Unabashed Book Snobbery

Julia and Kylie push themselves to discuss one aspect of ASOIAF that they are less compelled by: the Ironborn chapter (Theon excluded). Can they find an appreciation? Or literary significance? Or any reason at all for how people manage to take Euron seriously? Episode Breakdown: 0:00 - The usual tortured intro  5:35 - Chapter discussions! The Prophet 12:15 - The Kraken's Daughter 20:36 - The...

Julia and Kylie are bac k with more A Song of Ice and Fire theories that they totally love. Listen as the sodium reaches lethal levels! Oh, and they both suggest their own crackpots and get embarrassed about them. Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Instruction & Missandei is a Faceless Man  5:14 - Doran, Interrupted (the Superman Villain); 11:15 - Kylie's crackpot on Darkstar; 13:09 - Bloodraven w...

Julia and Kylie only talk about A Song of Ice and Fire! Hooray! In this episode, they tackle some of the biggest fandom theorie s, as well as some crackpots. Neither one likes to speculate, so listen as they get progressively salty at the fact that some of these theories even exist! Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Intro to theories, heresy, and the "song of ice and fire"/Lightbringer 17:26 - R+L=J/Lyann...

Julia and Kylie wrap up their Season 5 retrospective series with this podcast, covering the Game of Thrones Braavosi plotline. In the second half of the episode, they also wrap-up Season 5 based on lessons learned through these retrospectives. Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Introduction & review of fandom names 6:51 - Recap of Arya's S5 plotline 33:48 - Highlights & Lowlights 39:15 - Analysis P...

Julia and Kylie react to the new interview given by Bryan Cogman (or commentary track, whatever), where he continues to defend the shitty, shitty Season 5 Winterfell plotline involving Sansa Stark. We don't have an episode breakdown for this one, but it is heavily related to the content of our second episode, "Winterhell." So check that out too!

Julia and Kylie talk about their opinions and headcanons for their favorite region of Westeros. It's all canon-compliant, so it's basically educational. Episode breakdown (kinda): 0:00 Intro & what is a headcanon? 7:45 Dornish Debates glossary terms 37:35 A few more Dorne "general" HCs 46:30 More Arianne specific stuff 57:56 Other Martells/Martell general things 1:32:56 Yronwoods and Daynes an...

The dissection of Game of Thrones's Season 5 Meereense plotline, dubbed "Deadpan's Bestest Nameday Gift," because St. Tyrion is the Mary Sue that keeps on giving. Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Introduction & review of fandom names 7:00 - Recap of the S5 plotline 49:15 - Highlights & Lowlights/Hizdahr zo Sansa's resistance narrative 1:04:37 - Analysis Pt 1: there is no protagonist & Daenery...

Kylie and Julia discuss and analyze Cersei Lannister, one of Martin's more misunderstood characters. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 -High level summary of Cersei pre-AFFC 14:33 -  Discussion of AFFC: plot, the prophecy, and her approach to governance 34:08 - Martin's writing of Cersei & her internalized misogyny 51:55 - "Cersei and all the foils" (Marg, Sansa, Cat, Arianne, Tyrion, Jaime) 1:19:2...

The dissection of Game of Thrones's Season 5 Wall plotline, dubbed "Jon's fOlly," for the best accidental protagonist ever Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Introduction and fandom names 7:05 - Recap of the TV plot line 41:30 - Highlights and lowlites 47:37 - Analysis of main adaptational issues 55:10 - The REAL Hardhome 59:30 - Jon's leadership decisions excluded 1:13:30 - Changes to Sam (and Gilly) 1:23...

Episode #4 , where Julia and Kylie answer their A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones asks. Asks include the following, and more: -Do you think D&D do justice to Stannis's character? -What are your thoughts on Alys Karstark from a feminist perspective? -Is there anything in the books that the show improved upon? -Discuss the "Rule of Adaptation" -Maggy the Frog's thematic fit in Cersei's...

The dissection of Game of Thrones's Season 5 King's Landing plotline, dubbed "Carol's Landing," for our fave. super mom. Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Introduction and fandom names 7:33 - Recap of the TV plot line 42:04 - Highlights and lowlites 51:40 - Analysis and comparison to books 1:17:50 - Making sense of Batfinger 1:30:15 - Horrific implications time!

The second episode of our UBS , covering Game of Thrones's Season 5 Winterfell plotline, dubbed "Winterhell" for obvious, obvious reasons. 0:00 - Intro & fandom name explanation 7:49 - Recap of Winterhell plotline 39:00 - Highlights/lowlights & analysis of adaptational choices 55:02 - Summary of Northern plotline from A Dance with Dragons 1:06:30 - Further analysis & horrific implicati...

First podcast discussing Game of Thrones  and its total butchery of the A Song of Ice and Fire  Dorne plotline in Season 5! Please visit gotgifsandmusings.tumblr.com for episode posts & notes. 0:00 - Introduction & review of fandom names; 4:15 - Recap of the show's Dornish plotline (what happened); 19:35 - Highlights and lowlights; 29:20 - Brief comment on the significance of thi...