Episode 68: A GAME OF THRONES, DAENERYS IX: "The Meaning of Life"

Published: June 24, 2019, 12:15 p.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, Eliana from Girls Gone Canon joins us to talk about how Daenerys wakes up from nightmares of fire and blood and death to...a reality full of fire and blood and death. Cheerful stuff, George.\nThis week, we:\n- Discuss what it means to come back from the dead\n- Analyze Dany's nightmare in terms of her endgame in the show and (probably) the books\n- Step aside for Mirri Maz Duur's moment in the spotlight\n- Say farewell to Khal Drogo and the dreams of happiness and home which Dany invested in him\n- Frame Dany's arc as Shakespearean tragedy\nNext week: AGOT, Tyrion IX!\nEliana's twitter:\xa0https://twitter.com/arhythmetric\nEliana's essay on Dany: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/daughter-of-death-a-song-of-ice-and-fires-shakespearean-tragic-hero/\nGirls Gone Canon: https://girlsgonecanon.podbean.com\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