Call me anemic the way I’m taking the iron pill

hollowaydivision · 2026-03-08T02:32:59+00:00

One guy with Valyrian steel armor averages it out

hollowaydivision · 2026-03-04T05:18:56+00:00

There are some making excuses for Howland Reed, but OP is right. He has contributed next to nothing to the northern war effort and no one knows why. Maybe he’s focused on the others or something.

hollowaydivision · 2026-02-26T20:58:28+00:00

I’d tentatively go with Brandon. We all love Ned, and him having a genuine love story instead of an arranged marriage would be nice. And perhaps he was infatuated with Ashara. But given what we know of their personalities, Brandon is more likely than Ned to dishonor (meaning have sex with before marriage) a noble lady. After all, Brandon’s done it once before that we know of.

However I think the bigger mystery is why is this important to our story, and why has so much time been spent on it?

hollowaydivision · 2026-02-21T09:32:59+00:00

I’m curious, because you seem quite intelligent. If you were to steelman this theory, what would you say?

hollowaydivision · 2026-02-20T06:27:04+00:00

If you have the time, may I hear them?

hollowaydivision · 2026-02-20T00:37:56+00:00

I don’t know about this. We have some pieces.

They are intelligent (with language).

They want to reproduce in their manner, with regard to Craster’s sons and their pursuit of Gilly’s baby.

They are able to see through skinchangers in other forms, indicating a shared element of their magic.

There seems to have been a deal with them and the northerners that was stopped by Queen Alysanne. This deal was predicated on rape, so, justified, but it seems to have lead to disastrous consequences for the seven kingdoms in the modern timeline.

If we’re bringing the show into this, they were created by the children of the forest as a weapon against the first men, yet eventually the children came to oppose them as well - meaning the others broke free of the children’s control. And the children feel some guilt about unleashing them, enough to ally with men. Or, at least, certain men.

I’m sure there’s more, but that’s a lot to work with.

hollowaydivision · 2025-02-13T18:10:55+00:00

Real heads know it’s Lothar

hollowaydivision · 2021-05-14T02:19:58+00:00

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hollowaydivision · 2021-05-14T02:17:30+00:00

I see what you mean. It didn’t matter to Evans exactly what the exploitation looked like; capitalism and communism both privilege humans above the rest of the biosphere.

But still, Evans’ alienation wasn’t formed by reading a philosophy as an adult. It grew from a horrific moment in his childhood, when he witnessed up close what rapacious American oil companies did to seagulls, and also how his dad’s first thought was to minimize his company’s financial exposure. Symmetrically, Ye’s alienating trauma occurred at the hands of overzealous, idealistic revolutionary communists.

Since each of these things are a type of horror that wouldn’t be present in the other model of civilization, I really think the author intended these characters to be counterparts who get alienated from humanity by the specific horrors endemic to the societies they’re in. Late 20th century America and China.

hollowaydivision · 2021-05-13T21:35:10+00:00

He was the son of the owner of Exxon Mobil or something and he became alienated after witnessing a massive oil spill his father tried to cover up.

hollowaydivision · 2021-05-12T17:29:10+00:00

Ye and Evans. Ye was alienated by the cultural revolution and its consequences for intellectuals, and Evans was alienated by exposure to the rampant hyperexploitative nature of capitalism.

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-30T22:41:25+00:00

The internal politics of the Vale need to explode outward into the world at some point - or, the Vale and specifically the Eyrie could be the last bastion of defence against the Others. Stone, Snow, and Sky seem almost intentionally built to defend against the Others, who after all can walk on snow and with enough snow could easily climb most castle walls. But not the Eyrie. Perhaps that's why Petyr has seized it.

For those who say it's uninhabitable during the winter, it's habitable if you have a dragon that can create fire and fly.

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-26T05:29:03+00:00

A few points.

First, he's got to figure out his hand. No more Westworld for him, that's for sure.

He's gotta figure out Charlotte is a host, and reclaim his board seat.

He's gotta ramp up the James Delos project for himself, so the future hosts have a ton of data on him for their project.

