GAME OF THRONES S05E09 DISCUSSION THREAD

[ConjunctionJunction]

Ow, Mom, that HURT!

[SvenMagnussen]

The Sansa rape scene didn’t bother me at all to be honest.

Me either. Sansa is playing the game of thrones. That became evident in the Vale.

I have no idea what they are trying to achieve with this Jamie and Bronn to Dorne nonsense.

The Dornish are the only people to survive the Targarian Dragons. Rhaegar Targaryen and Ella Martell married to keep the peace and not because he loved her. Tryion did the right thing by sending Marcella to the Dornish even though Prince Oberyn knew it was Tywin Lannister who order the murder of Ella Martell. Now, Jamie is ruining it for the Lannisters. Woth the exception of Tyrion, the Lannisters are in freefall with Tywin.

According to the books, Greyscale is fatal. Princess Shireen was goner and Stannis cut her suffering to a minimum.

[chris37]

As I understood it greyscale was only fatal to adults.

A child could survive greyscale.

One does not cut another’s suffering to a minimum by burning them at the stake.

Come on, now...

[chris37]

Nope.

What Stannis did is worse than the Red Wedding and worse than Ramsay here.

Burning your own beautiful daughter who loves you dearly to death at the stake for your own benefit is just frickin’ terrible.

Stannis deserves Hell fire to the face.

[ConjunctionJunction]

[chris37]

Stannis’s father card is hereby revoked!

He shall hereby be ineligible for any Father’s Day presents and lunch and dinners.

And he must also surrender his barbeque apron, which he will no longer be allowed to wear, and he is further precluded from buying a new barbeque apron.

SHAME ON STANNIS!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Holy cow - that is funny!

One other thing I wanted to propose to the group:

The fires that burned the camp. Anyone else think it was a little strange how they just conflagrated out of nowhere? I’m not thinking it was Ramsey and his Twenty. Good. Men. We’ve got the opening shot of Mel looking into the fires, then all of a sudden WHOOSH? Either 1) She’s praying for a disaster to destroy most of the camp, which would push Stannis into the sacrifice, or 2) Her “powers” got out of control. Most of what she does is theater, which she admits, but perhaps it was just more than what she was capable of managing.

It just seems silly that Ramsey & Co could start such massive fires, on snow-soaked tents & equipment, with such secrecy. I’m not buying it.

[TheStickman]

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[ConjunctionJunction]

I think that the fires really are the result of Ramsey’s raid. All they would need is some good oil. They would be able to sneak up on Stannis’ men, who are starving, tired, and demoralized due to the weather.

Melisandre looked liked she sensed something, right before the fires went up. She looked surprised, so I’m thinking that she had nothing to do with them - even though they worked out the way that she wanted with a sacrifice to the Red God.