theon up from his power fantasies into his new nightmare - Watch as he unravels himself in front of the people of Winterfell - Break down the traps he faces from within and without on the manhunt - Praise Maester Luwin for trying to save as many lives as possible - Wonder what's coming next for Osha Next week: even farther north to the Frostfangs for ACOK Jon VI, where the bastard in black learns from Qhorin Halfhand and his wrecking crew.    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, Tyrion is working 28 hours a day, nine days a week just to get a warm welcome ready for Stannis.    This week, we:    - Talk about whether Tysha will return to the story - Do that war shit by talking about the clansmen's deployment into the kingswood. - Criticize Tyrion and the Lannisters for being a) bad b) bad politicians c) short-sightedly bad. - Find out what the fates of Ser Osmund Kettleblack and Ser Balon Swann will be in TWOW.  Next week: we're heading up to Winterfell to see how things are going for hero Theon. It's going great. Thanks for asking.   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: twitte

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, Dany wanders through the House of the Undying and soaks in some visions of wonder and terror.   This week, we:    - Talk about the monster coming for Daenerys, mythology, the Others, Dany herself - Analyze how the warlocks and Undying are appeals to authority to keep Dany in the HoTU - Unpack and theorize on what the different visions means (treasons and brides) - Watch the Undying be put to the lie that they are. They can die. - Answer the question: Does the ASOIAF fandom prefer theories to analysis and does that hinder our enjoyment of the books? Next week: We're back in King's landing with Tyrion getting ready for the king's arrival and the Battle of the Blackwater.   Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our twitter: twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page: www.youtube