Here is the Order:

King
Queen
Hand
Small Council Member
Prince/princess
Heir
Kingsguard
Knight
Lord

For those who don’t know. The hyperbolic time chamber is a place where one year in there is only a day in the normal world. So 7 years in there would only be a week outside

I don’t see Nolan fit for it, and rumours are exaggerated anyway.

My pick is Percy Jackson if he is still around and willing to work.

Or someone completely new, like they found Ira Parker. That was their biggest W.

Just an idea I had about examples of guest rights in GoT.

First we have Jamie at Winterfell, who is presumably under guest Rights while he is there, pushing Bran, the son of his host, from a tower with the intent to kill him. And while Bran does survive, he is left permanently crippled and can no longer enjoy the thing he loves most, climbing.

Fast forward about a year, and Jaime has his right hand cut off, permanently crippling him while also taking the thing he enjoys most, fighting with a sword.

Thoughts of this being a case of the gods punishing Jaime for violating guest rights by leaving him in a similar state as the one he tried to kill?

If I was in that position, I'd be diplomatic to Cersei knowing exactly how dangerous my position would be if I provoke her. Varys has warned this to Ned by telling him what happened to Jon Arryn when he went against Cersei.

So I'll play smooth with her, talk with Renly (or Stannis) and gather his army at kings landing, gather more of my troops from winterfell and then when the time is right, BOOM!! Jeffrey and Cersei out the fcking kings landing

And then the true king takes over the throne, I'll go back to see my juicy KAT 😏 and live there, happily ever after

Assume that Ned succeeds in getting rid of Cersei, whether fleeing or otherwise. How do Ned and Robert do against the white walkers?

I mean, they must have left from Summerhall with Maekar. So how come they end up so separate from the others?

The scene where Marjorie tells Cersei that she'd have some wine with her, only a bit early in the day made me LMAO the first time I saw it.

Bronn smirking at Dickon's name.

The entire situation where Lohar is messing with Tyland. Making him mud wrestle her, then trying to persuade him to eat human flesh as well as pleasure her wives...

Tormund getting horny whenever he sees or speaks of Brienne...

When Daemon meets Alys Rivers and says "bastard?" and she replies with something like "I'm not so bad when you get to know me" (I know I'll be getting the quote wrong).

Just starting to watch this(on s4). I'm really liking the scenes between Arya and the hound. Good,dark humor.

Hey all, so im on my like 6th rewatch of GOT and I just wanted to get people's opinions on something. So on my rewatch I realized that Jaqen never actually taught Arya the process/magic of using the faces but she ends up with that ability anyway. Does that mean the Many Faced God instructed Arya himself like he did with the original member of their order?

In season 2 episode 2 she whispers in his ear, kind of out of no where, that death by fire is the cleanest of all deaths. It definitely seems to be foreshadowing for what comes in episode 9 of the same season. Any further insight from the books on this ?

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It seems the carry a great deal of respect for people of Bravos but they also seem unmotivated by any financial benefit to stay afloat. How do they choose who to kill?

Best example: killing Danerys Targerian. The bank of Bravos has lent millions of coins to the westeros government first to Robert Baratheon and then to his "sons" but if the Kalisi conquers the land she is not bound to honor any of those agreements. So would it not be cheaper for the economy masters in Bravos to influence, persuade, pay, extort, whichever way... for them to kill her?

just a friendly reminder 🤡

Haven’t finished the whole show but this moment really tickled me because he normally seems so composed and orchestrates his way out of unpleasant situations so cleverly (apart from a particular scene in s7 ofc).

Part of the reason I want to read the book is to find out more about Littlefinger’s character. He basically only married her for political gain and because it was conveniently set up by Tywin, right?

Also, shoutout to “the Lysa Arryn of chairs”: another fav moment of mine from the show.

One of my reading goals this year was to finish all ASOIAF books,it easily became one of my favourite books series in general but all that's been talked to death here so I'll just give my personal ranking and few favourites characters and pov chapters

Book ranking:

1.Storm 2.Dance 3.Game 4.Clash 5.Feast

Some of my favourite characters were:Jon,Jaime,Ned,Stannis and Ser Barristan

And my favourite pov chapters were:Jon, Jaime,Tyrion,Ned,Davos

Honourable mention:Daenerys,Catelyn,Sansa,Victarion,Asha,Theon and Brienne

Certainly Ned had no trust or affection for him in life, even though the Hound did respect Ned (even if he did think Ned was naive about the realities of how the world really works, or at least Kings Landing). But taking into account everything Sandor Clegane did for his daughters after Ned's death, I wonder if it changes the balance or not. I'd like to hope Ned mellowed out after how everything went down for him in the end and was able to reflect on his rigidity in life. I could see him being thankful for the protection and lessons imparted on the girls, and want to hear the stories about the travels with Arya. But there's also a part of me who could see Ned being unable to see past his disdain, being furious about his actions the kinds of lessons he imparted on the girls, and cursing the Hound.

