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With all the lesbian sex scenes in the books this might just be right.Excuse me, it clearly is going to end with Margaery and Sansa getting married
With all the lesbian sex scenes in the books this might just be right.Excuse me, it clearly is going to end with Margaery and Sansa getting married
I think the show didn't reveal that the spear was poisoned (yet).
In the show as well as the books, his extensive knowledge of poisons is mentioned.It was subtle... but if you didn't read the book, did you know the Red Viper used poison spears?
Well, this season does end where book 3 ends. (I mean, it has to!) I think of book 4 and 5 stuff, they just started Brienne's journey and the same goes for Theon's plot.
I could see having the worry that Theon/Brienne would advance into book 6 territory sooner than later.
Honestly, they make up so much stuff on the show, I wonder if they air Winds of Winter scenes before I read the book I'll being saying things like: "Strong Belwas? But... Dario did that!" (I mean when I read it later.)
Speaking of... does TV Dario have sex with Dany every night until the wedding, then the night after, pig out on chocolate locusts?
I think the pit fights will be harder to watch than Oberon's death, particularly the topless woman being disemboweled by the boar! I had to reread that part. I was so distracted by the horrible death, that I put aside my suspicions that Belwas was pigging out on poisoned snacks. I guess it made sense that the characters didn't pick up on that. I DID, but when he was puking, I was just thinking about that poor woman's thwarted futile attempt to hobble out of the arena and the painful death. That was the part that confirmed my suspicion that Belwas was about to die (I'm happy to be wrong about the death part!), but I was focused on the pit like the rest of the audience. (Um... I mean the fictional audience. I wasn't really sitting with them, was I?)
Correct me if I'm wrong about anything on this, it's been a while since I read the books.
In the books, when Littlefinger kills Lysa, he blamed it on a singer who was there at the time, and got away with it, and is now Lord of the Vale. In the show the singer isn't there, and it looked like Littlefinger would have been found guilty of murdering her if Sansa hadn't helped him out.
Though this made Sansa very interesting, it made Littlefinger seem unprepared, to me, and not quite as clever as I thought. In the books he got away with it because of his own lies and blaming the singer. In the show it was like he was going to lose, until Sansa stepped in.
What are peoples thoughts on this?
(Like I said I could be wrong. I can't remember how easily he got away with it in the books. Maybe he's still under suspicion? I don't remember Sansa helping...but again that might just be my memory.)
I believe he had much more control in the books. He blamed Lysa's death on Marillion, immediately inherited the title of Lord of the Vale, and then told the other lords that he would be out within a year. I just reread the scene and outlined some of his plans:
(1) He expects Robert(Robin) to die soon. "Our poor brave Sweetrobin is such a sickly boy, it is only a matter of time" (896).
(2) Sansa will win the affections of Harold Hardyng (Harry the Heir), son of Lady Waynwood. "The dwarf wed Ned Stark's daughter, not mine. be that as it may. This is only a betrothal. The marriage must needs wait until Cersei is done and Sansa's safely widowed. And you will meet the boy and win his approval. Lady Waynwood will not make him marry against his will, she was quite firm on that [. . . .] Harry can be a beguiling one, no doubt. Soft sandy hair, deep blue eyes, and dimples when he smiles. And very gallant, I am told [. . . .] Bastard-born or no, sweetling, when this match is announced you will be the envy of every highborn maiden in the Vale, and a few from the Riverlands and the Reach as well" (893-894).
(3) Harry the Heir is called so because he is Robert's heir (through numerous deaths in the Vale houses). Littlefinger concludes the final Alayne chapter with the following speech:
"When Robert dies, Harry the Heir becomes Lord Harrold, Defender of the Vale and Lord of the Eyrie. Jon Arryn's bannermen will never love me, nor our silly, shaking Robert, but they will love their Young Falcon . . . and when they come together for his wedding, and you come out with your long auburn hair, clad in a maiden's cloak of white and grey with a direwolf emblazoned on the back . . . why, every knight in the Vale will pledge his sword to win back your birthright. So those are your gifts from me, my sweet Sansa . . . Harry, the Eyrie, and Winterfell. That's worth another kiss now, don't you think?" (896)
When I first read this scene, I had to put the book down in amazement of Littlefinger's elaborate plan and his extensive knowledge of the Vale houses; he certainly did his research. I certainly believe that he is playing for his own selfish reasons; my only hope is that he means to genuinely help Sansa along the way, and will not ruin her in the process. What the showrunners seem to be hinting at, in some interviews, is that Sansa is growing intelligent and could possibly play Littlefinger at his own game, if it ever comes to that.
For now, I think Littlefinger's plan sounds just fine.