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I guess Sam preferred to be a maester. And probably, a maester with certain privileges because I doubt they forced him to abondon Gilly & li’ll Sam.
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We all deal with disappointment in our own way.
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Obviously, Sophie Turner is not allowed to deal with disappointment in her own way.
She’s not talking about "disappointed fans" but people who start or sign petitions saying: "Change it, I didn’t like it!"
So you’re the Three Eyed Raven who knows that a TV show he has never seen is crap?
Well, I’ve got bad news for you: You’re not alone. There are thousands of your kind.
Well, the last Three Eyes Raven, was, what did he say? A thousands years old or something.
So it might be quite some time before they have to deal with the situation that the King is dead…
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But he did want to be king... if he truly had no desire to be king then he would not have shown up at the meeting. He even admitted that to Tyrion.
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No, he didn’t admit that to Tyrion. On the contrary, when Tyrion said he doesn’t want to be the Hand, he replied: "And I don't want to be king."
You’re probably referring to the thing a few moments earlier, when Tyrion asked: "Will you lead the Seven Kingdoms?" and he replied: "Why do you think I came all this way?", thus saying that he WILL do it but not that he WANTS to do it. It’s quite possible that while Bran probably can see the future, he can’t change it. He is, as Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen put it, merely a puppet that can see the strings. He’s fulfilling his destiny because he has no other choice.
Just like he said to Jon: "You were exactly where you were supposed to be", he now is where he’s supposed to be. But not by choice.
She outmanipulated Littlefinger. In my opinion, everything from the moment when Arya handed over the dagger to Sansa after they had a fight, was a deception to lure Littlefinger into revealing what he really wants, which he did by advising her to get rid of Arya.
That’s how I saw, of course I may be wrong.
But what other bad guys were even left at that stage for her to outmanipulate?
I guess it wouldn’t work on the Night King, and Cersei was a thousand miles away.
Aryerica – I like that! :-)
I’m quite sure there are some deleted scenes, because there almost always are.
But of course it’s the question if these scenes really flesh something out or if there were deleted for some good reason (e.g. I think it’s good that they deleted the scene where Doreah killed Irri because that was way out of character).
I’d love a "Director’s Cut" (or whatever they might call it) edition on DVD/BD but I doubt it.
I doubt that Bronn even WANTS to be the ruler.
As far as I remember, it was mentioned in some former episode that the Reach is kind of Westeros’ breadbasket. So everyone now depends on Bronn. Given his character, I think he enjoys this position much more than becoming king which would involve, you know, actual ruling, rather than just sitting back, waiting for request and making demands in turn.
Remember when one of the slavers assumed that Tyrion has a dwarf-sized cock and Tyrion went: "GUESS AGAIN"?
I kinda would’ve been nice if Bran had echoed these words the moment when Tyrion said that Bran can’t have kids…
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But Dorne??? Both Dorne and the Iron Islands had been trying to get their independence back forever!
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That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it, BUT whe don’t know the state they’re in.
I mean, that’s what Yara wanted when she came to Dany in Mereen: The Iron Islands should become independent. However we do not know how many men she had left when she took the Iron Islands in the end. Maybe they just were not strong enough to hope to survive independently. Remember that they probably can’t make a living from the resources they have on the Iron Islands, and when they’re not strong enough to return to their way of raiding and plundering, it’s probably best to stay in the "Union".
And Dorne? We don’t know ANYTHING about it. We never saw or heard what happened there after the former ruler was killed. Maybe they still were in some kind of weakened state.
Of course, I’m just assuming things here. But we don’t have another choice but to assume, do we? After all, the showrunners decided no to let us know. :-(
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Although I admit Arya's Plot Armor held up remarkably well, she didn't even get the visit I expected from Jacquen Hagar! I mean, she took power from a Death Cult and walked away, and much to my surprise neither they nor their Many-Faced God ever came for her.
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We’ve discussed this before. (Well, I THINK I discussed this with you; if it was somebody else, sorry!)
I never had the feeling that Jacquen Hagar was unsatisfied with Arya’s development. If he had been, nothing could’ve stopped him from killing her the moment she turned his back on him.
Maybe he knew (like apparently Melisandre did) that Arya is going to kill the Night King. I doubt the Many-Faced God would have wanted the Night King to win because in that case, nobody would have died anymore because they all just turn zombie.
Think about it: What was Jacquen Hagar actually doing in Westeros when he first met Arya? We don’t know, but he didn’t seem to be on any kind of mission. He just hung around with some criminals, then with the soldiers… so MAYBE it was his mission to make contact with Arya, to push her in the direction towards the House of Black and White. Because he knew that she, given the proper training, was the one to obliterate the NK, which was (see above) in the Many-Faced God’s best interest.
It seems a bit of a stretch, yes. But I think it all fits together.
Of course you all heard of Archmaester Ebrose, you even saw him. It was the guy who told Sam that the cure procedure of Greyscale is forbidden. Back then, he even mentioned towards Sam that he is writing a book called something like "The Wars Following the Death of King Robert", and Sam said that maybe he should choose a title that is more "poetic".
By the way, Sam isn’t Archmaester now, he’s Grandmaester. Still seems a bit strange, since he broke off his training. But we never actually learned what it takes to become a Grandmaester, maybe you can get the title for special merits or something. He surely isn’t a bad choice because he’s trustworthy. It surely would fit both Bran and Tyrion to choose a Grandmaester who you can trust over someone who’s more experienced.
Yes, some people said it, but I’m not one of them. ;-)
To me, it was clearly snow on the ruins.
And my theory… as I’ve said, I don’t quite believe it anymore because they should have at least mentioned it in some way. btw, I came up with the thing because when the CotF created the first White Walker, they were clearly in the North (i.e. north of the wall) and there was no snow around but only green grass.
She always SAID she wanted to save the world, and people believed her. She believed it herself and still believed it at the end, that was (in my opinion) quite clear from her speech. But her methods in doing it weren’t … well, not what most would refer to as "saving".
She DID obliterate people who were in her way before, but as Tyrion said, those were mostly bad people so nobody really cared.
So maybe, yes, she may have been an asshole all along. I never saw it that way, but … well, she fooled Tyrion, she could’ve fooled me as well.
We saw snow in King’s Landing this finale episode. I guess that happend only in Winter. On the other hand, at the wall it looked like it has always looked.
A while ago, I posted the theory that the winter in Westeros never had been a natural thing, but always was connected to the existence of the White Walkers. Although meanwhile, I’m pretty sure I was wrong on that one, it would explain why the winter now seems to go away before it had really started.
*sigh* Let’s stop here, we’re going nowhere.
So how does that prove that my assumption is wrong?
I’m not saying it is right, if I was sure it’s right, I wouldn’t call it an assumption, but I just don’t see how you disprove it
I assume the title "A Dream of Spring" more refers to the hope for better times rather than to actual seasons.