GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Frenzied Wombat
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So I've been avoiding this thread because I haven't read book 5 yet, but this season of GoT has me scratching my head.. Either I'm not remembering the books well, or they're starting to seriously deviate from the them. Did any of the below actually happen in the books?
1) Olenna/Littlefinger admitting that they conspired to kill Joffrey. As far as I remember this was still a mystery in book 4.
2) Night's Watch mutineers taking over Craster's house and Jon leading an expedition to kill them . Don't remember this.
3) Bran going to Crasters and getting caught. Don't remember this either.
4) Margaery buttering up Tommen.
1) Olenna/Littlefinger admitting that they conspired to kill Joffrey. As far as I remember this was still a mystery in book 4.
2) Night's Watch mutineers taking over Craster's house and Jon leading an expedition to kill them . Don't remember this.
3) Bran going to Crasters and getting caught. Don't remember this either.
4) Margaery buttering up Tommen.
1) Littlefinger reveals it in book 3.
2) Does not happen in the books.
3) Does not happen in the books.
4) Happens in the books, but perhaps not until book 4.
Read it wrong, my bad. Nonetheless, I don't recall anyone from that group going with them, just Daario. He made is two superiors headless and then swore allegiance to Dany and helped raid Yunkai.
This is a silly question but the last episode had John meeting a guy with a scar who had some training in fighting. I had the feeling that I had seen that guy before. Is this the case and what is his deal?
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Did the scenes with Baelish on the boat feel like, utterly forced from him, moreso than usual to anyone else?
Like I really felt like the guy playing Baelish went over the top on the acting during this part. Hell, it sounded as if his accent even went a bit Scottish there for a minute before going back to his normal accent. ESPECIALLY right when Sansa got up into the boat 2 episodes ago. It was eye-rolling bad.
Like I really felt like the guy playing Baelish went over the top on the acting during this part. Hell, it sounded as if his accent even went a bit Scottish there for a minute before going back to his normal accent. ESPECIALLY right when Sansa got up into the boat 2 episodes ago. It was eye-rolling bad.
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Mist
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He's been doing the cartoon villain thing for a long time now. I think it's on purpose.
That is Locke, a guy loyal to Roose Bolton. He was the one that captured Brienne and Jamie and cut his hand off (as the gif above shows). In episode 2, he comes back to the Dreadfort with Roose after the Red Wedding. He is in the room when Theon/Reek shaves Ramsay and Roose finds out that Theon didnt kill Bran and Rickon and that Jon Snow is Nights Watch and their half brother. He sends Ramsay and Reek to Moat Cailin and now I guess sent Locke to go after Bran and Rickon.
At first i thought it was a Locke look-a-like or Locke and wondered why he would be up there, and then remembered the scene at the Dreadfort.
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Deal with it or stop watching. TV is a visual medium, thus "long game" elements have to be more concretely established or people start shitting about "deus ex machina" or bad writing if they are dropped out of nowhere. You don't have the benefit of tiny footnotes buried in text to fall back on. They can't totally ignore the Others like the books, esp if they play a larger role later on.
GRRM will never finish the series anyways, so just enjoy it.
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When Daario swears allegiance to Dany he says that the Second Sons are hers so the mercenaries are part of her army. If you look around the crowd scene after all the slaves revolt and are cheering for Dany you can see some mercenary looking folks in the crowd.
Also Locke was promised 1,000 acres and a holdfast by Roost Bolton if he found the Stark boys. That's why he is at Castle Black.
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So I have a question. If Tommen were to die now who is next in line for the throne? Would it go to the first male child of Marcela since she is considered to be the last child of King Robert or would it go to Stannis as the last direct male sibling of Robert? That would be fucked up if Stannis won the throne through succession and not war.
The throne would go to whoever Tywin wanted it to go to.
In terms of line of succession, Stannis should be next in line after Tommen. However, they can just say that Stannis is a traitor and traitors should not be king. After Stannis, the next in line should be Robert's/Stannis' oldest uncle, if he has one. Otherwise Robert's uncles son, then grandon, then roberts great uncles son, etc.
I would say Stannis by default as he is the next male in line, unless Gendry pops his head up. Problem with that is 1. he is a bastard, 2. no way to prove he is Roberts son. If a female were to be eligible, it would be Marcella. Then it would probably go to Lannisters due to marriage.
Or as Flank said, whoever the most powerful person in charge wants.
heard a joke that the only two characters left in the end will be Rickon and Tommen playing marbles
Or as Flank said, whoever the most powerful person in charge wants.
heard a joke that the only two characters left in the end will be Rickon and Tommen playing marbles
Noble Savage
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If Marcella is in that line at all, it would be her first male son to get the throne sort of like the situation with Sansa's son being the first true heir to Winterfell. Its interesting because if that is the case, since Marcella is promised to the Dornish prince and is living with the Dornish people then that would be a HUGE shift in power from the Lannisters toward the Oberon family. They would become the ruling family of Westeros instead of the Lannisters.
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