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I want to see her and Arya go on a revenge killing spree.
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THELMA AND LOUISE 2: Winter is Coming
Ygritte.
Dear Gods…no wonder so many of them have died!
Incidentally, I can’t remember, but the usurper killed by the demon love child of Stannis, he was a Stark, right?
I really ought to nail that name down.
I feel like she’s going to feel awfully slighted by Jon Snow and will take revenge on him…He will meet his end, probably right before getting a chance to warn his comrades about the Wild people.
Khal Drogo’s death is the closest to the “sometimes shit happens”-- he died of an infection from a relatively minor wound.
That was Renly Baratheon, younger brother of Stannis and King Robert.
Or did Mirri Maz Durr purposely sabotage him?
Yes.
Robert’s was kind of, too.
Both Drogo’s and Robert’s deaths were pretty much murder made to look like an accident. Miri Mazz Dur for revenge, and Cersei (with the booby-entranced Lancel helping) for spite and survival.
It’s strongly implied that there was something in the wine Lancel kept serving him.
There’s been no real evidence that Robert Arryn was murdered other than Lysa’s accusations. And she’s not exactly… stable. He was old; he might have just fallen sick and died at a suspiciously convenient time for the Lannisters. (Or inconvenient, since it brought Ned down to King’s Landing).
But he died immediately before the first episode so maybe he doesn’t count.
Well Cat’s father died, essentially from old age, does that count.
And the debate lives on. I think overserving a habitually drunk Robert on a “routine” boar hunt is pretty weak as far as assassination attempts go - especially when being compared to the smoke baby.
Yes, Bran made the direwolves attack and the Wildling Warg made the eagle attack Jon(eagles don’t normally do that sort of thing.
We’ve seen plenty of evil people bite it. Viserys was a sister-raping assclown and he got his. Drogo was a barbarian who had been engaged in pillaging and burning his entire life. Craster was no Pollyanna. I can’t imagine things ended well for that sorcerer in Varys’ box. The Masters of Qarth and the slavers of Astapor reigned supreme in evil kingdoms, reigning terror upon everyone.
Valar Morghulis.
I don’t know, she really pushed me away with that bit at the end about how she’d forgive everything if they just wouldn’t kill her and Robb. That was both monumentally naive(thinking she had any bargaining power) and pathetically self-centered. “You’ve killed the love of my son’s life and his unborn child, the heirs of my fathers house, damn near everyone really and doomed the north to subjugation under the Lannisters. But you know what, as long as you let my son live I’ll make everyone else forgive you. Because what really matters here is what’s important to me. I’ll make my son forgo his vengeance. I’ll make my bannermen forgo theirs. It doesn’t matter that thousands of people lost their loved ones at your hands today. I’ll make them all forgive you and forget it, as long as you don’t kill MY son. Because he’s the mostest importantest thing in the world and I wuv him!”
Oh Shit, I Totally Forgot That Happens! by George RR Martin.
Enjoy,
Steven
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Incidentally, I can’t remember, but the usurper killed by the demon love child of Stannis, he was a Stark, right?
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Speaking of, does demon child evaporate and die after doing his job, or does he just leave mommy and daddy for demon kindergarden, or… what, exactly? It never really makes it clear what becomes of him (assuming it was a boy).
Robert’s death was actually brilliantly undertaken; it essentially was natural. Cersei and Lancel switched the wine he usually drank with a stronger wine, but it wasn’t drugged or hexed or anything like- it just made him drunker than usual. It was Robert who decided to hunt a boar even though he knew he was drunk. I’m not sure even if a jury had the full facts if they’d convict Cersei of anything (well, with Earth laws- Westeros’s legal system is a tad different).
That is by far the most accurate summation of Cat’s character that I’ve ever read. In short, “I’m a mom, so fuck you”
If Robert hadn’t been killed by the boar, he would have fallen off his horse or been struck by an errant arrow. Cersei made sure that he wasn’t going to come back from that hunt.
I think you’d find that any mother in a similar situation would beg for their child’s life whether whatever they are offering in exchange makes any sense or not.
I started off not liking Cat very much. They way she treated Jon Snow because her arranged husband had an affair shortly after they were married and brought home a bastard infant for her to raise. It wasn’t the child’s fault and she seemed to forgive Ned, just never Jon.
Then she falls for the planted dagger ploy and actually believes that Tyrion would have any reason to want her child dead and takes Tyrion hostage.
Then she sets Jaime free on the slim hope that she will get her daughters back. Though this was a little more understandable since she has shown she would do anything for her children.
Then she confessed to Talisa about her mistreatment of Jon Snow and she did refer to him as one of her children and she admitted to her own failure in accepting him. There were a couple other things here and there and I was starting to warm up to her and I knew she was doomed.
I had been spoiled as to the red wedding so I knew what was happening and I wasn’t too upset since I was prepared but I found her plea for her child’s life heartbreaking.
They should have given Sean Bean a credit for “Fetus Ned”.