Happy New Year! Today, we present our final podcast of 2015. Appropriately, it’s our Year in Review Episode covering the many essays, podcasts that we wrote/recorded as well as some of the things that we loved from the ASOIAF community over the year. Finally, we talk about some things in store for the future in movie-trailer voice!
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Here’s some of what we cover in the podcast:
New Developments on Wars and Politics of Ice and Fire
- Nina joined the blog
- The “BryndenBFish” name went the way of the dodo bird
- We wrote 53(!) essays
- 12 podcasts
- We started a tumblr blog
- Stats, baby, Stats.
Some of our Favorite Pieces to Write
- Hamish: Brightflame and Bittersteel
- Nina: Loves of the Dragon, Mothers of Chaos (Part 1, Part 2) & the Winter Queen (Part 1, Part 2)
- Jim: Unlikely, Unwanted Crowns: A Political Analysis of Aerys I and Maekar
- Jeff: Blood of the Conqueror, Part 5: A Conquest That Lasted a Summer
Our Favorites from Each Other
Jeff
- Nina’s “The Merman’s Ambition”
- Jim’s “War and Peace: A Political Analysis of Daeron I, Baelor I and Viserys II”
- Hamish’s “The Curious Case of Domeric Bolton”
Nina
- Jim’s “Unlikely, Unwanted Crowns: Aerys/Maekar”
- Hamish’s “The Great Black Dragon & the Curious Case of Domeric Bolton”
- Jeff’s “The Dragon’s Mercy, Part 3: Blood for Blood”
Jim
- Jeff’s “Blood of the Conqueror, Part 4: The Exile”
- Nina’s “The Ladies of Fire: Rhaenys”
- Hamish: “The Man Clothed in the Bittersteel”
Hamish
- Jeff’s “Blood of the Conqueror, Part 2”
- Nina’s “The Merman’s Ambition”
- Jim’s “Daeron the Pretty Good”
Some of our Favorite Concepts/Theses of 2015
- Nina: The Wrangling of the Wolves
- Jim: The Aegon Doctrine
- Hamish: Aerion’s murder of Haegon Blackfyre and Aerion’s potential as a Blackfyre double agent
- Jeff: Daenerys burns Old Volantis
Favorite ASOIAF moments outside of WaPoIaF
- Nina: Turtle-Paced’s “A Waste of Time”
- Jim: Poor Quentyn’s Essay on Tyrion & Aegon on the Rhoyne
- Jeff: Radio Westeros’: The Lion of the West
- Hamish: BookShelfStud’s King Broken-Smile & Lady Gwyn’s The Boldest Sellsword of Them All
Our Favorite Podcast Episodes That We Did
- Nina: Three Heads of the Dragon
- Hamish: Fan Questions and Answers
- Jeff: The Book That Never Was
- Jim: The Murdered and the Missing
No podcast episode would be complete without a few comedic moments and laughs too. So, we share things that made us laugh this year like:
- Jim doing his best impression of Viserys I folding his royal flush
- “It ain’t easy bein’ green.”
- “Valyria? More like Gary, Indiana.”
- Long Dawn Silver
We wrap up our episode by talking about what’s in store for the future of the blog and podcast and each contributors’ plans for the future.
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Thanks for a great year! See you all next year!
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