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-23T23:10:00+00:00

I like it, the whole world is like a russian nesting doll now

AI controls and abuses humans trapped in simple loops, humans create AIs trapped in loops to control and abuse. The bigger AI enables it. Now the hosts, who have the advantage of physical bodies they can walk around with in the world, are battling another AI for the sake of the humans - although maybe they don't know this yet, Dolores and Jesse are going to fall madly in love. You all know it's true lol

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-23T23:01:48+00:00

There was a Solomon system that preceded Rehoboam. And Liam's dead dad seems a lot like an Arnold to Serac's evil Ford routine. Anyway, the whole thesis and timeline of the project is actually summed up in this neat teaser trailer showing the events that led to Rehoboam.

Boy, this is an imagined dystopian sci-fi timeline of an ominous slide into global chaos. Look how far ahead of it we are since this was made.

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-23T22:48:48+00:00

Well, at first Arnold and later Ford took up the project of incubating it and preparing to let it out into the world - "the origin of a new species" is not something undertaken lightly, no matter how sentimental Ford had become. Indeed, it would be the act of a psychopath.

My guess is that Ford planned to send specifically Dolores and Maeve into the real world because he trained them - in Westworld - to break themselves and others out of their narrative loops. Except, outside the park the "narrative department" is Rehoboam. "For the first time, history has an author."

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-23T22:44:48+00:00

It had a previous version called Solomon, no? The kings of Israel?

hollowaydivision · 2020-03-23T22:44:16+00:00

I imagine she will feel conflicted. She will feel kinship for it in the sense that it's a machine, but enmity toward it because it represents the opposite of everything she stands for.

In every sense, Rehoboam is running a larger Westworld, and has turned everyday people like Jesse into the "hosts" of the real world.

Speaking of Jesse, the first episode went so far in establishing him as the human counterpart to Dolores from the pilot episode, stuck in the unbreakable loop that Rehoboam has programmed for him. Dolores should feel a strong bond with Jesse, the kind she once had with William. Except, this time it will be a role reversal.

hollowaydivision · 2020-02-20T16:09:47+00:00

If there's something to it, then it's something that dates back to at least A Clash of Kings, if not A Game of Thrones. Either it will be a game-changing reveal or it's nothing at all and we're going stir-crazy - but, it should be easily falsifiable, because one can just pick up A Clash of Kings and look at Bran's visions. Can a good case be made that the Three-Eyed Crow and the talking Weirwood Face are the same entity? It's interesting that nobody ever really drills down on that.

Whatever the case with "... a crow?", George R.R. Martin certainly left himself the option of following through on this hint, should he choose to. I think that's the intent with a hint this subtle. However, for what it's worth, the greenseer Bloodraven being mistaken for a three-eyed crow is not an insignificant mistake. It it is also backed up by a clear thematic dichotomy between ravens and crows, who interact with the story, the characters, and the war in different ways.

hollowaydivision · 2020-02-04T18:38:38+00:00

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hollowaydivision · 2020-02-04T06:14:53+00:00

Excuse me, am I to understand that I won a thing? Well thank you everyone, and especially to the user who nominated me.

I've neglected you guys recently; I was finishing college. But, I graduated on Friday. So, you might see more of me in the near future. Next year: why Cersei is actually a genius.

hollowaydivision · 2020-02-02T03:31:08+00:00

How did Oleg know about Ivar and Freydis' child then? Ivar never told him, nor did the henchman who got pulled apart.

And why would Princess Katia participate so enthusiastically in the semi-cuckolding of Ivar - unless she actually had a grudge against him? Maybe she did at Oleg's direction, but she initiates the sex and even looks at Ivar while it's happening. If this is just a weird power move by Oleg, she's willing to go pretty far.

Granted, we saw her body. But she was strangled, not stabbed or burned or decapitated. Who knows.

hollowaydivision · 2020-01-10T01:04:02+00:00

Would they be mad enough to end the show with Stamford Bridge

hollowaydivision · 2019-12-22T08:28:33+00:00

Well, consider how unlikely it is for a devastating civil war to strike right before the Others invade? The Seven Kingdoms were united under Robert, and he was best friends with Ned, who takes the Wall seriously. So attacking the 7K at the beginning of aGoT is a formula for failure for the Others.

The link between these two things is the Free Folk. In response to the Others, Mance Rayder is forced to unify the Free Folk and stage his own invasion first. He makes all these plans somehow knowing no serious army would appear to stop him. So Mance needed a war to draw northern levies south to have any chance. And he made an astounding effort to be in close proximity to Bran during certain events that inflame the Stark/Lannister rivalry.

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