Game of Thrones - Book Readers' Thread - - Part 19

[Reek]

just a warm-up

 

[Roose Bolton]

 

[Marvolo]

Well, now we know what Arya did when she first got to Bravos.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Maisie has, uh... grown.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Well, now we know what Arya did when she first got to Bravos.

 

[Doppelganger]

Well, now we know what Arya did when she first got to Bravos.

It is all about the right priorities man t:

 

[Sawyer]

Oh Lord.... I would.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

We all would. Though I understand the difference with you Swayer.

 

[Sawyer]

Though I understand the difference with you Swayer.

She's got me all mixed up.

Is this what straight guys feel like when they look at Matt Bomer?

 

[Victarion]

Found this on Twitter. Figured Reek would like it.

Spoiler

edit: Stannis is basically Roland of Gilead. No wonder I like Stannis.

 

[Reek]

 

[godisawesome]

Is this her Cat of the Canas look, or is it just dress up for the magazine or another movie?

Also, anyone else love the look of Stannis in a traditional Northern fur tripped cloak? Makes me hope they actually milk the crud out of Stannis mustering support the way Jon has his do it in the books. I'm just picturing Stannisbeing this seemingly awkward centerpiece for huge Norter banquets, and being so stoic and straight faced that Jon or Davos has to break the ice.

 

[CaptainCanada]

It does, and it's been used before in-universe as a way for them to annul such a thing to suite their needs.

The key point there being "annul", which has not happened, and cannot happen, under the current conditions.

The Lannisters are a sinking ship since Tywin died, coupled with Cersei's downfall, the coming Winter, the geological position they're in and the Boltons own ambitions, I could see them very easily accepting it to increase their own power base in a the North. I don't think its hard to see Petyr winning them over to his schemes. The Boltons don't even need to think of her as an ally, they just need to think they have her under their thumb.

The Lannisters aren't a sinking ship yet, to public knowledge, at the time this story happens. They are the unchallenged masters of the world. It's only with Cersei's arrest at the end of the season that everything goes to hell.

Is this her Cat of the Canas look, or is it just dress up for the magazine or another movie?

It's her new Braavosi costume that she'll be wearing all season.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The key point there being "annul", which has not happened, and cannot happen, under the current conditions.

The Lannisters aren't a sinking ship yet, to public knowledge, at the time this story happens. They are the unchallenged masters of the world. It's only with Cersei's arrest at the end of the season that everything goes to hell.

It was specifically mentioned last season that without Tywin around the Lannisters would crumble, this is the whole argument Davos used to win the support of the Iron Bank. If a common smuggler can realise that then surely a machiavellian manipulator and a ruthlessly pragmatic sociopath (with designs on ruling as King in the North) would see it as well. The king of the world is dead, his kingdom is vulnerable.

 

[Marvolo]

Found this on Twitter. Figured Reek would like it.

Spoiler

edit: Stannis is basically Roland of Gilead. No wonder I like Stannis.

Yep. Thats about how that meeting would go. Followed swiftly by:

 

[Roose Bolton]

She goin' break that wheel and get revenge them all...including for some reason the Tyrells, who specifically fought loyally for her family during the Rebellion....

 

[Reek]

It was specifically mentioned last season that without Tywin around the Lannisters would crumble, this is the whole argument Davos used to win the support of the Iron Bank. If a common smuggler can realise that then surely a machiavellian manipulator and a ruthlessly pragmatic sociopath (with designs on ruling as King in the North) would see it as well. The king of the world is dead, his kingdom is vulnerable.

 

[Roose Bolton]

She makes all the right noises.

 

[Victarion]

To add to Roose's argument: It looks like either the Sand Snakes or Doran, or both, will be more proactive than in the books. I think Cersei's going to be more concerned with Mycella in Dorne and the Tyrells in King's Landing. This is before she starts giving the High Sparrow privileges previously revoked by the Targaryens.

 

[Reek]

She goin' break that wheel and get revenge them all...including for some reason the Tyrells, who specifically fought loyally for her family during the Rebellion....

lol she really shouldnt hate the starks either... yes they sided with robert but that was under the assumption of Lyannas kidnapping and the mad king going... mad. but Dany is a moron, so.

 

[Marvolo]

I think y'all might be taking her wheel comment too far. I think she is simply saying that she is going to break the cycle that's destroying Westeros. I doubt she wants to go to Westeros and try to obliterate all those Houses without so much as a "Hi, how are you?"

 

[Victarion]

Yeah, to me it sounded like Dany was saying she'd do for Westeros what she basically did for Meereen. Ending the vicious cycle of oppression.

 

[godisawesome]

...Which, honestly, does actually help that line have some nice in-character meaning for Dany. All her knowledge of the Great Houses of Westeros is second hand, and she's been raised and focused on Essos this whole time, with getting to Westeros as her end goal. To an outsider, the Iron Throne really is a repetitive wheel of warfare and oppression. To an insider like Tyrion, it's got a lot more nuances and much more potential for stability and course correction compared to Dany's Essos Empire.

 

[Victarion]

Oh, this is the actress playing the Winterfell worker that I'd referred to a couple of times: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Emma_Maguire

 

[Roose Bolton]

She strikes me as very naive to assume that she can come in with her Unsullied and her dragons and not be just another force of destruction.

Oh, this is the actress playing the Winterfell worker that I'd referred to a couple of times: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Emma_Maguire

She DOES look like Maise.