Episode 197: A STORM OF SWORDS, JON VI: ”Back in Black”

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire! In this episode, Jon finally makes it back to Castle Black, only to get hit by an endless train of bad news: the garrison is gone, Lord Commander Mormont has been killed by his own men, Winterfell has fallen to the Ironborn, and oh yeah, Bran and Rickon are dead (or so it seems). Next time: ASOS, Arya IX & X, in which Arya takes a road trip with her new best friend...Sandor Clegane?! Emmett's twitter: twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Manu's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ManuclearBomb Manu's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ManuclearBomb 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 Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notacastasoiaf/

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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.
0:28.6	I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Poor Quentin.
0:31.6	And I'm your other host, Manu, also known as Manukleur Bound.
0:34.8	And welcome to the 197th episode of the Nauticast titled Back in Black,
0:41.3	an analysis of a Storm of Swords, John 6, in which John finally comes home to Castle Black,
0:46.7	only to learn there's barely anyone holding down the fort, and that Elsie Mormont was killed
0:51.9	by his own men, and Winterfell burned down, and oh yeah,
0:55.3	it looks like your brother's Brennan Rick on her dead.
0:57.6	Maybe he should have stayed in that cave with Eagrid after all.
1:00.1	Things suck out here.
1:01.5	How much of this can we just blame on Fiann?
1:03.6	I'm going to go between 100 and 120%.
1:06.3	Ideally, somewhere in that range.
1:09.0	So our spoiler warning, as always, prepare to be spoiled for all five novels the three duncan egg novellas histories interviews the winds of winter sample chapters as well as game of thrones and house of the dragon the tv shows anything and everything our question this episode comes from one of our patrons ken who asks how do you think John's story plays out differently if he never gets elected Lord Commander?
1:31.1	That's a good question.
1:31.9	I mean, I guess it really depends on who gets elected instead of him.
1:34.9	Yeah, I don't even know where to start with this one, because based on the sequencing at the end of a storm of swords,
1:40.3	John seems to have made up his mind to turn down Stanis's offer before he even finds out what's going on with the Knights Watch election.
1:46.5	So I don't think like all of a sudden he's like, okay, maybe I'll go take Stanis's offer now because that was not really part of that calculus there.
1:54.8	This is so hard because I think John's one of the only people who would have his strategy post-election, you know?
2:01.9	Like maybe Samuel or Gren, the people who were on the Great Ranging who survived might have
2:06.4	this kind of, we need to get the wildings on this side of the wall, and we need to, you know,
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