Posted on 06/19/2016 8:10:14 PM PDT by martin_fierro
“That leaves Littlefinger as the last major schemer still to be unmasked and settled”
Yes - and will he now simply ride away from Winterfell - whose defenses are minimal?
Sansa wrote in her note to Littlefinger that he would be rewarded ...
“...I have some difficulty seeing how the show will string out the story for two more seasons...”
The producers say GoT season 7 will be 8 episodes and season 8 will be only 6 episodes.
“Varys shows up in King’s End and kill Kevan Lannister”
If they have Kevan Lannister bumped off in the next episode I wonder if it will be by The Mountain (or by wildfire)???
In our contentious political season, I take heart from the victory of the Good Bastard, Jon Snow, against the Evil Bastard, Ramsey Bolton. Going into battle against a larger force with the benefit of a fortress to fall back on is a move that Donald Trump would appreciate and endorse.
In the book, Varys uses a crossbow.
Couldn't agree more. Sedation by entertainment. Kardashians, sports, celebrities, Dancing with Stars. All so stupid ... and distracting from what's killing our country.
American IDLE?
Notice Varys showed up in Mereen after Dany left, and departed before she returned?
“...Kardashians, sports, celebrities, Dancing with Stars.”
But not alcohol, and certainly not web-surfing - right?
Yah, now that you mention it.
What are you getting at? Is Varys Dany in drag? (joke), because like Superman and Clark Kent they aren’t in the same place?
I have to admit.... I watch this show and have a hard time keeping everything straight. Need Cliffs Notes! LOL
That being said this was a bloodfest. But I’m glad that evil man got his just desserts...
Earlier I was thinking that I would have preferred that Ghost take him out, but having his own dogs take him out was better!
Someone at io9 or a similar publication said the world of ice and fire had a 7-10 thousand year recorded history. It had been medieval longer than some of the oldest cities were cities, though villages probably go back 10-12,000 years.
They have been stuck at the medieval stage for millennia - why not progress?
One theory was the dragons, a major military advance that prevented larger armies and the larger nation states required to raise them from forming. However, dragons have been a factor in Westeros 300ish years - small relative to the time of civilization.
The current season of Game of Thrones said the Faceless Men were slaves in Valeryia, until they rose up as worshipers of death and there were no more masters. Then they founded Bravos.
The good news is Bravos minus slavery has a strong mercantile economy and banking, so it should be the start of a Renaissance of innovation, where commerce and trade spread while slavery dies.
I wondered why not - then realized it is the Faceless Men. Don’t honor contracts or have someone think you haven’t, dead. Be too good an actress, rivals kill you. Those were examples in the show.
Let’s take it farther. Get too rich or invent things others are jealous of or become too successful in some regard, others have assassins take you out. The 1% or elite that leads innovation is killed off, leaving a base population with little to no ambition. Lady Crane, I think was foreign, while the insurance agent was just greedy.
But if the Faceless Men take any request, anyone who isn’t anonymous or blandly average is killed by others with discretion. So your solution is not to exceed safe norms, not to excel, never to do more ... so the same reason Bravos has commerce and no slavery is the same reason it hasn’t sparked a revolution in that world to move past the feudal stage.
Interesting.
Basically, in order to remain alive in Bravos, one must remain no one.
Nice. The, uh, man who would be king.
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