Patreon Episode #29: "The Second Coming, Part 2": Our Complete Analysis of TWOW, The Forsaken
Added 2020-06-30 11:00:02 +0000 UTCOur 2nd part of our four part analysis of TWOW, The Forsaken is now available for our Poor Fellow patrons!
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I'm in awe of this episode. Just relistened. Great episode guys!
Monica Muñoz Najar
2020-10-24 03:18:33 +0000 UTCI commented before, but this episode has been haunting my soul on a theological level, as somebody initially raised CofE Christian who went rapidly atheist/agnostic from their preteens and then became severely disabled in their mid-20s, it just opened a festering wound of cosmic and existential betrayal that I didn't know I had because I don't believe in a god really, but I still feel that betrayal? And also not just for me: with the coronavirus raging, we know there are people who are trusting that their faith and their god will protect them: they don't need no masks! And yet we also know those people are getting sick and a number of them dying or potentially becoming long-term disabled. I've seen posts comparing social media of individuals going from 'fake news, I'm not scared, going out not wearing a mask' to 'man, this coronavirus makes it hard to breathe'. And I know there have been some who then say 'oh I learned my lesson', but the presumption then is that the story continues with their new information, having learned a lesson. But the fact is there will be so many Quentyn "oh" moments happening as people realise their death is imminent, regardless of what faith they have or lessons they have learned about their behaviour. I don't share their faith, but that feeling of having been forsaken in your faith and beliefs... it hurts all the more. So... thanks for that?
J Mzyra
2020-07-14 02:44:57 +0000 UTCSeriously. As an English post-grad I was thinking ‘this is 1st class honours quality work’. It is so.... complete to have a man of faith speaking to Damphair’s long night of the soul *and* Emmett’s depth of knowledge about drugs, counterculture, leftist politics and literature. It is a joy to hear a Socratic analysis of this embarrassingly rich chapter. The excellent standard of this show has reached new heights.
Morgan
2020-07-03 23:14:00 +0000 UTCAs an English Literature major ths episode floored me. The quality and breadth of the analysis on display here is incredible. Well done chaps.
Lewis Shaw
2020-07-03 09:56:49 +0000 UTCThis was a barnstormer of an episode. This series just gets better and better.
Morgan
2020-07-02 22:34:50 +0000 UTCS
tim
2020-07-01 13:35:56 +0000 UTCWoo hoo!
Ned Johnson
2020-07-01 04:56:14 +0000 UTCThis might not be the right place for a discussion (but I'm not on twitter), but they did mention the Torgon Latecomer thing. I understand why the likes of Asha are discussing it, but how much can it possibly matter in relation to Euron? He doesn't care about the Iron Islands, he's surely not going to be particularly affected by a legal technicality over its throne when he has all this major blood magic world-conquering going on. All I can think is that it reflects how the Islands will move on after he's defeated by greater powers and the dust settles. Perhaps it will be used to influence Stannis re Theon more than anything for Euron.
J Mzyra
2020-06-30 15:20:03 +0000 UTC
