[TV/BOOK] *SPOILERS* Game of Thrones Discussion - Page 136

On May 30 2012 03:58 jj33 wrote:


thanks for link.

I'm excited to the Olenna, love how her bodyguards were named left and right haha

On May 30 2012 22:17 Nuclease wrote:


On the above, I don't think you can really rule out the Direwolves at all. Especially in Jon Snow's parts, there is a lot of hinting that Ghost will become a huge factor in the coming battles against the forces of the North, especially seeing as Melisandre said that he would be the only "defense against traitors in the darkness." Seeing as he has been killed, which is, in my estimation, going to be temporary, some jumping-off point for Ghost has to be reached. Seeing as two books remain in the planned series, you can't rule out the wolves. Also, Arya constantly has dreams which are clearly skinchanger dreams, in which she takes on the form and consciousness of her wolf which still lives in Westeros. No one ever killed her wolf, it just ran off. It's not a coincidence that a large pack of wolves with one enormous, queen wolf (clearly the direwolf Nymeria) lives in the exact spot that Arya cast Nymeria off into the woods in that same place. That will become a bigger issue, I'm sure, as she comes to better or worse terms with who she is as a Stark in the Temple of the Many-Faced God. Moreover, those dreams and those animals have been vital to Arya because it is the last remnant of her identity as, literally and figuratively, a wolf. Not only have they been vital to Arya, but Bran would have no reason for living and would never have realized that he was a Greenseer without his Direwolf, Rickon would not be revealed to be a complex and angry child without the attitude of Shaggydog to show it, and Jon Snow's storyline would not hold nearly as much mystery, duality between the wild and the tame, or nearly as much badassery.

Finally, the reason you haven't heard from Rickon in 1.5 books is largely because GRRM split the same space in time up in to two books, one of which focused purely on one set of characters and the other book another set of characters. Rickon was caught between both of those sets of characters but did not truly belong to one. Moreover, Rickon's only traveling. He doesn't have much to tell that Bran can't reveal while also expanding the plot. However, we do know something of Rickon. In Davos' chapters, Lord Manderley of White Harbor reveals that he means to overthrow the Boltons, etc., and that he has a Stark which can prove their innocence and cause for treason. It can't be Bran, Jon, or Arya, because we know where they all are. We know that Rickon set off to go South (and White Harbor is South of Winterfell), but he is the only one we didn't know everything about. So we can conclude that we have Rickon accounted for and we'll be hearing from him soon. Patience!

I rest mah case.

On May 30 2012 23:24 zatic wrote:
Did you guys see this? http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117511-Game-of-Thrones-Season-3-Details-Surface

Especially: Jojen and Meera Reed

I am wondering why they are introducing them after all. When Bran and co fled from Winterfell I thought OK, in order to make it work on TV they cut the Reeds from it. Wonder how they will introduce them now. Maybe they'll just meet somewhere in the woods - that would be kind of disappointing.

On May 31 2012 01:26 Geo.Rion wrote:

Red Viper? Where s my Red Viper? Cas Anvar looked really good for the role, but i guess he'll be Daario then...

On May 30 2012 23:12 antelope591 wrote:
As one poster above said what I hated most about ADWD was what he did with Dany's character. The Dany from book 3 was the best ruler we've seen so far by far. She had nothing at the start but a few ships and she ended up conquering 3 slave cities and amassed a huge army. Her troops loved her, she was smart in battle tactics and made all the right moves. Then in book 5 she turns into a teenage ditz with a love crush and does nothing useful through the whole novel. Its a shame her story held up the book for so long when it ended up being by far the worst of the novel anyway -_-.

On May 31 2012 02:14 StarVe wrote:


Probably meeting them randomly somewhere, or not so randomly because Jojen had a dream that told him where to go, would establish his green dreams quite nicely.

Doesn't really matter to me how they're going to introduce them, I'm just happy they're in, the Bran storyline would've gotten really boring for me otherwise.

On May 30 2012 19:19 Ficetool wrote:
I will start to watch the TV series now I guess....However. The book strongly disappointed me (just finished reading the last one)... There is not a single character left in the book that I really like. Where's the fun in reading the books if you are always like chapter1: "meh..dont like him" chapter2: "oh not her again"...chapter3: "well about you I dont care at all"....and so on

And then of those great and awesome direwolfs... there are how many left? like 3? They haven't played ANY role in the book apart from getting slauhtered and their heads getting put on human bodies. And from Rickon I haven't heard in like what? 1 1/2 books?

By now I just hope Daenerys flies to Westeros, kills everyone and be done with it -.-

On May 31 2012 23:30 haegN wrote:


Did you seriously read like 5-6k pages while not liking it? Are you a sadist?

On June 01 2012 01:33 scudst0rm wrote:
How old is the actor who plays Tommen? I've tried looking it up and I've heard 11, but nothing definitive. He's already noticeably older than in season 1.

My concern is that if he is 14 by the time we get to the events of AFFC then he would be too old for Ser Pounce and Lady Whiskers