Posted on 04/15/2014 7:09:01 PM PDT by Perdogg
Dont think this is a burial of Game of Thrones; it really is one of the best shows on TV right now. But the best and frustrating arent mutually exclusive, and theres a lot Game of Thrones does that it could stand to stop doing. Like, for example
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Yikes, I won’t get that out of my head for awhile!
I can’t understand the mindset that prevailed back in those days, I know the show is fiction but when Tywin blasts Tyrion for killing his mother on his way into the world it reminds me of how real life Kings of old are rumoured to have blamed their queens for not carrying males. The wife got the blame for not providing the “heir” as if she made the choice lol.
I don't think so--how can anyone predict the actions of Joffrey? He was such a--well, I don't like using those words.
This was a crime of opportunity, not planning.
What about the fool who came to Sansa during the incident and tried to drag her away from the scene? I don't think Tyrion had anything to do with it--it was Sansa and the fool.
No, Tyrion had nothing to do with it. But I don’t think Sansa did either. I think the fool and grandma Olenna set up Sansa with a “special” necklace. The act of the fool randomly giving her a necklace coupled with the scene where grandma had all those necklaces on a table but liked none of them well enough and instructed all those maids to go out and find more. Plus at the wedding feast when Grandma was playing with Sansa’s hair and fingered the necklace she was wearing that the fool had given her, it looks like afterwards you can see one of the stones is missing.
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