SmilingOtter
Master Member
He was also good in Last Action Hero.
Game of Thrones
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clancampbell
Sr Member
correct...its not to say that he found them...at least i don't think so.
he wants so desparately to show winterfell that he is boss and he's not afraid to even kill Starks. However he is not that stupid and did not want to come back empty handed....due to his arrogance...it would have looked really bad.
Kerr Avon
Master Member
And how stupid will he look to the people of Winterfell, and his own men, after Bran is shown to be alive at a later time? Theon is a moron. Letting them escape is bad, letting them escape and trying to pull one over on the people of Winterfell, that's suicidally stupid.
Goodwolf
Sr Member
In the books, it was to show his incompetence at what he wanted to do vs what he was actually prepared to do. Despite what he may want to believe, he is a long way from being "ironborn." Hell, he's not even the man Lord Stark was.
he was a moron when he decided to take winterfell to begin with...
father son love....or raised by a family that you take siege against....its pressure no doubt but a father i never knew or a family that loved me...i'd have to side with my family. and his father gave him away...why i don't recall. but either way i would have more hatred...he shouldn't have betrayed the stark's....and when they come and i'm sure they will and take his head....i won't feel sorry in the least. he should have never come there to begin with.
SmilingOtter
Master Member
When Theon's father Balon rebelled against Robert and declared himself King of the Iron Islands, Ned Stark led the fight to put down the rebellion. Theon's two older brothers were killed in the fighting, and when the dust settled, Robert made Balon give up his only remaining son Theon. Ned Stark took him as a ward (hostage) as insurance that Balon would settle down. If he tried anything again, Stark would (in theory) send Theon's head back to his father.
firesprite
Master Member
Exactly.
The thing is, I've never had much sympathy for Theon. In the books and the show, he's so embroiled in trying to be 'the man' that he's just a little ******.
I think they're making Theon a much more sympathetic character in the show than in the book. He's still a little s**t, though. He wants to be a great man, but he's not willing to do what it takes to achieve it. It'll be interesting to see what the show does with him. If show Theon ends up like book Theon, then it should be really, um, yeah. I think if they ever truly introduce Roose Bolton's illegitimate son...bwahahaha:lol
Kerr Avon
Master Member
Yeah, he was clearly totally unsuited to behead someone, and it showed. He's very incompetent.
firesprite
Master Member
I have to say that Lord Stark was a far better man than any of the so-called "Ironborn" could ever aspire to be. From what I've seen of them in the books, they're so inbred and backward on those little bits of land that they'll wind up 'Iron Way'ing themselves into extinction.
firesprite
Master Member
Naw. It was the random gratuitous sexist comment by Joffrey that did him in.
And honorable though he may be, I think Ned's ultimate act of honor has yet to be realized.
"Promise me Ned!"
SmilingOtter
Master Member
I lean towards the same suspicions. That said, it hasn't been resolved as of the fifth book.
Paul Andrew
Master Member
I'm missing the context...
firesprite
Master Member
Qui-Gonzalez
Master Member
That promise and the reading I am doing has me thinking...
