“Normal For Westeros” explained Game of Thrones
The programme was still surrounded by Game of Thrones discussion after Monday’s premiere.
Scott had watched some of the episode but remained uncertain whether he had been in the right mood for it.
Chris argued that one way to understand the series was to remember that things which looked extraordinary in ordinary life could be Normal For Westeros.
The phrase became NFW.
Violence, family relationships, dragons and apparently impossible behaviour could all be dismissed with the same explanation.
Scott compared it with recognising that Albert Square followed its own rules in *EastEnders*.
Scott would not watch a film twice
The television conversation produced a different Scott confession.
He disliked rewatching films.
Even if he loved something, once he knew the plot he had little interest in sitting through the whole thing again.
There was an additional complication.
If the person he was watching with had already seen the film, Scott sometimes did not want to watch it at all.
Chris thought there had to be something psychological behind this.
Listeners were invited to explain why knowing another person already knew the ending could make Scott lose interest in a film he himself had never seen.
John’s Freshers Week injury looked guilty
The show then returned to the innocent injuries topic.
Listener John described hurting himself during Freshers Week in circumstances which were genuinely innocent but sounded so implausible that his girlfriend at the time did not believe him.
Scott and Chris admitted they would probably have been suspicious too.
That was the problem with the feature.
The stranger the genuine explanation, the more it sounded like the cover story for something else.
Other listeners described scratches, bruises and marks caused by nights out, furniture or accidents which immediately triggered questions at home.
Some people wished they had gone to university single
Freshers Week also led into a broader subject.
Listeners who arrived at university already in a relationship admitted sometimes wondering whether they had missed part of the experience.
Others were relieved to have had somebody stable outside the chaos of halls and nights out.
Scott and Chris did not claim there was one correct approach.
They were interested in how differently people remembered the same stage of life.
The Drake curse entered football
The programme also discussed the online theory that sports teams and athletes who posed with Drake subsequently suffered bad results.
Scott treated the celebrity photograph like a supernatural curse.
Chris, who actually cared about football results, was less keen for Watford players to test it.
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