Random ASoIaF Thought (Storm Spoilers)
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lightofdayeSorry, Tam, this came to mind from your other thread but is probably from beyond where you are. Don't read. Comments are ranging over all the books really.
So is Garlan Tyrell a genuinely good person?
He sticks up for Tyrion: Twice! When he doesn't have to. Praising Tyrion as good husband to Sansa when she gets married to him, and then again Garlan tells her how much Tyrion helped win the Battle of King's Landing at Joffery's wedding.
We don't see much of the Tyrell's scheming but he doesn't seem to be at all involved. So he and Balon Swann, possibly by virtue of extremely limited page time could genuinely be one of the few actually good guys in the series.
On the other hand, why was he trying to get on Sansa and Tyrion's good side? Could he be in on it? Good the Tyrells be trying to get Tyrion and Sansa on their side to under cut the others and try and secure their position?
Or am i being too paranoid? It's made pretty moot by later events of course.
In unspoileriffic news, my very slow GoT rewatch has hit episode 3 and my computer restarted the episode where i left off the last time I watched the dvd, A few minutes into Sansa, Arya and Bran's audio commentary. They just reacted with false shock to Jaime swearing. ("What's the saying? 'The King shits and the Hand wipes.'?" No that's not the saying not the one from the book anyway >:( )
eta: now I'm in a dilemma. They changed some dialogue when Old Nan's talking to Bran. Only they change it from a reference to Bran the Builder to Ser Duncan the Tall. Ser Duncan is the star of 'The Hedge Knight': an asoiaf short story set 80 years before the main series that was in the Legends fantasy anthology and is the story that got me to read ASoIaF in the first place. I love references to that story in AsoIaF. But i hate changes from the book. So.. Dilemma. lol.
So is Garlan Tyrell a genuinely good person?
He sticks up for Tyrion: Twice! When he doesn't have to. Praising Tyrion as good husband to Sansa when she gets married to him, and then again Garlan tells her how much Tyrion helped win the Battle of King's Landing at Joffery's wedding.
We don't see much of the Tyrell's scheming but he doesn't seem to be at all involved. So he and Balon Swann, possibly by virtue of extremely limited page time could genuinely be one of the few actually good guys in the series.
On the other hand, why was he trying to get on Sansa and Tyrion's good side? Could he be in on it? Good the Tyrells be trying to get Tyrion and Sansa on their side to under cut the others and try and secure their position?
Or am i being too paranoid? It's made pretty moot by later events of course.
In unspoileriffic news, my very slow GoT rewatch has hit episode 3 and my computer restarted the episode where i left off the last time I watched the dvd, A few minutes into Sansa, Arya and Bran's audio commentary. They just reacted with false shock to Jaime swearing. ("What's the saying? 'The King shits and the Hand wipes.'?" No that's not the saying not the one from the book anyway >:( )
eta: now I'm in a dilemma. They changed some dialogue when Old Nan's talking to Bran. Only they change it from a reference to Bran the Builder to Ser Duncan the Tall. Ser Duncan is the star of 'The Hedge Knight': an asoiaf short story set 80 years before the main series that was in the Legends fantasy anthology and is the story that got me to read ASoIaF in the first place. I love references to that story in AsoIaF. But i hate changes from the book. So.. Dilemma. lol.
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Date: 2014-04-11 06:08 pm (UTC)You really think that was Benjen's cloak? The fist was an outpost for years, and I'm assuming the horn they found with the dragon glass is the horn of winter so I always just assumed it had been there for years. Though it being Benjen's does explain how ghost found it. If it was him he was probably trying to hide the horn from the Wildlings.
Yeah I'm actually really excited to meet Howland Reed. His kids are certainly interesting. Hopefully he doesn't die before he meets Jon.
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Date: 2014-04-11 06:21 pm (UTC)Ha! you've jinxed poor Howland now. But seems to be the only guy who can reveal what happens so he has to meet at least one pov to tell it too before popping his clogs. And there's Maege Mormont and Glover on their longboats unaccounted for.