It's really difficult for me to pick out my favorite whole chapters but I can tell you my favorite moment: Wyman Manderly's monologue to Davos in ADWD. When he says "...and my son is HOME." I get chills no matter how many times I read it.

Kevan's epilogue might get my vote

Kevan's chapter, Catelyn at the Red Wedding, Jaime's fever dream, and Sansa's first ever chapter are good ones, off the top of my head

Jaime guarding Tywins rotting body for days straight and pondering in memories is absolute peak for me. Jaime I in Feast

Brienne V (AFFC) - Septon Meribald's monologue about broken men is just perfect imo. It paints a very vivid picture of the whole scene. It's just the best!

I never expected to enjoy Theon or "Reek" chapters that much, But his chapters in DWD just had this eerie haunted feeling that left me so sad and still stick in my memory. Reek silently roaming the halls and the Godswood of Winterfell, remembering what Theon was doing there as a boy, now grown-up hated and disgusted by all the men who know him.. Not to mention the whole murder-mystery subplot and planning his escape man those chapters are incredible

The Varymyr Sixskins prologue to A Dance With Dragons has always stuck with me for how insanely tragic and violent it is. That dude was an A-HOLE!!!

I love Sansa VII in ASOS. Her reminiscing about Winterfell is powerfully nostalgic and sweet and Littlefinger truly revealing his true colors and killing Lysa is a bombshell that reveals the reason for the War and solves the first mystery of the story, who killed Jon Arryn.

Love JonCon great take, but nothing will ever beat (for me) Catelyns last chapter in CofK when she’s talking to Jaime in the dungeons of Riverrun. The writing is so raw and I’ve always loved how Catelyn was deeply flawed but a loving mother who would risk it all.

For me it has to be Catelyn VII, ASoS. Not so much because of the shock of the Red Wedding but rather because of its depiction of grief stricken mind, swinging between paranoia and melancholy. It's truly off-putting seeing a character so caring and determined as Catelyn Stark go through the hell of losing all of his loved ones, as she clings to whatever slip of hope she has left; which at this point in the saga, it all boils down to Robb, her firstborn, making it out alive of the Five Kings War. The way I see it, Robb's death being the last straw is perfect, the final tragedy that breaks this devoted wife and loving mother, sending her spiraling down into madness. I never stop being amazed by the morbidity provoked by the entire massacre, but nothing tops the depiction of Catelyn's slow descent from sorrow, into despair and finally, insanity. The poetic strokes used to highlight this fall make it hands-down one of the best first person narrations I've ever read.

Big fan of reeks chapter when he takes moat caillin The amount of emotions he goes through so quickly flip flopping between theon and reek And betraying his old people for his new master and the mental dissasociation to the iron men is great

The conversation between Bran and Eddard in Bran I is one of the best moments in the series. The quote "Nobody is more dangerous than the deserter " makes me shiver every time I read this

One of my favorites is Catelyn’s CoK chapter where Renly and Stannis treat. The peach chapter. It starts with Cathryn visiting a small sept. The imagery is beautiful.

Great chapter, and one that I should re-read. My favorite chapter, though, is absolutely the Broken Man monologue with Septon Maribald. Chills every time.

My fav chapters are the Prince of Winterfell (the descriptions are so beautiful and otherwordly, which creates a magnificent contrast with the truly terrifying content of the chapter) and Catelyn IV in AcoK (I believe that’s the one in which Catelyn prays in the sept and then Renly’s death occurs, again incredibly beautiful writing).

The Forsaken and the chapter when dany meets the unsullied master for the first time are the best in my book

Tyrion's first trial by combat chapter, when Bronn steps up! "Tyrion begins reeling off every "crime" he has ever committed dating back to his childhood, including stealing a servant girl's clothes, filling his uncle's boots with goat feces and letting a squire take the blame, and masturbating into some turtle stew which, he hopes, his sister ate. He continues to deny their charges against him, however. Furious, Lysa orders him returned to the sky cells. Before he can be led away, Tyrion demands a trial by combat." Loved it! 🤣

I love JonCon so much, it's so nice to see some discussion about him. most "haunted by the narrative" character of all time.

