How come Theon escaped to Iron Islands while Rickon got caught?

Ramsay sent dogs and men to hunt Theon and Sansa down, and we know that he is always successful; yet Theon while being not far from Ramsay managed his way to the Iron Islands through all the North and Sansa managed her way to Castle Black.

Rickon and Osha got caught, nobody was chasing Rickon and Osha, nobody knew who they are.

Is this the same disease affected Princess Shireen before being treated?

Who would win in a 1v1 sword fight?

I admit I tried watching the show over the summer but stopped after Season 1. I've just finished S3 E7 and the last 5 episodes have been peak, all of them in my top 10 episodes of the show. Season 1 was good, Season 2 was better, but this season has been another level. I thought those seasons setup the characters and world well, but now it feels like there's some proper development happening and the characters are at their best. For example Varys and Littlefinger, who at first felt a little confusing, as though they were just there to cause havoc without me understanding why. Their dialogue before Ros' death though was SOO good. The dialogue in general this season has been probably the best I've seen in a show. Jaime talking to Brienne in the bath; I mean people often talk about actors capturing a scene, but Nikolaj had me hanging onto every word. His arc this season is everything I wanted from his character.

Not only his acting has been top notch this season though. I think in particular all the Stark children are very impressive actors considering some of them are children. Sophie Turner and Arya's actress especially. Richard also seems his best and Bran's actor had the biggest growth spurt ever before this season lol. But I think Theon's might be my favourite. It makes his storyline last season even better looking back, because at the time although it was entertaining, I felt his switch to villainy was a bit unbelievable and unearned. That scene in the tunnel where he explains himself though made up for it tbh, I genuinely feel bad for him, despite what he did to Ser Rodrik (amazing score for that scene btw). Having him be the character to introduce Ramsay Bolton makes the change to being more sympathetic towards him work at least for me. And I can't explain enough how good Ramsay's actor is. I already lowkey think he might be the best villain.

Joffrey however has become so much more of a character as well, which elevates his villainy imo. In S1 when he gives the order for Ned, obviously it's frustrating, but he just feels like an unnecessarily evil little kid. Now though, his scenes with Margeary for example are so good. It feels like Jack really grew into the role. The insight into his enjoyment of violence feels impressively natural. I think that's what make him and Ramsay so compelling, and what I was really craving out of this show. The law and order of Season 1 was a nice introduction, but I like TV shows most when that established precedent sort of crumbles. No characters represent that better than Theon did in Season 2, and now Ramsay, which is why I love their arcs. I can't remember seeing true evil like that displayed in a show in such a brutal, realistic way. Thank you HBO. Lol.

Not even mentioning the fall(?) of the Night's Watch in S3 E4. Mormont's death man, so fucking well done. I always had a feeling we'd never see him and Jorah together, even if it would've been very interesting. The culmination of hunger, hatred, and fear in a single scene. Chaos. He was Commander for a reason, he tried to keep order right up until the sword went through his back. Thought his actor did a great job throughout the series.

Anyway sorry for yapping, as a first time watcher it's nice to gush about these last few episodes to someone.

Ive seen this posted a few times and always found it a bit funny and interesting. Where was this taken? Who are these women and why are they all Black?

So I’m on season two right now and they keep on hyping up dragons so my question is how strong are they really? Can one dragon take on all 7 kingdoms? Or are they overrated?

I mean, before the greyscale obviously. His character is just the most inferior, cucked pitiful grown man who has to masturbate with tears as Xoro Zon Doxos and Dario hammer Dany’s vaj.

Dany could give him a look of pity, and he could unfasten his breaches and smack his junk around a bit.

What a spectacular hour of television. My heart has been racing the whole time.

Burning of Kings Landing was a sacrifice to the Lord of Light for stopping the White Walkers

Throughout the show, Melisandre hinted that death by fire is the purest way to die, and that the Lord of Light demands sacrifice in order to manifest great things. Her contribution to the defense of Winterfell via the intervention by the Lord of Light meant the saving of the world, which in turn required a mass sacrifice by fire. Enter Dany the Mad Queen, who burns hundreds of thousands of people after the Long Night.

The music that accompanies both Melisandre and Dany throughout the show has always been haunting and mysterious. Which makes me think it was all foreshadowing the burning of Kings Landing.

I think this makes the ending of the show make more sense.

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I have an addition to my theory. I think much like how Bran warged into Hodor to ruin his life for the one task of holding the door. I think at some point the three eyed raven also warged into the Mad King in an attempt to have him perform the mass sacrifice to "burn them all" as a means to prevent the white walkers from ever succeeding. But that attempt failed which led to the necessity of having Dany be the one to do it.

It would make the entire Bran arc make sense to me as well.

All the flashbacks throughout the show and the subtle hints led me to this conclusion.

Always had a problem with this.

