Random ASoIaF Thought (Storm Spoilers)

[lightofdaye]

Sorry, 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.

Comments

[tiberiusirius.livejournal.com]

I always thought the horn and dragonglass had been there for hundreds of years and ghost just stumbled upon it. But if Benjen buried it there it was probably because he knew the wildlings were looking for it, found it somewhere before them, and then buried it at the fist hoping some one of the watch would come across it or no one else would find it. I think Sam carried it with him to Oldtown right or did it get left at the fist?

I better not have jinxed Howland :/ I would be beyond sad.

[lightofdaye]

I think they only a tiny amount of the dragonglass is there. Sam talks it over with the Old Bear than they'd need all that dragonglass that they don't have to get back the fist of the first men to get the dragonglass.

They had a spear head about a dozen arrowheads and three knives. (The Old Bear's, Green's and Sam's) But they'd let like hundreds of arrowheads and more spearhead and knives behind.

Yeah I hope we get some good Howland stuff at some point, he sounds badass just from Ned's recollections in the first book.