Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

- Take stock of Dany's different kinds of power

- Analyze her relationship with Irri given that power

- Revisit Dany's dragons as her subconscious feelings given form

- Talk about her complex feelings toward Jorah

- Explore the system of the slave trade

- Introduce Slaver's Bay as the major new setting in ASOS

- Dig into the hellish imagery of Astapor specifically

- Explore the cultural context of the history and language used here

- Take stock of the horrors involved in the training of the Unsullied

- Analyze Barristan's role in Dany's decision-making process

- Follow Arya with the BWB and see the resistance movement in the Riverlands

- Discuss the realities of the BWB: its noble methods but its lack of an endgame

- Enter the magical world of the Riverlanders living in the trees

- Analyze one of the best one-chapter characters Lady Smallwood

- Answer the question about who the Ghost of High Heart is

- Arrive at Maidenpool to find the town sacked and the castle locked

- Wave farewell to Cleos Frey, who dies as he lived: without dignity

- Break down how Jaime's certainties falter throughout his duel with Brienne

- Trace the shifting dynamics as Jaime fails to take control of the Mummers

- Reframe the Jaime-Brienne duel as it actually is: as a sex scene

- Analyze Rickard Karstark, his reasons and his weak-ass rationale for child murder

- See how Robb Stark is reacting emotionally to the fall of his kingdom

- Dread alongside of Catelyn at the loss of the Karstarks and what this means for the Stark cause

- Revel (slightly) in Robb Stark's frontier justice but realize that ultimately one execution won't right all the wrongs in the world

- See the false ray of hope in Jeyne's hips by chapter's end

- Discuss whether Robb was right here

- Watch the members of the Small Council play musical chairs

- Analyze how Tywin and the Lords of the Reach play politics with the North

- Chuckle and wince as Littlefinger uses his little finger to unlock the Vale

- Break down the Lannister family dynamics

- Shiver with fear as the Red Wedding approaches

- Engage our senses on the Battle of the Fist of the First Men

- Empathize with Samwell with all the horror he's experienced and is experiencing.

- Remember the bear!

- Triumph alongside of Samwell as he kills the first Other in thousands of years

- Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls

- Break down how George structures the reveal of what happened at the Fist

- Praise the formal experimentation of interweaving past and present

- Shiver in fear at the exquisite tone of dread a la Stephen King and found footage

- Analyze Sam as a POV, as his stress and self-loathing keeps breaking the surface

- Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls