“Serpentine! Serpentine!”
:: golf clap ::
And again, everyone, it’s “Jaime.”
Special Guest Stars Peter Falk as Jon Snow and Alan Arkin as Rickon Stark.
I really don’t see any reason to assume that, just because he was a generally conservative disciplinarian. That’s an accepted part of their culture, and I don’t remember him ever specifically condemning it.
I don’t see any of the Westorosi Lords permitting or condoning rape TBH. An Army which starts rape and plunder loses discipline and order and an Army without either is no longer an Army at all:
That’s an interesting theory but in real life it’s not at all true. Rape and pillage were absolutely standard for armies thorughout most of the history of organized warfare.
An army prior to the invention of modern logistical tools, especially railways, was much more like a plague of locusts than the professional, disciplined armies we have today; carrying enough supply to feed and maintain an army was difficult, so they’d eat the land out as they went. Rape was quite commonplace when operating in enemy lands; even Roman armies would routinely rape and enslave women as they went.
The Red Army was pretty rapey in 1945, and that didn’t prevent them from defeating the Nazis.
I highly doubt Jamey was behind the attempt on Bran.
I agree with this analysis that Joffrey was behind the attempt and that Littlefinger took advantage of it after the fact. I’m not sure how much time passed between Bran’s fall and the attempt, but it doesn’t seem like enough for Littlefinger to have intitiated the attempt.
I really don’t see how anybody could think Joffrey could be behind the attempt on Bran’s life. Not only doesn’t he have the necessary planning skills or cunning, he couldn’t have resisted the urge to brag about it.
I’m pretty sure that Daenarys’s Unsullied would dispute that.
I hope the show puts some serious thought into dragon versus scorpion tactics in the undoubtedly bigger battles that will follow. You have multiple scorpions positioned to work together to defend against all lines of attack. On the other side you have Dothraki cavalry groups specially tasked with attacking and taking out the scorpions. It would make for a terrific RTS game which will probably happen some time at least in a mod.
There is a big difference between soldiers raping and pillaging, which happened throughout history and even happens today sometimes, and Commanders having a policy of wantonly permitting or condoning rape and pillage which happened a lot less indeed it was noteworthy when it did.
I’m thinking hitting a dragon in flight is going to be damned difficult, assuming they’ve learned to juke a little:
It’s apparently hard enough to hit an airplane with a machine gun when you can use tracer rounds to attempt to get your lead right. A one-shot scorpion is going to take a natural D20 (or more likely D99) to get a hit if it isn’t flying straight at you not belching fire.
Always remember: pillage first, then burn.
Hmm. Should I use my powers of invisibility for good, or evil?
Even in a world of dragons and ice zombies the banks still rule the world.
Littlefinger was no where near Winterfell at the time. It’s not something he could have arranged by raven, and getting a message there by courier would have taken many weeks.
Agreed about the galloping too soon. Although I would expect Dothraki horses to be in exceptional shape for long-distance galloping.
Drogon is huge. He is bulky and extremely powerful, but far from streamlined or aerodynamic. He can’t turn on a dime. He can’t even stow his landing gear! LOL!
She was saying “Dracarys!!” as the bolt loosed, so I think she expected to destroy it before they could reload.
I once had one of these, meant for burning away weeds in the yard. I tried to use it to de-ice the front walk come Winter, but no luck. It turns out that heat moves rather stubbornly UP, no matter how close you get it to the thing you want to heat.
Street performers who “spit fire” actually squirt vodka from their mouths and that is what burns in the air as it streams forward. So I presume the dragons must be doing something similar - spitting a flammable venom (ammonia based?) and lighting it with a sparking flint tooth or something.
Bottom line, the closer you are to horizontal to the target the more impact you are going to have. And whatever it is that they spit has to get there before it burns out.
I’d have to disagree with your use of the past tense here. Granted, Korea and Vietnam weren’t yesterday, but there thousands of French and American children born during and a few months after each. Some were the result of actual romances, but those are the minority.
Sad to say, pillaging is much more carefully monitored and punished. But that’s a different thread, I guess.
Really? Because during the Battle of the Blackwater, Cercei seemed pretty certain they were all in for a good rapein’ if the Red Keep was breached.
Joffrey and Cersei are really the only possible suspects. Jaime would not hire an assassin. He does his own killing and is far too proud.
Cersei is the most logical, but it does seem out of character for her not to just admit it later on. But she has told plenty of nonsensical lies, so who knows.
Joffrey could have kept quiet about it after seeing his father’s reaction to the assassination attempt.
I (just today) re-watched the battle a couple of times. When Drogon drops down low over the water, and was in ground effect, and causing a wake, was just awesome, in every sense.
I also finally noticed that none of the (few) supply wagons Dany and Drogon torched had horses hitched to them, or were moving. That would make them immediate military targets as a place to remove potential rallying points for Lannister heavy infantry to fight the Dothraki light cavalry. Plus, they were one of the only targets that wasn’t a mix of both armies, at that point.
And I give many bonus points to the the production team, who (even if it was an accident) FINALLY showed a road without a green bit of grass in what should be the most traveled part of the road in a horse-powered economy–the bloody center, where all the horses go.
For those who haven’t used harnessed horses, or thought about it–the ruts are way out at the wagon wheels, and cause some wear. The most intense wear, however, is where the horses are walking, right down the center of the road. It is progress, and I am happy. Even if the farms are always magical unseen fields. And unseen farmers.
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Great episode, though.