I remember reading that Jon Connigton chapter and being blown away by how Martin can make us sympatase with a new character in only one chapter. I immediately wanted him and Young Griff to succeed in their journey.

Honestly idk if it's my number one for sure, but I really love the prologue in Clash of Kings. Just so well written.

I’ve never really understood your love for JonCon until this video, excited for a reread now

What I like about Jon Con is that he is being more like Tywin. Age and experience, and desperation, seemed to have made him a better battlefield tactician. I like Preston Jacob's fan fiction surrounding Jon. This is a very good chapter. Jon was simping hard for Rhaegar, lol.

This may seem like a hot take, but my favorite chapter is probably Bran III ADWD. Bran is nowhere near my favorite character in the series but his plotline is extremely engaging for me especially in ADWD. In a world full of sprawling cities and immersive locations, Bloodraven’s cave feels the largest to me, with every description providing insight towards the overall story and every line of dialogue building the history that I couldn’t have ever thought of. The show fumbled the bran and long night plotlines so bad but Bran’s few chapters in ADWD show me that George is going to do something amazing

Brienne IV - "The last ballad of Nimble Dick Crabb" is the chapter i revisit the most. I just love that story, the description of crackclaw point, Brienne's revenge, for herself, for Nimble Dick, and for Jaime. Shagwell being Shagwell. "Please don't hurt poor Shags, I'm too drole to die"

My favorite chapters are the Tyrion’s shy maid chapters, Jon Con and the epilogue in ADWD

I have seen some criticism of Aegon and Jon Con being introduced. Introducing main character level people in Book 5 of 7. Characters that won't affect the greater narrative of the others. But to me, Aegon made Dance my favorite book. Tyrion had too many chapters, but rereading them knowing who Griff and Young Griff actually are makes them incredible. Seeing Tyrion use his intelligence to piece together small hints. Seeing Aegon and Jon being flushed out and real Characters before they set out of their conquest. I'm in the increasingly small camp of fans who think Aegon is legitimate. Rhaegar is my favorite non pov character of the series. I'm also a sucker for pretty blonde guys, which doesn't help.

One chapter that I think is really underrated is the Bran chapter in Storm of Swords, where he and his wntourage are traveling through the mountains and they meet a Liddle man and Jojen tells the story of the Knight of the Laughing Tree. It's such a slow and atmospheric chapter with lovely descriptions of the quiet, expansive landscape and the restrained yet kindly demeanor of the stranger. It lets you take a breath and step back from all the action. Really makes me want to go on a journey through the hills.

One of my favourite chapters is Jon 10(?) A storm of swords where hes being forced to assassinate mance. The grief and reflection on life and love with Tormand always makes me a bit teary eyed and it also has one of the best dick jokes of all time.

my personal favorite is Brienne’s final chapter. Never have I experienced a piece of media where I was mid on my enjoyment of it until the very final chapter of the story. I felt ad thought I was missing the point of why her chapters were in the book. I understood the plot reason, but not the thematic reason. That chapter made everything make sense. I just absolutely loved that moment of finally truly enjoying the book as a whole instead of on a chapter by chapter basis.

dude! love this video!!! i could listen to you talk about john conn all day long. would absolutely love to see you turn this into a show

A solid choice. JonCon is a fascinating character and I really like the sense of someone ill at ease ("My dad's gonna kill you" provides external validation of an internal unease) at what should be a moment of personal triumph. Your analysis touches on some of the ways Martin gets that working.

The thematic analysis at the end was really sharp and well thought out. I look forward to more of that in the future. see ya in the next video.

Quinn you’ve really quickly become my favorite ASOIAF creator. I look forward to your videos every time, keep up the amazing work bro! ❤

my favorite chapter is the chapter in ASOS when dany buys the unsullied and sets them free.

Theon's escape with Jeyne Poole. That chapter had everything. A hero, a damsel, a plot with high stakes, a beloved setting, and a twist. Beautiful.