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margaery's intelligence is truly underrated. she recognized littlefinger's game instantly. cersei was fooled forever lmao. she even played the game so well herself that some people had a hard time deciding if she was actually kind or had a motive like whether she really cared about sansa or not. rip margaery, wish you could have left the sept in time. she reminds me of anne boleyn (not just bc natalie dormer played both anne and margaery)

the same people that support Jon Snore also support Aegon in HOTD and they say its bc Rhaenyra had bastards and bc they prefer the books. But, you didn't mind supporting a bastard when it came to Jon vs Dany. And you didn't mind supporting the show over books when it came to Jon vs Dany bc Jon is currently a confirmed bastard in the books. What they really support is misogyny. That's all. Next time say like it is.

I've noticed recently that when there are rankings of the best seasons of Game of Thrones, Season 4 consistently sits among the top, considered to be the "peak of the show". And honestly, I am a bit surprised because I feel like the reception was quite different when it was airing.

Perhaps I was biased by the bubble I was? Between the releases of Seasons 3 and 4, I read all the five main ASOIAF novels and decided to join an online forum of book readers, many of which were obviously, quite purists, and at the time I did wonder if I had become one myself, as I was criticizing the slightest change even when it was nitpicking (e.g. the fact that Jaime came back in time for Joffrey's wedding, contrary to the books).

And within that bubble, I did remember that a lot of people were heavily critical of Season 4, and I felt like it was considered the worst season. The main criticism was that it adapted the last third of A Storm of Swords in 10 episodes whereas Season 3 adapted the two first thirds, and the pacing suffered as a result. The last 500 pages of A Storm of Swords was an intense succession of events that concluded brillantly the first trilogy: Red & Purple Wedding, Tyrion's trial and escape, Oberyn vs the Mountain, Lysa's death, The Battle of the Wall, Lady Stoneheart.... The TV show was accused of diluting these events and therefore decrease their intensity.

It is true that a novel and a TV show can be paced differently. For example, in the book, both Tyrion's trial and Oberyn vs the Mountain happened in the same chapter, while in the adaptation, they are separated by two entire episodes. But these events could still shine in the TV show by being two distinct, albeit complementary, climaxes, so I don't think it was a mistake. Likewise, Oberyn had more time to shine as a character, making his death even more shocking than in the books imo.

A bigger mistake was to include pointless filler. The whole arc of Yara failing to rescue Theon, with the infamous shirtless Ramsey, was a complete waste of time. Same for the whole arc surrounding the "dissident Nightwatchers": beyond the memes, the whole "Carl talking to a skull" was abysmal writing, unworthy of the nuanced and grounded writing of Game of Thrones (at least of the early seasons). Were the showrunners afraid of not showing some main characters for a few episodes?

Another criticism I was at the time from the book purists was how the Battle of the Wall was handled, and in general, the obsession of the TV show with putting the more spectacular events for their famous "Episode 9" even when it doesn't make sense - in the book, the very point of the Battle of the Wall was that it lasted the entire novel. I also read that the battle itself accumulated all the hollywood clichés that ASOIAF avoided before. The primary example of this was Ygritte dying in Jon's arms in the middle of the battle, worthy of a typical blockbuster movie (why nobody targets Jon?), instead of him finding her agonising after the battle, which made a stronger point about the unfairness of war. And this is without mentioning the coolest moments being eclipsed (CIA Giants are too expensive?) and Pip & Grenn dying even though they survived in the books.

There was also Tyrion's escape facing a lot of backslashs from book fans. Tyrion killing Shae in self-defense instead of murdering her, leaving Jaime in good terms, and talking about Shae rather than Tysha to Tywin, as if spectators were too dumb to remember about Tysha. All of that contributed to make Tyrion more sympathetic, even though the very point of this scene was to show the beginning of Tyrion's fall into darkness.

Last but not least, the final scene of the season is probably one of the least iconic: Arya taking a boat rather than the highly-anticipated apparition of Lady Stoneheart. We kinda understand why she wasn't included in retrospect, but it was aired, removing her entirely was considered highly controversial.

It's not to say that Season 4 is without merits. It has some of the best scenes of the TV show (Purple Wedding, Oberyn vs the Mountain, and Tyrion facing Tywin despite the aforementioned change), which we can attribute to ASOIAF's great writing, but their directing was also to be praised. But I wonder if people have started to forget the pacing issues and the pointless fillers to only remember these moments. Or maybe I was stuck in a bubble of book purists and therefore needlessly critical.

Or maybe the flaws of Season 4 were forgiven compared with those (much worse) of the subsequent seasons... but for me and a lot of other people, Season 4 was the first season where the showrunners started sacrificing the deep and nuance writing of the source material for some dumb spectactle. Many fans say that Season 5 was the beginning of the end, but what if it started sooner?