#1540

don’t think it’s ever revealed

it was before jorah started selling slaves though

#1541

As the head of an old Northern house he felt a duty to support the Watch take the black, and did so when he felt his son Jorah was old enough to become the new head of the house. Turned out young Jorah was a knobend who squandered all their money on trying to impress his fancy Southern wife, and ended up selling some people into slavery to make ends meet, but that’s neither here nor there.

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#1542

Don’t think they ever explained that actually but it’s meant to be only in recent times that no one takes the Black unless they are under some kind of cloud, I think.

So I just presumed he got to the point where Jorah should take over house Mormont and decided he would defend the wall. Presumably his wife had died and so he thought it the wisest course?

#1543

I think among the Northern houses there’s still an inherent nobility to the idea of taking the black, especially if you’re not going to inherit anything, just like real aristos would be sent to the army or the clergy to keep them out of the way. It’s why Benjen and Jon both went of their own accord.

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#1544

Really hope this is the real reason why Sansa sent Brienne away:

I was thinking it had to do with LF implying Brienne would protect Sansa if Arya came after her, and Sansa sent her away so Brienne wouldn’t have to make that choice, or Brienne couldn’t be used as a pawn against/between them.

I’ve been so disappointed in show Sansa this season, I really hope it’s all a ruse. Also someone from Reddit pointed this out:

Something I noticed: every time there’s a scene with Littlefinger, there’s ravens making noises in the background. You could faintly hear them in the background of the scene between Sansa and Littlefinger. Bran is watching him at all times

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#1545

A young boy lays in bed, ill. Peter Falk closes the book he’s been reading from. The boy asks him to read it again, “As you wish,” replies Peter Falk.

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#1546

“…maybe skip the rape bit this time”.

“You’ll have the whole thing or nothing”, says Peter Falk.

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#1547

Ed Sheeran awakens in his massive bed to the sound of his alarm clock looking utterly perplexed and very concerned. Sits bolt upright, ponders things for a moment, says “nah, it’s Saturday”, hits off his alarm and goes back to sleep

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#1549

They came really close to Gilmore Girl’s-ing it all, when Sam suggested that master have a better book name than “The Series of Wars Following the Death of King Robert”…

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#1550

Yeah, I mean in the scene with LF and Sansa it felt like he was saying Brienne would either stop Arya from doing anything or that Sansa should get Brienne to speak to Arya to find out her motivations.

So when the very convenient Raven turns up and she sends Brienne I assumed I had misunderstood the whole scene. However, the writing is so vague I’m not sure.

Let’s take north of the wall. Why do they send Gendry away like that and not follow after him? Initially it’s because you assume they were out there for days or something but it soon becomes apparent they must only be a few hours from the wall. Like what is the tactical advantage they really see in that rock in the middle of all that space that they have compared to running like fuck? It’s not clear. You can’t work out if we just didn’t get what they meant or the writers are just completely terrible at finding an organic way to setup their situations.

(Because there’s obviously a point to the lake location: we get to put the dragon underwater so it can’t be burned after death and we get to have Jon possibly lost but not really enough for Dany to take off. But why is it so hamfistedly done?)

So yeah, back to Brienne and Sansa, I can’t work out what is happening there. It feels like they just wrote it all really shitly. Bookwanker times: As I said elsewhere, I assume the point is to pick up the missing Jaime/Brienne/LadyStoneheart resolution we need in Book 6. It seems likely we’ll have something that will resolve that, maybe with Dondarrion but he doesn’t really have the motivation that Catelyn does. And maybe it will explain why Jaime’s character has just been treading water until now. Maybe that will result in him finding his proper redemption character and going to take out Cersei or something?

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#1551

Unwittingly, he has looped his alarm and everybody wonders how he managed to do it without a backing band.

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#1552

That’s how I read Sansa sending Brienne away too. LF was definitely implying that Brienne would have a duty to protect Sansa should Arya try and hurt her, which Sansa seemed to agree with, but then immediately after Sansa sent Brienne away, essentially ignoring LF’s advice. I feel like she’s is trying to play LF somehow but I can’t work out how.

Alternatively, does Arya have to kill someone to take their face? Could that have been Arya pretending to be Sansa sending Brienne away as she knows Sansa will be less protected? That would obviously mean Arya is actually trying to get to Sansa and there is no game being played, in which case I’ve no idea why the writers have made her character go in that direction.

I don’t know really, a bit confused by that whole plot line. Feel like Arya needs to go and listen to Sister Sledge and chill the fuck out.

#1553

This must be a “that’s Syrio in the back ground”

#1554

What’s that.

#1555

She definitely has to kill someone, although actually having the faces in the bag seems a bit weird. Like it seems she also changes size and gains their voice when stealing their face. Can’t really work out if GRRM left it intentionally vague and the TV Show have ballsed it up by making it so literal.

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#1557

“There And Back Again: A Tarly’s Story”

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#1558

It’s clearly just a drop of water but I assume they posted it knowingly to see how the replies split between, “It’s just a drop of water” and “OMG amazing”.

#1559

Dany and Jon defeat the Night King, and everyone goes back to King’s Landing for bonking and wine. We fade to black.

Then open on a scene of Bran laying on the ground outside of the tower at Winterfell. He opens his eyes and he’s dreamt the whole thing.

His legs are at weird angles.

DUN DUN DADDA DUN DUN DADDA DUN DUN DADDA DUN DUN DADDA DAAAH DAH DADDA DAH DADDADAH

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