Game Of Thrones

August 28th, 2016 by Proprietor

Re-watching the series in anticipation for season 6 coming out on DVD. Right now I am half way through season 3. There are several things I realize with the long view now available.

1. Robb Stark was a total idiot. Though he was an impetuous teenager, if you read the books he was all of 16 or 17 when he started his war and tried to become king of the north. He ignored all practical advice form his mother, and even his wife. But, being a teenager can somewhat account for this, being a total idiot accounts for the rest. First he should have had the wedding his mother arranged right away. If he ended up cheating on his wife during a war, so be it. Once he wed Walder Frey’s daughter, he would have had the men necessary to win the war. Next he beheaded Rickon Karstark instead of keeping him hostage. Since he did not wed Walder Frey’s daughter and married another woman, he lost any chance of replacing the Karstark’s men, when they marched away. Even if he had kept Rickon Karstark as hostage, the Karstark army would have grudgingly fought.

2. Arya Stark will return to the north and her remaining family. The Red Woman told Arya she had a darkness in her, and would kill many people. They would meet again. From what I saw on various websites, The Red Woman brings Jon Snow back to life. Maybe the Red Woman will meet Arya somewhere else, but my guess is Arya will return to the north.

3. Jon Snow is Jon Baratheon. After Eddard Stark had found out about the incest between Cirsie and Jamie, he started looking for Robert’s bastards. My guess is that he was looking for someone not Jon to sit on the throne. Eddard knew Jon was Robert’s son and his sister warned him to keep the child safe, because she knew that the Lannisters would want to kill him. Since Lyanna was dying, she knew that Robert would remarry, and to sit on the throne he needed the Lannister’s backing, so marrying Cirsie would be the logical choice. Look at Gendry, black hair, brown eyes, just like Jon Snow. Lannister’s have gold hair. Targarians have white hair, and we have never seen Rrhaegar Targaryen in the show. He is shown in paintings or interpretations from the book as having white hair due to the inbreeding. That would not end up yielding black hair if he had conceived a child through rape via Lyanna, even though she had dark hair.

Cannot wait to see season 6 on DVD. My order on Amazon is already placed. Such is the curse of having cut the cord, usually a year or season behind on television shows, and have to read stuff on other websites. Good thing I do not care about spoilers.

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