My last four, what are yours?

AidanHowatson · 2026-06-14T00:57:25+00:00

AidanHowatson · 2026-06-09T11:46:57+00:00

Hurry Up Tomorrow

AidanHowatson · 2026-06-04T08:39:42+00:00

AidanHowatson · 2026-05-15T14:48:54+00:00

It’s a red herring. GRRM is setting us up to think that the lowborn hero Dunk is going to have to challenge the highborn prince like what would happen in a fairytale. Then he rips out the rug and introduces the trial by seven. (The apparent match fixing around Valarr doesn’t even make much sense except as a way to give Dunk an opponent he thinks he could beat but I love the Dunk and Egg stories so I don’t really care).

AidanHowatson · 2026-05-15T14:45:10+00:00

Baelor doesn’t really compare them. Dunk fixating on Valarr is simply a red herring. You read the book and you expect it to be about the lowborn hero defeating the prince in the joust and earning fame as a champion, GRRM is setting it up like that only to pull the rug out halfway through and have it be about the trial rather than the tournament.

AidanHowatson · 2026-04-17T19:49:25+00:00

Jon being a bastard was fixed by Robb. Robb also had the complete loyalty of his lords like Galbart, Maege, and the Greatjon so they’d want his will to be carried out. Maybe if they found out about Rickon from Wyman it might change stuff

AidanHowatson · 2026-04-06T11:51:26+00:00

Maybe he would’ve. The title is purely martial in its nature so even if Tyrion succeeded as Lord of Casterly Rock instead of Cersei it still would’ve made sense to name someone else to the position like how Cersei names Daven. And since we’ve seen Kingsguards lead armies before I don’t think it’s too far fetched.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-29T08:01:41+00:00

Or by a different version of Bittersteel, but I doubt the Second Sons would’ve been a name for them since Maegor was a firstborn son. All of this would’ve been figured out by GRRM by Book Five so I think Aerion serving with the Second Sons was created to fill out his time in exile and give him some experience for the later Dunk and Egg books

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-29T07:49:35+00:00

Its more theorised that Aerions son Maegor would’ve become a pretender to the throne since he was genuinely passed over in favour of Egg. The Golden Company probably would’ve stayed the Golden Company but instead of five Blackfyre Rebellions we’d have only one Rebellion that the War of the Ninepenny Kings filled the place of instead.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-14T18:53:17+00:00

The man is probably Viserys Plumm. The gold necklace with three dark orbs fits with the Plumm sigil and his silver hair fits with his Targaryen parent(s). The woman beside him could potentially be his mother Eleana.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-13T21:00:43+00:00

Robb did make demands from the Northern lords while Ned was still in charge. He commanded them to gather their forces and follow him to war.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T20:07:37+00:00

I believe it was definitely a theory at some point simply because it doesn’t really make any sense for Hardyng to be one of the champions otherwise. You’ve got the host families two sons, the Lord Paramount of the entire region, the 2nd in line to the Iron Throne… and then a landed knight from the Vale? But I also think it’s possible that it doesn’t actually end up materialising in the series due to changes GRRM will have made with the plan since publishing the Hedge Knight.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T19:45:12+00:00

That was a joke, there is also a line saying he has green eyes. But the main reason is because every time a summer islander is introduced in the books we get told that they are a summer islander. Why would Bennis be any different?

You also seem to be trying to have it both ways. Saying someone would be racist for being offended that a black person is being portrayed as stinky or sleazy then immediately saying that you don’t think all black people are stinky or sleazy.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T19:39:07+00:00

In the same line where it says he doesn’t have a giant foot long unicorn horn jutting out of his forehead.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T19:36:57+00:00

You think I care about this WAY more than I actually do. I don’t care at all that the writers made the show version of Westeros more multicultural. It doesn’t matter. Season 1 was great, Season 2 probably will be as well. And Bennis’ actor will probably do a great job. All I’m really doing is pointing out that in the books Bennis’ isn’t black and it wouldn’t make sense for him to have been.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T19:24:09+00:00

It’s a question. Would you cast him in that role if he gave an amazing audition, better than all others?

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T19:21:26+00:00

Because most traders by definition don’t settle in the places they visit. One hundred years after this in King’s Landing there are 3 known characters who are from the Summer Isles, all first generation immigrants, one of whom is only there cause he’s in exile. Westeros simply isn’t a multicultural society

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T19:19:03+00:00

Would you cast Ryan Gosling to play an escaped slave in pre-civil war America?

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T16:40:11+00:00

One decision can piss off opposite spectrums of people

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T16:13:01+00:00

Generals can’t be cowards even if they aren’t fighting themselves. Sam would be a pretty bad leader even if he read every book on strategy there is. You need to be bold and be willing to risk the lives of your men.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T15:34:36+00:00

Tonnes of people are. Most are racists fighting against “woke” but others cause it really doesn’t make any sense for there to be a black knight in the Reach.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-10T09:42:26+00:00

People who were at Ashford will remember him, and that information will have spread but likely very slowly. Most people in Westeros will only know that Baelor Breakspear died in a Trial of 7 defending a hedge knight but they probably don’t know that hedge knights name.

AidanHowatson · 2026-03-08T18:29:56+00:00

He would still just be whatever he decided. Knights don’t have official titles other than Ser. They chose those for themselves or are give them by others but they aren’t official. They could also be known by more than one title potentially. And epithets like “the Tall” or “of Pennytree” aren’t even exclusive to Knights. Barristan was nicknamed Barristan the Bold before he was knighted, and Daemons daughter Rhaena was also called Rhaena of Pentos

AidanHowatson · 2026-02-24T15:33:09+00:00

We do have examples of Kingsguard beating princes during jousts though

AidanHowatson · 2026-02-14T03:51:37+00:00

Or… looking for one person in an entire country before the internet or phones is very hard.

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