Episode 66: A GAME OF THRONES, BRAN VII: "Only in Dreams"

Published: June 10, 2019, 11 a.m.

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through\xa0A Song of Ice and Fire\xa0one chapter a week!\nIn this episode, good ol' Maester Luwin reassures Bran and Rickon that their creepy nightmares about their dad being dead are meaningless...and of course, he is proven 100% right. Since when do dreams *mean* things?!\nThis week, we:\n-Discuss the different directions George considered going with books four and five\n-Set up the struggle that will dominate Bran's storyline in the next book: the secular v. the magical, the Stark in Winterfell v. the Winged Wolf\n-Dig into the layers of political and personal history down in the Winterfell crypts\n-Pay tribute to the Ned Stark shaped hole inside Bran, Rickon, and his own tomb\n-Ponder where the Children of the Forest went and what they did after the Andals arrived per Luwin's story...\nNext week: AGOT, Sansa VI with new guest Michal Shick of Hypable, Nice Jewish Fangirls, and Vassals of Kingsgrave!\nOur patreon:\xa0www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF\nOur twitter:\xa0twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF\nOur facebook:\xa0www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/\nOur youtube page:\xa0www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG\u2026iew_as=subscriber\nEmmett's twitter:\xa0twitter.com/PoorQuentyn\nJeff's twitter:\xa0twitter.com/BryndenBFish