What are the Crannogmen up to? The House of Reed? Just chilling in the swamps? You don't hear much about them.

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Ok I’m kinda new to game of thrones so I don’t really know everything about it. I started watching in the beginning of the year and I finished and is now reading the books. so I’ve seen some things on like other Reddit communities about another books coming out and etc, is George R.R Martin coming out with new books for a song of ice and fire?

I’m giving Tywin Lannister Machiavelli’s the Prince because I enjoy chaos.

This is a principle in the ASOIAF universe that should have played more of a role especially in GRRM's novels (aside: I'm only just about to begin A Dance of Dragons, so I beg your pardon if this was addressed already).

Post-Red Wedding, shouldn't have the entire realm of Westeros been in upheaval against the Lannisters, Boltons, and Freys? It seemed like in both HBO's version and in the novels, all that happened was this unholy alliance winning the war by scheming dishonorable and shameful plots. The plan that succeeded was the massacre of an entire army and slaughter of its royal family, which took place at a wedding to which they were invited to witness the joining of their families. And the only backlash was... acceptance? All of the Kingdoms of Westeros should have unanimously been at their throats for killing guests at a wedding, a familial and ancient tradition that was turned into a mockery and weaponized into nearly eliminating an entire House.

Dude just shows up out of nowhere, without so much as even a mention beforehand, kills Balon, and is basically like the new big bad guy/Ramsay Bolton type. Like "where the fuck did this guy come from??"

The title says everything but, I’ve been asking myself; who is worse? Joffrey or Ramsay? They are both the most hated character ( I guess ) and they both deserve the title. But who is the most horrible between those two tho?

I’m watching season 8 right now ( which is, for now, not good but that’s not the subject tho ). And what really bothers me is Bran’s character development. I love the tv show, but I do think they completely fucked up Bran. I haven’t read the book yet, but I can tell that it could have been SO much more interesting. In the tv show, we have no clue why he has vision, why Odor and the others died for him, no further explanation on the previous three eyed raven… And now, he’s just saying "I’m not Bran Stark anymore, I’m the three eyed raven" but we didn’t even have a proper explanation on WHY. When he left, he kept saying he wasn’t ready and POUF uncle Ben saves him, 2 episodes later he is the new three eyed raven. This makes no sense to me but I can’t wait to read the book to discover more about it tho.

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Map I made of the War of the Five Kings, if House Targaryen had kept Dragonstone following Robert's Rebellion. I have most of the Ideas worked out, if you have any suggestions or questions please put them below. I am looking for an idea of why Robert might have let Viserys reign on Dragonstone.

I love this guy and the character.. he never disappoints to amaze the audience.. 😘

this is my first time watching g.o.t.. no spoilers please 🥺

5 Main points, why the ending is a masterpiece:

1. It stayed true to itself by not bending to any rules other, older storys established. Wich is what made GoT popular in the first place.

2. Destroying countless pointless fan theories and predictions and instead stayed true to what it wanted to tell. Even if that meant backlash. Message Was more important than a pat on the back.

3. It shuffed an ugly mirror into its audience face, wich they didnt like the reflection off. Only Story i know that successfully made viewers accomplize in its storys greatest crimes. It forced viewer to question their understanding and interpretation of the story and even to a degree their worldview on a whole.

4. This ending basicially was made to rewatch the entire story and see it with different eyes. I dont know any story that went for 70 hours, that, when you rewatch it, have a completely different view upon. Its like Inception, Shutter Island or Saw in an longterm story. Never done before, never to be done again.

5. It expected its audience to be smart and treated it like adults. No more spoonfeeding or unneccesary explanations of or by characters and storys, we have followed for 70 hours.

And tragicially the same reasons for its greatness are why people reject it:

• they wanted established, safe storytelling, that takes no risks. They were conditioned by mainstream publishers like Disney to expect to receive headless, lessonless timekillers.

• they wanted their fantheories and predictions to be correct, season 8 smashed majority and most popular ones, shutting down all the things people thought were already written in stone. Except Mountain vs. Hound maybe, all of their predictions were wrong.

• they didnt want to be lectured regarding their choices and have their worldviews hanging in the Balance. They wanted them to be confirmed as correct by the story.

• they dont want to rewatch, because they dont want to spot everything they missed and to admit mistakes.

• they wanted characters to turn to the camera and explain all their motives in 5 minute long monologues and wanted to be feed the 10th reaction of jons parentage reveal.

Cersei is a survivor. She tried everything in her power to protect her children and failed. Her rise to fame as the first and last reigning Queen of the Seven Kingdoms was an unfortunate tragedy, not another scheme of hers.

Just like before the series began, she was supposed to marry the beautiful and poetic warrior prince Rhaegar... who will be slaughtered and all her dreams with him. Instead, she was forced to marry the war-addicted and hate-obsessed warlord Robert Baratheon.

"So, I want to marry the Prince?"

"You will marry the King."

Another unfortunate tragedy that made her queen.

She knows that the throne is the only thing that protects her and when she becomes pregnant again, she no longer just has a reason to survive, but to live. It's their second chance to start over. Without the chains of her overbearing father or the abuse of her drunken husband, no stranger snowing into her home from the north and threatening to take everything she holds dear.

She knows that she has no chance of winning fairly against Daenerys and instead fights her the way her father would have: with sneak attacks and provocations.

Without the throne, she has no way of surviving and neither does her child.

"So, either we submit and die, or we fight and die. I know my Choice. A Soldier should know his."

We have been trained to hate her because she acts against our heroes: Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Tyrion Lannister... Stannis Baratheon... Daenerys Stormborn.

The ending deprives the viewer of the opportunity to enjoy her death, as Cersei, without the throne, reveals what she has been her entire life: a powerless woman. She starts 8x5 at the top tower of the Red Keep, descends ever lower until she reaches the cellar vault and the entire weight of her powerlessness falls on her.

It's no fun to watch the victim die and many viewers felt cheated out of this "promise" to finally see this evil woman die cruelly.

This is also where the series' moral finger directed at the audience comes into play again: "You wanted it to come to this. You wanted to see a pregnant woman die. But it wont be a beautiful, righteous moment, as you would have liked it to be."

In the end, Cersei is no longer a queen, just a desperate woman who begs for her and her child's life and drops all masks.

"You are not a monster. I know this. I know it, because I have seen it.. You always loved your children. More than Jaime, more than yourself."

Tyrion understands it, but not the aspect that without the ultimate symbol of power she is thrown to the vultures and cannot simply surrender. The Savior would never spare her. Cersei knew it.

"I want our baby to live..."

I'm speaking in terms of the TV show and not the books (because there are way to many great characters). In the TV show who was your favourite character and why? I'd have to say mine was Liam Cunningham (The Onion Knight) and I'm not being biased just because im Irish but i thought he played the part amazing. Thoughts?

It was 8000 years since the white walkers were defeated by the first men yet when the series begins they are still basically medieval.So what has stopped the development of humans to begin an industrial age?

Cersei had such a good character development throughout the series whereas in the other hand Daenerys became so entitled and power hungry that made her so unlikeable, idk about you all but I fucking enjoyed the ending

wanted to rewatch GOT for like the gazillionth time and every time I rewatch GOT Sansa makes it so unwatchable the first few seasons, like it's actually so bad. It gives me physical pain