The Commentator

An approval from Stannis is not a sign of anything good. The execution was unjust and Jon made a tyrant of himself. The execution of the slavers who murdered the children was completely appropriate for the situation because what they did was an act of war against Dany and against the children. The masters used bad tactics to support a bad cause.

Peace with the Others require human sacrifice. As in giving them babies they can turn. Greensers demand human sacrifice but for their trees to feed on. The Starks were giving to both side before the Conquest. They were serving the WW and the GS. The Conquest brought the power of the dragons and that was a huge deterrent to the WW and the GS. The dragons kept the WW and GS from getting their revenge when humans stopped giving.

Reckon is going to be mental. A beast in many ways like his direwolf.

It’s good if Arya serves as a sad, even cautionary, example of what happens to those who seek and commit murderous revenge. Catelyn’s is a punishment more severe than death. Her soul dies with each Frey she murders. With Arya, it’s her sanity and humanity that dies with each murder she committed.

Jon Snow got killed because he was a fool who committed treason. Jon sucked so bad at his job, at governing even a tiny outfit like the watch. Bowen Marsh is a loyal, devoted man of the night’s watch and even he was desperate enough to terminate Jon’s reign. Daenerys is so much better at governing and leading.

The Tullys and the Starks were known rebels. Criminals.

There is a ceremonial side to the role. Age lends prestige rather than hurts in this capacity. A lot of the men likely die before reaching a ripe age. The Kingsguardship is an Order requiring total commitment. They serve until nothing of life remains. It is hard to accept given the modern relationship between employee and employer but it was a different time in a distant world. The Khal’s blood riders do the same. Dany’s bloodriders serve and protect her but to a level her husband never enjoyed.

Charging passers a toll for the use of a bridge which they invested in is not extortion. It is fair.

I would be accepting of this outcome. A handicap like Willas can overcome physical limitations. He seems the understanding and forgiving kind unlike Jon. He would be fine as the consort.

One of the worst sin. The FM violate the body of the departed.

Bran will live under the tree. I think Sansa, Jon, and Arya will die. Rickon will join the wildlings. Winterfell will burn down.

Most of the powerful houses got there through war and theft. The most prominent example are the Greyjoys. They murder and they steal. The Starks murdered a lot of families to get to where they could dominate the North. The Freys saw an opportunity given their location and built their precious bridge. They built the family wealth through hard work and smart investments. The earned their wealth. Walder was not above sending sons to the citadel to earn their way into the service of another household. He’s a much better father and head of the family when you put him beside Randyll Tarly, Hoster Tully, and Richard Stark. They are not known to provoke and start fights. It is the Starks who deserve most of the blame for the red wedding. Walder broke custom but it was mostly for his family’s survival. His family will pay but they don’t deserve to lose their wealth and none of them deserve to lose their lives. Petyr and Merrett are already murdered. No more of them need to die and become victims of the Starks in retaliation for the red wedding. It was a time of war. Robb broke his oaths. Tywin speaking for Joffrey laid out the conditions for a pardon. Walder did the prudent thing for his family. It was Cat’s stupidity and Robb’s deplorable conduct that got the Starks killed.

Well, Arya might escape a deserved punishment if she were run to the other side of the Wall to live with the Wildlings. She can live out her days until the madness fully takes hold.

Bad calls and perhaps tactical mistakes caused her reign to be brief but that war was easily winnable for Rhaenyra. It wasn’t mistakes at the beginning but bad calls later in the dance that brought her down. Preparations were not the problem. Sticking to the objective, staying consistent, and leaving personal feelings out of the planning would have given her what she wanted.

The Westerosi army will run for the nearest castle and hide. Most will die before they can get behind the walls. The Dothraki arrows will send many to their deaths. Westeros is not made up of warriors. While there is a small warrior class of varying skills the majority are unskilled peasants.

Jon’s vows still holds when he gets revived by the White Walkers. But Jon was never good at sticking to vows before he was killed. Vows, honor, and ethics mean nothing to somebody like Jon.

The Unsullied will increase their numbers. The ones they will train later are not going to be as good as the originals but more than good enough to fight and humiliate the Westerosi if Dany were to command it. A combined army of Unsullied, Dothraki, Sellswords, and the remainder of Vic’s crew will be unstoppable.

Oathbreaking is a war crime especially for people in military orders. Abandoning a post is desertion and punishable by death even today. Gregor and his crew are guilty of war crimes. But so are Robb Stark and his soldiers. Those who sacked King’s Landing during the rebellion are too. The Darklins may have had grievances but taking their king prisoner and subjecting him to torture was probably the worst offense.

Robb Stark was killed by Roose Bolton. The Freys were complicit but they didn’t do the actual killing. Catelyn killed Jinglebells and that should be the more serious sin that took place that day.

The most dangerous threat to the Bolton family are the White Walkers when Bran or Jon lets them pass through the Wall for a crazy act of desperation to get revenge for the Starks. Hosteen Frey and his boys will get the same thing coming to Roose and Ramsay. Wayman is more of a monster than Roose though and he too will get punished but not by the Starks. Ramsay is the worst and he will get what’s coming. But you know Jon Snow also deserves punishment for betraying the Watch and murdering his sworn brother in Janos Slynt. I will vote for him to get cremated with Drogon’s fire. Walda is a Frey who knows how the Game is played but the White Walkers and Jon Snow are not the playing kind. The White Walkers want something on her side of the Wall and Walda might figure it out to save herself. It will just be her bad luck if Jon, Arya, or Bran gets to her. Those Starks want blood and won’t spare Walda. Best hope for Walda to get herself back to the twins and far from the Stark pack.

The Freys will get through this wounded wolf-assassin child. The Lord of the Crossing produced his big family through many marriages and made it extinction proof. Arya is a lunatic who will try to kill every Frey but she will not get even half of them. One of the Frey might get lucky and take Arya down. The Freys are in danger like every other in Westeros. Not more and not less. But maybe they have family in the free cities and elsewhere who will survive the Others.

Victarion’s frame of reference is the sea means a large body of water. His ignorance shows up but it doesn’t mean he’s slow witted. Not necessarily.

Fire brings the warmth needed for life. “Blood is the life.” The Targaryens are good. Their role is to oppose the Starks who bring death, destruction and the horrors of winter. Nature is kept in balance. Life and death. Day and night. Good and evil.

Connected but not one organism. Blended consciousness who share memories across a root system. The Starks, weirwoods, ice, darkness, and dire wolves are the savage nature in man. They are pack animals who resist laws, order, and progress. They value freedom and chaos because they are primal and not fit for civilization. They are the enemies of the Targaryens. The Targaryens bring order, laws, rules, discipline, and structure.