I felt like rereading A Game of Thrones. Here’s me going over the Prologue.
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"Nerveless" fingers means he dropped it in fear.
Maybe the conflict between highborn and lowborn isnt as big in the story is because almost every point if view character is highborn.
In Tyrion's first battle, Rob's army is yelling out for him. Shouting out things like, "For the Young Wolf", and stuff like that.
No comment on the Wight Royce brushes Will's cheek before strangling him? This isn't just mindless zombie action, it's deliberate motion. This ties in with the actions of the two wights that are brought back to Castle Black and how they acted. There's some intelligence either warging them or they have it themselves.
49:20 I more like the idea (and maybe you were the one to voice it long ago lol) that they actually stopped to observe if Waymar was armed with a valyrian sword before they could take a decision to fight him.
a half moon still rises, but not at sunset….only the full moon rises at sunset
The moon reflects the sun. A half moon will rise at noon or midnight.
Yes! This is gonna rock. Every chapter!
For me, "never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit," is also crucial as introduction to the postmodern ambitions of the project. In this prologue we meet the Others. Later we hear them dismissed as the stuff of literal old wives tales. We then naturally think Nans stories are true, that we can, indeed, believe what Bran has heard at a "woman's tit." But the truth is actually more complicated. The mythohistorical accounts taught to children do get some things right, but are probably mostly false. The Other's are out there, as are the Children, but virtually no one in Westeros actually knows their own history. For the reader, taking Nans stories or other myths we hear about as the author informing us about a "correct" historical backstory is a kind of narrative perspective trap he sets for us.
Is Biter a human-squisher hybrid?
51:42 i think a potential reason why a battle cry in the name of the king doesn't happen later on i nthw books again is because the king from then on( mostly Joffrey and later technically cersei in place of tommen) were extremely unlikable
Preston officially out of new content ideas 😂 I don’t blame him, my dude has been doing this for like 15 years without a new book!
Lets go for crazy ass line by line analysis from the start!
I like the insight even if you can't read Jar Jar Martin's mind.
42:47 or he just doesn’t know what he’s looking at and describing it as the other figure he could see aside from Waymar, I don’t think he’s identifying the white walker as “an other” in this scene
It's interesting how the Others only butcher Royce after he's disarmed and blinded. Is this a trial by combat?
Preston when he searches for new content that hasn't been covered yet: "We have to go back, Kate! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!"
The story of the Auditor and the Gardener discussing the moon.
Ring mail is the correct term for chain mail. The rings are linked to several others hence it’s not a chain. I’m not a stickler for correct terminology. George refers to one handed swords as long swords for instance.
Schwifty did the prologue 7 years ago. You'll be caught up with him in no time
Well if we never get another book.. the story begins with the ides of march.. and ends with the ides of marsh..
Thanks for this video, Preston! Regarding the ring mail, perhaps Martin means the armor called "байдана"? I apologize for writing in Russian, I don’t know an equivalent in English.
Depending on the woods it can take a long time to travel 2 miles
Did they hack him up so he could not be risen…? 🤔
51:30 Stannis supporters do cry out his name, even in battle, when they are attacking the Wildlings.
That was fun.
he yells "For Robert" just to hint to a future character. we have no idea who robert is and we get to wonder
"I've had the cold in me too, lordling."
"Dance with me, then."
Those two lines and the prologue in general were what drew me in when I first read the series. I went like "fuck, I'm invested in these three stooges and the shit they will get to. I wanna see these three become friends and grow as characters." And then they fucking died in the end of the prologue/ start of Bran I. I cannot put to words how great that single chapter is to me. Thanks for doing this, Preston. And thanks for introducing me to the books.
The Night's Watch probably needs way more Waymar Royce type recruits in order to actually make sense within the story as a functional organisation. In later chapters it's essentially just a massive penal colony with a few highborn voluntary recruits, but how do a few Jeor Mormonts and Denys Mallisters actually control hundreds of thieves, murderers and rapists, and could they really stop them all deserting? (If you do desert then maybe avoid the Kingsroad near Winterfell and you'll probably be fine)
I'd really love to have a "prep for winds" but every chapter on the serie
This makes me wonder how much stylistic and story detail difference there are between the chapters as they appeared in the books, and the short stories that a few of the chapters came from as they appeared in Analog, The Magazine of F&SF, Asimov's, etc. in the 1990s.
You should totally check out Joe Magician’s analysis and theory of AGoT’s prologue. He goes through why the Others personally attacked the ranging party and their talking. Waymar Royce’s similarities in appearance to Jon Snow and how the Others might think they were dealing with Azor Ahai. Pretty interesting theory.
Man ive listen to the audiobook version of this series at least 10 times, hoping that one day i can jump straight from "Dance" directly to "Winds" 😅
Preston, is there an answer to how the old houses lasted for 8000 years but fall in 3 seconds due to nothing but normal inter house rivalry? Where was all the rivalry for 8000 years? One bad marriage to catlyn tully and poof