The reality is Ned Stark tells his wife this is his sister’s kid. We have to pretend it’s mine or Robert is going to kill him.

Done.

Ned gets to keep his balls. Kat is happy he didn’t cheat. She treats Jon better than ever even letting him sit at the dinner table. Happy wife happy life.

Also, you’re all definitely not married by the replies.

I get it. Different time. Arranged marriage. Ultra man’s world.

Still, look at her sister. He wants to know his dick isn’t going to get cut off while he sleeps, he tells her. Tully women are cray.

and missandei is one of the hottest women ive ever seen good god

AWOOGA AWOOGA, and i have a chance because she fell in love with a penis-less guy, that makes me a gigachad compared

Just like everyone, when the show was done I disliked the ending a lot and didnt understand why it was so rushed. Like everyone, I watched it every week on Sunday night, waiting for a year or two for the next season.

I started rereading the books again, Im on Book 3. With that and watching HOtD, I felt like watching GoT again. I finished it in 2 weeks cuz what an amazing show. I noticed I really liked the last season BECAUSE I binged it. I was able to remember everything and the ending did not feel rushed because I was binging the whole show. I actually cried at the last scene when Jon killed Dany.

For those who hate the ending and only binge till Season 6, I ask you to watch the whole thing again back to back. If you are watching it season by season every year, it will absolutely feel rushed.

I've got another couple hours to go on. Let me know what you think so far!

First time watching Game of Thrones and oh my god I genuinely can’t believe how awful Sansa’s circumstances always end up being.

Like imagine you finally escaped the horrible place where your father was killed and you were emotionally and psychologically tortured by the most important guy that lived there only to be slut shamed by your aunt and be sold to a man that took your birth town and physically tortures you. Then your brother saves you and you reunite with your youngest sibling only to realize he’s pretty much not the same person but a concept and then when you finally reunite with your little sister she starts saying odd things, accusing you of being a traitor and trying to play mind games with you.

I genuinely feel so bad for her it’s not like it’s uncommon for got characters to have an extremely rough life but omg. She’s not even fully comfortable on her HOME.

Not sure if this is allowed, if not you can remove it

I've started a new project on Etsy that I create people as a house in the world of GoT, and make them a family coat of Arms.

I've only done it for friends and family so far but my shop is now live and I have reduced the price to £1, I'm just looking to get some experience of writing different characters and stories. It's not about the money side of things at the moment!

I will post the link in the comments! Thanks to anyone who might be interested

I've been fan of both series and books but I can't digest the fact that pure magic exists. Especially some certain cases like:

1. Ancient Valyrians mixed their blood with dragons while breeding them from wyverns and wyrms.

I think it could be simple reflex arch by training them to distinguish a valyrian from normal people. Or if it is really about genetics, then they somehow have access to genetic engineering stuff.

2. heartwood trees are connected through underground mycelium

I believe these are a certain species of tree that are connected by mycelium all across Westeros and have ability more than a regular plant (like thinking, creating certain unnatural chemicals and plant hormones) and children of forest use these abilities as their magic.

things that I don't have explanation is how Lady Melisandre gave birth to that shadow assassin. Does anyone have a scientific theory about it?

During Tywin's war council, he figures out that Arya is from the north. He asks her about Robb. She details his reputation for riding into battle on a wolf, etc. He asks if she believes it's true that he can't die. She simply responds something like "no, everyone can be killed." Tywin gives a distinct pause at this moment and sends her out to fetch wood or water or whatever it was. Was it then that Tywin hatched his assassination plans? Get rid of Robb, problem solved. I really got the distinct impression that he sent her out of the room to discuss the details. I don't know anything about fan theories and haven't read the books. What do you think? Tywin certainly made it clear that he doesn't care about a "clean" fight and it's a suitable solution to his woes at the time. After just watching this scene, I think it dawned on him--kill the man, kill the war. When did this occur? Directly after speaking to Arya and hearing the words come out of her mouth. After all, anyone can be killed.

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Doing a rewatch. This guard turns when he notices Ayra and the others watching the interrogation and smirks at her.

This scene never fails to have me pulling my hair out. Even though I know exactly what is going to happen, every rewatch I’m on the edge of my seat, hoping for some Mandela effect shit to happen lol. I’ll never understand why hearing the mountain admit to what he did was so much more important than just finishing him off, to me that would be vengeance enough. I guess they would have still brought back zombie mountain but at least Oberyn would still have his skull in-tact.

That moment when…

(Context: I’m on a rewatch, and it still makes me jump out of my seat.)

Most of the gods in game of thrones have done magical stuff that to me kinda proves there existence but have the faith of the seven done anything magical because I’m in the belief that they don’t exist

Which two characters, who rarely or never interact, would you like to see have a conversation?

Me it would be Robert and Tywin or Ned and Tyrion