62: The Pig is Chekhov's Gun

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We discuss “A Dance With Dragons,” the latest 1000-page installment in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling “Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy series. Is this series going to end well? Which parts of this book were good, and which just treaded water? Would adding Klingons have helped? Why are trees the Westeros equivalent of security cameras? These are the sorts of questions you ask deep in the middle of a long fantasy series.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 62, October 2011.
0:12.0	We're back on The Incomparable Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snell, and it is time for another edition of our book club where we meet over Skype because we don't actually have
0:22.0	a book club in real life. Only the internet. We are here to discuss two 1,000-page long fantasy
0:28.8	novels, A Dance with Dragons by George R. Martin, and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.
0:35.4	Now, this conversation is, in fact, going to be so long that we're
0:39.9	going to start it here, do one episode about a Dance with Dragons, take a break, and come back
0:45.9	with a second episode about the wise man's fear. So joining me today to talk about these gigantic
0:53.0	fantasy tomes are Dan Moran.
0:57.0	Hi, Dan.
0:58.3	Hi, Jason.
0:58.8	I just want to let you know that I put the Dan in Dance with Dragons.
1:03.1	Good. Dan's with dragons, really.
1:05.6	Exactly.
1:06.0	I am, in fact, right now with dragons.
1:07.8	With dragons.
1:08.7	Excellent.
1:09.6	Serenity Caldwell is here as well. I am. Do you have any dragons near you? I have with dragons. With dragons. Excellent. Serenity Caldwell is here as well.
1:11.8	I am.
1:12.4	Do you have any dragons near you?
1:13.9	I have no dragons.
1:15.1	I am dragon free.
1:16.3	That's a shame.
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