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Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

Episode 96: A CLASH OF KINGS, THEON II: "The Favorite Child"

Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

NotACast

Arts, Books, Arts:books

4.8755 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome back 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, with friends like these, the Night's Watch doesn't need enemies.    This week, we:    - Talk about Gerion Lannister and whether he'll turn up in TWOW or ADOS - Get into the Esgred/Theon dynamic - Interrogate Theon's self-conception and why the Ironborn continue to reject him - Analyze Balon Greyjoy's great war "plan" - Analyze the Iron Islands story in ACOK vs. S02 of the Thrones Show Next week: Tyrion bonds with Cersei over their joy at Renly and Stannis fighting each other ... only for him to poison her in ACOK, Tyrion VI~ Gotta love all these healthy respectful sibling relationships in ACOK!  Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   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   Jeff's twitter: twitter.com/BryndenBFish

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the other cast, podcast, the One True Chapter by Chapter podcast going through

0:25.4

A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week.

0:27.5

I'm one of your host, Jeff, better known as Bread to Beefish.

0:30.4

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

0:33.5

And welcome to the 96th episode of The Notta Cast titled The Favorite Child, an analysis of a clash of King's Theon 2, in which Theon Greyjoy keeps his streak of humiliating family reunions alive.

0:47.2

Never going to break that streak at any point in a song of ice and fire, is he?

0:50.9

There are a few things more pleasurable than watching a man dig his own richly deserved grave,

0:55.0

and that's what this chapter is.

0:56.7

It is, but you get a small, just a teeny tiny small sliver of sympathy and pity for Theon

1:01.3

by the end of it.

1:02.5

A colonel, a kernel of humanity.

1:04.2

I'll give him that.

1:05.0

A colonel, just one small, very, very small kernel.

1:08.0

So, as always, this episode is brought to you by our small council, our hand of the king, Well, very, very small colonel. watch. Lord Jean, master of coin, archmaister June, healer of the lesser poxes, ragged Michael

1:28.4

warded the north, Nelson the Hammer Prince of Dragon Scone, Scarlet the other woman and

1:32.6

mistress of whisperers. Lord Micah, warden of the west, and the Crackensbane's B, Lord James,

1:36.8

the Jim that was promised, the high-bearded priest, Lord Jake's assistant to the hand of the king, Lady Zina Valerian, Hedrigal, captain the airship arrogance, his grace's high inquisters, Sir Frank B, Sir Jasper the Cru, the King's Justice, Lawrence, Prince of Dorn, Kelly, one of the east of mistress of old bay of crabs, Stephen, the Blue Winter Rose, Knight of High Garden, Lady Stephanie, Lord Anonymous, Lord Carlos, Lord Andrew the Restless, a priest of the drowned god.

2:04.6

The Kings cook, Noli-Oli-Oly, master of canoli, Sir Saurcadelica,

2:07.5

Prince Matthew of House Targary and Proud Soyboy of Summer Hall,

2:10.3

defender of the fifth book, and swing dancer with dragons,

2:19.3

Sir K.W. Dent, Elsie of the they D's and gentle thems. Did I get that right now at this time? Okay, excellent.

2:21.1

We were talking about that pre-production. That was fucking let up for

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