The Game of Thrones OFFICIAL thread

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Nah.

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It just makes writing his redemption out of the hole he was already in, that much harder. I still cannot forgive him for his betrayal of Winterfell, much less murdering those two boys in place of Bran and Shaggy Boy.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

562

exactly it changes the entire tone of that scene completely.

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in the book he was resigned to his fate and had given up and was going to surrender and face the music for betraying what was basically his best friend

563

Exactly.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

564

John Snow is such a prude lol. You got this bitch tied up and SHE’s teasing you? Tear that pussy up my man, don’t be a faggot

565

yes forget the knights watch vow you swore on your gods honor!!!

566

I probably missed the part where it said that banging some wildling broad was prohibited

567

the nights watch consists of many convicts, some who were rapists.

so they swore a vow of celibacy iirc

to prevent moar raping

568

The vow they swear forbids them from:
swearing any loyality to anyone other than the night’s watch
boning
claim any land
basically anything that doesn’t go towards the night’s watch mission.

569

Nah.

It was more so there wouldn’t be a bunch of bastards of second and third born sons contending with legitimate heirs.

A lot, and I mean A LOT, of the Night’s Watch is noble stock.

It was seen as a shameful fact, that so many of the new recruits numbered such as rapists and murderers amonst them.

Also, they did not want the members to have divided loyalties.

Neither in regards to protecting one’s own kids, over one’s Watch Brothers, nor in the event that kingdom politics came into play i.e. you have no family anymore, but your brothers - and you are all sworn to stand aside from political issues.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

570

which is precisely why neds wife basically forced ned to send him there

571

Exactly.

And why Sam’s dad sent him there.

Although he would have as soon killed Sam off, for shame of his tubby ass but for his wife.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

572

I’m confused now. Are they allowed to fuck or not?

573

every post above yours has said they cannot fuck

574

They aren’t allowed to have sex, but a lot of them do anyway. The reason(that I took from the show) was because love is the death of duty, and since it seems contraceptives weren’t as popular back in the day, the risk of them having children that would make them second guess their duty(or getting attached to the woman they slept with) was too high and such the ruled it being no sex at all. Im sure the book goes into more detail as to why but I believe this is one of the main reasons.

Still though, its only a crime if you get caught, id tear that ass up asap.

As for the episode, shit was dope, the scene at the beginning with theon chopping off the dudes head was masterfully done, every scene with arya and tywin is awesome, joffrey getting smacked again(and looking like he has truly lost it), the hound going all mortal kombat on those would be rapists, jon snow and ygritte, rob starks flirtatious ways. All of it was awesome, only downside so far(as its been for most of the season) was dany’s plotline(which is a shame cause she was one of my favorites in season 1), but it looks like it might be picking up soon. Can’t wait for next weeks episode, I hope theon and geoffrey get whats coming before the end of the season.

575

^^^ the lord commander totally looks the other way when the men of the nights watch go “digging for treasure” in mole’s town. I don’t think they take the rule too seriously ^^^

I thought you were referring to the “random” person theon kills for mouthing off in the book… Mikken, the blacksmith who forged Needle for Jon to give to Arya. I don’t think we ever saw him in the show however, so it made sense for it to be someone the TV viewers might recognize and like you say, having Theon do the killing was a nice touch as well.

576

***“HAS MY HAND FALLEN OFF?!” ***had me rolling; Game Of Thrones drinking game is harder than Mad Men’s with Dinklage on screen.

577

Theon didn’t even kill him either, it was some random ironman that jabbed a spear right through his neck when he wouldn’t stop talking shit.

578

Book 2

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I wonder if they’re going to drop the whole Bastard of Bolton burning down Winterfell story. I could see them skipping it and having Theon burn down Winterfell before getting killed by Bolton. However, I haven’t read past Book 3, so I don’t know if Bolton comes into play later.

579

i don’t remember

i may be wrong but:

  • the wildfire was entirely tyrion’s idea…if not entirely tyrion’s, it had nothing to do with cersei, yet in the show they made it seem like it was her idea.
  • i’m pretty sure the dragons weren’t stolen in the book as well. daenerys does agree to trade one of the dragons for some ships and awesomeness ensues.
580

Yeah the night’s watch is ostensibly chaste, but some of the men take their vows more seriously than others. Hence Lord Commander’s sardonic “at least you weren’t whoring in Mole’s Town”