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

Published: Dec. 6, 2021, noon

b"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"