Game of Thrones

I'm hoping Varys gets to take out Littlefinger, either directly or indirectly. Maybe he and Sansa can work together on it somehow. Or maybe LF will get shoved out the moondoor by Robin Arryn.
 
Lyanna Mormont? She wouldn't put up with little "Sweetrobin" for an instant. Besides, she's from the North and he's from the Vale. It would be more advantageous for them to each marry into houses from their respective regions to shore up their strength. People don't usually marry outside their region unless its to secure an alliance or make peace. The Vale and Bear Island aren't at war and the Eyrie has nothing to gain in an alliance with House Mormont. Despite all his shortcomings, Robin Arryn would be seen as somewhat of a catch. He's lord of one of the great houses and Warden of the East. You wouldn't allow an asset like that to be thrown away on a minor house in a remote location of little importance.
 
Lyanna Mormont? She wouldn't put up with little "Sweetrobin" for an instant. Besides, she's from the North and he's from the Vale. It would be more advantageous for them to each marry into houses from their respective regions to shore up their strength. People don't usually marry outside their region unless its to secure an alliance or make peace. The Vale and Bear Island aren't at war and the Eyrie has nothing to gain in an alliance with House Mormont. Despite all his shortcomings, Robin Arryn would be seen as somewhat of a catch. He's lord of one of the great houses and Warden of the East. You wouldn't allow an asset like that to be thrown away on a minor house in a remote location of little importance.

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She could have the iron throne if it was up to me. The Only thing catching Robin is the dirt since he is getting pitched right out a the moon door. LF gonna take the vale for himself and set up something real nice for a certain group.
 
Lyanna Mormont? She wouldn't put up with little "Sweetrobin" for an instant. Besides, she's from the North and he's from the Vale. It would be more advantageous for them to each marry into houses from their respective regions to shore up their strength. People don't usually marry outside their region unless its to secure an alliance or make peace. The Vale and Bear Island aren't at war and the Eyrie has nothing to gain in an alliance with House Mormont. Despite all his shortcomings, Robin Arryn would be seen as somewhat of a catch. He's lord of one of the great houses and Warden of the East. You wouldn't allow an asset like that to be thrown away on a minor house in a remote location of little importance.


Actually, in order to prevent such a milquetoast little brat from having his entire Wardenship taken from him by a greedy house, you want someone who 1) has no designs on the area and 2) isn't willing to simply bend the knee in submission. Robin needs someone who will be his equal and not manipulate him for their own ends. This is why Lyanna is a good choice
She doesn't put up with crap and is more than able to turn that pathetic excuse for a lord into one worthy of being the Warden of the East.
 
Actually, in order to prevent such a milquetoast little brat from having his entire Wardenship taken from him by a greedy house, you want someone who 1) has no designs on the area and 2) isn't willing to simply bend the knee in submission. Robin needs someone who will be his equal and not manipulate him for their own ends. This is why Lyanna is a good choice
She doesn't put up with crap and is more than able to turn that pathetic excuse for a lord into one worthy of being the Warden of the East.

Good choice in theory, but it would never happen. No one who is currently in charge of Robin and happenings in the Vale would be willing to give up so much by allowing a marriage that again, really doesn't benefit them. House Mormont brings nothing to the table except their loss of control over Robin. Why would they willingly give that up? Assuming LF is taken out of the equation, the other lords in the Vale would still be against it. They'd rather see someone from the region be selected in order to strengthen political alliances within the Vale. They would see Lyanna as an outsider and a challenger to their authority and rightly so. Add to the situation that within the established universe of GOT\ASOIAF that you just don't see marriages like this unless certain specific criteria are met, it just doesn't make sense.
 
