Well by retaking Winterfell and removing the Boltons and putting a Stark in power that would give him the support of the north. I think Davos says that they only lost 500 sell swords. They could have been additional sell swords but maybe most of the Braavos ones are still there.
Anyone else find it odd that they didn't show Ramsey and his group starting the fires in camp that night? Me and my roommate were talking about it, was that Ramsey or not?
It was. There's only so much time and budget. For all I know the Ramsay actor is literally filming his scenes a continent away from where Stannis' army is filming theirs.
According to show cannon, all that remains of House Baratheon is Stannis Baratheon, Tommen Baratheon (a Lannister b*stard) and Myrcella Baratheon (a Lanniser b*stard.) For all intents and purposes, House Baratheon is a dead house unless Stannis kills off his barren wife and produces a new heir with a second wife. Of course, Gendry is a surviving b*stard of Robert Baratheon and could conceivably be legitimized as the heir of House Baratheon. We don't know where he is right now. He was told to escape by following the coastline. Of course, he was trying to escape from an island so...
I totally forgot Tommen is legally a Baratheon so it still remains in title. Also, I could easily see Stannis killing his wife and producing a new offspring.
I thought this show was supposed to be really good at not portraying characters as purely black and white. I was hoping there was a twist in that scene that Meryn Trant was actually going to try and find the youngest girl at the brothel and try to save her from her 'job' and Arya would witness it and question her black and white portrayal of individuals on her hit list.
Yeah I made that point earlier before deleting it. She was staring into the fire (praying?), came outside before it happened and the fires started spontaneously. The reason I deleted it because immediately afterwards I believe Davos tells Stannis that a group of not more than 20 men did it. It was incredibly lazy writing and filming but I don't think he'd magically guess the right amount of men.
The show has moved away from moral ambiguity. Not only was trant taking a child, but it wasn't even a prostitute, she was a maid or something. So nit even ambiguous about child prostitution, straight up raping a child.
The reason they didn't show Ramsay and his men was money. They don't have to pay Ramsay for the episode and they didn't have to pay more extras.
They made a point of showing Ramsey saying 20 men in the FROM LAST WEEK then made a point of Davos saying there was 20 men . . .so I guess That is how we suppose to know Rocket River
I don't know why you think Drogon was in some kind of trouble. I think he left because he effing wanted to.
Agree, unfortunately the best character that exemplified moral ambiguity, the Hound, is no more. The only major character left that has some ambiguity in his moral character is Jamie and he isn't that relevant in the overall plot currently.
Meryn is physically too unattractive for the audience to care about his moral compass. Sometimes ugly, sweaty people do ugly, sweaty things and need a needle jabbed through their eye (or have their cockles poisoned).
I found the whole harpie scene very annoying. It was the poor writing that really set me off. I understand it was designed to introduce the dragons back and use them as part of her army, however it was terribly done. In order to get the dragon to return, Dany had to be in distress. They used the army of Harpies to provoke this action. The first question is: How does an army that size rise up and Dany doesn't know? Secondly, why is she so poorly guarded? Now the interesting aspect is that Dany did tell Loraq she would burn the city to ashes. now that she has a reason, lets see what happens. Shireen was dead either way. Its better she died by fire than by flaying.
In regards to heyp's comments about Drogon, it does seem like Daenarys got aboard because she knew he wouldn't leave without her. He was getting hurt pretty badly... I believe next episode they'll show the Sons of the Harpy leave Tyrion and co. alone. They accomplished essentially what they wanted to do. Drogon will take her off to some other country, possibly King's Landing, and she will only return later to destroy everyone.
Immolation is a terrible way to go. I'm actually a bit mortified they put that on television considering she was a child.
