Darth Visenya Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Battle command/intelligent commanders-Dany :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaAg Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Is there a scale or something depending on where in the series you are? Sansa does almost nothing of any intelligence in the first 2 books but I have never gotten the Sansa love although I do appreciate the growth of her character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamegeknee Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 What about Jojen or Meera? I think Jojen is easily the smartest, there is a reason they call him Little Grandfather. If i have to pick from the list I would say Samwell Tarly. He's the most intelligent in the traditional sense at least, and will be far smarter than anyone on the list after a few months (years?) at the Citadel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northbound Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:.As much, as I dont care for Dany. Her ability to command, during a sack of city can not be overlooked. All im saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grand old duke of stark Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Jon and Arya. Jon because of his reasoning, his abilitiy to build crucial relationships, and even his nascent scientific method--IIRC, he has those two dead wights put in the ice cells to see if he can learn anything from the bodies. Arya because of her ability to disguise herself, her survival around dangerous people (Roose, Sandor) and in dangerous situations, and her knowing when to back off and when to be aggressive. Like Jon, she's absorbed the lessons that came from people like Ned and Syrio and even Jon. FWIW, when you throw Sansa in, it goes to show that Starks, for all the griping that they are dumb, are pretty smart. Smart people may do dumb things (usually for good reasons), but intelligence will out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrogo Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 I think Jon is overall very smart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florina Laufeyson Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 You named candidates, I have the winner - Sansa Stark... Ehh. Sansa is on her way, but shes got some ways to go before she gets there, brah. She doesnt have her blackbelt in Politeness Judo yet. As it stands now, Jon and Sam are God Tier. Those two are pretty sharp and Sam in particular is very learned. He read it in a book, his mind is a sponge. Jon has a pretty broad thought process that puts him above a lot of full grown men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu101 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Margaery, no contest It all depends to be honest because they're all "smart" in different ways. There's street smart: Arya People smart: Margaery and Sansa Military smart: Robb Practical: Jon Book smart: Sam Why Dany is on the OP's list and not Sansa is beyond me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Broke Howard Hughes Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Jon Snow with Margaery running a very close second. Jon's a great leader, and Margaey's a great politician but he's a better politician than she is a leader from what we've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrimeRhaegar Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 book smarts- sam aegon marg streets smarts- dany, marg, jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Holy Goat Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Jon and Sam I'd say, though Jon might actually be better than Sam in terms of overall intelligence. Sam is the very bookish, very intelligent and very learned individual who's thought process seem to be hampered by insecurities and the like. Jon is the reasonable, sensible, practical and observant individual, who's also learned and ingenious. Margaery is difficult to rate, since we are not inside her head, but she might be up there. She is clealry observant and politically savvy, but how talented she is at using her brains is still up for debate. The QOT does most of the heavyweight thinking for the Tyrells it seems. The others on the list all show themselves to be faiirly clever. Sansa is learning how the Game of Thrones work, Arya is very sensible and very practical, with great streetsmarts, Aegon is learned and educated, Dany is savvy with a tactical and observant outlook, Robb was a talanted in practical military matters but lacked political savvy, etc. Missandei might be the true wonderchild though. Others, like Jojen and Meera are obviously intelligent as well. Hodor is probably the smartest character in the books though. He's just waiting for the right time to strike and set his evil plan in motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florina Laufeyson Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Jon and Sam I'd say, though Jon might actually be better than Sam in terms of overall intelligence. Sam is the very bookish, very intelligent and very learned individual who's thought process seem to be hampered by insecurities and the like. Jon is the reasonable, sensible, practical and observant individual, who's also learned and ingenious. This is why their bromance was so epic. They are two halves of one badass whole. Sam is the book smarts and information broker. Jon is the savvy one. Put them together and you get a recipe for awesome. Oh i do hope Sam comes back to Team Jon after his Misadventures At The Citadel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Ro Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Hahaha. Have some Arbor Gold and cut down on those lemoncakes you like so much. :lol: Unless you are talking about actual lemon-flavored baked goods, I own the patent on that term as it refers to a certain butterball. And i agree mladen, too much lemoncake is bad for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yolkboy Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 If Arya wasn'r super smart, she would be six feet under a long time ago. Taking her age into consideration, the fact she out thunk Jaqen H'ghar, and that she was smart enough to be merciful to the fleas living on her, she's my choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sullen Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Sam, Aegon, and Missandei all strike me as incredibly intelligent for their age. But, it has to be said, we are not in Missandei and Aegon's heads, we do not get to have a full view of their blunders like we do with most PoV characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House Of Wolves Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Jon is by far the most intelligent in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Man Has Said Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Arya is the most intelligent of the candidates on your list, and she isn't even a teenager yet. I think she might have turned 12 by the end of ADwD, but even she doesn't know for sure because the Braavosi don't keep the same calendar as Westeros. She's definitely precocious, studying at a grad school level when others her age would be playing with dolls or practicing needlepoint. Jon is presented from the very first as being very perceptive, seeing things as they are, which people attribute to him being a bastard and growing up faster. I see it more as he's NOT a spoiled heir so he doesn't have that arrogance that prevents you from learning. That said, Robb proved to be a good commander and an excellent tactician, didn't he? Sam's really smart and perceptive too. He saw the truth of the wighted dead rangers they found in AGoT when no-one else did. If Sansa is smart, she was wasting her potential under Septa Mordane's tutelage. Learning to be a proper Southron Lady is not exactly an intellectual challenge it seems. She may be catching up fast though. Dany seems to have good intuitions sometimes, others she just seems impulsive. It strains the imagination that Illyrio didn't give her and Viserys better educations though.But maybe we shouldn't judge her too harshly. She is after all just a young girl, and knows little of the ways of the world. Loras and Margaery? It's really hard to say. We don't really see them having to do anything that requires smarts, do we? Or maybe we do, in that they may be involved in some subtle Tyrrell plotting that we haven't seen the fruits of yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 there are no teens in that world. people are adults by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sullen Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Arya is the most intelligent of the candidates on your list, and she isn't even a teenager yet. I think she might have turned 12 by the end of ADwD, but even she doesn't know for sure because the Braavosi don't keep the same calendar as Westeros. She's definitely precocious, studying at a grad school level when others her age would be playing with dolls or practicing needlepoint. Arya has her share of especially stupid moments though. The one with Fat Tom being especially jarring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Señor de la Tormenta Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Agree with the ones who said Jojen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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