I disliked Grey Worm and the Unsullied from the very beginning, starting with their name (I’d say they’ve actually been sullied pretty badly - and what is it with George R.R. Martin and guys getting their junk cut off?) The idea of a feared army being composed of eunuchs is absurd to begin with, right? Doesn’t removal of the testes lessen all the attributes that would be desirable in melee combat?
Once the Grey Worm/Missandei plot started becoming more developed, I put it squarely into the “Sam and Gilly” territory - i.e. stupid shit that eats up precious minutes of the show that should be devoted to more compelling storylines.
It made me wonder if Sansa had been selected as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms whether she would continue to insist on northern independence.
In any case, Bran is the legitimate heir as King of the North anyway. In theory, he could serve as both King of the Six Kingdoms and of the North at the same time, as James I of England/James VI of Scotland did. Sansa is Queen of the North only because Bran abdicated that title.
Wasn’t he already under orders to infiltrate the Wildlings at that point? I’d argue he kept his oath regardless.
My problem with the Unsullied is that despite Dany saying otherwise, they’re still basically a slave army. I think a better storyline would be, how does she react when some of them start disobeying orders? Was it all just lip service to them being “free”?
Nobody ever offered the kingship of the North to Bran. King in the North - and we’ve seen several holders of that title - are chosen by the Northern nobles. Bran is heir to Ned Stark, and would be the Lord of Winterfell if he’d accepted that title, but at no point did anyone raise the possibility of him being KitN.
Don’t know whether Sansa would have accepted the Queendom of the 7 Realms. Her “adventures” made her appreciate her father’s philosophy and long for the staid honor and relative stability of The North and absolutely abhor the south and “southrons”. It also doesn’t seem as if she wanted power for power’s sake. She just thinks she’d be better at ruling her people than anyone else.
But, ya know, she also has the tendency-- just like Cersei and Dany-- to think her way is the right way and you know what happened to those two once they were in power.
I don’t think the NW oath says anything about death relieving you of your vows. I’d argue it was more of an “I know when I’m not wanted” situation, after they murdered him and all.
All true, but in my head canon he’s still ridden off to be King in the North. In fact up in me noggin…the Free Folk wern’t waiting on Jon at Castle Black…they CAME BACK to escort HIM North.
If by “His own skin” you mean his baby…yeahhhh. I can see how that works. Also saved everyone in the castle eventually.
I just think she fairly politely was saying “Sit down, its not going to be you and you’re embarassing yourself.”
It does, as Colibri quoted above. “…It shall not end until my death…” I believe at least one character explicitly said something about his watch being over after he was resurrected.
Circling back, more than a few people called Bronn too corrupt to be Master of Coin. But is he? I never saw him as corrupt. He’s a sellsword, selling his service to the highest bidder. But I never saw him do anything particularly wrong. Probably the closest was considering killing his sister-in-law to inherit her castle, but I don’t think he ever went through with it.
Ollie’s (Jon’s one-time steward) village was overrun by one of the northern sub-tribes, I think, the big skinhead dudes. Hence his reason for joining in on the assassination of Jon later on. I think the village was on the southern side of the wall.
I think both are correct; the raid on Ollie’s village was led by Tormund and Ygritte, but I could swear there were big skinhead dudes (the cannibals) there as well. They didn’t climb the wall with our intrepid heroes, did they?
But he was willing to switch allegiances if he was offered more money. It’s what he did with Jaime and Tyrion. If that isn’t corruption, whatever it is is kissing cousins* with corruption.
*) I’m guessing that idiom is probably not used in Westeros as it would be considered redundant.
I suspect that Westeros hasn’t exactly solved the problem of bureaucratic corruption. The Master of Coins might be expected to be a venal, corrupt asshole; but as long as he’s not overboard, and as long as he’s overall leading to kingdomwide prosperity, some skimming is copacetic.
