Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 9, 2016 20:26:25 GMT
And I think I understand now why "Kill the Masters" was written in English on the walls--I mean, common tongue... Missendei was also teaching Grey Worm how to read.
Also should note I like that the Summer Islands finally got mentioned.
Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 10, 2016 0:13:10 GMT
Ahh, yes, in the show, Jon knows that Bran (and possibly Rickon) are alive. I'm kinda mehh on this change, because in one respect, Jon kinda suspected it already--only he suspected Bran living on in Summer, truth be told.
Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 10, 2016 0:25:57 GMT
Ahh, there we go... there's the Jon parallel to Dany's "justice" for the slave children. Justice for Mormont's death.
Considering what I know about GRRM, I know for a fact that this definition of justice (through blood vengeance) is the kind he disapproves of, if you recall his short story Bitterblooms where a minor character named Jon is an old man who tells tales of sons swearing vengeance for their dying fathers--perpetuating cycles of war and violence.
So here I have to wonder if the show, like most times, miss the boat on what GRRM is saying in the books about retribution and justice being empty if it simply perpetuates blood vengeance? Well, they go on an make Ellaria Sand, one of the pillars of "vengeance is an unending cycle" viewpoint in the books into a vengeful woman on the show. I think that right there says about all we need to know about what D&D consider to be "justice", and I think it exemplifies just how Gen X they are in comparison to Martin's self-discovered Boomer ideology.
Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 10, 2016 0:40:06 GMT
Okay, overkill on cartoonish levels on making the mutineers evil. Ridiculous, no amount of humanity in the least, and thus very ineffective as antagonists IMO compared to Joffrey or Ramsay who have at least a shred of humanity. Also, if the mutineers have Ghost, why they heck are they still feeding him and keeping him alive? And how the heck did they catch Ghost in the first place? That must be a missing scene between Season 3 & 4. Also, any half-respected wolf would have dug out of that cage by now since it's only ground underneath. Perhaps we're meant to assume the ground is permafrost at this point, but even so, I hate to think that a wolf hasn't tried yet or bloodied his paws doing so. Hell a good dog would've gnawed at those branches by now.
And what's upsetting is that Craster's COULD have easily made sense, but for sake of making things "black and white" in terms of clear evil and clear good, it's made completely ridiculous. The melodrama of complete evil and complete good has no room in such a morally ambiguous world as Westeros.