Great topic and love all the responses and reasons behind people’s choices! I enjoy your take on so many things in this series and universe and your delivery is always exciting educational informative and entertaining ❤😂🎉

Great video. Thanks for all your hard work mate

I love Barristan's chapter arresting Hizdahr. An incredible character with so much left unsaid, seeing his internal monologue was exciting, bearing resemblence to JonCon in aiding the next generation due to failing Aerys... and we got to witness his badassery too.

I'm really looking forward to your next project!

I was a 100% full blown show only fan up until a few years ago, and since reading some of the books (still a work in progress!), I can't believe how much content the TV Show omitted and how much better it would have been with Jon Con and Young Griff in it. To me its like they cut the biggest part of the story, and changes my perspective on the whole show.

Great video as always! My favorite chapter is the lost lord!

I really like Jaime’s fever dream as a chapter, I’ve always found it super interesting since it really changed my belief in how the Weirwoods worked to begin with and just how strange they are. Not to mention it’s genuinely an exceptional chapter for Jaime’s character while still being one of the more creepy chapters in the whole series.

Fantastic video, makes me want to reread the whole series again (or at least Feast and Dance).

My favorite chapter has yet to be written since the Dothraki Sea has yet to be sailed

Love your content ❤

Wow, great analysis; I love your take on how this chapter suggests the repetitions of history. It seems like GRRM touches on this a lot - in terms of characters' personal histories, and also in the greater history of the world and society. I'm still wondering if GRRM believes that the characters are doomed to repeat history, or if they (we!) can do better by understanding it.

Tyrion's chapter when they are on the boat when they pass under the bridge twice was creepy but it was an amazing chapter. Thanks for another great video!

Jaime’s chapter in the river lands when he treats with the blackfish and Edmure

One of my favorites is Bran III in ADWD. The language in it has such an eerie and almost psychedelic feel to it. The way Bran sinks deeper and deeper into the darkness as he learns magic always stuck with me. Its always cool to comeback to when you see Bran and Bloodraven popping up in other character's chapters.

Id love to see you get Glidus on to talk about favourite chapters!

I still have alot of love for the tower of joy chapter in AGOT neds fever dream. Butbits hard to pick just one

Bran VII A clash of Kings is a chapter that CONSUMES me. It's like one long magical dark poem

For me it's Theon's last chapter in Dance. Or maybe the "Kraken reborn" ;P

Very well spoken, erudite. It was pleasing to my ears.

I love the small moments a lot. Arya at Lady Smallwood's home for example. A nice reprieve from everything. But my favorite chapter is Sansa building a snow castle.

my favorite has been acock prolog with master cressen where we get all the backstory on stannis and renly and patchface

My favorite scene to read hands down is when Jon gets put in charge of the Wall when the wildlings are attacking. It was phenomenal writing.

I wracked my brain for a long time trying to decide and failed. Arya seeing the kindly man through the cat, Tyrion's trial by combat, and Brienne's stand at the inn are definitely up there. Dany burning the slavers is an awesome moment and was definitely my favorite the first read-through.

This video reminded me of a conversation I had with my brother who is a few years younger than me. I was trying to talk him into reading the books because he loved the show and a little while later he told me he read the books so I asked him what his favorite book/chapter was and his answer was “the second book and the hardhome chapter with the white walkers and the zombies”. And the best part is we were texting so if he was going to lie he could’ve looked up a real chapter real quick but couldn’t be bothered lol

Love the idea for the new show, I'm really looking forward to it!

i absolutely love the cave chapter. it is such a visceral way of writing how young love feels and is just brilliant. The Whispering Wood is also amazing and when Victarion smashes up the shield islands...

The ending was fire🔥

My favourite is when Jamie is reading the white book of the kingsguard and reflecting about himself. Always give me chills

Tyrion XI in ASoS is my all time favorite. Its so powerful, from Tyrion and Jaime sharing a laugh to Jaime's revelation, and then of course Tyrion with Shae and especially Tywin. "Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold."

