My ambivalent thoughts on whether it was better or worse to hack Janus Slynt's head off from having reread that chapter in ADWD remain unchanged, though the show clearly wants me to get a testosterone boost of approval for it.
Direct defiance...barbed with insults...not generally tolerated in military ranks. An oathbreaker knows his life is forfeit, and will not flinch away from any task, no matter how vile.
It was strange in the show though. I thought, in the book, it was the moment Jon earned the respect of his men.
I think you need to reread my reaction to reading Samwell I AFFC & Jon II ADWD back to back to get what I mean.
Maiden or mother, lion of night, R'hlor, don't know (ball thing), don't know, (odd face? Tree?), weird humanoid shape with seaweed and fish?
Jaqen gives the water instead of Arya
Stranger, drowned God. Weirwood God, no. Only death.
Margaery and Tommen get married and cut to the wedding night.
Odd scenes with Cersei and Tommen and then Margaery. Cersei doesn't want to lose her baby boy.
Rebuilding Winterfell. Ramsey killed half the Cerwyns.
Ramsey is to be married. And why is Sansa at Moat Cailin? Well crap.
And how exactly does marrying Ramsey avenge her family?
The history of Podrick and Brienne. Pod is pardoned for stealing a ham. Brienne talks of being humiliated at a dance and how Renly saved her.
How do you fight a shadow? You kill the man who cast it.
Honor got your father killed.
Stannis leaves the fate of the wildings to Jon and advises him to send Thorne away. Davos defends him and uses the oath against Jon.
As long as the Boltons rule the North, the North will suffer. Davos.
We meet the waif and she's a bitch. Jaqen wants Arya to get rid of everything to become no one, but she hides needle in a pile of rocks and sweeps some more. Her reward, stripping and cleaning a dead man.
Miranda is jealous of Sansa but the North Remembers.
You don't know how the wall works, or the world for that matter, do you Lord Slynt.
Olly bring me my sword just doesn't have the same ring to it as Edd fetch me the block.
A new and improved version of the seven?
And just what I wanted to see, a naked old fat man.
Oh Cersei. You have no idea what you're doing.
What type of friend do you cover completely with a sheet Qyburn?
I won't hurt her. I promise. Yeah right.
Make yourself look taller Petyr that will intimidate that psycho Bolton.
Why is the red priestess so interested in Tyrion?
Does Tyrion feel the need to be faithful to Sansa?
And Jorah ties up Tyrion in the brothel. Lol.
Why must I always be the isle of crazy alone in an ocean of sensibility? The should to everybody else’s shouldn’t? The I-will to their better-nots?