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It’s simply not true that “good writing” requires allegories. Allegory is but one tool of storytelling.
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Even if a writer does use allegory, it makes no sense to think that every major story element has an allegorical aspect.
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What looks like allegory in good writing is often not intentional on the part of a good writer. It’s simply not true that as a rule any “respected” writer “builds in” allegory into everything.
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An absence of allegory does not mean that all that remains is “escapist fantasy.”
Her hair is gold. That’s the crown.
I think Cersei looked broken when she entered the castle but when Zombie Mountain picked her up she seemed to come back and had “I’ll get them all…eventually.” look on her face.
You and me both. It looked like the exact same hill to me.
Well, I’m going to say yes and no. Yes, she still has a trial to go through; the atonement walk was equivalent to posting bail.
But no, after zombie mountain rips every last sparrow into little bitty pieces, there will be nobody left to put on a trial.
A golden “crown” in that particular phrase might just be a reference to the color of their hair and thus an oblique reference to their parentage.
When Stannis started marching against Winterfell he outnumbered the Bolton’s by an undetermined number. Then they started deserting because of the cold, then Ramsay burnt their supplies and more walked away, then he burned his daughter and fully half of what he had left took off. The Boltons didn’t suddenly get a huge army, Stannis’ army melted away before the battle.
I understand about Arya having trouble becoming a faceless man. She hid her sword rather than throw it away, she can’t give up her name easily.
But what exactly happened with her turning blind? Is it a supernatural thing where she pissed off the Many-Faced God and he blinded her? Or that one of the others drugged her somehow? And why did the body on the floor have her face? I thought the faces were only masks from dead people, and presumably she isn’t dead. It just seemed like a dream sequence, which would be a weird thing to end on.
Yeah, it seems like almost anything could happen next, especially since we don’t know what happened with Loras and Margaery. With Cersei back I don’t know if Tommen will lash out, or still be afraid if Margaery is still locked up, or what. Cersei definitely doesn’t have the power she once had.
And I guess it’s possible that Myrcella isn’t dead yet. I doubt Trystane has antidote with him, but maybe he would recognize what’s happening and know that they need to get antidote. Or it could just be an imprecise prophecy. Or the crown means their blond hair, instead of the dark hair like the Baratheons have.
G0sp3l-son, who has not read the books, was all excited to see Theon finally help Sansa and Arya kill Meryn. Poor bastard, I thought he was going to cry when Jon got Caesar-ed.
Arya Stark, the most lovable psychopath ever.
I doubt very much that it’s a dream sequence.
But to the extent that we don’t have a full explanation of everything that happened, I think it’s just because we are not intended to know exactly what happened.
It’s not because it’s not understandable. I think it’s because we have intentionally not been told.
We know they made her blind but we don’t know exactly how they did it. We know they made her see her own face, but we don’t know exactly his they did it.
And we might never know. It might simply come down to “this is something the Faceless Men are able to do in certain circumstances.”
Can someone remind me just what happened to all the Dothraki that Dany used to be Khaleesi of?
The majority of them deserted her to join other khals, because Dothraki don’t follow women. The few that remained were killed off in various ways.
I don’t think we have precise answers to any of those questions… but the obvious vague handwave-y answer about why her face showed up on the body on the floor is just something symbolic, kind of like when Luke saw his face on the body of Vader while training with Yoda. Maybe the faces generally come from the storehouse of faces, but obviously Arya doesn’t yet know everything there is to know.
Ah, makes sense. I guess it could be either, but it definitely lends more credence to Myrcella being dead. Thanks.
I originally thought that her murder would really strain Dornish relations. But it looks like the Lannisters are quickly losing their power, so there may not be many people left who are willing to start a fight over it.
Why even come off the mountain?
Just because their leaders are a bunch of inbred idiotic morons with the morals of a rabid weasel doesn’t mean that there arent many good people living there.
I’m assuming that Cersei will have the option of trial by combat, as is the custom in Westeros. ZombieGregor won’t need to take all of Westeros out, just whoever the Sparrows put up against him.
A number of people have referred to Ramsey’s army. It’s Roose’s army. Ramsey could never command one. Roose, in his role of bannerman to Ned, has always had his own troops. His current army need not include anyone previous loyal to Ned or the other bannermen of the North. Given that regional armies number in the tens if not hundreds of thousands, his wasn’t all that large. It only looked big in comparison to Stannis’s army which at that point had been decimated by desertions.
How did Melissandre happen to get ahold of the last horse in Stannis’s army? The deserting sell swords seem to have taken any that hadn’t already died, but she somehow managed to find one.
Well, she did mention that there was no food and asked Drogon to find them some dinner. It might be as simple as she was hoping to find something to eat.
Yeah, what do you think those two guys are- Aragorn?
Though glad to see uncle Benjen back, I found his performance rather wooden.
Nm
I think she was hungry and looking for food. She mentioned it to Drogon, but he was more interested in taking a nap.