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It_spelt_Magalhaes

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  1. The truth of events, or at least the perspective of the characters themselves in their pov will absolutely count for sh*t once tongues start wagging. Like it's repeatedly been pointed out in various tones and with a multitude of intents? Dany was screwed once she got them dragons. Everyone wants her gone. Even the Red Priests and their following would have the individual gone and trade it for their symbol and icon. And whatever she does from that point onwards is only going to be twisted in the telling, despite however good, bad, or stupid it might be. Damn her intentions or ambitions. By the time she sets foot on Westeros, she could be handing out lollies and preaching world peace (let alone in a conquest campaign armed with dragons and dothraki), she'll be seen as the absolute worst of all that westerosi can throw at her. Squandering potential allies before she even meets them out of stupidity, inexperience or plain out because she is a Targaryen with Dragons TM? Arianne Martell was always going to be bffs with the 'pretty new girl' who cost her a shot at the throne. Or Dorne. More than once. Right. Meanwhile, Tyrion 'Don't Look at Me I'm Just Here for the Game' Lannister will joyously cast his shadow spinning the runour mill.
  2. Holy! I feel old. Also? 'He chose... poorly.' after Donovan was all 'eternal life'? Awesomest line.
  3. Just add poop and farts to the tits and cocks. That wig art, tho... Hey! That'd be awesome!
  4. Wellp, once you base stuff on the popularly named 'mummers version'? Don't you mean the Short Night? Muahahah. I'm melting!!
  5. @Lollygag Thank you. Lets all give a slow!clap to show!Catelyn Stark and her 'how to raise your husband's nephew who you believe to be his bastard' 101, used to great effect to newter iniciative and ambition and create a submissive, unable to commit moron. I really disliked what they did to Jon, if you couldn't tell by now.
  6. Being an a-hole is banking one-oh-one. Imagine that credit interview: 'so, what are your available assets in case of default?' 'I have a good story'. Yeah...
  7. Oh! Horror level thought here! Imagine the last bit of Bran's identity and individuality locked behind a WallTM designed to facilitate and guarantee his transition into the collective. He resists, out of his emotional pack based notion of self, so even as he seees the actions of the 3ED as necessary for the future to become? He watches, with enough remaining empathy, but completely without agency, as the entity he now embodies uses his family, his people and his world like disposable chess pieces. Masterful.
  8. Maybe it's yet another way to hammer in the cost of war? The lack of interaction with the elders causes a vacuum where oral traditions are not passed on, knowledge and crafts forgotten.
  9. I think we're meant to look at it as a 'fixed universe' thing? It was always going to happen. 'The ink is dry." Everyone who tried to mess with prophecy only made sure it actually happened due to their interference in trying to stop it. Remember the witch who killed Daenerys' baby in her womb to stop the 'Stallion who mounts the world' and the tragedies to follow? She made it possible for Daenerys to have dragons. And if the 3ER acts like in the council scene? He'll take care of higher matters, the council addresses the state.
  10. Even in the show he said he wasn't Bran anymore, so even if/when he leaves? He won't be Ned Stark's son who liked to climb, who dreamed of being a knight. Kill the boy and make way for the man. The boy dreamed, the man serves.
  11. Bran won’t even be Bran anymore, imo. Loss of identity is a death of sorts. Loss of humanity, even. Valar morghulis. And in trade his will be a life of service, as the 3er, however long it lasts. Valar dohaeris. I think he pays dearly enough indeed.
  12. Avoided it as if it were a boat shock full of Yersinia pestis infected rats. But I'd like it if you could share main points of the 'genius'.
  13. Also, consider the magic, gods and supernatural thing as the perfect stressor. Planetos is an ant farm, and a huge rock (comet, wtv) just dropped smack on the middle. Now you have an unprecedented occurrence, hells, all they have are faded legends from the Age of Heroes leftover in nursery rhymes, horror tales and words that for most have lost meaning. Legends of powers that, to quote from Supernatural, could mash them like peas. Even if the endgame is a Lotr like resolution of only minor magics remain? It's about the journey, not the destination. What matters, what makes the story worthwhile, are the characters' decisions, feelings in the face of the unimaginable.
  14. We're just shooting the breeze here. The 'lesson' about power and how it corrupts means only not using it is a safe path. Having King Bran present but only to handle matters that relate to magic and natural balance, leaving the council to deal with human matters, could be endgame. He went off to 'look' into the Drogon situation and left the joke council to figure shit out? I'm with you on the skeevyness of looking at this in a 'we're too stupid to rule ourselves' way. A one-man intelligence agency, potentially with more knowledge than all the Citadel, and king all at once, yikes. I kept seeing the Maesters as really hardass, coldblooded defenders of the anti-magic thing. Even Marwyn (?) can't remember the exact spelling, looked like a 'nature of the beast' resource. My pet conspiracy is they not only did they have a very set role on the extinction of dragons but also helped along what consanguinity was already doing to the Targaryens. Multiple stillborns, madness, frailness, the works.
  15. That'd be because instead of a scalpel, they used a hacksaw. Imo, it's perfectly in keeping with the content so far. GRRM, as the greatest troll who ever trolled, had magic slowly creep over human stories, until we have a mass conflict. Conflict about human reaction to a somewhat balanced existence getting fucked over by the ressurgence of magic. Then you start to discuss magic, root for magic and the fantastic to go on. But this was always a humanized version of Lotr. Magic is meant to end. The cycle must resume. Winter followed by Spring, the end of a forest fire followed by renewal, new life as the ages progress. If Bran, as a greenseer, can be the memory of the world, his job is to maintain the cycle, to make sure the wheel keeps turning. His conquering can be seen as saving the world from active magical forces that would destroy that natural order. To stop the Long Night, all the other Gods and magics will be necessary. To keep the wheel turning, Daenerys must be stopped and the dragons return to legend. The show fails because they tried too hard to get rid of magic earlier on. We're left without that subtext when the time for magic is done and only simple, prosaic human affairs are left. The final subversion is that, while a fantasy story, human values, and flaws, prevail over the fantastic. The age of Men begins and only simpler, cruder magics are left in the hidden places of the world. Until the comet returns and wheel turns again?
  16. Thank you. Someone, I can’t remember who, pulled the 'one of the D's was involved in Troy' out of the box of 'ew'. Once you consider that, Martin is completely safe to finish the books as per the endgames. I like the mashup of: Your theory about the KG regaining their original purpose as the proverbial 'line' the King will not cross. The sword that will stop the power of the Iron Throne. And then you add the 'Bran as God Emperor'. The Kingsguard would be his tether and his limitation, tasked with guarding his life and his integrity. But maybe I'm just sliding too far out.
  17. Not a direct quote, but someone on the forum stated one of the D's was involved in Troy? Same situation, the plotpoints are there, at least some of them, but the rest of it? Well, Helen and Paris shacked up, there was a war, a wooden horse, Troy fell, Brad Pitt in a skirt was shot in the ankle? Thumbs up.
  18. So first I nagged at my family, then I somehow ended up on Maisie Williams' twitter account and found the cornucopia of GoT memes. It was therapeutical.
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