I find it fascinating how a "new" character is someone's favourite. Even though we don't "meet" him until ADWD, his character has been there in the background for some of the very most pivitol events. Reading JonCon feels like no-clipping through a wall in a game to access a new area. Instead of taking the long way around in some aspects of the story, JonCon lets us jump right into the heart of topics that we have had extemely little information of for a long time. At first i thought you were just trying to pick a less commonly discussed character to be fresh. But your reasoning and arguements are very sound, as such I understand now why you hold his chapters in such high esteem.

A sequence of chapters that I really love is the Battle of the Blackwater. It's the first real big scale battle we get to witness in the books from the perspectives of both sides (at least for a little bit before Davos gets blown off his ship).

We share the same fav scene, well done.

Some part of me feels like Aegon is going to take a stray arrow to the throat at the climax of the siege and the entire movement falls apart like the Lionheart.This is based on 0 evidence. Great video as always.

LOL @ giving Jon a panic attack by hitting the bell icon

Although there is so much outstanding writing in this series that it's near impossible to pick a "best" chapter, my own favourite chapters are maybe kind of odd. I adore the prologue and the first chapter of Game of Thrones more than the opening of pretty much any other series of sci-fi or fantasy novels out there. Their purpose as openings is to draw the reader in, and make us want to know more, and there are virtually perfect in that respect. They also have some really beautiful writing that still manages to stuff a huge amount of information about this world, its people, and some of the main characters into the reader's brain without it feeling like an infodump. Instead, it feels natural, and leaves you wanting to know more. Those two chapters should be taught in writing classes as perfect examples of a wonderfully strong opening. This is all just my own opinion of course, but hey, they've been sucking us in since 1996, right?

My weird pick would be "The Prophet" (Aeron 1 affc). Really any Aeron chapters are gold for me, he has such a weird way of seeing and processing things that I find very strange and compelling. My normal pick is just Tysha confession and Tywin's death, that's just a classic.

I don’t often hear asoiaf takes that are this based and on point

Hey! I really like a alot of your videos, but i wanted to know who your youtuber inspiration are. Because seeing the Thumbnail of this video, my Initial thought was "Jacob Gellers favorit Asoiaf chapter, sign my the hell up," and i liked your thoughts very much. But I wanted to know If the Thumbnail inspiration was just a fault of my own or if I correctly caugbt an inspiration. Anyway you do great viedos, keep donig you!

Davos's "vengeance" chapter is top notch for me. What a powerful dialogue scene. Davos is my favorite character.

People don't change; they just get better at being themselves. -RJC

Looking forward to the next video and the new show!!!

i am a prologue girlie, they’re my favorites overall for how well they tell a contained story - AGOT and ACOK have my absolute favorites, and ASOS’ epilogue as well. I need to reread the whole series to pick out main POV chapters, but I’ve always liked Dany’s chapters in AGOT, they have a good character arc and i’ve just always liked Dany. Also, Sansa chapters from ACOK, Arya in ASOS, and Jaime in like. any book.

The chapter that Jamie explains what happened with killing Aries. Totally changes how you think about him

Hey quinn would you consider doing a comparison of stannis and daemon? They have a surprising amount in common

Cat of the canals, and Prinncess in the tower, are the my favorite published. Mercy and the Forsaken are going to change that once Winds get released

ahh the Griffin Reborn is a banger. I know a lot of it by heart... "He sent the archers in first"

My favorite chapter is a three way tie between Jon's last chapter in ADWD, The Iron Captain chapter from AFFC, and Tyrion's last Blackwater chapter in ACOK. These chapters respectively feature the climax of my favorite hero in the series, the introduction of my favorite villain in the series, and my favorite action sequence of the series, which also features my favorite POV character in the series.

It might not stay this way forever, but on my last read Arya in early ACOK was my favorite. The feeling of helplessness in this horrible situation, and yet still having the power to take small acts to make it a little bit better (but not much).

