GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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That was the last cool thing she ever does. The next best thing is when she stops being a whiny bitch and goes looking for her dragon at the end of B5.
Jait
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This is one of the few areas I like the TV show better than the book. They both worship her for very different reasons. Barristan knows now his loyalty should have always been with the Targs, and she clearly is a Targ cut from the same cloth as Rhaegar. Jorah is smiling because the girl he loves is gaining power and is going to be a badass which he always hoped for. Two very different reasons for serving.
So instead of Barristan being a bitch and saying Jorah's a traitor who wanted to murder you, they're going to drag it out and slowly but surely Barristan will realize why Jorah needs to go, his loyalties change too quickly and for the WRONG reasons. Whereas Barristan's loyalties changed for the right ones. At least from his point of view.
iannis
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We can hope that due to time and budget constraints GRRM uses the opportunity to retcon his own stupid shit and makes the dany story not descend into suck. We can hope.
The only thing that struck me about this episode, and it wasn't particular to this episode, was I don't understand why that half crow / half wildling dude beyond the wall with the village of daughter-wives was supposedly "untouchable". He was kind of a way station for rangers, I guess? I didn't understand that to begin with... so the mutiny and killing him was more of a "what took you dipshits so long?" shock than a "they've forsworn their oaths!" shock. Stupid Babykiller forgot to put on his Plot Coif and got stabbed!
The only thing that struck me about this episode, and it wasn't particular to this episode, was I don't understand why that half crow / half wildling dude beyond the wall with the village of daughter-wives was supposedly "untouchable". He was kind of a way station for rangers, I guess? I didn't understand that to begin with... so the mutiny and killing him was more of a "what took you dipshits so long?" shock than a "they've forsworn their oaths!" shock. Stupid Babykiller forgot to put on his Plot Coif and got stabbed!
Soygen
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Yes, he was a waystation who had helped many Rangers in the past and therefore Commander Mormont gave him a pass(even though it's quite clear even Mormont couldn't stand him). If they killed him, they would have lost that "station" since no crow was going to stick around and keep it going. I guess getting your shit pushed in by white walkers gives you a bit of a different perspective on the walk home. Poor Mormont.
Did the chap who was in the early days of Torchwood turn up just for this episode? He was the one who started the fight but I don't recall seeing him amongst the Night Watch before.
They're just showing stuff that was spoken about in the past tense during the latest book. It's mainly so they don't have to put the actor on the shelf for a while.
Soygen
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No, we only relive what happened through Theon's memory in the later books. There were no POV chapters during all of the Theon's torture though.
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Especially after last episode when she straight up went crazy on them for second guessing her decision. Then she went and did that... the "holy shit" look they gave says it all.
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Pretty much. The book talked about what happened to Theon, but not as it actually happened. This will actually be pretty interesting if they do it right, because not only does it demonstrate Theon's degeneration, but it also allows them to slowly build up one of the major post-Joffrey villains.
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