LG&M Game of Thrones podcast: “A Golden Crown,” Part 1
By And we’re back, just in time to finish up the first season before the fourth starts. We recorded this a few months back, so our pop culture and political references may seem dated — as might some of our facial hair. Also, it ends with a real bang. Enjoy!
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The second part will be posted tomorrow, and the rest of the season covered next week.
An audio version of this podcast can be found here.
Items SEK discusses:
Works Attewell discusses (warning, all of these posts contain spoilers for all five books):
- Eddard X (The Tower of Joy, and the critical importance of timing for Robert’s death)
- Bran V (class, disability and the meeting with the wildlings, the history of vagrancy)
- Tyrion V (Tyrion’s hearing and the nature of Westerosi justice, Tyrion as a political observer, the history of judicial duels)
- Dany V (the complications of Dothraki culture, who was Viserys, the history of the golden death)
- Eddard XI (Eddard’s political strategy in going after Gregor, the history of the Percy/Nevillle blood feud, and more)
- Catelyn VII (the War of Five Kings begins, Catelyn compared to Lysa, why the Bronn/Ser Vardis duel is historically inaccurate)
- Sansa III (what did Sansa actually cause to happen by going to Cersei, what would have happened if she hadn’t, and the symbolism of the white hart)