Faves change over time. Anything barristan, including twow sample were faves, but Victarian is the new bomb. So brutal and dumb, you have to love him. And MONKEYS! THE REAVER

I have a feeling that JonCon's good intentions will only backfire on everyone, and it all ends with his breakdown. I have a feeling that Jon was on the fringes of Rhaegar's trust circle and simply simping so hard he didn't notice that his best friend crush was besties with other people. He doesn't seem to know about Rhaegar's beliefs (the Prince that was Promised) or what went down with Lyanna Stark. Rhaegar seemingly rode with 5 men to take her, and JonCon was not involved or knowledgeable. I don't think he consciously prevents any doubt about Aegon from setting in, but I do believe that his subconscious is desperately clinging to this story being true. He compares Aegon to Rhaegar even with different coloured eyes. But it's been near 20 years since he last saw his Prince (probably when he rode off with Arthur and Oswell as later JonCon was exiled before Rhaegar came back). I think he is looking at Aegon with biased eyes. And whether Aegon is ever revealed as true or false matters less than his almost definite death. Jon has the potential to spread greyscale and to be triggered by the bells of King's Landing. In whatever way his world implodes, it will be explosive.

For me the best chapter is the last sansa chapter in A feast for crows, when little finger explains the arryn family tree to half the chapter until the final plot twist where its revealed that he is planning to wed her to the heir of the vale. It is just a lot of buildup which feels kinda out of place and pointless expostition until the last few lines where you are just left in awe of the genius of littlefinger.

I like Danys first chapter of ASOS, nothing much happens but it’s just her chilling on her three boats. It’s nice to see how far she had come in just those 3 books, literally reborn from the ashes with nothing and now chillin with dragons on boats

The final tyrion chapter in asos is my favorite

The ADWD Chapter where Barristan confronts Hizdar about being the Harpy is my favorite. Barristans skill is frightening.

The House of the Undying is in Daenerys IV, ACoK.

I would like to listen to your ranking of the prologues and epilogues of the series and analyze them in retrospect.

I love asoiaf. It would be so hard to pick a favorite chapter. almost every chapter in the first two books are bangers. The first prologue chapter, Neds conversation with Varys in the black cells chapter, second prologue chapter where we meet stannis, Cats chapter where she tries to talk sense into stannis and Renly, stannis taking Storms End. Red wedding, Tyrion’s trial, purple weddings, renlys peach. I’d be here all day. If George finishes the book it might be considered the greatest fantasy series of all time. There should be a whole semester in literature class at schools dedicated to first reading LOTRs (advanced kids also read the hobbit and Silmarillion) then a deconstruction of the fantasy tropes with ASOIAF (adv kids also read Dunk and egg and fire and blood 1&2).

12:11 i think more so of showing that people can't change it show of how those that romantisice the past can't become a better person since they don't see anything else,like robert,like cersei only the people that look at their full life past and present for what it is can heal like jaime

What colour are his eye's as ive wondered if they were purple or violet but i do believe he's a blackfire Illario son

Brans last chapter in DWD, rhe metaphors of the sickle moon. GRRM writting 😮

So many good chapters to choose from.

I can't remember exactly which one it is, but the Feast chapter where Brienne is traveling along the coast in the Crownlands is probably my favorite. Or one of Brienne's other Feast chapters

AGoT prologue, CoK Prologue, DWD prologue and Epilogue, Jon’s last chapter, Dany saving/conquering/riding Drogon chapter, Jamie Weirwood stump dream chapter, Bran 3, Jon’s securing the wall with scarecrow soldiers in his dream, Dany in HoTUndying chapter, Victorian allies with Maquoro, The Forsaken, Asha vs Stannis chapter, All Reek chapters, Brienne protecting the Inn. If I had to pick One chapter........ I couldn’t If I had to pick 3, it’d be Bran 3, ASHA’a flight and capture, House of the Undying (read by DavidReadsASoIaF)

Putting that one quote on an angle really had me thinking I was going cockeyed 😂

Mine is the Epilogue for Dance