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Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

Episode 172: A STORM OF SWORDS, DAENERYS II: ”Legion (Part 1)”

Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

NotACast

Arts, Books, Arts:books

4.8755 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

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!   In this episode, Dany descends into hell, aka Astapor, our first city in Slaver's Bay.   This week, we:    - Introduce Slaver's Bay as the major new setting in ASOS - Dig into the hellish imagery of Astapor specifically - Explore the cultural context of the history and language used here - Take stock of the horrors involved in the training of the Unsullied - Analyze Barristan's role in Dany's decision-making process   Next week: we finish up Dany's introduction to Astapor in ASOS, Daenerys II!   Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     Our twitter: twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber   Emmett's twitter: twitter.com/PoorQuentyn

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Nauticast, podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through a song of ice and fire one chapter week.

0:30.0

I'm one of your host, Jeff, but I'm Brendan B. Fish.

0:32.7

And I'm your other host, Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin.

0:35.2

And welcome to the 172nd episode, The Nicast titled Legion Part 1, an analysis of a stormosaurus

0:42.6

DeNaris 2, in which DeNaris Targaryen visits Gothic Gonzo Hell, which of course is in the

0:48.5

form of the city of Astapur.

0:51.7

All I get picture was Gonzo from the Muppets.

0:54.2

Gonzo from the Muppets ruling over a hideous nightmare slave city.

0:58.7

Probably my least favorite Muppets movie is the Muppets go to Astopor.

1:02.8

I don't even know why they made that one.

1:04.7

I don't know what they were thinking.

1:05.6

I'm just imagining Gonzo as Krasny's in this scene the scene you know like cutting off the tokar right cutting the

1:12.0

nipple off the unsullied and you know talking about like yeah it's got super fucking dark

1:16.9

I don't know where my mind went to but but yeah wow gonzo gonzow visits ask for the gang

1:22.1

vizs esport would be uh be good it's always sunny in philadelphia episode too I think as well

1:26.4

that that might be honestly more appropriate I I could see them, you know, the king goes to Slavers Bay.

1:32.5

Do do, do, do, do, do, do you can see that already. But yes, as Jeff said, this is part one.

1:38.6

We're doing one of our famous two-parters for this particular chapter because it's very dense and very long. So this

1:45.3

episode, we're going to be covering Danny's introduction to the city, meeting Krasniz Monaclaus,

1:50.4

her and Barristan kind of viewing the unsolid negotiating about it. And then next week,

1:55.0

we're going to be covering a conversation they have after they leave the slavers, Danny and her

1:59.6

little relationship with Erie,

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