Game of Thrones (Current episode spoilers)

[Chewblaha]

OR WHEN ROBB OR DALISA ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE SEVEN GODS AND HAVE NO BUSINESS MARRYING UNDER THEM.

 

ASLO THE FACT THAT

DALISA IS NOT JEYNE WESTERLING.

 

Edited June 10, 2012 by Chewblaha

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

So, my thoughts on the final episode:

 

Very good, but a step down from Blackwater as expected. It tied up all the loose ends it needed to, and it actually finished ahead of A Clash of Kings, closing with the prologue of A Storm of Swords.

 

More spoilery commentary through ASOS Prologue/ Season 2:

 

 

Arya finally got her coin, and we got to see Jaqen's face changing, a detail which will be important come A Feast for Crows.

 

King's Landing has been set up nicely for next season, as we see the tables start to turn against Tyrion and Sansa alike. It was interesting that they had Littlefinger tell her straight up that he would try to take her out of KL (in the book he was behind the attempts but it wasn't stated until later).

 

Dany's story line was good. Different, but good. The House of the Undying was a decent interpretation from the books, though the vision of Rhaegar was missed. They locked up Xaro, which was odd, but maybe he'll get out or they'll use someone else for his role in ADWD and beyond. It was cool to see Khal Drogo again.

 

Theon's actor closed out strong, with a heart-wrenching performance as he considers going to the Night's Watch before changing his mind and failing miserably. Maester Luwin's final scene was sad too.

 

Robb and Talisa's wedding was expected and done well. Chewie: Robb is half Tully, so a ceremony incorporating the Seven wouldn't have been entirely out of the question.

 

Jon Snow finally killed the Halfhand--differently than in the books, but it got the job done. The non-readers we were watching it with picked up on what was happening right away.

 

Finally, Sam and the Others were a fantastic closer. I simply love how the Other leading the wights toward the fist just looks over Sam and doesn't even bother killing him. That may make things--interesting next season

 

 

All in all a good season, maybe not quite up to the first in terms of book faithfulness and writing, but very good. Blackwater was a new high water mark for the series.

[TCP]

I like the idea

Maybe mention before the spoiler what book or episode it spoils through.

This is a smart idea. Make it mandatory!

[Hot Heart]

http://sarahditum.com/2012/06/04/feminist-fantasies/

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Yeah, it's bizarre how many "feminists" take issue with the oppressive culture of Westeros. The creation of an unequal society in fantasy does not equate to an endorsement of that sort of system in the real world.

[MasterDex]

Good read. This is the problem I have with a lot of women that indentify themselves as feminists - and the white knights that stand by their side - all they really are is misandrists in disguise; only interested in shouting about the horrible injustices of today's culture and how men are constantly putting them down with horrible misogynistic literature like ASOIAF. To them, a woman acting more like the "misogynistic" stereotype is a weak-willed sympathizer of men.

 

Westeros is a world that reflects our own around the same period. Rape was common, even encouraged, among soldiers and women had very few rights, if any at all. Yet the fact remains that, just like in Westeros, there were those few who broke the shackles of inequality and rose above the station that their world threw them into.

 

People like Laurie Penny remind me that there's no opposite word to feminist/feminism - of course, if you were to ask Laurie Penny, I'm sure she'd say it was misogynist/misogyny.

[Chewblaha]

What like Asha "I can suck whoever's cock I want" Greyjoy, Arya "cut your throat open" Stark, Melisandre "true power behind the king" priestess, Osha "saved these kids on my own after murdering all these people" Wildling, or how about House Mormont and their women? Or Brienne? The oldest child in the North receives the lord/ladyship when their parents die. Women are leaders of houses in the North. You can't have selective complaints. Yeah marriage rights yeah. Sometimes the women in charge of their houses put the kids to marriage as well.

[Mal]

April 6th, 2013... so now I need to wait for next season and the next book? Oh, fuck me.

[Hot Heart]

My sister: there's a very good chance i was quite rude to an actor from game of thrones on friday night. ooops.

Me: Hope it wasn't a Lannister

My sister: i don't know much about GoT but i know that they are evil. this guy played jon snow

Me: Ha. I think many girls would have been insanely jealous of you then.

My sister: he doesn't look as much like heath ledger in real life as he does on tv. he also wears ugly scarves.

 

Trust my sister... Bet she called him a bastard.

Edited June 6, 2012 by Hot Heart

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Jon Snow wears scarves? I knew he was a hipster.

 

[Chewblaha]

Spoilers about Dany/Daario/Cersei/AerysII.

 

 

 

 

Think about the parallels.

 

It's well established that Aerys was insane. He stared into fire as though it made him aroused. He was obsessed with it. He would stare into the night. He would hear voices in his head and see things only he could see. He let these things only he could see/hear dictate his life.

 

Okay those couple of things down.

 

Let's jump to Cersei, yust for fun. Cersei killed a woman to hear her die. Pushed her down that well. Cersei is then supposed to be punished by karma by some palm reader who is the equivalent of Miss Cleo. Cersei got her "prophecy" that she'll die after she sees her kids die. She let this prophecy shape her life and her everyday doings. She remembers the voice as we see all throughout AFFC. She hears it all the time. It prevents her from making rational decisions.

 

Cersei also did the following: Watched the Tower of the Hand burn to the ground. Jaime remember seeing the look on her eyes. Remembering that it is the exact same look Aerys had when he would go on burning binges.

 

Those are two different things that Cersei and Aerys have in common when it comes to insanity. Now you say that could be some kind of coincidence, but I think not.

 

Remember: Tywin Lannister married his cousin. The Mad King was married to his sister. If you needed more proof that the inbreeding could lead to insanity, let's take a look at Joffrey. The spawn of incest.