Good choice in theory, but it would never happen. No one who is currently in charge of Robin and happenings in the Vale would be willing to give up so much by allowing a marriage that again, really doesn't benefit them. House Mormont brings nothing to the table except their loss of control over Robin. Why would they willingly give that up? Assuming LF is taken out of the equation, the other lords in the Vale would still be against it. They'd rather see someone from the region be selected in order to strengthen political alliances within the Vale. They would see Lyanna as an outsider and a challenger to their authority and rightly so. Add to the situation that within the established universe of GOT\ASOIAF that you just don't see marriages like this unless certain specific criteria are met, it just doesn't make sense.
We shall heed your words, one named Khal Hodor. :p

But I'm disappointed. I think she'd be a great love-match for Robin, politics be damned. But, as in real life, they won't be. That really harshes my buzz. :p
 
Good choice in theory, but it would never happen. No one who is currently in charge of Robin and happenings in the Vale would be willing to give up so much by allowing a marriage that again, really doesn't benefit them. House Mormont brings nothing to the table except their loss of control over Robin. Why would they willingly give that up? Assuming LF is taken out of the equation, the other lords in the Vale would still be against it. They'd rather see someone from the region be selected in order to strengthen political alliances within the Vale. They would see Lyanna as an outsider and a challenger to their authority and rightly so. Add to the situation that within the established universe of GOT\ASOIAF that you just don't see marriages like this unless certain specific criteria are met, it just doesn't make sense.

Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you. However, these are not normal circumstances. The North and the Vale are caught between two groups hellbent on destroying them. You have an army of the undead to the North that well steamroll anything in its path and a psychotic megabeeyotch to the South who thinks nothing of using weapons of mass destruction against civilians and has a mad on against the North and anyone she sees as a threat. That's saying nothing of the massive fleet of Daenerys (and her dragons) on its way in. An alliance through marriage would ensure peaceable cooperation and mutual defense.
 
Half the houses have no leader really at the moment. Most are 2nd hand me downs in a way. Plus with special guest King frost and his zombie army heading down. I would think some of the houses will fall and be over run / destroyed. Thus new lands and house will be made with the new heroes ( if ppl live) after The white walkers are destroyed. Winter fell could likely be gone with everyone fleeing to the vale. Wouldn't it be super cool watching the zombie climbing way up there and popping out of the moon door like rats on a sinking ship
 
Depending on how good Cersei's intelligence sources are, she might know about Euron, and try to get his support. Which may not be a lot, but could be better than nothing.

The Iron Bank certainly understands that if the Baratheon/Lannister dynasty falls, they're not going to be able to collect from the next person to sit on the Iron Throne, so conceivably they *could* be of some assistance, or they may decide to take the hit and cancel Cersei's credit card. (They did make a loan to Stannis, after all.) We don't know the details of Mace Tyrell's visit to Braavos, but IIRC he left singing, so he may at least have thought the trip was a success.

The only other force right now is north of the Wall. Certainly Cersei wouldn't be so crazy as to think of them as any sort of ally... hopefully. Though she might be willing to help them destroy Westeros, just to outdo the Mad King...

At this point it is kind of a blur between what was used from the books and what was skipped, but IIRC, Cersei basically decided the crown would no longer be paying back their debt to the Iron Bank. As a result they decided to back Stannis.

Now with Stannis gone, I'm not sure who they would back, but I think they are done with Cersei in any respect
 
But does GRRM even have a say in the show at this point ? I mean it's in the hands of the writers and producers now, besides following the general plot line he gave them, they're not bound to apply anything else. He can off her in the books, but that's it no ?
 
Dear Abby,

So how the frak did Edvard Munch get to see Home Alone? Time warp? Did they have those back then? :p

-- Old and Confused in DC



Dear Old and Confused,

Of course they had those back then. That's the beauty of time travel. If it exists anywhere in time, it exists everywhere in time. Now, the secret to time travel is simple. You just take a jump to the left, a step to the right, your hands on your hips, bring your knees in tight, and do a pelvic thrust. I don't pretend to know the physics behind how it works, but it does occasionally bring on insanity, so time travel sparingly.

Best Regards,

Abby
 
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