She didn’t look at the note that Margaery slipped her until afterwards, when she was alone. So that wouldn’t have influenced her at the time. But she did breathe a heavy sigh of relief when she saw it.
Although you do one episode like the last episode, and people start whining “All this exposition, so sloooowwwww and boring! Not even three major characters died. What a snooze-fest!”
It was extremely clear to everyone else, and a nice way of conveying it “secretly”.
We don’t see them because we don’t really need to see them (besides, they’re stealthy and shit), but it’s heavily implied. The organization has a reputation which several characters have mentioned, and there’s that huge hall of faces. One wouldn’t think it was just Jaqen and Waif who did all that work.
Yeah, no, that’s not the least bit plausible and certainly not the most likely explanation, for reasons others have already mentioned.
Why are people calling the Waif a waif? I had thought the term meant a very skinny girl but this one isn’t very skinny. Is this some other meaning of “waif”?
MWhas one definition as “something found without an owner and especially by chance. a stray person or animal; especially : a homeless child”
Is this the one that people are referring to, or do people really think she’s that skinny?
Of the Starks, first Bran was paralyzed, then Ned lost his head, Robb and Catelyn bought it at the Red Wedding, Sansa was raped and brutalized by Ramsey, Jon was murdered, and now Arya been stabbed in the gut.
My personal opinion is that he won’t care what’s happening up at the wall, as he said to Bronn, he expects to be controlling the whole Lannister army at some point and I can’t see him haring off up north with an army, with the possible exception that technically Sansa is still his sister in law. I don’t recall any kind of divorce or annulment, even though it was said that the marriage to Tyrion was not consumated blah blah.
This I can see happening, with the exception of the Frey boys getting red wedding’ed by Jaime, after they try something only their father could pull off.
Or do what dad did, show up with a friendly army and sack the place, but I don’t see that many allied forces available. So I expect a conventional siege, using the freys as cannon fodder.
Brienne has stated that she executed Stannis, and in commentary on the DVD, the showrunners confirmed that Stannis was dead. His death wasn’t shown because they thought it was unnecessary. So we can count Stannis out at least.
Unlike Benjen and the Hound, Syrio was a pretty minor character and had no unfinished business. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him turn up, he’s not as safe a bet as the others were.
In regard to the Waif: isn’t this waif a “new” waif? When “Jaqen” killed himself by poison, didn’t the previous waif turn into a new Jaqen? Which means that there is no one Jaqen and no one particular waif? How can the “waif” hold a grudge against someone when they aren’t even the same person as the first waif?
I spotted him as soon as his face appeared on screen!
I would assume the Night King is mentioned in the same legends that the white Walkers are mentioned in.
As others have said, it’s a big religion and not everyone practices it in exactly the same way.
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Sansa sent Brienne to find the Blackfish and request his help. Sansa told Littlefinger to get stepping. We don’t know what he’s up to at this point, probably something shady.
Stupid things that shouldn’t take you out of your dragon fic but do : man, the castle Black Fish took is completely anachronistic. Every other castle or wall we’ve seen in the series so far is typical of XI-XIIIth century dungeons or mottes ; but that one is decidedly early Renaissance and built to withstand (and use !) cannon. Dunno why but it felt super wrong.
Also, Davos seems pretty taken by the whole “fighting the dead men” thing but I forget, has he even seen one yet ?
Not that we know of. Although he rode with Stannis’s army across half of Westeros north of the Wall, they apparently encountered no White Walkers or wights. (And evidently no sentries or scouts from Mance Rayder’s army either.)
The accents are all over the place, so the details of castles aren’t going to bug me. I do really think they should have taken the Kenneth Branagh approach and let everyone just talk how they talk.
Oh, also, when did the Brotherhood without Banners started killing and robbing poor farmers ?! I thought they were Robin Hood kinda guys waging guerilla war against the armies of the highborn to protect the smallfolk ?
It’s already been remarked on that the massacre would be completely out of character with how they have been portrayed up to this point. They have either gone completely off the rails or (much more likely) the massacre wasn’t committed by them. Either the three guys we saw weren’t actually BwB, or someone else entirely committed the massacre.
(Although Melisandre has burned some adherents of the Faith of the Seven who would not convert, other followers of the Lord of Light haven’t been shown to slaughter those of other religions.)
Good point.