 

Now let's not get hasty here. Tommen, Myrcella are fine people. So was Rhaegar.

 

Now let's take this into account about Cersei. She has the common problem of spacing out when people are talking and thinking about random and oblivious. During her small council meeting, she visually undresses the admiral and ponders sex with him. She then thinks of sex with others (The Kettlebacks [becks?]) and essentially goes off on a tangent in her thoughts.

 

Now. Rhaegar. He was taken seriously and known to be sane.

 

Viserys. No.

 

Dany. Oh Dany. Where do I begin?

 

Let's start with that last point I made about Cersei! Dany. When she's not spacing out/ignoring her small council, rejecting all knowledge of her homeland from someone who actually knows about it and instead takes the word of her insane brother who was just a child when he left, she's thinking about Daario. Or Drogo. She listens to Quentyn Martell and completely ignores what he is saying ("HA HEY UH 50K WANNA FIGHT FER YOUUUUU.") and staring down at Gerris. Then she pays attention to Quentyn. Then she thinks he's ugly. Then she thinks about Daario and all the sex she wants to have with him. Then she, as if she had been paying attention, states that her subjects (whom she calls her children [?????????]) should be protected. However that's more appropriate than calling some dragons that she had pop OUT OF EGGS next to her in a hot enough fire her children.

 

Then we have Qaithe. The invisible to all and mute to all prophet. She tells Dany some bullshit coincidentals and then Dany is stuck making sure that every instance of her life should revolve around what she was told. Beware the Sun's Son! Oh! Actively find a way to spurn him and cause the shit you were warned about to take place.

 

The three betrayals!!! Oh noes! You get betrayed about 300 times throughout this but you only focus on the specifics of each.

 

Anyway. The point I'm making about all of this is that there have been hints as what insanity entails in the Yorge ARAR Martini storyland. Dany, Cersei, and Aerys II share many of these hinting traits. I believe that Dany is an insane individual. We have NEVER had a POV in which she was seen by someone. Every single time Dany is seen or physically present in are all through her eyes only. Even Barristan talks about how she's incompetent, like her father, and let's emotions guide her path, like her father.

 

Then Barristan hints ever so subtly that maybe it should have been he to put the sword through Aerys's back instead of Jaime. It is so slightly hinted at that some people may not have picked it up. I think Dany's story will end by Barristan's hand.

Edited June 6, 2012 by Chewblaha

[Chewblaha]

Proper chronology of the events in AFFC and ADWD.

 

http://boiledleather.com/post/24543217702/a-proposed-a-feast-for-crows-a-dance-with-dragons

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

@Chew: Dany is 13. Cersei isn't. You just described an average teenager.

[Mal]

@Chew Before you come back to add in an age jump:I am not sure how old Dany is currently but even if we shot up her age by five years, she will still be 18 and be more or less the same. So FDS point still stands. I think things will change with Dany in the Winds of Winter after what happened in Dance.

 

Of course things could go your way. I just believe there will not be a happy ending but Dany will survive through or very near the end of all this.

[Chewblaha]

@Chew: Dany is 13. Cersei isn't. You just described an average teenager.

 

Cersei, from the information we're given about her past from her own recollection, had not changed one bit. If anything, she got worse. Dany is 16, I believe. It still doesn't discount the parallels between the three characters.

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

It's an interesting take, and I think it's plausible given that nearly every major event in the book has been foreshadowed in a very forthright way--though we don't always pick up on this until a re-read.

 

AFFC/ADWD spoilers

 

Cersei dreams she is naked and everyone is laughing at her in the beginning of AFFC. Well get around to finishing ADWD and lo and behold...

 

 

This kind of stuff is all over the place, and it's certainly possible. I could still see her maturing and things going the other way though.

[Chewblaha]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[Mal]

This might be spoiler-ish so you are warned.

[Hot Heart]

Was telling my friend how some of the violence differs between the first book and season one. He's seen the show and is currently reading the book and got worried about spoilers, so I reassured him with 'Events are the same, only the maims have been changed'.

[Mal]

I finally watched the season finale. I love some of the foreshadowing. And at the end, there is once again an impossible escape mission.

Also, what Chew said. OLD GODS.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I'm loving ADWD. 3-4 chapters ago I reached the point the events overtake AFFC. I know it sounds silly but I felt a bit oversaturated with all my favorite characters in one book for so long and so often. I miss the Sansa chapters, believe it or not.

[danielpholt]

I'm loving ADWD. 3-4 chapters ago I reached the point the events overtake AFFC. I know it sounds silly but I felt a bit oversaturated with all my favorite characters in one book for so long and so often. I miss the Sansa chapters, believe it or not.

 

I think Sansa might be one of my favourite characters. She's come a long way from the annoying little girl in AGOT, and she's got some pretty interesting stuff going on. As for Crows, what did you think to it? Aside from the last third, i was completely underwhelmed. Maybe it was coming off ASoS but it lacked any real...excitement. Thankfully ADWD fixed that. I managed to get through the last half of that book inside 5 days.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I'm at the 90% point of ADWD.

 

As for AFFC I actually liked it but can see why people were underwhelmed with it since folks had to wait years for the next book after ASOS and it wasn't nearly as exciting. All the chapters dealing with the Greyjoys were uninteresting for me but necessary [i guess]

[danielpholt]

I was more than happy to see those chapters end. I really enjoyed the Dorne stuff though. Trying to avoid spoilers is hard.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I was spoiled over the RW and was half spoiled about what happens to my favorite character at the end of ADWD so I asked since I was dying. Besides that I've learned that you're basically looking to get spoiled when discussing the TV show on the internet without having read the books, or reading the books way after they come out.