Episode 166: A STORM OF SWORDS, SAMWELL I: ”The Terror (Part 1)”

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, Samwell Tarly is walking in a winter wonderland...y'know, let's make that terrorland. Sounds right. This week, we: - Break down how George structures the reveal of what happened at the Fist - Praise the formal experimentation of interweaving past and present - Shiver in fear at the exquisite tone of dread a la Stephen King and found footage - Analyze Sam as a POV, as his stress and self-loathing keeps breaking the surface - Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls Next week: we plunge back into hell to finish up ASOS, Samwell I! 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