Episode 166: A STORM OF SWORDS, SAMWELL I: The Terror (Part 1)

Published: Dec. 6, 2021, noon

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!\n\xa0\n\nIn this episode, Samwell Tarly is walking in a winter wonderland...y'know, let's make that terrorland. Sounds right.\n\xa0\nThis week, we:\xa0\n\xa0\n\n- Break down how George structures the reveal of what happened at the Fist\n- Praise the formal experimentation of interweaving past and present\n- Shiver in fear at the exquisite tone of dread a la Stephen King and found footage\n- Analyze Sam as a POV, as his stress and self-loathing keeps breaking the surface\n- Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls\n\n\n\xa0\nNext week: we plunge back into hell to finish up ASOS, Samwell I!\n\xa0\nOur patreon:\xa0www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF\n\xa0\nOur merch store:\xa0https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com\xa0\xa0\n\n\n\xa0\nOur twitter:\xa0twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF\n\n\n\xa0\nOur facebook:\xa0www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/\n\n\n\xa0\nOur youtube page:\xa0www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG\u2026iew_as=subscriber\n\n\n\xa0\nEmmett's twitter:\xa0twitter.com/PoorQuentyn